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Red Flags
2"Messages, chat logs and other content you submit when you use our Services, contact our customer support or interact with other players inside the Services. [...] We monitor the content, such as chats and player names, to clean up and block acts of disruptive behavior on our Services."
Metacore collects and monitors all user-generated content including messages and chat logs. While framed as moderation, no limits are placed on how long this content is retained or what else it may be used for.
Warnings
6"Coarse location (e.g. country, state, or city) inferred from your IP address. [...] Asking for your exact location e.g. your GPS location for location based experiences."
Metacore collects coarse location automatically from IP addresses and may request exact GPS location. This geolocation data is also shared with advertising partners.
"Online identifiers like your IP address, mobile device identifiers, and identifiers we assign to your account and other electronic network activity information, Data about your device, such as device model, type and used language, operating system and hardware information."
Metacore collects extensive device information including hardware details, device model, OS, mobile device identifiers, and network activity information beyond what a casual mobile game would require.
"Please note that certain recipients such as payment service providers, social media and advertising partners, development partners and third-party account providers may process your personal data as data controllers under their own privacy policies. A list of our partners is available here. The list of our partners is updated from time to time, and we advise you to periodically review the list when using the Services."
Data is shared with a wide range of third parties โ advertising partners, analytics providers, social media partners, and others โ many of whom act as independent data controllers with their own policies, and the partner list can change at any time.
"We may collect information about your interactions with in-game ads, when you see our ads outside of our Services. [...] We collect and process personal data for creating audiences and to show advertisements, via other communication channels (for example on other websites or mobile apps). We also collect information from these advertising campaigns to measure and improve the effectiveness of our advertising."
Metacore tracks user activity across their own games and third-party properties, collecting data about ad interactions outside their services to build audience segments and measure advertising effectiveness.
"We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Notice at our discretion and at any time. We may update this Privacy Notice due to changes in our operations or in the processing of personal information. The date this Privacy Notice was last updated is identified at the top of this page. You are responsible for periodically visiting the Websites and this Privacy Notice to check for any changes."
Metacore can change the privacy notice at any time at their sole discretion, and places the burden on users to periodically check for changes rather than guaranteeing meaningful notice.
"We retain personal data we collect from you where we have an ongoing legitimate business need or a legal obligation to do so. [...] When your personal data is no longer necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, we will either delete or anonymize it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal data has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal data and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible."
No specific retention periods are defined. Data may be kept indefinitely as long as Metacore claims a 'legitimate business need,' and data in backup archives is retained even after it's no longer necessary.