Privacy policy

1. General

yankuu GmbH as the owner of yankuu.games ("we", "us", "our"), is a developer, publisher and marketer of interactive entertainment products. yankuu.games develops and publishes games for the internet, mobile devices and other platforms on which players can use our "Services". Thus, with respect to personal data, yankuu GmbH is the "data controller" within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws of Switzerland and - if and to the extent applicable - the European Union.

The Privacy Policy applies whenever your personal data is processed as part of our "Services". These include our games, services, content and/or other websites or domains operated by yankuu GmbH. It explains how we process your personal data when we provide these Services and what rights and choices you have regarding your personal data. 

When you play games from yankuu.games or use other services from us, your data is processed in the ways described here.

2. What data we collect How

2.1 Data that you share with us directly:

Your trust in us to protect your personal data and thus your personality is important to us. We would therefore like you to know the following:When you use our Services, you provide personal information directly to us, which we then store in our systems and process for the purposes discussed in this Privacy Policy. Note: We do not collect sensitive personal data as defined by the Data Protection Act.

Depending on the Service, the personal information we collect may be important to the provision of the Service and may include, in whole or in part, the following:

• your first and last name
• your username for the game
• your gender
• your birthday, age and/or age group
• your email address
• your profile photo and/or avatar
• your approximate location
• Your contact information, including phone number and address
• your password
• Details about the games and platforms you use
• Links to your profiles on various social networks as well as associated user IDs
• Data about purchases you have made on our Services (see below for more details)
• Personal information that you provide when you request assistance from our support team, including the content of those communications with our team

2.2 Communicated data about others:

We may offer you the opportunity to invite your acquaintances to use yankuu Services, including by importing your address book or manually entering their contact information. You are responsible for ensuring that you comply with applicable law when providing this personal information to us. In some countries, this may require you to obtain permission from the people you invite before sharing their information.

We may also receive personal data about you from other yankuu.games users. We process this personal data to help you and your contacts connect through our Services. If you wish to delete any personal data we have stored about you, please follow the instructions for the relevant Service or refer to "Section 5.Your Rights" below.

2.3 Data you create through the use of our Services:

When you use our Services, we collect personal information about how you use or access the Services, such as when and for how long you play our games, what game features you access and interact with, what purchases you make, your progress or game level, and other game activities in which you participate.

When you access the communication features of yankuu.games services to share or transmit data to other players, we collect data about what is being transmitted or shared. This includes the following:

• your publicly available posts or comments on other players' profiles or game chronicles
• your non-public messages and invitations to other players that were made through in-game mechanisms
• the photos you publish or other content created by users

We may store these conversations, comments, photos, and other user-created content on yankuu.games servers for use in protecting the safety and welfare of our players and protecting yankuu.games rights and property in connection with our Services, to operate, improve, personalize, and optimize our Services and player experience through the use of analytics, and to manage and serve advertising.

2.4 Payment data:

If you purchase virtual in-game currency or items in one of our games, the third-party payment processor we use will collect the billing and financial information needed to process the direct debit. This may include your address, email address, and financial information. If we use payment processors, they do not share payment information such as credit card numbers with yankuu.games, but they may share non-financial information with us related to your purchases, such as names, billing addresses, and items purchased.

When you play our games or access any other of our Services through connected third-party applications or platforms (such as Apple, Facebook, or Google or similar), any purchases you make will be processed by that third-party application or platform and will be subject to the terms of use and privacy policy of that application or platform. In the case of such purchases, we do not receive your payment information, but may receive data of a non-financial nature related to those purchases, such as names, approximate location, and the items purchased. The data yankuu.games receives varies depending on the game you play and the third-party application or platform.

2.5 Data about you that we receive from affiliated third-party platforms:

When you play yankuu.games games or access any of our Services through social networks such as Facebook or other affiliated third-party platforms, yankuu.games may receive certain information about you from that third-party platform.Depending on which Game you play, as well as according to the Third Party Application, your privacy settings, and, as applicable, your friends' privacy settings on that Third Party Application, we may collect and store the following information about you (in whole or in part):

When you play our games or access any other of our Services through connected third-party applications or platforms (such as Apple, Facebook, or Google or similar), any purchases you make will be processed by that third-party application or platform and will be subject to the terms of use and privacy policy of that application or platform. In the case of such purchases, we do not receive your payment information, but may receive data of a non-financial nature related to those purchases, such as names, approximate location, and the items purchased. The data yankuu.games receives varies depending on the game you play and the third-party application or platform.

