Knifecake Studios

Privacy Policy – Knifecake Studios

Knifecake Studios provides this Privacy Policy to explain how it collects, stores, and uses the information collected in connection with Knifecake mobile applications, and websites (collectively, “services”). You have a right to know our practices regarding the information we may collect and use when you use our services.

The types of information we collect and how we collect it

Personal Information

Knifecake Studios integrates many third-party SDKs into our mobile apps. These SDKs are used for advertising to our users, analyzing service usage, enabling in-app purchases, or providing game services like achievements and leaderboards. We allow third-party operators to collect information solely for internal operations of the service as permitted by applicable rules and laws. This could include, but is not limited to, advertising identifier (Apple’s IDFA and Google’s advertiser ID), geo information, and IP address. We encourage you to review the policies of the third-party operators listed below.

Personally identifiable data collected is either voluntarily provided by you or collected automatically by us or from our partners, depending on the type of data.

Depending on the Services you use and the relevant laws, we may collect different types of data:

Data given by you:

  • Information you choose to share (e.g., data to identify your lost account)

Data collected automatically:

  • Your game progress and account information
  • Your IP address and mobile device identifiers
  • Your device information, such as the model name, operating system, and language, that we gather through the use of cookies and other similar technologies (see more below)
  • Information on debugging and application performance

Data collected from our partners:

  • Data made available by you via your privacy settings in third-party services like Facebook, Google, Apple
  • Demographic data (such as to determine the coarse location of your IP address)
  • Data to fight fraud related to refund or advertising
  • Data from platforms that the games run on (such as purchase data to verify payments)
  • Additional information (such as data for advertising and analytics purposes) to help display more relevant ads for you and improve the services we provide

Non-personal Information

We allow third parties to collect some anonymous information by which users cannot be identified. Non-personal information may include technical information about your device, such as your browser type, screen resolution, device type, language, type of operating system, and geo location (only general location).

Non-personal information is gathered by third-party services while you are accessing the service. They are allowed to use this information to conduct research and analysis, but only for strictly limited purposes. We encourage you to review the policies of the third-party operators listed below.

What we do with the personal information we collect

Advertisers collect data regarding advertisement performance, user’s interaction with ads, our apps, and user’s interests. Collected data may include user’s personal information in order to serve users ads and for the third parties’ legitimate business interests.

Your rights related to personally identifiable data

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 – 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.
  • 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.

For all questions or concerns you have about your personal data, or if you think you would like to exercise any of your rights as a data subject, please contact us via email at hello@knifecake.com.

GDPR

Knifecake Studios provides gaming applications to users in multiple countries. In some cases, personal data is processed in respect to the use of a gaming application. When data is processed to provide a game, product, or service in the EU, that personal data is subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

We will only collect and process your personal data when we have a lawful basis for doing so.

The legal basis that we rely on for processing your data will depend upon the circumstances in which it is being collected and used, but will in most cases fall into one of the following categories:

  • Where you have provided your consent to allow us to use your data in a certain way.
  • Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
  • Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
  • Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

You have the right to see and access information contained in personal data we hold about you. If you would like to receive or transfer some or all of your personal information (called a Subject Access Request), please contact the Data Protection Team via email at: hello@knifecake.com.

We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. You may ask us to correct or remove any information you think is inaccurate by contacting the Data Protection Team at the address provided above.

Further, you have a right to request deletion of personal data, and to restrict or object to our processing of your personal data according to this Privacy Policy or other service-specific terms. However, this is not an absolute right. We can refuse to erase personal data which we need to keep (i) to comply with a legal obligation; and (ii) in relation to the exercise or defense of any legal claims. Please note, upon a request for erasure, we may also keep a minimal amount of personal data on an in-house marketing suppression file in order to comply with a request not to receive marketing.

You also have a right to file a complaint with the data protection authorities with regards to our processing of your personal data.

Analytics, Cookies and other Tracking technologies

We and service providers acting on our behalf, like Google Analytics, store log files and use tracking technologies such as cookies and tracking pixels for advertising, analytics, and service improvement.

Data Retention

Your data will be stored mostly as long as you have an active account. Knifecake Studios may re-assess unused accounts and de-identify unnecessary data.

COPPA Compliance

We are committed to ensuring compliance with COPPA. Our services are not meant for children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect their personal data.

Third-party Operators

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We will periodically update this privacy policy to reflect changes in our information practices.

Privacy Policy Contact Information

Knifecake Studios
Email: hello@knifecake.com