This Devbase Privacy Notice (the “Privacy Notice” or “Notice”) is provided to help you understand our practices regarding how we collect, use, share, and protect personal data. In this Privacy Notice, “Devbase” refers to Devbase LTD. and its subsidiaries. We may also refer to Devbase as “we” or “us”.
This Privacy Notice applies whenever you play the games that link to this Notice, or otherwise access any of our other products and social games for the web, mobile, or any other applicable platforms and/or devices (the “Service”).
By using the Service, you agree to the collection, disclosure, storage and use of personal data as described in this Privacy Notice. If you do not want Devbase to collect, store, use or share the personal data you provide in the ways described in this Privacy Notice, you should not play Devbase’s games or use our Service.
Devbase collects personal data to fulfil one or more of its functions and activities, as described in this Privacy Notice.
When you use our Service (whether through a social network or through Devbase directly), you may give us information directly (like when you’re setting up your account or when you contact Customer Support) such as:
When you use our Service, you can choose to create a player profile that other Devbase players can see. In your profile, you can include information like:
You can also provide us personal data directly in a number of other ways, including:
We may collect or receive information about you from other sources like third-party applications, such as an app store, third party login service, and social networks on which you play our games. We use this information along with information you provide us directly in a number of ways as described in this Privacy Notice, for example, to help you and your friends connect or to serve you advertising more tailored to your interests.
If you play Devbase’s games or access any of our Service on connected third-party applications or connect our Service to any third-party applications, including social networks like Facebook, Devbase may receive certain information about you from the provider of the third-party application. The information we receive depends on the Devbase game you’re playing, the third-party application, your privacy settings and, if applicable, your friends’ privacy settings on that third-party application.
For example, Devbase may collect and store some or all of the following information shared by the third-party application:
If you are unclear about what information a third-party application is sharing with us, please go to the third-party application to find out more about their privacy practices.
Like many websites, Devbase, our service providers and other parties may send cookies to your device when you access or view the Service. A cookie is a small data file that is transferred to your device for record-keeping purposes. Information contained in a cookie may be linked to personal data. We use cookies for purposes such as improving the quality of Devbase’s Service, tailoring recommendations to interests, and making the Service easier to use.
Third party advertisers on the Service may also use, place, or read cookies or other technologies as described below on your device, and those practices are subject to their own policies. For more information on how you can opt-out of or disable cookies, please see the Your Rights section below.
We and our service providers may also employ other technologies including (i) web beacons, which allow us to know if a certain page was visited or whether an e-mail was opened; (ii) tracking pixels, which allow us or our advertising partners to advertise more efficiently and effectively by excluding our current players from certain promotional messages, identifying the source of a new installation or delivering ads to you on other websites; and (iii) local shared objects, also known as flash cookies, which help us to reduce fraud, remember your in-game preferences, and speed up load times.
We, our service providers, and other parties may collect the following information via cookies and other technologies:
In some cases, we will connect this information with your social network ID or Devbase user ID
You may be able to take part in certain activities on our Service that let you communicate or share information with Devbase and other players. These include:
You may choose to disclose information about yourself in the course of contributing player-generated content to the Service, including in its chat rooms, blogs, message boards, player “profiles” for public view or in similar forums through mobile services and/or through third-party sites or services, posting public comments to other players' profiles or gameboards, sending private messages or invitations to other players, either directly on our Service or to their e-mail accounts and posting photos. You should consider any information that you disclose in any of these forums as “public”, and you should have no expectation of privacy or confidentiality.
Additionally, you should be aware that any personal data you submit, including videos and images, can be accessed, read, watched, collected, or otherwise used by other players of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. Devbase is not responsible for the personal data you choose to make public in any of these forums.
We may use any information you share for any purpose as described in this Privacy Notice.
Note that you should consider any information you post or otherwise share with other players through a Service or a third-party site or service as “public” and you should have no expectation that it be kept private. Please also see Devbase’s Terms of Service for further information and guidelines about posting content through our Service.
