Privacy Policy
PF EDUCATION LTD
Introduction:
PF Education Ltd and its affiliate (collectively, “PF Education Ltd”, “us”, “our” or “we”) develop and publish games for mobile devices. This Privacy Policy (this “Policy”) describes the ways we collect, store, use, and disclose the information, including personal information, and data that our users (“users” or “you”) provide or we collect in connection with the Our website available at and any of our games provided on a mobile platform (each a “Service,” collectively, the “Services”). Additionally, this Policy describes your rights and choices concerning your information.
Please note that the scope of this Policy is limited to information and data collected or received by PF Education Ltd through your use of the Services. PF Education Ltd is not responsible for the actions of individuals with no relationship to PF Education Ltd or third-party companies, the content of their sites, the use of information or data you provide to them, or any products or services they may offer. Any link to those sites does not constitute our sponsorship of, or affiliation with, those individuals or companies.
If you do not want PF Education Ltd to collect, store, use, or share your information in the ways described in this Policy, you should not use our Services.
Why does PF Education Ltd collect data from its apps and games?
When you install and use PF Education Ltd mobile applications, we can collect and process some of your data for different legitimate purposes.
You will find below explanations regarding the reasons why PF Education Ltd may collect data and the legal bases PF Education Ltd relies on in each case.
PF Education Ltd collects data:
- To
provide you with the services you asked for
- (e.g.,
knowing that you completed the first level to allow access to the second
one)
- Legal
basis – such data processing is strictly necessary for the service(s)
asked
- To
run analytics and understand how users interact with our product and
services to continuously improve it
- (e.g.
identifying that a feature is annoying for users or that a level is too
difficult for most gamers)
- Legal
basis – Express consent. PF Education Ltd only processes or shares
personal data collected through PF Education Ltd apps for analytics
purposes once you express your consent through the pop-up notice included
in our apps.
- To
serve to advertise tailored to the preference and interests of our users
- and
allow PF Education Ltd to continue to provide free services and products
- Legal basis – Express consent.
PF Education Ltd only processes or shares personal data collected through
PF Education Ltd apps for personalized advertising purposes once you
express your consent through the pop-up notice included in one of our
apps.
For all data processing activities that rely on users’ consent, you can withdraw your consent at any time from the “settings” page in our various applications.
Please only note that in the case where you withdraw your consent or where you refuse to consent in the first place, you will still be served with advertising but that may be less relevant to you as it will not be tailored to your interests.
WHAT DATA DOES PF Education Ltd COLLECT FROM ITS APPS AND GAMES?
For all the purposes listed above the data that PF Education Ltd
collect is limited to:
- The
apps you are using
- Your
IP address
- Your
Mobile Advertising ID (Apple IDFA or Google AAID – which are technical
identifiers developed by mobile operating systems for advertising purposes
which remain under your control and can be reset or erased at any time in
through your device settings)
- Technical
information about the device you use and your connection (user agent, type
of connection, timestamp)
- Data about your activities on
our applications and notably the way in which you interact with our
applications (for instance, how and when you use our applications) and
with the advertising served in our applications (for instance, number of
ads served, potential clicks)
TO WHO MAY YOUR DATA BE SHARED & WHY?
PF Education Ltd does not share your data with third parties without your prior consent.
When you consent to the collection of data for advertising and analytics purposes, we may share the data listed above with the following categories of recipients:
- Ad
Partners: that allow us to monetize the
ad inventory of our apps and provide users with free products and
services.
- Those
partners usually collect data via their tools (Software Development Kits
or “SDK”). You will find a list of our partners implementing advertising
SDKs through our applications and the privacy policies of their services
that describe their practices and allow you to exercise your rights
directly toward them hereafter:
- Adcolony
–https://www.adcolony.com/privacy-policy/
- Applovin
–https://www.applovin.com/privacy/
- Criteo
–https://www.criteo.com/privacy/
- Facebook
–https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy
- Fyber
–https://www.fyber.com/privacy-policy/
- Google
–https://policies.google.com/privacy
- Inmobi
–https://www.inmobi.com/privacy-policy/
- Ironsource
–https://developers.ironsrc.com/ironsource-mobile/air/ironsource-mobile-privacy-policy/
- Mintegral
–https://www.mintegral.com/en/privacy/
- Mopub
–https://www.mopub.com/legal/privacy/
- Oath
–https://policies.oath.com/in/en/oath/privacy/
- Ogury
–https://ogury.com/privacy-policy/
- Tapjoy
–https://www.tapjoy.com/legal/tapjoy-users/#privacy-policy
- Vungle –https://vungle.com/privacy/
Analytic companies: that provide us with
tools and technologies that allow us to better understand how users interact
with our services and will help us improve it. Those partners also usually
collect data via their own SDKs. You will find a list of our partners
implementing analytical SDKs through our applications hereafter:
- Authorities:
only to the extent we are obliged to by applicable laws and regulations.
