Welcome to the Privacy Policy of Gathering Immortals (hereinafter referred to as "Game"), a game provided by Pirate's Flag (hereinafter referred to as "we").
The security of your information is very important to us. Pirate's Flag is committed to providing a safe gaming environment for every user. This policy is part of the Terms of Service, which means that users who visit this website are also bound by the Terms of Service (including but not limited to liability limitations, dispute resolution and applicable legal provisions). Please read and understand all applicable rules and use Pirate's Flag products and services (defined below) only if you agree.
The purpose of the Privacy Policy is to give our users a clear understanding of how we collect, use, share, transfer and protect their information. In short, we will only process users' personal information based on their consent and/or other legal bases for processing their personal information.
introduce This Privacy Policy applies to the products and/or services (collectively referred to as "Products and Services") provided by Pirate's Flag. Please read carefully and fully understand this Policy before using (including but not limited to installation, access, registration, etc.) the products and services we provide. Once you use or continue to use our products and services, it means that you have fully understood and voluntarily and explicitly agreed that we will process your relevant information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
How we collect and use your personal information 2.1 Providing you with products and services
2.1.1 Register as a user. Information entered to complete account creation, such as your user name, nickname, and email address. This information is not required for web browsing. However, if you do not provide this information, you may not be able to use certain features or materials that are only available after registration, such as newsletters. If you use social network accounts such as Facebook, Google, and Apple Game Center ("third-party platforms") to log in to our services, we will only collect platform tags. Due to the privacy settings of third-party platforms, we will not collect your information on third-party platforms. The content you enter in the chat room and homepage bulletin board will be considered public information. Therefore, users are responsible for their own disclosures and should always pay attention to this information.
2.1.2 Payment Settlement. Our games support any in-app purchases, and we will collect your purchase or transaction records related to the service. However, we will not process any in-app purchases and access your credit card information. Payment transactions for any in-app purchases are usually completed on the app store through your App Store, Google Play account, or a third-party platform. Any post-purchase processing is controlled by Apple and Google stores and other payment service providers and is subject to the specific terms of service of such payment service providers. Please review the privacy policies and terms of service of the Apple and Google stores and other payment service providers you choose.
2.1.3 Security. We will use some of your frequently used device personal information for identity authentication, security protection, fraud monitoring, archive backup and other purposes. For example, the unique device code is used for security protection and user identification, and personal Internet access records are used for security protection and fraud monitoring. When you use our customer service, we may retain your communication/call records and content or contact information in order to contact you or help you solve problems or record the solutions and results of problems.
2.1.4 Product Development and Service Optimization In order to fix game glitches, improve features, manage advertisements, and enhance the experience, we collect information including device information (such as device model, operating system version, unique device identifier (such as IMEI, MAC address), IP address, etc.).
2.1.5 Advertising and Promotion. Based on the personal information we obtain from you (your email address, device information, advertising data, and contact information), our games will provide you with personalized content and customized advertisements based on your choices to better meet your needs when using our services.
We will ask for your explicit consent before using the information for purposes not set out in this Privacy Policy.
2.2 Sensitive Personal Information and Special Category Information
Sensitive personal information refers to personal information that, once leaked, illegally provided or abused, may endanger personal and property safety, easily lead to damage to personal reputation and physical and mental health, or suffer discriminatory treatment. Special category information refers to information specified in Article 9 of the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), such as health, race, religion, political opinions or philosophical beliefs, sexual preferences or sexual orientation. Pirate's Flag does not require users to provide such information and reminds users to be cautious when sharing such information about themselves or others in the service.
2.3 Exceptions to obtaining authorization and consent
In accordance with relevant laws and regulations, we may process some necessary personal information without your authorization or consent in the following circumstances:
a. Directly related to national security and national defense security;
b. Directly related to public safety, public health, and major public interests;
c. Directly related to criminal investigation, prosecution, trial and execution of judgment;
d. If such information is intended to protect your or others’ life, property and other major legal rights and interests, but it is difficult to obtain your consent;
e. The personal information involved is disclosed to the public by you on your own initiative;
f. If the information is necessary to enter into and perform a contract at your request;
g. Personal information collected from legitimate news reports, government information disclosure and other channels.
h. If the information is necessary to maintain the safe and stable operation of Pirate's Flag products and services, such as detecting and handling product or service failures; and other conditions required by laws and regulations.
2.4 Scope of application of this policy
This Policy applies to all of our products and services except for certain specific products and services. These specific products and services are subject to specific privacy policies. The specific privacy policies of certain specific products and services describe in more detail how we collect and use your information in such products and services. If there is any inconsistency between the privacy policy of the relevant specific products and services and this Policy, the privacy policy of such specific products and services shall prevail.
