Privacy Policy - Merge Rot Game

Privacy Policy

Last Updated: January 15, 2025

Introduction

Welcome to Merge Rot Game (referred to as “we,” “our,” or “the Game”). Protecting your privacy is extremely important to us. This Privacy Policy is designed to inform you about how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your personal information.

Merge Rot Game is committed to protecting the privacy of all visitors who use our site and applications, including older users above the age of 13 (“General Users”) and younger users under the age of 13 (“Children Users”), together the “Users”.

1. General Information

All features on the Merge Rot Game Site are available without the need for registration by Users. No personal data (such as email addresses and phone numbers) are requested from users. Merge Rot Game may collect certain electronic data (such as the User’s IP address, cookies or device ID).

When a User clicks to leave the Merge Rot Game Site, Merge Rot Game may try to inform the User that they are leaving the Merge Rot Game Site and that this Privacy Policy will no longer apply. When a User provides personal data on any third party website or application, the processing of such personal data will be governed by any privacy statement applicable to that site/application.

2. Information Collection

Information We Collect

Personal Information: When you register an account, participate in game activities, or contact us, we may collect the following information:

  • Name and email address
  • Username and password
  • Device information and IP address
  • In-game behavior and interaction data

Non-Personal Information: We may also collect non-personal information related to your device, such as:

  • Operating system type
  • Browser type
  • Access times
  • Referring website addresses

Data Collection and Its Purposes

Our servers automatically recognize visitors’ domain names and IP addresses (the number assigned to computers on the Internet). The Merge Rot Game Site may gather anonymous “traffic data” that does not personally identify you, but that data may be helpful for marketing purposes or for improving the services we offer.

When your computer or mobile device contacts our web servers (for example, when you visit the Merge Rot Game Site), our web servers automatically collect usage information. Such usage information includes information about how our visitors use and navigate the Merge Rot Game Site. It can include the number and frequency of visitors to each web page and the length of their stays, browser type, and referrer data that identifies the web page visited prior and subsequent to visiting our Site.

3. Use of Information

We use the collected information to:

  • Provide, maintain, and improve our game services
  • Process transactions and send related notifications
  • Respond to your requests and provide customer support
  • Send updates and marketing information
  • Analyze usage patterns and improve user experience
  • Prevent fraudulent activities and ensure game security
  • Develop new features and improve the Merge Rot Game Site
  • Support subsequent customer service inquiries
  • Improve the safety and security of the Merge Rot Game Site
  • Comply with our legal obligations

4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Like many websites and applications, this Merge Rot Game Site makes use of “cookies” which are saved on the user’s computer. In addition, third party networks serving advertisements on the Merge Rot Game Site (the “Advertisers”) might use cookies.

Cookies are a way of remembering who you are. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your computer’s hard drive or stored temporarily in your computer’s memory. There are two kinds of cookies: those that are “session” oriented and those that are “persistent”. Session cookies delete from your computer when you close your browser. Persistent cookies retain information for later use tomorrow, next week, next month, or whenever they are set to expire.

Merge Rot Game and its Advertisers may use cookies, or similar technologies to enhance and personalize your experience on the Merge Rot Game Site, including the following:

  • To operate and improve offerings on the Merge Rot Game Site
  • To help authenticate you when you are on the Merge Rot Game Site
  • To remember your preferences
  • To present and help measure and research the effectiveness of Merge Rot Game’s offerings
  • To customize the content provided to you through the Merge Rot Game Site
  • To show targeted ads

Users can refuse the saving of cookies or delete them by adjusting the browser settings on his or her computer. To learn more on how to adjust the settings of your internet browser, we recommend the user visit the website of the browser’s vendor.

5. Data Retention

Merge Rot Game may retain users’ data for the following purposes:

  • To develop new features and improve the Merge Rot Game Site
  • To support subsequent customer service inquiries
  • To improve the safety and security of the Merge Rot Game Site
  • Comply with our legal obligations

We will retain your information for as long as is reasonably necessary in relation to the purposes for which this data was collected.

