Hello Gamers! Welcome to the Pitchdeck Gaming Privacy Policy. This policy describes how Pitchdeck Gaming collects, uses, processes and shares information about you.
This Privacy Policy applies to your download, access and/or use of Pitchdeck Gaming, whether on your computer, on a mobile device, on our website www.pitchdeckgaming.com (the "Website") or any other website, device or platform (each a "Game" and together the “Games”). It also applies to our Marketing and Advertising activities on all platforms and other Services that we will provide to you from time to time including campaigns with influencers. This Privacy Policy also applies to any other Services that we may provide in relation to our Games or our Website, such as customer support, social media, community channels and other websites that we may operate from time to time (we refer to all our Games and other services collectively as our "Services").
When you download, access and/or play our Games, or interact with our Websites or other Services you acknowledge the collection and use of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, including Pitchdeck Gaming and our advertising partners’ use of your data for targeted advertising purposes as described in the Marketing and Advertising sections of this Privacy Policy. Those sections also explain how you can opt in or out of the use of your personal information for targeted advertising purposes. 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.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on 26.06.24.
Playing our Games
When you download, access and/or play our Games or use our other Services, we collect information about you. Most of this information comes directly from you or your device, such as device information, country, region, and game-play information. We use this information to provide our Games and Services to you, including for the purposes of optimisation, preventing fraud, customising in-game offers and verifying purchases. We will also use it for the other purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, including for Marketing and Advertising purposes.
Visiting our Websites
When you visit our Websites, such www.pitchdeckgaming.com, and other Websites operated by us (“Websites”), we collect information about you, such as details about how you use and interact with such Websites. We will use the information we collect about you for a number of purposes, including for operating and optimising the Websites, in connection with our advertising purposes, and for research or analysis.
Pitchdeck Gaming Profile and Playing Socially
You can choose to use a third party social network (such as Facebook) to add information to your Pitchdeck Gaming Profile or to connect to your account. If you do this, then your personal information will be visible to other players and we’ll also use it for the other purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, including for Marketing and Advertising.
Marketing
Where we record your preferences as permitting us to do so, (see further below on how to change your preferences) we and our third-party partners use information collected about you to send you marketing communications about our Games and other Services based on your interests. For example, we will send emails, serve ads within our Services or place ads on third party websites, apps and Internet-connected devices.
We will use the information that we hold about you to promote our Games and other Services or those of Pitchdeck Gaming in a number of ways. This might include:
advertising within third party websites, apps and Internet-connect devices;
showing you promotions for other Pitchdeck Gaming games in the Games you play; or
sending you marketing materials by email.
Advertising
Our Games may include advertising for third party products and services.
Pitchdeck Gaming and our advertising partners collect and use information about you to improve advertising, targeting and measurement systems so that we can show you relevant third party ads in our Games.
Ad identifiers, cookies and similar technologies
To provide our Games and other Services, Websites and targeted advertising, we use ad identifiers, cookies and similar technologies. This section describes our use of these technologies and how you can manage your preferences.
Your rights
You have certain rights in connection with your personal information and how we handle it. You can exercise these rights at any time by contacting us via any of the methods set out in the Contact Us section below. Users located in the United States should review the US residents section below
Children
You must be over a certain age to play some of our Games and use our Services, depending on where you live. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from or direct or target interest-based advertising to anyone under the ages set out below or under 16 for California residents, or knowingly allow such persons to use our Games and Services. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under the age set out below, please Contact Us
General
This Privacy Policy contains further details about:
who we share your information with and the reasons for sharing it;
measures we take to keep your information secure;
the legal basis under which we process your information;
how long we retain your information and where we store it;
when and why we share your information with third parties, including transfers outside of the European Economic Area (the “EEA”), the UK, Switzerland and Canada (including Quebec); and
changes or updates to our Privacy Policy.
