Introduction
LinkTown Corporation, a corporation duly
organized and validly existing under the laws of Korea having its principal
place of business and/or its affiliates (¡°LinkTown¡± ) respect your rights and
our obligations regarding your privacy and personal information, and we provide
this Privacy Policy to help you understand how we collect, use, share, store,
and disclose your information we obtain when you are using LinkTown¡¯s mobile games (¡°LinkTown Games¡±) and related services, including, without limitation, the use of
LinkTown Games, participation in an online community for LinkTown Games or
social network services offered via the LinkTown Platform or LinkTown branded
websites (collectively, the ¡°LinkTown Service¡±).
THIS IS A LEGALLY BINDING AGREEMENT BETWEEN
YOU AND LinkTown. BY DOWNLADING AND/OR INSTALLING LinkTown GAMES, ACCESSING
AND/OR USING THE LinkTown SERVICE AND/OR CREATING A LinkTown ACCOUNT, YOU
ACCEPT AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
This Privacy Policy applies to any person
or entity that uses the LinkTown Service, except residents of the Republic of
Korea.
LinkTown may amend, at our discretion, any
portion of this Privacy Policy at any time by posting or displaying the amended
Privacy Policy within and/or on LinkTown Games, LinkTown branded website, or
the LinkTown Platform. You will be deemed to have accepted such amendments by
continuing to use the LinkTown Service. Except as otherwise stated, any such
amendments will be automatically effective 30 calendar days after they are
initially posted.
1. Information We May Collect
1.1. Information Received Through
Your SNS Account.
When you use the LinkTown Service through
your SNS account, such as Facebook or Google, you allow us to access and/or
collect certain information from your SNS profile/ account as permitted by the
terms of the SNS Platform and your privacy setting thereon. The information you
allow us to access varies depending upon the LinkTown Service you use as well
as the terms of the SNS Platform and your privacy setting thereon.
collectively, the ¡°SNS Information¡±
By using the LinkTown Services through your
SNS account, you are authorizing LinkTown to collect, store, and use you SNS
information in accordance with this Privacy Policy as well as the terms of the
SNS Platform and your privacy setting thereon.
1.2. Information You Provide To Us
Directly.
When you use any of the LinkTown Service
(including through a SNS) we may collect the following information you provide
to us directly:
Registration Information: We strongly
encourage you to create a LinkTown Account that enables you to receive customer
support services with ease and enjoy various features of the LinkTown Services.
When you create a LinkTown Account, we will collect and store any registration
information you share with us, such as an e-mail address or password (the ¡°Registration Information¡±).
Profile Information: If you have a LinkTown
Account, you may have the option of providing additional information about
yourself, including a profile photo, user name, gender, email address,
birthday, and your phone number (collectively, the ¡°Profile Information¡±), to create your user profile in the LinkTown platform. Please keep
in mind that your Profile Information may be publicly viewable by other
LinkTown users depending upon your privacy setting. You may control the
visibility of most of the Profile Information you share with other LinkTown
users at any time.
Public Posting: Some of LinkTown Games
and/or the LinkTown Platform may allow you to interact with other users and/or
post, share, communicate with, or otherwise transmit content publicly, such as
by participating in player forums, message boards, news feeds, status updates,
sending messages or invitations to other users, chatting with other users,
and/or posting photo (collectively, ¡°Public Postings¡±). We may
collect and store such Public Postings on LinkTown¡¯s
servers, and all Public Postings are subject to this Privacy Policy.
Customer Support Correspondence: When you
ask our customer support team for assistance, we may collect and store from you
the contact information as well as your payment information regarding the
purchase of digital items of LinkTown Games to the extent reasonably necessary
to provide customer support.
Promotional Events: We may offer you the
opportunity to participate in promotional events regarding LinkTown Games
through LinkTown Games, the LinkTown Platform, LinkTown branded websites, or
third party websites or platforms. If you choose to participate in such
promotional events, we may collect and store the information you provide in
connection with your participation in the event, such as your e-mail address or
phone number, and we will use and/or disclose that information in accordance
with this Privacy Policy unless stated otherwise. We may use information you
provide to contact you for winner notification, prize delivery confirmation or
other related purposes. Your entry in the promotional event may also result in
your being added to our mailing lists as well as those of our promotional
partners associated with such an event. The acceptance of a prize may require
you to allow us to post publicly some of your information within or on the
LinkTown platform or LinkTown branded websites.
