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Data Controller, for the purposes of GDPR, refers to the Developer as the legal person which alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data.

Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

 

  • For the purposes of GDPR, Personal Data means any information relating to You such as a name, an identification number, location data, online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.

Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Application or from the Application infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a visit or the hardware used for connection).

Device means any device that can access the Application such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.

Account means a unique credential profile created for You to access the Application or parts of the Application’s functionality. You can create and delete Accounts within the Application.

Country refers to: the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, where the Developer does business in.

Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where "control" means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.

Third-party service refers to any website, application or technology through which You can log in or create an Account to use the Application, arrange a payment or get any other function provided by a third-party.

The Legal Basis

When Does this Policy Apply?

  • when You access, download, install and use the Application;

  • when We are fulfilling our obligations to You, set in our agreements and contracts concluded with You, for example EULA or Terms of Use;

  • when We are processing requests, notices, complaints, inquiries, messages sent by You.

The Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data

  • Your informed consent to the processing of personal data;

  • Our agreements and contracts with You;

  • Applicable laws and legal acts adopted on their basis governing information relations and information technologies;

European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR (EU) 2016/679) and legal acts adopted on its basis, in the event Our legal relationship with You falls under the exterritorial criteria of it.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

Developer and Data Operator (referred to as either "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to: Liquid Gears ltd., incorporated software developer.

  • For the purpose of European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR” for short) the Developer is the Data Controller.

You – the individual accessing or using the Application, or the individual representative of a company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Application. You can be referred to as the Data Subject or as You.

Application means the software program provided by the Developer downloaded by You on Your Device, named StoryMatch.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

Developer and Data Operator (referred to as either "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to: Liquid Gears ltd., incorporated software developer.

  • For the purpose of European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR” for short) the Developer is the Data Controller.

You – the individual accessing or using the Application, or the individual representative of a company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Application. You can be referred to as the Data Subject or as You.

Application means the software program provided by the Developer downloaded by You on Your Device, named StoryMatch.

Privacy Policy

 

Last updated: January 31, 2022

 

This Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of personal information when You use our products and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the Law protects You.

 

The legal purpose of this Policy is to ensure the proper legal procedure for personal data processing, provide care and ensure compliance with best global and local practices, all applicable laws and customer expectations.

 

We use Your personal data to provide and improve the Application. By using the Application, You agree to the collection and use of personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

How We Collect and Use Personal Data

Types of Data Collected
Personal Data

While using Our Application, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • Email address

  • First name and last name

  • Phone number

  • Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City

  • Bank account information in order to pay for products and/or services within the Application

  • Usage Data

When You pay for a product and/or a service via bank transfer, We may ask You to provide information to facilitate this transaction and to verify Your identity. Such information may include, without limitation:

  • Date of birth

  • Passport or National ID card

  • Bank card statement

  • Information linking You to an address

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Application.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Application that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Application by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your hardware sends whenever You visit our site or when You access the Application by or through a mobile device.

Information from Third-party services

We provide You with the option to restore the Account and log in through the following Third-party services, in the event You have personally linked these services to Your copy of Application:

If You decide to register through or otherwise grant us access to a Third-party service, then We may collect, with Your prior consent, Personal data that is already associated with Your Third-party service account, such as Your name, Your email address, Your activities or Your contact list associated with that account. If You choose to provide such information, during registration or otherwise, You are giving Us the permission to process it in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.

You can revoke third-party services credentials and disable data access between them and the Application from within the Application’s settings.

Information Collected while Using the Application

While using Our Application, in order to provide features of Our Application, We may collect, with Your prior permission:

  • Information regarding Your location;

  • Information from Your Camera;

  • Information from Your Gallery;

  • Information from Your Phone Book (Contacts).

If You do not want to give Us a permission to collect location information automatically, You are free to set Your preferred location from within the Application’s settings.

We use this information to provide features of Our Application, to improve and customize Our Application. The information may be uploaded to the Developer's servers or it may be simply stored on Your Device.

You can enable or disable access to this information at any time, through Your Device settings.

No Special or Sensitive Categories of Personal Data

We do not collect or process data related to special (vulnerable/sensitive) categories of personal data including data on racial and national origin, political and religious views, gender self-identity, health, fitness, and medical data, biometric data etc.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Developer may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain the Application, including to monitor the usage of the Application.

