WGames, Inc. (“WGAMES”) is committed to protecting the privacy of its users (“users” or “you”). This Privacy Policy has been created to inform you about how WGAMES manages, collects, stores and uses information provided by you in connection with any WGAMES game or application (“Service”). Please note that the scope of this Privacy Policy is limited only to information collected by WGAMES through your use of the Service.
By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of your personal information as outlined in this Privacy Policy. WGAMES may amend the Privacy Policy from time to time, and WGAMES encourages you to consult the Privacy Policy regularly for any changes.
INFORMATION COLLECTED
WGAMES ‘s primary purpose in collecting user information is to enhance the user’s enjoyment of the Service.
When you install or play any of the Services, WGAMES may collect and store the information you provided to WGAMES, whether through the Services, social network or other third-party services (“Account Information”).
PERSONAL INFORMATION
“Personal information” means information that can be used to identify and contact you. The personal information types collected in accordance with a Service will vary depending on the activity and may include the following:
- Your name;
- Your social network or third-party service user identification number;
- Your mobile device’s unique identifier (UDID);
- Transaction identifiers for purchases;
- Your email address;
- Your profile picture; or
- Other relevant information included in your application, social network or other online profile.
Additionally, WGAMES may acquire information from you through:
- Your access and participation in message boards on a Service;
- The contents of your Customer Support requests; or
- Your purchase of a virtual coins or virtual goods.
Please note that because a third-party site manages the purchases of virtual goods offered by the Service, WGAMES does not have access to your payment (i.e., credit card) or other billing information needed to process your payment.
NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION
“Non-personal information” is information that, when taken by itself, cannot be used to contact or identify you. During the course of playing the game, or usage of the software, WGAMES may collect non-personal information about you to help improve the game experience or to make improvements to its game or software. WGAMES may also invite you to share non-personal information about yourself which may include but is not limited to:
- Your age or date of birth;
- Your gender;
- Information about the device or computer hardware you use;
- Your favorite websites, friend information and fan pages; or
- Other information included in your application, social network or online profiles.
WGAMES may combine non-Personal Information it has collected along with your personal information to analyze and better understand how its Services are used to provide a more tailored user experience and improve the overall quality of the Services. In addition, the Service may record game play information such as your game session duration or specific special events like big wins or jackpots.
Beyond the information collected as outlined above, you may choose to share additional information about yourself throughout the Service from message boards or from within the games. Note that any actions you perform with other players are considered public and are in your sole discretion.
Other information WGAMES may collect includes your occupation, language, zip code, area code, location, and the time zone where a Service is used, as well as information about your computer, mobile device, software, platform, incident data, Internet Protocol (IP) address, network Media Access Control (MAC) address and connection, browser type, browser language, referring pages, exit pages and URLs, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, and the date and time of this activity, so that WGAMES can better understand customer behavior and improve its products, services, and advertising. Additionally, WGAMES may receive non-personal and/or public information from third parties in connection with market and demographic studies that WGAMES may use to supplement or enhance personal information provided directly by you.
USE OF YOUR INFORMATION
How WGAMES Uses Your Information
WGAMES uses Personal Information we collect through the Site for the purposes as described within this Policy or elsewhere on the Site or Application. For example, we may use Personal Information and other information we collect:
WGAMES uses Personal Information we collect through the Site for the purposes as described within this Policy or elsewhere on the Site or Application. For example, we may use Personal Information and other information we collect:
- to provide the services or information you request;
- to request feedback or contact you about your use of the Game;
- to communicate with you and respond to your emails, questions, inquiries, comments, requests, complaints and to provide customer service;
- to personalize and improve the Game and users’ experiences, to increase the functionality and user overall experience of the game, to deliver advertisements, content, or features that match a user’s profile or interests, and to provide recommendations to other advertisements, content or features that may be of interest to users;
- to monitor and analyze Game usage and trends and otherwise measure the effectiveness of the Game;
- to provide you with news and information about our or third-party offers, promotions, products, and services we think will be of interest to you;
- to send you confirmations, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages, to detect and prevent fraud, and to otherwise facilitate your use of, and our administration and operation of the Game;
WGAMES may also use personal and non-personal information, both individually or combined together, to better understand the behavior and preferences of its customers, to troubleshoot technical problems, to serve static and dynamic advertising, to enforce its Terms of Service, to ensure proper functioning of its products and services as well as to help improve Services and their content. In addition, WGAMES may combine non-personal information with personal information, such as an email address, to administer loyalty programs, tailor its offerings, web pages, mobile applications or game play experience to you.
