Privacy Policy

Apar Global Pvt. Ltd.

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to the Apar Global Pvt. Ltd. (“APAR”) web sites and online features that link to this Privacy Policy (each a “Site”). The Sites are offered by Apar Global Pvt. Ltd., 310/311, Gemstar Commerical Complex,Opp. Religare Technologies,Ramchandra Lane Extn. Kanchpada, Off Malad Link Road,Malad (W), Mumbai 400 064, INDIA. and its subsidiaries or affiliated companies. (collectively, “APAR,” or “we,” “us,” and “our”). 
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully as your use of this Site constitutes your consent to the processing of your Personal Data as described in the Policy. If you are younger than 18 years old of age, and you wish to provide us with your Personal Data to participate in a promotion or contest, you must read this Privacy Policy with your parent or guardian.

SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS

1. INFORMATION COVERED BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY
Information You Provide
We may collect personal data, including your name, email or street address, date of birth, telephone number, your preferences and interests, or other information you provide to us or grant us access to (“Personal Data/Information”) when you register for newsletters, communicate with us, or take part in interactive games, features or competitions. We may also collect any photographs, video images or other user-generated content that you may upload to the Site (“User-Generated Content” or “UGC”). The Sites may also ask you to provide other information about yourself, such as demographic information (gender, zip code, age, etc.) or certain information about your preferences and interests. If we combine demographic or other information we collect about you with Personal Information about you, we will treat the combined information as Personal Information. Please note that information submitted to the Sites via a "contact us" or other similar function may not receive a response. We will not use the information provided to contact you for marketing purposes unrelated to your request unless you agree otherwise.
Information We Collect Automatically As You Access and Use the Sites
Whenever you visit or interact with the Sites or APAR content, APAR, as well as any third-party advertisers, content providers and/or service providers, may use a variety of technologies that automatically or passively collect information about how the Sites are accessed and used ("Usage Information"). Usage Information may include, in part, browser type, operating system, the page served, the time, and the preceding page & video views. Usage Information is generally non-identifying, but if APAR associates it with you as a specific and identifiable person, APAR treats it as Personal Information.
APAR also automatically collects your IP address or other unique identifier ("Device Identifier") for the computer, mobile device, technology or other device (collectively, "Device") you use to access the Sites. A Device Identifier is a number that is automatically assigned to your Device when you access a web site or its servers, and our computers identify your Device by its Device Identifier. Some mobile service providers may also provide us or our third-party service providers with information regarding the physical location of the Device used to access the Sites.
The technologies used on the Sites to collect Usage Information, including Device Identifiers, include:

Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

By using the Site, you consent to our cookies. A cookie is a data file placed on a Device when it is used to visit the Sites. A Flash cookie is a data file placed on a Device via the Adobe Flash plug-in that may be built-into or downloaded by you to your Device. Cookies and Flash Cookies may be used for many purposes, including, without limitation, remembering you and your preferences and tracking your visits to our web pages. If you choose to disable cookies or Flash cookies on your Device, some features of the Sites may not function properly. The use of cookies on the Site allows you to enjoy more seamless visits and more accurately measures your behaviour on the Site. There are two types of cookies that we may use: session and persistent. Session cookies exist only during an online session. They disappear from your Device when you close the browser software. Persistent cookies remain on your Device after the browser has been closed. The cookies used on the Site do not identify you personally. They merely recognize your browser, unless you choose to identify yourself voluntarily. You may choose to identify yourself for any one of the following reasons: by asking the browser to remember your username and password, by responding to a promotional offer, or by personalizing a web page or requesting more information on a product or service.

Web beacons (also known as clear gifs) are used in combination with cookies to help Site operators understand how you interact with their websites. A web beacon is typically a transparent graphic image (usually 1 pixel x 1 pixel) that is placed on a site or in an email. The use of a clear gif allows the Site to measure your actions in opening the page that contains the clear gif.
Embedded Scripts. An embedded script is programming code that is designed to collect information about your interactions with the Sites, such as the links you click on. The code is temporarily downloaded onto your Device from our server or a third party service provider, is active only while you are connected to the Sites, and is deactivated or deleted thereafter. 
Log File Information
Our web servers automatically collect limited information about your computer's connection to the Internet, including your IP address, when you visit our site. Your IP address is a number that lets computers attached to the Internet know where to send you data -- such as the web pages you view. Your IP address does not identify you personally

How We Use Cookies and Web Beacons
APAR may use cookies and web beacons for a number of purposes, including to:

Controlling Our Use of Cookies

2. MINOR'S PERSONAL DATA
Certain Sites may attract individuals younger than 18 years old of age ("Minor" or "Minors"). On those Sites, APAR may collect the e-mail address and age of Minors in order to send them newsletters and engage in other limited activities. If you are a Minor, and you wish to provide us with your Personal Data for any other purposes, such as to participate in a promotion or contest, you must read this Privacy Policy with your parent or guardian and may not provide your Personal Data without obtaining first your parent’s or guardian’s prior consent. If we are notified or otherwise learn that a Minor has submitted Personal Data to us through any of our Sites other than under the conditions set forth above, we will delete that Minor's Personal Data. Children younger than 14 years of age may only surf the Site and play with features, but APAR does not knowingly collect data of users younger than 14 years of age.

3. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION 
We will use Personal Data collected through the Sites to: (1) allow you to participate in the features we offer on the Site; (2) process your registration and/or upload your UGC; (3) provide you with information that you request or agree to receive; (4) improve the Site and for internal business purposes; (5) contact you with regard to your use of the Site, and any changes to our policies; (6) tailor content, advertisements and offers we serve you; and (7) fulfil other purposes disclosed at the time you provide your Personal Data or otherwise with your consent.

4. HOW WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We may share Personal Data with the following parties:

When You Agree To Have Your Personal Information Shared 
While on our Site, you may have the opportunity to opt-in to receive information and/or marketing offers from someone else or to otherwise consent to the sharing of your Personal Data with a third party. If you agree to have your Personal Data shared, your Personal Data will be disclosed to the third party and the Personal Data you disclose will be subject to the privacy policy and business practices of that third party. You also may APAR specifically request, sometimes through your use of an interactive feature, a widget or an application, that we share your Personal Data with a third party and we will typically do so under those circumstances. In addition, if you choose to register for a promotion, such as a competition, prize draw or contest, your Personal Data may be disclosed to third parties for purposes of the administration of such promotion.

Sweepstakes, Contests and Promotions.
The Sites may offer sweepstakes, contests, and other promotions (each, a "Promotion") that may require registration. If you choose to enter a Promotion, your Personal Information may be disclosed to third parties in connection with the administration of such Promotion, such as in connection with winner selection, prize fulfillment, and as required by law, such as on a winners list. By entering a Promotion, you are agreeing to the official rules that govern that Promotion, which may contain specific requirements of you, including, except where prohibited by law, allowing the sponsor and/or other parties to use your name, voice and/or likeness in advertising or marketing materials.

Personal Data That You Disclose Publicly on the Site
You may submit UGC to the Site. Any such UGC will be disclosed publicly. This Privacy Policy does not apply to third party uses of any UGC after it is displayed on the Site.

Third Parties Providing Services on Our Behalf 
We may engage third parties to perform functions on our behalf, such as hosting or operating our Site, sending e-mail communications, and data analysis. We may share Personal Data with third parties in order for them to provide content or otherwise perform services for us, and we will require such parties to maintain appropriate security to protect such data from unauthorized access or processing.

Affiliate Sharing and Business Transfers 
We may share your Personal Data with other entities affiliated with us for internal reasons, primarily for business and operational purposes. APAR or any of its assets, including the Site, may be sold, or other transactions may occur in which your Personal Data is one of the business assets of the transaction. In such case, your Personal Data may be transferred. Hence, APAR reserves the right to disclose and transfer user information, including Personal Information in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, restructuring, the sale of certain of APAR’s assets, or other corporate change including, without limitation, during the course of any due diligence process.


Consent To Processing and Transfer of Personal Data

Given that Apar Global Pvt. Ltd. includes entities located all over the World, processing your Personal Data and usage data necessarily involves the transmission of data on an international basis. If you are located in the anywhere outside of the India, please be aware that Personal Data and usage data we collect may be transferred to and processed in the India. By using the Sites, or providing us with any personal data, you consent to the collection, processing, maintenance and transfer of such personal data and usage data to APAR affiliated entities in the India or in other countries, save their compliance with the applicable personal data protection laws.

Legal Protections and Other Disclosures 
We may transfer and disclose information, including your Personal Data, Usage Information and Device Identifier (including IP address), to third parties: to comply with a legal obligation; when we believe in good faith that the law requires it; at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation; to verify or enforce the Site's Terms of Use or other applicable policies; to respond to an emergency; or otherwise to protect the rights, property, safety, or security of third parties, visitors to this Site or the public. Pursuant to valid requests by law enforcement agencies, we may also use Device Identifiers to identify users, and may do so in cooperation with copyright owners, Internet service providers, wireless service providers or law enforcement agencies, in our discretion. Such disclosures may be carried out without notice to you.

5. LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES AND SERVICES, AND APAR CONTENT FOUND ON OTHER WEB SITES 
The Site may contain links that will direct you to other web sites or services that are operated and controlled by third parties. This includes links from advertisers, sponsors and partners that may use our logo(s) as part of a co-branding agreement. We have no control over these third parties, and your use of their websites and features are subject to their privacy policies. APAR is not responsible for the privacy practices or business practices of any third party web site. In addition, APAR may place our widgets or other features on certain third party web sites. When we do so, any Personal Data that we obtain about you will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

6. INFORMATION YOU DISCLOSE PUBLICLY ON OUR SITES
Our Sites may offer message boards, chat rooms, alternative reality games, multi-player games and other public areas (collectively, "Community Forums") where you can engage in social networking, interact with others, as well as have the opportunity to submit photographs, writings, music, video, audio recordings, computer graphics, pictures, data, questions, comments, suggestions or other content, including Personal Information (collectively, "User Submissions"). To participate in certain Community Forums, you may be asked to select a username, screen name or member name and password. Please do not use your real name or the real name of another person when selecting a username (or screen name or member name).

Note that anything you post to a Community Forum is public -- others will have access to your User Submissions and may use it or share it with third parties. Information you choose to post or make available in the Community Forums may be viewed, collected and used by others. If you choose to voluntarily disclose User Submissions, the protections of this Privacy Policy will not cover such disclosure of information. Think carefully before you post and use caution before disclosing any Personal Information.

Also, functionality on the Sites may permit interactions between the Sites and a third party web site or service, such as enabling you to "like" a product on our Site or "share" content to other web sites or services. If you choose to "like" or "share" content on the Site or to otherwise post information from or via the Site to a third party's web site, service, feature or application, that information will become public and the third party may have access to information about you and your use of our Site.

User Submissions may be published online or offline in any media or format (currently existing or hereafter developed). We may also publish your name, voice, likeness and other Personal Information with your User Submissions, and APAR may use the content, or any portion of the content, for advertising, marketing, publicity and promotional activities. For full terms and conditions regarding User Submissions

7. INFORMATION WE RECEIVE FROM THIRD PARTIES 
APAR may receive information about you from third parties. For example, if you are on another web site and you opt-in to receive information from APAR, that web site will forward to us your e-mail address and other information about you so that we may contact you as requested. You may also choose to participate in a third party application or feature on our Sites (such as logging in through Facebook Connect or otherwise linking the Sites with another web site or interactive service) or on a third party web site or service (such as one of our Facebook applications or a similar application or feature on a third party web site or service) through which you allow us to collect (or the third party to share) information about you, including Personal Information. When you choose to participate, you may be opting to link your activity on our Sites with that third party web site or service, which may then collect information about your visits to our Sites and may publish that activity as you request to your "profile" or similar feature with that third party (such as if you choose to share content you find on one of our Sites with your "connections" on the third party's web site or service). The information we collect is subject to this Privacy Policy. However, the information collected and stored by the third party remains subject to the third party's privacy practices, including whether the third party continues to share information with us or with other third parties, the types of information shared, and your choices with regard to what is visible to others on that third party's web site or service. The third party may allow you to remove the application or feature, in which case we will no longer collect information about you through the application or feature, but we may retain the information previously collected. In addition, we may receive information about you if other users of a third party web site or service give us access to their profiles and you are one of their "connections" or information about you is otherwise accessible through your "connections'" web page, profile page, or similar page on a social networking or other third party web site or interactive service.
We may also supplement the information we collect about you through the Sites with outside records from third parties in order to enhance our ability to serve you, to tailor our content to you and to offer you opportunities to purchase products or services that we believe may be of interest to you. We may combine the information we receive from these third parties with information we collect through the Sites. In those cases, we will apply this Privacy Policy to any Personal Information received, unless we have disclosed otherwise.

8. AD SERVING AND TRAFFIC MEASUREMENT SERVICES WE MAY USE; HOW TO "OPT OUT" OF RECEIVING ADVERTISING RELEVANT TO YOU
APAR licenses technology to serve advertisements on its own sites and within its videos and other content as that content is served across the Internet. In addition, APAR may use third party network advertisers to serve advertisements and third party analytics service providers to evaluate and provide us with information about the use of the Sites and viewing of our content. We do not share Personal Information with these third parties, but ad network providers, the advertisers, the sponsors, and/or analytics service providers may set and access their own cookiesweb beacons and embedded scripts on your Device and they may otherwise collect or have access to information about you, including Usage Information. With regard to advertisements, we and our network advertisers may target advertisements for products and services in which you might be interested based on your visits to both the Sites and other web sites. Cookies and web beacons, including those set by third party network advertisers, may be used to, among other things, target advertisements, prevent you from seeing the same advertisements too many times, or to conduct research regarding the usefulness of certain advertisements to you. We may share Usage Information about visitors to the Sites with third party advertising companies for the same purposes. We may use a variety of companies to serve advertisements. 