Friends Matching: If you are an Android
phone user and log-in the LinkTown Platform, we may, upon your request,
periodically access your contact list and/or address book on your mobile device
in order to help you find any friends who may also have a LinkTown Account. We
will use such contact information solely for such a friends-matching service,
and we will not store such information after fulfilling this purpose. If you
are an iOS user, we will not access your contact list and/or address book on
your mobile device unless your identity is verified in a reasonable way
Telephone Number/ Technical & Usage
Information Collected Through Automated Means: When you access and/or use the
LinkTown Service, we may collect
(a) your telephone number (we collect the
telephone number through automated means only if you attempt to create a
LinkTown Account and you are an Android phone user; if you are an iOS user, we
will not collect your telephone number unless your identity is verified in a
reasonable way),
(b) certain technical information about
your mobile device, including MAC Address, IP Address and mobile device ID
(except for iPhone¡¯s unique identifier, ¡°UDID¡±); and
(c) usage statistics about your interactions
with the LinkTown Service.
Such information and usage data is
collected through the use of server log files and/or tracking technologies. We
may use ¡°cookies¡± and other technologies such as pixel tags and web beacons, clear
GIFs on certain our services, games, advertising and web pages to analyze your
use of our services, games, advertising and web pages, to customize, improve
our services, games, advertising and web pages, to measure promotional
effectiveness, and to promote trust and safety. E-mails and other electronic
communications we send to you may contain code that enables us to track your
usage of the communications, including whether the communication was opened
and/or what links were followed (if any). You are always free to decline our cookies
if your browser, device permits, although doing so may interfere with your use
of some of our services, games, advertising and web pages. Please note that
certain features of our services, games, advertising and web pages will not be
available once cookies are declined.
2. How We Use the Information We Collect.
LinkTown may use the information we collect
through your use of the LinkTown Service for providing enhanced game services
and promotional information regarding LinkTown Games. For example, we may use
the information we collect in any of the following ways:
• Creating your Game Account and managing the account
information;
• Informing you of (a) products, new products, services,
features, promotions, enhancements, and updates regarding the LinkTown Service
and (b) updates to the LinkTown Policy;
• Promoting and facilitating your use of the LinkTown
Service, including the targeted advertising, and affiliate marketing;
• Marketing LinkTown Games to you, including sending you
offers, promotion information, newsletters, local or push notifications, e-mail
campaigns, and communications regarding new, improved or existing LinkTown
Games;
• Providing customer supports and responding user
inquiries;
• Fulfilling your request and/or order for LinkTown Games
and our obligations under the LinkTown Policy;
• Enabling user-to-user communication and interaction;
• Helping users find their friends who has also created a
LinkTown Account;
• Soliciting your input and feedback to improve user
experience;
• Monitoring the technical functioning of the LinkTown
Service;
• Developing new and/or improved games, products,
services or offerings;
• Analyzing market trends and user traffic;
• Trouble-shooting errors or issues with any of the
LinkTown Service; and
• Complying with applicable laws, regulations, or
administrative orders.
3. Change/Delete Your Information.
3.1. Information We Receive From SNS
To manage the information LinkTown receives
about you from an SNS, you should change your privacy setting of the SNS in
accordance with any applicable policy of the SNS.
3.2. Profile Information
You may change or update the Profile
Information by logging into your LinkTown Account.
3.3. Deleting Account
If you choose to terminate or delete your
LinkTown Account, we will immediately delete your LinkTown Account information.
Even after your Account is terminated or deleted some or all of your
information may still remain visible to others, including but not limited to
any information that has been incorporated into any User Contents or copied,
stored or disseminated by you or other users.
4. Security of Your Information.
LinkTown takes commercially reasonable
security measures to protect against unauthorized access to, or unauthorized
alteration, disclosure or destruction of, sensitive data that you share and we
collect and store. Despite our efforts to enhance a security level of the
LinkTown Service, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized access, hacking, data
loss, or other breaches will never occur. We strongly encourage you not to
share your account password with any third parties for any reasons. If you have
questions regarding the security measures of the LinkTown Service, please
contact us at linktown.co@gmail.com.
5. Our Policy Concerning Children
We feel under a particular obligation to
protect information obtained from young children. We would strongly urge
parents to instruct their children never to disclose their real name, their
address or their telephone number while they are on-line without prior permission.
Our Services are not intended for minor children and we do not knowingly
collect any personal information from such children. Minor children should not
use or attempt to use our Services.
Visiting the LinkTown Internet sites and
using our on-line Services indicates your acceptance of LinkTown¡¯s Privacy Policy. If you
do not accept this Privacy Policy, please do not visit our LinkTown platform or
LinkTown branded websites, or use our on-line Services.
6. Questions
If you have any questions regarding our
Privacy Policy and/or practices, please feel free to contact us by sending an
email to linktown.co@gmail.com.