To enable some of the social features, you may be able to import your address book contacts or to manually enter them so that you can locate your contacts using the Service and invite them to join you in our games or other aspects of our Service. You are responsible for getting your contacts’ permission before you give their contact details to us. We may also get information about you from other Devbase players importing or entering their contacts.
Devbase may obtain the billing and payment information that you provide when your purchase is processed by someone else (like Facebook, Apple or Google) such as when you purchase something in a game you play on a social network or that you downloaded on your mobile device. Our Terms of Service explain our policies and terms relevant to our charges, billing practices, third-party credits and virtual currencies.
If you purchase virtual currency or virtual items in a Devbase game, our third-party payment processor will collect the billing and financial information it needs to process your charges. This may include your postal address, e-mail address and financial information.
Devbase does not collect or store credit card numbers. However, Devbase’s payment processors may share information with us related to your purchases. We may use this information for purposes as described in this Privacy Notice.
If you would like to learn more about how we secure your information, please see Security of Your Information section below.
Devbase uses personal data for a variety of business purposes as described in this Privacy Notice, including to fulfill our contractual obligations, complete transactions you request, comply with law, and for other legitimate business purposes, such as to:
Your interactions with our Service may be tracked across platforms and/or devices.
In addition to the above, if you have provided your e-mail address to Devbase, we may use it to communicate with you and other players in a number of ways, including to respond to customer support inquiries; keep you and others informed of your in-game activity, comments from friends, and in-game status and promotions; and tell you about gift and neighbor requests. Some messages, like invitations for friends to join you in a game, may include your name and profile photo. We may also send promotional messages (“Promotional Communications”) directly or in partnership with other parties. For more information on how you can opt-out of Promotional Communications, please see the Your Rights section below.
We may use technologies considered automated decision-making or profiling, but we will not do so in a way that has a legally significant impact on you, unless we have your consent or we are otherwise legally permitted to do so.
We may also use personal data for any other purposes communicated to you at the point of collection, or otherwise with your consent.
We may share personal data about you between and among Devbase LTD. and its subsidiaries.
Additionally, we may disclose or publish aggregated and analytical information (information about you and other players collectively that is not intended to specifically identify you, for example, players between the ages of 25 and 30 who live Chicago) and other non-personal data about our players for industry analysis, demographic profiling, marketing, analytics, advertising, and other business purposes.
In addition, we may share your information (which may include personal data) with third parties (in other words, parties other than Devbase) or allow third parties to collect this information from our Service as described in this Privacy Notice.
Devbase uses its subsidiaries and other unaffiliated companies (“Service Providers”) to support the Service, like processing payments, analyzing data, optimizing game play and enhancing player experience, e-mail delivery, hosting services, managing and delivering contextual and tailored advertisements.
In most Devbase games, if you play or register through a social network (for example, Facebook Connect), your social network friends may see your name, profile photo, and descriptions of your game activity. If you use our Service in response to an invitation from another player, that player may see certain information about you and your in-game activities, including when you join and the level(s) you reach within the game. Correspondingly, in many Devbase games, other players, regardless of whether they are your social network friends or not, will be able to see descriptions of your game activity (including the identification of any Devbase games you have played), communicate with you within our Service, and view your game profile, which may include your name or a “game name” and your profile photo. Other players may also be able to send you game requests or even friend requests through the related social network’s or Devbase’s communication channels.
We may have advertising on our Service so we can continue to offer our Service for free.
When advertisers or ad networks place ads in our Service, they may collect or we may share the following types of information from within our Service:
The information collected may be used to:
Advertisers or ad networks may collect this information through the use of tracking technologies like browser cookies and web beacons, and they may use a single tracking technology or multiple tracking technologies at the same time.
In the event that Devbase undertakes efforts to engage in a business transition ( like a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or part its assets (like selling a game), we may disclose or transfer relevant information we have, including personal data, to the successor organization in the transition. We will make reasonable efforts as described in this Privacy Notice to let you and other players know of the business transition before transferring personal data.
