Effective Date: January 21, 2020
Left On Read LLC (“Left On Read” I”, “us”, “our” or “we”) is dedicated to protecting the privacy rights of our users (“users”, “your”, or “you”). This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) describes the ways we collect, store, use, and manage the information, including personal information, that you provide or we collect in connection with our mobile application, “Left On Read”, (collectively, together with any other websites controlled by Left On Read, the “Sites”) or any Left On Read game or application provided on other websites or other third party sources (collectively, the “Service”). Personal information can include, for example, an individual’s first and last name, address, telephone number, e-mail address or credit card number. Please note that the scope of this Privacy Policy is limited to information collected or received by Left On Read through your use of the Service. Left On Read is not responsible for the actions of third-party people or companies, the content of their sites, the use of information you provide to them, or any products or services they may offer. Any link to those sites does not constitute our sponsorship of, or affiliation with, those people or companies.
BY INSTALLING, USING OR OTHERWISE ACCESSING THE SERVICE, YOU AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT INSTALL, USE OR OTHERWISE ACCESS THE SERVICE. We may update this Policy from time to time. You are responsible for periodically reading this Policy. We will post all changes to this Policy on this page and the modified policy will specify its effective date.
Our primary objective in collecting your information is to provide and enhance the Service and to enable you to easily navigate and enjoy the Service. For example, Left On Read may use your information to register your account, provide customer support, resolve disputes, collect fees, connect users, and notify you of updates to the game (or of other/new games) and special promotions.
When you use any of the Left On Read games or applications, we may automatically collect and record certain information such as your unique device ID, MAC address, advertising identifier, OpenUDID, IMEI number, hardware type, the version of your operating system (“OS”), your in-game activity, and your location (based on your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address). This information is useful to us for troubleshooting and helps us understand usage trends. It may also be used to contact you with in-game technical notices, updates, security alerts and support and administrative messages.
Finally, we may use this information to customize the user experience and promotions, enforce our terms of service, and make recommendations about user connections.
We may also give users the opportunity to opt-in to location-based services, which rely upon a device’s GPS coordinates. You may opt-out of these location services via the settings on your device. A user’s location may be used to suggest friends with whom they might want to connect, analyze usage trends or target certain promotions.
Google is our application engine service provider. Any information provided through our applications is available to Google as part of Google providing this service.
In the course of providing our Service on third party platforms/marketplaces, such as Apple’s App Store, the platforms/marketplaces may collect information about you or receive information from us in order for the platforms/marketplaces to provide or analyze their services. Please note that these platforms/marketplaces were developed and administered by people or companies not affiliated with or controlled by Left On Read and that Left On Read is not responsible for the actions of those people or companies. You should carefully review the terms of service and privacy policies of the platforms/third-party marketplaces that you use to access our Service.
If you sign into the Service with Facebook Login, we may collect information that is available via your Facebook account or the Facebook API, including your email, your public profile and your list of Facebook friends. If you sign into the Service with Google, we may collect information that is available via your Google account or the Google API, including email. This information will be primarily used for user registration and social features, which may include friend-to-friend or user-to-user interaction, chat, voice or messaging functionality, public leaderboards, head-to-head competition and other similar features. It may also be used to analyze usage trends, contact you about your experience with the Service, and offer you certain of our features, games or promotions that may be of particular interest to you
When you register to play our games through the Service, we may ask whether you’d like to provide us with certain pieces of information, which could include: your email, username, phone number, gender, birthdate, home address, and address book. We will do this through in-game dialog boxes, which you may choose to skip. If you provide your email address in connection with an Left On Read game, the email address will be retained by Left On Read and we may use that email address to contact you about your gaming experience with Left On Read games and notify you about company news and promotions. We may also use part of your email address for friend-to-friend or user-to-user interaction and chat, voice or messaging functionality and other similar features. Your username may be used for social features in our games (e.g., presenting someone’s name on a message board). Your phone number may be used to help connect you with other users via our social networking system and for SMS notifications. Your gender and birthdate may be used to analyze user trends and target certain promotions. Your home address will be used if we have merchandise or other physical promotional materials we want to send to you. We may also request access to your address book to connect you to other players in the game.
If we begin offering our Service on a platform without an in-app purchase billing system, we may need to collect credit card and billing information.
When you visit our Site, your computer’s operating system, Internet Protocol (IP) address, access times, browser type and language and referring Web site addresses may be logged automatically. We may also collect information about your usage and activity, such as number of clicks, pages viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, and the date and time of this activity. We may use this information to monitor and analyze use of the Service.
We may also acquire information from you through (1) your access and participation in message boards on the Service, (2) your email of a question to our customer support, (3) your purchase of a virtual product of any type, (4) your participation in surveys regarding the Service or (5) your participation in a sweepstakes or contest through the Service.
