Privacy Policy
Welcome to the Bitty Bit Studios Privacy Policy page! It’s not the most exciting thing to read, but it is important information. This Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use, and disclosure of your information when you use our Services and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
Within this policy, the word “Services” refers to our games, websites, and social media activity. Personal pronouns such as “our,” “us,” and “we” refer to Bitty Bit Studios, Inc., and pronouns such as “you” and “your” refer to the players of our games, users of our websites, and consumers of our social media content. Straightforward so far, right?
We use your personal data to improve our Services. By using our Services, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If this Privacy Policy is updated, we will notify you via messages within our Services prior to the effective date of the change and as required by law. Updated Privacy Policy specifics will apply to your ongoing interaction with our Services after the posted effective date of the change.
It’s not scary — read on and you’ll see that we collect minimal personal information. We have no targeted ads in our Services and have no interest in collecting your personal information to influence anything of that nature.
🎥 Embedded Content From Other Websites
Articles on our websites may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
👤 Who We Are
We are a game developer in upstate New York. Our games are developed for iOS and Android devices. Our website addresses are https://www.bittybitstudios.com and http://www.matchymoji.com.
📁 Data We Collect
- ➡️ Information Collected Directly From You
- Data provided via the form on the Website’s Contact page (name, email address, phone number, etc.)
- Miscellaneous data you provide to us for support or for the purposes of a contest held via social media
- Data provided via the form on the Website’s Contact page (name, email address, phone number, etc.)
- 🔁 Information Collected Automatically Through Your Interaction With Our Services
- Automatically-generated ID to identify your unique account within our games
- Information about your progress within our games
- Level scores
- Weekly event progress
- Neutral emoji expression part configuration
- “Boosters” used
- Failed level attempts
- Information about the device you are using for our games (such as your device ID, model, operating system version, display resolution)
- NOTE: This information is only collected in the event of an error handled by the game logic and is strictly to support debugging. This information does not include personal details.
- NOTE: This information is only collected in the event of an error handled by the game logic and is strictly to support debugging. This information does not include personal details.
- Purchases you have made
- Automatically-generated ID to identify your unique account within our games
- 🔀 Information Collected Through Our Business Partners
- Numeric account IDs obtained via connecting our Game to a social media network (such as Facebook)
- This is limited to just an account number and does not include any identifying information, such as email address or name.
- This is limited to just an account number and does not include any identifying information, such as email address or name.
- Usage, sales, and demographic (rough location) data from analytics provided through Apple, Google, and Unity
- Numeric account IDs obtained via connecting our Game to a social media network (such as Facebook)
🛠 How We Use Your Data
- ➡️ Information Collected Directly From You
- Information from the Website’s Contact form is used to respond to questions and concerns that are submitted to us.
- Information obtained via social media contests will be used to contact and award prizes where appropriate.
- Information from the Website’s Contact form is used to respond to questions and concerns that are submitted to us.
- 🔁 Information Collected Automatically Through Your Interaction With Our Services
- The automatically-generated ID created to identify your account within our games and the information about your progress within our games is used to organize in-game high score leaderboards, weekly competitions, and show your progress to your friends.
- Information about the device you are using helps us to determine the possible cause of an error.
- Information about your purchases helps us to better assist you with support issues regarding purchases and to ensure that you are given the items you deserve.
- The automatically-generated ID created to identify your account within our games and the information about your progress within our games is used to organize in-game high score leaderboards, weekly competitions, and show your progress to your friends.
- 🔀 Information Collected Through Our Business Partners
- Social media network data is used to help identify friends playing the same game make information available to support in-game high score leaderboards, weekly competitions, and level progress shared among your friends.
- Usage, sales, and demographic (rough location) data from analytics provided through Apple, Google, and Unity are used to help us better understand the userbase and focus our efforts to evolve the experiences we offer through our Services to support more languages and create a wider appeal. For example, usage data could help determine the best times to post content on social media and run contests or promotions.
