Effective Date: 9th August 2024
As we update, improve and expand “BrainyBusters,” this privacy policy may change, so please refer to it periodically. By accessing the “BrainyBusters” website, you give us your clear consent to collect, store, and use the information you provide (including any changes thereto as provided by you) for any of the services that we offer. “BrainyBusters” (hereinafter referred to as “BrainyBusters,” “We,” “Our,” “Us,” “website”) offers its end users interesting BrainyBusters games. This Privacy Policy applies to information collected through the services, as well as other information provided to us online or offline by End Users, Advertisers, and other customers or users of our website; however, it does not apply to information collected from our employees, contractors, or vendors.
By accessing the “BrainyBusters” website or other services, you agree to this privacy policy and the Terms of Use of the “BrainyBusters” website and give consent to the collection, transfer, operation, storage, disclosure, and other uses of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. Do not access or use our services (“BrainyBusters”) by any means or technology which conceals your actual geo-location or is unable to provide accurate details of the location (for example, using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to access “BrainyBusters” Services).
If you have any doubts about this Privacy Policy or how “BrainyBusters” uses your personal information, shared preferences, or similar technologies, please contact “BrainyBusters” at support@brainygamez.co or stop using the services altogether. You may also contact our Data Protection Officer at dpo@brainygamez.co.
Information we capture/track/obtain:
(This information is only captured from your device after you grant permission to “BrainyBusters”)
We capture/track information from your use of our services. This information may be obtained from third parties in some cases. This information is used to provide the best & customized service to each of our users, improve overall service delivery, devise new services, identify and reduce fraud or unauthorized use of our services, and other purposes. All this information is captured after your explicit confirmation and permissions wherever required. Information tracked has been mentioned below to give details of the same.
Device and account information
We collect device-specific information (such as IP Address). How we use this information: We primarily use this information to detect fraud & unauthorized usage of “BrainyBusters” services. Your device-level information is also used in tracking your activity within “BrainyBusters” and for marketing and advertising activities.
Log information
When you use our services or view content provided by “BrainyBusters” we automatically collect and store certain information in server logs. This includes:
- Details of how you used our service
- Device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, the date and time of your request, and referral URL
- Internet protocol address
How we use this information: We use the information collected to improve your user experience and the overall quality of our services. We use multiple such 3rd party services like Google Analytics, Google Ads, and Firebase.
For more information, please review their privacy policies:
Unique application numbers
Certain services include a unique application number. This number and information about your installation (for example, the operating system type, application version number, etc.) may be sent to “BrainyBusters” when you log in or log out from that service. How we use this information: Operating system type & version helps us in providing the best experience of “BrainyBusters” for your operating system along with customizing offers displayed to you. Information about Installing and uninstalling other services helps us in keeping track of offers that are common between these and “BrainyBusters” and thus gives you the best experience and performance within the website.
Local storage
We may collect and store information locally on your device using mechanisms such as website data and caches.
How we use this information:
- Maintain your session on “BrainyBusters”
- This information may also be used from time to time to sync with “BrainyBusters” servers and update services that we provide to you within the website on your next usage.
Cookies and similar technologies
We use various technologies to collect and store information when you visit a “BrainyBusters” service, and this may include using cookies or similar technologies (Device ID) to identify your browser or device. We also use these technologies to collect and store information when you interact with services we offer to our partners, such as advertising services or “BrainyBusters” features that may appear on other sites or various SDKs we use for product Analytics that help us analyze the traffic. Services or “BrainyBusters” features that may appear on other sites or various SDKs we use for product Analytics help us analyze the traffic.
The information collected is used to maintain and verify product-related activity and to improve your user experience and the overall quality of our services. We use multiple 3rd party services like Google Analytics, Google Ads, etc. We may combine personal information from one service, including personal information, from other services to give you the best experience within “BrainyBusters”.
Information we share:
We do not share your personal information with companies, organizations, and individuals outside of “BrainyBusters” & its partner companies unless one of the following circumstances applies:
With your consent
We will share device-level information with companies, organizations, or individuals outside of “BrainyBusters” when we have your consent to do so. When you agree to our Privacy Policy, you provide us consent to share your device-level information (mainly used for analytics and services purposes). We do not share your personally identifiable information with any entity outside “BrainyBusters” except your IP address. We anonymize your IP address and permanently delete that anonymized information after the session.
