Lastly Revised on October 26, 2022

PRIVACY POLICY

As Tiplay Studio Oyun ve Teknoloji Anonim Şirketi (hereinafter referred to as “Tiplay”, the "Company", “We”, and through similar words such as “us”, “our”, etc.), we respect your privacy. We provide a website under the domain name of www.pyrmdofficial.com (the “Website”) which is an informative and insightful platform that aims introduce the basics of the game named PYRMD that is developed and owned by Tiplay and published by Steam (“Game”).

The Website (including its all subdomains, other media, features and contents) is a service made by Tiplay.

This Global Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) describes Tiplay’s practices and policies with regards to use and process of personal information while operating the Website and providing the services thereunder (the “Services”). In this regard, this Policy describes the types of personal information we collect through the Website, how we use that information, our legal basis for doing so, with whom we share it, your rights and choices in this regard, and how you can contact us about our privacy practices. This Policy does not apply to Third-Party sites, products, or services, even if they link to our Services or the Website, and you should consider privacy practices of those Third-Parties carefully.

Capitalized words not defined under this Policy shall be understood as described under our Terms of Use (the “Terms”).

By accepting this Policy, you are familiarized yourself with this Policy, understood and are agreeing with the terms and practices described in this Policy (including new versions of the Policy when and as they come into effect), and the Terms, which governs this Policy and contains all disclaimers of warranties and limitation of liabilities.

  1. DEFINITIONS

Within the scope of this Policy, following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them below:

CCPA

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, enacted on June 28, 2018 by the State of California including the amendments from California Privacy Rights Act  enacted on November 23,2020 (collectively referred to as California Privacy Laws’).

Company

Tiplay Studio Oyun ve Teknoloji Anonim Şirketi, a joint stock company incorporated and validly operating in the Republic of Turkey and having the registered address of Kınıklı Mahallesi 2600 Sokak No: 9/1 Pamukkale/Denizli

For the purposes of the GDPR, the Company is the Data Controller

Consumer

For the purposes of the CCPA, a natural person who is a California resident, including (i) every individual who is in the USA for other than a temporary or transitory purpose, and (ii) every individual who is domiciled in the USA who is outside the USA for a temporary or transitory purpose

Data Controller

For the purposes of the GDPR, the Company as the legal person which determines purposes and means of process of Personal Data alone

Data Subject

A natural person who can be identified or rendered identifiable through the personal data related to

Device

Any device that is suitable to access the Service such as a computer, a mobile phone or a digital tablet

GDPR

The General Data Protection Regulation, enacted on May 25, 2018 by the European Union

Personal Data

Any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual

For the purposes of the GDPR, Personal Data means any information relating to you such as a name, identification number, location data, online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity

For the purposes of the CCPA, Personal Data means any information that identifies, relates to, describes or is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with you

PDPL

Personal Data Protection Law numbered 6698, enacted on March 24, 2016 and came into force on April 7, 2016 by Republic of Turkey

Sale

For the purposes of the CCPA, selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a Consumer's personal information to another business or a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.

Service Provider

Any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to Third-Party companies or individuals contracted by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Website or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Visitors browse in the Website.

For the purpose of the GDPR, Service Providers are considered as Data Processors. Our Third-Party Service Providers are considered as ‘Sub-processors’.

Steam

It is video game digital distribution service and storefront which can be accessed via the link Steam 

Third Party

Any other natural or legal person that is not part of the Company

Third Party Services

Any product that Third-Party Service Providers submit to Visitors for the proper performance of the Website

Usage Data

Data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, duration of a page visit)

Website

The website accessible from www.pyrmdofficial.com

Visitor

The individual accessing or using the Website, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Website, as applicable

The Visitor may be referred to as “you” in this Policy

For the purposes of the GDPR, the Visitor can be referred to as the Data Subject

  1. OVERVIEW

Tiplay obtains personal information concerning you from various sources to provide the Services and to manage the Website.

a. The Website Visitors

If you access or visit our Website, we may collect your personal information. For example, we collect Personal Data when you contact us by e-mail or when you provide your email address for subscription (“Subscription”)

  1. TYPES OF DATA WE COLLECT

a. Personal Data that We Collect from You

While using our Website or the Services, you may 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 first name and last name, e-mail address, and the Usage Data.