- Social media network data is used to help identify friends playing the same game make information available to support in-game high score leaderboards, weekly competitions, and level progress shared among your friends.
▪️Any of the information gathered could be analyzed for the purposes of improving and supporting our current Services and to inform our decisions about Services being developed in the future.
▪️In cases where we communicate with you and you provide your consent, we might use your data for other reasons as it relates to the those cases.
🗣️ Who We Share Your Data With
- ➡️ Information Collected Directly From You
- Information given to us directly will not be shared with anyone else, with one exception:
- If you have won physical prizes in a contest which would be shipped to you, then we must provide your name and address to the shipper to get those items to you.
- If you have won physical prizes in a contest which would be shipped to you, then we must provide your name and address to the shipper to get those items to you.
- Information given to us directly will not be shared with anyone else, with one exception:
- 🔁 Information Collected Automatically Through Your Interaction With Our Services
- The automatically-generated ID and information about your progress within our games is shared with other players of the same games for the purposes of showing your scores and accomplishments among your friends within the game.
- To be clear, the data in question (such as scores) would be given to the game itself to show where appropriate, but the raw information would not be visible or accessible to the player and does not contain any personal details.
- To be clear, the data in question (such as scores) would be given to the game itself to show where appropriate, but the raw information would not be visible or accessible to the player and does not contain any personal details.
- We will not share information about the device you are using for our games.
- We will not share information about purchases you have made.
- The automatically-generated ID and information about your progress within our games is shared with other players of the same games for the purposes of showing your scores and accomplishments among your friends within the game.
- 🔀 Information Collected Through Our Business Partners
- In general, information collected through business partners is known to us and to those business partners. The data we receive from them will not be further distributed by us and is only used by our Services to facilitate the social functions within our games (such as high score leaderboards) and inform our decisions regarding further development and social media content.
- When you connect our games to a social media network tool (such as Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter), that social media network might receive information about the devices connecting to the service. When you post to their networks through our games or otherwise perform actions within the game that interact with these networks, they receive usage data and anything necessary for posts (text, emoji photo exports, etc.). They might use this information to drive their own business and advertising decisions in accordance with their respective privacy policies:
- Facebook’s Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy
- Instagram’s Privacy Policy: https://www.instagram.com/legal/privacy/
- Twitter’s Privacy Policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy
- In general, information collected through business partners is known to us and to those business partners. The data we receive from them will not be further distributed by us and is only used by our Services to facilitate the social functions within our games (such as high score leaderboards) and inform our decisions regarding further development and social media content.
▪️In an unforeseen situation where we are required by law to provide information to the authorities to support an investigation, or if we have your consent to share information for the purposes of your protection or to otherwise comply with law, we will have to do so.
🗺 Information Shared Internationally
- Our Services are available within many regions across the globe. As such, the data exchanges to facilitate cloud and social functions within our Services could involve a variety of locations. We protect your data carefully and use it in accordance with the information within this Privacy Policy. We choose our partners carefully and abide by international data protection standards, such as the European Union Standard Contractual Clauses.
⏳ How Long We Retain Your Data
- If you submit a question or concern through the Contact page, the submission and its metadata are retained indefinitely so we can respond as necessary and retain a record of information pertinent to address each concern. In general, the information gathered is retained indefinitely unless a unique circumstance pushes us to delete it. If information becomes irrelevant as our Services evolve, it is possible that this unnecessary data will be deleted.
💪 What Rights You Have Over Your Data
- If you have chosen to opt in for Notifications on your device and you wish to avoid further Notifications from our products, you can choose to switch them off via the settings menus on your devices.
- 📄 If you wish, you can request to receive a file containing the data we hold about you via the Contact form. During the process of requesting this data, we may require that you answer some questions to verify your identity as the owner of this information to the best of our ability.
- Instructions:
- Browse to the Contact form.
- For the “Type of Inquiry,” choose “Question about Data.”
