TapBlaze, LLC (“Company”, “We", “TapBlaze” or "Lai Systems, LLC") respects the privacy rights of our users and are committed to protecting the information collected through its online products, online services and websites including, but not limited to TapBlaze’s games (together “Services”). TapBlaze has adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain how TapBlaze collects, stores, and uses the information collected in connection with TapBlaze’s Services.
Website Log Files and Cookies
This website utilizes industry standard analytic packages which gathers limited information on visitors to our website automatically, and stores this anonymous information in server log files. This information may include IP addresses, browser type, basic IP information, referring pages, operating system used and date/time stamps. This information does not identify individual users; it is used only for site administration, as well as for analysis of website usage and trends.
The TapBlaze website does not use any non-technical cookies.
Links to Other Websites
This website may contain links to other sites that are not controlled in any way by us. Please be aware of this when you click on any such links; we are not responsible for the privacy practices and/or policies of any website other than our own. Consequently, we strongly suggest that you review the privacy policy of every website you visit, whether or not they are linked to by our own site.
Registration and Use of Personal Information
Registration is not required in order to use or access this website. However, this site may make forums, blogs, message boards or similar available to its users. You may be required to register for these features, particularly if you wish to leave comments or provide articles. In addition, this site collects personal information when:
- You request support for a TapBlaze product;
- You submit questions or comments to us.
The types of personal information collected may include (but are not limited to):
- Your first and last name;
- Your e-mail address;
If you do contact us for questions or comments, please rest assured that any such information you provide will not be shared with any third-party organization except with your express consent.
BY INSTALLING, USING, REGISTERING TO OR OTHERWISE ACCESSING THE SERVICES, YOU AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND GIVE AN EXPLICIT AND INFORMED CONSENT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT INSTALL, USE, REGISTER TO OR OTHERWISE ACCESS THE SERVICES. TapBlaze reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at reasonable times, so please review it frequently. If TapBlaze makes material or significant changes to this Privacy Policy, TapBlaze may post a notice on TapBlaze’s website along with the updated Privacy Policy. Your continued use of Services will signify your acceptance of the changes to this Privacy Policy.
Being compliance with applicable data protection laws is our top priority and this Policy is updated to be compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the California Customer Privacy Act (“CCPA”).
Our Policy Regarding Children Under 16 (Global)
We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 16 or knowingly allow such persons to use our Service. If you are under 16, please do not send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address or any other personal information. No one under the age of 16 may provide any personal information. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under the age of 16, please contact us at privacy@tapblaze.com.
Please note that in-game advertising in TapBlaze games and apps deemed directed to children under the age of thirteen (16), including without limitation the following mobile apps: My Pizza Shop, My Pizza Shop 2 (collectively, “Kids Apps”) are only CONTEXTUAL.
Our Policy Regarding Children Under 16 (EU, EEA, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and California Residents)
We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 16 or knowingly allow such persons to use our Service. If you are under 16, please do not send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address or any other personal information. No one under the age of 16 may provide any personal information. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under the age of 16, please contact us at privacy@tapblaze.com.
Non-Personal Data
For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “non-personal data” means information that does not directly identify you. Additionally, non-personal data means “aggregate” and “de-personalized” information, which is data TapBlaze collects about the use of TapBlaze Services, from which any personally identifiable data has been removed.
TapBlaze may use tools or third party analytical software to automatically collect and use certain non-personal data that does not directly enable TapBlaze to identify you. The types of non-personal data TapBlaze may collect and use include, but are not limited to:
- (i) device properties; (model, service provider information, OS information, language and country information);
- (ii) device software platform and firmware;
- (iii) mobile phone carrier;
- (iv) geographical data (coarse geo-location data);
- (v) game activity and achievements (scores, credits, access logs, improper usage record and fraud detection information);
- (vi) other non-personal data as reasonably required by TapBlaze to enhance the Services and other TapBlaze products and services such as domain name, browser type, operating system device type and other statistical or technical information related to your device.