We may share personal data in the following circumstances:
Depending upon the applicable law where you live, you may have the right to make requests with respect to personal data that Devbase processes about you, for examples:
Devbase allows all players to submit the requests via the Devbase or through the Privacy category in the support page within the game you play.
To manage the information Devbase receives about you from a third-party platform where you play our games, like Facebook, Apple, Amazon etc. you will need to follow the instructions for each such third-party application for updating your information and changing your privacy settings.
You can stop making geolocation available to us through your device's settings for the relevant application or the “settings” page for the relevant game. If you have previously allowed us to access your geolocation data, we may continue to use that information as described in this Privacy Notice.
If you want to stop receiving Promotional Communications from Devbase, you can click on the “unsubscribe” link in any promotional email from Devbase. If you want to stop receiving texts or SMS messages from you, you can reply “STOP” to any promotional message. Please note that it may take us some time for your opt-out to become effective.
Additionally, in most of our games, you may find an option under “your account” or “Settings” to request that we stop sending you Promotional Communications.
If you want to stop receiving messages through our game pages on Facebook, you may click on the “settings” icon on the top of such message, and by clicking ”manage messages” you may turn off all messages from such game..
When you install our apps on your mobile device, you can choose to receive push notifications, which are messages an app sends you on your device even when the app is not on. You can turn off notifications by visiting your mobile device’s “settings” page.
Note that Devbase does not currently respond to Do Not Track signals, whether that signal is received on a computer or on a mobile device.
For Slotbase, CandyCrown, Bingo Base, Blackjack you may not use the Service if you are under 21 years of age, in which case you must not create an account, access, use or download such games and/or submit any personal data through the Service and/or to Devbase. For all other Devbase Service, you may not use the Service if you are under 18 years of age, in which case you must not create an account, access, use or download such games and/or submit any personal data through the Service or to Devbase. Devbase is committed to complying with laws protecting children. If you believe that your child has submitted personal data to Devbase without your consent, please contact us at [email protected] . Devbase will take reasonable steps to delete such information as soon as possible.
When you use our Service, your personal data may be sent, accessed, used, and/or stored outside of the country or region where you live including, for example, to the United States and Israel. We may transfer personal data to our subsidiaries, vendors, business partners, and others as described in this Privacy Notice, and by using the Service you consent to such transfer.
Please note that laws vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, so the privacy laws applicable to the places where personal data is transferred to or stored, used, or processed in, may be different from the privacy laws in place where you live. When we transfer personal data outside of the location where it was collected, we put into place appropriate safeguards (including, for example, contracts) or otherwise ensure that such transfers meet applicable local legal requirements.
We will retain personal data for as long as you use the Service and as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, or as necessary to comply with our business requirements and applicable laws; to comply with any legal, accounting or reporting obligations; to resolve disputes; to protect our assets; to efficiently run our business; and to enforce our agreements.
We take reasonable steps designed to protect personal data; however, no system or network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure and therefore we cannot guarantee the security of data. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept liability for unauthorized disclosure.
Devbase Service may include links to other websites and/or applications that are owned and/or operated by others. Any information you provide on such websites and/or apps are subject to the privacy policy on such website or app and Devbase is not responsible for the content, privacy policy, terms of use, or security practices of such site and/or app. You should review the terms and privacy policy of any site or app that you access.
Devbase reserves the right to amend the Privacy Notice from time to time, and Devbase encourages you to consult the Privacy Notice regularly for changes.
If we make material changes to our Privacy Notice, we will tell you and other players by placing a notice on www.slotbase.co or its equivalent in-game, or by sending you a notice to the e-mail address we have on file for you prior to the change becoming effective. We may supplement this process by placing notices on game blogs, social network pages, and/or forums and on other Devbase websites. You should periodically check www.slotbase.co and this privacy page for updates.
