This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.
We use Your Personal Data to provide and improve the Service. We collect, use, and disclose Your information as described in this Privacy Policy and, where required by applicable law, only where We have a valid legal basis to do so, including Your consent (where consent is required). This Privacy Policy has been created with the help of the Privacy Policy Generator.
Interpretation and Definitions
Interpretation
The words whose initial letters are capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
- Account means a unique account created for You to access Our Service or parts of Our Service.
- Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with a party, where “control” means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.
- Application refers to Pop Cart, the software program provided by the Company.
- Company (referred to as either “the Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Privacy Policy) refers to Pop Cart.
- Country/State refers to: Turkey.
- Device means any device that can access the Service, such as a computer, a cell phone or a digital tablet.
- Personal Data (or “Personal Information”) is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual. We use “Personal Data” and “Personal Information” interchangeably unless a law uses a specific term.
- Service refers to the Application.
- Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
- Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
- User means any individual who accesses or uses the Service.
- You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.
Collecting and Using Your Personal Information
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- A display name
- Your Google Play Games player ID and display name, if You sign in with Google Play Games
- Your device’s push notification token and notification preferences, if You enable notifications
Game account and service data
When You play Pop Cart, We create a game account identified by a randomly generated player ID. We store the data needed to run the game: Your player ID, an optional display name, Your game progress, balances, collections and settings, the date of Your last login, and basic device information (device model, platform and app version). If You sign in with Google Play Games, We also receive Your Play Games player ID and display name. If You enable notifications, We store Your device’s push notification token and Your notification preferences. Our servers also process Your IP address when You connect to them.
Account deletion requests
If You request deletion of Your account, We store Your account identifier, Your GameAnalytics user identifier when available, the request date and the due date. We use them only to fulfill and track Your request. When deletion is completed, the account and GameAnalytics identifiers are removed; only an anonymous status receipt and its dates remain.
Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.
Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of Our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device’s unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit Our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
The Application does not use browser cookies. We use the device and software identifiers provided by the third-party services listed below to operate and improve Our Service.
Third-party services
We use the following third-party services to operate and improve the game. Each processes data under its own privacy policy.
- Google Firebase (Authentication and Cloud Messaging): provides a user ID used to sign You in and delivers push notifications.
- Google Play Games Services: optional sign-in that provides Your player ID and display name.
- GameAnalytics: collects gameplay events, session information, device and performance data (such as device model, operating system, frame rate and memory use) and error reports, so that We can understand how the game is used and improve it.
- PostHog: product analytics events processed on Our servers and linked to Your player ID.
- Supabase and Railway: host Our database and servers.
Once We accept Your account deletion request, the game stops sending new GameAnalytics data from the device that submitted the request, and Our servers stop sending PostHog events for Your account while the request is pending.
Advertising measurement (Meta)
The Android version of the game uses the Meta (Facebook) SDK to measure the performance of Our advertising; the iOS version does not include the Meta SDK. On Android, the SDK collects Your device’s advertising ID, basic device information and in-app events (such as app install, completing the tutorial, Your first order and Your first parcel opening). This data is shared with Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd. and Meta Platforms, Inc., and is subject to Meta’s privacy policy. You can reset or delete Your advertising ID at any time in Your device’s settings. If You are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, the SDK runs only if You consent, and no data is sent to Meta before that. You can withdraw Your consent at any time in the game’s Settings; after that, no further data is sent.
Use of Your Personal Data
The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
- To provide and maintain Our Service, including to monitor the usage of Our Service.
- To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.
- For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.
- To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
- To provide You with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services and events which We offer that are similar to those that You have already purchased or inquired about. We send such marketing communications only where permitted by applicable law: where prior consent is required (for example, under the laws applicable in the EEA and the UK), We will send them only with Your consent; otherwise, We may send them until You opt out. You may opt out or withdraw Your consent at any time by using the unsubscribe link in any marketing email We send or by contacting Us.
- To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
- For business transfers: We may use Your Personal Data to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about Our Service users is among the assets transferred.