TapBlaze may use and disclose to TapBlaze’s partners and contractors the collected non-personal data for purposes of analyzing usage of the Services, advertisement serving, managing and providing the Services and to further develop the Services and other TapBlaze services and products.
You recognize and agree that the analytics companies (Analytics and Attribution Technology section) utilized by TapBlaze may combine the information collected with other information they have independently collected from other services or products relating to your activities. These companies collect and use information under their own privacy policies.
Non-personal data may be kept up to a period of 3 years or until the user’s de-registration from the service, or the termination of entrustment agreement.
Personal Data
For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “personal data” means personally identifiable information that specifically identifies you as an individual.
Likely situations when you make personal data available to TapBlaze include, but are not limited to:
- (i) registration for Services, contests and special events;
- (ii) accessing Services using a third party ID, such as social networking sites or gaming services;
- (iii) subscribing to newsletters;
- (iv) purchasing a product or services through TapBlaze’s online stores;
- (v) using “tell a friend,” “email this page,” or other similar features;
- (vi) requesting technical support; and
- (vii) otherwise through use of TapBlaze Services where personal data is required for use and/or participation.
Registration & Profile Information
The types of personal data may vary depending on the type of activity you are engaged in. The personal data TapBlaze may collect, process and use may include, but are not limited to:
- (i) Apple account: The value of the member identifier;
- (ii) Google account: Member identifier value, profile picture, profile name;
- (iii) Facebook account: Member identifier value, profile picture, profile name;
- (iv) your name, screen/nick name;
- (v) TapBlaze Services or third party service ID;
- (vi) e-mail address, phone number;
- (vii) photo or other image;
- (viii) birthdate, sex, address;
- (ix) friend connections, avatar image;
- (x) shipping information.
Use of Personal Information and Legal Grounds
TapBlaze may use collected personal data for purposes of analyzing usage of the Services, providing customer and technical support, managing and providing Services (including managing advertisement serving) and to further develop the Services and other TapBlaze services and products. TapBlaze may combine non-personal data with personal data.
We use your information, including your personal information, for the following purposes and based on the following legal grounds:
- (i) To enter into and execute the agreement with you:
- - For account registration purposes;
- - To provide and operate the Services.
- (ii) Service Providers:
- - Third-party vendors, service providers, contractors or agents that perform functions on our behalf may be outside your home country.
- (iii) For the purposes of our legitimate business interests:
- - To respond to your requests, complaints and communications, to verify your identity, to process your transactions, to provide technical support and troubleshooting, and for other customer service purposes;
- - To develop new products and services;
- - For member identification, fraud prevention, and detection of improper usage;
- - Notification of activities to friends, user search & sign-up;
- - To tailor the content and information that we may send or display to you, to offer personalized content and to assist us in advertising our services;
- - To send you event information, marketing messages and advertisements;
- - To better understand how users access and use our Services, to respond to user desires and preferences, and for other research and analytical purposes;
- - To administer our contests;
- - To protect our rights and the rights, health and safety of others;
- - To determine, exercise or defend our legal position and rights.
- (iv) To comply with our legal obligations:
- - Where required by law or legal process;
- - To comply with a binding request.
All personal information may be kept up to a period of 3 years or until the user’s de-registration from the service, or the termination of entrustment agreement.
Entrusted Service Providers
The service providers we may share your personal information with include:
Entrusted Service Provider | Purpose | Data Retention |
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Zendesk | Customer support for players 16+ | Until the user’s de-registration from the service, or the termination of entrustment agreement. |
Knownhost | Server partner to provide game services. | Until the user’s de-registration from the service, or the termination of entrustment agreement. |
Shopify | Physical merchandise e-commerce platform. | Until the user’s de-registration from the service, or the termination of entrustment agreement. |
Privacy policies for each of these entrusted service providers are provided as follows:
- Zendesk: https://www.zendesk.com/company/privacy-and-data-protection/
- Knownhost: https://www.knownhost.com/privacy-policy
- Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy/customers
Third Party Account Data
TapBlaze may use your personal data to send messages to you with informative and/or commercial content about TapBlaze’s services or third party products and services TapBlaze thinks may be of interest to you, such as new features and services, special offers and updated information.
