Game Canvas Studio

Version last revised: July 19th 2023

1. Introduction and purpose of this Privacy

Notice

We,the above-named controller (“Game Canvas Studio”, “we”, “us”) is

committed to protecting personal data concerning you, and respecting

your privacy.

When you use our products and services, including websites such as

trikatchgamesstudio.com, or mobile games, we will process certain

personal data that concerns you. ‘Process’ or ‘processing’ as used

in this Privacy Notice includes any operation performed on personal

data or on sets of personal data, like collection, storage,

organization, retrieval, updating, amending, deletion, consultation,

use, sharing or making available internally or to others.

This Website and App Users Website Privacy Notice (“Privacy Notice”)

sets out details of the processing we carry out, the purpose of the

processing, the legal basis for the processing, our legal obligations

as controller, and your rights in relation to that processing.

2.Who Are We?

Game Canvas Studio develops and publishes games and applications for

mobile devices. “Game Canvas Studio,” or “we” or “us” refers to Game

Canvas Studio. This Privacy Notice covers processing by Game Canvas

Studio itself, and members of the Game Canvas Studios as well,

3. Categories of Information Collected

The type of information we collect depends on how you use the

Services. Generally, we collect the following information:

●Identifiers / Contact Information: Name, user name, gamertag,

postal and email address, phone number, unique IDs, mobile

device ID, platform ID, gaming service ID, advertising ID

(IDFA, Android ID) and IP address

●Protected Characteristics: Age and gender

●Commercial Information: Purchase and usage history and

preferences, including gameplay information

●Billing Information: Payment information (credit / debit card

information) and shipping address

●Internet / Electronic Activity: Web / app browsing and gameplay

information related to the Services; information about your

online interaction(s) with the Services or our advertising; and

details about the games and platforms you use and other

information related to installed applications

●Device and Usage Data: Device type, software and hardware

details, language settings, browser type and version, operating

system, and information about how users use and interact with

the Services (e.g., content viewed, pages visited, clicks,

scrolls)

●Profile Inferences: Inferences made from your information and

web activity to help create a personalized profile so we can

identify goods and services that may be of interest

●Audio / Visual Information: Account photos, images, and

avatars, audio information via chat features and functionality,

and gameplay recordings and video footage (such as when you

participate in playtesting)

●Sensitive Information: Precise location information (if you

allow the Services to collect your location), account

credentials (username and password), and contents of

communications via chat features and functionality.

4. How We Use Information

●Business Purposes: Provide the Services and support; fulfill

orders and requests; improve the Services and our business;

develop new products and services; enhance your experience on

the Services; protect the security for our users, employees,

facilities, and Services; and develop internal marketing and

demographic studies

●Commercial Purposes: Market and advertise our and our business

partners' products and services; send you promotional

materials; and administer promotional activities or events

We also use your information as permitted by law.

We use information we collect for our business purposes, including

to:

●Provide the Services

●Fulfill product orders and other requests, respond to your

questions, and communicate with you

●Enhance and personalize your experience on the Services,

including to recognize you, maintain your preferences and

settings, connect you with other users and link to your

third-party platform, gaming, and social networking accounts

●Provide technical and other support

●Review the use and operations of the Services, develop new

products or services, and conduct analyses to enhance or

improve our software, content, marketing, support, and Services

●Conduct internal marketing and demographic studies

●Address issues with the Services or other business needs

●To protect the security or integrity of the Services, users and

our business such as by protecting against and preventing

violation of our terms and policies, including combating fraud,

piracy, cheating, tampering, unauthorized transactions, claims,

and other liabilities, and managing risk exposure

●Interact on your behalf with the third-party platform, gaming,

and social networking accounts you connect with our Services

●Participate in other processing that we inform you about when

you provide your information or when you consent to such

processing

●As permitted by law

We use information we collect for commercial purposes, including to:

●Provide you and other users with customized content, targeted

offers, and advertising on the Services, via email and text

message, or on other sites, mobile applications, or social

media on behalf of Take-Two or our business partners

●Contact you with information and promotional materials

●Administer rewards, surveys, sweepstakes, contests, or other

promotional activities or events sponsored or managed by us or

our business partners

●Analyze our users, in combination with other data, to assess

our user base and target marketing at other similar groups

---Legal Reasons to Process Personal Data

If you are based in a location that requires us to establish legal

grounds, we process your information on the following grounds:

●Establish and perform our contract with you (such as the terms

applicable to our Services, or to take steps at your request,

such as to complete transactions with you and to allow you to

play our games online)

