This Privacy Policy (hereinafter, the “Policy”) covers any information about users of our products and services (hereinafter, “You”) that may include personal data as defined by applicable laws and regulations (hereinafter, “Personal information”), which gamesjam and (or) its affiliated entities, including all entities belonging to the same group as gamesjam (jointly referred to as “gamesjam”), may obtain when you use any of the gamesjam websites, programs, products or services, including its search, e-mail, map, storage service or any other program, product or service (jointly referred to as, the “Services”), information about which you can find on gamesjam.com (collectively, the “Sites”), and as well as during the performance of any contract or agreement gamesjam concludes with you in relation to your using the Services. Also, Personal information can be obtained by gamesjam through its partners (“Partners”), such as advertising partners or taxi service providers, who provide you with access to or let you use websites, programs, products or services owned or operated by them, and from the sources of publicly available personal data. Partners can provide Personal information to gamesjam only as stipulated by applicable laws and regulations and in accordance with special agreements between gamesjam and each of the Partners.

Please note that your using any of the Sites and/or Services may be subject to additional terms and conditions, which may amend and/or supplement this Policy and (or) include specific privacy terms in relevant parts of legal documents for such Sites and/or Services.

The objective of the privacy policy is to inform you regarding the processing of your personal information which is collected during your visit to our website. This policy applies to current and former visitors of the website users who register on gamesjam in connection with use of our services, or whose information gamesjam otherwise receives in connection with its services.

Privacy and security of your Personal information are extremely important to us. When you use the Sites and/or Services, gamesjam processes your Personal information and ensures its protection in strict compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

As part of our commitment to protecting your Personal information, we use this Policy to transparently inform you about the following:

1. why and how your Personal information is collected and used (also, “processed”) by gamesjam when you access the Sites or Services;
   
   
2. Gamesjam's role and responsibilities in this context as the legal entity deciding why and how your Personal information is processed;
   
   
3. what instruments you may use to limit the amount of Personal information collected by gamesjam; and
   
   
4. what your rights are in relation to the above processing.
   
   

The categories of personal information we collect depend on how you interact with us, our Services and the requirements of applicable law. We collect information that you provide to us, information we obtain automatically when you use our Services, and information from other sources such as third-party services and organizations, as described below.

We may collect personal information automatically when you use our Services:

• Automatic Data Collection
  
  

We may collect certain information automatically when you use our Services, such as your Internet protocol (IP) address, user settings, MAC address, device-related information, cookie identifiers, mobile carrier, mobile advertising and other unique identifiers, browser or device information, location information (including approximate location derived from IP address and GPS), and Internet service provider. We may also automatically collect information regarding your use of our Services, activities and transactions in the course of use of Services, information about the links you click, the types of content you interact with, the frequency and duration of your activities, and other information about how you use our Services. In addition, we may collect information that other people provide about you when they use our Services.



• Location Information.
  
  

We may collect location information, including your approximate location derived through IP Address, as well as your precise location using GPS (if you give us permission to use your device’s location services) when you use our Services.



• Cookies Pixel Tags/Web Beacons, and Other Technologies.
  
  

We, as well as third parties that provide content, advertising, or other functionality on our Services, may use cookies, pixel tags, local storage, and other technologies (“Technologies”) to automatically collect information through your use of our Services.



• Cookies.
  
  

Cookies are small text files placed in device browsers that store preferences and facilitate and enhance your experience.



• Pixel Tags/Web Beacons.
  
  

A pixel tag (also known as a web beacon) is a piece of code embedded in our Services that collects information about engagement on our Services. The use of a pixel tag allows us to record, for example, that a user has visited a particular web page or clicked on a particular advertisement. We may also include web beacons in e-mails to understand whether messages have been opened, acted on, or forwarded.

Our uses of these Technologies fall into the following general categories:



• Operationally Necessary. This includes Technologies that allow you access to our Services, applications, and tools that are required to identify irregular website behavior, prevent fraudulent activity and improve security or that allow you to make use of our functionality;
  
  
• Performance-Related. We may use Technologies to assess the performance of our Services, including as part of our analytic practices to help us understand how individuals use our Services;
  
  
• Functionality-Related. We may use Technologies that allow us to offer you enhanced functionality when accessing or using our Services. This may include identifying you when you sign into our Services or keeping track of your specified preferences, interests, or past items viewed;
  
  
• Advertising- or Targeting-Related. We may use first party or third-party Technologies to deliver content, including ads relevant to your interests, on our Services or on third-party websites.
  
  
• Analytics. We may use Technologies and other third-party tools to process analytics information on our Services.
  
  
• Social Media Platforms. Our Services may contain social media buttons (that might include widgets such as the “share this” button or other interactive mini programs). These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our Services, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to - --function properly. Your interactions with these platforms are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
  
  

We may obtain information about you from other sources, including through third-party services and organizations. For example, if you access our Services through a third-party application, such as an app store, a third-party login service, or a social networking site, we may collect information about you from that third-party application that you have made available via your privacy settings.

In most cases, Personal information is processed automatically without access to it by our staff. However, if such access is necessary, your Personal information can be accessed only by those gamesjam employees whose professional tasks require using this information. To protect your Personal information and ensure its confidentiality, these employees must comply with internal rules and follow protocols for processing Personal information. They are also required to follow all technical and organisational security measures protecting your Personal information.

