This Data Protection Policy covers how we collect, use, disclose, transfer, and store your personal data. This Data Protection Policy was last updated on the 08th of June 2020.
This Data Protection Policy applies to VilvusGames Soundboards. If you live in the European Economic Area, Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) is the European Regulation and in Finland, it is the Data Protection Act 2018.
VilvusGames at Finland is the Controller of your personal data.
The Data Protection Ombudsman in Finland is the for us relevant authority in matters of data protection.
This Data Protection Policy describes how we handle and protect your personal data and the choices available to you regarding collection, process, access, and how to update, correct and delete your personal data. Additional information on our personal data practices can be found in our Terms and Conditions. This Data Protection Policy is intended for you as a user of our app.
Personal data refers to any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“Personal Data”).
We are thoughtful about the personal information we ask you to provide and the personal information that we collect about you through the operation of our services.
We store personal information for only as long as we have a reason to keep it.
We help protect you from overreaching government demands for your personal information.
We aim for full transparency on how we gather, use, and share your personal information.
When you download and install our app we collect log data, for example:
We also may collect and store information locally on your device, using mechanisms like cookies, browser web storage (including HTML 5) and application data caches. We only retain it for three days.
If you email us or send other communications to us directly, we will retain your email or address and correspondence so that we may respond to your request. We retain this information indefinitely so that we have a history of our past communications.
Advertising and affiliate Links pays our bills so we use a lot of cookies. You can find out how cookies work here. You can learn about what cookies are here. And we will tell you what cookies we are using in our Cookies Policy.
We use your Personal Data for the following purposes and on the following grounds:
On the basis of fulfilling our commitments to you (when you use our app)
On the basis of legal obligations (for obligations such as tax, accounting, anti-money laundering, or when a court or other authority asks us to)
On the basis of our legitimate interest (for communications about security, privacy and performance improvements of our services. Or for establishing, exercising or defending our legal rights.)
Of course, before relying on any of those legitimate interests we balance them against your interests and make sure they are compelling enough and will not cause any unwarranted harm.
We may share your information with organisations that help us provide the services described in this Data Protection Policy, to support this website and our services. For example, with our legal other professional advisors.
In relation to information obtained about you from your use of our website, we may share a cookie identifier and IP data with analytic and advertising network services providers to assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our website which is subject to our Cookies Policy.
We may disclose personal information in other circumstances such as when you agree to it or if the law, a Court order, a legal obligation or regulatory authority ask us to. If the purpose is the prevention of fraud or crime or if it is necessary to protect and defend our right, property or personal safety of our staff, the website and its users.
We will only keep the information required to provide our service.
This website contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by us. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites, unless we have specified them in this document.
Cookies are small pieces of data, stored in text files, that are stored on your device when apps are loaded. They are widely used to “remember” you and your preferences, either for a single visit
(through a “session cookie”) or for multiple repeat visits (using a “persistent cookie”). They ensure a consistent and efficient experience for visitors, and perform essential functions such as allowing users to register and remain logged in. Cookies may be set by the site that you are visiting (known as “first party cookies”), or by third parties, such as those who serve content or provide advertising or analytics services on the website (“third party cookies”).
Both websites and HTML emails may also contain other tracking technologies such as “web beacons” or “pixels.” These are typically small transparent images that provide us with statistics, for similar purposes as cookies. They are often used in conjunction with cookies, though they are not stored on your device in the same way. As a result, if you disable cookies, beacons may still load, but their functionality will be restricted.
Our app uses the following technologies for advertising purposes Universal Analytics, AdWords and AdMob, Dynamic Remarketing from Google, Facebook Custom Audiences and Facebook Connect, Twitter Advertising. Those are modern, advanced analysis methods and tools to understand users’ habits on our website. This information helps us improve our products and services and provide relevant services and information. In principle, we use only anonymized data that does not allow us to identify the user.
Below we describe the analysis services and technology that we use for such purposes. Additionally, we show how you can prevent these services from analysis of your use of our website.
We use Google Analytics to help us understand how you engage with our site so that we can improve it. Google Analytics reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. You may install a Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Button here. The Google Analytics Privacy Policy can be read here.
AdMob is a mobile application advertising platform created by Google. It's used to promote mobile apps and to help us make money through mobile apps by enabling in-app advertising. AdMob also works with Google Analytics to help us to get valuable insight and information about our app's usage and the effectiveness of any advertising campaigns. AdMob works on both iOS and Android platforms. The Google AdMob Privacy Policy can be read here.
AdMob is a mobile application advertising platform created by Google. It's used to promote mobile apps and to help us make money through mobile apps by enabling in-app advertising. AdMob also works with Google Analytics to help us to get valuable insight and information about our app's usage and the effectiveness of any advertising campaigns. AdMob works on both iOS and Android platforms. The Google AdMob Privacy Policy can be read here.
We use cookies for a number of different purposes. Some cookies are necessary for technical reasons; some enable a personalized experience for both visitors and users; and some allow the display of advertising from selected third-party networks. Some of these cookies may be set when a page is loaded, or when a visitor takes a particular action (clicking the “like” or “follow” button on a post, for example).
The table below explains the types of cookies we use on our websites and why we use them.
Functionality - These cookies are used to store preferences set by users such as account name, language, and location.
Security - We use these cookies to help identify and prevent potential security risks.
Analytics and Performance - Performance cookies collect information on how users interact with our app, as well as other analytical data. We use these details to improve how our app functions and to understand how users interact with it.
Advertising - These cookies are used to display relevant advertising to user, as well as to understand and report on the efficacy of ads served on our app. They track details such as the number of unique visitors, the number of times particular ads have been displayed, and the number of clicks the ads have received. They are also used to build user profiles, including showing you ads based on products you’ve viewed or acts you have taken on our (and other) websites. These are set by us and trusted third party networks and are generally persistent in nature.
You have the right to:
Where the processing of your personal information is based on consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent without detriment at any time through our contact form.
If you feel that your request is not satisfactorily resolved by us, you may approach your local data protection authority. Data Protection Ombudsman in Finland is the supervisory authority relevant to us.
We protect your data using state of the art technical, and physical safeguards and operate a firm system of policies, confidentiality agreements, digital safeguards and procedures to ensure the highest level of administrative protection.
In more detail to access our database the user must be authorised, is challenged through a two-way authentication system and use an encrypted VPN.
The data we collect from you may be stored, with appropriate technical and organisational security measures applied to it, on our server in Finland. In all cases, we follow generally high data protection standards and advanced security measures to protect the personal data submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it.
To exercise any of your rights, or if you have any questions or complaints about our use of your Personal Data and this policy, please contact us.
Sources and Categories of collected personal information you can find all sources and categories of collected personal information above.
This Data Protection Policy and our commitment to protecting the privacy of your personal data can result in changes to this Data Protection Policy. Please regularly review this Data Protection Policy to keep up to date with any changes.
VilvusGames at Finland email: vilvusgames@gmail.com