●Compliance with a legal obligation

●For our or our partners' legitimate interests, such as to

improve our products and services; perform analytics to better

understand our users; conduct direct marketing (when we do not

need your consent); otherwise supporting our business,

operations, and services; and enforce and prevent violations of

our terms or policies

●Protect your vital interests or those of another person (for

example, another player)

●With your consent, such as when you sign up for direct

marketing or you connect your Take-Two account with a

third-party service

4. Personal data we may collect from you and how we process it

If you visit one of our websites, including Game Canvas Studio.com

●Online identifiers, electronic network activity, location data

including country code data, and data concerning the usage of

company’s systems (including of external websites)

●Answers to online surveys and questionnaires, and partner votes

●Third party identifiers including those issued by Facebook and

other social media platforms.

●IP Address

We will process this information in order to:

●Give you access to the website

●Enhance your experience

●Improve the experience of all our users.

See also the information on cookies below and the cookie policy and

cookie consent on the relevant website.

If you use one of our mobile apps

All the above information plus:

●Apple, Amazon, or Google User ID

●Specific user behaviour characteristics

●Preferences including advertising preferences

●Technical device data, device and website usage data.

●the name you have associated with your device

●your country

●your specific geolocation

●information about Game Canvas Studio and other third-party apps

you have on your device

●a Game Canvas Studio player ID number that is created by Game

Canvas Studio and used to identify you

We will process this information in order to:

●optimise your experience

●secure your user data and personal data

●improve our mobile apps

In some cases we will ask your permission before requesting access to

this personal data in the context in which it is processed within the

app. The level of access may also depend on your device’s privacy

settings which can be adjusted on the settings menu of your device.

If you contact us, or if you register your details with us

Any of the above information plus:

●Personal and identification details, including first, last and

middle names, age and date of birth

●Your experiences and opinions using our products and services

●Contact information including address, telephone/mobile number,

e-mail address

●game username(s) and avatars

●your gender

●approximate location information that you provide

●links to your profiles on various social network

●details about the games you play

We will process this information in order to:

●Manage your account and user preferences

●Protect your personal data, and other information, from

disclosure to other users.

●Enhance your experience

●to create your game accounts and allow you to play our games

●to identify and suggest connections with other Game Canvas

Studio players and personalise our Services to you

●to enable players to communicate with each other

●to provide technical support and respond to player enquiries

●to protect the safety and well-being of our players

●to protect Game Canvas Studio’s rights and property in

connection with our services;

●to prevent fraud or potentially illegal activities

●to notify players of in-game updates, new products or

promotional offers

●to administer rewards, surveys, sweepstakes, contests, or other

promotional activities or events sponsored or managed by us or

our business partners

●to comply with our legal obligations, resolve any disputes we

may have with you or other players, and to enforce our

agreements with third parties

●to conduct research

If you purchase goods or services directly from us

If you purchase a licence to use in-game virtual currency or virtual

items in a game you play on Game Canvas Studiostudios.com, our

third-party payment processor will collect the billing and financial

information it needs to process your charges. Note that this third

party payment processor will be the controller in relation to certain

processing relating to the transaction. You will be informed of their

identity and provided with information on how they process your

personal data at the time the payment is made.

This may include any of the above information plus:

●Sales information, including transaction history and payment

information

●Bank account information

●Credit card information

They will process this information in order to:

●Process your payment or refund your payment

●Identify you

●Protect you and us from fraud

●Prevent crime

Game Canvas Studio may obtain the billing and payment information

that you provide when your purchase is processed by someone else

(like Facebook, Apple or Google) such as when you purchase something

in a game you play on a social network or that you downloaded on your

mobile device. Our Terms of Service explain our policies and terms

relevant to our charges, billing practices, third-party credits and

virtual currencies. Please note that purchases of third party credits

or currencies may also be subject to those parties’ policies.

5. Personal data we may collect from

other sources and how we process it

If you access one of our mobile apps using third-party

authentication, access any of our other Services on connected

third-party applications, or connect our Services to any third-party

applications

This includes including social networks like Facebook or Instagram,

Game Canvas Studio may receive certain information about you from the

provider of the third-party application. The information we receive

depends on the Game Canvas Studio game you’re playing, the

third-party application, your privacy settings and, if applicable,

your friends’ privacy settings on that third-party application. IN

most cases you will be given an opportunity to allow or deny this

access in the context in which it is requested.