Please note that certain features of the Services may be able to connect to your social networking sites to obtain additional information about you. In such cases, TapBlaze may be able to collect certain information from your social networking profile when your social networking site permits it, and when you consent to allow your social networking site to make that information available to TapBlaze.
The personal information we collect when you login via a Third Party Account may depend on your privacy settings for that Third Party Account. We don’t control how such third parties collect, use and share your personal information. You should review the relevant third party privacy policy for more information.
This information may include, but is not limited to:
- (i) Profile: We may collect your name, profile picture, gender, user ID, email address, your country, your language, your time zone, the organizations and links on your profile page, the names and profile pictures of your social networking site “friends” and other information you have included in your social networking site profile;
- (ii) Purchases: If you make a purchase within the Services through the relevant store, we may collect and maintain your purchase history and details however, we do not receive your credit card number;
- (iii) Customer Service: We may collect emails, chat records, attachments and customer opinions for customer consultation, handling complaints and other business, delivering announcements, and performing customer support tasks;
- (iv) Other Automatically Collected Info: Device Identifiers. We may collect IP information, advertising ID, application ID or other identifiers.
Third party account data may be kept up to a period of 3 years or until the user’s de-registration from the service, or the termination of entrustment agreement.
Third Party Data Collection and Use of End-User Information
When you use or connect to a TapBlaze website or download a TapBlaze mobile application by or through a Third Party Platform—including Facebook—you allow us to access and/or collect certain information from your Third Party Platform profile/account. You additionally allow us to access information contained in cookies placed on your device by the Third Party Platform as permitted by the terms of your agreement and privacy settings with the Third Party Platform. We may share this information with the Third Party Platform for their use as permitted by the terms of your agreement and privacy settings with the Third Party Platform.
We will share some of the information we collect from you with vendors and other service providers who work with us to support the internal operations of our website and/or mobile application. For example, we use a third-party service for ad tracking and to help us prepare website and mobile application analytics.
Our third-party ad tracking and analytics company never sends emails, notifications, or other communications to our end users. If you would like to opt out of third-party ad tracking and analytics, please visit here. Your choice to opt out of ad tracking and analytics services does not limit our ability to email you or collect other information.
TAPBLAZE ID
Some games allow players to restore their progress by using their email to register for a TapBlaze ID. Games with Age Gates only allow the creation of a TapBlaze ID if the user is NOT under 16. The email address is ONLY used for retrieving your game progress and for no other purpose. In addition, all email addresses are hashed. If you no longer want to have your email associated with a TapBlaze ID for game progress saving, please contact us here and your progress and email will be deleted within 48 hours. Please mention "TAPBLAZE ID Deletion" in your email subject.
Data collected for TapBlaze ID may be kept up to a period of 3 years or until the user’s de-registration from the service, or the termination of entrustment agreement.