9. UPDATING YOUR INFORMATION AND OPTING OUT FROM EMAIL, SMS AND MMS COMMUNICATIONS
APAR may provide web pages or other mechanisms through which you can correct or update some of the Personal Information you have provided to us, including, without limitation, through registration with the Sites. You may opt out of receiving e-mail newsletters by following the opt-out instructions provided to you in those e-mails. If you sign up to receive SMS or MMS messages that may be offered on the Sites, you may unsubscribe from any SMS or MMS messages received by replying "STOP". Please note that we reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to your account or use of the Sites and these transactional account messages may be unaffected if you choose to opt-out from marketing communications. In accordance with our routine record keeping, we may delete certain records that contain Personal Information you have submitted through the Sites. We are under no obligation to store such Personal Information indefinitely and disclaim any liability arising out of, or related to, the destruction of such Personal Information. In addition, you should be aware that it is not always possible to completely remove or delete all of your information from our databases without some residual data because of backups and other reasons.

10. SECURITY
We incorporate commercially reasonable safeguards to help protect and secure your Personal Information. However, no electronic data transmission or storage of information can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Please note that we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you use the Sites and provide us with your information at your own risk also indemnify and keep indemnified and harmless the Apar Global Pvt. Ltd. and its office bearers against any claim, demand, suit or other legal proceeding by you or by any other person/s claiming through or under you with respect to the any misuse, loss, damage of your personal data, any information provided by you or any of your personal data, any information provided by the third party as mentioned in this Privacy Policy.


11. THIRD PARTY CONTENT, LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES AND SERVICES, AND APAR CONTENT FOUND ON OTHER WEB SITES
Certain content on the Sites may be hosted and served by third parties, which may include third party widgets (such as those that allow you to "like" or "share" content with third party web sites and interactive services, or third party "get tickets and showtimes" widgets). In addition, when you are on the Sites you may be directed to other web sites or services that are operated and controlled by third parties. This includes links from advertisers, sponsors and partners that may use our logo(s) as part of a co-branding agreement. In addition, APAR Site widgets or other APAR content may be included on web pages, web sites and/or services that are not associated with APAR. We have no control over these third parties. These third parties may send their own cookies to your Device, they may independently collect data or solicit Personal Information and may or may not have their own published privacy policies. APAR is not responsible for the privacy practices or business practices of any third party web site.

12.CONSENT TO TRANSFER 
The Site is hosted and operated in India. Your Personal Data will therefore be transferred to and processed in the India where the privacy laws may not provide an equivalent level of protection to those in your home country. By using the Site, and providing us with any information, you consent to the transfer of your information to, and its processing in, the India

13. AMENDING OR REMOVING YOUR PERSONAL DATA, CONTROLLING MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS, AND PRIVACY QUESTIONS 
You have the right to access your Personal Data held by us and, if necessary, have it amended or deleted. You can also request not to receive email, SMS, and MMS marketing communications from us. You may opt out of receiving email newsletters and other marketing communications by following the opt-out instructions provided to you in those emails. If you sign up to receive SMS or MMS messages, you may unsubscribe from any SMS or MMS messages received by replying “STOP.” Please note that we may still need to send you certain communications relating to your account or use of the Sites and these transactional account messages may be unaffected if you choose to opt-out from marketing communications.

For more details or any privacy questions please contact us by email atprivacyqueries@mail-apargames.com or write to us at: 
Legal Department
Apar Global Pvt. Ltd.,
310/311, Gemstar CommericalComplex,Opp. ReligareTechnologies,Ramchandra Lane Extn. Kanchpada, Off Malad Link Road,Malad (W), Mumbai 400 064, INDIA.

We request you to please provide the following information in your complaint:-

You may also contact us in case you have any questions / suggestions about the Privacy Policy using the contact information mentioned above.

14.NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES AND YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to change the terms of this Privacy Policy at any time, by prominently posting notice of the amendment on this Site. To the extent permitted by applicable law, such changes will be applicable from the time they are posted. However, APAR will use your Personal Information in a manner consistent with the Privacy Policy in effect at the time you submitted the information, unless you consent to the new or revised policy.

Effective Date: This Privacy Policy was updated May, 2014 and is effective as of that date.


When you install and use Apar Games mobile applications, we can collect and process some of your data for different legitimate purposes. You will find below explanations regarding the reasons why we may collect data.
Why is data collected?
Apar Games and its third-party partners collect data:
To provide you with the services you asked for
To run analytics and understand how users interact with our product and services to improve them continuously
The third-party partners that “Studio Name” will share the data with are:

GameAnalytics
Facebook Analytics
Adjust
Voodoo

Data deletion requests
To delete user data collected by Apar Games, please reach out to games@mail-apargames.com

If you also want to request the deletion of the data that may have been collected about you or your device by our third-party partners that are acting as independent data controllers, you will find below the contact for each partner and the link to the relevant section of their privacy policies:

GameAnalytics:
email: privacy@gameanalytics.com
privacy policy: https://gameanalytics.com/privacy/#6-changing-or-deleting-your-information

Facebook Analytics:
email: none, please refer to the privacy policy
privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php