What information do we collect and how do we use it?

Visiting Our Website

Our website is hosted by Squarespace, Inc., 225 Varick Street, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10014, USA. We have a data processing agreement with this company. To access the website, your browser may transmit personal data (such as your IP address) to Squarespace. Your personal data is processed for the purpose of maintaining the functionality of the servers. Further information on the processing of your personal data by Squarespace can be found here: https://www.squarespace.com/privacy. 

We do not use any cookies on our website.

GDPR Legal Basis: The personal data obtained when accessing our website falls under a legitimate interest (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)).

Feedback, Bug, and Crash Reports

When playing our games, you may choose to report a bug and/or send us feedback via email or contact form. We will collect the data you voluntarily provide, such as a save file, screenshot, and text description. This helps us improve our games and address issues.

If a game or related software generates automatic crash reports, consent will be requested and must be agreed to prior to sending a report.

GDPR Legal Basis: Feedback, bug, and crash reports are voluntary and consented to by the data subject (GDPR Art. 6(1)(a)). You may request the deletion of your personal data from our records by emailing growlery@growlerygames.com.

Newsletter

We send emails roughly once a month to provide updates on our recent games and studio news.

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we add your email address to our mailing list. We track link clicks and email bounce events to improve our newsletter and to remove inactive subscribers.

GDPR Legal Basis: Subscribers to our newsletter must consent (GDPR Art. 6(1)(a)), and processed data is a legitimate interest (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)). You may unsubscribe at any time by clicking the ‘Unsubscribe’ button, typically found at the bottom of our emails.

With whom do we share the data?

We use MailChimp as our newsletter provider. Our service providers may store and process the data we collect from you on servers outside of the EU/EEA. We make sure to work only with partners who are GDPR-compliant, and we will take all the steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

We will not use your information for any third-party marketing purposes.

We may share anonymized game and newsletter statistics with other game developers for educational purposes.

We may also disclose your Personal Data:

• to our subsidiaries and affiliates;

• to our lawyers, consultants, accountants, business advisors, and similar third parties who owe us duties of confidentiality;

• to a buyer or other successor in the event of a sale, merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data retained by us pertaining to the users of the Services is among the assets transferred;

• to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, such as responding to a government or regulatory request;

• to enforce any contract we may have in effect with you;

• if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our users, or others; and

• if you have consented to such a disclosure.

Your rights

You can always request the erasure of your personal data from our records or withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data. We comply with the GDPR (the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation) and will honor your requests in accordance with your rights, which can be found in Chapter 3 of the GDPR. For any such requests, please contact us at growlery@growlerygames.com.

Children

We do not and will not knowingly collect personal data from children under the age of 13. If we learn that we possess the personal data of an individual under 13 years old, we will erase such data from our records. If the individual is subscribed to the newsletter, it will result in a suspension of the subscription.

Contact

If you have any questions or requests in accordance with your data rights, you can contact us at growlery@growlerygames.com.