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Red Flags
2"This Privacy Policy forms a part of our User Agreement, which is linked below: https://www.gtarcade.com/en/terms.html. By reading the full version our User Agreement, you may learn more about the processing of your personal data. When you click to agree to this Privacy Policy, you accept our rules and policies regarding your personal data and you expressly grant us the rights to collect, process, use, share and store your personal data."
The privacy policy is incorporated into a broader User Agreement which users must accept in full. Clicking agree grants broad, express rights to process data, with full legal terms residing in a separate document.
Warnings
6"We may automatically collect certain data about your devices, including your device information (such as the operating system and its version, hardware and software versions, processing capabilities, manufacturer and model, language and other regional settings, unique device IDs and similar unique identifiers, screen resolution, other device attributes or similar settings), network type, and application version number. In addition, we may automatically collect certain data about your in-game behavior."
The policy collects extensive device information automatically, including unique device IDs, hardware specs, and processing capabilities, well beyond what's needed for basic gaming functionality.
"We may share Personal Information (mobile phone, mobile phone's model, system type, system version, screen dimensions of the device) with third-party SDK's providers (include Youme and MobPush) in or achieve certain function of our Services. With your prior consent, the above-mentioned third-party SDK's providers may have access to your microphone and album."
Device information is shared with third-party SDK providers embedded in the app, and these SDKs can also access the user's microphone and photo album.
"When you delete the data from our Services, we may not immediately delete the corresponding data from the backup system, but will delete the data when the backup is updated within reasonable period. We may need to retain personal data if there are valid grounds under data protection laws for us to do so (e.g., for the defence of legal claims or freedom of expression) but we will let you know if that is the case."
Even after a user requests deletion, data persists in backup systems for an undefined 'reasonable period,' and retention can continue under broad legal justifications with no clear timeline.
"We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, law, our business operations, or any other reason we determine is necessary or appropriate. We will give you prior notice of any modifications to this Privacy Policy to allow you to review the modified Privacy Policy before you choose to continue to use our products. If you do not consent to the modified Privacy Policy, you will be unable to continue to use our Services."
The company can change the privacy policy for any reason it deems appropriate, and users who don't accept the new terms lose access to the services โ effectively forcing acceptance.
"We may automatically collect certain data about your devices, including unique device IDs and similar unique identifiers. We may collect third parties account open-ID and authentication status when you login via third parties account provided that you have expressly agreed to the use of third parties account within the Services."
The collection of unique device identifiers combined with third-party account open-IDs (Facebook, Google, etc.) enables cross-service user tracking and profile linking.
"If you request to delete the Gtarcade account, please click 'Support' in our Game, fill in the ticket with necessary information and submit such ticket. After that, our customer service contacts will help you delete the Gtarcade account. After your Gtarcade account has been deleted, none of your personal information will be kept by us unless otherwise required by applicable laws and regulations."
Account deletion is not self-service โ users must submit a support ticket and wait for customer service to process it, creating friction around exercising this right.