We at AZ games respect your privacy and recognize the importance of providing a secure environment for your personal data. Therefore, we are committed to being transparent about how we collect and process your personal data. Click About us.
The purpose of this privacy notice is to inform you as a user about why and how we process your personal data when you play our games and visit the gaming websites that are part of our gaming platform. This includes information regarding with whom we will share your Personal Data, how long we will retain it, and which rights you have in relation to the processing.
GENERAL INFORMATION
In this part of our Privacy Notice, you will find general information about how we process your Personal Data when you access or play a game from one of our Gaming Websites. For specific information with more details about our processing activities on the respective Gaming Website, please see the portal specific information below.
Who is responsible for the processing of your Personal Data?
AZplaygames is responsible for the processing of your Personal Data.
What types of Personal Data do we process and how do we collect it?
When you access or play a game from one of our Gaming Websites, we may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of Personal Data. As a general principle, we do not collect and do not ask you to provide any special of Personal Data such as data concerning health, religion, political opinions or philosophical beliefs, sexual preferences or orientation.
The information we collect depends on which of our games or Gaming Websites you use and how you use them. We may process the following types of your Personal Data:
Personal Data provided by you
When you access or play a game from one of our Gaming Websites, you may provide or be asked to give us certain information, including:
- Your birth date:When you enter a Gaming Website for the first time, we ask you to provide your birth date for the purposes described below.
- Data provided in relation to our customer service:When you contact support, we collect information about your request (subject and content of your request) and your contact details.
- Game ratings:We collect rating information if you use the voting button on our Gaming Websites.
Personal Data we receive or generate from your use of our Services
When you access our Gaming Websites or play a game from our Gaming Websites, we may also process device-related information and information about how you interact with our games or Gaming Websites, including:
- Technical information: We collect information about your device settings and may combine this information on different devices you use for the purposes described below. The information we get from these devices includes your device type, online identifiers, device IDs, games, geolocation data and other technical information.
- Cookie data: We use cookies and similar technologies to pixels or local storage and allow third parties to use cookies and similar technologies.
- Your usage: We collect information about how you use the Game Website or the games available on our Game Website. This information includes your preferences, such as your interests in certain game categories, the actions you perform, your time and your activity time.
Personal Data we collect from third parties
We may receive information about your approximate geographic location from third parties. We use this information to comply with our legal obligations that apply to the processing of your Personal Data, customize certain services according to your location, and for prevention purposes fraud or abuse.
For what purpose do we process your Personal Data?
Depending on which Gaming Website you are using and which privacy settings you have selected, we may process your Personal Data for the following purposes:
Provision and improvement of our games and services
- Allow you to play our games, including third-party games available on our Gaming Websites
- Facilitate content sharing on social networks
- Provide technical support and respond to your requests
- Identify and correct any bugs/errors
- Indicate the popularity of our games
- Assess the quality of our services
- Understand and improve your online experience
- Aggregate financial reports to pay our business partners
Personalization of your game experience
- Remember your preferred game settings
- Show you your preferred games
- Recommend games you may like based on your preferences
- Personalize advertising for you
- Remember you next time you visit one of our Gaming Websites
Marketing and analytics
- Deliver (targeted and non-targeted) advertising in our games or on our Gaming Websites
- Measure the effectiveness of advertising
- Send you marketing communications, informing your about new content and in-game offers
Prevention of fraud and illegal activity
- Investigate fraud and illegal behaviour in our games or on our Gaming Websites
- Enforce our policies and terms of use
Compliance with our legal or regulatory obligations
- Determine the legal requirements for processing of your Personal Data (based on your location and your age)
- Respond to your requests related to your data subject rights to comply with our legal obligations (e.g. tax and accounting obligations)
- Inform you about any changes to this Privacy Policy
On which legal basis do we process your Personal Data?
We process your Personal Data for the purposes described in this policy, based on the following legal grounds:
- Your consent: We process your Personal Data if you have agreed to a specific purpose. We may also show you timely contextual notices and consent pop-ups to get your consent for further processing activities. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, for example by changing your privacy settings.