2.5 Exceptions to this Policy
Our Services may include or link to social media or other services (including websites) provided by third parties. For example:
You share our products and services, or you access our products and services through third-party online services. These functions may collect your relevant information (including your log information) and install cookies on your computer to ensure the normal operation of the above functions. We provide you with links through advertisements or other means of our services so that you can visit third-party services or websites. Such third-party social media or other services may be operated by third parties. Your use of such third-party social media services or other services (including any personal information you provide to such third parties) is subject to the third party's terms of service and privacy policy (not this policy), and you need to read their terms carefully. This policy applies only to information we collect and does not apply to any services provided by any third party or the information usage rules provided by any third party. We are not responsible for any third party's use of the information you provide. How long will we store your personal information? The data we collect will be retained only for as long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes listed above, unless otherwise required by applicable law. Pirate's Flag will immediately destroy the collected personal information if the purpose for which the information was collected has been achieved, for example, when the user's account is terminated (membership cancellation, etc.) or when the user withdraws consent to the use of personal information. Personal information in printed form will be shredded and incinerated, and electronic files will be irreparably destroyed.
How we use cookies and similar technologies 4.1 Cookie
Cookies usually contain identifiers, site names, and some numbers and characters. We store small data files called cookies on your computer or mobile device to ensure the normal operation of the website and help us identify you as our registered user. We will not use cookies for any other purpose other than as described in this policy. You can manage or delete cookies according to your preferences through your browser or other means.
4.2 Do Not Track
Many web browsers offer a "Do Not Track" feature that can send a "Do Not Track" request to a website. If your browser has the "Do Not Track" feature enabled, all of our websites will respect your choice. However, please be aware that this may affect your experience with the products and services provided by Pirate's Flag.
How we share and transfer your personal information 5.1 Sharing
You understand and agree that we provide personal information to third parties through sharing, transfer, etc., on the premise of ensuring that the data recipient cannot re-identify the subject of personal information (de-identification).
We may share your personal information with any company, organization or individual outside of Pirate's Flag in the following circumstances:
a. Sharing with explicit consent: We will share your personal information with other parties with your explicit consent.
b. We may share your personal information externally in accordance with laws, regulations or mandatory requirements of the competent administrative authorities.
c. Sharing with our affiliates: Your personal information may be shared with affiliates of Pirate's Flag. We will only share necessary personal information and will be subject to the purposes stated in this policy. If an affiliate wants to change the purpose of processing personal information, we will ask for your authorization and consent again.
d. Sharing with authorized partners: Some of our services will be provided by authorized partners and will only be used for the purposes stated in this policy. We may share some of your personal information with our partners to provide better customer service and user experience. We will only share your personal information for legitimate, lawful, necessary, clear, and specific purposes, and only share personal information necessary to provide services. Our partners have no right to use the shared personal information for any other purpose. Currently, our authorized partners include the following two categories:
a) Authorized partners for advertising and analysis services. Unless we have your permission, we will not share your personally identifiable information (i.e., information that is sufficient to identify you, such as your name or email address, through which we can contact you or identify you) with partners who provide advertising and analysis services.
b) Suppliers, service providers and other partners. We will send information to suppliers, service providers and other partners who support our business, such as communication service providers who push notifications on our behalf. Such support includes providing technical infrastructure services, analyzing how our services are used, measuring the effectiveness of advertising and services, providing customer service and payment convenience, and providing other support for Pirate's Flag's products and services.
5.2 Transfer
Unless otherwise provided by the laws and regulations of the People's Republic of China and relevant jurisdictions, we will not transfer users' personal information to any unrelated companies, organizations or individuals. We will continue to protect users' personal information in accordance with the standards required by laws and regulations or require new administrators to continue to protect it in accordance with this policy.
Your rights In accordance with the relevant laws, regulations and practices of relevant countries and regions, we guarantee that you can exercise the following rights with respect to your personal information:
6.1 Access to your personal information
You have the right to access your personal information, except for exceptions provided by laws and regulations.
6.2 Controlling your personal information
You can check and manage your personal information under your account. The Pirate's Flag account name (including the Pirate's Flag account and each game account) is your important online identifier. For security and identity recognition reasons, it cannot be changed after registration.
6.3 Correct your personal information
You have the right to correct any inaccurate personal information we hold. If you believe that any other personal information we hold about you is inaccurate, please contact us at brigittehrn73@gmail.com. Upon your request to correct information, we will correct your information within 30 days of receipt of the request.
