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SCATE DİJİTAL PAZARLAMA A.Ş. Privacy Policy

Scate develops and markets Mobile Apps. This Privacy Policy was executed by and between Scate Dijital Pazarlama A.Ş. (“Scate”) as the “Data Controller” and you. This Privacy Policy explains our data protection policy and describes the types of information we may process when you use Scate’s Apps (referred to as “Apps”). “Personal data” refers to any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. “Processing” means any operation performed on personal data, such as collection, recording, storage, use, and disclosure. Our Privacy Policy applies to all users who access our Apps.

Information We Process

When you use our Apps, we collect the following categories of information:

Personal Data You Provide:

Contact information (e.g., email address).
User-generated content (e.g., comments, feedback).

2. Automatically Collected Data:

Device information (e.g., device identifiers, operating system, model).
Usage data (e.g., in-app interactions, time spent playing).
Location data (e.g., IP address).
Cookies and similar technologies (e.g., web beacons, log files).

User Rights

You have the following rights regarding your personal data:

Access: Request information on whether your personal data is being processed.
Rectification: Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
Deletion: Request deletion of your personal data.
Restriction: Request restriction of processing activities.
Portability: Request transfer of your personal data to another service provider.
Objection: Object to the processing of your personal data.
Complaint: Lodge a complaint with a data protection authority. To exercise these rights, contact us at contact@scate.io. We will respond within thirty days.

Legal Basis for Processing

Our legal bases for processing your personal data include:

Your explicit consent.
Performance of a contract.
Compliance with legal obligations.
Protection of vital interests.
Legitimate interests pursued by Scate.

Data Sharing

We may share your personal data with third parties for the following purposes:

Analytics services: (e.g., Adjust, Facebook).
Cloud computing services: (e.g., Amazon Web Services).
Advertising partners: (e.g., AppLovin, Google Ads). For more information, refer to the privacy policies of our service providers.

International Data Transfers

Your personal data may be transferred to countries outside your jurisdiction. We ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your data during such transfers.

Data Retention

We retain your personal data for as long as necessary to provide our services and comply with legal obligations. Data will be deleted or anonymized when no longer needed.

Security Measures

We implement industry-standard security measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, disclosure, or destruction. Despite these measures, no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure.

Children’s Privacy

We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16 years of age. If we become aware that we have collected data from a child without parental consent, we will delete it promptly.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. Changes will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you via email. Please review this policy regularly for updates.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: Email: contact@scate.io

Address: [MASLAK MAH. AOS 55. SK. 42 MASLAK B BLOK NO: 4 İÇ KAPI NO: 582 SARIYER/ İSTANBUL]

Opt-Out Options

To opt-out of data collection and tracking:

For iOS: Go to Settings > Privacy > Advertising and enable "Limit Ad Tracking."
For Android: Go to Settings > Privacy > Ads and enable "Opt out of Ads Personalization." For more information, visit YourAdChoices.

The Purposes of Collecting and Processing Personal Data

Scate collects your personal data automatically whenever you download our Apps to your device or use the Apps, whenever you send us your feedback or convey your information or support requests directly to Scate or interact with third-party advertisements presented in our Apps or interact with Scate advertisements presented in other platforms. In general, the information we collect about you relates to your device and helps us to identify your device. Scate also collects data from the Apple App Store and Google Play App Store (referred to as “Platforms”) platforms and the business partners. Scate might collect your personal information (user name, name if provided, IP address, the date and time of access, the pages accessed while being on the App) and the activities taking place under Scate to provide better service to you, make suggestions, improve its services, facilitate the use of Apps related to your interest and preferences, within the framework of legal legislation.

Personal Data That is Collected While You Are Using Scate’s Apps

Scate might collect your personal information and the activities taking place under Scate to provide better service to you, make suggestions, improve its services, improve and update our Apps, facilitate the use of Apps related to your interest and preferences, within the framework of legal legislation.

When you download and/or use the Apps via Platforms, Scate collects certain personal data from you and/or your device. In this regard, Scate collects your advertising ID (IDFA for iOS devices and GAID for Android devices), other device identifiers (IDFV for iOS devices), device identifier, operating system, model, producer information, hardware type, operating system version, memory usage, country, time zone and preferred language information, internet protocol (IP) number, location information according to your IP address, operator and browser information, information about properties of the mobile application through which a consumer interacts with the Apps, data regarding your in-app interactions (the time you spent while using our apps, your in-app expenses, the amount of time for watching advertisements, the advertisements watched) and time of installation and first opening of the application.

The aforementioned advertising IDs (IDFA and GAID) are unique identifiers for mobile devices that advertisers use for personalized advertising and consistent across all mobile applications and thus allow cross-app tracking. You may disable this option by activating “limit advertisement tracking” from the privacy settings of Apple devices. As for the Google Android devices, you may change your advertisement setting by activating the “disable advertisement personalizing” option. Advertising IDs are non-permanent identifiers, which are uniquely associated with your device.

We would like to remind you that you have an option to use the Apps without watching advertisements by using our no-ads feature, which is subject to a fee.

Your user name and score can be viewed by other users in our apps that include a leaderboard feature. Payments for in-app purchases are carried out by the Platforms. Scate does not collect personal data such as your name, surname, credit card number and e-mail address that you share with the Platforms for the payment, and only payment information for the items your purchase is shared with us to fulfill your order.

Personal Data That is Collected When You Contact Scate

When you contact us: We may ask for contact information (e.g., email) when you request information about our Apps, request technical support, or contact us anyhow. Your contact information will be processed to fulfill your requests and communicate with you.

Comments

You may share data that contains your personal data when you share your comments and views about our Apps. The content of user comments is composed fully of data that you voluntarily provided. We process your shared personal data to solve the issues you encountered and to fulfill your request.