A cookie is a small data file that we transfer to your computer’s hard disk, generally to quickly identify a user’s computer and to “remember” things about the user’s visit, such as your preferences or a user name and password. The Service sends cookies to your computer when you access or view content of Left On Read game. Information contained in a cookie may be linked to your personal information for purposes such as improving the quality of our Service, tailoring recommendations to your interests, and making the Service easier to use.
We may feature advertisements served by third party advertising companies which deliver cookies to your computer so the ads you see can be tracked. Since the third-party advertising companies tag your computer with a number, they will be able to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement. These advertisers may use information about your visits to our Service in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
Left On Read does not share your personal information except as approved by you or as described below:
We may use a third-party ad tracking service for tracking installs resulting from advertisements on other applications or sites.
You may see an “offer wall” displayed in our games that is hosted by an offer wall provider. The offer wall enables advertisers to provide virtual currency to you in exchange for interacting with an advertisement or for completing a marketing offer with one of those advertisers. The offer wall providers may collect information about you, including a device identifier, device type, device brand, device model, OS type/version, network type, device language, device locale, and IP address. In addition, the offer wall provider may collect information related to the performance of the advertisements such as how many times an advertisement is shown, how long an advertisement is viewed, and any click-throughs of an advertisement.
In addition, Left On Read may have advertisements in its games regarding other applications or services that are served by third parties. These third parties may collect and use information about you, including platform, application and OS version, device identifiers, Media Access Control (MAC) address, International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI), Service user session activity, device usage information and general location information, such as locale (specific location where a given language is spoken), mobile network code/mobile country code, and time zone, to show advertising of interest to you.
Changing or Deleting Your Information
You may contact us regarding any questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy or with any request to change or delete your personal information by emailing us at contact@leftonreadapp.com. If you completely delete all of your information, your account may become deactivated. You may opt-out of receiving promotional emails from us by following the instructions in those emails. If you opt-out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as emails about your accounts or our ongoing business relations.
Under California law, California Residents who have an established business relationship with us may choose to opt out of the disclosure of personal information about them to third parties for such third parties’ direct marketing purposes. As detailed above, our policy is not to disclose personal information collected online to a third party for direct marketing purposes without your approval.
We will retain your personal information only as long as it is necessary to fulfill the respective purpose, unless we are required by law to store your personal information longer. After you have terminated your use of our Service, we may store your information in an aggregated and anonymized format. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we may also retain any personal information as reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations, allow us to resolve and litigate disputes, and to enforce our agreements.
Left On Read has put in place technical and organizational measures designed to secure your information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to overcome those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes. Also please note that email and messaging systems are not considered secure, so we discourage you from sending us personal information through these mediums.
We currently do not participate in any “Do Not Track” frameworks that would allow us to respond to signals or other mechanisms from you regarding the collection of your information. We may engage third parties, such as marketing or analytics partners, who may collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites when you use our website.
We may transfer information that we collect about you to affiliated entities, or to other third parties across borders and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world. If you are located in the European Union or other regions with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, please note that you are transferring information, including personal information, to a country and jurisdiction that does not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction, and you consent to the transfer of information to the U.S. and the use and disclosure of information about you, including personal information, as described in this Policy.
Left On Read Privacy Policy (for the EU/EEA)
Last revised: November 23, 2019
Left On Read provides this Privacy Policy to inform you of our policies and procedures regarding the processing of Personal Data of users of (i) the websites located at www.Leftonreadapp.com (the “Sites“), including any services, features and content accessible or downloadable from the Sites, and (ii) any other Left On Read application, service or product licensed, downloaded or otherwise accessed by such users through third party websites or sources ((i) and (ii) collectively, the “Service”).
We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes how we treat information that you provide to us or that we collect about you.
By “Personal Data”, we refer to data that relates to you as an identified or identifiable natural person. Personal Data include your name, your address, your telephone number, your email address, your age, your gender, or a part of your credit card number, for instance. Anonymous information, which we are not in a position to relate to you, does not qualify as Personal Data.
Controller in the sense of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other data protection or data privacy laws in the Member States of the European Union or the European Economic Area and other guidelines with a data protection nature regarding the Services is:
Left On Read
West Palm Beach, FL 33409
United States of America
Email: Contact@LeftOnReadApp.com
The Controller is called “Left On Read”, “we”, “our” and “us” in this Policy.
The Representative of Left On Read pursuant to Art. 27 can be contacted at Contact@LeftOnReadApp.com
The Data Protection Officer of Pocket Gems may be contacted at Daniel@LeftOnReadApp.com
We process Personal Data with your consent, when necessary for the performance of a contract with you, when processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation we are subject to, or based on our legitimate interests, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of you which require the protection of your Personal Data. This section applies to all detailed processing activities listed below.
