ARTSUDOKU / LEGAL

Privacy Policy

Privacy information for ArtSudoku, a VR puzzle game by ShaderGame.

This Privacy Policy is prepared by ArtSudoku (hereinafter referred to as "we") to explain to you how we process your personal information for the purpose of providing you with ArtSudoku and related services (hereinafter collectively referred to as "this service"). We invite you to carefully read and understand this Privacy Policy before using this service in order to make appropriate choices.

1. The Personal Information We Collect

1.1 We will collect the information you spontaneously provide when using this service, and collect the information generated through automated means in the process of using the function or receiving the service by you in the following ways:

  1. In order to provide you with online PVP services, we may collect your player ID, nickname, profile picture, and local real-time controller input data.
  2. In order to provide you with the function of adding friends, we may collect your basic information (player ID, nickname, profile picture, gender), friend request, friend list, online status.

1.2 Please understand that in the following cases, in accordance with laws and regulations, we do not need to obtain your prior authorization and consent to collect and use your personal information:

  1. Necessary for you to enter into and perform a contract to which you are a party;
  2. In connection with the performance of our duties or obligations under laws and regulations;
  3. Necessary to respond to a public health emergency, or to protect the life, health and property of natural persons in an emergency;
  4. Processing personal information within a reasonable scope, to carry out acts for the public interests, such as news reporting and supervision by public expression;
  5. Processing personal information that you disclose by yourself or that has been legally disclosed within a reasonable scope;
  6. Other circumstances stipulated by laws and regulations.

1.3 Please kindly be reminded that if your personal information is irreversibly processed so that it cannot be used to identify you, it will no longer be your personal information according to laws and regulations.

2. Permissions We Request

In order to provide you with this service, we may request the following device permission(s):

Device permissions and purposes
Name of PermissionDescription of the PermissionScenario or Purpose of Use
Local file read and write permissionsUsed for storing and accessing data locallySave function
Network access permissionUsed for devices to connect to the networkRanking list function, game package update

3. Use of Personal Information

3.1 We will use your personal information we collect for the purposes and scope explicitly stated in this Privacy Policy.

3.2 If we use your personal information beyond the scope of this Privacy Policy or reasonable, or there are material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you and ask for your consent by pop-ups or in-app messaging.

4. Sharing and Disclosure of Personal Information

4.1. We promise that we will not actively share or transfer your personal information to any third party. If circumstances arise where we indeed need to transfer your personal information, we will directly obtain your separate consent or confirm that the third party has obtained your separate confirmation.

4.2 We promise not to publicly disclose your personal information. If public disclosure is necessary, we will inform you of the purpose of public disclosure, the type of personal information and the information that may be involved, and obtain your separate consent, unless otherwise required by laws and regulations.

4.3 Unless having obtained your separate consent or otherwise required by laws and regulations, we will not publicly disclose your personal information. Upon your separate consent, we may publicly disclose your personal information in the following circumstances:

  1. To enable leaderboard service, we may disclose your nickname, profile picture, and battle records in our public leaderboards.
  2. To enable you publishing your work via our app, we may display your works and the likes and comments they receive on your profile page.

4.4 Please understand that in the following cases, in accordance with laws and regulations, we do not need to obtain your prior authorization and consent to share and publicly disclose your personal information:

  1. Necessary for you to enter into and perform a contract to which you are a party;
  2. In connection with the performance of our duties or obligations under laws and regulations;
  3. Necessary to respond to a public health emergency, or to protect the life, health and property of natural persons in an emergency;
  4. Processing personal information within a reasonable scope, to carry out acts for the public interests, such as news reporting and supervision by public expression;
  5. Processing personal information that you disclose by yourself or that has been legally disclosed within a reasonable scope;
  6. Other circumstances stipulated by laws and regulations.

5. Storage of Personal Information

5.1 In accordance with laws and regulations, we retain your personal information we collected and generated during domestic operations in within the PRC.

5.2 We will retain your personal information for Local to the device from the date of collection.

5.3 Unless otherwise provided by laws and regulations, we will only retain your personal information for the period necessary for the purpose of providing this service.

6. Complaints and Feedbacks

You can exercise your statutory rights to request personal information processors to explain the processing rules, access, copy, correct, supplement, delete personal information, change or revoke the scope of consent, and cancel your account through the following methods, and If you have any comments about our compliance with this Privacy Policy, or if you believe that your personal information rights may be violated, or find clues about violations of personal information rights, or have other complaints and suggestions, or have questions related to the protection of minors' personal information or other personal information protection issues, you can contact us in the following ways:

Email: SYM829@163.com. We will reply within fifteen working days.

7. How do we handle minors' personal information?

We attach great importance to the protection of minors' personal information. In accordance with the provisions of relevant laws and regulations, the collection and use of personal information of minors under the age of 14 shall be authorized and consented to by their guardians; the collection and use of personal information of minors who are 14 years old or above but under 18 years old may be authorized and consented to by their guardians or by themselves.

If you are a minor (especially a minor under the age of 14), we require you to ask your parents or other guardians to carefully read this Privacy Policy, and use our services or provide information to us only with the authorization and consent of your guardians.

If you are the guardian of a minor, please pay attention to whether the minor under your guardianship uses our products or services after obtaining your authorization and consent. If you have any questions about the personal information of the minor under your guardianship, please contact us through the means specified in this Privacy Policy.

8. How this privacy policy is updated

Our privacy policy may change from time to time. We will post any changes made to this privacy policy on this page. For significant changes, we will also provide more prominent notifications (we may, for example, include special prompts on the browsing page to explain the specific changes to the privacy policy). Without your explicit consent, we will not reduce the rights you are entitled to under this privacy policy.

Significant changes referred to in this privacy policy include, but are not limited to: significant changes in our service model; changes in the main recipients of the sharing, transfer, or public disclosure of personal information; significant changes in your rights regarding the processing of personal information and the ways to exercise them; changes in our contact information and complaint channels; and situations where the personal information security impact assessment report indicates high risks.