• your first and last name
• your profile picture or the corresponding URL
• Your user ID (for example, on Facebook), which may be associated with publicly available data such as your name and profile picture
• the user IDs and other public data of your friends
• the email address you provided for the relevant third-party platform
• your approximate location and that of the devices you use to access our Services
• your gender
• your birthday, age and/or age group
• data about your activities on affiliated third-party platforms or activities undertaken through those platforms,
• other data publicly available at the third-party platform and/or
• other data that you or the third-party platform make available to yankuu.games

If you access our Services through a third-party platform or connect to our Services through a third-party account, you should also review the terms of use and privacy policy for that platform.

If you do not know what data a third-party platform shares with us, please go to that platform to learn more about its privacy practices and the options available to you in this regard.

2.6 Cookies and other automated data collection:

Cookies are small pieces of data that the websites you visit can store in the browser and hard drive of the device you are using. Sometimes the term is also used for other technologies that, when used in a certain way, can track a user's online behavior.

We use cookies and other similar technologies (e.g., beacons, pixel tags, clear GIFs, and device identifiers) to identify you and/or devices you use on various Services. We, our service providers and our business partners use these cookies and other similar technologies to process certain data, including the following:

We use cookies and other similar technologies (e.g., beacons, pixel tags, clear GIFs, and device identifiers) to identify you and/or devices you use on various Services. We, our service providers and our business partners use these cookies and other similar technologies to process certain data, including the following:

• IP addresses
• device type of the computer or mobile device you are using
• platform (such as Apple iOS or Android)
• Version of the operating system used
• Application performance and debug information
• a browser type and your browser language
• referring and exit pages and URLs
• number of clicks on an application function or web page
• time spent on an application function or web page
• device identifier of the mobile device you are using, such as your MAC address, Apple advertising identifier (IDFA) and/or Android advertising ID (AAID)
• domain names
• target pages
• web pages viewed and their order, and/or
• your current progress in our services and the date and time of your activity

When you play our games on a mobile device, in addition to the data collected through cookies or similar technologies, we may also collect the following:

• the name associated with your device
• your country
• your phone number (if you provided it)
• your specific location (only with your consent)
• the contacts stored on your device (only with your consent, as explained above under shared information about others), and/or
• data about yankuu.games games and other third-party applications with integrated services installed on the device

If you want to customize your privacy settings on your device, please refer to "Section 5.Your Rights" below.

2.7 Other sources:

We may collect or receive information about you from other sources, such as third-party data service providers. We use this data, in combination with the data you provide directly, to, for example, help you connect with your friends or show you ads that better match your interests.

3. Why we process your data and legal basis

The main reason we process your personal data is to provide you with our services and to offer you a better gaming experience, but there are other reasons as well. We process your data for the following business and commercial purposes:

• Providing our services
• Improving, optimizing, and personalizing our services and player experiences
• Help you connect with other people you know and other third-party platforms you use, including to communicate with other players
• Communicate with you about the Services that you use or that we think you will enjoy, including, but not limited to, in-game updates, new Services, and promotional offers
• Customer service and management of player communications, including technical support
• Marketing, research, analysis and presentation of contextual and behavioral advertising.
• Issuing rewards, surveys, sweepstakes, contests or other promotional activities or events sponsored or administered by us or our business partners
• Protecting the safety and well-being of our players and others
• Maintaining our business operations, including business transfers such as mergers, acquisition by another company or the sale of all or some of our assets
• Maintaining security and preventing fraud or potentially illegal activity and enforcing applicable terms of use
• Cooperation with authorities, in particular also law enforcement authorities, where permitted or required by applicable law
• Protection of our rights, including compliance with relevant legal obligations, resolution of any disputes and performance of our contracts with third parties.

Our legal bases for collecting and using the data described above depend on what the data is, the context in which we collect it, and applicable data protection laws. These legal bases are as follows:

• Enter into and perform our agreement with you (i.e., the applicable Terms of Use)
• For legitimate interest on our part or on the part of our partners
• Consent (if applicable)
• Compliance with a legal obligation
• Protecting your essential interests or those of another person (for example, another player)
• We do not usually collect sensitive personal data or data that falls under special categories

4. How we share data

We may also share your information from our Services with others in ways described below.