- Game
Analytics –https://policies.google.com/privacy
- Google –https://policies.google.com/privacy
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
We may also offer you the option to complete a user profile that is visible to other PF Education Ltd
users (“Account”). If you create an Account, you may provide us your name, username, e-mail address, password, and other information that helps us confirm that it is you accessing your Account. We may do this through in-game dialog boxes, which you may choose to skip. If you sign in to the Services with Facebook Connect, we will collect information that is visible via your Facebook accounts such as (1) your first and last name, (2) Facebook ID, (3) Profile Picture/URL, and (4) list of Facebook friends. Your Account may be used to publicly identify you as part of social features of the Services, which may include user-to-user interaction, chat or messaging functionality, public leaderboards, head-to-head competition, and other similar features. The PF Education Ltd username will be public and will be shown to other users but will only permit access to information that is considered public or that you have designated as public in your user profile settings.
We may also offer you the ability to import your contacts or
manually enter e-mail addresses so that you can locate your contacts on PF
Education Ltd and invite your contacts to join you in the Services. We will
store those contacts for purposes of helping you and your contacts make
connections through our Services.
PAYMENT INFORMATION
When you order any good or service through the Services,
including any virtual currency or virtual good, our payment processing service
provider will collect your name, phone number, e-mail address, mailing address,
billing address, and complete credit card information that enables them to
receive your payment. Our payment processing service provider may also retain
this information to enable you to purchase additional items through our
Services without having to re-enter it each time. Please note that purchases
from third parties may also be subject to additional policies
INFORMATION COLLECTED
BY CUSTOMER SUPPORT
When you ask for assistance from our Customer Support team, we
will collect and store the contact information you provide (generally your name
and e-mail address), information about your game-play or activity on the
Services, and your user name or ID number. We will also store the
correspondence and any information contained within.
TECHNICAL AND USAGE
INFORMATION
When you access our Services, we may collect (i) certain
technical information about your mobile device or computer system, including IP
Address, mobile device ID (IDFA, Google Advertising ID or other identifiers),
and the version of your operating system; and (ii) usage statistics about your
interactions with the Services. In certain Services, we will create and assign
to your device an identifier that is similar to an account number. We may
collect the name you have associated with your device, device type, telephone
number, country, and any other information you choose to provide, such as
username, character name, or e-mail address. We may also access your contacts
to enable you to invite friends to join you in the Services. This information
is typically collected through the use of third-party mobile device software
development kits. We may occasionally send you push notifications through our
Services to send you game updates, high scores, and other service-related
notifications that may be of importance to you. You may at any time opt-out
from receiving these types of communications by turning them off at the device
level through your settings.
- How
We Use Your Information
PF Education Ltd’ primary goals in using your information are to
create your account, provide Services to you, troubleshoot, improve and
optimize our Services, contact you, conduct research, and create reports for
internal use. We use information collected through our Service for purposes
described in this Policy or disclosed to you in connection with our Service.
For example, we may use your information to:
- Create
accounts and allow users to use our Services;
- Identify
and suggest connections with other PF Education Ltd users;
- Operate
and improve our Services;
- Understand
you and your preferences to enhance your experience and enjoyment using
our Services;
- Respond
to your comments and questions and provide customer service;
- Provide
and deliver products and services you request;
- Deliver
advertising and marketing and promotional information to you;
- Send
you related information, including confirmations, invoices, technical
notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative
messages;
- Communicate
with you about promotions, contests, rewards, upcoming events, and other
news about products and services offered by PF Education Ltd and our
selected partners;
- Conduct
and administer contests promoted by PF Education Ltd;
- Enable
you to communicate with other users; and
- Link or combine it with other
information we get from third parties, to help understand your preferences
and provide you with better services.
USE OF YOUR
INFORMATION BY OTHERS
Third-Party Services.
We may provide your information to third-party companies to
perform certain services, including but not limited to hosting services,
payment processing, analytics and customer service and to assist us in our
marketing efforts. Where we share your information with third-party service
providers and business partners, we ensure that we have appropriate agreements
in place to protect your information as required by applicable data protection
laws.
Advertising.
To the extent we display advertising in our Services, we may
allow advertising networks of our affiliates and partner networks to collect
information about your mobile device to enable them to serve targeted ads to
you. Such mobile device data includes the following:
- Device
make, model, and operating system;
- Device
properties related to screening size & orientation, audio volume, and
battery;
- Carrier;
- Operating
system;
- Name
and properties of mobile application through which a consumer interacts
with the Services;
- Country,
time zone and locale settings (country and preferred language);
- Network
connection type and speed;
- IP
Address;
- Internet
browser user-agent used to access the Services;
- Advertising ID (IDFA on iOS
devices and GAID on Android devices).
