PRIVACY POLICY FOR MOBILE APPLICATIONS (APPS)
IPACS takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. The following policy statement informs you about which personal data we collect and how we process and use them.

In order to explain how we handle personal data, and to fulfill the relevant legal provisions concerning data protection, we present the following Privacy Policy. This policy applies to our mobile applications (apps) for smartphones and tablet PCs.

Scope of this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to all mobile applications (apps) offered under the responsibility of IPACS.

Unless stated otherwise, solely this Privacy Policy regulates how IPACS treats your personal data. In the event that you are using services of third parties, the policy of these third parties shall apply exclusively.

Responsible party
The “responsible party”, within the meaning of the Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz) is: IPACS, Stauffenbergstr. 43, 72074 Tübingen, Germany.

If you have any questions about privacy, please contact privacy@ipacs.de. You can use this address at any time to ask questions about data protection, to query which data are saved by IPACS, or to have such edited or deleted. Alternatively, you can contact us by post at the above mailing address. Please submit, where possible, the name of the online or mobile game you play, the server and your player name.

Data collection upon download
When you download the app, no information is actively transmitted by us to the respective app store (Apple App Store, Google Play, Amazon, Windows, etc.). If you want to know which data are collected and processed by the respective app store as part of a download, please inform yourself with their privacy policy. We have no influence on possible data collection by the stores.

Data collection by us
We only use information about you to the extent that this is necessary for downloading the app to your device. If necessary, we collect information from whichever source (banners, store, etc.) you used to download the app.

If you register within our apps or subscribe to our forum, it is necessary for you to provide personal data. In many cases, use of IPACS services is possible using a pseudonym. Users are encouraged to make use of this possibility.

For statistical purposes, your mobile device and its associated operating system are recorded by us. Beyond the purposes of pursuing unauthorized use of our services, we analyze this data only for statistical and service development. To the fullest extent possible, the information is anonymized.

Access permissions for our apps
Our apps require different access permissions on your device. These are required to guarantee certain functionality of our apps. If you want, for example, to create a profile picture from within the app, we need access to your camera or photo album. If you want to buy additional content through the app, we may need access to the necessary interface to your app store account.

The access permissions on your mobile device are dependent on the operating system (e.g. Android, iOS, etc.) and the store where the app was purchased (e.g. Google Play Store, Apple App Store, Amazon, etc.). You generally receive information on which access permissions are required by our apps prior to installation.

In Apple iOS, see “Settings” at any time for an overview of what content our apps can access. You can restrict these access permissions at a later time.

In Android, various access permissions are also needed on your mobile device. Under “Settings / Apps”, you can review the access permissions of our apps.

Data analysis by IPACS
We do not perform analyses on the behavior of users when using our apps.

Within our apps, we do not use any proprietary marketing or advertising cookies. Instead, we use cookies on your device that can store your user name and the current games settings in a text file. These cookies are necessary for the provision of our apps.

Facebook
Facebook SDK: Within our app, we use the Software Development Kit (SDK) from Facebook. The Facebook SDK is issued and administered by Facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. By means of this integration, we can link various Facebook services with our app. For example, users can use the Facebook SDK to share contents of our apps on their own Facebook timeline, or to send messages to other Facebook users. Further information about Facebook SDK within iOS can be found here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ios. For Android, please refer to: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/android.

Facebook Login via the SDK: In order to use Facebook services within our apps, you will need to first use Facebook Login to connect with Facebook. This requires that you have an existing Facebook account or that you create a Facebook account. If you want to use your Facebook account to log in to our services, you will be guided directly in a first step to Facebook, where Facebook will ask you to sign in or register. In no event will we learn your personal login information (username and password). In a second step, you can link your Facebook profile with each service you want to register to use. You will then receive a separate notice detailing which data is transferred to us from your Facebook profile. This generally includes your “public information” on Facebook and anything you make public or make accessible to the respective application. This generally includes your name, your profile and cover picture, your gender, your networks, your username (Facebook URL) and your user identifier (Facebook ID). In order to communicate with you without going through Facebook, we also use the e-mail address you have registered with Facebook.

You can check and modify the status of your connection to Facebook and the respective access privileges of our apps at any time under your Facebook profile settings (https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications). Here, you will also find an overview of which information in your profile is public. If you want to cancel the connection between Facebook and our apps, please log in to Facebook and make the necessary changes in your profile settings. We will then no longer be able to access information from your Facebook profile in order to serve you.

Facebook App Events: We use the Facebook SDK service called “Facebook App Events” to evaluate the reach of our advertising campaigns and use of Facebook SDK. Facebook merely provides us with an aggregated analysis of user behavior with our app. We also have no influence on the information that will be processed by Facebook App Events.

You can stop all collection of information by the Application easily by uninstalling the Application. You may use the standard uninstall processes as may be available as part of your mobile device or via the mobile application marketplace or network.

Use of your data
We use your personal information as needed in order to design and continually improve our services.

Disclosure of data
Of course, your personal data will not be sold to third parties. IPACS does not submit personal data received from you to third parties.

In the event that IPACS, any companies owned by IPACS, individual subsidiary/affiliated companies or parts of companies are sold, your customer information will generally be passed on with the transmitted part of the company. Your data is of course also subject - in such case - to this Privacy Policy and the relevant data protection laws.

Further notes on data protection
Please note that all information voluntarily published by you (e.g. in chat areas, in forums, in comments or by e-mail) can be collected and used by others.

For reasons of own liability, we reserve the right to check these contents.

Data security
We process information collected from you according to German data protection law. All employees are obliged to maintain data confidentiality and privacy practices, and are trained in this regard.

Changes
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time for any reason. We will notify you of any changes to our Privacy Policy by posting the new Privacy Policy here. You are advised to consult this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes, as continued use is deemed approval of all changes.

Contact us
If you have any questions regarding privacy while using the Application, or have questions about our practices, please contact us via email at privacy@ipacs.de.