In particular, when you contact us via e-mail, we collect your name-surname, e-mail address, and any other information you choose to include in the body of your e-mail.

You may also opt-in to submit information through other methods, including:

b. Information that We Collect Automatically on the Website and the Services

Our Website uses cookies and other technologies to function effectively. These technologies record information about your usage of the Website, including:

We may also collect information about your online activities on the Website and connected Devices over time and across Third-Party sites as indicated below:

Third Parties (Service Providers)

We use Third-Party Service Providers to provide certain Services on our behalf when the information is necessary for them to perform their duties.

The Third-Party Service Providers to help us better operate our platform and for services such as hosting, maintenance, error monitoring, debugging performance monitoring, customer service, database storage and management, SEO services, email automation or heat map. In some cases, these service providers may process or store personal information while providing services. When those service providers receive access to personal information, they undergo a security and privacy review to ensure they meet the necessary safeguards and implement 'the best practice' in their data processing activities. We are also committed to providing that they are contractually bound by a data protection/processing agreement that requires them to comply with applicable regulations, including having the appropriate access controls in place to protect your data.

Third Party Analytics and Advertisements

We also may use Third Party advertisements, analytics, and tracking tools to better understand who is using the Website, how people are using the Website, how to improve the effectiveness of the Services, related content, and our products, and to help us or those Third Parties serve more targeted advertising to you across our media channels. These Third Parties may use technology such as cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, log files, flash cookies, or other technologies to collect and store information. They may also combine information they collect from your interaction with the Website with information they collect from other sources, which combination may be subject to the Third Party’s control and privacy practices thereupon. For further details on how these cookies are used please refer to our Cookie Policy.

  1. HOW WE USE PERSONAL DATA

a. Our Services

We rely upon several legal grounds to ensure that our use of your Personal Data is compliant with applicable law. We use Personal Data to comply with legal obligations, and to pursue our legitimate business interests.

Legal and regulatory compliance. We use Personal Data to verify identity of our Visitors in order to comply with laws. These obligations are imposed on us by the operation of law, industry standards, and by our financial partners, and may require us to report our compliance to third parties and submit to Third-Party verification audits.

Legitimate business interests. We rely on our legitimate business interests to process certain Personal Data concerning you. The following list sets out the business purposes that we have identified as legitimate. In determining the content of this list, we balanced our interests against legitimate interests and rights of the individuals whose Personal Data we process.

If we need to use your Personal Data in other ways, we will make a specific notice at the time of collection and we will get your consent if applicable law requires so.

b. Marketing and Events-related Communications

We may send you e-mail marketing communications about Tiplay, the Website and Services, invite you to participate in our events or surveys, or otherwise communicate with you for marketing purposes, provided that we do so in accordance with the consent requirements that are imposed by applicable laws. When we collect your contact details through our participation at trade shows or other events, we may use such information to follow-up with you regarding an event, send you information that you have requested on our Apps, products and Services, and with your permission, include you on our marketing information campaigns.

c. Interest-based Advertising

When you visit our Website, both certain third parties and we collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites to provide you with advertising products and services tailored to your individual interests (this type of advertising is called “interest-based advertising”). These third parties may place or recognize a unique cookie or other technology on your browser. Where required by applicable laws, we will obtain your consent prior to processing your information for the purposes of interest-based advertising.

Since we also participate in advertising networks, you may see our ads on other sites or mobile apps. Ad networks allow us to target our messaging to Visitors based on a range of factors, including demographic data, Visitors’ inferred interests and browsing context (for example, time and date of your visit to our Website, pages that you viewed, links that you clicked on). This technology also helps us track the effectiveness of our marketing efforts and understand if you have seen one of our advertisements.

We work with advertising networks (Google AdWords, etc.). To learn how to opt-out from behavioral advertising delivered by Network Advertising Initiative member companies, please visit the Network Advertising Initiative and Digital Advertising Alliance. If you opt-out from interest-based advertising, you may see advertising that is not relevant to you.

  1. HOW WE SHARE PERSONAL DATA

Tiplay may share your Personal Data to (i) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; (ii) enforce this Policy and our Terms, including investigation of potential violations hereof; (iii) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues; (iv) respond to your requests; or (v) protect our rights, property or safety, our Visitors and the public.