Sharing
In addition to what is described in this Privacy Policy, we will also share your information:
with the various Group Companies, including for the group companies’ own marketing purposes;
with third-party partners and licensees engaged by King to provide you with goods or services you have requested;
where we have your consent to do so (including as set out in this Privacy Policy);
as reasonably necessary in order to provide our Services to you (for example, by providing your personal information to partners we use to fulfil the Services or to communicate with you);
where it is necessary to carry out your instructions (for example, to process a payment instruction we must provide your personal information to our payment partners);
where your data is in an anonymous and aggregated format, meaning you could not be personally identified from it;
where we reasonably believe it is permitted by applicable law or regulation or as is necessary to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms and conditions and/or any other agreement with you; to exercise, establish or defend our legal rights or
where it is necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of any person and of Pitchdeck Gaming, Pitchdeck Gaming’s personnel and Pitchdeck Gaming users; and
if there is a sale of the assets of Pitchdeck Gaming or corporate restructuring, or as a result of a change of control of King or one of its Group Companies, or in preparation of any of these events. Any third party to which Pitchdeck Gaming transfers or sells Pitchdeck Gaming’s 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.
We will also share your information with our Service Providers if necessary to enable them to provide services to us.
Any information, including personal information you reveal in a bulletin board, message board, chat room or other public forum is publicly viewable.
Security
Pitchdeck Gaming takes appropriate security and technical measures to protect your information from unauthorised access, loss and misuse. In addition, we request that our partners who process personal information on our behalf take a range of security measures designed to help protect your personal information and maintain an appropriate level of security. In addition, we request vendors who process personal information on our behalf to take a range of security measures designed to help protect your personal information. However, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information online and offline, as the internet by its nature is not a secure environment and the nature of security risks is constantly evolving. As such you should always take care when sharing your information online.
Pitchdeck Gaming maintains and keeps your personal information confidential, unless it is not confidential by nature, for example publicly-available information like user generated content, leaderboard rankings and scores, etc or information that you post or publish on your social media.
Legal Basis
In each case where we process your information, we do so lawfully in accordance with one of the legal basis set out under European data protection law. The legal basis which we rely upon are the following:
Contractual Necessity and performance of the Games and other Services. We process your personal information for the performance of our Games and other Services, to provide or support of our Games and other Services, or for any other feature you request or enable. This includes using your personal information, for example, to:
provide you the Games and other Services you have requested;
support game functionality, such as chat functionality or third-party social network connectivity;
support purchases you made;
administer your King profile or account;
provide global customer service; and
provide a fair gaming experience by using anti-fraud technologies such as bans or blocks of accounts.
Legitimate Interests. We process your personal information where we have a legitimate interest to do so. This includes the processing of your personal information, for example:
Marketing and Advertising of our Games and other Services;
Analytics, research and optimisation of our Games and other Services;
Debugging and improving our current and future Games and other Services;
Give exclusive content, personalise your online experience with us;
Contact you in accordance with applicable marketing preferences; and
For the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
Consent. We process your personal information based on your consent, for example, when you consent to:
enable targeted advertising in our Games;
the storage of information on your device by us and our advertising partners, including through the use of cookies and other trackers;
receive newsletters, direct e-mails and surveys about our Games and Products that may be of interest to you;
enable certain other marketing features;
sharing data with our partners
Where we ask for your consent to use your information for any other purpose, we will make this clear at the point of collection and we will also make clear how you can withdraw your consent.
Legal Obligation. We process your personal information for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, such as to maintain records relating to tax or to respond to a valid legal request for certain data.
In this Privacy Policy we have explained how you can opt out of certain types of processing that we undertake and where any processing is based on your consent, you can withdraw that consent at any time in the ways described in this Privacy Policy. Nonetheless, if you play our Games we will still collect some personal information about you and process it as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not wish us to collect any personal information about you at all, you should cease playing our Games and stop using our Services.
Retention
We will keep your information for as long as your account is active or we consider necessary for the purposes described in our Privacy Policy. We will also retain and use your information for as long as is required in order to comply with our legal obligations.
International Transfer
We may transfer your information to third parties in jurisdictions outside of where you live, including outside of the EEA, the UK, Switzerland, Canada (including Quebec), such as the United States. Please note that these jurisdictions will not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction and there may be legal means for courts, law enforcement and national security authorities in those jurisdictions to require access to your information. We take steps to ensure that there are adequate safeguards and mechanisms in place (for example, the use of EU model clauses) to allow the transfer of your information across borders outside of your jurisdiction.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We will update this Privacy Policy from time to time and we will post the updated Privacy Policy on this page. Please come back to this page every now and then to make sure you are familiar with the latest version. Any new policy will be effective from the date it is published by us unless we provide otherwise.
Contact us
If you have any questions or concerns about any of the matters in relation to this Privacy Policy, including to exercise any of your rights then please contact us at emma@pitchdeckgaming.com