- For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of Our promotional campaigns, and evaluating and improving Our Service, products, services, marketing and Your experience.
We may share Your Personal Data in the following situations:
- With Service Providers: We may share Your Personal Data with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of Our Service, and to contact You.
- For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your Personal Data in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.
- With Affiliates: We may share Your Personal Data with Our affiliates, in which case We will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.
- With other users: If Our Service offers public areas, when You share Personal Data or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside the Service.
- With Your consent: We may disclose Your Personal Data for any other purpose with Your consent.
Retention of Your Personal Data
The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
Where possible, We apply shorter retention periods and/or reduce identifiability by deleting, aggregating, or anonymizing data. Unless otherwise stated, the retention periods below are maximum periods (“up to”) and We may delete or anonymize data sooner when it is no longer needed for the relevant purpose. We apply different retention periods to different categories of Personal Data based on the purpose of processing:
- Account Information
- User Accounts: retained while Your Account is active, and deleted within 30 days of a deletion request. After deletion, only the anonymous status receipt described below remains.
- Usage Data
- Application usage statistics: up to 24 months to understand feature adoption and service improvements.
- Server logs (IP addresses, access times): up to 24 months for security monitoring and troubleshooting purposes.
You may request information about how long We will retain Your Personal Data by contacting Us.
When retention periods expire, We securely delete or anonymize Personal Data according to the following procedures:
- Deletion: Personal Data is removed from Our systems and no longer actively processed.
- Backup retention: Our database is backed up daily, and each backup is deleted after up to 30 days. Data removed from Our live systems may remain in these backups until they expire. Backups are used only to recover from a failure.
- Anonymization: In some cases, We convert Personal Data into anonymous statistical data that cannot be linked back to You. This anonymized data may be retained indefinitely for research and analytics.
Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. This means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of Your jurisdiction.
Where required by applicable law, We will ensure that international transfers of Your Personal Data are subject to appropriate safeguards and, where relevant, supplementary measures. The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place, including the security of Your data and other personal information.
Delete Your Personal Data
You can request deletion of Your Pop Cart account and associated Personal Data directly in the game. Open Settings, choose Request account deletion, read the confirmation and choose Send deletion request. If You change Your mind before submitting, choose Keep my account.
Once Our server accepts Your request, the game confirms receipt. We complete requests manually within 30 days. Deletion includes Your account, game progress and associated Personal Data. It cannot be undone.
You can check the result in Settings on the device where You submitted the request. After deletion, the game displays a completion confirmation using an anonymous receipt. That receipt contains a random request identifier, its status and dates; it does not identify the erased account.
If You cannot access the game or need help, contact hello@cutera.studio. This is an additional contact option; You do not need to send an email to submit an in-game deletion request. For email requests, share Your in-game display name and approximate account creation date so We can locate and verify Your account. Do not send passwords or authentication codes.
We erase or anonymize account data held in Our game services and arrange erasure of associated Firebase Authentication, GameAnalytics and PostHog data.
To request access to or correction of Your Personal Data, email hello@cutera.studio.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
Business Transactions
If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
Law Enforcement
Under certain circumstances, the Company may disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
Other Legal Requirements
The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- Comply with a legal obligation
- Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
- Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
- Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
- Protect against legal liability
Security of Your Personal Data
The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially reasonable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Children’s and Minors’ Privacy
The Service is not directed to, and We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from, anyone under the age of 16.
If You are a parent or guardian and You believe Your child has provided Us with Personal Information, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Information from anyone under the age of 16, We will take steps to remove that information from Our servers as soon as reasonably possible.
Some countries and states set a higher age at which an individual can consent to the processing of their own Personal Information. Where We rely on consent as a legal basis and the law applicable to a User sets an age higher than 16, We may require the consent of that User’s parent or guardian before We collect and use their Personal Information.
Links to Other Websites
Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third-party link, You will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let You know via a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If You have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact Us:
- By email: hello@cutera.studio