Privacy policy

Last updated: April 2017

VG Games Privacy Policy

VG Games, collects, stores, and uses your personal information as a data controller in connection with and in order to provide and develop VG Games's products, mobile applications, services and websites (together "Services") according to this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy").

For questions and information about Privacy Policy and data subject's rights, please contact us at 3dsgamesandapps@gmail.com.

For information about our privacy practices related to data from children, please see "Special Note About Children's Privacy" below.

All VG Games Services are governed by this Privacy Policy and by using or accessing a Service You give consent to the processing, use and disclosure of your data. Please do not install or use the Services if you do not agree to this Privacy Policy. 

VG Games reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of Services will signify your acceptance of the changes to this Privacy Policy.

1. How We Collect Your data

Likely situations when you make personal data available to VG Games include, but are not limited to: (i) by using VG Games's mobile apps or visiting our websites, (ii) registration for Services, contests and special events; (iii) accessing Services using a third party ID, such as social networking sites or gaming services; (iv) subscribing to newsletters; (v) purchasing a product or services through VG Games's online stores or within the app (or "in-app purchase"); (vi) using "tell a friend," "email this page," or other similar features; (vii) requesting technical support; and (viii) otherwise through use of VG Games Services where personal data is required for use and/or participation.

The data we process on you may include, but is not limited to: email address, device ID, IP-address, user names and passwords. 

VG Games may supplement your data with data received from third parties in connection with demographic, advertisement, market and other analytics surveys or services.

2. Ad Serving Technology

VG Games reserves the right to use and disclose the collected, non-personal data for purposes of advertising by VG Games or VG Games's partners and contractors. 

VG Games may employ third party ad serving technologies that use certain methods to collect information as a result of ad serving through Services. 

VG Games or third parties operating the ad serving technology may use demographic and geo-location information (for more information regarding use of Location Data see below Section 3) as well as information logged from your hardware or device to ensure that relevant advertising is presented within the Service. VG Games or third parties may collect and use data, for such purposes, including but not limited to, data such as IP address, Device ID, MAC address, installed software, application usage data, hardware type, Operating System information, browser information, unique identifiers in browser cookies, Flash cookies, and HTML5 local storage, Internet and on-line usage information and in-game information. 

The foregoing data may be used and disclosed in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the privacy policy of the company providing the ad serving technology.

VG Games may display to you behaviorally targeted advertising. If you wish to "opt out" of certain targeted advertising, please visit http://www.youradchoices.com and/or www.networkadvertising.org. Please note that the links above may not reach all VG Games's advertising partners and certain behaviorally targeted advertising may still be displayed to you. If you want to be certain that no behaviorally targeted advertisements are displayed to you, please do not use or access the Services. 

Some services may include the use of in-game advertisements or brand placement. Such ads or sponsorships will be noted as such within the services.  

Additionally please note that if you "opt out" it does not mean that you will no longer receive advertising. It just means that the advertising you see displayed will not be customized to you and your interests and may be less relevant to you.

3. Location Data

To the extent VG Games makes location enabled Services available and you use such Services, VG Games may collect and process your location data to provide location related Services and advertisements. For example, some add-ons or offers may be available at dedicated locations. The location data is processed  and stored only for the duration that is required for the provision of the location related Services.

VG Games may use, depending on the service (1)IP-based location based on the IP address presented by the end-user, (2) fine geo-location data based on coordinates obtained from a mobile device's GPS radio, or (3) coarse, network-based geo-location data based on proximity of network towers or the location of WiFi networks. 

Your fine, GPS-based geo-location is not accessed without your consent. Notwithstanding VG Games's partners who are providing location related parts of the Service, VG Games will not share your GPS geo-location with third parties without your consent. To the extent VG Games makes available GPS geo-location to third parties in accordance with this Privacy Policy, it will be provided anonymously.

4. Analytics

VG Games uses your information to perform its own analytics and to enable analytics provided by third parties.  We use analytical information for supporting business analysis and operations, business intelligence, product development, improving products and services, personalizing content, providing advertising, and making recommendations.