- Performance of a contract: We process your Personal Data for the performance of a contract to which you are party, for example, to support the operation of our games or facilitate the delivery of requested services.
- Compliance with legal obligations to which we are subject: We process your Personal Data to comply with legal obligations.
- Legitimate interests: We may also process your Personal Data to such an extent that it is necessary for our legitimate interests or those of third parties to take appropriate measures to protect privacy.
With whom do we share your Personal Data?
We will not disclose your Personal Data to any parties not authorized to process them. To manage our services, we will share your Personal Data Internally with responsible team members and technical support related to the gaming process and in each case. only when access to your Personal Data is necessary to perform their role.
- External service providers
- Third-party game distributors
- External advertising companies
- Social networks and connected third-party account platforms
- Law enforcement, government authorities or courts
- Other third parties
How do we protect your Personal Data?
We have implemented appropriate organizational and technical security measures designed to protect your Personal Data from accidental, illegal or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, retrieval, access, disclosure or use.
How long do we store your Personal Data?
We will not retain your Personal Data for longer than necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected or to fulfill our legal obligations. We will then delete or anonymize your Personal Data.
What are your rights in respect of your Personal Data?
To the extent permitted by applicable data protection laws and regulations, you have the following rights in relation to your Personal Data:
- Access the Personal Data we hold about you,including information such as, for example, the source and the categories of the data, the purposes of the processing, the recipients (or categories thereof) and the respective retention period.
- Request the update or correction of your Personal Dataso that it is always accurate.
- Receive your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, including the right to transmit your Personal Data to another controller.
- Request the deletion of your Personal Dataif you think that it is no longer needed for the purposes indicated above. To submit this request, contact our support team.
- Restrict the processing of your Personal Datain certain circumstances, for example, where you have contested the accuracy of your Personal Data, for the period enabling us to verify its accuracy.
- Withdraw your consentat any time if your Personal Data is processed with your consent. Please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
PORTAL SPECIFIC INFORMATION
In this part of our Privacy Notice, you will find specific information on how your Personal Data is processed for each Gaming Website. Here is the data process that applies to all games:
Hosting and content delivery
Bgames is hosted by external companies providing web servers and web content delivery. Each time you make a request, the information that authorizes this request will be sent to external servers. This data is used to show you the content you require more quickly. We process this data on the basis of our legitimate interests, to provide and improve our services and ensure its functionality.
Customer service
If you contact us for customer support using our email address, an outside customer service company will process your email address and the content of your request to provide grant you support. The request history helps us resolve a newer and archived request to protect future legal claims.
Game distributors
In AZplaygames, we provide games from third party game distributors who may process your Personal Data. We will only show you third party games on our Game Website if you have agreed to show these games in the consent popup that will be displayed to you when you enter AZplaygames first. It is the third-party game distributor who processes your data when you play their game and who will receive your valid consent, if relevant. When you intend to play a third party game, you will be informed of the fact that the aforementioned game is provided by a third party. You can adjust your preferences at any time in your privacy settings.
Social media
You can share AZplaygames content with your friends using social networks. We process this data based on your consent, that you provide by choosing to use the option to share our website.
Video player
We use the ad supported video player to provide you with instructional videos about our games. Ads that will be displayed via a video player will only be personalized if you have agreed for personalized ads.
Advertising
On AZplaygames, we display ads from various advertising companies.In order to show you personalized ads, we will share your Personal Data through an advertising provider. If you choose not to receive personalized ads, we will still show you ads, but they may not reflect your interests because they will be content-specific and not specific to people.
Data management platform
The site will show you related games and ads, based on information about the games you are playing on AZplaygames. For this purpose, information about the device, IP address and game category information you have played is collected.
Rating function
You can rate games by selecting the star icon. When you click the rating button, we will store that voting data. The results of all submitted ratings are used to create a score of 1 to 5 stars for each game to give you an overview of which games are most popular and ranked best.