3.1 Information Security
We understand the need for user privacy, and we maintain reasonable and appropriate security procedures to protect your information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction, taking into due account the risks involved in the processing and the nature of the Personal Data. However, no security system is impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee the security of our systems or your information.
3.2 Information Sharing
We may share Personal Data with vendors or agents working on our behalf for the purposes described in this Policy. Any vendor or agent that we retain must comply with our data privacy and security requirements and are not allowed to use Personal Data they receive from us for any other purpose. We use service providers for cloud hosting, security monitoring and enforcement, advertising, marketing, recruiting, product testing, customer service, social networking and data analytics.
We may also share your Personal Data:
with other parties in connection with a company transaction, such as a merger, sale of company assets or shares, reorganization, financing, change of control or acquisition of all or a portion of our business or assets by another company or third party, or in the event of a bankruptcy, dissolution, or related or similar proceedings
as required by law or subpoena or if we reasonably believe that such action is necessary to comply with the law or the reasonable requests of law enforcement, to enforce our Terms of Service or other agreements or to protect the security or integrity of our Sites and Services, and/or to exercise or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Left On Read, our users, or others
among our affiliates, which may include companies owned by or under common ownership of Left On Read, all of which will be required to use your personal information as described in this Policy
3.3 Third country transfers
We transfer Personal Data to the following third countries:
Recipients
Third countries
Host Provider
USA
App Distributors
USA
Advertising Partners
USA
Customer Support Provider
USA
3.4 Children
We will not knowingly collect personal information from any child, or process such information, without parental consent. For the purpose of this Policy, a child means any individual who is under the age of 16 (or the minimum legal age to consent to the collection and processing of personal information where this is different under applicable law).
3.5 Retention periods
We will retain your Personal Data only as long as it is necessary to fulfill the respective purpose, unless we are required by law to store your Personal Data longer. After you have terminated your use of our Service, we may store your information in an aggregated and anonymized format. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we may also retain any Personal Data as reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations, allow us to resolve and litigate disputes, and to enforce our agreements.
3.6 Automated Decision-Making
We do not use automated-decision making, including profiling.
On our Sites, we gather information either directly from you (e.g., when you provide certain information to us) or indirectly (e.g., through our Site’s technology).
4.1. Information collected indirectly
We indirectly collect a variety of information through your interaction with and use of our Sites. This information may include, but is not limited to, browser settings, data collected through automated electronic interactions, application usage data, demographic information, geographic or geo-location information, statistical and aggregated information (“Other Information”). The processing is necessary for the purpose of our legitimate interests in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR, as we need this information to keep user data safe by detecting certain threats, and to provide you with the best possible experience.
Statistical or aggregated information does not directly identify a specific person, but it may be derived from Personal Data. For example, we may aggregate Personal Data to calculate the percentage of users in a particular country.
If we combine Other Information with Personal Data, we will treat the combined information as Personal Data.
4.1.1 Tracking Data
Website traffic volume and patterns, such as the number of visitors to a given website or page on a daily basis is typically referred to as “Tracking Data”. This type of indirectly collected information is gathered through various means, such as an IP address, which is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web. Web servers, the computers that “serve up” web pages, automatically identify your computer by its IP address. When you visit any of our Sites, our servers log your computer’s IP address.
To obtain these Tracking Data, we may use third party analytics providers. The Third Party Analytics Providers use “Cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help us analyse how users use our Sites. The information generated by the Cookie about your use of our Sites, including your IP address, will be transmitted to and stored by Third Party Analytics Providers’ servers. On our behalf, the Third Party Analytics Providers will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our Sites, compiling reports on website activity, and providing other services relating to website activity. The Third Party Analytics Providers will not associate your IP address with any other data held by them. Our third party analytics tool is provided by Google. You may learn how to opt-out from Google’s collection of information from you at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. You may also find further information at http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html.
4.1.2 Our Cookies
Other types of indirectly collected information are stored in Cookies from us.
Some of our Sites use Cookies simply to store your account details so that you do not need to re-enter your information when re-joining our Sites. The use of Cookies is standard on the internet. Although most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, the decision of whether to accept or not is yours. You may adjust your browser settings to prevent the reception of cookies, or to provide notification whenever a cookie is sent to you. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to access the full functionality of our Sites.
4.1.3 Third-party Cookies
Additionally, we may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our behalf. These companies may use cookies and action tags to measure advertising effectiveness. You can still decide whether you want to accept these cookies. You may adjust your browser settings to prevent the reception of third-party cookies, or to provide notification whenever such third-party cookies are sent to you. We use the following third-party cookies.
4.2. Information collected directly
We also collect Personal Data and other information that you voluntarily provide. It is entirely your decision to provide the requested information. However, certain features of our Sites may not be available in this case.
We keep all information collected directly confidential, and will only use the information for the particular purpose it is collected for. We will seek your specific permission for any additional use. We will never barter, trade, or sell access to your information without your specific consent.