Ad Serving Technology
Mobile games and applications which are not directed to children under the age of thirteen (13) ("General Apps") may display advertisements, in various formats (such as banners, interstitials, rewarded videos, etc.) from third party ad networks. Please note that if you click on any of these advertisements, the advertisers may use cookies and other web-tracking technologies to collect data regarding advertisement performance, your interaction with such ads and your interests (which may include, non-personal and/or personal information (such as, device and network information, unique identifiers, gender, age and geo-location) in order to serve you advertisements and for the legitimate business interests of such third party ad networks. We recommend that you review the terms of use and privacy policy of any 3rd party advertisers with whom you are interacting before doing so. Their privacy policy, not ours, will apply to any of those interactions. The third party ad networks which may display advertisements in our “General Apps” are as follows:
Admob (Google): https://support.google.com/admob/answer/6128543?hl=en#
Applovin: https://www.applovin.com/privacy/
Chartboost: https://support.chartboost.com/en/legal/privacy-policy
Digital Turbine (Fyber): https://www.digitalturbine.com/privacy-policy/
Ironsource: https://developers.is.com/ironsource-mobile/air/ironsource-mobile-privacy-policy/
Meta: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/center https://accountscenter.facebook.com/ad_preferences
Mintegral (aka Mobvista/Rayjump): https://www.mintegral.com/en/privacy/#privacy-policy-of-the-mintegral-services
Moloco: https://www.moloco.com/advertising-policy
Pangle: https://www.pangleglobal.com/privacy/enduser-en
TapJoy: https://dev.tapjoy.com/en/legal/Privacy-Policy
Unity: https://unity.com/legal/game-player-and-app-user-privacy-policy https://unity.com/legal/game-player-and-app-user-privacy-faq
Liftoff (Vungle): https://vungle.com/privacy/
Analytics and Attribution Technology
For internal operations and to further improve our products, we use Firebase for analytics and crash reporting data: https://policies.google.com/privacy#infochoices
To obtain user for some of our games, we use paid advertising. To attribute installs, post install events (i.e. in-app purchases) we have partnered up with an attribution provider, Singular: https://www.singular.net/privacy-policy/.
Disclosure and Transfer of Personal Data
TapBlaze collects and processes personal data on a voluntary basis and it is not in the business of selling your personal data to third parties. Personal data may, however, occasionally be disclosed in accordance with applicable legislation and this Privacy Policy. Additionally, TapBlaze may disclose personal data to its parent companies and its subsidiaries in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
TapBlaze may hire agents and contractors to collect and process personal data on TapBlaze’s behalf and in such cases such agents and contractors will be instructed to comply with our Privacy Policy and to use personal data only for the purposes for which the third party has been engaged by TapBlaze. These agents and contractors may not use your personal data for their own marketing purposes. TapBlaze may use third party service providers such as credit card processors, e-mail service providers, shipping agents, data analyzers and business intelligence providers. TapBlaze has the right to share your personal data as necessary for the aforementioned third parties to provide their services for TapBlaze. TapBlaze is not liable for the acts and omissions of these third parties, except as provided by mandatory law.
TapBlaze may disclose your personal data to third parties as required by law enforcement or other government officials in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements, or other activity that is illegal or may expose you or TapBlaze to legal liability. TapBlaze may also disclose your personal data to third parties when TapBlaze has a reason to believe that a disclosure is necessary to address potential or actual injury or interference with TapBlaze’s rights, property, operations, users or others who may be harmed or may suffer loss or damage, or TapBlaze believes that such disclosure is necessary to protect TapBlaze’s rights, combat fraud and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on TapBlaze.
Data Retention
We retain your data for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you the Service. We will for example periodically de-identify unused game accounts and we regularly review and de-identify unnecessary data. Idle personal, non-personal and third party data may be kept up to a period of 3 years or until the user’s de-registration from the service, or the termination of entrustment agreement.
Personal Data | Purpose | Data Retention |
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Email Address | Game progress saving for players 16+ | 3 years from last activity or until user request to de-register. |
Consumer support or complaints | Support for game operations for players 16+ | 3 years or until user request to de-register. |
If you would like to delete your game account and cloud save from your local device, please go to the title screen > Settings > Account > Delete Account. This action will disassociate your device from our server and delete your game records, associated account and registration on your local device only. Please contact us at privacy@tapblaze.com with your TapBlaze ID and we will also delete any data on our servers, your removal request will be complete in 30 business days.
If you would like to delete your game data on your device, please go to the title screen > Settings > Erase Data. This action will disassociate your local game device from our server data and delete your game file on your local device only.