4.1 Safety and compliance with legal requirements:

Your information, as well as the content of all of your online communications on our Services and between you and yankuu.games, will be viewed and monitored as necessary to operate our Services and may be disclosed in the following circumstances:

• to fulfill applicable legal obligations
• whenever we believe, in our sole discretion, that our Services are being used to commit a crime - this includes reporting such criminal activity and sharing information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection or other security measures
• if we believe in good faith that we are required to disclose such information in response to a governmental, law enforcement or legal process (such as a court order)
• to protect the rights or property of yankuu.games or appropriate third parties, including to enforce the applicable Terms of Use

4.2 Your acquaintances and other yankuu.games players:

Our games and services support and often encourage interaction with other players. For most yankuu.games games, if you are playing through or accessing from a social network (e.g., Facebook), your friends on the social network who are also playing a yankuu.games game will see your name, photo, player profile (which may include the data described above under Data You Share With Us Directly), and descriptions of your game activities (including any yankuu.games games you play).In addition, in many yankuu.games games, other players, whether or not they are friends from a social network, can view your player profile (as described above) and descriptions of your game activities. They may also communicate with you through our Services and send you game requests or friend requests through our Services or affiliated social networks.

4.3 Third-party advertising, including user behavioral advertising and analytics:

We share some of your information with advertisers in order to better tailor the advertising displayed to you when you use our Services to your interests. Advertising tailored to your interests may include banner ads on game boards or in Services, for example, full-screen ads between moves or games, or ads delivered through an "offer wall" (which offers players virtual currency or other game items in exchange for viewing an ad, completing a survey, or engaging in other activities).

In order for advertisers, advertising intermediaries, and offer wall providers to provide you with advertising tailored to you, they may collect, or we may collect, the following information and share it with advertisers when you use our Services:

• Performance data (for example, the number of clicks on a particular advertisement);
• a uniquely identifying factor, such as your ID on a social network or your yankuu.games player ID; and/or
• other contextual data about your game usage (such as your level and session length).
• certain device data (such as IP addresses, non-permanent device identifiers such as IDFAs, and persistent device identifiers in anonymized form such as hashed Android IDs);

The data collected in this way may also be used for the following, in addition to providing advertising tailored to you:

• Capture how effective advertising campaigns are,
• Display tailored ads in third-party services for products or services that are more likely to appeal to you,
• Operating web analytics with respect to the evaluation of web traffic and other player activity, and/or
• Improving our services.

Please note: When you click on third-party advertisements or offers, you may no longer be on a website or app controlled by yankuu.games or the social network through which you play yankuu.games games. If you do not wish to receive customized advertisements within the Application, please read below under "Section 5. Your Rights".

Please note that the practices of third parties who provide advertising on our Services are subject to the privacy policies and privacy practices of those third parties. If you have questions about how these third parties use your information, you should review their policies and contact them directly.

4.4 Third party service providers:

We share your information with:

• Third parties that provide services on our behalf, such as handling payments, analytics, analytics data reporting, hosting services, customer service, marketing and advertising
• Our business partners who help us provide and optimize our services, such as our platform partners (including, for example, Apple, Google, and Facebook)

4.5 Sale or merger:

If we are considering a transfer of operations, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or some of our assets (such as the sale of a game), we may transfer or disclose your information, including personal information, to the buyer.

5. Your rights

Applicable data protection law grants you the right to object to the processing of your data in certain circumstances, in particular for direct marketing purposes, direct marketing profiling and other legitimate processing interests. Depending on applicable data protection law, you may also have the following rights with respect to your personal information:

• The right to request information from us as to whether and which of your personal data we process;
• the right to have us correct personal data if it is inaccurate;
• the right for us to restrict the processing of the personal data;
• the right to request the deletion of personal data;
• the right to request that we provide certain personal data in a commonly used electronic format or transfer it to another controller;
• the right to withdraw consent, insofar as our processing is based on your consent;
• the right to receive, upon request, further information necessary for the exercise of these rights.

If you wish to exercise your rights in relation to your personal data, please contact us in writing at the following address: yankuu GmbH, Customer Service, Stimmerstrasse 82, CH-8200 Schaffhausen. You can also contact us by e-mail (info@yankuu.games). To prevent abuse, we need to be able to identify you. Please send us a copy of your identity card.

Please note that these rights are subject to conditions, exceptions or limitations under applicable data protection law (e.g., to protect third parties or trade secrets). In particular, we may need to process and store your personal data in order to fulfill a contract with you, to protect our own legitimate interests (e.g., to assert, exercise and defend legal claims or to comply with legal obligations). To the extent legally permissible, in particular to protect the rights and freedoms of other data subjects / players and to protect interests worthy of protection, we may therefore also reject a data subject request in whole or in part.

We will inform you about requirements, exceptions and restrictions in individual cases. If you do not agree with how we handle your personal data or with your rights in this regard, please let us know. You also have the right to complain to the supervisory authority in the country where you live or in the place or country where the alleged breach of data protection law has occurred.

You can reach the Swiss supervisory authority here:
edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/de/home/der-edoeb/kontakt/adresse.html. 
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A list of authorities in the European Economic Area can be found here:
‍edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_de.
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The Presidium of the Data Protection Authority of the Republic of Turkey can be reached here:
www.kvkk.gov.tr/

5.1 Manage personal data we receive from third-party apps/platforms and from your mobile device:

You can manage the data we receive from third-party apps or platforms and from your mobile device as follows

• To manage the personal information we receive about you from a third-party application or platform, such as Facebook, Apple, Google, or Amazon, on which you play our games, you can update the privacy settings from the "Settings" menu of that third-party application or platform.
• You can set the access permissions for each of our services on your mobile device on the Settings page or in your web browser.
• Below are links to some of the most popular browsers on how to control browser cookies:
  ‍Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer.

5.2 Deselection of advertising communication from yankuu.games:

To stop receiving promotional emails from us, you can click on the "Unsubscribe" or "Opt-out" link at the bottom of any promotional email from yankuu.games. The unsubscribe/unsubscribe request or change in email preferences will be processed as soon as possible. During the processing period, you may still receive promotional emails from us that were already scheduled.

If you no longer want to receive push notifications, i.e. messages sent to you by an app on the mobile device you are using, even when the app is not active, you can disable push notifications in the settings menu of the mobile device in question.

Even if you opt out of receiving promotional communications from us, you may occasionally hear from us when we need to provide you with non-marketing information about our Services or request information from you related to providing our Services to you.

6. International activity and transfers

As part of our international operations, we may transfer personal data to our business partners and service providers in international locations for legitimate business purposes, including the purposes set forth in the "Why we process your data and legal grounds" section above.

Please note that legal requirements vary by jurisdiction, and the data protection and privacy laws applicable to the places where your data is processed may differ from the corresponding laws of your place of residence. If we transfer your personal information across borders, we will handle your personal information in a secure manner permitted by law and in compliance with our data protection obligations.

7. Our principles in relation to children

Our Services are not marketed to or intended for children. In general, we target our Services to a general audience and do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13 (or older children if applicable law provides other protections).

If we discover that a child has provided personal information without parental permission, we will delete that information immediately. We encourage parents to tell their children never to give out their real name, address or phone number on the Internet without permission.

8. How long we store your data

We will retain your information for as long as is necessary to provide you with the Services, to comply with our legal obligations, and/or to exercise, defend or establish our rights.

How long we keep your personal information depends on the reason we collected it and how we use it, but we do not keep it longer than is necessary to provide the Services or to comply with our legal obligations.

However, you hereby also acknowledge that we are entitled to retain certain data after we have deleted it to the extent necessary for us to comply with legal requirements or to enable us to exercise, defend or establish our rights.

9. Security of your data

We will do everything reasonably possible to safeguard your information, but you have obligations in this regard as well. We implement reasonable and appropriate security measures to protect your information both online and offline and to ensure that your information is handled securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

If you access our Services through an account (for example, a social network), please keep the account information secure. We recommend that you log out of social networks that you used to access our Services after using these accounts. While we take precautions against potential security breaches in connection with our Services, our databases, and our records, no website or Internet transmission is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee that unauthorized access, hacking, data loss or other security breaches will never occur, and we cannot guarantee the security of your information while it is being transmitted to the Service.

10. Changes to our privacy policy

We may occasionally update the Privacy Policy. In such a case, we will update the version date at the beginning of the policy. We therefore recommend that you check this Privacy Policy regularly for updates.

11. Contact

Feel free to contact us with any questions, comments or concerns.If you have any questions, comments or concerns about our privacy policy or practices, please email us at info@yankuu.games.