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CHINA CHILDREN'S PRIVACY POLICY FOR ANDROID

INTRODUCTION

WHO ARE WE?

We're Outfit7 – we make the games you've been enjoying!

In this document – it's called a Privacy Policy – we might talk about ourselves in a couple of different ways:

We

Us

Our

Ours

When we do that, we mean Outfit7 Limited* – and all of our subsidiaries**.

*Outfit7 Network Technology Co., Ltd, with a registered and business address at No.2 Working Space, Room 401, 4th Floor, Block B, Building 2, e-Game Town Portal Hall, Cao'e Sub-District, Shangyu District, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China.

Contact us: [email protected]

**WORD OF THE DAY

"Subsidiary"

A subsidiary is a company that's owned by a parent company.

So Outfit7 is a parent company – and we have subsidiary companies (or "subsidiaries").

WHO ARE YOU?

You're someone who plays our games and you live in China!

WHAT'S A PRIVACY POLICY?

When you play one of our games, we get some of your information – including personal information.

Basically, a Privacy Policy is an explanation of how we will use your personal information.

But first…

WHAT'S PERSONAL INFORMATION?

Let's find out!

IMPORTANT THINGS ABOUT YOU

There are some bits of information about you that are really important.

  • Your name
  • Your email or phone number

This is called classical personal information. It's information that lets people know who you are – and everyone should protect this information about themselves.

YOUR SECRET IDENTITY!

Imagine you're a superhero… Like Super Tom! Your classical personal information is like your secret identity. For your own protection, you want to keep it secret and only share it with the people you really trust.

You can play our games without giving us this information. We will only collect your classical personal information through our Apps when required to do so by law, and we will use it solely to comply with our legal obligations.

**We want you to keep your secret identity safe! **

So when you play games and you're thinking about using an in-game nickname, or you want to give your virtual pet a name – do not use your own name.

INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR DEVICE

Just like there's information about you, there's information about your device.

Some information about your device also counts as personal information** - even though it doesn't say anything about you as a person.

**Personal information is information that relates to YOU as described above, but it can also be information that can be used to identify YOUR DEVICE, such as IP address and some device identifiers.

Getting in touch with us

If you want to talk to us directly, your name and email address will be shared with us, but they will only be used to reply to you. Once we have replied to you, we will delete your name and email address. Our customer support partner also gets your name and email address. After we use it to reply to you, we both delete your personal information immediately.

Before you get in touch with us, speak to your parent or legal guardian first to ask permission.

INFORMATION THAT GETS COLLECTED

Device

  • What kind of device you've got*
  • IP address
  • Device identifiers
  • Whether you're connected to the internet, and how you're connected
  • Other device data**

*This is technical device information (e.g. device model and name, operating system name and version, CPU information, storage size, screen size, firmware, software, API key).

_**Including: user agent string (UA), platform, SDK version, timestamp, and browser plugin types and versions. _

Game

  • How long you play for
  • Whether you have any of our other games

Map

  • The country you're in
  • The language spoken where you are
  • The time zone where you are

**When you contact us **

  • Name
  • Email address

PHRASES OF THE DAY

" IP Address"

A special string of numbers – a kind of label – that can identify devices on a computer network.

For example, we use your IP address to determine which country you're located in so we can show you games in your language.

​​" Device Identifiers"

Unique pieces of information that refer to a digital object.

They include things like:

Device ID

OAID

They don't link to one specific person – like you – but they could, over time, help identify you as a user, or your device.

A FEW MORE THINGS

We also create a special code name for you – called a unique user ID – which helps us know that it's you. A unique user ID is needed so you can play the games and so we can see which features of the games you really like and which ones you don't enjoy. We also use a unique user ID so we can restore your progress for you, in case you change your mobile phone or accidentally delete the game.

THE BIG PICTURE

How and why information is collected

HOW DOES YOUR INFORMATION GET COLLECTED?

There are a couple of ways it might get collected:

  • When you play our games
  • When you see or click on an ad in our games
  • When you see or click on one of our ads in someone else's games

WHY DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION?

Information we get from you helps us keep our games working – and make them even more fun!