If you would like us to remove your personal, registration, profile or non-personal data for any reason, please contact us at privacy@tapblaze.com with your TapBlaze ID, player ID and email associated with your account. Upon confirming your identity and data records, your removal request will be complete in 30 business days, removing all personal, registration/ profile and non personal data from any records at TapBlaze.
This only applies to users 16 and above as TapBlaze does not knowingly or intentionally collect personal information for any users under 16. TapBlaze ID is only available to users 16 or over. If you are under 16, please do not contact or provide TapBlaze any personal information.
How to Request Data Deletion
If you wish to request personal and/or non-personal data deletion, please send an email to privacy@tapblaze.com with subject line "Data Deletion Request." Your removal request will be complete in 30 business days.
The procedure and method of personal information destruction are as follows:
- * Destruction procedure: The Company selects the personal information for which the reason for destruction occurred, and destroys the personal information with the approval of the person in charge of personal information protection.
- * Destruction method: The company destroys personal information stored in the form of electronic files so that the record cannot be reproduced, and in the case of other records, printed materials, writing, or recording devices, it is destroyed by crushing or incineration with a shredder.
Apple Game Center: If you play one of our games on Apple Game Center and want to delete your Game Center data, please go to your device settings > your name > iCloud>manage storage and click the games you want to delete.
Google Play Games: If you play one of our games on Google Play and want to delete your Play Games profile and data, please follow the instructions here.
International Data Transfer
Information we collect may be transferred to countries outside your home country for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. These countries, including but not limited to the United States may not provide the same level of data privacy protection as the European Union/European Economic Area or your home country, and you hereby expressly consent to the transfer of your information to these countries for processing in accordance with this Privacy Policy. These transfers are essential to the provision of our Services and performance of the Terms of Service.
- a. Personal information to be transferred overseas: email address
- b. Country of transfer: United States
- c. Transfer date/method: From time to time through the network
- d. Person to whom personal information is transferred: TAPBLAZE, LLC (privacy@tapblaze.com), ZenDesk, Inc. (privacy@zendesk.com)
- e. Purpose and period for using and retaining personal information by the person who receives personal information: For game progress saving, game support and complaints and will be retained for 3 years from last game activity or until the user’s de-registration from the service.
Your Rights and Choices
Upon request, TapBlaze will provide you with information about whether we hold any of your Personal Information. You can update or correct Personal Information (e.g., your email address) by accessing your account. You can also access or rectify your information by reaching out to us at support@tapblaze.com. You can delete your information by sending an email to privacy@tapblaze.com with your first name, last name, and the respective email addresses you would like for us to delete.
Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process served on our website.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this privacy policy, or you wish to contact us, you may do so here or at the following address: TapBlaze Legal Department 11901 Santa Monica Blvd STE 507 Los Angeles, CA 90025
Appendix A – U.S. Residents
Note: The following additional information applies to you only if you reside in the U.S.:
Please contact privacy@tapblaze.com with any questions.
NOTICE FOR U.S. RESIDENTS OUTSIDE OF CALIFORNIA
If you reside in certain states, including Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah or Virginia, you may have, or you may soon have, the following rights under the privacy laws of your state, subject to the conditions under applicable laws:
- * To confirm whether or not we collect your personal information and obtain copies of it (in some cases, in a portable format);
- * To correct inaccuracies in the personal information we hold about you, taking into account the nature of the personal information and the purposes for which we use it;
- * To delete personal information that we hold about you;
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* To opt out of our use of your personal information for the purposes of targeted advertising.
- (i) Email us at privacy@tapblaze.com.
- (ii) Visit our website and complete the webform here.
- (iii) Use the Data Opt Out option in our Games.
Our Websites do not collect analytics or any personal information and thus do not respond to opt-out preference signals communicated via the Global Privacy Control. Furthermore, usage of our Websites is not tied to usage of our Games. You must opt out of each game individually. Opting out of targeted ads does not mean that you will no longer see ads because we may still deliver contextual ads to you.