In addition to the information set out above, we may receive and

process the following:

●your profile picture or its URL

●your user ID number (like your Facebook ID number), which may

be linked to publicly-available information like your name and

profile photo

●the user ID number and other public data for your friends

●the login e-mail you provided to that third-party application

when you registered with it

●your physical location and that of the devices you use to

access our services

●your gender

●your birthday and/or age range

●information about your activities on or through the connected

third-party application

●other publicly-available information on the third-party

application

●any other information that you or the provider of the

third-party application share with Game Canvas Studio

We will process this information in order to:

●Identify you

●Provide you with the app or other service

●Connect and streamline your experience between our service and

that of the third party

If you access our Services from a third-party application or connect

our Services to a third-party application, you should also read that

third-party application’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

If you are unclear about what information a third-party application

is sharing with us, please go to the third-party application to find

out more about their privacy practices.

6. Children's Privacy

Generally, we direct our Services to a general audience and we do not

knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years

old (or older, if applicable law provides for different protections).

We may direct certain Services to an audience of all ages---including

children. For these Services, we may restrict the collection of

personal information on the Services from anyone, apply an age gate

allowing children to use the Services while restricting the

collection of personal information on the Services from children, or

get a parent's permission to collect personal information from

children. If we become aware that a child has provided personal

information without a parent's permission, we will promptly delete

this information. We encourage parents to instruct their children to

never give out their real names, addresses, or phone numbers, without

permission, when using the Internet.

7.Lawful basis of processing

We process all of the above data in the pursuit of our legitimate

business interests, including the pursuit of new business, new

customers and revenue streams, as well as the development of new,

improved apps and games and building our share of the market, our

reputation and brands.

In some cases we also need to process the personal data pursuant to a

contract with you or a third party, such as Apple or Google, or to

comply with a legal obligation.

Where we have not indicated that a lawful basis other than legitimate

interest applies, you are entitled to object to the processing of the

personal data.

8. Special category personal data

We do not normally process any personal data concerning your racial

or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical

beliefs, or trade union membership, and the processing of genetic

data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a

natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural

person’s sex life or sexual orientation, nor any information

concerning criminal convictions and offenses.

If any app or other service ever requires us to process such personal

data, you will be informed in advance about this processing and its

purpose, and we will either seek your explicit consent, or inform you

of the other lawful basis for this processing and give you the

opportunity to opt out. This may mean you are not able to use the

specific app or other service to which this processing relates.

9.International transfers of personal

data

Game Canvas Studio apps and services are provided to users worldwide

through the Game Canvas Studio Group. Accordingly, it is necessary

for personal data processed by Game Canvas Studio to be routinely

transferred to countries, including those within the EEA and/or the

UK, and those outside the UK/EEA. This includes countries where the

local data protection law does not give the same level of protection

to the rights and freedoms of data subjects.

To safeguard personal data that concerns you, and your rights in

relation to that personal data and its processing, all such transfers

carried out by Game Canvas Studio are made subject to an agreement

between the Game Canvas Studio entities in the relevant territories

that incorporates the Standard Contractual Clauses adopted by

Commission Decision (EU) 2021/914 of 4 June 2021 and the UK

International Data Transfer Addendum to the EU Commission Standard

Contractual Clauses (“UK Addendum”), as issued by the Information

Commissioner under S119A(1) Data Protection Act 2018. A copy of this

agreement is available on request.

10. Special circumstances of processing

Third-Party Service Providers

We will share your information with third-party companies to perform

services on our behalf, like processing payments, analyzing data,

optimizing game play, email delivery, hosting services, customer

service and to help us in our marketing efforts, including managing

and delivering contextual and tailored advertisements. We

contractually require these third-party service providers to maintain

the confidentiality of the information we share with them, and we

contractually require them not use your information for anything

other than to provide services on our behalf.

11.Cookies, analytics and automated

information collection

We and service providers acting on our behalf, like Google Analytics,

store log files and use tracking technologies such as:

●cookies, which are small pieces of data transferred to your

mobile device or computer for record-keeping purposes;

●web beacons, which let us know if a certain page was visited or

whether an e-mail was opened;

●tracking pixels, which allow us or our advertising partners to

advertise more efficiently and effectively; and

●local shared objects, also known as flash cookies, which help

us to reduce fraud, remember your in-game preferences and speed

up load times.

●We and our service providers use these log files, tags, and

tracking technologies to collect and analyze certain kinds of

technical information, including:

●IP addresses;

●the type of computer or mobile device you are using;

●your operating system version;

●your mobile device’s identifiers, like your MAC Address,

Identifier For Advertising (IDFA), and/or International Mobile

Equipment Identity (IMEI);

●your browser types;

●your browser language;

●referring and exit pages, and URLs;

●platform type;

●the number of clicks on a page or feature;

●domain names;

●landing pages;

●pages viewed and the order of those pages;

●the amount of time spent on particular pages; and

●game state and the date and time of activity on our websites or

games.

