We at Ponyo have created this Privacy Policy to describe how information is collected, used, and disclosed when you visit or use a Ponyo Offering. By accessing and/or using this Ponyo website or any Ponyo Offering, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
The term "Ponyo" means Ponyo Games, Inc. and/or its Affiliates. The term "Affiliate" means, with respect to any party, any person or entity which controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such party. The term "Ponyo Offering" means the websites of Ponyo.
INFORMATION THAT WE MAY COLLECT
Personally Identifiable Information:
We may collect the following information when you sign up with a Ponyo Offering: first name, last name, date of birth, email address, mailing address, phone number, credit or debit card information or other payment details, depending on your form of payment.
Technical Information:
When a user accesses a Ponyo Offering, we may collect technical information about the user’s device, such as the IP address that requested the display of the Ponyo Offering, the operating system type, and the identifiers associated with the device.
Sign Up and Survey information:
Any information you provide to us, and any information you choose to share about yourself as part of your use of any Ponyo Offering, may be stored as entered.
Cookies and Web beacons:
Cookies are text files that we and our service providers may place on your device's browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide features such as storage of items in your shopping cart between visits, personalized Ponyo advertisements on third party websites and mobile applications, and personalized third party advertisements within certain Ponyo Offerings. We may use Adobe Flash cookies to remember your settings, preferences and usage within a Ponyo Offering. Web beacons, clear .gifs or similar technologies are small pieces of code that we and our service providers may place on a Ponyo Offering to monitor and collect data about visitor behavior within the Ponyo Offering.
Cookies and Web beacons:
We may receive a confirmation when you open email from Ponyo, if your computer supports such capabilities. We may also track other types of information, such as what games users download and install, any download errors, what games users purchase, how long our users have been participating in any Ponyo Offerings, the last time a user accessed a Ponyo Offering, user behavior and gameplay, whether a user has won any of our games, sweepstakes, contests or other promotions featured on a Ponyo Offering, ad response measurement and other Ponyo Offerings analytics.
Mobile:
When you download or access Ponyo Offerings via a mobile device, we and our service providers may receive information about your location (based on your IP address) and your mobile device, including various unique identifiers associated with your device, hardware type, the version of your operating system and your in-game activity. We and our service providers may use this information to provide you with personalized advertising and other content, including advertising and content based on your location.
Aggregated, Anonymous Information:
We may collect aggregated, anonymized information via Ponyo Offerings that does not identify any single user or device.
USE AND SECURITY OF COLLECTED INFORMATION
We may use your username, email address, and password to uniquely identify you as a user on a Ponyo Offering, to provide you with services and to process transactions. We may use or display your username and icon or profile photo, if applicable, for the purposes of rankings, competitions or sweepstakes, chat identification, and/or game high scores. We may use your date of birth to confirm your eligibility to participate in Ponyo Offerings.
Subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy, we may use your contact information to process our promotional newsletters and/or email campaigns and to send you updates, security alerts, or administrative messages relating to Ponyo Offerings. Your contact information will allow us to notify you about new features, enhancements, resolution of Ponyo Offerings problems, handle and/or route your customer support questions and issues, and inform you of upgrade opportunities, sweepstakes, contests, prizes, and/or special events.
If our "Tell a friend" feature is available within a particular Ponyo Offering and you choose to participate in it, your email will be shared with the person to whom you send the Ponyo Offering using this feature. We may use an IP address to surface the appropriate country-based version of a Ponyo Offering to a user, or to exercise our ability to restrict access to the site by users who have violated our Terms of Use.
We and our third party service providers use cookies and other technologies, such as mobile device identifiers, to enhance your experience with Ponyo Offerings. These technologies enable us and our service providers to run our affiliate programs and provide you with customized content or offerings, such as personalized Ponyo advertisements on other websites and mobile applications and personalized third party advertisements within certain Ponyo Offerings. Cookies also enable you to automatically sign in when you access a Ponyo Offering, and offer other operational activities within a Ponyo Offering. We and our third party service providers may also use cookies and other technologies to manage and measure the performance of third party advertisements within certain Ponyo Offerings, and Ponyo advertisements on third party sites and mobile applications. This helps us and our service providers provide more relevant advertising to you. We and our third party service providers may also use web beacons to monitor user behavior and collect information about visitors viewing a web page.
We may use information collected to calculate aggregate, anonymized statistics about our user community for the purpose of enhancing our Ponyo Offerings, or for security purposes.