6. Third Party Games

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the processing of personal data by data controllers other than Merge Rot Game, such as providers of third party games available on the Merge Rot Game Site. The relevant provider of such a third party game is responsible for ensuring that any processing of personal data by them in the context of a game complies with applicable data protection laws.

Generally, Merge Rot Game does not permit third party content providers to collect personal data about Users. However, if any personal data will be collected by a third party content provider, Merge Rot Game will contractually require that the processing of personal data by them in the context of a game complies with applicable data protection laws.

7. Information Sharing

We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes. However, we may share your information in the following circumstances:

  • With your consent
  • With our service providers to support our business operations
  • To comply with legal obligations, enforce our terms, or protect our rights or those of others

Merge Rot Game may share your persistent identifiers with third parties such as business partners under the following circumstances:

Security: We may release information about our Users, including IP address, when legally required to do so, at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation or to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing the Merge Rot Game Site and applicable laws.

Aggregate Information: We may disclose non-identifying, aggregated user statistics to third parties for a variety of purposes, including describing our services to prospective partners and other third parties.

Advertising: We may share technical information such as IP address or device ID with our advertising partners.

8. International Data Transfers

Merge Rot Game may work with third parties that are based outside of the European Economic Area (EEA), and may transfer data about you to the countries in which these parties reside. Whenever we share personal data originating in the EU with an entity outside of the EEA, we will do so on the basis of the EU standard contractual clauses, with your consent, or because such transfer is necessary performance of a contract.

If you have any questions about our policy regarding international data transfers, please contact us at privacy@merge-rot-game.com

9. Children’s Privacy

Our services are not directed to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. We recognize the importance of safeguarding the privacy of children and encourage parents to check and monitor their children’s use of online activities regularly.

If you discover that we have collected personal information from a child, please contact us, and we will promptly take steps to delete such information.

The Merge Rot Game Site supports and complies with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”). We will not request any personal information from Children Users. There is no registration required for the Merge Rot Game Site and any advertising shown to Children Users is age-appropriate.

10. Lawful Bases for Processing Personal Data

If you are an individual in the European Union (EU), we collect and process data about you only where we have legal bases for doing so under applicable EU laws. This means we collect and process your data only when:

  • It is necessary for a legitimate interest (which is not overridden by your individual privacy interests), such as preventing fraud, improving the Service, and increasing the security of the Service and network infrastructure
  • You have consented to this collection and processing for a specific purpose
  • It is necessary to fulfil our contractual obligations
  • It is necessary to comply with a legal obligation

11. Individual Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the right to:

  • Access the personal information we hold about you
  • Correct inaccurate personal information
  • Delete your personal information (the “right to be forgotten”)
  • Object to or restrict our processing of your personal information
  • Data portability

To exercise these rights, please contact us using the contact information provided below.

Delete your data: You also hold the right to have your personal data deleted. To request that we delete all personal data about you, please submit a request using the contact information at the end of this section.

Restrict Processing: You have the right to restrict how we process your personal data in certain circumstances.

Data Portability: You have the right to obtain copies of your information in a structured, commonly used format.

Right to Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes or when our processing of your data is based on legitimate interests.

12. Data Security

We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access or disclosure. However, please note that internet transmission methods are not completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your data during transmission.

The Merge Rot Game Site may link to the following third party websites: YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Twitter, and others. These third party websites’ names link to their privacy policies.

Some of the third party games published on the Merge Rot Game Site do link out to third party websites. Merge Rot Game uses technology and people to monitor these links for inappropriate content but it does not have full control over the third party games on the Merge Rot Game Site.

14. Changes to the Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page, and for significant changes, we will notify you via email or in-game notification.

15. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Email: support@mergerotgame.com

Thank you for trusting Merge Rot Game. We are committed to protecting your privacy and providing an enjoyable gaming experience.