You may visit www.aboutads.info/choices
or www.youronlinechoices.eu (for individuals
in the EU) to learn more about interest-based advertising and how to opt-out of
this form of advertising on your web browser by companies participating in the
Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) self-regulatory program. If you wish to
opt-out of interest based advertising in mobile apps on your device by
companies that participate in the DAA’s AppChoices app, you may download that
app onto your device and exercise your choice. AppChoices is available at the
links below:
You may also limit data collection by third parties by using
your mobile device settings. Please note that electing to opt-out will not stop
advertising from appearing in your browser or applications. It may make the ads
you see less relevant to your interests. Additionally, please not that if you
use a different browser or erase cookies from your browser, or use a different
mobile device, you may need to renew your opt-out choices.
- How
We May Disclose Your Information to Third Parties
PF Education Ltd does not share your personal information except
as approved by you or as described herein.
We may share information we collect or derive with third parties
for the following purposes:
- With
service providers that perform services on our behalf, including the ones
referenced above under “Third Party Services”;
- With
our affiliates;
- For
analytics and research purposes;
- When
we have a good faith belief that we have to disclose the information in
response to lawful requests by public authorities, including law
enforcement or legal process purposes;
- To
satisfy any applicable laws or regulations;
- When
we believe in our sole discretion that our Services are being used in
committing a crime, including to report such criminal activity or to share
information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of
fraud protection, credit risk reduction, and other security precautions;
- To
protect our or a third party’s legal rights, investigate fraud, or to
defend against a legal claim;
- As
part of a business transfer such as a merger, acquisition, or at
bankruptcy;
- We
may share aggregate or anonymous information about you with advertisers,
publishers, business partners, sponsors, and other third parties; and
- We
may use analytics services provided by third parties, including Google
Analytics. These service providers may use cookies to collect information
about your online activities across this and other sites over time for
non-advertising purposes. To learn more about how Google analytics
collects and processes data and the choices Google may offer to control
these activities, you may visit https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/partners/
- Specific Provisions for EU
Individuals
Accessing and Correcting Your Personal Information. At any time,
you may contact PF Education Ltd at the address provided in the “Contact PF
Education Ltd” section herein and request to access the personal data that PF
Education Ltd holds about you. PF Education Ltd may need to ask you to provide
certain information to make sure you are who you claim to be. If you find the
information on your account is not accurate, complete or updated, then please
provide PF Education Ltd with the necessary information to correct it.
Withdrawing Your Consent.
Contact us if you would like to withdraw your consent to the processing of your data. Exercising this right will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before the withdrawal.
Erasing or Restricting Access to Your Information.
You may request to delete or restrict access to your personal data. We may postpone or deny your request if your personal data is in current use for providing Services or for other legitimate purposes, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.
Transferring your Personal Data (Otherwise known as Your Right to Data Portability).
You have the right to receive the personal data that you have provided us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and the right to transmit that data to another party of your choice, where technically feasible. However, this right shall not apply where it would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.
Right to Make Complaint:
If you consider that our processing of your data infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to complain about a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your habitual residence, your place of work, or the place of the alleged infringement.
PF Education Ltd takes reasonable measures to protect your information from unauthorized access or against loss, misuse, or alteration by third parties. Although we make good faith efforts to store the information collected on the Services in a secure operating environment that is not available to the public, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of that information during its transmission or its storage on our systems. Further, while we attempt to ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent third-party “hackers” from illegally obtaining access to this information. We do not warrant or represent that your information will be protected against, loss, misuse, or alteration by third parties. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
- Data
Retention.
PF Education Ltd retains your data for as long as needed to
provide you Services, unless we are required by law to delete or if PF
Education Ltd accepts your request to delete the information. We will also
retain and use your data as necessary to comply with our legal obligations,
resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
- Our
Policy Regarding Children.
We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal data from anyone
under the age of 16 or knowingly allow such persons to use our Services. If you
are under 16, please do not send any information about yourself to us,
including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under
the age of 16 may provide any personal data. If we learn that we have collected
personal data from a child under age 16, we will delete that information as quickly
as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a
child under the age of 16, please contact us.
- Transfer
of Personal Data outside Your Country.
We may transfer information that we collect about you to
affiliated entities, or to other third parties across borders and from your
country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world.
Please note that these countries and jurisdictions may not have the same data
protection laws as your own jurisdiction, and we take steps to ensure adequate
safeguards are in place to enable the transfer of information to the U.S. and
the use and disclosure of information about you, including personal data, as
described in this Policy.
- Lawful
Basis for Processing.