- In the message field, ask to see the data related to you and provide the Support ID you can retrieve from the app.
- The progress data we store is anonymous. We do not keep email addresses or names. To identify yourself, we will require you to provide the Service ID that can be obtained from the game’s ⚙️ Options window. This window is accessible through the title screen in the app. Enter and close the Options window repeatedly. The Support ID will show after the Options window has been opened at least three times. It will be a 32-character hexadecimal value.
- The progress data we store is anonymous. We do not keep email addresses or names. To identify yourself, we will require you to provide the Service ID that can be obtained from the game’s ⚙️ Options window. This window is accessible through the title screen in the app. Enter and close the Options window repeatedly. The Support ID will show after the Options window has been opened at least three times. It will be a 32-character hexadecimal value.
- Instructions:
- 🗑 You can request that we erase the data we hold about you via the Contact form. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
- Instructions:
- Browse to the Contact form.
- For the “Type of Inquiry,” choose “Question about Data.”
- In the message field, ask to delete the data related to you and provide the Support ID you can retrieve from the app.
- The progress data we store is anonymous. We do not keep email addresses or names. To identify yourself, we will require you to provide the Service ID that can be obtained from the game’s ⚙️ Options window. This window is accessible through the title screen in the app. Enter and close the Options window repeatedly. The Support ID will show after the Options window has been opened at least three times. It will be a 32-character hexadecimal value.
- The progress data we store is anonymous. We do not keep email addresses or names. To identify yourself, we will require you to provide the Service ID that can be obtained from the game’s ⚙️ Options window. This window is accessible through the title screen in the app. Enter and close the Options window repeatedly. The Support ID will show after the Options window has been opened at least three times. It will be a 32-character hexadecimal value.
- Instructions:
- We currently do not implement targeted ads within our Services. We don’t share your data with anyone for profit or compensation. Generally speaking, if we receive information about you from a business partner, such as a social network connection, it doesn’t leave us for any reason outside of extraordinary circumstances. Your ability to opt out of tracking within any of our social media partners will be detailed within their respective privacy policies, linked above. There are some general settings you can change to help avoid cross-app tracking on your mobile devices:
- On iOS, open Settings, go to Privacy > Tracking, and switch off “Allow Apps to Request to Track”.
- On Android, open Settings, go to Privacy > Ads, and switch on “Opt out of Ads Personalization”.
- Note: The instructions above, especially as they pertain to Android devices, might vary slightly from the Settings menu structure of your personal device because of differences based on your device’s vendor and operating system version.
- Note: The instructions above, especially as they pertain to Android devices, might vary slightly from the Settings menu structure of your personal device because of differences based on your device’s vendor and operating system version.
- Your choice to exercise the rights above will not cause you to be discriminated against.
▪️The rights listed above include provisions that are in line with the California Consumer Privacy Act.
🗝 How Your Data Is Protected
- Your saved data files from our Services are encrypted, as are network communications to facilitate cloud storage and social functions. Basically, everything is encrypted to obscure your information from prying eyes! 👀
- As our Services continue to evolve and expand, we are always on the lookout for more ways to lock down your data and keep it safe.
🚸 Special Considerations For Children
- We respect the minds and safety of our youths and take their privacy very seriously. We current do not implement targeted ads in any of our Services, and we avoid showing ads rated 13+. If the user of our Services has indicated that they are a child (under the age of 13 years in most places, or the equivalent age required by the user’s location to determine classification as a child), some social features, such as social media integrations with the ability to post or game functionalities enabling player-to-player communication via our Services, will be absent from our Services during use.
- Parents or legal guardians who wish to see the information we have about their children can reach out to us via the website’s Contact form as described above in the section “What Rights You Have Over Your Data”. If it is brought to our attention that a child has provided misleading information and is incorrectly operating outside of the restrictions meant for children, we will delete the personal data on file for that child and may switch their account to operate under child restrictions where possible.