Privacy Policy

This privacy policy is effective as of 01.07.2015.

Welcome to MavenHut's privacy policy! We are an Irish company called Mavenhut Limited and we are registered in Ireland, Dublin, with registered number 511811 (referred to in this policy as "MavenHut" or "we", "us" and "our"), being your data controller. You can find the detailed HQ on our website www.mavenhut.com.

We provide various services (collectively referred to as "Services") which consist of, but are not limited to, the following: any content, product or software that you have downloaded or are about to download, any content, product or software that you have embedded on a website or are about to embed, any applications created and available through different platforms and social networking sites ("SNS Apps"), any software running on MavenHut's servers, content, related documentation, information on the MavenHut domain, and information made available by users to each other through our software.

This policy is made available via the app store or platform that you download our Services from for any website or platform where you can use our Services and on our website at www.mavenhut.com.

We provide the Services, online and offline. You provide the equipment (computer, phone, tablet, etc.) and pay any fees to connect to the Internet and app stores, or for data or cellular usage to download and use the Services. You may also need an account with a social network, if you are using our mobile Services, an account with the company that provides your mobile applications.

This policy describes how we collect, use, process and share information that MavenHut, through our "Services", collects about you. This policy applies to:

- any software provided/used/shared by Mavenhut or its advertising partners, such as games, applications, cookies, ad identifiers or similar technologies;
- all of our games, whether played online or offline, on mobile devices, PC or on other platforms such as social networking sites ("SNS Apps");
- our advertising activities on all platforms as described below;
- other services that we may provide to you from time to time;
- our website www.mavenhut.com and social networking accounts;
- websites and social networking accounts for each and every Service we provide, as stated above.

By downloading, accessing and/or playing our games or interacting with our websites or other Services, you agree to the use of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you have any concerns about providing information to us or it being used as described in this privacy policy, you should not use our games or other Services.

As set out in the Terms of Service ("ToS") relating to our Services, you must be at least 13 years old to access and/or use our Services. We do not knowingly collect personal data about children under the age of 13.

At all times, the English version of the Privacy and Security Policy will be the prevailing one and the version valid as Agreement between the parties. By accessing and using the Website, you warrant that you command the English language sufficiently to have understood these Privacy and Security Policy in English version. Any translation of these Privacy and Security Policy from English into another language is made just for convenience purposes and the translation will not be valid as an agreement.

By using the Service, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information as outlined in this Privacy Policy, as such policy may be amended from time to time. We may update the Privacy Policy and you should visit this page periodically to review any changes to the Privacy Policy.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully, and if you have any questions, feel free to contact us. Here at MavenHut we care about your privacy and we respect your privacy rights.

Please also read Terms of Service for our Services available here to learn about and understand the rules of using MavenHut Services.

What and How We Collect

We may collect and process the following data about you:

- if you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence, fill in form, answer questions, messages sent using our chat and messaging systems, your interactions with us on our social media channels;
- information that you submit when you register for downloading, accessing, playing and/or checking our Services including your name, date of birth and e-mail address;
- information that you submit in response to a news post or discussion thread, shouts, private messages, chat rooms or through any other in-game communication channels;
- the functionality that you use through the Service, including your gameplay choices;
- details of transactions you carry out through our Services;
- details of your visits and interactions to our website, games, applications or any other Services provided by Mavenhut including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs, resources that you access and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise.
- information we collect via cookies and other similar technologies, as explained further below.

In each case, we will collect and record the information you have provided. Other than names and email addresses provided at your discretion, we don't generally collect any "Personally Identifying Information" about our users. We may offer you the opportunity to submit other information about yourself (such as gender, age, occupation, hobbies, interests, zip code, your profile picture or its URL, your user ID number etc.), or we may be able to collect that information from social networking systems and/or SNS Apps (in accordance with the terms of use of those systems), on which you have used our Services which would then also be covered by this Privacy Policy.

This information may also be provided or can be also used to create your personal profile in connection to our Services. You can choose to log into your profile using your Social Networking Site account details. If you do this, for example, you may be able to log in on multiple devices and synchronize progress across those devices. We will receive some of your Social Networking Site account information; exactly what information we receive will depend on your settings in your SNS account. We may use this information for the purposes described in this privacy policy, including in order to advertise to you. Once connected in this way, you will also be able to see which of your friends are using our Services and may also allow you to access other functionality in our games and other services, such as inviting friends to play, asking other players for lives and 1 to 1 messaging. Logging in with your SNS account will not allow us to post anything to your SNS page without your permission.

