About this Privacy Policy 

This Asterisks Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes how and when we may collect, use, secure, and share information collected in connection with our games, mobile applications, websites, content, products, and any related services (collectively, the “Services”), and your choices regarding our processing of that information. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Asterisks” (or “we” or “us”) refers to Asterisks, Inc. and its parents, subsidiaries, representatives, affiliates, officers, and directors for websites and applications that link to this Privacy Policy or otherwise make it available to you. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. We may update it from time to time by posting a new version on www.asterisks.com with an updated date (the “Effective Date”). If we make material changes, we will notify you, prior to the changes becoming effective, through the Services or by other means if you’ve provided us additional contact information (e.g., using the email address associated with your Account, as defined in our Terms of Service). Your continued use of the Services after the Effective Date will be an acknowledgement of our updated practices. If there is any difference between the English version and any other language version of this Privacy Policy, the English version will apply (to the extent of the difference and to the extent permitted by applicable law). 

Information We May Collect and How We Collect It 

We may collect various types of information, including information you provide or make available to us directly, information collected from your devices (including on web and mobile), and information collected from other sources, like social networking sites and gaming partners. Some of this information may be considered “personal information” or “personal data” under applicable privacy or data protection laws. 

Information You Provide 

You may provide information directly to Asterisks when you: 

■ Use or access the Services, including when you create a Asterisks Account (as defined in our Terms) or make in-app purchases; 
■ Create a Asterisks Account for logging in across multiple games or Services; 
■ Connect with or access our Services using a third-party ID or log-in, such as an ID for a social networking site or gaming service; 
■ Communicate with or contact others using our Services, including when you use chat, “invite a friend,” “email this page,” or use other similar features; 
■ Contact us, including for customer or technical support; 
■ Participate in Asterisks offers, contests, or special events; 
■ Subscribe to newsletters or sign up to hear about current or upcoming products; and/or 
■ Complete surveys offered by us or on our behalf. 

Depending on how you choose to use the Services, you may provide us with the following types of information: 

■ Contact information such as your first and last name, username or handle, third-party service ID, email address, phone number, home address or shipping address, and other contact information; 
■ Images such as your photo, avatar, or other image; 
■ Biographic and Demographic information such as your date of birth, gender, and time zone. 
■ Transaction information such as purchase or payment information; and/or 
■ Other information such as chat records, friends’ names and contact information, and location information you choose to share (for example, when you connect with our Services through social features). 

Information Collected or Generated When You Use our Services 

When you access or use our Services, we collect information from and about you and the device(s) you use. This may include the following information: 

■ IP address, unique device identifiers, advertising identifiers, device serial numbers, and similar identifiers; 
■ Device information such as hardware model, device software platform/OS and firmware, mobile carrier, preferred languages, device motion information, mobile network information, and in some cases, browser type and version, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages and URLs, or clickstream information; 
■ Approximate location inferred from IP address; 
■ In-game purchase information; and/or 
■ Game scores and achievements, and other information as reasonably required to offer and enhance our Services. 
■ Inferences, such as those drawn from any of the personal information we collect, to better understand your preferences. 

Information Collected Using Cookies and Similar Technologies 

We and our partners use various tools to collect information when you visit our sites and Services, including cookies, pixels, software development kits, advertising identifiers, and other similar technologies. Some of these technologies store information in the browser or on your device. Other technologies may use network-related or other information to recognize your device (e.g., IP address). Our Services use these technologies, for example, when you first request a web page and information is then stored on your computer or other device so the website or app can access information when you make subsequent requests for pages from that Service. These technologies may also be used to collect and store information about your usage of the Services, such as pages you have visited, your search history, and content you have viewed. Depending on the Services you use, we and our partners may also use these technologies to gather information about how you view and use our Services and content, and to connect your activity with other information we store about you. Some of these partners include: 

■ Google Analytics. For more information about how Google uses your personal information (including for its own purposes, e.g., for profiling or linking it to other information), please visit Google Analytics’ Privacy Policy. To learn more about how to opt-out of Google Analytics’ use of your information, please click here. 
■ Hotjar (Session Replay Analytics). We use Hotjar’s session replay analytics services. This allows us to record and replay an individual’s interaction with the Services. For more information about how Hotjar uses your personal information, please visit the “Personal Data collected from a visitor of a Hotjar Enabled Site” section of Hotjar’s Privacy Policy. To learn more about how to opt-out of Hotjar’s use of your information, please click here. 
■ Game Analytics. For more information, please see Game Analytics’ privacy policy here: https://gameanalytics.com/privacy/. 