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* To opt out of the sale of your personal data. We share your personal information with third parties for targeted advertising purposes, which some states may consider “selling” of personal information. You can opt out by:
- (i) Emailing us at privacy@tapblaze.com;
- (ii) Visiting our website and completing the webform here;
- (iii) Using the Data Opt Out option in our Games.
- * To opt out of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you. We do not engage in such profiling.
- * If you reside in Oregon, you may have the right to request from us a list of the specific third parties, other than individuals, to whom we have disclosed your personal data or any personal data.
You may submit a request to exercise your rights by contacting us at privacy@tapblaze.com. If we decline to take action on a request exercising one of your rights set forth above, you may have the right to appeal our decision. In these cases, we will notify you providing our reasons for denying the request and instructions for how you can appeal the decision.
NOTICE FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
How We Collect and Use Your Personal InformationThis section provides additional details on the types of personal information we collect from users of our Services, our purposes for doing so, and the categories of other parties to whom we have disclosed personal information over the past 12 months. This chart provides details required by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (together, the “CCPA”).
Category of Information Collected (only relevant if you are located in CA) | Personal Information | Purposes of Use | Types of third parties with whom we share information for business operations |
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Identifiers | Name, email address, unique user ID, IP address, device IDs, hardware or operating system based identifiers, identifiers we assign to your account, and other similar identifiers (collected from your device). | We use this information to deliver our Services and related communications, such as newsletters, deliver relevant third-party advertisements, provide customer service to users, improve our Services, job applications, and provide troubleshooting, such as addressing and remediating technical issues and bugs. | Affiliates and subsidiaries; Vendors and service providers; Ad networks and advertising partners; Entities for legal and security purposes; Entities for sales or transfer of business or assets; Others with your consent |
Internet or other electronic network activity information | Information on your activity in our games (for example, your game progress or your interactions with in-game ads), Internet, gaming or other electronic network activity information – such as information regarding an individual’s interaction with an advertisement (collected from your device) | We use this information to save your game progress and for TapBlaze’s operations and analytics. | Affiliates and subsidiaries; Vendors and service providers; Ad networks and advertising partners; Entities for legal and security purposes; Entities for sales or transfer of business or assets; Others with your consent |
Location information |
Your coarse location (e.g., country, state, or city) determined from your IP address. Advertising networks may use your IP address to approximate your location for relevant ads. |
Deliver more relevant advertisements. |
Affiliates and subsidiaries; Vendors and service providers; Ad networks and advertising partners; Entities for legal and security purposes; Entities for sales or transfer of business or assets; Others with your consent |
Log in information | Username and password, including third-party platform account information. | Allow users to access Services, including Cloud Save for logging into games on multiple devices. |
Affiliates and subsidiaries; Vendors and service providers; Entities for legal and security purposes; Entities for sales or transfer of business or assets; Others with your consent |
Commercial information | Zip or postal code, virtual items or currency in Games, transaction amounts, and purchase history. | Collect payment and maintain transaction history. |
Affiliates and subsidiaries; Vendors and service providers; Ad networks and advertising partners; Entities for legal and security purposes; Entities for sales or transfer of business or assets; Others with your consent |
Customer service communications | Content of your customer service communications. | Provide requested support. |
Affiliates and subsidiaries; Vendors and service providers; Entities for legal and security purposes; Entities for sales or transfer of business or assets; Others with your consent |
Other communications | Information from game reviews, surveys, or communications on third-party platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or Discord (e.g., likes, comments, replies). | Depends on the type/content of the communication; e.g., posting your review for others to see. |
Affiliates and subsidiaries; Vendors and service providers; Ad networks and advertising partners; Entities for legal and security purposes; Entities for sales or transfer of business or assets; Others with your consent |
Inferences | Inferences drawn from other information in this chart to create a profile about you. | Understand user preferences and behavior. |
Affiliates and subsidiaries; Vendors and service providers; Ad networks and advertising partners; Entities for legal and security purposes; Entities for sales or transfer of business or assets; Others with your consent |
We may additionally use this information for the following business purposes specified in the CCPA:
- * Auditing related to an interaction with you and concurrent transactions;
- * To find and prevent fraud and abuse, and respond to trust and safety issues that may arise;
- * Debugging to identify and repair errors in our Services;
- * Performing our Services;
- * Internal research for technological development and demonstration; or
- * Activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of our Services, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance our Services;
- * For compliance purposes, including enforcing our TOS or other legal rights, or as may be required by applicable laws and regulations or requested by any judicial process or governmental agency.