For external processing:
We provide information to our affiliates or other trusted businesses or persons to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
For legal reasons:
We will share personal information with companies, organizations, or individuals outside of “BrainyBusters” & its partner companies due to various legal reasons.
Personally identifiable information may be transferred as an asset in connection with a merger or sale (including any transfers made as part of an insolvency or bankruptcy proceeding) involving all or part of our business or as part of a corporate reorganization, stock sale, or other change in control. Your visit and any dispute over privacy are subject to this policy and our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages. We will only share your personal information with other companies or individuals outside of “BrainyBusters” & its partner companies in the following circumstances:
- As necessary to process your transactions and to maintain your user experience.
- To facilitate our service/ provide service on our behalf.
- To assist us in analyzing how you used our service.
Access to your Personal Information
We will provide you with the means to ensure that your Personal Information is correct and updated. If you have made a user profile, we give you a clear way to use our application, services, or product to access, modify and update your profile along with the option to opt-out.
Why Do We Collect Information?
We collect, store, use
and process Personal Information for a variety of business purposes, including:
- to operate, improve and optimize our services;
- to personalize our Services, understand our users and their preferences to enhance user experience and enjoyment using our Services and improve our users’ experience;
- to provide access to certain areas, functionalities and features of our Services;
- to notify you about product updates, new products or promotional offers;
- to send related information, including confirmations, technical notices, updates, security alerts and support and administrative messages;
- to respond to your comments and inquiries and provide customer support services;
- to prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities and protect our users;
- to measure interest in our Services;
- to ensure internal quality control; and
- to verify individual identity.
Inform you about our products and services
“BrainyBusters” may use your Personal Information to provide materials about offers, products, and services that may be of interest, including content or services. “BrainyBusters” may provide you with these materials by push notification, as permitted by applicable law, including:
- To deliver advertising, and promotional information to you;
- to tailor content, advertisements and offers;
- to notify you about products and services or upcoming special offers/events that may be interesting for you; and
- to notify you about rewards, surveys, contests or other promotional activities or events sponsored or managed by us or our business partners.
Retention of Personal Data
“BrainyBusters” retains your personal information for such duration and for the purposes that are necessary to comply with “BrainyBusters’s” legal obligations, dispute resolution, and enforcement of this agreement. The personal information shall also be retained as per the prevalent security, backup, and recovery policies.
Links
We may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve our customized content. If you click on links, you might end up on websites outside of our domain. Please note that those products or services are offered by people or companies not affiliated with or controlled by us, and we are not responsible for their actions, their terms, their use of information, or their products or services. If you submit your information to a third party, that third party’s treatment of your information is governed by their privacy policy, which may differ from this Privacy Policy and which we encourage you to review. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by “BrainyBusters.”
Data Subject Rights/Your Rights
a) Right to Access
You, having provided adequate proof of identity, have the right to request “BrainyBusters” to provide, free of charge, a summary of your personal data that “BrainyBusters” processes and the manner in which “BrainyBusters” processes your personal data. You also hold the right to request “BrainyBusters” regarding the identities of other Data Fiduciaries and Data Processors with whom your personal data is shared with along with the description of your personal data that is shared.
b) Right to Correction and Erasure
You have the right to request correction of misleading and inaccurate personal data, completion of incomplete data, updating, and erasure of your personal data that “BrainyBusters” possesses.
c) Right of Grievance Redressal
You have the right to have grievance redressal means in respect of any act or omission regarding the performance of “BrainyBusters’s” obligations in relation to your personal data or the exercise of your rights.
d) Right to Nominate
“BrainyBusters” allows you the right to nominate another individual who will then be able to exercise your rights on your behalf in the event of your death or incapacity due to unsoundness of mind or infirmity of body.
Response Timing and Format
“BrainyBusters” makes efforts to respond to a verifiable consumer request within 45 days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 90 days), “BrainyBusters” will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. If you have an account with “BrainyBusters,” we will deliver its written response to that account. If you do not have an account with us, or a response is not capable of being sent thereto, “BrainyBusters” will deliver our written response by mail or electronically. Any disclosures “BrainyBusters” provides will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request’s receipt. If applicable, the response “BrainyBusters” provides will also explain the reasons “BrainyBusters” cannot comply with a request.