  • To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Application. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Application that are available to You as a registered user.

  • For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us.

  • To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, web messenger, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation. The limitations of such activities and Our measures to prevent undesired messaging are set in this Policy.

  • To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that You have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information. The limitations of such activities and Our measures to prevent undesired messaging are set in this Policy.

  • To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.

  • To deliver targeted advertising to You: We may use Your information to develop and display content and advertising (and work with third-party vendors who do so) tailored to Your interests and/or location and to measure its effectiveness.

  • For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Application users is among the assets transferred.

For analytical purposes: We may use Your information for research, analytics and development purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Application, products, services, marketing and Your experience.

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

  • With third-party service providers: We may share Your personal information with service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Application, to show advertisements to You to help support and maintain Our Application, to advertise on third-party websites to You after You visited our Application, for payment processing, to contact You.

  • For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with any merger, sale of Developer assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another legal entity.

  • With Affiliates: with Your prior consent, We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy and the Law. Affiliates include subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control, that control Us or that are under common control with Us.

  • With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas of the Application with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside of the Application.

  • With consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

 

What Actions Do We take on Your Personal Data?

Processing of personal data - any action (operation) or a set of actions (operations) with personal data performed with the use of automation tools or without their use. When processing personal data, Data Operator will carry out the following actions: collection; recording; systematization; accumulation; storage; clarification (update, change); extraction; usage; transmission (distribution, provision, access); depersonalization; blocking; deletion; destruction.

We may process personal information in the determined above ways (operations) both in personal data information systems and without using automation tools.

Updating, correcting, blocking and deleting personal data. How to revoke consent and/or request data deletion.

You can update and correct personal information using the appropriate functions of the Account, and if the functions of the Account are not sufficient in Your opinion - by sending a request to Our email address specified in this Policy.                                                       

                  

You can block and delete personal information using the appropriate functions of the Account, and if the functions of the Account are not sufficient in Your opinion - by sending a request to Our email address specified in this Policy.

 

You can revoke consent and/or request deletion: to exercise the right, You can use the appropriate functions of the Account, and if the functions of the Account are not sufficient in Your opinion, You can do it by sending a request to Our email address specified in this Policy.            

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Developer will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain Your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Developer will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Application, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

In the event that You withdraw consent allowing processing of personal data or the expiration of such consent, Data Operator has the right to block this data from further editing and retain it in archived form for 10 (ten) years.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Developer's operating office and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

The Developer will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data
Business Transactions

If the Developer is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Developer may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

The Developer may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • Comply with a legal obligation;

  • Protect and defend the rights or property of the Developer;

  • Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Application;

  • Protect the personal safety of You or the public;

  • Protect against legal liability.

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Data Operator takes all necessary measures to protect Your personal data from unauthorized, accidental or illegal destruction, loss, alteration, unfair use, disclosure or access, as well as other illegal forms of processing.

 

By default, personal information is processed by automatic equipment without anyone having access to it. If such access is required, Data Operator provides access to Your personal data only to those persons who need this information to ensure the Purpose of processing. To protect and ensure the confidentiality of data, such persons must undertake to comply with internal legal rules and procedures, state legislation, technical and organizational security measures in relation to the processing of personal information.

 

Both in the processing of personal data without the use of automation tools, and in automated processing, sufficient security of the place where the processing of personal data takes place is ensured.                                                         

The disclosure of the information provided by You can be made only in accordance with the current legislation at the request of the court, law enforcement agencies, and in other cases stipulated by the legislation.

 

We do not verify the accuracy of the information provided by You, and proceed from the fact that You in accordance with the principle of good faith provide reliable and sufficient information, take care of the timeliness of making changes to previously provided information, update the information when You feel the need to.

 

About representatives

You have the right to allow, restrict or prohibit the processing of personal data of third parties only on the basis of a representation established by Law (for example, parents and guardians) or by a transaction of rights (for example, a power of attorney), which give You the right to give consent to the processing of personal information of a third party and bear other rights and obligations in the interests of a third party. If You do not have the right to give such consent or if You have lost the right to give such permissions, then please refrain from data transferring or stop data transferring (and delete previously transferred data), respectively, and in the event of relevant claims, You undertake to independently resolve the contradictions and release Us from such claims.