- * We commit to maintaining and using de-identified information in de-identified form and not to attempt to re-identify the information, except for the purpose of determining whether our de-identification processes satisfy applicable legal requirements.
We do not sell personal information in the traditional sense of exchanging it for money, but we do disclose certain limited categories of information to third parties for targeted advertising purposes, which is considered “selling” and “sharing” personal information under the CCPA. These limited categories of information include:
- * Unique and online identifiers – IP address, device IDs, or other similar identifiers (collected from your device);
- * Internet, gaming, or other electronic network activity information – such as browsing history, search history, and information regarding an individual’s interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement (collected from your device); and
- * Location information – for example, if you access our games on your mobile device our advertisers may derive information about location from your IP address.
- * We may disclose or permit collection of this information to/by recipients such as ad networks and other advertising partners to achieve these business purposes. This means that we may disclose the categories of personal information listed above for a business purpose.
You have the right to opt out of our selling and sharing of your personal information. To opt out of the disclosure of your personal information for these purposes within a Game, click the Data Opt Out option within the specific Game settings menu you are using (you need to repeat this choice for each Game) and follow the prompts. You may also exercise your opt-out rights by contacting privacy@tapblaze.com.
Incentive ProgramsOur Games may offer opportunities to receive certain services or benefits such as discounts or free or extended services (such as bonus game time or additional credits), which may require the provision, selling or sharing of personal information (each, an “Incentive Program”). When you participate in an Incentive Program, you agree to the terms of that Incentive Program, and may revoke your participation via the means we offer via the particular Incentive Program (e.g., by opting out of emails or terminating your account in our Services). To the extent we can determine the value of your information, we consider the value to you (and costs to us) of providing you with a discount or other service, as compared to the value to us in an opportunity to gain a loyal, or even more loyal, customer; we seek to reasonably relate the benefits to you to the costs to us.
Sensitive Personal InformationThe CCPA also allows you to limit our use or disclosure of your “sensitive personal information” (as defined in the CCPA) if your sensitive personal information is used for certain purposes. In the limited circumstances that we process sensitive personal information as defined in the CCPA (such as usernames in combination with passwords), we do not use or disclose it other than for disclosed and permitted business purposes for which there is not a right to limit under the CCPA.
Please see the “Your Controls and Choices” section of our privacy policy above for information about the additional rights you have with respect to your personal information under California law and how to exercise them.
How to Exercise Your RightsIf you are a California resident seeking to exercise your CCPA rights, please (i) email us at privacy@tapblaze.com, (ii) visit our website here and complete the webform, or (iii) use the support option in our games to contact us to exercise your rights under the CCPA. Please follow these instructions when contacting us for CCPA:
- Tell us which game and which right(s) you wish to exercise. Under CCPA, you have the right to "Access your personal information", "Request deletion of your personal information", "Obtain additional details regarding TapBlaze's information practices."
- We may ask you to provide additional personal information so that we can properly identify you in our dataset and to track compliance with your opt-out request. We will only use personal information provided in an opt-out request to review and comply with the request. If you chose not to provide this information, we may only be able to process your request to the extent we are able to identify you in our data systems and authenticate you as authorized to receive the information.
Retention of Your Personal Information. Please see the “Data Retention” section above.
Appendix B – EEA and UK Users
Note: The following additional information applies to you only if you are in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or the United Kingdom (“UK”):
CONTACTFor the purposes of EEA and UK data protection law, TapBlaze, LLC. is the data controller. We are a company registered at 11901 Santa Monica Blvd STE 507, Los Angeles, CA USA.
