PRIVACY POLICY
Foreword
This is the privacy policy of Happy Strider Studio (Happy Strider Studio, who owns and operates the Happy Strider Studio websites as well as the product “Game of Happy Strider”, is the company that collects the listed information on our sites. Our customer service email address is happystrider@163.com .) and any companies within our group (referred to collectively as ""Happy Strider "" or ""we""). It applies to all of our websites/services (referred to collectively as ""our websites"") on which it appears.
""Happy Strider Product(s)"" is used as shorthand for our online games “Game of Happy Strider ” and its follow-up versions(including versions of IOS/Android/PC/Website ). The ongoing supply of any particular Happy Strider Product is not guaranteed.
""Personally Identifiable Information"" is information that identifies you and can be used to contact or locate you in real life, such as (but is not limited to) your real full name, e-mail address, mobile telephone number, postal address or credit card information.
We are committed to protecting your privacy and take special measures to ensure the confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information collected from or about you. This privacy policy explains how we collect, store and use such Personally Identifiable Information.
Please read this policy carefully. You must accept this policy in full in order to use our website or any Happy Strider Product. If you do not agree with this policy, or any part, please do not use our websites or any Happy Strider Products. Your using any of our websites or Happy Strider Products is treated as an acceptance of any of the version of this policy in effect at the time of your use.
We may change this policy at any time, and will post any changes made on the site. Please check it whenever you return to the site. We will treat your continued use of our websites or any Happy Strider Product as acceptance of these changes from their effective date as shown above.
Do not use our websites or Happy Strider Products until you are satisfied and can accept this policy in its entirety.
If you have any question about this privacy policy, or think Happy Strider Studio is not abiding by its posted privacy policy, you should contact us by e-mail at happystrider@163.com . Please do not use our websites until you are satisfied and can accept this policy in its entirety.
1. What Information will be Collected
To protect your rights, we will only collect your MAC addresses, UUIDs, Serial numbers (Android), ICCIDs (Android), and dynamic IP addresses in certain cases, to help you to check your login history and retrieving your account. Please note that the information collected will not be used for commercial purposes except it is explicitly described in this Privacy Policy or our Services Agreement.
2. When will Your Information be Collected
We collects information when you:
i. Register to use our website, products and/or services;
ii. Complete questionnaires;
iii. Register for contests or giveaways;
iv. Order products and services from us;
v. Subscribe to our newsletters or take part in our promotions, marketing surveys and email campaigns;
vi. Request for customer support and/or other technical services;
vii. Otherwise use our services where personal information is required.
2. How the Information is collected and Stored
We collect and store information which our users voluntarily provide via forms or otherwise on our Happy Strider Products, and in electronic or other communications with us.
4. Information about you received from third parties
If you access Happy Strider 's Products through an integrated and approved third party then you are allowing Happy Strider access to certain information from that third party. The information you allow Happy Strider to access may vary per Happy Strider Product and across different third party platforms and is affected by the privacy settings you have on your computer or internet device and the choices you make with that third party.
By playing a Happy Strider Product through a third party site or application you are authorizing Happy Strider to collect, store and use in accordance with this Privacy Policy any and all information that you agreed the third party could provide to Happy Strider through that third party site or application including Personally Identifiable Information.
5. Usage of the information provided/collected
The information we collect may be used:
i. To provide our customer support service, and to verify any claims or requests you make if you use our customer support service.
ii. To enforce our terms and conditions, and prevent or detect hacking activities, security breaches or safety risks in connection with our websites and Happy Strider Products.
iii. To send service announcements and messages.
v. For our own internal marketing and demographic studies and to help us improve our websites or the Happy Strider Products or to show you adverts on our site which are relevant to your demographic profile.
vi. In the event of an actual or proposed (including as part of negotiations for any) merger, or business combination or sale of substantially all of our assets or a business operation to which such information relates, or as provided under bankruptcy or applicable insolvency laws or by the enforcement of equitable rights.
vii. To disclose information to the extent required by law, court order, as requested by other government, regulatory or law enforcement authority, to protect or assist in protecting our users, systems or the public, or to otherwise enforce legal rights as determined in our sole and absolute discretion.
viii. If you have agreed on our app, to send you email newsletters or announcements about our games, including new game features and special offers.
ix. As set out elsewhere in our privacy policy.
We care about protecting your privacy, and with the exception of the uses specified above or where you explicitly consent, we will not sell, transfer, rent out, share or disclose your Personally Identifiable Information to other companies.
6. Transfer your personal information to third Countries
Your information may be transferred to, stored and processed in countries outside your country of residence both in and outside Turkey, and used for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
You should be aware that the data protection laws of other countries may not be the same as the data protection laws of your country of residence. By submitting your information to Happy Strider , you have agreed to the transfer, storage and processing of your personal information as described in this section.