By use of any invite a friend or play with a friends services you may use within our Game, whether directly through the Service or through a social network or other service, you acknowledge that use of these tools, or similar tools, will help you find your contacts and will also allow your contacts to associate your Service account (and related gaming entitlements, including games played, spins and coins) with your social networking profile and/or email address. Your resulting friends’ list will be subject to this privacy policy.
If you choose to use a referral service to “tell a friend” about a Service, WGAMES may ask you for your friend’s name, mobile number and email address. WGAMES may send your friend an email on your behalf or a text message inviting him or her to visit the relevant Site, Game or check out the Service.
Any sweepstake, contest, or similar promotion you enter, WGAMES may use the provided information to administer such programs. Your participation in tournaments. or other online game events, is conditional upon you granting WGAMES permission to collect, store, transmit and display publicly statistical data, such as your scores, rankings and achievements that are generated through your participation.
Regarding data access and collection, the information you provide will not be disclosed, rented, loaned, leased, sold, or otherwise voluntarily distributed to unaffiliated third parties. The data will be used for the sole purpose of providing or improving the Service for you and for any additional reason stated herein. WGAMES will retain your information for as long as your account is active or where it is needed to provide you services. If you wish to cancel or close your account or request that WGAMES no longer use your information, please contact WGAMES at the email address provided in the Contact Us section below. Note in cases that WGAMES is legally required to retain your information your request may be denied.
Access through Social Network Services or Mobile Devices
By accessing the Service through a social network, mobile device or a third-party platform or service, including connecting to such a third-party network, platform or service via a Service, you are authorizing WGAMES to collect, store, and use, in accordance with this Privacy Policy, any and all information that you agreed the social network, mobile device or other third-party platform could provide to WGAMES through the social network/mobile device/third-party platform Application Programming Interface (API) based on your settings on the third-party’s social network, mobile device or platform. Note that your agreement takes place when you connect with the third-party network, platform or service via the Service, and/or when you connect with a Service, or “accept” or “allow” (or similar terms) a Service to access your information through a social network, mobile device or other third-party platform or service.
By accessing the Service through a social network, mobile device or a third-party platform or service, including connecting to such a third-party network, platform or service via a Service, you are authorizing WGAMES to collect, store, and use, in accordance with this Privacy Policy, any and all information that you agreed the social network, mobile device or other third-party platform could provide to WGAMES through the social network/mobile device/third-party platform Application Programming Interface (API) based on your settings on the third-party’s social network, mobile device or platform. Note that your agreement takes place when you connect with the third-party network, platform or service via the Service, and/or when you connect with a Service, or “accept” or “allow” (or similar terms) a Service to access your information through a social network, mobile device or other third-party platform or service.
WGAMES may also collect or receive information about you from other Service users who choose to upload their email contacts. Please be aware that this information will be stored by WGAMES with the primary reason to connect you and your friends.
Third-party Service Providers
WGAMES may engage other third-party companies or individuals to facilitate its Services, to provide the Services on its behalf, to perform tasks (e.g., without limitation, maintenance services, database management, web analytics along with other improvements of the Services) or to assist WGAMES in evaluating and better understanding how its Services are used.
WGAMES may engage other third-party companies or individuals to facilitate its Services, to provide the Services on its behalf, to perform tasks (e.g., without limitation, maintenance services, database management, web analytics along with other improvements of the Services) or to assist WGAMES in evaluating and better understanding how its Services are used.