PURPOSES AND LEGAL BASIS OF PROCESSINGMore information about the legal basis of processing in EEA law is set out in the table below:
Type of Information | Purpose of Processing | Legal Basis for Processing |
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Information you provide: | ||
Name, email, and log-in details | To process, maintain and service your accounts. To communicate with you. | Contract |
Purchase and payment information | To fulfill orders. | Contract |
Advertising and marketing information | To serve you with, or send you, advertising or marketing. | Consent |
Reviews and responses to surveys | To analyze and improve our product. | Legitimate interests (to offer a successful product) |
Other information (e.g., email, communications with you, service ID) | To communicate with you, such as to send newsletters or assist with service requests. | Legitimate interests (to offer a successful product) |
Information we receive from other sources: | ||
From other people | To fulfill orders. | Contract |
Information we receive from other sources: | ||
From other sites | To provide you with a personalized online experience. | Legitimate interests (to offer a successful product) |
Information we collect automatically: | ||
Technical information | To improve and optimize our Games. | Legitimate interests (to improve our Games) |
We will use any of the above information to detect, investigate and prevent fraud, misuse of our services, and other illegal activities, and protect our and others’ rights and properties as well as to respond to court orders, lawsuits, subpoenas, and government requests, on the legal basis of compliance with applicable law. You are not legally required to provide personal information to us but we cannot provide our Services without receiving some personal information from you.
RIGHTSUsers in the EEA and UK have rights in relation to the personal information. Some of these only apply in certain circumstances. We have described these situations below, as well as how you can exercise your rights. To exercise any of your rights, please email privacy@tapblaze.com.
- * Access: to enquire about and access personal data held by TAPBLAZE and details about how we use it and who we share it with;
- * Portability: in certain circumstances, you have the right to receive or ask us to provide your personal data to a third party in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format;
- * Correction: to correct any personal data held about you that is inaccurate and have incomplete data completed;
- * Erasure: that we erase your personal data in certain circumstances;
- * Restriction of Processing to Storage Only: to require us to stop processing the personal data we hold about you other than for storage purposes in certain circumstances.
- * Objection: in certain circumstances, the right to restrict or object to our processing of your personal data. You also have the right to object to marketing based on profiling;
- * Withdrawing Consent: You can withdraw your consent at any time by (i) emailing us at privacy@tapblaze.com, (ii) visit our website here and complete the webform, or (iii) use the Data Opt Out option in our Games.
- * Complaints: if you wish to make a complaint about how we process your information, please email privacy@tapblaze.com and we will deal with your request as soon as possible. This is without prejudice to your right to launch a claim with your local data protection authority.
We may from time to time send you announcements when we consider it necessary to do so (for example, when we temporarily suspend Game access for maintenance, or security, privacy or administrative-related communications). You may not opt-out of these non-promotional, service-related announcements.
NOTICE TO CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 16 (OR UNDER THE AGE OF 16 IN THE EU, EEA, SWITZERLAND, UNITED KINGDOM, AND CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS) AND THEIR PARENTS OR LEGAL GUARDIANS: THE TAPBLAZE SITE IS INTENDED FOR ADULTS. WE DO NOT KNOWINGLY OR INTENTIONALLY COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM ANYONE UNDER THE AGE OF 16. IF YOU ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 16, PLEASE DO NOT PROVIDE ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION TO TAPBLAZE. IF YOU KNOW OF ANYONE UNDER THE AGE OF 16 WHO HAS PROVIDED US WITH INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY AND WE WILL REMOVE THE INFORMATION.
We may revise this Privacy Policy at any time and we will update this Policy with any revisions. By continuing to access or use the Services after those changes become effective, you acknowledge and accept that your data will be handled in accordance with the revised Privacy Policy.
This privacy policy was last updated on September 22nd, 2025