You can make changes to what data a third party social network or platform shares with us, or stop our Services interacting with that social network or platform by adjusting your settings with that third party provider. However you may find you are not able to enjoy all of the same features of our Services.

In addition to information about yourself, you may choose to share information about yourself in other content, such as in games. Any action you perform with other players are considered public, and at your own discretion.

When you use a SNS App on your social network page or use a SNS App on someone else's page, we may record information regarding the use of that SNS App, and we may collect other information that is visible on your social network page in accordance with the relevant terms of use associated with that page.

Note that since some of our Services are served through SNS Apps, it is your responsibility to read and accept their Terms of Use, as well as Privacy Policy prior to continuing with MavenHut Services.

We may use information about you that we collect from other sources, including but not limited to newspapers and Internet sources such as blogs, instant messaging services, games and other users of our Services, to supplement your profile.

We underline and you should also be aware that most content delivered through our Services originates with another content provider that we use for our Services. Such other content providers may place on your computer and/or mobile devices, on your web and mobile browser and in app stores or otherwise, technologies like "cookies", "ad identifers" and other, in order to gather information about you, for advertising purposes and more.

Finally, in order to provide the best possible service and to allow us to make certain internal reports and make recommendations, we collect aggregate information about the use of the Services, such as internet protocol addresses, browser type, browser language, referring / exit pages and URLs, other browser history, platform type, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, and the date and time ("Activity Information").

How We Use Your Information

We do not sell or rent your "Personally Identifiable Information" to any third party. We may, however, use certain information about you that is not personally identifiable.

We use public information collected to determine the kinds of content that you would like to view and to assist any advertisers in targeting their advertising.

We use information held about you in the following ways:

- to ensure that content from our Services is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer or mobile devices;
- to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes including by interacting with advertising functionality in our Services;
- to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us;
- to deliver and maintain a high quality service;
- to allow you to access Mavenhut Services and to participate in interactive features of our Services, when you choose to do so;
- to notify you about changes to our Services, new features or new versions of the Services;
- for the purposes of compiling statistics;
- to determine whether you are in compliance with the Terms of Service ("ToS") of MavenHut software, games, applications or any other Services and to impose sanctions where necessary;
- for advertising activity;
- to instruct payments regarding our Services to our external partners that deal with those aspects of our business.

You understand and agree that we may access, preserve and disclose any information we may have about you and the contents of your account if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access, preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to avoid liability, to comply with legal process, such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order, or to protect our rights and property, or that of our affiliates or the public. MavenHut is not required to question or contest the validity of any search warrant, subpoena or other similar governmental request that MavenHut receives.

We also use non-Personally Identifiable Information and certain technical information about your computer and mobile devices and your access of the Services (including your internet protocol address) in order to operate, maintain and manage the Services.

MavenHut may disclose information about you to its partners in order to provide the Services, resolve service problems and correct errors in the Services, to communicate with you about the Services, to provide you with advertising and promotional information in connection with the Services, and to enhance your experience on the Services. However, we do not give our partners an independent right to share this information.

MavenHut, certain of its partners, and each of their contractors and employees, may view the information that you transmit to the service or that it is collected by us to provide the Services and otherwise perform the tasks set forth in this Privacy Policy.

Controlling Your Personal Information

Be advised that if you send messages or post material containing personal information, that information may be collected and used by others, too.

You can terminate your account at any time, which will remove your profile and other personal information from view. MavenHut, however, may (but is not obligated to) keep information about you that is on our Services system or/and servers, following your termination, for as long as we consider necessary for the purposes described above, or as long as the law allows.

Please contact MavenHut to terminate your account or for any other questions about your personal information.

Transfer of Information

If there is a sale of the assets of MavenHut or corporate restructuring, or as a result of a change of control of MavenHut, in case of a transfer of ownership of any of our Services or in preparation of any of these events, we reserve the right to transfer your personal information, without being obliged to have your consent. You agree that we may do so provided that the transfer does not significantly disadvantage you. Any third party to which MavenHut transfers or sells its assets will have the right to continue to use the personal and other information that you provide to us in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy.

Others' Information

You may decide to provide us with another person's email address so that person may be invited to join our Services or so that we may facilitate your communication with other people through the Services (such as when you upload an address book).