If you access a Social Game, we may use your social networking site profile ID to link your social networking site account with your activities within the Social Game or offer personalized Ponyo advertisements on the social networking site. We may use your social networking site first, last and user names and icon to identify you to the social networking site account you've linked to your activities within the Social Game, as well as for the purposes of rankings, competitions, sweepstakes, game high scores and/or identification to your social network.
If you access a Social Game and provide us with another person's contact information for purposes of delivering information through a Social Game, we may use this information to contact and, if necessary, remind that person that she or he has been invited to join a Social Game or received content through a Social Game. All invitees are provided with the option not to receive further invitations from Ponyo.
We at Ponyo take reasonable measures to help protect the information we collect from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction.
SHARING INFORMATION
We may share customer information with Ponyo Affiliates, and as described below.
Third Party Marketplaces and Service Providers:
We may disclose your personal information as well as aggregate, anonymous information to third party business partners, marketplaces, and third parties who perform services for us, such as credit card processing, prize fulfillment, delivering packages, sending postal mail, collecting and analyzing data, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links), and providing advertising and marketing assistance, including serving ads on our behalf on third party websites and mobile applications and serving ads on behalf of third parties within certain Ponyo Offerings. Those third parties have access to your information only as necessary to perform their functions, and for no other purposes.
Mobile Advertising:
Most mobile devices provide the ability to opt out of the collection and use of information from the apps you use for purposes of serving ads targeted to your interests. For more information, and to exercise these choices, consult the settings on your device.
Social Games:
With respect to Social Games, you may manage your own social network privacy preferences through your social networking site account.
CHILDREN
Ponyo Offerings are designed to avoid the collection and use of "personal information" as defined in the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA") from children under 13 other than for support of internal operations. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are under 13, you may not register for an account or otherwise provide any personal information to us.
Ponyo respects the privacy of parents and children and is committed to complying with COPPA . If a parent believes that his or her child has submitted personal information to Ponyo, he or she can contact us via email at [email protected] .We will take steps to promptly delete the information upon learning that it relates to a child under the age of 13. We recognize the importance of safeguarding the privacy of children and encourage parents to check and monitor their children's use of online activities regularly.
AGREEMENT WITH PONYO POLICIES
By accessing and/or using any of the Ponyo Offerings, you signify your understanding of and agreement with this Privacy Policy, and to our Term Of Use. If you do not agree with our policies, please do not access or use any Ponyo Offerings.
CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY
We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we post changes to this Privacy Policy, we will revise the "last modified" date at the top of this page. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to be informed of how Ponyo protects your information.
The term "Ponyo" means Ponyo Games, Inc. and/or its Affiliates. The term "Affiliate" means, with respect to any party, any person or entity which controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such party. The term "Ponyo Offering" means the websites of Ponyo.
INFORMATION THAT WE MAY COLLECT
Personally Identifiable Information:
We may collect the following information when you sign up with a Ponyo Offering: first name, last name, date of birth, email address, mailing address, phone number, credit or debit card information or other payment details, depending on your form of payment.
Technical Information:
When a user accesses a Ponyo Offering, we may collect technical information about the user’s device, such as the IP address that requested the display of the Ponyo Offering, the operating system type, and the identifiers associated with the device.
Sign Up and Survey information:
Any information you provide to us, and any information you choose to share about yourself as part of your use of any Ponyo Offering, may be stored as entered.
Cookies and Web beacons:
Cookies are text files that we and our service providers may place on your device's browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide features such as storage of items in your shopping cart between visits, personalized Ponyo advertisements on third party websites and mobile applications, and personalized third party advertisements within certain Ponyo Offerings. We may use Adobe Flash cookies to remember your settings, preferences and usage within a Ponyo Offering. Web beacons, clear .gifs or similar technologies are small pieces of code that we and our service providers may place on a Ponyo Offering to monitor and collect data about visitor behavior within the Ponyo Offering.
Cookies and Web beacons:
We may receive a confirmation when you open email from Ponyo, if your computer supports such capabilities. We may also track other types of information, such as what games users download and install, any download errors, what games users purchase, how long our users have been participating in any Ponyo Offerings, the last time a user accessed a Ponyo Offering, user behavior and gameplay, whether a user has won any of our games, sweepstakes, contests or other promotions featured on a Ponyo Offering, ad response measurement and other Ponyo Offerings analytics.
Mobile:
When you download or access Ponyo Offerings via a mobile device, we and our service providers may receive information about your location (based on your IP address) and your mobile device, including various unique identifiers associated with your device, hardware type, the version of your operating system and your in-game activity. We and our service providers may use this information to provide you with personalized advertising and other content, including advertising and content based on your location.
Aggregated, Anonymous Information:
We may collect aggregated, anonymized information via Ponyo Offerings that does not identify any single user or device.