Please note that this privacy policy does not apply to any of your Information which is collected by the external payment provider companies themselves or to the websites or services of other companies to which we link or which link to us, or which provide goods or services to our users from their websites (such as affiliate sites or other sites selling Happy Strider Product merchandise). Please note that those companies (and not Happy Strider ) are responsible for the information which they collect. Please check their privacy polices where appropriate.
Be very careful before making or posting any communications whilst using Happy Strider Products. Certain information is visible to other players of the game including: public and private chat communications, the status of your characters and which alliance you belong to.
If you have agreed on our websites, we may provide your email address to our business partners so that they can send you emails with details of goods or services which may be of interest to you including information about special offers or promotions.
7.Passing Transfer your personal information to third parties
MECHANIST may supply your Personally Identifiable Information to external third parties who provide a service to us (such as fulfilment of orders placed for Happy Strider Product merchandise or to assist us in the supply of customer support) and purely for the purpose of that service.
We partner with a number of external payment service provider companies to enable you to make payment via a wide range of payment options. We share your billing information with such companies insofar as is necessary for the processing of your payment or to prevent or detect fraud.
8. Safeguarding your Information
We will only collect Information to the extent we believe it reasonably necessary to serve our legitimate business purposes, and will protect it using the same level of safeguards we use to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of our own equivalent proprietary information. In addition, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that third parties to whom we transfer any Information in accordance with this policy will agree to provide sufficient protection.
Note that while we strive to protect all our Personally Identifiable Information, we have all heard of data breaches in well-respected financial and governmental institutions and we cannot ever fully guarantee that such breaches will not happen. We will inform you of any material data breaches that we discover that may compromise your Personally Identifiable Information.
9. Privacy Protections for Children
In order to protect the privacy interests of younger Internet users, we do not allow children under the age of 18 to use our services without the consent of their parents or legal guardians. We also provide a number of provisions regarding the personally identifiable information of children. These are that a parent/guardian has the right to review the information the site has collected from their child, have their child’s PII deleted from the site and also request us to stop collecting further PII from their child in the future.
To request removal of your child’s information, please send us an email (to the address below) and be sure to include in your message the same user name, password, and email address that your child submitted. If your child has used your credit card on our websites without your permission, contact us immediately at happystrider@163.com .
California
The following section applies to only to residents of California.
Collection and Disclosure of Personal Information
Over the past 12 months, we may have collected and disclosed the following categories of personal information from or about you or your device:
To protect your rights, we will only collect your MAC addresses, UUIDs, Serial numbers (Android), ICCIDs (Android), and dynamic IP addresses in certain cases, to help you to check your login history and retrieving your account. Please note that the information collected will not be used for commercial purposes except it is explicitly described in this Privacy Policy or our Services Agreement.
We collect your personal information for the following purposes:
The purposes for collecting your personal data are described in the section “5. Usage of the information provided/collected” in the privacy policy.
We disclose personal information to the following types of entities:
Other companies within Happy Strider who process your personal information in order to operate the Game Services.
Other companies that provide services on our behalf who are prohibited by contract from retaining, using, or disclosing personal information for any purpose other than for providing the services to us.
Regulators, judicial authorities, law enforcement agencies and other third parties where reasonably necessary to comply with a legal obligation; enforce our terms and conditions; detect and prevent fraud or security issues; and to protect ours and others’ rights, property or safety.
Entities that acquire all or substantially all of our business.
In the past 12 months, we have not sold Personal Information of California residents within the meaning of “sold” in the CCPA.
Rights under the CCPA
If you are a California resident, you have the right to:
Request we disclose to you free of charge the following information covering the 12 months preceding your request:
the categories of personal information about you that we collected;
the categories of sources from which the personal information was collected;
the purpose for collecting personal information about you;
the categories of third parties to whom we disclosed personal information about you and the categories of personal information that was disclosed (if applicable) and the purpose for disclosing the personal information about you; and
the specific pieces of personal information we collected about you;
Request we delete personal information we collected from you, unless CCPA recognizes an exception; and
Be free from unlawful discrimination for exercising your rights including providing a different level or quality of services or denying goods or services to you when you exercise your rights under the CCPA.
We aim to fulfil all verified requests within 45 days pursuant to the CCPA. If necessary, extensions for an additional 45 days will be accompanied by an explanation for the delay.
How to Exercise Your Rights
First, you may wish to log into your account and manage your data from there. If you are a California resident to whom the CCPA applies, you may exercise your rights, if any, to other data by contacting us at happystrider@163.com .
Last Updated: September [1]st, 2020