5. Friends

If you choose to use VG Games's "tell a friend" or a similar service about VG Games Services or order a gift certificate for your friend, VG Games may store your friend's name and contact details that you provide to VG Games.

Please note that certain features of the Services may be able to connect to your social networking sites to obtain additional information about you. In such cases, VG Games may be able to collect certain information from your social networking profile when your social networking site permits it, and when you consent to allow your social networking site to make that information available to VG Games. This information may include, but is not limited to, your name, profile picture, gender, user ID, email address, your country, your language, your time zone, the organizations and links on your profile page, the names and profile pictures of your social networking site "friends" and other information you have included in your social networking site profile. VG Games may associate and/or combine as well as use information collected by VG Games and/or obtained through such social networking sites.

6. Disclosure and Transfer of Personal Data

VG Games may use third parties to collect and process personal data on VG Games's behalf and in according to VG Games's instructions. VG Games is not liable for the acts and omissions of these third parties, except as provided by mandatory law.

7. Data Retention and Correctness

VG Games retains the collected data for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Thereafter VG Games deletes all aforementioned data in its possession within a reasonable timeframe. VG Games does not verify the correctness of personal data.

Please note that some data may be further retained if necessary to resolve disputes, enforce VG Games user agreements, and comply with technical and legal requirements and constraints related to the security, integrity and operation of Services.

8. Third Party Terms and Conditions

Please note that your access to and use of the Services may be subject to certain third party terms and conditions and VG Games is not liable for any such third parties' use of your personal data.

Certain Services that VG Games may offer, such as multiplayer gaming, social networking and gaming console services, may use third party services to provide authentication for the Services with a gaming console ID, social networking ID, or gaming network account. In connection with such use, certain personally identifiable user and/or membership data may be transferred automatically to and from VG Games. 

VG Games may disclose your personal data to third parties in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, restructuring, the sale of substantially all of VG Games's stock and/or assets or other corporate change, including, without limitation, during the course of any due diligence process provided, however, that this Privacy Policy shall continue to govern such personal data.

9. Safeguards

VG Games follows generally accepted industry standards and maintains reasonable safeguards to attempt to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of the information in VG Games's possession.

10. Other

You may choose to disclose data about yourself in the course of contributing user generated content to the Services.

Any data that you disclose in any of these forums, blogs, chats or the like will become public information, and there is no expectation of privacy or confidentiality with respect to that data.

VG Games may store and/or transfer your personal data to its affiliates and partners in and outside of EU/EEA member states and the United States in accordance with mandatory legislation and this Privacy Policy.

11. Special Note about Children's Privacy

VG Games does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years of age. If VG Games learns that VG Games has inadvertently gathered personal data from children under 13 years of age, VG Games will take reasonable measures to promptly delete such personal data from VG Games's records.   

VG Games understands the need to provide extra privacy protections to users who are children. To that end, features and services such as social networking plug-ins, behaviorally targeted advertising, and collection of data for the purpose of building user profiles are not available to users under 13. VG Games also does not allow our third party partners who engage in such practices to access personally identifiable data from users under 13.  

VG Games and its partners do collect non-personally identifiable data from children. This includes, for example, collection of IP-based geolocation data to ensure that the product, service or features served comply with applicable laws of that nation.

VG Games and its partners also collect data to assess general information about the use of products, such as the number of visitors to our sites and services and which sections of a site or service are popular. VG Games also uses this data to provide contextually-relevant advertising to users, to prevent users from seeing the same ad repeatedly, and to allow users to personalize their experience on the site or service (for example, to save a high score in a game). VG Games and its partners may also use cookies, pixels, hardware-based identifiers, Operating System-based identifiers, and software-set identifiers, to manage and measure the performance of advertising.

Please note that VG Games's partners may have their own policies related to tracking technologies for analytics and ad-serving purposes.  While 
VG Games requires that companies comply with VG Games's privacy policy before VG Games allows those companies to access our sites and services, VG Games does not actually control third-party data collection and use. VG Games encourages parents to review the list of operators below and to become familiar with those parties policies and practices.

If you have additional questions about VG Games's Privacy Practices related to children under the age of 13, please contact us at 3dsgamesandapps@gmail.com.