The use of these technologies helps us serve you better by understanding what you’re interested in, tracking trends, measuring the effectiveness of ads, saving your preferences, and storing information you may want to retrieve on a regular basis. We also allow specific, approved partners to collect information from your browser or device for advertising and measurement purposes using their own similar tools. At any time, you can control the use of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser. However, if you choose to disable some or all cookies, please note that by blocking any or all cookies, you may not have access to certain features, content, or personalization available through our Services. For information about how you can manage your cookie and similar technologies preferences, please review the section of this Privacy Policy titled “Interest-Based Advertising.” 

How We Use Information 

We may use the information we collect for a number of business and commercial purposes, including to: 

■ Perform internal operations necessary to develop, provide, maintain, and improve our Services, including troubleshooting, providing customer and technical support, and conducting data analysis, testing, and research; 
■ Understand how you interact with our Services and personalize the product experience and content (including advertising and messaging campaigns), as well as offer discounts or personalized pricing in accordance with applicable law; 
■ Maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Services, for example by authenticating players and providing account security and fraud detection; 
■ Send you news and/or marketing communications (by email, phone, or text) subject to your marketing preferences and choices, including information about Asterisks or third-party offerings we think may be of interest to you; 
■ Administer contests, surveys, and sweepstakes you enter, notify contest winners, and award prizes; 
■ Fulfill a purchase or send you order confirmations or other requested product or Service information; 
■ Facilitate your communication with friends and other players, and enable features that allow you to share information with other people (for example, if you choose to use friend invite features); and/or 
■ Comply with legal requirements and/or investigate or address claims or disputes relating to your use of the Services. 

We may use the information we collect for a number of business and commercial purposes, including to: 

■ Perform internal operations necessary to develop, provide, maintain, and improve our Services, including troubleshooting, providing customer and technical support, and conducting data analysis, testing, and research; 
■ Understand how you interact with our Services and personalize the product experience and content (including advertising and messaging campaigns), as well as offer discounts or personalized pricing in accordance with applicable law; 
■ Maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Services, for example by authenticating players and providing account security and fraud detection; 
■ Send you news and/or marketing communications (by email, phone, or text) subject to your marketing preferences and choices, including information about Asterisks or third-party offerings we think may be of interest to you; 
■ Administer contests, surveys, and sweepstakes you enter, notify contest winners, and award prizes; 
■ Fulfill a purchase or send you order confirmations or other requested product or Service information; 
■ Facilitate your communication with friends and other players, and enable features that allow you to share information with other people (for example, if you choose to use friend invite features); and/or 
■ Comply with legal requirements and/or investigate or address claims or disputes relating to your use of the Services. 

How We Disclose Information 

At Asterisks, we are in the business of creating great games, not selling information. Subject to your legal rights, we may disclose the information we collect about you, and may enable you to share this information, with a variety of third parties in various ways, including:

■ With vendors, consultants, business partners, payment processors, and other third-party service providers as necessary to carry out work on our behalf and otherwise provide the Services; 
■ With other players, to enable you to interact with them and to share gameplay-related information such as high scores and other leaderboard information; 
■ With the general public, if you choose to share information when contributing content to our Services through a forum, blogs, social features, or the like; 
■ Where you choose to take advantage of social sharing features or related tools that let you share games and other actions you take on our Services, with the public, social media platforms, and/or your social media friends or contacts; 
■ With others who share your device, if you make your Account available to them through that device; 
■ With other parties engaging in sponsorships and co-branded opportunities and promotions; 
■ With specific third parties if we believe disclosure is required by applicable law, regulation, or legal process; 
■ With law enforcement officials, government authorities, or other third parties if we believe your actions are inconsistent with our terms or other policies, and/or are fraudulent or in violation of applicable law, or as we determine necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of Asterisks or others; 
■ In connection with an actual or proposed merger, consolidation, restructuring, sale of company stock and/or assets or other corporate change, including during the course of any due diligence process; and/or 
■ In an aggregated or pseudonymous form or otherwise in a form that cannot reasonably be used to identify you. 