We share Personal Data with a limited number of our Service Providers. We have Service Providers that provide services on our behalf, such as website hosting, data analysis, information technology and related infrastructure, customer service, e-mail delivery, and auditing services. These Service Providers may need to access Personal Data to perform their services properly. We authorize such Service Providers to use or disclose the Personal Data only as necessary to perform services on our behalf or comply with legal requirements. We require such Service Providers to contractually commit to protecting security and confidentiality of the Personal Data they process on our behalf. Our Service Providers are predominantly located in the Republic of Turkey, the European Union and the United States of America.

We may disclose information in the aggregate form to third parties relating to Visitor behavior in connection with actual or prospective business relationship with those third parties, such as advertisers and content distributors.

We will encourage our service partners to adopt and post transparent privacy policies. However, use of your personal information by our service partners is governed by their privacy policies and is not under our control. You acknowledge that we are not responsible for the violations caused by our service partners.

We share Personal Data with Third-Party Service Providers when this is necessary to provide our Services to our Visitors.

We share data with parties directly authorized by a Visitor to receive Personal Data. The use of Personal Data by an authorized third party is subject to such third party’s privacy policy.

In the event that we enter into, or intend to enter into, a transaction that alters the structure of our business, such as a reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, change of control, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock, we may share Personal Data with third parties for the purpose of facilitating and completing such transaction.

We share Personal Data as we believe necessary: (i) to comply with applicable law; (ii) to protect the rights, privacy, safety and property of Tiplay, you or others; and (iii) to respond requests of the courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies, and other public and government authorities, which may include authorities outside your country of residence.

  1. PDPL PRIVACY

Pursuant to Article 10 of the Personal Data Protection Law numbered 6698 (the “PDPL”), as Tiplay, we would like to inform Website Visitor about our identity, our purposes of processing your personal data, to whom and why we transfer your data, our legal grounds, our processing methods and your rights regarding your use of Website in order to introduce the basics of the Game.

Your personal data processed during your Website use are;

Data Category

Type of Data

Data Subject

Purpose of Processing

Legal Grounds for Our Processing

Collection Method

Data Transfer

Transaction Security

IP Address

Visitor

Identifying the device through which the Visitor accesses the Website

It is mandatory for us to process the IP Address data within the scope of the Traffic Information definition in order for us to fulfill our obligations as a Hosting Provider pursuant to the Law numbered 5651 on Regulating Broadcasts Made on the Internet and Combating Crimes Committed Through Such Broadcasts

(Legal and regulatory compliance.)

By means of cookies on the Website, automatically

If requested by the judicial authorities, the data will be shared with the judicial authorities, and if requested by the Turkish Information Technologies and Communications Authority ("BTİK"), in order to fulfill our obligations arising from the legislation.

Other

Cookie Records


Visitor

Improving the Visitor experience by analyzing the time spent on the Website and the activities during this period

It is necessary for us to process the strictly necessary Cookie Records data for our legitimate interest to the extent that it will not violate your privacy, within the scope of analyzing the Website efficiency and visitor satisfaction. Visitors may opt-in for non-essential cookies.

(Legitimate Interest)

By means of cookies on the Website, automatically

Depending on your explicit consent, the data will be shared with Third Party Service Providers depending on the type of cookie used, in order to analyze cookies.

Data Category

Type of Data

Data Subject

Data Retention Policy

Transaction Security

IP Address

Visitor

.

IP Addresses will be stored in our Service Provider servers upon accessing the Website. The personal data will be kept for 6 months after the Data Subject logs out from the Website

Other

Cookie Records


Visitor

Cookie Records of first party cookies will be stored in our Service Provider servers upon accessing the Website. Please refer to our Cookie Policy for the Third-Party Service Provider data retention policies.

All data types included in this Privacy Notice are shared with the provider company from which the Platform server and infrastructure services are supplied. This data transfer occurs as the servers are located within the relevant company in order to meet the need for hosting the data types we process on a server; and it does not require an active data transfer and is arising from the nature of the hosting service.

The rights within the meaning of this Information Notice and Privacy Policy you have can be summarized as follows:

You have the right to get information

• whether your personal data is processed or not,

• the purpose of processing your personal data,

• regarding the domestic and international transfer of your personal data.