●In some cases, we will connect this information with your

social network ID or Game Canvas Studio user ID.

Please note that companies delivering advertisements on our Services

may also use cookies or other technologies as described below, and

those practices are subject to those companies’ own policies. More

information on how third parties may use your data in our Services go

to Appendix A and Appendix B further below.

12.Personal data concerning you that we

may process on behalf of others

For a personalized advertisement experience, the advertising networks

and their partners, some of which are listed below may collect or

receive device information from our apps and other apps that include

personal and non-personal information, such as advertising (or ad)

identifiers, IP address, or other information regarding the delivery

of advertisements and your interaction with them, inventory of

installed apps and/or other tracking technologies to provide

measurement services, personalization, ad selection, delivery,

reporting, and optimize targeted ads. You can learn more about how

each handles your data by accessing their respective privacy notices

using the hyperlinks below.

13.How We Share Your Information

We may disclose or publish aggregated information (information about

you and other players collectively that is not intended to

specifically identify you, for example, players between the ages of

21 and 25 who live San Francisco) and other non-personal information

about our players for industry analysis, demographic profiling,

marketing, analytics, advertising, and other business purposes.

In addition, we may share your information (which may include

personal information) with third parties (in other words, parties

other than Game Canvas Studio) or allow third parties to collect this

information from our Services

14.Privacy policies of linked

third-party services and advertisers

Our websites and games may contain advertisements from Third-Party

Services, which are companies other than Game Canvas Studio that may

link to their own websites, online services or mobile applications.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of

these Third-Party Services. If you have any questions about how these

Third-Party Services use your information, you should review their

policies and contact them directly.

15.Our policies concerning children

Most of our websites and games are not for children under the age of

13 and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from

children under 13. Children under 13 should not use these websites or

games at any time. If we learn that we have inadvertently gathered

personal information from a child under 13, we will take reasonable

measures to promptly remove that information from our records. Game

Canvas Studio may also provide games which are intended for users of

all ages.

16.How long we keep your information

How long we retain your information depends on why we collected it

and how we use it. We will not retain your personal information for

longer than is necessary for our business purposes or for legal

requirements. For instance, we may retain some information for a few

years after you have closed your account with us if this is necessary

to meet our legal obligations or to exercise, defend or establish

legal rights.

17. Security of your information

We implement security measures to help protect the security of your

information both online and offline. We take steps to ensure that

your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy

Policy. These measures vary based upon the sensitivity of your

information.

If you have an account registered directly with Game Canvas Studio,

your profile information is protected by the password you use to

access your Game Canvas Studio account. It is important that you

protect and maintain your Game Canvas Studio account’s security and

that you immediately tell us of any unauthorized use of your account.

If you forget the password to your Game Canvas Studio account, the

Service allows you to request that instructions be sent to you that

explain how to reset your password.

When you sign into your Game Canvas Studio account or enter payment

information, we or our third party payment processor use encryption

to transmit that information.

While we take precautions against possible security breaches of our

Services and our customer databases and records, no website or

Internet transmission is completely secure. We cannot guarantee that

unauthorized access, hacking, data loss, or other breaches will never

occur, and we cannot guarantee the security of your information while

it is being transmitted to our Service. Any transmission is at your

own risk. If you have questions about the security of our websites,

please contact us at gamecanvasstudio@gmail.com.

18. Changes to our privacy policy

We may need to update this Privacy Notice to reflect changes to our

data processing practices. If we do this and the changes are

material, we will post a notice on Game Canvas Studiostudios.com for

at least 7 days before the changes are made. You can see the date

this Privacy Notice was last revised at the top of the page.

For certain processing activities not covered by this Privacy Notice,

we may supplement this Privacy Notice by placing separate notices on

game blogs, social network pages, and/or forums and on other Game

Canvas Studio websites.

19.Your rights

The applicable data protection laws give you certain specific rights

in relation to the processing of personal data that concerns you.

Please note that not all these apply in all circumstances. However,

you are always welcome to contact us with any request relating to

processing of your personal data. Even where we are not obliged by

law to comply with your request, we will try to accommodate your

wishes.