6.4 Delete or remove certain personal information
You can delete your account or delete certain personal information by logging into your account. Email request: Send an email to brigittehrn73@gmail.com and put "Gathering Immortals Account Deletion Request" in the subject. Please provide your username or other information that can identify your account in the body of the email. After receiving the email and confirming the authenticity of the user, the user information will be automatically deleted within 90 days.
Online deletion link: Click the link below to enter the account deletion process. Click here to delete my Gathering Immortals account
6.5 Respond to your above requests
For security reasons, you may need to provide a written request or prove your identity in other ways. We may ask you to verify your identity before processing your request, and we will respond within a reasonable time frame. If you are not satisfied, you can contact Pirate's Flag in-game customer service or brigittehrn73@gmail.com. In principle, we do not charge any fees for your reasonable requests, but we will charge a certain cost for repeated requests that exceed reasonable limits. We may reject requests that are repeated without reason, require too many technical means (for example, the need to develop a new system or fundamentally change existing practices), pose risks to the legitimate rights and interests of others, or are extremely impractical (for example, involving information stored on backup tapes).
According to the requirements of laws and regulations, we will not be able to respond to your request in the following circumstances:
a. Directly related to national security and national defense security;
b. Directly related to public safety, public health, and major public interests;
c. Directly related to criminal investigation, prosecution, trial and execution of judgment;
d. If there is sufficient evidence to show that you have subjective malice or abuse of rights;
e. responding to your request will cause serious damage to the legitimate rights and interests of you or other individuals or organizations;
f. involving trade secrets;
g. Other circumstances where we have reasonable grounds to refuse.
How do we handle personal information of minors? Our products, websites and services are intended for adults. Minors are not allowed to create their own Pirate's Flag user accounts without the consent of their parents or guardians.
When collecting personal information of minors with the consent of their parents or guardians, we will only use or disclose this information when permitted by law, with the explicit consent of their parents or guardians, or for the protection of minors.
How we protect your personal information 8.1 We take reasonable and feasible measures to protect your personal information
Our legal team is also responsible for handling matters related to data protection. We have also established specific processes and security procedures for the collection and processing of specific user data to ensure that the storage and use of data meet our expectations and legal and regulatory requirements. In addition, we regularly conduct risk assessments on security policies and data protection measures to ensure that our products are not threatened by risks such as data leakage or privacy infringement. However, please note that information collected by third parties may not have the same security protection as the information submitted to us by users, and we are not responsible for protecting the security of such information.
8.2 Other security measures we take
a. Manage and regulate the storage and use of information by establishing a data classification and grading system, data security management standards, data security development standards, etc.
b. We conduct comprehensive security control over data through information access confidentiality agreements and monitoring and auditing mechanisms.
c. We only allow Pirate's Flag employees who need to know this information to access this information, and require all persons who may access your information to fulfill corresponding confidentiality obligations. Failure to fulfill these obligations may result in legal liability or termination of employment or cooperation with Pirate's Flag.
d. We will take all reasonable and feasible measures to ensure that irrelevant personal information is not collected. We will only retain your personal information for a reasonable period of time unless the retention period needs to be extended or otherwise permitted by law.
e. The Internet environment is not 100% secure. We will do our best to ensure or guarantee the security of any information you send to us. Although we take reasonable precautions to prevent possible loss, misuse or unauthorized access, no storage system or data transmitted over the Internet can be guaranteed to be secure. If our physical, technical or management safeguards are damaged, resulting in unauthorized access, public disclosure, tampering or destruction of information, thereby damaging your legal rights and interests, we will bear the corresponding legal liability.
f. In the unfortunate event of a personal information security incident, we will take necessary measures to prevent the security incident from expanding and inform you through push notifications, announcements, etc.
Possible changes in policy We may modify this policy from time to time if we deem it necessary or appropriate, such as for technical improvements, legal compliance, or changes in our business operations. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent. We will post any changes to this policy on this page.
For major changes, we will also provide more prominent notices. We will notify you by posting the updated policy or other means in accordance with applicable laws before such changes take effect. If you disagree with the changes, you can choose to stop using our services. If you continue to use our services, you agree to be bound by the revised policy. We encourage you to review this policy regularly to review any changes made since your last visit. This will help us better understand your relationship with us, including how we process your information.
Contact Us If you have any questions, comments or suggestions about your personal information regarding this policy, please contact our in-game customer service.
Furthermore, if your inquiry has not yet been answered satisfactorily, please feel free to send an e-mail to our Data Protection and Compliance Department at brigittehrn73@gmail.com.