Access to Your Personal Data by Third-party Services

Some Third-party services We use will have access to Your Personal Data. These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process and transfer information about Your activity on Our Application in accordance with their Privacy Policies, linked here. We will do our best to provide that any entity that will have access to Your Personal Data will provide the same or equal protection of Your data as stated in this Privacy Policy.

Analytics

We may use technologies, provided by Third-party services to monitor and analyze the use of the Application.

  • Devtodev

Devtodev is an analytics service offered by Dev2Dev LLC that tracks and reports application traffic. It uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Application. This data is shared with Dev2Dev LLC.

 

You may opt-out of certain analytics through Your mobile device settings or by following the instructions provided by Dev2Dev LLC in their Privacy Policy: https://www.devtodev.com/policy

Payments

We may provide paid products and/or services within the Application. In that case, we may use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).

We will not store or collect Your payment card details. That information is provided directly to Our third-party payment processors whose use of Your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy.

  • Apple Store In-App Payments

Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/ 

When You use Our Application to pay a product and/or service via bank transfer, We may ask You to provide information to perform this transaction and to verify Your identity.

Behavioral Remarketing

The Developer uses remarketing services to advertise to You after You accessed or visited our Application. We and Our third-party vendors use cookies and non-cookie technologies to help Us recognize Your Device and understand how You use our Application so that We can improve our Application to reflect Your interests and serve You advertisements that are likely to be of more interest to You.

These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process and transfer information about Your activity on Our Application in accordance with their Privacy Policies and enable Us to:

  • Measure and analyze traffic and browsing activity on Our Application;

  • Show advertisements for our products and/or services to You on third-party websites or applications;

  • Measure and analyze the performance of Our advertising campaigns.

Some of these third-party vendors may use non-cookie technologies that may not be impacted by browser settings that block cookies. Your browser may not permit You to block such technologies. You can use the following third-party tools to decline the collection and use of information for the purpose of serving You interest-based advertising:

You may opt-out of all personalized advertising by enabling privacy features on Your mobile device such as Limit Ad Tracking (iOS). See Your mobile device Help system for more information.

We may share information, such as hashed email addresses (if available) or other online identifiers collected on Our Application with these third-party vendors. This allows Our third-party vendors to recognize and deliver You ads across devices and browsers. To read more about the technologies used by these third-party vendors and their cross-device capabilities please refer to the Privacy Policy of each vendor listed below.

The third-party vendors We use are:

  • Facebook

Facebook remarketing service is provided by Facebook Inc.

You can learn more about interest-based advertising from Facebook by visiting this page: https://www.facebook.com/help/516147308587266

To opt-out from Facebook's interest-based ads, follow these instructions from Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217

Facebook adheres to the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioural Advertising established by the Digital Advertising Alliance. You can also opt-out from Facebook and other participating companies through the Digital Advertising Alliance in the USA http://www.aboutads.info/choices/, the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada in Canada http://Youradchoices.ca/ or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe http://www.Youronlinechoices.eu/, or opt-out using Your mobile device settings.

For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook's Data Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation

EU’s General Data Protection Regulation

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under GDPR

We may process Personal Data under the following conditions:

  • Informed consent: You have given Your consent for processing Personal Data for one or more specific purposes.

  • Performance of a contract: Provision of Personal Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with You and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.

  • Legal obligations: Processing Personal Data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Developer is subject.

  • Vital interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary in order to protect Your vital interests or of another natural person.

  • Public interests: Processing Personal Data is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Developer.

  • Legitimate interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Developer.

Your Rights under the GDPR

The Developer undertakes to respect the confidentiality of Your Personal Data and to guarantee You can exercise Your rights.

You have these rights under this Privacy Policy and by law if You are within the EU:

  • the right to be informed;

  • the right of access;

  • the right to rectification;

  • the right to erasure;

  • the right to restrict processing;

  • the right to data portability;

  • the right to object;

  • the rights related to automated decision making (including profiling).

Exercising of Your GDPR Data Protection Rights

You may exercise Your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition by contacting Us. Please note that we may ask You to verify Your identity before responding to such requests. If You make a request, We will try our best to respond to You as soon as possible.