Gamesjam has also implemented adequate technical and organisational measures to protect Personal information against unauthorised, accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, misuse, disclosure or access and against all other unlawful forms of processing. These security measures have been implemented taking into account the state of the art of the technology, their cost of implementation, the risks presented by the processing and the nature of Personal information.

We use your information for a variety of business purposes, including to provide our Services, for administrative purposes, and to market our products and Services, as described below.

We use your information for various administrative purposes, such as:

• Pursuing our legitimate interests such as direct marketing, research and development (including marketing research), network and information security, and fraud prevention;
  
  
• Detecting security incidents, protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for that activity;
  
  
• Measuring interest and engagement in our Services;
  
  
• Aiding in strategic development, data collection and business analytics;
  
  
• Managing our relationship with advertisers and partners;
  
  
• Short-term, transient use, such as contextual customization of ads;
  
  
• Improving, upgrading or enhancing our Services;
  
  

Offering you opportunities to participate in surveys, contests, or sweepstakes;



• Developing new products and Services;
  
  
• Keeping you posted about our latest announcements and those of our partners, software updates, and upcoming promotions, contests, and events;
  
  
• Marketing to you;
  
  
• Ensuring internal quality control and safety;
  
  
• Authenticating and verifying individual identities;
  
  
• Debugging to identify and repair errors with our Services;
  
  
• Auditing relating to interactions, transactions and other compliance activities;
  
  
• Enforcing our agreements and policies; and
  
  
• Complying with our legal obligations.
  
  

We may use personal information to tailor and provide you with content and advertisements and build up marketing profiles. We may provide you with these materials as permitted by applicable law.

Some of the ways we market to you include email campaigns, custom audiences advertising, “look-alike” modeling, and “interest-based” or “personalized advertising,” including through cross-device tracking.

If you have any questions about our marketing practices or if you would like to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes, you may contact us at any time as set forth below.

We also use your information for other purposes as requested by you or as permitted by applicable law.

• Consent. We may use personal information for other purposes that are clearly disclosed to you at the time you provide personal information or with your consent.
  
  
• De-identified and Aggregated Information. We may use personal information and other information about you to create de-identified and/or aggregated information, such as de-identified demographic information, de-identified location information, information about the device from which you access our Services, or other analyses we create, so that such information can no longer reasonably be linked to you or your device. We may use such information for any purpose, including without limitation for research and marketing purposes, and may also share such data with any third parties, including advertisers, partners, and investors, in our discretion.
  
  
• Share Content with Friends or Colleagues. Our Services may offer various tools and functionalities. For example, we may allow you to provide information about your friends through our referral services. Our referral services may allow you to forward or share certain content with a friend or colleague, such as an email inviting your friend to use our Services.
  
  

We disclose your information to third parties for a variety of business purposes, including to provide our Services, to protect us or others, or in the event of a major business transaction such as a merger, sale, or asset transfer, as described below.

The categories of third parties with whom we may share your information are described below.

• Service Providers. We may share your personal information with our third-party service providers who use that information to help us provide our Services. This includes service providers that provide us with IT support, information verification/KYC verification, hosting, payment processing, customer service, and related services.
  
  
• Business Partners. We may share personal information with business partners with whom we jointly offer products or services, like game developer partners.
  
  
• Affiliates. We may share your personal information with our company affiliates.
  
  
• Other individuals, services, and partners. We may share your personal information at your request or with your consent for other purposes that are clearly disclosed to you at the time you make a request or provide consent.
  
  

We may access, preserve, and disclose any information we store associated with you to external parties if we, in good faith, believe doing so is required or appropriate to: comply with our legal obligations; comply with law enforcement or national security requests and legal process, such as a court order or subpoena; protect your, our, or others’ rights, property, or safety; enforce our policies or contracts; collect amounts owed to us; or assist with an investigation or prosecution of suspected or actual illegal activity.

We take steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Unfortunately, no system is 100% secure, and we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you provide to us. We have taken appropriate safeguards to require that your personal information will remain protected and require our third-party service providers and partners to have appropriate safeguards as well. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we do not accept liability for unauthorized disclosure.

To use the website you agree that you must be the minimum age (described in this paragraph below) or older.

The minimum age for these purposes shall be 18, however if local laws require that you must be older in order for gamesjam to lawfully provide the services in the website to you then that older age shall apply as the applicable minimum age. In all jurisdictions outside the European Union, if you are under the age of 18 or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you must use gamesjam under the supervision of your parent, legal guardian or responsible adult.

Your personal information processed by gamesjam are kept in a form which permits your identification for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal information are processed in line with legal, regulatory, contractual or statutory obligations as applicable.

At the expiry of such periods, your personal information will be deleted or archived to comply with legal/contractual retention obligations or in accordance with applicable statutory limitation periods.

To the extent permitted by law, gamesjam may record and monitor your communications with us to ensure compliance with our legal and regulatory obligations and our internal policies. This may include the recording of telephone conversations.

If you require any information or clarification regarding the use of your personal information or this privacy policy or grievances with respect to use of your personal information, please email us at “gamesjam.aws@gmail.com”.

Gamesjam shall not be liable for any loss or damage sustained by reason of any disclosure (inadvertent or otherwise) of any information concerning the user's account and / or information relating to or regarding online transactions using credit cards / debit cards and / or their verification process and particulars nor for any error, omission or inaccuracy with respect to any information so disclosed and used whether or not in pursuance of a legal process or otherwise.

Any other personal information shared by you which is not asked by gamesjam during registration, either mandatorily or optionally; accounts to wilful and intentional furnishing; and gamesjam will not be liable for breach of such information.