Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: Aug 2024

1. WHO WE ARE

We are Aha Game Corner. We offer a browser game platform where you can discover and experience many different web games in an easy and accessible way. The Platform is made available via one of Aha Game Corner’ websites as visible in the address bar depending on your region.

Legal information about Aha Game Corner:

We recognize the trust you place in us and take our responsibility to protect your privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy provides important details about how we collect, process, disclose, retain, and protect your personal data. Please review it carefully to understand your rights and our obligations regarding your information.

2. WHAT IS PERSONAL DATA?

Personal Data is any information about you that allows us to identify you. This could be, for example, your name or email address. But equally data about the games you played if we can link it to your account on our Platform.

Aha Game Corner strongly recommends not to use your real name or share any other personal data in any of the games provided on our Platform including, without limitation, when engaging in multiplayer.

3. FROM WHOM DO WE COLLECT PERSONAL DATA?

In order to operate our Platform, we may collect data from users and visitors of the Platform and Website, developers of web games, persons who otherwise provide us with their contact details, and persons who contact us by email or other means. As described above under article 1.3, we do collect personal data from children older than the age of thirteen (13) or the applicable minimum age in your country.

4. WHAT PERSONAL DATA DOES AHA GAME CORNER PROCESS AND WHY?

Aha Game Corner may collect the following Personal Data of you:

WHY?	WHICH PERSONAL DATA?	ON WHAT BASIS?
To evaluate your job application	email address, name, age, gender, CV	Necessary for the performance of a contract or to take steps at your request, before entering a contract
To register and authenticate your Account of the Platform	email address, name, age, gender external account, username and password	The prior, express, free, specific and informed consent of you
Personalisation of your game experience (Account)	username, device and connection data, selected interests, gaming behaviour and feedback	The prior, express, free, specific and informed consent of you
To respond to your question or complaint, or to help you with technical problems	name, e-mail address and other information that you provide to us	Necessary for the exercise of our legitimate interests, in particular to enhance the quality of our Platform
To inform you of new functionalities of our Platform	username and email address	Necessary for the exercise of our legitimate interests, in particular to communicate relevant information about our Platform
To analyse statistics about visitors to our Platform and games in order to improve the Platform, the games and user experience	data on visitors’ behaviour (usage & device data) and in-game statistics	Necessary for the exercise of our legitimate interests, in particular collecting statistics about the usage and performance of our Platform and the games
To comply with legal obligations	data required by applicable law	Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
To prevent, detect and combat fraud and other illegal or unauthorised activities	data required for detection of fraud and illegal activities	Necessary for the exercise of our legitimate interests, in particular the prevention of fraud and other illegal activities
For marketing of Aha Game Corner (for example newsletters)	username and email address	The prior, express, free, specific and informed consent of you
To enable advertising on our Platform	data gathered by the use cookies, web beacons or similar technologies such as IP address, user ID’s, browser type and operating system	The prior, express, free, specific and informed consent of you when you accept our Privacy and Cookie Policy, and confirm your ad preferences. This authorisation can be withdrawn by you at any time. For more information, please consult ‘Manage Your Ad Preferences’ and our Cookie Policy.
To fulfil our obligations to game developers	e-mail, tax identification number, bank account identification, Paypal Account, preferred payment method	Necessary for the performance of a contract
To enable in-game purchases	data related to the in-game purchase

Aha Game Corner does not collect any specific payment data when you make an in-game purchase. The payment is executed by a third party payment provider. We store and link your in-game purchases to your Account. | Necessary for the performance of a contract |

Advertising. Aha Game Corner displays ads from various advertising companies on the Platform. These ads may be personalised or non-personalised content-related ads. To show you personalised ads and only if you have given consent via our Consent Management Platform, we share certain data (such as your IP address, ad identifiers and the information that you have given consent for personalised ads) with third-party advertisers and ad networks. We also use this information to measure how effective these ads are. In our CMP shown to you when you first visit our Website, you can customise your ad tracking preferences or choose not to accept personalised ads at all. You can change your ad preferences at any time via “Preferences” in the menu of the Website. If you choose not to receive personalised ads at all, we will still show you ads, but they may not reflect your interests, as these ads will be content-specific and not user-specific.

