PRIVACY POLICY


BanyanStars has adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain how BanyanStars collects, stores, and uses the information collected in connection with BanyanStars's products, services and websites including, but not limited to BanyanStars's Games, BanyanStars Games on-line stores.


BY INSTALLING, USING, REGISTERING TO OR OTHERWISE ACCESSING THE SERVICES, YOU AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND GIVE AN EXPLICIT AND INFORMED CONSENT TO THE PROCESSING, USE AND DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT INSTALL, USE, REGISTER TO OR OTHERWISE ACCESS THE SERVICES.


BanyanStars reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at reasonable times, so please review it frequently. Your continued use of Services will signify your acceptance of the changes to this Privacy Policy.


What Information Are We Gathering?

We will solely gather and process Personal Information about you in instances where we possess lawful grounds to do so. These legal bases consist of consent (where you've given your agreement), contract (where processing is necessary to fulfill a contract with you, such as delivering the requested Services), and "legitimate interests."


We accumulate data that you provide when reaching out to us, or when accessing and using our Services. This encompasses information you willingly submit to us, along with details concerning your utilization of the Services. To be specific, this includes:


Your internet protocol address (IP address). If you access the Services via a mobile application, we'll also gather your distinct mobile device ID number and non-email authentication.


Your name, email address, postal code, present location, phone number, profile picture, your responses (including audio communication) to in-game inquiries, which we may ask for research purposes or to guide Company actions. Additionally, the contact information of your representative, your social media account details, and information shared via your social media accounts.


Information about any monetary transactions you partake in on the Services. This incorporates the amount, currency, and payment method.


Data about your browser and device, as well as information captured through technologies such as cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, and other similar technologies.


If you use our Services through a mobile device, your device will send us location data based on your phone settings. Before utilizing GPS or similar tools to identify your exact location, we'll seek your opt-in.


How Do We Use The Information We Collect?

-We use the information we collect to:

-Deliver and improve the Services and your overall user experience.

-To protect, investigate, and deter against fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activity.

-To link or combine user information with other Personal Information.

-To compare and verify information for accuracy and update our records. -Email, text, message, or otherwise contact you with information and updates about us and the Services

-To send you information including confirmations, invoices, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages.

-Analyze how you use the Services with tools such as Google Analytics and other tools to help us understand traffic patterns and know if there are problems with the Services.

-Create targeted advertising to promote the Services and engage our users.


Do We Share Your Personal Information?

We do not rent, sell, or share your Personal Information with other people or non-affiliated third parties except with your consent or as necessary to complete any transaction or provide any service you have requested or authorized.


To help us do our work, we may provide limited access to some of your Personal Information to the following third parties:
-Partners: Sometimes we collaborate with other organizations to deliver the Services. In these cases, we may share your name, contact information and other details you provided when making an account with our partners.
-Service Providers: We work with a wide range of third party providers, notably our database administrators, cloud computing services, advertising services, data analysts, application service providers, bulk SMS services, and other non-governmental organizations.
-Payment processors: We work with payment processors such as PayPal, Stripe, Google Pay to help process credit card transactions and other payment methods made through the Services. These payment processors will store certain information about you. Please refer to their privacy policies to learn more about how they use your Personal Information.


We may store information such as names, email addresses, telephone number, profile picture, user survey responses, third party social media account information (e.g. Facebook, Google), and zip code in our databases or any information that is necessary to enable us to operate effectively and deliver our services to you. We may also transfer your Personal Information to a third party as a result of a merger, acquisition, reorganization or similar transaction; when required by law or to respond to legal process; to protect our customers; to protect lives; to maintain the security of the Services; and to protect the rights or property of Company. In such event, and to the extent legally permitted, we will notify you and, if there are material changes in relation to the processing of your Personal Information, give you an opportunity to consent to such changes.


Protection of Company and Others

We will also share Personal Information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of Company if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation, or disclosure of your Personal Information is reasonably necessary to detect or protect against fraud or security issues, enforce our terms of use, meet any enforceable government request, defend against legal claims, or protect against harm our legal rights or safety.


