NEWGAME – PRIVACY POLICY

NewGame is an application that promotes security, safety, awareness and responsiveness following events which threat these. It centralizes the communication and sends out alerts relating to the unfortunate emergencies which may arise.

To upkeep with the application, NewGame lays down policy pertaining to the privacy and access to your phone. If you are using NewGame, you acknowledge the policy. If you do not accept it, we advise you not to use the NewGame application.

NEWGAME DOES NOT OPERATE IN AND RUN AS BACKGROUND APPLICATION, TO ACHIEVE FULL PURPOSE THE NEWGAME PLATFORMS MUST BE OPENED AND RUNNING.

If you have any problems, questions, or queries, you may email us at support@newgame.mobi

WHAT DOES THE POLICY EXPLAIN?

  1. What information we collect?
  2. Is the information collected automatically?
  3. Why do we collect the information?
  4. Who do we share the collected information with?
  5. Third-party use of personal information
  6. Change of ownership
  7. Change of policy

What We Collect?

We collect the following data from you:

  1. Your name
  2. Your contact details
  3. Your picture
  4. Your address
  5. Your location
  6. Your phone contacts
  7. Data collectible from your camera
  8. Network/IP address
  9. MAC Addresses
  10. Contact and other Information you provide us

Is This Information Collected Automatically?

  1. Your Name, Contact Details, Picture, Address: These are collected upon manual entry, i.e., you are required to provide these details by yourself.
  2. Your Location: Once the permission is granted by you through your phone, it is collected automatically.
  3. Your Camera / Gallery Pictures: Information or data from your camera is not collected automatically. Once the permission is granted to the NewGame application by you through your phone, your camera is engaged only upon your choosing of corresponding actions, such as snapping pictures for your display to update your user profile. Likewise, your gallery is accessed where you wish to share a picture from your gallery with another user or to upload the same to your profile, and not automatically.
  4. Your Phone Contacts: Once the permission is granted by you through your phone, it is collected automatically.
  5. Network/IP Address: It is collected automatically.
  6. MAC Addresses: It is collected automatically.
  7. Contacts and Other Information: Once the permission is granted by you through your phone, it is collected automatically.

Why Do We Collect the Information?

We collect the information to ensure that the user can be catered to in case of emergencies and to ensure proper functionality pertaining to the application.

  1. Your Name, Contact Details, Picture, Address: We use your name, contact details, picture, and address to keep your data in the pool for identification purposes. This helps us maintain and authenticate your true identity, in addition to keeping your profile safe from other users by providing the supporting security protocols.
  2. Your Location: Your location is used to help you reach other, most relevant, users for you to engage with. When you set your parameter, you can opt to play with the users in your vicinity.
  3. Your Camera / Gallery Pictures: This caters to you in snapping a picture of your choosing through your camera and using the same for your user display picture. Likewise, your gallery is accessed where you wish to share a picture from your gallery with another user or to upload the same to your profile.
  4. Your Phone Contacts: Your phone contacts are simply used to connect you with your contacts so that you may connect with them.
  5. Network/IP Address: This data is collected to identify the network being used to track your location in order to account for regional permissions and acquire analytics, all of which is ceased when the NewGame application is not in use.
  6. MAC Addresses: These are unique device identifiers, as opposed to the IP Addresses which are network identifiers. The MAC Addresses aids in identification of the device in your use to help us tailor your experience and enhance the User Interface, to gain command of the features of your phone when the application is put to use upon your initiation.
  7. Contacts and Other Information: Contacts and other information are used to enhance your reach and connectivity, in order to aid your user experience.

Apart from the abovementioned specific information, we use the information collected from you to:

  1. Enable the platform features for you.
  2. Publish the reviews you provide over third-party platforms.
  3. Customer Support.
  4. Enable subscriptions.

Who Do We Share the Collected Information With?

We do not share the collected information with any third-parties unrelated to the usage of the application.

The information collected from you automatically or manually and voluntarily provided by you is only shared with parties, persons, or entities who form a necessary part in the accomplishment of the purpose of the application.

These necessary parties include:

  1. Our employees and related entities who form part of THIS APPLICATION.
  2. Our secure payment merchants, banks, and related financial institutions and parties who play the role in your payments and transactions.

WE DO NOT SHARE ANY INFORMATION WITH ANY THIRD PARTY WHICH IS UNRELATED TO THE USAGE OF THE NEWGAME PLATFORMS.

Security of Data

We prioritize the security and privacy of your data while using NewGame. Your information is safeguarded with industry-standard measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, or misuse. However, users retain certain rights over their data, including the ability to request its deletion.

  1. You may request to delete your NewGame account at any time. Upon such a request, all associated data, except for that required for legal, security, or operational purposes, will be permanently deleted.
  2. You also have the right to delete your account directly from the NewGame application through the settings menu. Once initiated, the deletion process will be completed as outlined above.
  3. You have the right to request the deletion of specific personal data. Upon verification, we will process the deletion of the requested data, provided it is not required for legal or operational purposes.

Third Party Use of Personal Information

NewGame guarantees security of your personal information. However, where the information is shared with a third-party (such as financial institution, payment merchants, review websites, etc.) on its platform or for such party, NewGame does not govern their policy and is not liable for their usage of the information collected or received by them.

Change of Ownership

In case NewGame platforms undergo a change of ownership, all data, rights, liabilities, and warranties will shift to the subsequent ownership. However, the former ownership will be under strict liability of non-disclosure.

Change of Policy

From time to time, the privacy policy of the platform may change. You may find these changes on the privacy policy page of the platforms. Where changes are made as to directly affect you in relation to your personal information, you will be notified by a prominent notification which may be in any of the forms such as notification by email, pop-up, or in-app notification, SMS alert, etc.

Any last modification made will be dated at the bottom of the privacy policy.