Security of Your Information
We follow generally accepted industry standards and maintain reasonable safeguards designed to secure and prevent unauthorized access to the information in our possession. Personal information is stored in secure operating environments, and only those at “BrainyBusters” with a legitimate business need to do so may access your personal information. We also take reasonable steps to assure that third parties to whom we transfer information will provide protections appropriate to that type of information. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately contact us.
Redress/Compliance and Accountability
If you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, please contact “BrainyBusters” by email at support@brainygamez.co. We will address your concerns and attempt to resolve any privacy issues in a timely manner.
You may further escalate the complaint to our Grievance Redressal Office at dpo@brainygamez.co.
Complaint Escalation
If you are not satisfied with the way your query or complaint is handled by “BrainyBusters,” you can approach the Data Protection Board of India.
Effective Date: 9th August 2024
BrainyBusters is referred to as "Company", "We", "BrainyBusters", or "Us". We thank you for using our services. Your privacy is significant to us, and we deem it our duty to care for it seriously. Therefore, we conduct our business in compliance with Global Data Protection laws, including but not limited to CCPA, GDPR, and/or any other applicable laws on Data Privacy Protection and Security. We hope this Privacy Policy outlined below will help you understand what data "BrainyBusters" may collect, process, use, safeguard, and with whom we may share it.
1. PRIVACY POLICY / INTRODUCTION
Our Privacy Policy explains how "BrainyBusters" collects, uses, processes, protects, discloses, shares, and treats your Personal Information and/or any other information belonging to users (jointly referred to as "information"), and how you can opt out of the use of such information.
By accessing the website, you agree to this privacy policy and the Terms of Use of "BrainyBusters" and give explicit and informed consent for the collection, processing, transfer, operation, storage, disclosure, and other uses of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. Please do not use the services if you do not agree to this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use.
If you have any doubts about this Privacy Policy or how "BrainyBusters" uses your personal information, shared preferences, or similar technologies, please contact "BrainyBusters" at support@brainygamez.co or discontinue using the services altogether.
You may contact our Grievance Redressal Office via email at dpo@brainygamez.co.
As set out in the Terms of Use regarding the services ("Terms of Service"), if you are under 18 years of age, we suggest you review this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use with your parents or legal guardian. You must be at least of legal age to access and/or use the Services.
Our services will not be available in certain regions. Do not download or use "BrainyBusters" if you are from the below-mentioned list of countries where usage of "BrainyBusters" and services are restricted:
If any user registers, changes, or manipulates the results/output on "BrainyBusters" using any unfair, fraudulent means like VPN, etc., then "BrainyBusters" will not be responsible. Instead, the user shall be solely responsible for their unlawful act and shall also indemnify "BrainyBusters" for any or all claims arising out of it to the fullest extent.
2. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
2.1 INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE:
Compliance as per GDPR or Equivalent laws: We do not collect any Personal Information directly from you as we do not offer login or sign up on the website "BrainyBusters". We never ask you to fill in your personal information on "BrainyBusters" or anywhere on our website.
Compliance as per CCPA or equivalent laws: We collect your name and email ID at the time of sign-up on our website.
2.2 INFORMATION WE AUTOMATICALLY COLLECT:
When you access or use our services, we automatically collect information about you, including:
- Activity Information: We collect non-personal information about your activity on our services, such as games you have played.
- Device Information: We only collect IP Address for legitimate business purposes and legal obligations.
- Region Information: When you use "BrainyBusters", we may collect your region information to identify your country for improving our services.
- Communication Information: "BrainyBusters" may collect your communication information (Email ID) only when you contact us for customer or technical support.
- Information collected via Shared preferences and other technologies: "BrainyBusters" uses tracking technologies such as shared preferences and beacons to collect information for the identification of your country and your preferences. Shared preferences or cookies are small data stored on your device memory that help us to improve our services, improve your experience, and see which areas and features of our services are popular. We also use beacons, software development kits, website analytics software, and/or similar technologies for several purposes, including authenticating users, preventing fraud or illegal activity, remembering preferences and settings, analyzing traffic, trends, and otherwise providing the Services. These technologies may collect information about your use of our Services, screens you view, links you tap, and other actions taken in connection with our Services. You can disable shared preferences or cookies in your device settings, but this could affect the availability and functionality of our Services.