You have a right to request

You have a right to object

You may send us your request on exercising your above-mentioned rights, together with documents providing your identity and the scope of your request through following channels:

We are committed to answering your request as soon as possible, not more than 30 (thirty) days, and free of charge as long as there is no transaction cost.

  1. GDPR PRIVACY

Your Rights and Choices Under the GDPR

Tiplay undertakes to respect confidentiality of your Personal Data and to guarantee you can exercise your rights. In this regard, you have the following rights regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Data, under this Privacy Policy and by law if you are within the European Union:

Right of Access: You have the right to obtain confirmation from us as to whether or not Personal Data concerning you are processed, and, where that is the case, you have the right to request and get access to such Personal Data.

Right to Rectification: You have the right to request rectification by us of inaccurate Personal Data and you have the right to provide additional Personal Data to complete any incomplete Personal Data.

Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”): In certain cases, you have the right to request from us erasure of your Personal Data.

Right to Restriction of Process: You have the right to request from us restriction of process, for a certain period and/or for certain situations.

Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive your Personal Data from us in a structured format and you have the right to (let) transmit such Personal Data to another Data Controller.

Right to Object: In certain cases, you have the right to object process of your Personal Data, including with regards to profiling. You have the right to object to further process of your Personal Data in so far as such data has been collected for direct marketing purposes.

Right to be Not Subject to Automated Individual Decision-Making: You have the right to not be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing.

Right to Filing Complaint: You have the right to file complaints with the applicable data protection authority on our process of your Personal Data.

Right to Compensation of Damages: In case we breach applicable legislation on process of your Personal Data, you have the right to claim damages from us for any damages such breach may cause to you.

Exercising Your Data Protection Rights arising from the GDPR

You may exercise your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition by simply contacting us. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. If you make a request, we will try our best to respond you as soon as possible.

You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our process of your Personal Data. For more information, if you are in the European Economic Area (the “EEA”), please contact your local data protection authority in the EEA.

  1. CCPA PRIVACY

Your Rights and Choices Under the CCPA

Under this Policy, and by law, if you are a resident of California, you have the following rights:

Exercising Your Data Protection Rights arising from the CCPA

In order to exercise any of your rights under the CCPA as a California resident, you can contact us through the channels (i.e., phone number or e-mail address) provided on the Website.

The Company will disclose and deliver the information required free of charge and within 45 days of receiving your verifiable request. The time period to provide the information may be extended once by an additional 45 days when reasonably necessary and with prior notice.

Do Not Sell My Personal Information

We do not sell personal information. However, the service partners with whom we have partnership (for example, our advertising partners) may use technology on the Service that "Sells" personal information as defined by the CCPA.

If you wish to opt out use of your personal information for interest-based advertising purposes and these potential Sales as defined under the CCPA, you may do so by following the instructions below.

Website

You can opt out of receiving ads that are personalized as served by our service partners by following our instructions presented on the Service:

The opt out will place a cookie on your computer that is unique to the browser you use to opt out. If you change browsers or delete the cookies saved by your browser, you will need to opt out again.

Please note that any opt out is specific to the browser you use. You may need to opt out on every browser that you use.

Mobile Devices

Your mobile device may give you the ability to opt out of the use of information about the apps you use in order to serve you ads that are targeted to your interests:

You can also stop collection of location information from your mobile device by changing the preferences on your mobile device.

"Do Not Track" Policy as Required by California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)

Our Service does not respond to Do Not Track signals.

However, some Third-Party websites do keep track of your browsing activities. If you are visiting such websites, you can set your preferences in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable Do Not Track feature by visiting the preferences or settings page of your web browser.

  1. SECURITY AND RETENTION

We are making reasonable efforts to provide you with an appropriate level of security for the risks associated with process of your Personal Data. We take organizational, technical, and administrative measures designed to protect your Personal Data against unauthorized access, destruction, loss, alteration, or abuse. Your Personal Data may only be accessed by a limited number of personnel who need access to such information in order to perform their duties properly. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have a reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please contact us immediately.