Profiling. Aha Game Corner may analyse your game data from the web games you play. Based on your game statistics, Aha Game Corner may then recommend games you might be interested in. However, you will not be subject to decisions that will have a significant impact on you based solely on automated decision making, unless we have a lawful basis for doing so, e.g., if we have compelling legitimate grounds for us to continue or to establish a legal defence,and we have notified you. Please note that if you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA) or the United Kingdom (UK), you may have the right to object at any time to your personal data being processed for direct marketing purposes.

5. DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA WITH OTHERS?

Yes. We may share your personal data with other companies. These companies help Aha Game Corner to perform tasks for the Platform. For example, we may disclose your personal data to suppliers of IT and payment services, external consultants and other subcontractors of Aha Game Corner who provide services for the Website and Platform.

Advertising. Additionally, we may share information that we collect from you, such as your email (in hashed form), IP address or information about your browser or operating system, with our identity partners/service providers. These partners return an online identification code that we may store in our first-party cookie for our use in advertising and it may be shared with advertising companies to enable interest-based and personalised advertising. Personalised advertising means that companies can send you ads for products you might be interested in. Aha Game Corner works among others with the following ad partners:

6. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

Aha Game Corner will keep your data for as long as strictly necessary for the purposes listed below. With respect to your Account and linked personal data, we will keep your Account until you request us to delete it. You can always delete your account via Account Settings. Please be aware that the deletion of your Account is permanent and you will no longer have access to any purchases linked to your Account.

Following a long period of inactivity, Aha Game Corner might delete or archive personal data. Where we have your email address, we will notify you in advance before such deletion or archiving of data.

We might keep your data for longer if necessary to comply with a particular law or regulation, protect against fraud or abusive incidents, or in correspondence with any legal claims or disputes.

7. IS YOUR DATA SAFE AT AHA GAME CORNER ?

Yes. A secure environment for your personal data is very important to us. We promise that we will make every effort to keep any personal data safe and take appropriate security measures.

Within Aha Game Corner, personal data is only available to people who need to have access to it in relation to their job.

When we use external providers to help us with the processing of your personal data, we will always ensure that your personal data is handled confidentially and in a safe manner. We also always draw up a contract with these Processors. This way the Processor will never be allowed to use your personal data on its own initiative and your personal data has to be erased as soon as the Processor has completed the assignment for Aha Game Corner.

If you have any questions on these security measures, feel free to contact us at dataprotection@ahagamecorner.com

You are and always will be the boss of your personal data. After all, it is your personal data. You therefore have some rights that you can use. You can do the following with your data:

• View: to see what personal data Aha Game Corner keeps about you;
• Edit: to let Aha Game Corner know that, for example, your name is written incorrectly, or you have a different email address. You can edit your personal data of your Account (email address, location, username;
• Delete: to let Aha Game Corner know that you no longer want Aha Game Corner to keep your personal data. You can also withdraw your previously given consent at any time. If Aha Game Corner has no valid reason to keep your data, Aha Game Corner will delete it;
• Freeze: in some cases you can request the restriction of your personal data, which means that we are not allowed to do anything more with your personal data for a while;
• Stop receiving marketing communications: to let Aha Game Corner know that you no longer wish to receive marketing communications (for example, a newsletter). To do so, you can unsubscribe at the bottom of every newsletter we send to you.
• Object to personalised advertising: you can ask Aha Game Corner to stop processing data when approaching you with personalised advertising. You can manage this yourself via the CMP (see ‘Manage Your Ad Preferences’). Please note that Aha Game Corner offers the Platform for free to its users and generates revenue by allowing companies to advertise on our Platform. Therefore, it is not possible to use our Platform without any advertisements at all;
• Transfer: in some cases you can ask Aha Game Corner to provide you with a copy of your personal data so it can be transferred to another company.
• Submit a complaint: to submit a complaint about the processing of your personal information to Aha Game Corner at any time. You also have the right to take your complaint to a data protection supervisory authority.
• Object to Automated Individual Decision Making: to let Aha Game Corner know that you do not want to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing If you believe you believe that the automated decision-making process has a significant impact on your rights, interests, or legal status.
• Withdraw Consents: in the situation where Aha Game Corner has used your consent as the foundation for processing your personal information, you have the right to retract that consent at any moment.

You can exercise these rights by sending an email to data-protection@ahagamecorner.com.

We will respond to all requests without undue delay. Should our response take more than one month due to the complexity or number of requests, we will inform you in a timely manner and keep you informed. In addition, we may ask you for more information to confirm your identity before we can respond to a request.