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about our Privacy Notice or any other privacy issue please contact Devbase’s at [email protected] or Arya Plaza, Keskin Kalem St., Esentepe 34394, Istanbul.
If you want to exercise your rights you can submit a ticket via the applicable support channel of the game or through the Devbase.
Additionally, if you have any questions or concerns that you think we have not adequately addressed, you may have the right to bring your question or concern to the privacy authority in the location where you live.
Devbase uses and shares information as described in this Privacy Notice. The information below supplements the Privacy Notice and is intended for Instanbul consumers only.
“Personal Information” in this CCPA Notice, as in the CCPA, refers to any information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a certain consumer or household.
The following chart lists the categories of Personal Information we collect about players, the source of collection, and the business purposes for collection, all in accordance with the categories of Personal Information and business purposes enumerated in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA). These are also the categories of Personal Information we collected in the past 12 months and their business purposes.
A more detailed description of the particular pieces of information we collect and their purposes is provided in this Privacy Notice.
Category of Personal Information | Categories of Sources | Commercial or Business Purpose |
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Identifiers, such as picture, account name, device ID, email address, IP address, etc. |
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Protected Classification Characteristics, such as age and gender |
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Commercial Information, such as products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies |
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Internet/electronic Network Information, such as website or application or advertisement browsing history |
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Location Data, device shared location, and Wi-Fi connection location |
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Inferences such as derivation of information, data, assumptions, or conclusions from any of the above categories of personal information |
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Devbase permits, under cerein legal and technical limitations, certain third-party advertising partners to collect information about our players through our games and our website for purposes of serving ads that are more relevant, for ad campaign measurement and analytics, and for ad fraud detection and reporting. To the extent this practice is interpreted to constitute a “sale” under the CCPA, please see our Online Advertising section below for more information.
As described in this Privacy Notice, we share personal information within the Devbase group of companies and with a variety of recipients for business purposes.
In addition to the categories of recipients identified in the How We Share Personal Data section of this Privacy Notice, we disclose personal information to, or allow access to personal information by, the following categories of recipients:
As described in our Privacy Notice, we do not knowingly collect or sell personal data about children.
You may be allowed to use an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf, if you provide sufficient information to show that the requestor is an authorized agent with written permission to act on your behalf and you verify your identity with us.
In each of the following instances, which we occasionally offer on some, but not all games, we may grant you virtual currency or other virtual items within the game:
Service Difference | Categories of Personal Information Collected | How to Opt-In to the Service Difference, if and when offered |
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In-game videos | Identifiers, Internet or other electronic network activity information, commercial information, location data, inferences drawn | Watch in-game videos that may be presented to you |
In-game tailored ads | Identifiers, Internet or other electronic network activity information, commercial information, location data, inferences drawn | Consent to be served with ads that are tailored to your personal information and to sharing your personal information with ad networks, social media companies and other third-party businesses in the ad ecosystem |
In-game surveys | Identifiers, protected classification characteristics, commercial information, Internet or other electronic network activity information, location data, inferences drawn | Complete a survey that may be presented to you about you and your game experience |
Reviews about the game | Identifiers, location data, inferences drawn | Follow the instructions that may be presented to you to submit a review about the game, or rate the game, in an application store such as Google Play |
Facebook connect | Identifiers, Internet or other electronic network activity information, commercial information, location data, inferences drawn | When offered to you, connect to our games through your Facebook account |
In-game friend invitations | Internet or other electronic network activity information, commercial information, location data, inferences drawn | Invite your friends to download and play the game by sending an invitation from within the game, if prompted to do so |
Connect to our game | Identifiers, Internet or other electronic network activity information, commercial information, location data, inferences drawn | Connect to play the game at the frequency indicated to you |
Join our Facebook bot | Identifiers, Internet or other electronic network activity information | Connect with us through our Facebook bot |
Mailing list | Subscribe to our mailing list when promoted | Identifiers |
You have a right to withdraw from the service difference at any time. To do so, please submit a request through the via the Privacy option available in the Support section in the game settings.