It helps us:

  • Develop and improve our apps and other products: We use information to make our products, deliver updates, fix problems, and keep our apps working.
  • Show you ads in our apps: To show ads for things you might like_, based on the content you are watching or the game you are playing. These ads do not_ track you or build a picture of you or your habits.
  • Show you other apps we have: To show you some of our other games that you might want to play.
  • See how ads are working and make sure they are shown to you from our partners
  • Understand how you play our apps: To understand how often you play the app, for how long you use the app, the events that occur within the app, in-app progress, in-app purchases you make and their value, aggregated usage, performance data, life time value of user etc ,and to help us see where problems are.
  • Keep our games safe and secure
  • Answer your questions and help other players when they have questions
  • Obey the law

HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION

There's no "I" in "team"!

WHO SEES YOUR INFORMATION?

We can't do everything ourselves. To make games that are fun and work well, we work with other companies. They are our partners. They help us with different tasks, like running our apps and showing ads, for example.

Working together is important. We're all better together.

When we work together, we share information. That way, everyone has everything they need to do their jobs.

We share information with our partners that can personally identify your mobile phone or tablet. But we don't give them important information about you. They can't identify you personally.

If you have any questions, please ask your parent or guardian to contact us on: [email protected].

WHAT DO OUR PARTNERS KNOW?

They know the information is about someone, but our partners don't know it's about you.

Remember we talked about you being a superhero like Super Tom? When he's on a mission, the world sees a superhero called Super Tom. Only the people he trusts the most know that his real name is Talking Tom.

So when we share information with our partners, we keep your secret identity SECRET!

WHO MIGHT WE SHARE INFORMATION WITH?

Information is shared with our partners and they are not allowed to use your data for any other purpose than the purposes described here. If you want to find out more about our partners, speak to your parent or legal guardian and then get in touch with us via our email address: [email protected] .

OTHER SITUATIONS WE MIGHT SHARE INFORMATION

  1. If we start working with new partners. We'll let you know when that happens by updating this Privacy Policy (a couple of times a year).
  2. If we're asked to do so in connection with a legal issue. That means someone from the law or government has asked us to do so. We all have to follow the rules.
  3. If we need to follow through on our Terms and Conditions , or protect our operations, our users (like you!), or the user experience.
  4. We may have to share information with another company, if a new company buys us, for example.

If you have any questions, ask your parent or guardian to contact us on: [email protected]

WHAT ELSE HAPPENS IN OUR GAMES?

Ads, notifications, talkback features, and in-app purchases

ADVERTISEMENTS

We want to share the fun of our games with as many people as possible. That's why they're free to play!

Part of how we're able to do that is by showing advertisements.

What are they?

Sometimes, when you're playing a game, a pop-up or a banner labelled as an "AD" appears on the screen. This is an advertisement. Advertisements appear in different shapes and sizes.

| WORD OF THE DAY "Advertisement"

An advertisement – also known as an "advert" or an "ad" for short – is a type of communication that positively shows you a product, service, or person.

INFORMATION FROM ADS

From ads, we get information that lets us know a few useful things:

  • Which ads you've seen
  • How long the ad is shown
  • How you interact with it (e.g. do you click on it?) - this is for our ads shown in other apps and the ads shown in our apps

SHARING AD INFORMATION WITH OUR PARTNERS

In order to show you ads, we share some information with our partners.

As we said before, sharing and collecting information helps us all do our jobs properly. There is no personal data collected from you to show you contextual ads and to check if the ad was shown to you and how you interacted with it. Also, don't worry, our partners aren't allowed to track you across the internet or build a picture of your habits.

Your secret identity (your name) stays safe!

WORD OF THE DAY

"Contextual Ads"

Ads that are shown to you based on the content you're engaging with at that moment.

Example: When you play My Talking Tom, we will show you ads for similar games.

VIDEO ADS

To be able to play or show you videos in our apps, we collect some information. This information does not identify you, it's anonymous.*

WORD OF THE DAY

"Anonymous"

If you're talking about a person:

Their name is not known.

If you're talking about an object:

There's nothing specific or personal about it.

GAME NOTIFICATIONS

Sometimes you might see little messages pop up on your device. These are called notifications, and they are sent directly from your device.