USE AND SECURITY OF COLLECTED INFORMATION
We may use your username, email address, and password to uniquely identify you as a user on a Ponyo Offering, to provide you with services and to process transactions. We may use or display your username and icon or profile photo, if applicable, for the purposes of rankings, competitions or sweepstakes, chat identification, and/or game high scores. We may use your date of birth to confirm your eligibility to participate in Ponyo Offerings.
Subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy, we may use your contact information to process our promotional newsletters and/or email campaigns and to send you updates, security alerts, or administrative messages relating to Ponyo Offerings. Your contact information will allow us to notify you about new features, enhancements, resolution of Ponyo Offerings problems, handle and/or route your customer support questions and issues, and inform you of upgrade opportunities, sweepstakes, contests, prizes, and/or special events.
If our "Tell a friend" feature is available within a particular Ponyo Offering and you choose to participate in it, your email will be shared with the person to whom you send the Ponyo Offering using this feature. We may use an IP address to surface the appropriate country-based version of a Ponyo Offering to a user, or to exercise our ability to restrict access to the site by users who have violated our Terms of Use.
We and our third party service providers use cookies and other technologies, such as mobile device identifiers, to enhance your experience with Ponyo Offerings. These technologies enable us and our service providers to run our affiliate programs and provide you with customized content or offerings, such as personalized Ponyo advertisements on other websites and mobile applications and personalized third party advertisements within certain Ponyo Offerings. Cookies also enable you to automatically sign in when you access a Ponyo Offering, and offer other operational activities within a Ponyo Offering. We and our third party service providers may also use cookies and other technologies to manage and measure the performance of third party advertisements within certain Ponyo Offerings, and Ponyo advertisements on third party sites and mobile applications. This helps us and our service providers provide more relevant advertising to you. We and our third party service providers may also use web beacons to monitor user behavior and collect information about visitors viewing a web page.
We may use information collected to calculate aggregate, anonymized statistics about our user community for the purpose of enhancing our Ponyo Offerings, or for security purposes.
If you access a Social Game, we may use your social networking site profile ID to link your social networking site account with your activities within the Social Game or offer personalized Ponyo advertisements on the social networking site. We may use your social networking site first, last and user names and icon to identify you to the social networking site account you've linked to your activities within the Social Game, as well as for the purposes of rankings, competitions, sweepstakes, game high scores and/or identification to your social network.
If you access a Social Game and provide us with another person's contact information for purposes of delivering information through a Social Game, we may use this information to contact and, if necessary, remind that person that she or he has been invited to join a Social Game or received content through a Social Game. All invitees are provided with the option not to receive further invitations from Ponyo.
We at Ponyo take reasonable measures to help protect the information we collect from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction.
SHARING INFORMATION
We may share customer information with Ponyo Affiliates, and as described below.
Third Party Marketplaces and Service Providers:
We may disclose your personal information as well as aggregate, anonymous information to third party business partners, marketplaces, and third parties who perform services for us, such as credit card processing, prize fulfillment, delivering packages, sending postal mail, collecting and analyzing data, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links), and providing advertising and marketing assistance, including serving ads on our behalf on third party websites and mobile applications and serving ads on behalf of third parties within certain Ponyo Offerings. Those third parties have access to your information only as necessary to perform their functions, and for no other purposes.
Mobile Advertising:
Most mobile devices provide the ability to opt out of the collection and use of information from the apps you use for purposes of serving ads targeted to your interests. For more information, and to exercise these choices, consult the settings on your device.
Social Games:
With respect to Social Games, you may manage your own social network privacy preferences through your social networking site account.
CHILDREN
Ponyo Offerings are designed to avoid the collection and use of "personal information" as defined in the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA") from children under 13 other than for support of internal operations. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are under 13, you may not register for an account or otherwise provide any personal information to us.
Ponyo respects the privacy of parents and children and is committed to complying with COPPA . If a parent believes that his or her child has submitted personal information to Ponyo, he or she can contact us via email at [email protected] .We will take steps to promptly delete the information upon learning that it relates to a child under the age of 13. We recognize the importance of safeguarding the privacy of children and encourage parents to check and monitor their children's use of online activities regularly.
AGREEMENT WITH PONYO POLICIES
By accessing and/or using any of the Ponyo Offerings, you signify your understanding of and agreement with this Privacy Policy, and to our Term Of Use. If you do not agree with our policies, please do not access or use any Ponyo Offerings.
CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY
We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we post changes to this Privacy Policy, we will revise the "last modified" date at the top of this page. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to be informed of how Ponyo protects your information.