RummyHoHo Privacy Policy
Effective Date: December 24, 2024
Dear users:
Welcome to use RummyHoHo! In today's digital age, privacy protection is of utmost importance. I am well aware of this and always prioritize your privacy rights and interests. This privacy policy aims to clearly explain to you in detail how I collect, use, store, share, and protect your personal information, so that you can fully understand and enjoy every aspect with peace of mind when using my game services.
I. Developer Information
II. Service Contents
RummyHoHo is a unique and charming online multiplayer game. With the classic Rummy gameplay as its core, it also ingeniously incorporates lightweight social interaction elements, creating a rich and colorful game world for you. My services cover multiple aspects:
- Provide a variety of creative and challenging Rummy game modes to meet the strategic needs and game preferences of different players.
- Equipped with a personalized player matching system, which uses intelligent algorithms to accurately match players with similar strength and game styles, ensuring that each game is full of fair competition and fun.
- Support the virtual item gifting function among players, allowing you to interact with your friends in the game, enhance the friendship between each other, and enrich the social experience of the game.
- Build a safe and stable online payment system to provide you with convenient and reliable payment channels and ensure the security of your funds during the transactions of purchasing game items, value-added services, etc.
III. Data I Collect
To ensure the stable and efficient operation of the game service and provide you with a smooth gaming experience, I may collect the following types of information:
(I) Required Data
User Account Information: The unique user ID generated by the system for you. This information is the basis for constructing your unique identity in the game world and is used for managing operations related to your account.
(II) Optional Data (Requiring User Authorization)
- Contact Information: Mainly the phone number, which will play a crucial role in the processes such as account registration, login verification, and receiving important security notifications. For example, in case of abnormal login situations, I can promptly notify you via text messages to ensure the security of your account.
- Location Information: With your authorization, I will collect your location information. This helps me optimize the player matching strategy according to the region where you are located, recommend activities that are more in line with the local culture and game habits, and enhance your game participation and social interaction experience.
- Device Information: Covers detailed information such as the model and system version of the device you use. This data is of great significance for me to troubleshoot and solve possible compatibility issues, ensuring that the game can run stably on your device and avoiding game abnormalities or poor performance caused by device differences.
IV. Purposes of Data Use
I adhere to the principles of legality, fairness, and transparency in using your data, and the specific purposes are as follows:
(I) Account Services
- Assist you to smoothly complete the registration process, create your exclusive game account, and conduct identity verification every time you log in, ensuring that only you can access and operate your account.
- Continuously maintain your account information, guarantee the stability and security of the account, and promptly handle account-related issues and requests, such as password reset and account recovery, to provide you with reliable account management support.
(II) Function Optimization
- Conduct in-depth analysis of your usage behavior in the game, including multi-dimensional data such as game duration, game mode preferences, and operation habits. Based on this, continuously optimize various functions and gameplay of the game to customize a game experience that better meets your needs.
- According to your feedback and behavior data, continuously improve aspects such as the game's interface design, operation process, and game balance to ensure that the game always maintains a high level of fun and playability and meets your constantly changing game expectations.
(III) Payment Security
- Utilize advanced data encryption technologies and risk monitoring systems to tightly protect the transaction data during your use of the online payment system and prevent any possible fraudulent behaviors from occurring.
- Real-time monitor the entire process of payment transactions to ensure the authenticity, legality, and security of each transaction, safeguard your funds, and let you have no worries during the consumption process in the game.
(IV) Interaction Functions
- Through your location information, game preferences, and other data, accurately match like-minded players for you, promote social interaction among players, and enable you to quickly find suitable partners whether it's for team games or friendly competitions.
- Support the virtual item gifting function among players, ensure the smooth progress of the item gifting process with the help of your social relationship data and account information, enhance the emotional communication among players, and enrich the social connotation of the game.
V. Data Security and Storage
I attach great importance to the security protection of your data and adopt a series of strict security technologies and measures:
(I) Encrypted Transmission
During the transmission of your data in the network, I adopt advanced encryption algorithms, such as the SSL/TLS encryption protocol and AES data encryption, to encrypt the data, ensuring the security of the data in the transmission channel, preventing the data from being stolen or tampered with, and effectively resisting network attacks and malicious interceptions.
(II) Access Restrictions
Implement a strict access permission management system. Only personnel who have received professional security training and have specific job responsibilities can access sensitive information when necessary, and detailed records and audits will be conducted for each access operation to ensure the traceability and controllability of data access.
(III) Regular Backups
Establish a sound data backup mechanism, regularly back up your data, and store the backup data in secure storage media distributed in data centers at different geographical locations. In this way, even in the face of hardware failures, natural disasters, or other unexpected situations that lead to data loss or damage, I can quickly restore the data to ensure the continuity of the game service and the integrity of your data.
Although I have made every effort to adopt the above security measures, due to the complexity and uncertainty of the network environment, there may still be certain security risks. I will continue to pay attention and continuously upgrade my security protection system to cope with the ever-changing network security threats and maximize the protection of your data security.
VI. Data Sharing Policy
Under the following specific circumstances, I may share your data with third parties:
(I) User Authorization
When you clearly express your consent for me to share certain data of yours with specific third parties, I will strictly conduct data sharing operations in accordance with the scope and requirements of your authorization. For example, you may authorize me to share your game achievement data to social platforms to showcase your excellent performance in the game.
(II) Legal Requirements
If I receive legal requests from judicial organs or regulatory authorities, such as court subpoenas, law enforcement investigation orders, etc., requiring me to provide the data of specific users to assist in investigations or execute legal procedures, I will cooperate in accordance with the law and provide relevant data within the scope stipulated by the law. However, I will ensure that strict legal procedures and confidentiality requirements are followed during the process of providing data to protect your legitimate rights and interests from being infringed.
(III) Service Providers
To achieve certain specific functions in the game service, I may share necessary data with some service providers, but only the minimum data range required to complete these functions will be provided. For example, I share your payment-related information, such as payment account information and transaction records, with payment service providers, but it is only limited to the data needed to complete the payment process. Moreover, payment service providers are also subject to strict supervision and data security requirements, and their use and processing of your data will comply with relevant laws, regulations, and their own privacy policies.
VII. Third-Party Tools and Integrations
To provide you with a richer, more efficient, and higher-quality game service experience, RummyHoHo has integrated the following third-party tools and technical support:
(I) Google Pay SDK
- Function: As one of the world's leading payment solutions, the Google Pay SDK provides a convenient and secure payment service interface for my game, enabling you to easily complete various payment operations in the game, whether it's purchasing game items, value-added services, or participating in paid activities, and enjoy a fast and smooth payment experience.
- Data Usage: When you use its payment service, this tool will collect and process payment-related data, such as your payment account information and detailed transaction records, according to its own privacy policy. The collection and processing of this data are mainly used for purposes such as verifying, settling, and preventing risks in payment transactions to ensure the security and reliability of the payment process.
- Privacy Policy: For more detailed information on how the Google Pay SDK specifically collects, uses, stores, and protects your payment data, please refer to the Google Pay official privacy policy. Its policy will comprehensively display all aspects of data processing and relevant safeguard measures. You can obtain this privacy policy document on the Google Pay official website or within the application.
(II) Facebook SDK
- Function: The Facebook SDK brings powerful social interaction functions to my game. You can use it to conveniently invite your Facebook friends to join the game, team up with them, share wonderful moments and achievements in the game, and also display your unique experiences in the game on your Facebook feed, enhancing the social dissemination and influence of the game.
- Data Usage: When you use the functions related to the Facebook SDK, it may collect data related to your social account, such as your public profile information, including name, profile picture, gender, etc., as well as your friend list information. This data will be used to achieve precise push and personalized display of social interaction functions such as friend invitations and feed sharing, creating a more convenient and interesting social gaming experience for you.
- Privacy Policy: If you want to have a deeper understanding of how the Facebook SDK processes your data and its privacy protection measures, please visit the Facebook official privacy policy page. Facebook elaborates on aspects such as the scope of data collection, purposes of use, storage period, and data sharing in its privacy policy, and you can refer to and understand it according to your own needs.
(III) Zego Video SDK
- Function: The Zego Video SDK endows my game with excellent real-time video functions, enabling players to achieve high-definition, low-latency audio and video interaction experiences. Whether it's real-time voice communication, video chatting in the game, or real-time spectating and interaction in multiplayer online competitive scenarios, the Zego Video SDK can provide stable and smooth technical support, greatly enriching the social interaction dimension and communication methods among players.
- Data Usage: During the process of providing real-time video services, this tool will release the SDK basic function resource package to local devices and process users' audio and video data according to its own privacy policy. The processing of this data is mainly used to optimize video transmission quality, achieve real-time audio and video synchronization, ensure the smoothness of interaction, and provide various video special effects and filters, aiming to create an ultimate video interaction experience for you.
- Privacy Policy: If you hope to have a detailed understanding of the specific details of data processing and privacy protection mechanism of the Zego Video SDK, please visit the Zego official privacy policy page. There, you can obtain comprehensive information on aspects such as data collection types, data storage locations, data security measures, and data sharing restrictions, so that you can better understand and evaluate its impact on your data privacy.
(IV) SVGA Player SDK
- Version: com.github.svga:SVGAPlayer - Android:2.6.1
- Function: The SVGA Player SDK is a tool specifically used for playing SVGA animation files. In my game, it is mainly responsible for rendering and displaying various exquisite animation effects, such as game opening animations, character skill special effects, scene transition animations, etc. Through vivid and realistic animation presentations, it significantly enhances the visual effects and interaction experience of the game, enabling you to immerse yourself more deeply in the wonderful world of the game.
- Data Usage: It is worth mentioning that this open-source tool only processes animation files locally on your device and will not transmit any of your personal data outward. This means that when you are enjoying the visual feast brought by the animations, you don't need to worry about the privacy security of your personal data.
- More Information: If you are interested in the SVGA Player SDK and hope to learn more about its technical details, functional features, or usage methods, etc., you can visit its official GitHub page, where you can obtain rich documentation, sample codes, and communication information from the developer community to help you explore the charm and potential of this tool in depth.
VIII. User Rights
(I) Right of Access
You have the right to log in to your game account at any time and view the details of your personal data held by me through the dedicated channels provided by me. This enables you to clearly understand what data I have collected, the sources of these data, and the current storage status, ensuring that you have full right to be informed of your own data.
(II) Right of Correction
If you find that the personal information recorded by me is inaccurate or incomplete, you have the right to modify and supplement this information at any time to ensure that its accuracy and completeness can truly reflect your personal situation. I will provide you with convenient information correction entrances and operation procedures to ensure that you can smoothly exercise this right.
(III) Right of Deletion
You can initiate a request to delete your account through the settings option in the game at any time. Once you confirm the deletion, I will completely clear all data related to your account, including your account information, game records, personal settings, and other relevant data, and this data will not be recoverable. This gives you the final control over your own data, allowing you to freely decide whether to retain the data according to your own needs.
IX. Data Retention Period
I follow the principle of data minimization and only retain your data for the period necessary to achieve the purposes of the game service. During the data retention period, I will continue to strictly protect and manage the data in accordance with the requirements of this privacy policy to ensure the security and compliance of the data.
X. Special Instructions for Minors
The RummyHoHo game is only intended for adult users aged 18 or above. I firmly abide by relevant laws and regulations and will not intentionally collect personal data of minors. During the user registration and game usage process, I will try my best to identify minor users through various technical means and manual review methods. Once suspected minor accounts are found, I will immediately initiate an investigation procedure, and after confirmation, promptly take actions to delete the relevant data, and at the same time take measures to prevent minors from registering and using my game services again, actively fulfilling my social responsibility in protecting the privacy of minors.
XI. Policy Change Notifications
With the continuous development and improvement of the game service, as well as changes in external factors such as laws, regulations, and technological environments, my privacy policy may be adjusted and updated in a timely manner. When the privacy policy changes, I will notify you in the following ways:
To ensure that you always understand my latest privacy policy and data processing methods, I strongly recommend that you regularly review the content of this policy, especially after I issue a policy change notice, so that you can promptly understand the relevant changes and make corresponding decisions according to your own needs.
XII. Contact Me
I will wholeheartedly serve you, listen carefully to your voice, and promptly and effectively handle your feedback, striving to provide you with a safe, transparent, and enjoyable game experience.
Thank you again for choosing RummyHoHo! I will continue to work hard as always to create a trustworthy game environment for you to fully enjoy the fun and challenges in the game world.