THE "TALKBACK" FEATURE

Did you know that you can talk to the Talking Tom & Friends characters in some of our games? They'll even repeat back what you say in a funny voice!

Don't worry, the game can't record anything you say – we don't have your voice recordings. Everything happens on your device.

This feature uses the microphone on your mobile phone or tablet, so we'll always ask you if this is okay first. If it's not, that's fine! It will just mean that this feature doesn't work.

REMEMBER!

Some of our games let you play in multiplayer mode and connect with other players. To help keep your identity secret, we will pick a name for you if needed.

IN-APP PURCHASES

Sometimes there are special things you can buy in our games. These are called in-app purchases.

When you buy something, it's between you and the app store on your mobile phone or tablet. We're not involved in taking the payment from you and we do not see your payment information.

It's like when you go into a real store – you pay the shop, you don't pay the toys and game makers.

For more information, please read the In-App Purchases Section of the End User License Agreement, which is available here: https://talkingtomandfriends.com/customs-privacy/networktech-android-privacypolicy/zh-simp.

RULES AND MORE

YOU HAVE RIGHTS REGARDING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

You have rights when it comes to your personal information (information about you) and you can act on these rights.

We're going to talk about some of these rights now.

YOUR RIGHTS

  • The right to withdraw consent_: If you don't like how we're handling your information, you can delete our games to prevent any further collection of information. It's as easy as that! _
  • The right of access and copy ** POP-UP WINDOW: You're allowed to know what information we have about you, so you can ask us!
  • The right to correct personal information: If you think your information isn't correct, let us know and we'll fix it.
  • The right to deletion: If you don't want us to have your information, you can ask us to delete it. It's only fair - it's your information! However, in order to check if it's really you, we may need to ask you for some additional information. But we may need to keep some of your information because of legal rules. And we might also keep bits of anonymous data.
  • The right to restrict processing_: Sometimes you can ask to put limits on how we use your information._
  • The right to move your information (data portability): You can ask us to give back your information so you can give it to another company.

ACTING ON YOUR RIGHTS

To make one of these requests or to ask us a question about your rights, speak to your parent or legal guardian and then get in touch with us via our email address: [email protected] .

There are a few things to remember about requests like these:

  1. To be safe, we'll need to make sure you are you. Why? Because privacy is important. And we don't want to let someone else know your secret identity.
  2. It could take about a month for us to deal with requests like those above. And, at the end of the process, if we can't do what you asked, we will let you know why. Honesty is important.

BEYOND THE COUNTRY WHERE YOU LIVE

To make and offer our games to you, we might need to share information with our partners – like we talked about.

Sometimes those partners will be far away – beyond the country where you live. So those places would have different rules. We will take reasonable steps and/or steps required by law to safeguard the privacy of your information.

SECURITY

We've done our very best to make sure that your information is safe.

This means we've worked hard to put technical and organizational measures in place.

But even the best measures aren't perfect.

HOLDING ONTO INFORMATION

We'll hold onto the information we've collected for as long as you want to play our games.

If we keep it for a bit longer, don't worry – it won't be about you specifically. It'll be anonymous.

We'll get rid of it as soon as we don't need it.

But you can ask us to delete it sooner if you like!

Keep in mind that we may also have to store your information for a longer period if we have to do so in order to obey the law.

FINAL THOUGHTS

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

Change happens!

Sometimes things in our Privacy Policy might change.

If you have questions about that, please talk to your parent or guardian. Together, you can see our current Privacy Policy here: https://talkingtomandfriends.com/customs-privacy/networktech-android-privacypolicy/zh-simp.

And if you want to see old versions of the Privacy Policy, you can email us: [email protected].

CONTACT US

If you think that some of your information has been collected by mistake, or you have any questions, please let your parent or guardian know and get in touch with us at [email protected].

If you have questions or concerns about Outfit7 Network Technology Privacy Policy, please contact us through one of the following ways:

  1. For privacy questions and exercising your rights: [email protected].
  2. For reaching out to our CN representative: Guangzhou Jinke Culture Technology Co., Ltd., Room 1001, 10th Floor, 113 Checheng Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China .
  3. For general information, please feel free to contact us via: [email protected].
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