Privacy Notice

Last updated: May 24, 2018

Seriously respects your right to privacy. This Privacy Notice explains who we are, how we collect, share and use personal information about you, and how you can exercise your privacy rights. This Privacy Notice applies to personal information that we collect through our games (“Games“) and website at https://bestfiends.com/ (“Website“) (together “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 Notice.

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We recommend that you read this Privacy Notice in full to ensure you are fully informed. However, if you only want to access a particular section of this Privacy Notice, then you can click on the relevant link below to jump to that section.

What Personal Information Does Seriously Collect and Why?

Who Does Seriously Share My Personal Information With?

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Information

How Does Seriously Keep My Personal Information Secure?

International Data Transfers

Data Retention

Your Data Protection Rights

Updates to This Privacy Notice

How to Contact Us

What Personal Information Does Seriously Collect and Why?

Seriously is a game development studio with offices in Helsinki, Finland and Los Angeles, CA, United States.

For more information about Seriously, please see the Company section of our Website at https://www.seriously.com/company/

The personal information that we may collect about you through the Services broadly falls into the following categories:

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.
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 includes information like your IP address, device type, unique device identification numbers, browser-type, broad geographic location (e.g. country or city-level location) and other technical information. We may also collect information about 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 visitors who come to our Website, where they come from, and what content on our Website is of interest to them. We use this information for our internal analytics purposes and to improve the quality and relevance of our Website to our visitors.
Information That We Obtain from Third Party Sources From time to time, we may receive personal information about you from third party sources (including Facebook), but only where we have checked that these third parties either have your consent or are otherwise legally permitted or required to disclose your personal information to us.The types of information we collect from third parties include your name and friend list, and we use the information we receive from these third parties to provide features like in-game friends, in-game gifts, and competitive leaderboards.

Who Does Seriously Share My Personal Information With?

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

To our group companies, third party services providers and partners who provide data processing services to us (for example, to support the delivery of, provide functionality on, or help to enhance the security of our Website), or who otherwise process personal information for purposes that are described in this Privacy Notice or notified to you when we collect your personal information. A more detailed list of information shared can be found on our page “About your privacy” which is available here https://www.seriously.com/about-your-privacy/. A full list of our current partners in the EU is:

Company	Why We Use Them	Company’s Privacy Page
Amplitude	An analytics platform which helps us analyse and visualize game metrics.	https://amplitude.com/privacy
Apple	Apple Store is used to provide you the Games as well as to provide in-app purchases; Game Center provides Achievements in the Games.	https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/
AppsFlyer	A service we use to determine how you learned about the Game and helps us improve our user acquisition targeting.	https://www.appsflyer.com/privacy-policy/
Facebook	Facebook Games is used to provide you the Game as well as in-app purchases. In the mobile version of the game, Facebook is used for social services and personalized ads if you are logged into Facebook in the Game.	https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update
Google	Google is a Google Play store provider which enables in-app purchases. Google Play Services allows us to provide achievements and leaderboards.	https://policies.google.com/privacy
Google Cloud	Google Cloud and G-suite are used to store information about progress and analytics.	https://cloud.google.com/security/privacy/
Fabric	Provides us with crash analytics.	https://fabric.io/terms
Zendesk	Support tools that provide a way to contact us from within the Games.	https://www.zendesk.com/company/customers-partners/privacy-policy/
ironSource	Serving contextual ads; enabling us to use several ad networks.	https://www.ironsrc.com/privacy-policy/
TwoHatSecurity	Filters profanity in chats in our Games.	https://www.twohat.com/privacy/
Unity Technologies	Provides us with an engine which we use to build the Games; provides us with analytics tool.	https://unity3d.com/legal/privacy-policy
Amazon	Amazon is used to provide you the Game as well as to provide in-app purchases; Game Circle provides Achievements in the Game.	https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=468496
Urban Airship	Provides us with tools for sending push notifications to you, if you opt-in to receive them.	https://www.urbanairship.com/legal/privacy-policy
Unique Influence	An advertising agency that helps us provide potential customers with relevant advertising materials on social media.	http://www.uniqueinfluence.com/privacy-policy/
Nanigans	A software company that provides tools to help us manage our advertising campaigns.	http://www.nanigans.com/privacy-policy/
Snowflake	A database service which we use to analyze game metrics. The data is stored and processed using Amazon Web Services.	https://www.snowflake.net/privacy-policy/

To a competent law enforcement body, regulatory, government agency, court or other third party where the disclosure is required and necessary (i) as a matter of mandatory applicable law or regulation and/or valid court order, (ii) to exercise, establish or defend our legal rights, or (iii) to protect your vital interests or those of any other person;

To a potential or actual buyer (and its agents and advisers) in connection with any proposed or actual purchase, merger or acquisition of any part of our business, provided that we inform the buyer it must use your personal information only for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Notice;

To any other person with your consent to the disclosure.

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Information

Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it.

However, we will normally collect personal information from you only (i) where we need the personal information to perform a contract with you, (ii) where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your rights, or (iii) where we have your consent to do so.

If we ask you to provide personal information to comply with a legal requirement or to perform a contract with you, we will make this clear at the relevant time and advise you whether the provision of your personal information is mandatory or not (as well as of the possible consequences if you do not provide your personal information).

We will process your information for the purposes of operating our Website, Games and other Services and communicating with you as necessary for those purposes and in our legitimate commercial interests, for instance, when responding to your queries, undertaking marketing activities, improving our Games, Website and other Services, or for the purposes of detecting or preventing illegal activities.

If you have questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your personal information, please contact us via email privacy@seriously.com.

How Does Seriously Keep My 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 are, for example, encrypting your personal information in transit and at rest, only collecting vital data, as well as ensuring access to the data is restricted internally and externally.

International Data Transfers

Your personal information may be transferred to, and processed in, countries other than the country in which you are a resident. These countries may have data protection laws that are different to the laws of your country.

Specifically, our servers are located in United States, and our group companies and third party service providers and partners operate around the world. This means that when we collect your personal information we may process it in any of these countries.

However, we have taken appropriate safeguards to require that your personal information will remain protected in accordance with this Privacy Notice. All third parties that are located outside of EEA are certified under “Privacy Shield” (framework for EU-USA data transfer) or employ European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers of personal information between our group companies, which require all group companies to protect personal information they process from the EEA in accordance with European Union data protection law.

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).

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymise it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

Your Data Protection Rights

You have the following data protection rights:

If you wish to access, correct, update or request deletion of your personal information, you can do so at any time by contacting us using the contact details provided under the “How to contact us” heading below.

In addition, in certain cases, you can object to processing of your personal information, ask us to restrict processing of your personal information, or request portability of your personal information. Again, you can exercise these rights by contacting us using the contact details provided under the “How to contact us” heading below.

You have the right to opt-out of marketing communications we send you at any time. You can exercise this right by clicking on the “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” link in the marketing e-mails we send you. To opt-out of other forms of marketing (such as postal marketing or telemarketing), then please contact us using the contact details provided under the “How to contact us” heading below.

Similarly, if we have collected and processed your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal information conducted in reliance of lawful processing grounds other than consent.

You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.

We respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

Updates to This Privacy Notice

We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time in response to changing legal, technical, or business developments. When we update our Privacy Notice, 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 Notice changes if and where this is required by applicable data protection laws.

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

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal information, please contact us using the following email address: privacy@seriously.com

If you want to exercise your rights in relation to personal data that we have collected, please contact us through the Game by going to Settings -> Support -> Contact Us, or, if you are unable to contact us through the Game, by using the following email address: support@seriously.com. Contacting us through the game is the preferred method of contact as it will enable us to more accurately validate your request.