We may collect your Data when:
a) You play our games for the first time and create an account (hereinafter referred to as your “Account”).
When you download our games, we collect the time, date and install source of your download along with your country code. When you first play our games, we may automatically generate a user ID (“Player ID”) that you can find in your in-game settings menu. We do not collect any other personal information such as your name, email address, date of birth unless you decide to share it with us (e.g. by changing your in-game name to your real name). Some items of Data, such as your assigned or chosen user name, are made public to allow other members of the game community to find you in our Services.
b) You sign into our Services with a social login or your credentials from a third party platform (for example, Facebook, Google Play, Apple Game Center).
Some of our Services may also allow you to connect your Account to third-party accounts such as your Facebook, Google Play or Apple Game Center accounts to participate in social features and highscores.
If you connect your account to your Game Center account or other third-party accounts such as Google or Facebook, we may collect your user ID for the third-party services and a login token that allows you to verify your identity without re-entering your credentials for third-party platforms as long as the token remains active.
Some of our Services allow you to create invitation links that you may send to your friends to connect directly via the Social Feature.
c) You make a purchase in our Services.
When you make purchases in our Services, we only collect Data about your transaction (such as transaction ID and timestamp) to authenticate your purchase. We do not collect or store any payment information such as your credit card number. When you make purchases with in-game currency within our Services, we only collect Data about purchase transaction types and spend you have made using virtual items in the Services.
d) You use our games, applications, websites and online services on a computer or mobile telephone.
We collect:
- Your game data, to improve your experience and the security of our Services such as: unlocked game progress, rewards, rankings, completed game missions, statistics including the game time or the use of the various features as well as the data associated with any bugs and malfunctions.
- Your login data, to enable the operation and security of our Services, such as:, identifier of your device and the connection (IP address, MAC address), login dates and times, information concerning the device and the operating system you use.
We use various types of technologies such as cookies to collect such Data when you use our Services or visit a third party site where we and our partners provide content or carry out content use analysis.
We allow some of our partners to set and access their Cookies on your device. These partners’ use of Cookies is subject to their own privacy policies and not this Privacy Policy.
e) You interact with other players (forums, chat rooms, MAD Desire social media pages).
We collect Data such as your public profile information (including but not limited to user name, location, avatar), the date, time, and we save the content of your messages to allow you to interact with other players in a secure environment.
f) You are exposed to personalised advertisements or content on our Services or those of our partners.
We collect Data such as the advertisement and the number of times it was watched, its location in the Services and the identifier of your device. We also collect information about your actions in relation to the advertisement.
We can combine the Data collected with our partners when you use our Services. We may also combine this Data with demographic, advertising and market studies or with other analytic surveys.
We may also use all of your Data collected to offer you personalised advertisements, products, services or content (hereinafter referred to as “Personalised Content”) via our Services or those of our partners.
If you wish to withdraw your consent or object to the personalisation of advertisements, please go to Section 6 “What are your rights and how do you exercise your rights”, then to the paragraph “Give and withdraw your consent”.
g) You take part in a contest or survey, or join a program, organised by MAD Desire Games.
When you participate in a contest, survey or program, we may collect some of your personal data. Prior to collecting any Data for these purposes, we will inform you by means of a privacy notice about the Data being collected and your rights.
We use this Data to administer the contest, survey or program, to send you promotional offers and/or for internal statistical purposes.
In the case of contests and giveaways, via our social media pages, we may collect Data such as, but not limited to, your username, first name, last name, game account ID, as well as further information available on your public profile or which you may decide to share with us. MAD Desire will only keep your Data for the time strictly necessary to operate the survey and in case of giveaways and reward you if you are a winner.
h) You contact our Community Management team via in-game chat, email, or social media.
If you contact us via in-game chat, we collect Data such as but not limited to your last name, first name, user name, country, device identifier, games and their respective progress registered on your Account, as well as further Data you may decide to share with us, depending on your questions or requests.
When you send support requests directly via the chat system integrated into our Services, your provided Personal Data will be transmitted to our help desk provider HelpShift Inc. When you send support requests via email, your provided Personal Data will be transmitted to Microsoft and to our help desk provider HelpShift Inc.. By sending support requests via the chat system or email, you understand and agree with the transmission of the Personal Data required to process your support request.
If you contact us via social media, we collect some of the Data included on your public social media profile. When you interact with us publicly or via direct message on social media, your public and provided Personal Data will be transmitted to our social media management tool provider Agorapulse SAS.
We only use this Data to appropriately analyze your concerns or identify related issues, and then to respond to your questions and requests.
i) You do not comply with the rules of the game.
When you use our Services, you must comply with our Terms and Conditions and the codes of conduct associated with our Services which are intended to protect our users, employees and more generally MAD Desire’s rights. If you do not abide by these rules, you may be sanctioned including in the event of inappropriate conduct, cheating or toxic behaviour. We will keep your Data for the time needed to apply these sanctions. This Data may include for example your Account identifier, your game data, your IP address, the identifier of your device and your chat history.