Privacy Policy
About Wise Goose Games and This Privacy Policy
Wise Goose Games develops, publishes and operates social games ("Products") for web and mobile environments in the USA. Wise Goose Games values your trust, so we want to tell you about the personal information we collect from you when you use our websites and apps, how we use it, and with whom we share it. This Privacy and Cookie Policy describes how we collect, use, store and share your personal data, and it applies whenever you visit our website, install our app and play our games.
If you access our Products through Facebook, Google, or Apple or connect through any third-party, you should also read their terms and conditions and privacy policies to understand their sharing practices and contact them directly if you are unclear.
Table of Contents
1. Information We Collect
A. Information You Give Us Directly by connecting with Facebook, Google, or Apple accounts
You may voluntarily provide information to us when you select to connect through your Facebook, Apple, or Google account. Once you connect our Products to your account we will have access to your public profile, which may include, but not limited to: your full name, gender, photo, location, a list of your friends. This will allow us to invite your friends to join you and create your in game friend list. In addition, all points and rewards accumulated during the session and other sessions will be collected and saved.
B. Information When You Connect As Guest
You may use our Product as a Guest, which allows for limited functionality and experience. By selecting this option, no personal data is collected and any points and rewards accumulated during the session period will be erased when you leave the game.
C. Information from Other Parties
Our advertising partners may receive from Facebook and our other marketing channels general information concerning the performance of our advertising campaigns, such as the targeted age group or interests, and we, or our partners may be able to link such general data to any other data in our possession. We will not collect or store your financial data, bank or credit card account details, and billing information.
D. Information Collected Automatically
We may collect other information automatically either independently or with the help of third party services, including through the use of "cookies" and other tracking technologies. The data helps us better understand how our users typically use and engage with our Products and helps us and our partners to deliver better advertisements and content to optimize and improve your experience. Data consists of connectivity, technical or aggregated usage data, such as not limited to:
- IP Address
- In-game identifiers
- Game statistics
- Preferences
- Unique advertising ID
- Device Identifiers
- Operating system
- Browser or App version
- Mobile carrier
- Geolocation
- System activity details (e.g. error or lost connection, diagnostic data)
- Other Information (such as your likeness) that you may provide as part of your participation
We also may collect and store information locally on your device, using mechanisms like cookies, browser web storage, and application data caches.
2. How We Collect Information
We, and third parties use various technologies to deliver and measure the effectiveness of our Product, to serve advertisements, and to enhance your player experience. These technologies include cookies and similar technologies, as well as analytics, advertising, anti-cheat, and anti-fraud technologies.
A. Cookies
Cookies are small text files stored on your Internet browser. We, and our third-party partners use cookies and similar tracking technologies to help us understand things like what web pages, features, or ads you view and what games you play. This information helps us keep track of your shopping cart, measure the effectiveness of our advertising, make sure you don't see the same ad repeatedly, and otherwise enhance your experience.
You can disable cookies, limit the types of cookies you allow, or set your browser to alert you when cookies are being sent. Please refer to guidance provided by your individual web browser if you'd like help in managing your cookie preferences.
B. Analytics Technologies
We use internal and third-party analytics technologies to collect information about how you use our Products, your computer or device and the health of our Products.
C. Ad Serving Technologies
Our Products employ ad serving technologies that use cookies, clear GIFs, web beacons, tracking pixels, SDK, API, and other similar technologies to deliver offers and advertising to you within our Products as well as on third-party platforms and sites.
D. Anti-Cheat and Fraud Prevention Technologies
We strive to provide a safe and fair gaming environment for all players. When you use our Products, we or third parties may use cookies and similar technologies and collect data about your machine or device, to create a machine "fingerprint" or "hash" of your machine components, for fraud prevention, security and authentication purposes.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use your information to operate our Products, to improve your game experience, to provide you customer support, to serve and measure the effectiveness of advertising, and to personalize our communications with you.
We use your personal information, both individually and combined together, to:
- Operate, improve, and develop our Products
- Undertake research and analysis to develop and demonstrate our technology
- Populate online leaderboards
- Help you find your friends or tell your friends about our Products
- Facilitate sharing on social networks
- Manage and serve targeted and contextual advertising
- Measure the effectiveness and distribution of advertising
- Detect security incidents and protect against malicious activity
- Provide game experiences that you may like
- Facilitate your gameplay on multiple devices and/or platforms
- Authenticate and activate your games and save game-play data
- Help keep our Products safe and fair
5. Where We Hold Your Information
We store and process your information in the United States and other countries our third parties may operate in. When we do this, we utilize technical, physical, and administrative safeguards to meet data transfer requirements set by various privacy laws.
We retain the information we collect for as long as necessary to provide our Products, and we may retain that information beyond that period if necessary for legal, operational, or other legitimate reasons.
6. How We Protect Your Information
Security of your information is a priority at Wise Goose Games and we take a range of technical and organizational measures to help protect it, including encryption of sensitive information. Even so, please be aware that no security measure is 100% perfect. Thus we cannot guarantee the security of your information at all times.
7. Changes to Our Policy
This policy will be updated from time to time and we will notify you of material changes. We may occasionally update this privacy policy. When we do, we will revise the date at the top of the policy. If there are material changes to this policy, we will use reasonable efforts by prominently posting a notice of such changes before they take effect.
8. Contact Us
If you have questions about this policy, please contact us at support@wisegoosegames.com.