In some cases, we may enable you to access third-party products or services through our Services. Please note that those products or services are offered by people or companies not affiliated with or controlled by us, and we are not responsible for their actions, their terms, their use of information, or their products or services. If you submit your information to a third party, that third party’s treatment of your information is governed by their privacy policy, which may differ from this Privacy Policy and which we encourage you to review. We also share information with your consent or at your direction. For example, we may share your personal information if you opt in to receiving information from Asterisks’s business partners. 

Interest-Based Advertising 

We may share some of your information with certain third-party partners to make advertising more relevant, to measure its effectiveness, and to help recognize your devices and serve ads. We or they may also employ cookies or similar technologies, as described above, to ensure you receive appropriate advertising and personalized experiences. These third-party advertising partners include, but are not limited to Meta, Google, AppLovin, LiveRamp, Criteo, IronSource, Microsoft, and their partners. Click each partner’s name for more information regarding their privacy practices. If you prefer to opt out of having your web viewing behavior used for interest-based advertising, you can learn how to do so by clicking here, or if located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, by clicking here. If you would prefer to opt out of having information about your mobile app usage used for interest-based advertising, you may also do so through your device settings such as (“Allow Apps to Request to Track” on iOS and “Opt Out of Ads Personalization” on Android). Please note that even if you disable personalized advertising, you may continue to receive ads that are not based on your preferences. 

Links to Other Websites 

The Services may contain links to, or advertisements concerning, other websites. Other websites may also reference, advertise, or link to Asterisks. Asterisks is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other websites. You should check the applicable privacy policy of any website you access through the Services. 

Your Rights and Choices 

You may be able to access, modify, and/or correct certain personal and other information available to you in your Account or in-app. Depending on where you reside, you may have additional rights, including those listed below in the sections called “Additional Information for Residents of the EEA, United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Brazil” and “Additional Information for Residents of California, Virginia, Connecticut, Utah, and Colorado.” 

How to Exercise Your Rights 

To protect the privacy of your information, Asterisks verifies your identity and processes rights requests through our in-game help ticket system. If you wish to exercise any of the rights described above, please follow the instructions below and do not delete the game until your request is fulfilled: 

■ Open the Asterisks game(s) for which you wish to exercise your rights; 
■ Visit the game’s settings menu; 
■ Select “Contact Us,” “Support,” “Help,” or equivalent option to submit a support ticket via the chat icon; 
■ Follow the prompts as provided by the Support team; and 
■ Choose the applicable request. 

If you have trouble with any of the steps described above, you can contact [email protected] for help. We may contact you to confirm your choices and to ask for additional information as needed to verify your identity and process your request. 

Communication Preferences 

Email, phone, and text: In order to opt-out of email communications, please click the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the email or contact us at [email protected]. If you receive an unwanted text message from us, you may opt out of receiving future text messages from us by following the instructions in the text message you have received from us or by otherwise contacting us as set forth below in the “Contact Us” section. Push Notifications: In connection with certain Services, you may choose to opt in to receiving push notifications. If you no longer want to receive them, you can turn them off at the device level. 

“Do Not Track” / “Global Privacy Control” 

Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that players can set in certain web browsers. Additionally, some browsers or plug-ins use a “Global Privacy Control” (“GPC”), which you can learn more about at https://globalprivacycontrol.org/. Please note that we do not respond to or honor DNT signals or similar mechanisms transmitted by web browsers. However, if our site detects a GPC signal from your device, we will interpret it as a request to opt out of selling or sharing your personal information and to opt out of targeted advertising under applicable state law. We will also interpret it as a request to limit the sale or sharing of personal information for targeted advertising for residents of the European Economic Area, the UK, and Brazil. 

