About BIGWAVE GAMES

BIGWAVE GAMES (“BIGWAVE” or „BIG WAVE”) develops and publishes game titles and applications for mobile devices (each game and app title, “Title”).

We collect information in either of 2 ways:

Directly – from your device through the Titles. For this purpose, we engage with analytics partners that collect the information on our behalf.

Indirectly– through our advertising and analytics partners. We collect information as described in this privacy policy for BIGWAVE own purposes, as a data controller under data protection law where relevant.

SCOPE OF THE PRIVACY POLICY

Privacy Policy governs the handling of your personal data and any other data that does not constitute them, and which we obtain from you in connection with your use of the Services. Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.We put your right of privacy first and that’s why your personal data is processed by us in accordance with applicable regulations.

Information Collection and Use

We do not collect or use information that identifies you personally (i.e., name, address, e-mail, phone number, etc.). However, we do collect and process certain identifiers of our users as detailed below. Our business partners may also provide us with their personal contact details through our website for business use. We collect and process several different types of information about you, as follows:

  • Usage Data We are likely to collect and process information that your mobile device or browser sends whenever you visit or use our Services („Usage Data”). Usage Data may include, but is not limited to:
  • Your computer’s Internet Protocol address (IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Services that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
  • Your cookie information, you country, regional and language settings, time zone setting, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, mobile carrier, the screen size or processor of your device, the type of mobile internet browser you use, browser plug-in types and versions, page response times and download errors.
  • Gameplay Data – Data about your activities on our applications and notably how you interact with them (for instance, how and when you use the applications, session time, in-app purchases, install timestamp, etc.) and with the advertisements we display (for instance, time spent on them, potential clicks, etc.). We never receive your payment or credit card information.
  • Advertising ID – Apple Identifier for Advertisers on Apple and Google Advertising Identity, or other unique identifiers that advertisers use for personalized advertising. They are consistent across all mobile applications and thus allow cross-app tracking.
  • Data relating to the location of your device. Usage Data does not identify you personally, it simply enables us to compile statistics about our users and their use of the Services.
  • Tracking and Cookies Data We are also likely to use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Services and hold certain information. Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Services. By using our Services, you agree to us placing these sorts of cookies on your device and accessing them when you visit the Services in future. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our ServicesCookies

When you visit our website, occasionally we may send cookies to your computer that uniquely identify your browser. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service by storing user preferences and tracking usage information. Most browsers allow you to disable cookies or set your browser to alert you when cookies are being sent to your computer.

Does BIGWAVE Collect My Financial Information When I Make In-App Purchases?

When you make in-app purchases in the our Games, we do not collect or have any access to your name and billing information. This information is collected and stored by your platform (Android’s Google Play) or your platform’s payment processor.

Use of Your Data by Third Parties

We also use these companies to automatically collect data from you, provided you gave your consent, when you use our apps in order to help us identify the advertising that are served to you and what you do after seeing those advertising. In addition, we share data with providers of analytic services which we use to analyze your use of our apps.

Our Services contain third party tracking and data collection and analytics tools from our service providers. Such third parties may use cookies and SDKs in our Services to enable them to collect and analyze user and device-related data and information on our behalf. The third parties may have access to and collect data and information about you. Such information includes, but is not limited to the following:
• Application usage, access and session times.
• Your viewing of and interactions with advertising.
• Device manufacturer, model and operating system.
• Device properties related to screen size and orientation.
• Mobile carrier.
• Country, time zone and local settings (country and preferred language).
• Network connection type and speed.
• IP address.
• Internet browser used to access the Services Identifier for advertisers (IDFA).

The privacy policies of our partners may include additional terms and disclosures regarding their data collection and use practices and tracking technologies, and we encourage you to check those privacy policies to learn more about their data collection and use practices, use of cookies and other similar tracking technologies. Below is a list of third parties we use on our Services:

Link to privacy policy of third party service providers used by the app

* [Google Play Services](https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/)
* [AdMob](https://support.google.com/admob/answer/6128543?hl=en)
* [Google Analytics for Firebase](https://firebase.google.com/policies/analytics)
* [Firebase Crashlytics](https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy/)
* [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update/printable)
* [Unity](https://unity3d.com/legal/privacy-policy)
* [GameAnalytics](https://gameanalytics.com/privacy)
* [One Signal](https://onesignal.com/privacy_policy)
* [AppLovin](https://www.applovin.com/privacy/)
* [Vungle](https://vungle.com/privacy/)
* [AdColony](https://www.adcolony.com/privacy-policy/)
* [Adjust](https://www.adjust.com/terms/privacy-policy)

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Our products respect the privacy of children. We don’t collect personal Information from children with our mobile applications.

Our apps for children’s do not show Interest-based Advertising.

We comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

Our website and mobile applications comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act („COPPA”).

If a user identifies himself/herself as a child under the age of 13 through a support request or feedback, we will not collect, store, or use and will delete securely any personal information of such a user.

We take care of filtering categories of sensitive and unsuitable ads for children. But rarely can an advertiser misclassify your ads, and this situation is beyond our reach.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, you are advised to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

This policy is effective as of 2024-01-1

**Contact Us**

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us at support@bigwave.games