Links to Third Party Websites

We may provide links to other websites. We have no control over these websites and they are subject to their own terms of use and privacy policies. As such, we do not endorse and are not responsible for the availability of, or for any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from, these third party websites.


By using the Services, you agree that we will not be liable for any damage or loss caused by your use of or reliance on any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from these third party websites.


How Do We Use Tracking Technologies?

A "cookie" is a small file placed on your hard drive by some of our web pages. We, or third parties we do business with, may use cookies to help us analyze our web page flow, customize our services, content and advertising, measure promotional effectiveness and promote trust and safety. Cookies are commonly used at most major transactional websites in much the same way we use them in our Services.


You may delete and block all cookies from our Services, but parts of the Services may not work. We want to be open about our cookie use.


Even if you are only browsing the Services, certain information (including computer and connection information, browser type and version, operating system and platform details, and the time of accessing the Services) is automatically collected about you. This information will be collected every time you access the Services and it will be used for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy.


You can reduce the information cookies collected from your device. An easy way of doing this is often to change the settings in your browser. If you do that you should know that (a) your use of the Services may be adversely affected (and possibly entirely prevented), (b) your experience of this and other sites that use cookies to enhance or personalize your experience may be adversely affected, and (c) you may not be presented with advertising that reflects the way that you use our and other sites. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings so that it will refuse cookies, our system will send cookies as soon as access our Services. By using the Services you consent to this, unless you change your browser settings.


How Do We Secure Your Personal Information?

We take reasonable steps to protect your Personal Information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, misuse, or destruction. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. The safety and security of your Personal Information also depends on you. If you have an account with us, you are responsible for keeping your membership details confidential. Your account is protected by your account password and we urge you to take steps to keep your Personal Information safe by not disclosing your password and by logging out of your account after each use. We further protect your Personal Information from potential security breaches by implementing certain technological security measures including encryption, firewalls and secure socket layer technology. However, these measures do not guarantee that your Personal Information will not be accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed by breach of such firewalls and secure server software. By using the Services, you acknowledge that you understand and agree to assume these risks.


We retain your personal data while your account is in existence or as needed to provide you Services. This includes data you or others provided to us and data generated or inferred from your use of the Services.


Your Choices Regarding Information

You have several choices regarding the use of Personal Information on the Services: Changing or Deleting Your Personal Data. All users may review, update, correct or delete the Personal Information furnished by a user in their user account (including any imported contacts) by contacting us at admin@banyanstars.com or by accessing your user account. For your protection, we may only share and update the Personal Information associated with the specific email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before doing so. We will try to comply with such requests in a reasonably timely manner. If you completely and permanently delete all of your Personal Information, then your user account may become deactivated. If you wish to cancel your account, you may do so through your account page, and any personally identifiable information associated with your account will be deleted as soon as is reasonably practical or as required by applicable law. Please note that we may retain information that is otherwise deleted in anonymized and aggregated form, in archived or backup copies as required pursuant to records retention obligations, or otherwise as required by law. We may retain an archived copy of your records as required by law or for legitimate business purposes.


Download or Access Personal Information. You can ask us for a copy of your Personal Information and can ask for a copy of Personal Information you provided in machine readable form by emailing us at admin@banyanstars.com.


Opting Out of Email Communications. We may use some of the information we collect for marketing purposes, including to send you promotional communications about new Company features, products, events, or other opportunities. If you wish to stop receiving these communications or to opt out of use of your information for these purposes, please follow the opt-out instructions, such as clicking "Unsubscribe" (or similar opt-out language) in those communications. You can also contact us at admin@banyanstars.com to opt out. Despite your indicated e-mail preferences, we may send you service related communications, including notices of any updates to our terms of service or privacy policy.


Children Under 12

The Services are not directed to individuals who are under age of twelve (12) and we do not solicit nor knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of twelve (12). If you believe that we have unknowingly collected any Personal Information from someone under the age of twelve (12), please contact us immediately at admin@banyanstars.com and the information will be deleted.


Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Policy, your Personal Information, or the Services, you can contact admin@banyanstars.com