2.3 INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM OTHER SOURCES
We may also obtain information from third-party sources and combine that with the information we obtain through our services. For example, we may collect information about you from advertising networks and data analytics providers. We may retrieve your country name from your device’s Operating System to manage various applicable privacy regulations such as CCPA, GDPR, etc., depending on different regions/countries. We may identify your country through your device’s Operating System (The Operating System may retrieve the information from your device's telephony manager as per your agreement/consent with OS).
3. USE OF INFORMATION/WHY WE COLLECT INFORMATION?
We may use the information we collect about you to carry out the below-mentioned uses:
- Provide, maintain, and improve our services;
- Personalize our services, analyze, understand our users and their preferences to enhance user experience and enjoyment using our services and improve our user’s experience;
- Provide access to certain areas, functionalities, and features of our services;
- Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our services;
- Ensure internal quality control;
- Creating reports, analysis, or similar services for research or business intelligence purposes;
- Respond to inquiries, questions, or requests via customer or technical support;
- Detect, investigate and prevent fraudulent and illegal activities and protect the rights and property of "BrainyBusters";
- Enforce our legal rights and comply with the law.
4. SHARING OF INFORMATION
Compliance as per GDPR or Equivalent laws: We do not collect, process, or share any personal information from you except your IP Address. We anonymize your IP address and permanently delete that anonymized information after the session.
Compliance as per CCPA or equivalent laws: We do not collect, process, or share any personal information from you except your IP Address.
We do not share such information except in the following circumstances or as otherwise specified in this policy:
- With vendors, consultants, and other service providers such as IT-related services, provision of information, services you have requested, and customer service activity, etc. who need to access such information to carry out work on our behalf, such as the companies that assist us with the website "BrainyBusters" for fraud prevention, customer services, marketing, and advertising;
- Marketing- Interest-based or targeted advertising and third-party marketing- the website may allow third-party advertising partners to set tracking tools (e.g., shared preferences or cookies) to collect performance data, certain technical information like IP Address), pseudonymous data, not directly identifying you. These advertising partners may use this information to measure how effective ads are for delivering advertisements to you;
- If you post reviews on the public areas of our services, we share that information on our services;
- In response to a request for information if we believe disclosure is in accordance with applicable law, regulations, or legal process, or as otherwise required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation;
- If we believe your actions are inconsistent with the spirit or language of our user agreements or policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of "BrainyBusters" or others;
- With our lawyers and other professional advisors where necessary to obtain advice or otherwise protect or manage our business interest;
- In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or portion of our business to another company;
- If we inform you
and you provide consent for information sharing;
- We may share the information with our parent company, subsidiaries, and affiliates, and only as required by law and with regard to administrative work, legal compliance, fraud prevention, and security;
- We may share aggregated or de-identified information, which cannot reasonably be used to identify you.
5. TRANSFER OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
The information that you submit through the services may be transferred to countries other than where you live. We transfer your information only to those countries that have the same level of protection as your home country. By using the services, you consent to such transfer.
6. SECURITY
"BrainyBusters" has employed industry-standard security measures to safeguard the confidentiality of your information such as firewalls and Secure Socket Layers. However, as effective as encryption technology is, no security system is impenetrable. "BrainyBusters" cannot guarantee the security of our databases, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to "BrainyBusters" over the Internet.
7. CHILDREN
"BrainyBusters" does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13 or below the minimum legal age in the user's jurisdiction. If we become aware that a child has provided us with personal information, we will take steps to delete such information.
8. YOUR DATA PRIVACY RIGHTS
You may have the following rights regarding the information we maintain about you, depending on your location and applicable laws:
- The right to access the personal data we hold about you;
- The right to request that we delete your personal data;
- The right to restrict the processing of your personal data;
- The right to object to the processing of your personal data;
- The right to data portability;
- The right to withdraw consent to the processing of your personal data;
- The right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal data.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at support@brainygamez.co.
9. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make any changes, we will notify you by revising the "Effective Date" at the top of this policy and, in some cases, provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to our homepage or sending you an email notification).
We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy regularly to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy.
10. CONTACT US
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Email: support@brainygamez.co
Grievance Officer Email: dpo@brainygamez.co