On certain occasions, we process your personal data when it is
necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party, such as
to provide the Services to you. We may also process your personal data to
respond to your inquiries concerning our products and services.
On other occasions, we process your personal data where required
by law. We may also process your personal data if necessary to protect your
interests or the interests of a third party.
Additionally, we process your personal data when necessary to do
so for fraud prevention, improving our network and services, and marketing our
services to advertisers and publishers, where these interests are not
overridden by your data protection rights.
If the processing of personal data is necessary and there is no
other lawful basis for such processing, we will generally ensure that consent
has been obtained from you. You have the right to withdraw your consent to
processing of personal data at any time.
Game Studios and its affiliated Studios (as defined below)
transfer certain personal data to the U.S. and participate in and have
certified their compliance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the
Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. PF Education Ltd and the Studios are
committed to subjecting all personal data received from European Union (EU)
member countries and Switzerland, respectively, in reliance on each Privacy
Shield Framework, to the Framework’s applicable Principles. To learn more about
the Privacy Shield Framework visit the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Privacy
Shield List, available at: https://www.privacyshield.gov/list.
“Studios” means collectively Fire craft Studios, Inc., People fun, Inc.,
Redemption Games, Inc., and Word and Sudoku Games LLC.
PF Education Ltd and the Studios are responsible for the
processing of personal data they receive under the Privacy Shield Framework and
subsequently transfer to a third party acting as an agent on their behalf. PF
Education Ltd and the Studios comply with the Privacy Shield Principles for all
onward transfers of personal data from the EU and Switzerland, including the
onward transfer liability provisions.
With respect to personal data received or transferred pursuant
to the Privacy Shield Framework, PF Education Ltd and the Studios are subject
to the regulatory enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. In
certain situations, PF Education Ltd and the Studios may be required to
disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities,
including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
In compliance with the Privacy Shield Principles, PF Education
Ltd and the Studios commit to resolve complaints about our collection or use of
your personal information. EU and Swiss individuals with inquiries or
complaints regarding our Privacy Shield policy should first contact us at pfeducationltd@gmail.com. We will attempt
to answer your questions and satisfy your concerns in a timely and complete
manner. If your complaint is still not resolved through these channels, under
certain conditions, more fully described on the Privacy Shield website here: https://www.privacyshield.gov/article?id=How-to-Submit-a-Complaint,
you may invoke binding arbitration when other dispute resolution procedures
have been exhausted.
- Specific
Provisions for California Consumers
These additional provisions for California consumers apply only
to individuals who reside in California. The California Consumer Privacy Act of
2018 (“CCPA”) provides additional rights to know, delete and opt out, and
requires “businesses” collecting or disclosing personal information to provide
notice and a means to exercise those rights.
- Categories of personal information collected in the
preceding 12 months
- Business purpose for collection
- Third parties with whom we may share your
information
Right to Know and Right to Delete
For any of the personal information described above, you can request to know what personal information we collected, disclosed, used and sold, and request that we delete your personal information at any time.
To exercise your right to know and right to deletion, please
submit a request by:
Emailing pfeducationltd@gmail.com with the subject line “California Rights Request.” We will need
to verify your identity before processing your request. To verify your
identity, we will generally require the matching of sufficient information you
provide us to the information we maintain about you in our systems. In certain
circumstances, we may decline a request to exercise the right to know and the
right to deletion, particularly where we are unable to verify your identity.
Upon verification of your request, we will delete (and direct
our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records,
unless retaining the information is necessary for us or our service providers
to complete the transaction with you, detect security incidents or fraud,
fixing errors, exercise free speech or another right provided by law, comply
with legal obligations, or other internal and lawful uses.
Right to Opt Out of Sale
CCPA gives you a right to direct a business that sells your
personal information to stop selling your personal information and to refrain
from doing so in the future. We do not sell any of your personal information
and will require our service providers not to sell your personal information.
You also have the right not to be discriminated against for
exercising any of the rights listed above.
If you are a California resident seeking to exercise your rights
under the CCPA or have any questions or concerns, please email us at pfeducationltd@gmail.com In certain circumstances, you are permitted to use an authorized
agent to submit requests on your behalf where
(i)
You
provide sufficient evidence to show that the requestor is an authorized agent
with written permission to act on your behalf and
(ii)
You
successfully verify your own identity with us.
We aim to respond to a consumer request for access or deletion
within 45 days of receiving that request. If we require more time, we will
inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.
- Changes
to This Policy.
We may update this Policy to reflect changes
to our data and information privacy practices. If we make any material changes
we will notify you by means of a notice on the Services prior to the change
becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this Policy for the
latest information on our privacy practices. Please note that if PF Education
Ltd needs to adapt the policy to legal requirements, the new policy will become
effective immediately or as required.