3. WHY WE COLLECT INFORMATION ABOUT YOU
To provide the Online Services to you
We will use information about you (including the Game Information, User Content, Contact Information and Third Party Account Information) to deliver our Online Services to you under the terms of use agreed between us. The processing of information in this way is necessary, for example, for us to record your progress and current status within an Online Service such as a Game, and to ensure the Online Services deliver the features promised and function properly.
Where we process your personal data for Leaderboards, or other User Content, in our Online Services, we also rely upon our legitimate interests as a legal basis for undertaking that processing, being our commercial interests in providing an enhanced experience in our Online Services (though, depending on the nature of our particular Online Service, the Leaderboard or User Content may be a part of the core functionality of the Online Service).
If you make purchases through the Online Services, your order and Game Information and Contact Information may be processed so that you can access these features within the Online Service.
For the above purposes, we rely upon the legal basis of performance of a contract (being performance of the terms of use agreed between us).
Moderation and preventing spam
Certain Game Information and User Content which you supply through our Online Service may be shared with other users of the Online Service. In some cases you may be able to select specific recipients (for example, if you are sending a forum post, or a private message, to a particular forum or individual) and then only those recipients will receive it, however in all other cases, your information may be made publicly available.
We may make your Game Information and User Content available to forum moderators. Moderators are crucial to the Communities and help make them the place that they are. Moderators are directed to only act in accordance with our instructions and to adhere to the moderator rules. We may moderate content, but we are not required to do so. Please see our relevant terms of use with you for the relevant Online Service for more information about content moderation.
Spam is a problem for many forums and websites. In order to minimise this we may use IPS Spam Defense Service to check that any new registration is not spam. In order to do this certain information may be provided to IPS Spam Defense Service for the sole purpose of checking that it is not spam. You can find out more about how the IPS Spam Defense Service uses this information on their website available here: https://invisioncommunity.com/legal/privacy.
For the above purposes, we rely upon the legal basis of performance of a contract (being our terms of use with you for the relevant Online Service) and our legitimate interests, being our commercial interests to moderate the services and to prevent spam.
To respond to your enquiries and requests for support
We may process Submitted Information so that we are able to properly respond to your enquiries and support requests, in accordance with the terms of use agreed between us.
As part of this we may also share this Submitted Information with the developers of the Games that we publish and with our vendors who may assist us with managing support queries.
For the above purposes, we rely upon the legal basis of performance of a contract (being our terms of use with you for the relevant Online Service) and our legitimate interests, being our commercial interests to respond to your queries and requests for support.
We may process your Submitted Information so that we can serve untargeted advertisements to you in the relevant Online Service. For this purpose, your personal data is processed on the basis of our legitimate interests, being our commercial interests for advertisement-supported services.
For some of our Online Services, we may process Submitted Information to show you more relevant advertisements (on our Online Services or on third party services), based on your perceived preferences, for our products and services or for other third party products and services. Where we process your Submitted Information for this type of advertising, we rely upon your consent for our data processing. You have the right to withdraw this consent at any time by letting us know by email to: contactus@soccermanager.com.
For the purposes of serving you with more relevant advertising in our Online Services and on other third party services and platforms, we work with advertising networks including the following:
If you would like to find out more about the way these third parties collect and process your information please refer to their respective privacy policies and/or terms and conditions by clicking on the links provided above.
We will not process your information for the purposes of targeted marketing or pass your information on to third parties for the purposes of such marketing unless you give your consent or you have given it already. After you have given your consent, you may withdraw it at any time.
For some of our Online Services, Analytics information may be shared with advertisers on an anonymous aggregate basis. We may also publicise anonymous, aggregate statistics through our websites or other channels although this will not include your personal data (this might be, for example, aggregated visitor numbers).
Please note that we use third party providers of adverts and the advert content is provided by these third parties and not Soccer Manager. Soccer Manager does not control and is not responsible for third party advert content. If you have concerns about specific advert content, you can contact us at: contactus@soccermanager.com.
To understand which publisher of our advertisements referred you to us
We process personal data, including without limitation the Game Information and Analytics, so that we can understand which publisher of our advertisements referred you to us and, for example, to which advertisement and/or advertising or marketing campaign that referral related. This information is helpful for our purposes of understanding which marketing and advertisement activity is successful. We process this personal data on the basis of our legitimate interests, being our commercial interests in promoting and improving our Games and their commercial success (including by improving our advertising and marketing).
To understand which publisher of our advertisements referred you to us
We process personal data, including without limitation the Game Information and Analytics, so that we can understand which publisher of our advertisements referred you to us and, for example, to which advertisement and/or advertising or marketing campaign that referral related. This information is helpful for our purposes of understanding which marketing and advertisement activity is successful. We process this personal data on the basis of our legitimate interests, being our commercial interests in promoting and improving our Games and their commercial success (including by improving our advertising and marketing).
To acquire new users and engage current users
We use various forms of marketing to acquire new users. The information we collect about you may be used to improve the relevancy of our marketing, including the creation of 'lookalike' audiences. This allows us to offer more relevant marketing to potential new service users without using information that personally identifies you.
- We may also process this information to pursue our legitimate interests of acquiring new users for our Games.
- Your Steam ID / Steam profile identifier / display name or your username/identifier on another platform or account;
To prevent fraudulent or illegal activity
We may process your Submitted Information for our legitimate interests of ensuring that your use of our Online Services is lawful and in compliance with our agreement (being the terms of use agreed between us), to prevent disruption to our Online Service, to enforce our rights, to protect any individual or otherwise to ensure our compliance with our legal obligations.
Where we reasonably believe that you are or may be in breach of any applicable laws or our terms of use, we may use your personal information to inform relevant third parties such as your law enforcement agencies about the content.
We reserve the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any User Content posted by you constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy. You may not copy, download, or embed any User Content without the express written permission of the content owner. You may not use any User Content for any commercial purposes, or any public performances.
We work with Apple and Google to assist us with fraud prevention and the detection of any illegal activity (e.g. to verify in-app purchases made through iTunes and Google Play).
To help us to improve the Online Services and help us fix any problems
We may process information about you (being the Submitted Information or any part thereof) so that we can analyse and improve our Online Services and also for us to develop new Online Services or new parts thereof.
This processing is necessary for us to pursue our legitimate interests, being our commercial interests of: (i) ensuring that our Online Services function properly so that you and other users have the best experience when, for example, playing the Games and using the other Online Services; (ii) improving the quality of our Online Services, and providing a better experience to our users; and (iii) identifying and correcting any bugs or problems with the Online Services.
To help us to understand your usage of the Online Services
We may process information (being the Submitted Information or any part thereof) to understand how users use our Online Services, and to compile statistical reports regarding that activity, as well as understanding how users progress within a particular Online Service such as a Game. This processing is necessary for us to pursue our legitimate interests, being our commercial interests in continually improving the Online Services, understanding and fixing problems (such as when users may frequently be 'stuck' in a particular Game level) and to improve our future products and services.
Where you have consented, or where it is otherwise lawful for us to do so, we use your Submitted Information to send you emails in order to keep you informed about our news and products. You can withdraw your consent at any time by letting us know by email to: contactus@soccermanager.com.
Push notifications about our Game and similar notifications
Where you have consented or where it is otherwise lawful to do so, we may use your Submitted Information to send you ‘push notifications’ or in-service notifications (for example, on your device and in relation to the Game). The third party platform (i.e. your device provider such as Apple) is responsible for obtaining your consent to activities such as push notifications.