Blowfish Studios Pty Ltd (ABN 28 630 180 264) is a game development and publishing company based in Sydney, Australia. References to "Blowfish Studios", "we", "us" and "our" in this Privacy Policy refer to Blowfish Studios Pty Ltd.
Blowfish Studios is bound by the National Privacy Principles (NPPs) contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Privacy Act). The NPPs are designed to protect the confidentiality of information and the privacy of individuals by regulating the way personal information is managed. Personal information is, generally, information or an opinion relating to an individual which can be used to identify that individual. Blowfish Studios is committed to protecting the privacy and security of its online visitors. This policy statement provides our visitors and players with an overview of the measures we have taken to provide a safe online environment.
By accepting Blowfish Studios' Privacy Policy, customers consent to collection, use and disclosure of their non personal and personal information described below. Privacy Policy is accepted when customer registers for an account or installs a game developed by Blowfish Studios. Collection, use and disclosure of non-personal and personal information and this Privacy Policy are ruled by Australian law.
Blowfish Studios is a company developing and publishing games for the web and mobile devices. When customers play games developed by Blowfish Studios, Blowfish Studios may collect certain personal customer information, such as name, email address, phone number, home address, birth date, mobile phone number, credit card information, information from customers profile at SNS and other personal or non-personal information.
Non-personal information is non-personally identifiable information such as, but not only technical information about customer's , mobile device , including IP Address , mobile device ID, network Media Access Control address and connection, username, user ID, feature usage, game play statistics, scores and achievements.
Blowfish Studios collects non-personal information when customers use on-line products and services and/or play games on by Blowfish Studios' own tools or through third party technologies like server log files, web beacon, cookies, tracking pixels and other technologies to collect and analyze certain types of information, including cookies, IP addresses ( including for purposes of determining customers' approximate geographic location), mobile device ID or other identifiers, browser types, browser language, information passed from customers browser, referring and exit pages and URLs, platform type, the number of clicks, information about customers' media, peripheral hardware, software and/or applications installed on device, domain names and types, landing pages, pages viewed and order of those pages, the date and amount of time spent on particular pages, other Internet and website usage information, game state and the date and time of activity on Blowfish Studios websites or games, information about how customers uses the game , including game metrics and statistics, feature usage and purchase history.
Blowfish Studios websites, online or mobile products employ third party ad serving technologies that collect information on Blowfish Studios site and in the context of Blowfish Studios online and mobile products. Third party ad serving technologies may use cookies, clear GIFs, web beacons, tracking pixels or other technologies to collect information as a result of ad serving through Blowfish Studios products or services as well to help track. Blowfish Studios or the third party may log data for the purpose of measuring the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, the data logged for this purpose may include IP address, unique device I.D. information about software, applications and hardware, browser information advertisements served, in game location, length of time an advertisement was visible, web pages and mobile internet sites have been viewed by customer, domain type. The foregoing data may be used and disclosed per this policy and the privacy policy of the company providing the ad serving technology and to other third parties in a form that does not personally identifies the customer.
Blowfish Studios collects personal information during customer registration by using Facebook Connect, Twitter or other authentication options to create an account or profile, customer support or technical service request, newsletter subscription, marketing surveys or otherwise through use of Blowfish Studios, games. Blowfish Studios may also receive non-personal data from third parties.
Blowfish Studios collects, stores and uses personal and non-personal customers information to provide customers with new products, features, enhancements, special offers, upgrade opportunities , to improve Blowfish Studios' products and services, to troubleshoot technical problems, for authentication purposes, to ensure proper functioning of Blowfish Studios products and services.
Blowfish Studios will never share customer's personally identifiable information with third parties without customer's consent. Blowfish Studios may access and disclose personal information in connection with report abuse functions in Blowfish Studios products and services, to enforce legal rights and comply with law or to comply with an order of government entity or other competent authority or when Blowfish Studios has a reason to believe that disclosure is necessary to protect its rights , property, operations users or others who may be harmed or may suffer loss or damage.
To prevent fraudulent activities and behaviours that may negatively affect the experiences of a player, Blowfish Studios is for the prevention of fraud for Blowfish Studios internet presence, during the use of on line products and mobile platforms.
Information, that Blowfish Studios customers disclose in any online chatrooms, blogs, message boards, users' profiles or in similar forums on Blowfish Studios sites is considered to be public information. Customers should be aware that any personally identifiable information that is submitted in the course of these public activities can be read, collected or used by other users of these forums. Blowfish Studios is not responsible for the personally identifiable information customers make public.
Computer systems on which Blowfish Studios collects, stores and uses the information it collects and receives, are based in the U.S.A. The servers and equipment on which customers' data is stored and processed may be owned and operated by third parties with whom Blowfish Studios has contracted to receive, store and process customer data. By accepting Privacy Policy customer agrees with storing and processing data by a contracting party stated above.
Blowfish Studios implements reasonable security measures to protect the security of customer information both on line and offline to protect customer information. Blowfish Studios takes reasonable precautions against possible security breaches of customer databases and records but cannot guarantee that unauthorised access, hacking, data loss or other breaches will never occur. Customer is aware that transmission of information over the internet is not completely secure, so Blowfish Studios cannot guarantee the security of data while it is being transmitted.
Blowfish Studios may change this Privacy Policy the changes must be notified by sending the changed statements to the forum announcements, so the customer is aware of the changes.
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.
Please note that we may revise our above policy without notice to users as the content on our sites continues to change and we will post all such material changes on this Privacy Policy.
We hope that you enjoy playing our games!
The effective date of this Privacy Policy is January, 2014.
Initial version.
Contact: support@blowfishstudios.com