8 . MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR DATA

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our handling of your data, please send a message to data-protection@ahagamecorner.com

AHA GAME CORNER COOKIE POLICY

1. WHO WE ARE

We are Aha Game Corner. We offer a browser game platform where you can discover and experience many different web games in an easy way.

Legal information about Aha Game Corner

2. WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies are small files that are saved on your computer when you visit web pages. They contain information linked to a web browser and the specific website. They are saved in a specific folder on your hard drive. If you return to a specific website, this page can recognize the visitor by means of the cookie and further elaborate the history. A web beacon is an (often transparent) graphic image, usually no larger than 1 pixel, that is placed on a website and that is used to monitor the behaviour of the user visiting the website.

Cookies are used to increase visitor-friendliness: by identifying visitors with a cookie, they do not always have to enter the same data such as login information or screen settings every time you visit the website.

In this Cookie Policy, we explain what cookies are, their purposes and which cookies we use on our Websites. More information on your privacy and data protection rights can be found in our Privacy Policy.

3. WHAT KIND OF COOKIES EXIST?

Often a distinction is made between two large groups of cookies:

• First party cookies: these cookies are created by a website to make the web page function better. They regulate the technical part of a site, such as language choice or remembering the products in the shopping basket in an online store. The visited website creates and places first party cookies.
• Third party cookies: these cookies are created and placed on your computer by another (third) party than the website you visit. They remember the behaviour of a surfer. Examples are social media such as Facebook or Twitter, but Google Analytics as well. This is the system used most to measure website visits.
• Cookies essential for the correct functioning of our Websites do not require permission. All other cookies do.

4. WHY DO WE USE COOKIES?

Cookies are generally used to increase visitor-friendliness: by identifying visitors with a cookie, they do not always have to enter the same data such as login information or screen settings every time you visit the Websites. Like other commercial websites, Aha Game Corner and our authorised, third-party service providers use cookies and other similar information-gathering technologies throughout our Platform to collect certain information automatically and store it in log files for a variety of legitimate business interests and purposes.

Aha Game Corner and its authorised, third-party service providers use cookies, beacons, and other similar technologies on our Websites either with your consent or for our legitimate business purposes to ensure you can navigate or otherwise use our Websites and access secure areas of our Websites. We also use these technologies for statistical purposes and to analyse and improve the use of our Platform and prepare aggregated usage reports.

Aha Game Corner wants to inform users as much as possible about the cookies we use. Cookies are essential for us to optimise each visit to the Platform and offer you a better game experience or offer you relevant ads that you might be interested in. For example, cookies remember each choice made by you (e.g. choices related to language, newsletter, etc.) and help offer you all relevant services and suggestions.

5. WHAT IS OUR LEGAL BASIS?

On our free, ad-supported Platform, we use these technologies for our legitimate business purposes of providing standard advertising controls, determining user response to advertisements and promotions, and delivering targeted advertisements that we or our authorised, third-party service providers believe will be of most interest to you.

6. HOW TO MANAGE YOUR COOKIES?

When you first visit our Websites, you will be prompted to accept, reject or set our cookies according to your preference via our Consent Management Platform. You can access this CMP at any time in the top right corner of our Websites (next to the “Login” button) via the “Preferences” button and you can configure your ad preferences.

In addition, at the browser level you can manage your cookies by adapting your browser settings. Modern browsers allow you to choose to block cookies or to accept only cookies from specific websites. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Platform. For more information about cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org. Please note that limiting third-party cookies via your browser controls does not prevent our first-party cookies from being set in this way.

If you would like to learn more about behavioural advertising or to opt-out of having this information used by companies that are part of the Network Advertising Initiative to deliver personalised ads, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org. Many of the same companies are members of the Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising. You can learn more and opt-out of receiving personalised ads from them at http://www.aboutads.info/choices.

Some advertising networks require that we specifically list their opt-out links below. When you opt out of a network, you may receive an “opt-out” cookie so that the network will know not to assign you new cookies in the future. You will continue to receive ads from that network, but not behaviorally targeted ads. If you erase your browser’s cookies, you may need to perform this process again.

Please remember, if you opt-out of interest-based advertising you will continue to receive ads on our free, ad-supported Platform, but not behaviorally targeted ads. Also, if you opt-out of Aha Game Corner Games’s practices, you may continue to receive interest-based advertising through other companies.

8. MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT COOKIES

If you have any questions or concerns about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies, please send a message to data-protection@ahagamecorner.com