You may also provide us with another person's contact information for purposes of delivering information through SNS Apps. We use this information to contact and, if necessary, remind that person that he or she has been invited to join our Services or received content through an SNS App. All invitees are provided with the option not to receive further invitations from us. We may disclose such information if required to do so in order to comply with legal process, as described above.

Cookies, Ad Identifiers and similar technologies

The Services may send or use "cookies", "ad identifiers" or similar (tracking) technologies to your computer or mobile devices when you access our Services, view content through a MavenHut game or application or use an SNS App.

We and third parties who advertise on our Services use these technologies to improve the quality of Services, make recommendations, make the Services easier to use for our users and for advertising activities, allow our payment partners to process your payment instructions.

A cookie is a small text file recorded on your computer or mobile device that identifies you as a unique user and contains certain small information about your particular login session and/or your use of the Services. Generally speaking, cookies do not contain personal information from which you can be identified, unless you have furnished such information to the web site.

Advertising (or ad) identifiers are non-permanent, non-personal device identifiers for different platforms and Social Networking Sites.

These technologies allow the collection of technical data, such as IP adress, your device's model, operating system and screen size, the other applications installed on your device, domain names, information about how you use our Services a.s.o.

If you use our Services on your mobile device, in addition to your device identifiers, we may also collect the information you provide for: the name you have associated with your device, your telephone number, your country, and your specific geolocation etc.

You can choose to adjust your preferences on the matter, by preventing your device's ad identifier being used for interest based advertising, or reseting your device's ad identifier through the settings of your device. Settings vary from device to device but you will usually find the ad identifier settings under "privacy" or "ads" in your device's settings. You can also disable cookies through your web or phone browser settings.

If you choose to adjust your preferences in order to prevent these technologies, you may find that you cannot enjoy the full use of our Services - for which we can not be held responsible and it does not mean you will no longer receive advertising, it only means the advertising you do see will be less relevant to your interests.

Use of Information

Our Services may contain links to other web sites and content of MavenHut games, SNS Apps or other Services may be hosted by other web sites. In addition, as described above, most content offered through our games, SNS Apps or other Services is served or hosted by other sites. These other sites maintain their own policies regarding cookies and the collection and use of personal information and any data which you provide afterwards is subject to that third party's privacy policy and not to ours. It is up to you to review those privarecy policies yourself.

Third-Party Advertising Companies

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads for our Services, on any platform that we use. Our system and the third-party advertising technology uses information derived from Activity Information set above, cookies and ad identifiers, your visits to our Services, from our software, games applications that you view and the SNS Apps you use, to target advertising within our site, games or SNS Apps or others. In addition, our advertisers may use other third-party advertising technology to target advertising on our site and other sites. In the course of advertisements being served to you, a unique third-party cookie or cookies, ad identifiers or similar technologies may be placed on your computer or mobile device. Similarly, third-party advertising companies may provide us with pixel tags (also called "clear gifs" or "beacons") to help manage and optimize our advertising. Beacons enable us to recognize a browser's cookie when a browser visits the site on which the beacon is located, and to learn which banner ads bring users to a given site.

Our Services does not provide any Personally Identifiable Information to third-party advertising companies. Note, however, that if an advertiser asks us to show an advertisement to users with certain characteristics (for example, women ages 18-24) or a segment of that group (for example, women ages 18-24 who have viewed certain categories of content) and you respond to that advertisement, the third-party advertising company may conclude that you have the characteristics of the audience that they are trying to reach.

Your rights in relation to your information

You have certain rights in relation to the personal information that we collect about you.

Those rights include the right to know what information we hold about you, to correct personal information, to ask us to delete some information, to deactivate accounts on our Services, in which cases, we please ask you to contact us and tell us your request. We reserve the right to ask for reasonable evidence to verify your identity, to charge a fee for exercising this right of access or to impose other legal limits.

There are also other ways, depending on you, in which you can control the personal information that we collect about you. For instance, you could disconnect your social network accounts from our Services, or delete our Services from your computer or mobile devices. You could also reset your mobile advertising identifier or limit ad tracking altogether using the settings in your phone. Finally, you could limit or prevent the use of cookies in your web browsers.

Please note that the nature of the Internet is such that we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us via the Internet. No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. However, we will take all reasonable steps (including appropriate technical and organisational measures) to protect your personal data.

Jurisdiction and Contact

This Privacy Statement is governed by the laws of Ireland and is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Irish courts.

Again, feel free to contact us, any time, if you have further questions about our Services, Privacy Policy or Terms of Service by using e-mail founders@mavenhut.com.