You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about Our collection and use of Your Personal Data. For more information, if You are in the European Economic Area (EEA), please contact Your local data protection authority in the EEA.

Children's Privacy

Our Application is for many audiences and is not intended primarily for kids. The Application may contain content appropriate for children over the age of 13. As a parent, You should know that through the Application children over the age of 13 may participate in activities that involve the collection or use of personal information. We use reasonable efforts to ensure that before we collect any personal information from a child, the child's parent receives notice of and consents to our personal information practices.

We also limit how We collect, use, and store some of the information of users between 13 and 18 years old. In some cases, this means We will be unable to provide certain functionality of the Application to them.

We may ask You to verify Your date of birth before collecting any personal information from You. If You are under the age of 13, the Application will be either blocked or redirected to a parental consent process. If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's consent before We collect and use that information. We will ask for Your birthdate and parental/guardian contact information only for the purpose of complying with these legal procedures.

Information Collected from Children’s Device

The Developer may collect and store persistent identifiers such as cookies or IP addresses from children without parental consent for the purposes of supporting the internal operation of the Application and complying with the legal procedure.

We may collect and store any other personal information about children if this information is submitted by a child with prior parent/guardian consent, by the parent/guardian of the child, or by the child over the age of 13.

The Developer may collect and store the following types of personal information about a child when submitted by a child with prior parent/guardian consent, by the parent/guardian of the child, or by the child over the age of 13:

  • First and/or last name

  • Date of birth

  • Email address

  • Parent's or guardian's name

  • Parent's or guardian's email address

For further details on the information We might collect, You can refer to the "Types of Data Collected" section of this Privacy Policy. We follow our standard Privacy Policy for the processing of personal information collected from and about children.

Parental Access

A parent or a guardian who has already given the Developer permission to collect and use his child's personal information can, at any time:

  • review, correct or delete the child's personal information;

  • discontinue further collection or use of the child's personal information.

To make such a request, You can write to Us using the contact information provided in this Privacy Policy.

Notifications and Communication

We may:

 

  • send You messages by email, telephone calls, SMS, web messenger, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation;

  • provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that You have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information;

 

            hereinafter referred to as "Notifications".

You have the right to revoke Your consent to receive the Notifications

  • by clicking on the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the email;

  • by sending a revocation notification to Our e-mail.

 

We stop sending the Notifications not earlier than 24 hours after the performance of these actions.

 

The administrator has the right to use the Notifications for:

  • informing You about the operation of the Application;

  • informing You about changes in legal documents;

  • sending messages and mailings of informational character to You;

  • sending messages and mailings of an advertising nature to You.      

 

You may:

  • send any digital messages, notifications, statements and documents (including messages that represent responses to prior Notifications) to Our email address specified in this Policy;

  • send any documents in paper form to Our location address specified in this Policy.  

Links to Other Resources

Our Application may contain links to websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third-party link, You will be directed to that third-party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for content, functions, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites, applications or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page, unless otherwise provided by the new edition of the Policy. Expired ineffective editions are available in the archive. If We consider the changes very important, We may also let You know via email and/or a prominent notice within Our Application, prior to the change becoming effective.

For legal purposes both expression of consent with this Policy and execution of this Policy shall be always considered happening at the Developer’s location, and the law applicable to Our legal relationship with You shall be always the law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, regardless of where You are located or where the equipment used by You or Us resides. All disputes and disagreements are resolved at the location of the Developer. The exception is when the legal relationship falls under the exterritorial criteria of GDPR. In such case, the law applicable to Our legal relationship with You shall consist jointly of the law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China and the rules of GDPR, including the rules of solving disputes and disagreements between the participants of personal data processing.

This Policy is effective at the moment You expresses informed consent to its terms and conditions and is valid indefinitely. The indefinite validity of the document itself does not in any way mean the indefiniteness/absence of restrictions on the period for processing personal data. Unilateral termination of this Policy by the sole will of one of its parties is not allowed.

Contact Us

Information for Authorities and Official Bodies

Data Operator accepts legally significant messages at the following dedicated e-mail address: corp@liquidgears.net

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