Data Retention 

We may retain your personal information for as long as you have an Account with us. Following the closure of your Account, we may retain personal information where required by law or where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so. For example, we may retain such information to provide you a service you have requested, to comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements, or where necessary for fraud prevention, dispute resolution, enforcement of our contracts and terms, or for safety reasons (e.g., we may retain certain information about an Account to prevent that player from opening a new Account). 

Communication Preferences 

Email, phone, and text: In order to opt-out of email communications, please click the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the email or contact us at [email protected]. If you receive an unwanted text message from us, you may opt out of receiving future text messages from us by following the instructions in the text message you have received from us or by otherwise contacting us as set forth below in the “Contact Us” section. 

Push Notifications

In connection with certain Services, you may choose to opt in to receiving push notifications. If you no longer want to receive them, you can turn them off at the device level. 

“Do Not Track” / “Global Privacy Control” 

Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that players can set in certain web browsers. Additionally, some browsers or plug-ins use a “Global Privacy Control” (“GPC”), which you can learn more about at https://globalprivacycontrol.org/. Please note that we do not respond to or honor DNT signals or similar mechanisms transmitted by web browsers. However, if our site detects a GPC signal from your device, we will interpret it as a request to opt out of selling or sharing your personal information and to opt out of targeted advertising under applicable state law. We will also interpret it as a request to limit the sale or sharing of personal information for targeted advertising for residents of the European Economic Area, the UK, and Brazil. 

Security

We follow generally accepted industry standards and maintain reasonable safeguards designed to secure the information in our possession, and take steps to ensure only those at Asterisks with a legitimate business need to access your personal information are permitted to do so. We also take reasonable steps to assure that third parties to whom we transfer information will provide protections appropriate to that type of information. If you have reason to believe that your personal information is no longer secure, please immediately contact us as set forth below in the “Contact Us” section. 

Use By Minors

Our Services are designed for a general audience and require all players to be above the minimum age to consent for data processing (for example, 13 years old in the United States, and 16 years old in some parts of the EU) as a condition of access. If you are a parent or guardian of a minor, and believe that minor has uploaded personal information in connection with our Services without your consent, or if you wish to review information collected from your minor child, or have that information modified or deleted, you may contact us as described in “Contact Us” below. If we become aware that a minor has provided us with personal information in violation of applicable law, we will delete any personal information we have collected, unless we have a legal obligation to keep it, and revert them to the underage experience, if applicable. 

Additional Information for Residents of the EEA, United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Brazil 

If you are a resident of a member country of the EEA, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, or Brazil, then in accordance with applicable law, you may have the following rights: 

Access: to obtain confirmation regarding whether we process your personal information, and to and obtain a copy of the personal information we have collected about you. (Note that this right only applies to personal information relating to you, and not to any other player or person.)

Rectification or Correction: to correct your personal information where it is inaccurate, incomplete, or outdated. Erasure (deletion): to request that Asterisks delete your personal information, for example when it is no longer necessary to fulfill the purposes for which Asterisks collected it. This right may be limited to the extent that Asterisks is permitted or required by applicable law to retain your information. (Note that if you request deletion of your personal information, you may no longer be able to use or access the Services. If you share devices with someone else who uses the Services, that person may also lose game progress or related Account information and access. If you decide to use or access the Services again, Asterisks may consider this a new Account and may collect personal information associated with that Account in accordance with this Privacy Policy.) 

Restriction or objection to processing: to object to Asterisks’s processing of your personal information, or request that Asterisks restrict that processing. Because the information that Asterisks collects is generally required to provide the Services to you, if you object to the processing of your personal information, this may have the same effect as requesting deletion of this information. This right may be limited to the extent that Asterisks is permitted or required by applicable law to continue processing the information. (Note that if you object to the processing of your personal information, you and others who use your devices to access the Services may no longer be able to use or access the Services.) 

Portability: to receive a copy of your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format so that you can transmit it elsewhere. 
Request to be informed: to request information about third parties with which your personal information has been shared. 

Request review: to review decisions taken exclusively based on automated processing if these decisions could affect your data subject rights. 

To exercise these rights, please see “Your Rights and Choices” above.