If you are a Visitor of the Website, we retain your Personal Data as long as we are providing the Services to you. We retain Personal Data after we cease providing Services to you, to the extent necessary to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations. We also retain Personal Data to comply with our tax, accounting, and financial reporting obligations, where we are required to retain the data due to our contractual commitments to our financial and business partners. Where we retain data, we do so in accordance with any limitation periods and record retention obligations that are imposed by applicable laws.

  1. COOKIE POLICY

Cookies are small text files stored in a computer’s web browser memory. They help website providers to understand how people use a website, remember a Visitor’s login details, and store website preferences. This article explains how we use cookies and other similar technologies to help us ensure that our Services function properly, prevent fraud and other harm, and analyze and improve the Services in accordance with our Policy.

a. How We Use Cookies 

Cookies play an important role in helping us provide effective and secure Services. We use cookies on our Website. We change the cookies periodically as we improve our Services or add new service; however, we generally use cookies for the following purposes:

To Operate Our Services: Some cookies are essential to the operation of our Website and Services. We use those cookies in several different ways, including:

To Analyze and Improve Our Services: Cookies help us understand how to make our Website and Services work better for you. Cookies tell us how people reach our Website, and they give us insights into improvements or enhancements we need to make to our Website and Services.

For Better Advertising: Cookies can help us provide more effective advertising on our Website. For example, we might use a cookie to help prevent you from seeing same advertisement multiple times or to measure how many times an advertisement is viewed or clicked on.

b. How We Use Other Technologies

What are the 1st Party Cookies?

1st Party cookies are used in our Website with the purposes stated above, and in accordance with the governing law. 1st Party cookies are located in www.pyrmdofficial.com web domain and have significant importance for your usage of services provided by us. In case of a deactivation or erasing activity on such cookies, you may lack of some basic functions relevant to the Website.

1st Party Cookies We Use

Cookie Name

Cookie Type

Expires After

What are the 3rd Party Cookies?

3rd Party cookies are the cookies that belong to the websites other than the Website with the domain name of  www.pyrmdofficial.com The purpose of these cookies is to integrate some additional features to the Website.        

3rd Party Cookies We Use

Cookie Name

Provider

Cookie Type

Expires After

1P_jar

Google LLC

Google Ads Optimization

30 days

d. How to Manage Cookies

Your web browser may allow you to change your cookie preferences, including to delete and disable cookies. Please consult help section of your web browser to understand your options, but please note that if you choose to disable the cookies, some features of our Website or Services may not operate as intended.

  1. INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS

 Personal Data will be stored and processed on our Service Provider servers in the European Union, United States of America and Hong Kong. We may transfer Personal Data that we maintain about you to recipients in countries other than the country in which the Personal Data was originally collected. Those countries may have data protection rules that are different from those of your country. However, we will take measures to ensure that any such transfers comply with applicable data protection laws and that your Personal Data remains protected to the standards described in this Policy. In certain circumstances; courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies, or security authorities in those other countries may be entitled to access your Personal Data.

  1. USE BY MINORS

The Services are not directed to individuals under age of eighteen (18), and they shall not provide Personal Data through the Website or the Service. If you have a reason to believe that anyone under the age of 18 has provided us with any personal information, please contact us.

  1. UPDATES TO THIS POLICY AND NOTIFICATIONS

We may change this Policy from time to time to reflect new services, changes in our Personal Data practices, or relevant laws. The “Lastly Revised” legend at the top of this Policy indicates when this Policy was last revised. Any changes are effective when we post the revised Policy on the Website. We may provide you with disclosures and alerts regarding the Policy or Personal Data collected by posting them on our Website and by contacting you through the e-mail address you provided (if any).

  1. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

The Services may provide the ability to connect to other sites. These sites may operate independently from us and may have their own privacy notices or policies, which we strongly suggest you to review. If any linked website is not owned or controlled by us, we are not responsible for its content, any use of such website, or the privacy practices of the website’s operator.

  1. JURISDICTION

Tiplay focuses on multinational compliance regulations including but not limited to the PDPL, the GDPR and United States State and Federal Privacy Laws,  to make sure privacy is a “go-to” rather than a thing to be worried. You have the right to request further information on our personal data processing activities based on your country's laws.

  1. CONTACT US

If you have any questions or complaints about this Policy, please contact us at info@tiplaystudio.com.