Ranked #9 of 9 in Game Card
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3"THESE TERMS CONTAIN AN ARBITRATION AGREEMENT, A CLASS ACTION WAIVER, AND A JURY TRIAL WAIVER THAT AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS. IN ARBITRATION THERE IS NO JUDGE OR JURY AND THERE IS LESS DISCOVERY AND APPELLATE REVIEW THAN IN COURT... If you are a resident of the US or Canada, you and Scopely agree to resolve any dispute on an individual basis through final and binding arbitration... Neither you nor Scopely can bring a claim as a plaintiff or participate as a class member in a class, collective, consolidated, private attorney general, or representative action."
Users in the US and Canada are forced into individual binding arbitration, waiving the right to a jury trial and class action lawsuits, with limited appeals and discovery compared to court proceedings.
"Once you make User Content available on the Services, you thereby grant to Scopely an irrevocable, perpetual, transferable, sublicensable, fully paid-up, royalty-free, worldwide right and license to copy, reproduce, fix, adapt, modify, create derivative works from, manufacture, commercialize, publish, distribute, sell, license, sublicense, transfer, lease, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform... your User Content as well as all modified and derivative works thereof... You further hereby grant to Scopely the unconditional, irrevocable right to use and exploit your name, likeness and any other information or material submitted."
Scopely claims an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide license to do virtually anything with user-generated content, including commercializing it and using the user's name and likeness, with no compensation and a waiver of moral rights.
Warnings
7"We may amend these Terms by posting the amended versions on our website or in the supplemental terms of the applicable Service(s). By continuing to access or use our Services after we post amended versions, you confirm your agreement to the Terms, as amended. If you do not agree with any of the changes, you must immediately stop accessing our Services, and your license to use our Services will immediately terminate."
Scopely can change terms at any time by posting updates, and continued use is treated as acceptance. The only recourse for disagreeing users is to stop using the service entirely.
"We and our partners use various tools to collect information when you use our Services, including cookies, pixels, software development kits, advertising identifiers, and other similar technologies... These third-party advertising partners include, but are not limited to Meta, Google, AppLovin, LiveRamp, Criteo, IronSource, Microsoft, and their partners... We also allow specific, approved partners to collect information from your browser or device for advertising and measurement purposes using their own similar tools."
Scopely embeds SDKs and tracking technologies from numerous third-party partners (Meta, Google, AppLovin, LiveRamp, Criteo, IronSource, Microsoft) that directly collect data from users' devices for advertising and measurement.
"We generally retain personal information for as long as we reasonably need it for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy (such as complying with our legal obligations, where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so, managing internal records, enforcing our contracts and terms, fraud prevention, resolving disputes, and for safety reasons), unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law."
Scopely provides no specific retention timelines, using broad justifications like 'legitimate business need,' fraud prevention, and legal compliance to retain data indefinitely.
"IP address, unique device identifiers, advertising identifiers, device serial numbers, and similar identifiers; Device information such as hardware model, device software platform/OS and firmware, mobile carrier, preferred languages, device motion information, mobile network information... Other technologies may use network-related or other information to recognize your device (e.g., IP address)."
Scopely collects extensive device fingerprinting data including unique device identifiers, advertising IDs, device serial numbers, and hardware information, enabling cross-device and cross-service tracking of users.
"Approximate location inferred from IP address... Non-precise geolocation information. Vendors, such as cloud service providers (such as our email service providers and cloud-based survey and customer service tools we use) and payment processors. Affiliates for purposes of business operations and support."
Scopely collects approximate location data inferred from IP addresses and shares non-precise geolocation information with vendors and affiliates.
"Device information such as hardware model, device software platform/OS and firmware, mobile carrier, preferred languages, device motion information, mobile network information, and in some cases, browser type and version, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages and URLs, or clickstream information... Other information such as chat records, friends' names and contact information, and location information you choose to share."
Scopely collects device motion data, friends' names and contact information, and extensive device metadata beyond what's needed for a mobile game, including mobile carrier, firmware, and clickstream data.
"To protect the privacy of your information, Scopely verifies your identity and processes rights requests through our in-game help ticket system. If you wish to exercise any of the rights described above, please follow the instructions below and do not delete the game until your request is fulfilled: Open the Scopely game(s) for which you wish to exercise your rights; Visit the game's settings menu; Select "Contact Us," "Support," "Help," or equivalent option to submit a support ticket via the chat icon."
Users must go through an in-game support ticket system to request account deletion and are told not to uninstall the game until the request is complete, creating friction in the deletion process.