Data That is Collected by Third Parties

If the personal data provided to Scate by you is requested by official institutions/organizations as necessitated by the law, the data may be transmitted to the relevant authorities and courts if requested by the courts.

Our business partners or service providers can use server log files, cookies, pixel labels, web beacons, or other tracking tools in our Apps. Our advertisement business partners and analytics service providers mentioned below can collect data regarding your IP address, your advertising identifier (IDFA for iOS devices and GAID for Android devices), other device identifiers (IDFV for iOS devices), cookie identifiers, advertisement ID, your mobile device’s type, operating system, version, model, hardware type, other device identifiers that are automatically determined for your device when you connect to the internet, web browser information, websites you visited, connections you have within the Apps, and your preferences about the visited websites by using the stated technologies. You may access the privacy policies of these third parties from the list below.

Scate stores your data for as long as it is necessary to provide our Apps and deletes it when the purposes of the data processing cease to exist. Personal data is deleted in case the reasons which necessitate processing within the context of the stated purposes in this privacy notice cease to exist and after 2 years as of the registration date of the relevant record at the latest.

Children’s Data

Scate never knowingly or willingly collects any personal data concerning children under 16 years of age.

The Legal Grounds of Processing Your Personal Data

The legal grounds that Scate relies upon while processing your personal data are the following:

Explicit consent and/or your request.
In cases where it is necessary to disclose such information in accordance with applicable laws or regulations or a court judgment or administrative order issued.
Being necessary for the establishment and execution of an agreement.
Being necessary for Scate to fulfill its legal obligations as a data controller.
Being necessary for the establishment, exercise, and protection of any right.
Without prejudice to your fundamental rights and freedoms, being compulsory for Scate’s statutory interests.

In data processing activities where your personal data is processed based on explicit consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

Scate’s statutory interest in processing your device and usage data is to provide better service to you, make suggestions, improve its services, improve and update our Apps, and facilitate the use of Apps related to your interest and preferences, within the framework of legal legislation.

Scate undertakes to keep your data and any confidential information strictly private and confidential, without prejudice to the contents hereof, to regard it as an obligation to keep confidentiality, to take all measures, and act in due diligence to prevent all or any part of your information from entering into the public domain or being subject to unauthorized use, or to take measures to prevent the confidential information from disclosure to any third party. If, despite all necessary data security measures taken by Scate, the confidential information is damaged as a result of attacks on the system or captured by third parties, Scate shall have no responsibility with that respect.

Scate shall not be responsible for damages caused by the use of information that you disclose in comments made or messages given by third parties in public areas. If you share your name, password, etc. used by you when creating the membership record with third parties, Scate shall not be responsible for any damages that may arise from the information shared with third parties.

The Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your personal data may be transferred to our business partners and service providers located abroad for the purposes of improving our Apps and providing our Apps to you, providing personalized advertisements according to your interests, measuring Scate’s and third parties’ advertisement effectiveness, and carrying out measurements and analysis regarding your use of our Apps. In case a public institution is authorized to request personal data by the law, your personal data can be transferred to such authorized public institution in accordance with the applicable personal data protection legislations. Requests from judicial authorities will also be fulfilled in accordance with the applicable legislation.

Your personal data may be transferred to our business partners and service providers stated below:

Service provider/Business Partner Privacy Policy

Analytics services
Adjust Adjust Privacy Policy

Facebook Facebook Privacy Policy

Google LLC (Firebase) Firebase Privacy Policy

SafeDK SafeDK Privacy Policy

Game Analytics GameAnalytics Privacy Policy

Cloud computing services

Amazon Web Services Inc. AWS Privacy Policy

Advertisement business partners (advertisement networks)

AppLovin Corporation AppLovin Privacy Policy

Facebook Inc. (FB Ads, FB Audience Network)Facebook Privacy Policy

Fyber Fyber Privacy Policy

Google LLC (Google Ads)Google Ads Privacy Policy

InMobi InMobi Privacy Policy

ironSource Ltd. ironSource Privacy Policy

Mintegral Mintegral Privacy Policy

Ogury Limited Ogury Privacy Policy

Smaato, Inc.Smaato Privacy Policy

Tapjoy, Inc. Tapjoy Privacy Policy

Unity Technologies (Unity Ads)Unity Privacy Policy

Vungle Inc. Vungle Privacy Policy

Apple Apple Privacy Policy

Snapchat Snapchat Privacy Policy

Jetfuel Jetfuel Privacy Policy

Appnext Appnext Privacy Policy

Tiktok TikTok Privacy Policy

Instal.com Instal Privacy Policy

Your Rights Regarding the Protection of Your Personal Data

According to the relevant legislation, you have the right to:

Learn whether or not your personal data is being processed.
Request information as to processing if it has been processed.
Learn the purpose of personal data processing and whether the personal data is used appropriately in line with such purposes.
Know the third parties to which your personal data is transferred domestically or abroad.
Request correction if your personal data is incompletely or incorrectly processed.
Request deletion or destruction of your personal data.
Request the transmission of your correction, deletion, and destruction requests to third parties to whom your personal data has been transferred.
Object to any consequence that occurred against you by analyzing your processed data through automated systems.
Request compensation in case you incur any damage due to the unlawful processing of personal data.
Request restriction of data processing activities.
Request data portability.
Object to the occurrence of an adverse consequence by analyzing the processed data exclusively through automated systems.
Lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection authority and have the right to claim damages in case of impairment because your personal data is processed in violation of the relevant legal legislation.

You can submit all your claims and questions with respect to such rights to contact@scate.io. Your requests will be answered as soon as possible and within thirty days at the latest.