From time to time, WGAMES may work with third-party contractors to collect personal information on its behalf to provide email delivery, prize or promotional fulfillment, contest administration, credit card processing or other services through the Service. When requesting these services, you may be asked to provide your name, mailing address, telephone number and email address to its contractors. WGAMES may ask some third-party contractors, such as credit agencies, data analytics or market research firms, to supplement and combine with personal information that you provide to WGAMES for its own marketing and demographic studies, so that WGAMES can consistently improve its Services and related advertising to better meet its visitors’ needs and preferences.
Message Boards and Chat Rooms
Note that certain information you post and communicate through a Service or a third-party site or service is public information for which you have no expectation of privacy.
Note that certain information you post and communicate through a Service or a third-party site or service is public information for which you have no expectation of privacy.
You may choose to disclose information about yourself in the course of contributing user generated content to WGAMES sites or Services or in its chat rooms, blogs, message boards, user “profiles” for public view or in similar forums on its sites through mobile services and/or through third-party sites or services. Information that you disclose in any of these forums is public information, and there is no expectation of privacy or confidentiality.
You should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit in the course of these public activities can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. WGAMES is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to make public in any of these forums.
If you post a video, image or photo through a Service for public view, you should be aware that these may be viewed, collected, copied and/or used by other users without your consent. WGAMES is not responsible for the videos, images or photos that you choose to post through a Service. Please see WGAMES’s Terms of Service at http://www.WGAMES.com/terms or the Application End User License Agreement at http://WGAMES.com/terms (as applicable) on this point and for other guidelines about posting content through any Service.
Browser Use
Note that in the ordinary course of Internet activity, certain information may be sent from your browser to third parties such as advertising networks and analytics companies. WGAMES has no control over the information sent from your browser to those networks or other third parties and recommends that you ensure that your browser settings prevent the disclosure of information you would not like to share.
Note that in the ordinary course of Internet activity, certain information may be sent from your browser to third parties such as advertising networks and analytics companies. WGAMES has no control over the information sent from your browser to those networks or other third parties and recommends that you ensure that your browser settings prevent the disclosure of information you would not like to share.
Disclosure of Your Personal Information
You understand and agree that WGAMES may be required to disclose any personal information if required to do so by law or in the belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to avoid liability, to comply with legal process, including, but not limited to a subpoena, statute, search warrant, or court order, or to protect the property and rights of WGAMES or a third-party, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or to prevent or stop activity WGAMES may consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, illegal, unethical or legally actionable. Note that WGAMES is not required to question or contest the validity of any search warrant, subpoena or other similar governmental request that it may receive.
You understand and agree that WGAMES may be required to disclose any personal information if required to do so by law or in the belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to avoid liability, to comply with legal process, including, but not limited to a subpoena, statute, search warrant, or court order, or to protect the property and rights of WGAMES or a third-party, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or to prevent or stop activity WGAMES may consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, illegal, unethical or legally actionable. Note that WGAMES is not required to question or contest the validity of any search warrant, subpoena or other similar governmental request that it may receive.
WGAMES may also disclose information about you if it determines that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce the terms and conditions of the Service or to protect its operations or users. Additionally, WGAMES may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of its assets, including your Personal Information, in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets or in the event of bankruptcy.
Cookies
Like many websites, WGAMES may use “cookies” to collect information. A cookie is a small data file that is transferred to your computer’s hard disk or your mobile device for record-keeping purposes. The Service may send cookies to a computer or a mobile device when a user accesses or views a Service. Information contained in a cookie may be linked to personal information for purposes such as improving the quality of WGAMES’s service, tailoring recommendations to interests, and making the Service easier to use. Third-party advertisers on the Services may also place or read cookies on your browser. Cookies can be disabled at any time by changing your web browser’s options to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit. If you do not accept cookies, however, you may not be able to use all portions or functionalities of a Service.