●Access – you have the right to access personal data concerning

you and certain information about how and why we are processing

it;

●Rectification – you have the right to have any inaccurate or

incomplete personal data rectified without undue delay;

●Erasure – Sometimes called the ‘right to be forgotten’, in

certain circumstances, you have the right to have personal data

that concerns you erased without undue delay;

●Restriction – in certain circumstances, you have the right to

have our processing of personal data concerning you restricted;

●Data portability – in certain limited circumstances, you have

the right to receive any personal data concerning you that you

have provided to us, in a structured, commonly-used and

machine-readable format, and the right to transmit those data

to another controller without hindrance; and

●Objection – in certain circumstances, you have the right to

object to the processing of personal data carried out by us or

on our behalf where it concerns you.

20.EU Representative

We have appointed Game Canvas Studio as our representative in the EU

pursuant to Article 27 GDPR. If you are located in the EU, you can

contact Game Canvas Studio at its registered address or using

gamecanvasstudio@gmail.com on all issues related to processing of

personal data, and compliance with the GDPR.

21.Advertising Networks and their

Partners

Amazon Developer

Amazon Developer is an advertising service provided by Amazon, Inc.

(US)

https://developer.amazon.com/support/legal/mobileads/terms-and-agreem

ents

AdColony

AdColony is an advertising service provided by AdColony, Inc. (US)

AppLovin

AppLovin is an advertising service provided by AppLovin Corporation

(US)

Facebook Audience Network

Facebook Audience Network is an advertising service provided by

Facebook, Inc. (US) that may collect or receive information from our

apps and other apps and use that information to provide measurement

services and targeted ads.

Fyber

Fyber is an advertising service provided by Fyber Group. (Israel)

Google AdSense

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our

Service. Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its

partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our

Service or other websites on the Internet

You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick Cookie for

interest-based advertising by visiting the Google Ads Settings web

page: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/

AdMob by Google and their partners

AdMob by Google is provided by Google Inc. (US)

For more information on how AdMob uses the collected information,

please visit the Privacy Policy of Google:

http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

For more information on AdMob Partners, please visit:

https://support.google.com/admob/answer/9012903

You can opt-out from AdMob by Google service by following the

instructions described by Google:

https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en

IronSource

IronSource is an advertising service provided by IronSource, Inc.

(US)

http://www.ironsrc.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ironSource-Privacy-

Policy.pdf

Liftoff

Liftoff is an advertising service provided by Liftoff, Inc. (US)

MoPub and their partners

MoPub is provided by MoPub, Inc. (US)

For more information on what information MoPub collects and how it’s

used, please read MoPub Privacy Policy:

http://www.mopub.com/legal/privacy/

For more information on MoPub Partners, please visit:

https://www.mopub.com/legal/partners/

You can opt-out from MoPub service by following the instructions on

MoPub Opt-out page: http://www.mopub.com/optout/

PubNative

PubNative is an advertising service provided by PubNative GmbH

(Germany)

Smaato and their vendors

Smaato is an advertising service provided by Smaato, Inc. (US)

on the Smaato Vendors, please visit:

http://advertisingconsent.eu/transparency-consent-framework-global-ve

ndor-list/

Unity Ads

Unity Ads is an advertising service provided by Unity Ads Inc. (US)

Vungle

Vungle is provided by Vungle, Inc. (US)

You can opt-out from Vungle service by following the instructions as

described by Vungle on their Privacy Policy page:

http://vungle.com/privacy/

APPENDIX B – Analytics and other service providers

We use your information to perform our own analytics and to enable

analytics provided by third parties and other essential functions. We

use analytical information for supporting business analysis and

operations, business intelligence, product development, improving the

Services, personalizing content, providing advertising, and making

recommendations. In order to learn about how your information is used

by our analytics service providers, you can follow the hyperlinks in

the list below to each provider’s privacy notice.

AWS

AWS is cloud computing services provided by Amazon Web Services, Inc.

(US).

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=468496

AppsFlyer

AppsFlyer is analytics service provided by AppsFlyer (Israel)

Facebook Ads conversion

Facebook Ads conversion tracking is an analytics service provided by

Facebook, Inc. (US) that connects data from the Facebook advertising

network with actions performed on this Application.

Firebase

Firebase is an analytics service provided by Google Inc. (US)

You may opt-out of certain Firebase features through your mobile

device settings, such as your device advertising settings or by

following the instructions provided by Google in their Privacy

Policy: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

Google reCAPTCHA

Google reCAPTCHA is a spam protection service provided by Google LLC.

(US)

It is primarily used to distinguish whether an input is made by a

natural person or abusive by automated processing. The service

includes sending data required by Google for the reCAPTCHA service to

Google. Additional information about Google reCAPTCHA and Google’s

22.Contact Us

If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding our Privacy

Policy and/or practices, please send an e-mail to

gamecanvasstudio@gmail.com or the address written at the top of this

Privacy Notice.