4.2.1 User Accounts
When setting up an account on one of our Sites (“User Account”), you may be asked to provide Personal Data including, but not limited to, your name, email address, and your phone number.
As a user of our Sites, we may obtain your Personal Data when you register to use one of our Sites or services and products or when you provide feedback about our products or services. The processing is necessary to perform the contract with you according to Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR. As a user, we will use your Personal Data, unless otherwise prohibited by law, for the following purposes:
To provide you with the products and services you request.
To communicate with you about your account or transactions with us and send you information about features on our sites or changes to our policies.
To provide support including, but not limited to, product updates, product patches and fixes and other similar communications.
Furthermore, we will use your Personal Data for our legitimate interests according to Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR to notify you about information about features on our Sites, new product releases and service developments and to advertise our products and services in accordance with this Policy.
Any User Account data will only be stored until you decide to terminate your User Account. In case we are obliged to further store your Personal Data due to statutory retention requirements, your Personal Data will be barred for further use by us and only stored until such retention periods expire.
4.2.1 Personal Data provided by other means
Personal Data provided by you on our Sites by other means, e.g., via contact forms, will be stored in our service database and retained for the period necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations to you in accordance with Art. 6(1)(b) of the GDPR, unless a longer retention period is required by law.
When playing our games, we gather certain Personal Data. This section applies to the following games:
Left On Read
When you are playing one of the listed games, we process your IP address, your name and email address, your username, your in-game purchase history, your MAC address and other unique IDs, data about your device, and metrics on how you use our games.
We will also process any photos that you might share with our user support through the app, and any information you enter into free text fields, including chat messages. We will also process game events, like achievements, milestones or other timestamps within the game.
The Personal Data is necessary for us to provide you with the games and the full functionality. The legal basis for processing the data is our contract with you (Art. 6(1)(b) of the GDPR). Where the processing exceeds the necessity to fulfill our contract (when analysing how you use our game), the legal basis is our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR) to improve your experience with the game.
When you log into our game with your Facebook credentials, Facebook will share your registered email address with us. However, using your Facebook credentials is no requirement to use our games.
When you are playing “Left On Read”, we process your IP address, your in game purchase history, your MAC address and IMEI number, as well as your, interests and other demographic data (as this is necessary for the experience of the game).
Providing these Data is a contractual obligation, as we cannot provide you the game without this information. Our legal basis for processing the Personal Data is to perform our contract with you (Art. 6(1)(b) of the GDPR). We need this information to provide you with the game, and to identify you as our player.
Where the processing exceeds the necessity to fulfill our contract (e.g., when analysing how you use our game), the legal basis is our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR) to improve your experience with the game.
We might use your IP address and advertising IDs to send you direct marketing within the game, based on our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR). You have the right to object at any time to processing of your Personal Data for such marketing, including profiling.
You have the right to access your Personal Data that we hold about you and to correct, update, amend, suppress, delete or otherwise modify any Personal Data where it is inaccurate, or has been processed in violation of the applicable data protection regulations, unless we have to keep the Personal Data for legitimate business or legal purposes. When updating your Personal Data, we may ask you to verify your identity before we can act upon your request.
You may object to the use or processing of your Personal Data or withdraw consent to use your Personal Data at any time.
You have the following rights:
The right to require free of charge (i) information whether your Personal Data is retained and (ii) access to and/or (iii) duplicates of the Personal Data retained. However, if the request affects the rights and freedoms of others or is manifestly unfounded or excessive, we reserve the right to charge a reasonable fee (taking into account the administrative costs of providing the information or communication or taking the action requested) or refuse to act on the request;
The right to request proper rectification, removal or restriction of your Personal Data;
Where processing of your Personal Data is based on legitimate interests according to Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR, the right to object on grounds relating to your particular situation at any time. If you object we will no longer process your Personal Data unless there are compelling and prevailing legitimate grounds for the processing or the data is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims;
Where processing of your Personal Data is either based on your consent or necessary for the performance of a contract with you and processing is carried out by automated means, the right to receive the Personal Data concerning you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to have your Personal Data transmitted directly to another company, where technically feasible (data portability);
Where the processing of your Personal Data is based on your consent, the right to withdraw your consent at any time without impact to data processing activities that have taken place before such withdrawal or to any other existing legal justification of the processing activity in question; and
The right not to be subject to any automatic individual decisions which produces legal effects on you or similarly significantly affects you.
To exercise the rights referred to above, please contact us at contact@leftonreadapp.com. You may take legal actions in relation to any breach of your rights regarding the processing of the Personal Data, as well as to lodge complaints before the competent authority.
We may change this Policy at any time by posting the changed or modified version of the Privacy Policy on the Site. Any such changes or modifications will be effective immediately upon posting. If we make any changes to this Privacy Policy, we will change the Last Revised date above.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at contact@LeftOnReadApp.com