Like many websites, WGAMES may use “cookies” to collect information. A cookie is a small data file that is transferred to your computer’s hard disk or your mobile device for record-keeping purposes. The Service may send cookies to a computer or a mobile device when a user accesses or views a Service. Information contained in a cookie may be linked to personal information for purposes such as improving the quality of WGAMES’s service, tailoring recommendations to interests, and making the Service easier to use. Third-party advertisers on the Services may also place or read cookies on your browser. Cookies can be disabled at any time by changing your web browser’s options to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit. If you do not accept cookies, however, you may not be able to use all portions or functionalities of a Service.
Links
The Service may contain links to other websites or applications. The fact that the Service links to a website or application or presents a banner ad or other type of advertisement does not mean that WGAMES endorses or authorizes that third-party, nor is it a representation of any affiliation with that third-party. If you click on a link to a third-party site or application, including on an advertisement, you will leave the WGAMES site or you are visiting or application you are running and will go to the site or application linked to. These third-party websites and applications may place their own cookies or other files on your computer or mobile device and may collect data or solicit personal information from you. Other sites and applications follow different rules regarding the use or disclosure of the personal information you submit to them. Because WGAMES cannot control the activities of third parties, it cannot accept responsibility for any use of your personal information by such third parties, and it cannot guarantee that they will adhere to the same privacy and security practices as WGAMES. You are therefore encouraged to read the privacy policies or statements of other websites and applications you visit before providing any personal information.
The Service may contain links to other websites or applications. The fact that the Service links to a website or application or presents a banner ad or other type of advertisement does not mean that WGAMES endorses or authorizes that third-party, nor is it a representation of any affiliation with that third-party. If you click on a link to a third-party site or application, including on an advertisement, you will leave the WGAMES site or you are visiting or application you are running and will go to the site or application linked to. These third-party websites and applications may place their own cookies or other files on your computer or mobile device and may collect data or solicit personal information from you. Other sites and applications follow different rules regarding the use or disclosure of the personal information you submit to them. Because WGAMES cannot control the activities of third parties, it cannot accept responsibility for any use of your personal information by such third parties, and it cannot guarantee that they will adhere to the same privacy and security practices as WGAMES. You are therefore encouraged to read the privacy policies or statements of other websites and applications you visit before providing any personal information.
CHANGING OR DELETING YOUR INFORMATION
You may review, update, correct or delete any personal information by changing the applicable information in your profile page. If you completely delete all this information, your account may be deactivated. If you would like WGAMES to delete your record in its system, please contact WGAMES and it will attempt to accommodate your request if it is not legally obligated to retain the record.
If you have granted WGAMES access to your Account Information through a Service, you may request that WGAMES delete your Account Information by following the directions available at http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy. You can request deletion of your Account Information by dissociating or removing the WGAMES application from your social network or third-party service account in accordance with the instructions provided by the social network or third-party service.
Security
WGAMES has implemented reasonable technical and organizational measures to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure. However, WGAMES cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will at no time be able to overcome those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes. Also, please be aware that email and messaging systems are not considered secure, so WGAMES advises against users sending WGAMES personal information through these media or any other non-secure method.
WGAMES has implemented reasonable technical and organizational measures to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure. However, WGAMES cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will at no time be able to overcome those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes. Also, please be aware that email and messaging systems are not considered secure, so WGAMES advises against users sending WGAMES personal information through these media or any other non-secure method.
POLICY REGARDING CHILDREN
This product is intended for use by those 21 or older for amusement purposes only. Without deviating from the preceding, WGAMES does not knowingly collect personal information from people under the age of 13. If WGAMES learns that a person under the age of 13 has provided it with personal information, WGAMES will take steps to delete such information as soon as possible.
PAYMENTS
For WGAMES’s policy regarding the purchase of “coins” or other virtual currency, please see WGAMES’s Terms of Service.
CONTACTING US
For any questions about its Privacy Policy or any other issue please contact WGAMES at: