Introductions
This Privacy Policy has been updated on August, 28, 2026
MATRYOSHKA GAMES PRIVACY POLICY
WE RESPECT YOUR PRIVACY
If you have any privacy related concerns, please contact us at: support@matryoshka.com
MATRYOSHKA GAMES LTD is a company registered in Cyprus, with registration number HE 408160 and
address at this date at Arch. Makariou III, 1, MITSI BUILDING 3, 6th oor, Oce 611, 1065, Nicosia,
Cyprus (''MATRYOSHKA'', ''We'' “Us”), who oers entertaining mobile applications (“App(s)''). This
privacy statement describes how MATRYOSHKA GAMES collects and uses the information and/or data
(the terms are used interchangeably) you provide. It also describes the choices available to you
regarding our use of your information and how you can access the information. We respect your privacy
and we take protecting it seriously.
Reading Privacy Policy is important so we hope you will give it time and attention.
This Policy applies to the following people:
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visitors to the websites (“Visitor”, “you”, "your", "yours") (including those submitting a job
application).
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people who use the Games (For the purposes of this policy, we dene the term “User”, “you”,
"your", "yours" as a person which has concluded the installation of any App(s) provided by
MATRYOSHKA GAMES).
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people who make complaints to us by email.
In this Policy we refer to the Sites, the App(s) and the Ancillary Services together as the “Services”.
MATRYOSHKA GAMES do not sell your personal information to third parties. A “sale” of Personal
Information under the CCPA is dened broadly to include the “selling, renting, releasing, disclosing,
disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by
electronic or other means” the Personal Information of a Consumer to another business or third party “for
monetary or other valuable consideration.” If we decide to sell our App(s) (our business), we will inform
you about this, so you can forbid us to transfer your personal data together with our business. If so, we
will delete your data from the databases prior to a business transfer.
We adhere to the following principles in order to protect your privacy:
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principle of purposefulness - we process personal data fairly and in a transparent manner only for
the achievement of determined and lawful objectives, and they shall not be processed in a manner
not conforming to the objectives of data processing;
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principle
of
minimalism
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we
collect
personal
data
only
to
the
extent
necessary
for
the
achievement of determined purposes and do not keep personal data if it is no longer needed;
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principle of restricted use - we use personal data for other purposes only with the consent of the
data subject or with the permission of a competent authority;
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principle of data quality - we update personal data shall be up-to-date, complete and necessary for
the achievement of the purpose of data processing;
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principle of security - security measures shall be applied in order to protect personal data from
unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using
appropriate technical and organisational measures;
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principle of individual participation - the persons shall be notied of data collected concerning him
or her, the persons shall be granted access to the data concerning him or her and the persons have
the right to demand the correction of inaccurate or misleading data.
1. DEFINITIONS
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“Analytical data” means any data that is derived from the data mentioned herein that is used for
internal analytics purposes via Our analytic system (e.g., for statistics analysis, marketing,
enhancing the in-game experience, enhancing the Games, the Services, etc.).
Analytical data may as well include the following data: separate ID of the User in Analytical data,
User ID in BrainCloud service by bitHeads Inc., Apps language, Paying information (whether the
User spent any money while using the Apps), Platform information (where the Apps were installed),
Store information (via which the Apps were installed), Session ID, Start version of the Apps, Version
of the Apps, First Seen (time and date of the rst launch of the Apps), Last Seen (time and date of
the last in-App action of the User), Total Spent (the amount that was spent by the User within the
Apps in USD), total amount of all Purchases made by the User, Client Event Time, Client Upload
Time, Server Upload Time, Server Received Time.
Analytical data is generated by Us. We securely store Analytical data for the above-mentioned
internal purposes without sharing it with any third party.
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“Device information” means data about your device from which you use our Games and/or Sites
that may include: your IP address and unique mobile device identication numbers (e.g., your
device
ID,
advertising
ID),
device
family,
device
type,
RAM
information,
CPU
information,
Designated Market Area information, Operating system;
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“Games” means Our Apps including "Rescue Dash", "Tribe Dash", "Farming Fever", "Cooking
Live", "Idle Mars Colony", "Mega Farm", "Royal Cooking" ;
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“Location information” means data about your location, namely broad location data (e.g. country,
region or city-level location);
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“Sites” means Our websites, including https://matryoshka.com/ and any other MATRYOSHKA
GAMES sites on which this Policy is posted;
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“User information” means data that we collect about you (such as your nickname, prole picture)
that we receive if you link a third-party tool with the Service (for example, Facebook, Google Play),
data about your age or other data provided by you regarding yourself.
2. PERSONAL DATA THAT WE COLLECT AND PROCESS
We may source, use and otherwise process your personal data in dierent ways. In all cases we are
committed to protecting your personal data.
We may use the information collected from you for a variety of purposes, primarily, relating to providing
our Services and information about our Services. We may also use the information for such other
purposes as otherwise allowed by law. For example, we (or a supplier or our aliate company acting on
our behalf and only under our instructions) may use your personal information, including personally
identiable information, for such purposes, including but not limited to the purpose examples listed
below.
2.1. VISITORS TO THE SITES
The Website is essentially a brochure for MATRYOSHKA/s business, its Apps and opportunities to work
with and for MATRYOSHKA GAMES. The Website collects personal data from you for the following
purposes and on the following legal bases:
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Categories of Personal
Data
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Purpose examples
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Legal basis
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● Email;
● Any other data that you
submit in connection with
a contact request
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To collect this information because
you choose whether to contact us
or not and can choose how much
personal data to provide to us in
doing so
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Legitimate interest in
provision with the most
detailed information regarding
Our business, Apps and
opportunities to work with and
for MATRYOSHKA GAMES
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● Your data in CV;
● Any other data that you
submit in connection with
a job request
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To be able to receive your
requests via the recruitment
enquiries section and reply to
them
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Legitimate interest in
assessing you as a potential
candidate
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Information about the candidate is stored indenitely, until we receive a written notication with
the requirement to delete the information;
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Source of the above-mentioned personal data: we collect it directly from you.
2.2. USERS
We may collect the following categories of personal data relating to our Users for the purposes and on
legal basis mentioned below:
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Categories of Personal
Data
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Purpose examples
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Legal basis
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Data about your progress
of the game, using
connected your social
networks, if you link a
third-party tool with the
Service (for example,
Facebook, Google Play)
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● To provide you with the access
to the Apps;
● To track and analyze your in-
game experience in order to
improve Our Services and Games.
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Legitimate interest in statistics
analysis of the use of our Apps
and Services
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Data about in-app
purchases that you make
in any App(s) provided by
MATRYOSHKA GAMES
(details of orders, amount
spent, date, time, used
vouchers or oers)
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● To track purchases and usage
information;
● To prevent cheating, crime or
fraud;
● To obtain statistical data.
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Legitimate interest in
preventing fraud and other
illegal actions, research and
statistic analysis.
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Data from platforms that
the games run on
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● To verify payments;
● To prevent cheating, crime or
fraud.
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Legitimate interest in
preventing fraud and other
illegal actions
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Device information
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● To monitor the Services,
including the Website, App(s) and
operation thereof;
● To prevent cheating, crime or
fraud.
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Legitimate interest in
preventing fraud and other
illegal actions
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Location information
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● For marketing and promotion of
our Services or related products;
● To obtain statistical data.
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Legitimate interest in
marketing and statistic
analysis
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User information
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● To provide the tech support;
● To obtain statistical data on the
target audience App(s).
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Legitimate interest in
provision of User support,
research and statistic analysis.
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Other data that you
choose to provide to us
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For analytics, tech support or other
purposes depends on the provided
data
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Consent
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2.3. PEOPLE WHO CONTACT OR MAKE COMPLAINTS TO MATRYOSHKA GAMES BY EMAIL
We may collect personal data from you for the following purposes and on the following legal bases:
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Categories of Personal
Data
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Purpose examples
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Legal basis
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● Email;
● Any other relevant data
that you submit in
connection with a
complaint, including data
of other individuals
identied therein.
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To analyze and respond to your
complaint
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Legitimate interest in
processing a complaint
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We shall retain information in relation to a complaint for a maximum of six (6) years after its
closure, in a secure environment and access to it will be restricted on a 'need to know' basis;
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The items of personal data collected are not of a nature whereby your rights and freedoms as a
data subject are outweighed by such data collection;
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Source of the above-mentioned personal data: we collect it directly from you.
3. USE OF COLLECTED PERSONAL DATA
Based on you consent and our legitimate interest to fulll our obligation for providing you with Apps,
replying to your requests, enhancing your experience and Our Services and Games, we may use any of
the collected Personal data in order and in relation to:
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contacting you (for example as part of customer service or to send you updates about our
Services) or receiving request from you (for example as part of Our User support);
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managing your account and improving your experience when you use our Services;
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marketing and promotion of our Services or related products, including those of a third party's
products which are related to our Services (If you do not want us to use your data in this way,
please let us know by contacting us at: support@matryoshka.com
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creating reports, analysis or similar services for use by us for the purposes of research or business
intelligence, for example to track potential problems or trends with our Services;
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delivering
relevant
advertising
to
you
and
measuring
and
analyzing
the
eectiveness
of
advertising, including advertising of third parties placed within the Services;
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resolving disputes or issues;
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tracking purchases and usage information;
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enforcing the legal terms governing your use of our Services; and
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any other purpose as we determine, in our sole discretion, to be necessary or required to ensure
the safety and/or integrity of our users, employees, third parties, public, and/or our Services, or to
comply with requirements of any applicable law.
4. СOMPLIANCE WITH GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (GDPR), CALIFORNIA
CONSUMER PRIVACY ACT (CCPA) AND BRAZIL'S GENERAL DATA PROTECTION LAW (LGPD
(LEI GERAL DE PROTEÇÃO DE DADOS))
4.1.
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA) privacy rights are granted and all
processing of Personal Data is performed in accordance with regulations and rules
following the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of
27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of
Personal Data and on the free movement of such data, known as the General Data
Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).
4.2.
If
you
are
located
in
California,
all
processing
of
Personal
Data
is
performed
in
accordance with regulations and rules following the California Consumer Privacy Act,
Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.100 et seq. (“CCPA”).
4.3.
If you are located in Brazilia, all processing of Personal Data is performed in accordance
with regulations and rules following the Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (“LGPD”).
4.4.
The Child Online Privacy and Protection Act (“COPPA”) regulates online collection of
information from persons under the age of 13 (covered person). Covered persons are
required to obtain parental consent before providing personal information via this
App(s). If you are a parent of a COPPA covered person, you have the option to agree to
the collection and use of your COPPA covered person's information. You may revoke your
consent, review your COPPA covered person's personal information, ask to have it
deleted, and/or refuse to allow any further collection or use of your COPPA covered
person's information at any time, contact us at support@matryoshka.com.
5. DATA ACCESS, DATA CORRECTION, DATA DELETION, DATA PORTABILITY AND
WITHDRAWAL OF THE CONSENT
5.1.
You
can
review,
correct,
update,
delete
or
transfer
their
personally
identiable
information.
For
that,
contact
us
directly
at
support@matryoshka.com
or
via
the
"Support" button inside our games. We will acknowledge your request within seventy-
two (72) hours and handle it promptly and as required by law.
5.1.1.
Right to access. You may contact us to get conrmation as to whether or not we
are processing your personal data. When we process your personal data, we will
inform You of what categories of personal data we process regarding You, the
processing purposes, the categories of recipients to whom personal data have
been
or
will
be
disclosed
and
the
envisaged
storage
period
or
criteria
to
determine that period.
5.1.2.
Right to withdraw consent. In case our processing is based on consent granted,
You may withdraw the consent at any time by contacting us or by using the
functionalities of our Services. You can withdraw your consents at any time by
replying to the email with your withdrawal and your Personal Data will be deleted
in 48 hours. Withdrawing consent may lead to fewer possibilities to use our
Services.
5.1.3.
Right to object. In case our processing is based on our legitimate interest to run,
maintain and develop our business, You have the right to object at any time to our
processing. We shall then no longer process your personal data unless for the
provision
of
our
Services
or
if
we
demonstrate
other
compelling
legitimate
grounds for our processing that override your interests, rights and freedoms or
for legal claims. Notwithstanding any consent granted beforehand for direct
marketing purposes, You have the right to prohibit us from using personal data
for direct marketing purposes, by contacting us or by using the functionalities of
the Services or unsubscribe possibilities in connection with our direct marketing
messages.
5.1.4.
Right to restriction of the processing. You have the right to obtain from us
restriction of processing of your personal data, as foreseen by applicable data
protection law, e.g. to allow our verication of accuracy of personal data after
your contesting of accuracy or to prevent us from erasing personal data when
personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes but still required for your
legal claims or when our processing is unlawful. Restriction of processing may
lead to fewer possibilities to use our Services.
5.1.5.
Right to data portability. You have the right to receive your personal data from us
in
a
structured,
commonly
used
and
machine-readable
format
and
to
independently transmit those data to a third party, in case our processing is
based on your consent and carried out by automated means.
5.1.6.
How to use these rights. To exercise any of the above-mentioned rights, You
should primarily use the functions oered by our Services. If such functions are
however not sucient for exercising such rights, You shall send us a letter or
email
to
the
address
set
out
below
under
Contact,
including
the
following
information: name, address, phone number, email address, and a copy of a valid
proof of identity. We may request additional information necessary to conrm
your identity. We may reject requests that are unreasonably repetitive, excessive
or manifestly unfounded.
5.2.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you think that we
violate your rights. You could contact The Data Protection Inspectorate in Cyprus via
their email commissioner@dataprotection.gov.cy.
5.3.
If
you
are
from
California
and
dissatised
with
how
we
have
used
your
personal
information you could contact The California Department of Justice (Department) via
their website (https://www.oag.ca.gov/privacy/caloppa/complaint-form/privacy-notice).
5.4.
If you are from Brazil, you can also le a complaint with Brazil's National Data Protection
Authority (ANPD) through its ocial channels.
6. STORING OF INFORMATION AND DELETION
6.1.
We store your Information for as long as needed to provide you with our services unless
the specic time period for storing some of your Information is additionally dened
herein. We may store Information longer, but only in a way that it cannot be tracked back
to you. When Information is no longer needed, we delete it using reasonable measures to
protect the Information from unauthorized access or use.
6.2.
We may store your Information both by using the services of Our partners (please see
Section 8 hereof) and by using Our own servers without sharing any of your data to the
third parties. Amid personal data that is stored solely by Us is Analytical data and Device
information.
6.3.
We
implement
and
maintain
appropriate
technical,
security
and
organizational
measures to protect Personal Data against unauthorized or unlawful processing and use,
and against accidental loss, destruction, damage, theft or disclosure (please see Section
7 hereof for more details).
6.4.
EU Territory. We store Personal Information as long as it is needed for the provision of our
services. Trac information is erased or made anonymous when it is no longer needed
for the purpose of the transmission or, in the case of payable services, up to the end of
the period during which the bill may lawfully be challenged or payment pursued. Direct
marketing
and
provision
of
value-added
services
information
(including
trac
information used for these purposes) is stored as long as the same is necessary for the
provision of these activities, or up to the time when a user opts out from such use in
accordance with this Privacy Policy. Other information is stored for as long as we
consider it to be necessary for the provision of our services. This Section shall not
prevent any technical storage or access to information for the sole purpose of carrying
out the transmission of a communication or as strictly necessary in order for us to
provide the service you requested.
6.5.
As explained in the GDPR statement, we strive to anonymize the data when possible. Our
technical logs will be automatically deleted within one (1) month and backup logs within
two (2) months. If you decide to exercise your right to erasure we will also inform our
Providers to delete all your data.
6.6.
US Territory. We will retain collected information for the period necessary to fulll the
purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or
permitted by applicable legislation.
6.7.
Storing might be dierent depending on the territory of collecting the information and
the applicable legislation, but we always strive to store the information only as long as it
is needed for the purposes of providing, improving or personalizing our services.
6.8.
We do not use our App(s) to knowingly solicit information from or market to children
under the age of 13. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal
information from a child under 13 years of age we will delete that information as quickly
as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child
under 13 years of age please contact us at support@matryoshka.com.
7. INFORMATION SECURITY
7.1.
We care to ensure the security of personal data. We follow generally accepted industry
standards to protect the information submitted to us, both during transmission and once
we receive it. We maintain technical, physical, and administrative security measures to
provide reasonable protection for your Personal Data. When we or our contractors
process Your information, we also make sure that your information is protected from
unauthorized
access,
loss,
manipulation,
falsication,
destruction
or
unauthorized
disclosure. This is done through appropriate administrative, technical and physical
measures.
7.2.
There is no 100% secure method of transmission over the Internet or method of
electronic storage. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
7.3.
We never process any kind of sensitive data and criminal oence data. Also we never
undertake proling of personal data.
8. CONTRACTORS
Please note that We may transfer some of your personal data to Our partners and third parties indicated
below as well as receive your personal data from the third parties (for example, from social networks).
We strongly encourage you to read carefully the privacy documents of all mentioned partners as We are
not liable for the services of third parties and do not control their data usage processes.
8.1.
We
work
with
third
party
service
providers
who
provide
website,
application
development, hosting, maintenance, and other services for us. They may be located
outside of the EEA. These contractors may have access to, or process Personal Data on
behalf of us as part of providing those services for us on the basis of the respective Data
Processing Agreements and Partners' Privacy Policy. We limit the information provided
to these service providers to that which is reasonably necessary for them to perform
their functions.
8.2.
All data transfers are performed in accordance with the highest security regulations.
Transfer of Personal Data to countries outside of the European Economic Area may be
possible only in the case, when we have obtained your consent for it.
8.3.
All processed data that is not stored by Us is stored exclusively in secure hosting
facilities provided by Vultr and Amazon CloudFront.
8.4.
In order to make a purchase from us, you must use our third party checkout options to
nalize and pay for your order. In-app purchases may be made only upon entering the
app store password and you are responsible for maintaining the security of such
password. Your authentication and security maintaining is subject to specic terms of
the app store and the OS of your mobile device. You should be aware of iOS' 15-minute
and Android's 30-minute window after the downloading of an Application, during which
in-app purchases may be made without inserting an in-app store password. You should
also take into account that OS 2.1 or older versions of Android mobile phones do not
require entering of the app store account password to carry out in-app purchases.
8.4.1.
Google Wallet: If you choose to use Google Checkout to nalize and pay for your
order, you will provide your credit card number directly to Google Checkout.
Google's Privacy Policy will apply to the information you provide to the Google
Checkout web site.
8.4.2.
Apple AppStore: If you choose to use AppStore to nalize and pay for your order,
you will provide your credit card number directly to Apple. Apple's Privacy Policy
will apply to the information you provide to Apple.
8.5.
We use Google Analytics for Firebase allows us to collect data on the usage of our Apps.
We use your data only for the purposes of our internal analytics to improve our Apps and
we do not allow sharing of your data with other parties and their products or services.
Google Analytics for Firebase collects these data: Online Identiers, browser type and
settings, operating system, mobile network information, cookie identiers, IP Address
(which is anonymised before any storage takes place), crash reports, device identiers
as well as App-Instance Identier (a randomly generated number that identies a unique
installation of an App for the rst time). This data is collected by Google Firebase when
the Users installs the App from Google Play or App Store. We use Firebase Analytics' own
unique user ID (app.instance id), which separates one mobile phone from another, but
does not personally identify you. We are using the following Google Analytics for
Firebase features: Remote Cong., Crash Reporting, Events (about usage of our App in a
pseudonymized
way),
Analytics
in
general,
Firebase
Cloud
Functions
and
Firebase
Communication Manager.
8.6.
We use Google and Facebook login so you can save your progress in our App(s). Third-
party social networks/platforms may provide your publicly available data to us if you so
allow.
8.7.
We use Google Analytics to collect the Information in order to analyze and improve our
App(s). If you are using one of our child directed App(s) or mixed audience App(s) and
you identied yourself as under the age of 13, the collected Information will only be used
for support for internal operations.
8.8.
We use AppsFlyer in purpose marketing analytics that enables us to measure and
analyze
the
eectiveness
of
our
marketing
campaigns
by
understanding
which
marketing campaigns contributed to the download/installation of mobile applications or
such other conversion metric (e.g. relaunch of Application) and measure and analyze
certain events and actions within Application or websites, such as in-app purchases
made by Users.
8.9.
We use Amplitude Analytics for analytic user behavior and understand how users are
navigating through App(s) and which features engage the most.
8.10.
We use Unity Ads, Google Ads, Facebook Ads and Apple Search Ads as a video ad
networks for iOS and Android Apps to attract new Users.
8.11.
We use ironSource for advertising purposes, to analyze ads statistics and to attract new
Users.
8.12.
We use BrainCloud to maintain and enhance our Apps.
8.13.
When you link a Freecash account, we share your device identier (IDFA/GAID) with
Almedia GmbH (Freecash.com) for reward attribution and fraud-prevention. The legal
basis for this is Art. 6 (1)(b) GDPR.
8.14.
We use Gadsme to display in-game advertising within the gameplay. For this purpose,
your device identier (IDFA / Google Advertising ID) and IP address may be processed by
Gadsme. Gadsme participates in the IAB Transparency & Consent Framework; for Users
in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland this processing is based on your consent, which you
can review or withdraw at any time via the "Privacy options" control in the App(s).
Gadsme's privacy policy is available at https://www.gadsme.com/privacy-policy/.
9. OPT-OUT
9.1.
You can deactivate local notications by changing the notication settings in accordance
with the instructions of the operating system running on the Users' device.
10. APPLICATION OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY
10.1.
This Privacy Policy is applicable to our website and our App(s). Our website contains links
to other websites. Once redirected to another website, this Policy is no longer applicable.
11. ACCEPTANCE OF THESE CONDITIONS
11.1.
We assume that all Users have carefully read this document and agree to its content. If
one does not agree with this privacy policy, they should refrain from using our website
and App(s).
12. CHANGES AND UPDATES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
12.1.
We may update this Privacy Policy to reect changes in our Information processing
practices. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information
on our privacy practices. You will be informed about material changes to our data
processing practices with local in-app notication and you can get acquainted with the
changes by reviewing the Privacy Policy link available within the App(s).
13. CONTACT US!
13.1.
If you have any questions please contact us at support@matryoshka.com.
MATRYOSHKA GAMES (CY) LTD
Arch. Makariou III, 1, MITSI BUILDING 3, 6th oor, Oce 611, 1065, Nicosia, Cyprus
HE 408160