Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 26, 2018

Aatos Media (Sound Supreme Oy) respects your right to privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, share and use personal information about you, and how you can exercise your privacy rights. This Privacy Policy applies to personal information that we collect through our Games, like the Sidekicks mobile game ("​Games​") and Websites, like sidekicksgame.com ​("​Website​"). Games and Website is jointly called the “​Services​”.

If you use our Services, you agree to this Privacy Policy and processing of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Services.

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal information, then please contact us using the contact details provided at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.

What personal information we collect and where?

We collect the following categories of personal information about you through the Services:

Information that you provide voluntarily

Certain parts of our Services may ask you to provide personal information voluntarily: for example, we may ask you to provide your contact details in order to register an account with us, to begin playing Games, to subscribe to marketing communications from us, and/or to submit enquiries to us. The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

Specifically, the information we collect directly from you may include information like (i) your name; (ii) your email address, phone number and other contact information; (iii) your user name or any other name you use to identify yourself in any Services; and (iv) other personal information required in order to help you with any queries or support matters you may need assistance with via our forums or customer support service

Information that we collect automatically

When you use our Services, we may collect certain information automatically from your device. This information may be considered personal information under applicable data protection laws.

Specifically, the information we collect automatically may include information like your IP address, device type, unique device identification numbers, advertising identifiers, operating system, browser-type, broad geographic location (e.g. country or city-level location) and other technical information. We may also collect information about how you use the Services and how your device has interacted with our Services, including the Games played and the pages of our Website accessed.

Collecting this information enables us to better understand the players of our Games and visitors who come to our Website, where they come from, and what content or features on our Games and Website is of interest to them. We use this information to serve interest-based advertising to you, for our internal analytics purposes, to prevent fraudulent behaviour in our Services and to improve the quality and relevance of our Services to our players and visitors.

Some of this information may be collected using cookies and similar tracking technology, as explained further under the heading “Cookies and similar tracking technology” below.

Information that we obtain from third party sources

We may receive personal information about you from third party sources, like sign-in and social networking Services.

You can log in to our Games using sign-in Services such as Apple Game Center or Google Play. We warmly recommend that you use these sign-in Services. If you choose to use these sign-in Services, we receive and process your account ID number and user name of the sign-in service.

Our Games may also include some social media interaction tools.

Why we process your personal information and on what legal basis?

We collect and use your personal information for the following purposes. Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information is also described below.

For the performance of the contract between us and you

For the performance of the contract we collect necessary personal information to

To provide you with optimal Games and Website experience

To customize and provide you with optimal Games and Services we have a legitimate interest to collect and process necessary personal information to

Show you personalized advertisements

Subject to your consent to show you personalized advertisements in our Services or by email we collect and use necessary personal information to

You can enable or disable the persolized ads though your phone settings or clicking the Privacy button that is visible on served ads. Please note that if you decide not to give your consent or choose to "opt out", it does not mean that you will no longer receive advertising. It just means that the advertising you see displayed will not be customized to you and your interests and may be less relevant to you.

Prevent fraud and ensure acceptable use of our Services

To identify, prevent, and investigate fraud and provide a fair, equal and enjoyable game experience to players, we have a legitimate interest to collect and process necessary personal information to

Please note that our Services offer communication methods like chats or community forums. You need to be aware that any information you provide by these means (also your chat text) is monitored and may be read, collected, and used by others who access the information, for example, other players and us.

With whom do we share your personal information with?

We may disclose your personal information to the following recipients or categories of recipients:

In-game advertisements (subject to your consent):

Other marketing and social media:

Other:

Cookies and similar tracking technology

Like most Games and online Services, we and our partners use advertising identifiers, cookies and similar tracking technologies. Advertising identifiers, cookies and similar technologies are used by us and our partners to provide our Services to you and to collect data from your device. These technologies allow us and our partners to (i) recognise you and your device; (ii) provide interest-based advertising to you; (iii) prevent fraud, (iv) allow our Services to interact with a third party social network or platform (where you have chosen to allow such interaction); (v) allow our payment processors to process your payment instructions; and (vi) enable us and third parties to provide you with more customized Services, for example to provide our Services in the correct language (subject to availability). You can limit ad tracking, reset advertising identifiers and disable cookies from your device or browser settings.

You may also see our own advertisements in other Games and Services. If you click such advertisements and install our game(s), we may share a device identifier with our partners to verify installs and prevent fraudulent actions.

How do we keep your personal information secure?

We use appropriate technical and organizational measures designed to protect the personal information that we collect and process about you. The measures we use are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing your personal information. Specific measures we use include that only those of our employees, who on behalf of their work are entitled to process personal information, are entitled to use a system containing personal information. Each user has a personal username and password to the system. The information is collected into databases that are protected by firewalls, passwords and other technical measures. The databases and the backup copies are in locked premises and can be accessed only by certain pre-designated persons.

International data transfers

Our Services are global by nature and therefore your personal information may be transferred to, and processed in, countries other than the country in which you are resident. These countries may have data protection laws that are different to the laws of your country.

However, we have taken appropriate safeguards to require that your personal information will remain protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy. These include implementing the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses or other similar arrangements (such as the Privacy Shield certification regarding transfers to United States) for transfers of personal information between us and our third-party service providers and partners located outside the European Union or European Economic Area.

Data retention

We retain personal information we collect from you where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so (for example, to provide you with a service you have requested or to comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements). Unnecessary and outdated personal information will be erased or anonymized in connection with the periodical reviews and also at other times when deemed necessary.

Your data protection rights

You have the following data protection rights:

We respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws. If you have any inquiries or requests related to the above rights, please contact us at info@aatosmedia.fi

Updates to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in response to changing legal, technical or business developments. When we update our Privacy Policy, we will take appropriate measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes we make. We will obtain your consent to any material Privacy Policy changes if and where this is required by applicable data protection laws.

You can see when this Privacy Policy was last updated by checking the “last updated” date displayed at the top of this Privacy Policy.

Special Note About Children’s Privacy

We comply with all applicable laws that are designed to protect children’s privacy, such as the GDPR and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“​COPPA​”).

If you are under the age of 13, you should ask for your legal guardian’s permission to play our Games before starting. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under the age of 13. If you are under 13, please do not use any of the features of our Games that require you to provide personal data to us. If you are under 13 years of age, please do not send any information about yourself to us including your name, address, telephone number, or email address.

If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under the age of 13, please contact us using the contact details provided under the “How to contact us” heading below.

If we learn that we have inadvertently gathered personal information from children under 13 years of age, we will dispose of that information, or otherwise treat it in accordance with COPPA and other applicable laws and regulations. If you are a parent or guardian and you believe that your child under 13 years of age has provided us with personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided under the “How to contact us” heading below.

How to contact us?

The data controller is Aatos Media
Business ID: 1939724-7

Address:
Lukiokatu 36
13130 Hämeenlinna
Finland

Email: ​ info@aatosmedia.fi