Texas Hold'em: Rise of AI
Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how the developer and operator of Texas Hold'em: Rise of AI ("we," "us," or the "Operator") may collect, use, store, disclose, transfer, and protect information when you use the Game and related services, and describes the privacy rights that may be available to you under applicable law.
1. Scope and Data Controller / Operator
This Privacy Policy applies to Texas Hold'em: Rise of AI and services directly related to the Game.
The Game is currently operated by the developer identified on the applicable app-store developer page. If the operating entity later changes lawfully, we will update the controller/operator information in this Privacy Policy and provide notice where required by applicable law.
2. Categories of Information We May Collect
Depending on the functions you actually use, we may process the categories below. We seek to collect only information reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose.
| Data / Permission Category | Purpose | Required? | Possible Recipients | Retention Principle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Account information | Create and manage accounts; authentication; preserve Game progress; account security. | Required for account-based functions. | Hosting/cloud providers and authentication providers where necessary. | For the life of the account and a reasonable period afterward where needed for security, disputes, or legal obligations. |
| IP address, device and network information | Security, fraud prevention, diagnostics, server connectivity, service performance. | Generally necessary for online service operation. | Hosting, security, analytics, or diagnostic providers where used. | Kept only as long as reasonably necessary for security, diagnostics, and legal obligations. |
| Game data and activity records | Provide gameplay, save progress, balance the Game, investigate disputes, detect cheating and abnormal activity. | Necessary for core Game functions. | Hosting, security, customer-support providers where necessary. | For the account lifecycle and longer only where reasonably necessary for security, disputes, or law. |
| Microphone / audio permission | Provide voice-chat or other audio features when you actively choose to use them. | Optional unless you use the relevant voice feature. | Voice/communications service provider if one is used. | Audio is handled only as needed for the feature; recordings are not retained unless clearly disclosed and lawfully justified. |
| Approximate or precise location | Provide a location-based feature, regional function, fraud/security control, or other function that specifically requires location and that is shown to you before access. | Optional unless a specific user-requested feature requires it. | Relevant service provider only where necessary for the requested feature. | Retained only as necessary for the disclosed purpose; continuous/background collection is not intended unless separately disclosed and justified. |
| Contacts / address book | Enable a user-requested friend-finding, invitation, or contact-selection feature. | Optional. | Relevant service provider only where necessary. | We prefer system contact pickers or the minimum necessary access. Full address-book access is not used unless genuinely required for the feature and lawfully permitted. |
| Camera | Allow you to take a profile image, scan a QR code, or use another camera-based feature you actively initiate. | Optional. | Image-storage or feature provider where necessary. | Only content you choose to submit is retained, subject to account/data-retention rules. |
| Photos / media library | Allow you to select and upload an avatar, screenshot, or other image you choose. | Optional. | Image-storage or feature provider where necessary. | Only selected/submitted content is retained, subject to account/data-retention rules. |
| Purchase / transaction verification data | Verify in-app purchases, delivery, refunds, and fraud prevention. | Required only when you make a purchase. | Google Play, Apple App Store, payment/verification providers, and hosting where necessary. | Kept as needed for transaction records, fraud prevention, disputes, accounting, and legal obligations. |
| Customer-support communications | Respond to requests, complaints, technical issues, account recovery, and appeals. | Optional, but necessary to handle a request you submit. | Customer-support and hosting providers where necessary. | For as long as reasonably necessary to resolve the request and related disputes or legal obligations. |
| Chat and other UGC | Provide communication/community features; moderation; user safety; investigate reports and violations. | Required only if you use the relevant feature. | Moderation, hosting, security, and support providers where necessary. | For the period reasonably necessary for service operation, moderation, safety, disputes, and legal obligations. |
3. Account Information
We may collect user ID, nickname, avatar, login credentials or authentication tokens, account-creation time, and account status. If you use third-party sign-in, we may receive the minimum account identifiers and profile information authorized by you and provided by the sign-in service.
4. Device, Network, and Usage Data
When you use the Game, we may automatically process information such as IP address, device type, operating system and version, app version, device language, network status, login time, server-connection information, crash logs, error logs, app-instance identifiers, and other diagnostic data reasonably necessary for operation, security, and troubleshooting.
5. Game Data
We may record match history, game results, scores, chip balances, levels, achievements, virtual items, gameplay actions, event participation, rewards, and abnormal-activity indicators. We use this information to provide the Game, preserve progress, maintain balance, prevent cheating, enforce the Terms of Service, and resolve disputes.
6. Chat, Voice, and User-Generated Content
If the Game provides text chat, voice chat, nicknames, avatars, profiles, or other interactive features, we may process content you choose to submit or transmit. We may retain relevant records where reasonably necessary to prevent harassment, fraud, spam, prohibited trading, gambling solicitation, investigate reports, enforce community rules, protect users, or comply with law.
Microphone access is requested only when a feature requires audio input and you choose to use that feature. If voice content is recorded or stored rather than merely transmitted, we will provide appropriate notice and obtain consent where required.
7. Location, Contacts, Camera, and Photos
We may request access to location, contacts, camera, or photos only when a specific Game feature requires that access and after the operating system or Game presents the relevant permission request.
For contacts, we seek to use a system contact picker or other least-privilege method where practical. We do not intend to upload or retain your entire address book unless a genuine feature requires it, the collection is clearly disclosed, and applicable law and platform rules permit it.
You may deny or later disable optional permissions through your device settings. Some user-requested features may not work without the permission they specifically require.
8. Purchase and Transaction Information
If you purchase digital content through Google Play, Apple App Store, or another authorized platform, we may receive order identifiers, product identifiers, purchase time, payment status, transaction-verification information, and refund status. Complete bank-card numbers and card security codes are normally processed by the relevant store or payment provider rather than by our Game servers.
9. How We Use Personal Data
We may use personal data to create and manage accounts; provide core Game functions; save progress; process and verify purchases; provide customer support; detect cheating, fraud, account theft, prohibited trading, and abnormal behavior; protect accounts, servers, and networks; diagnose crashes and errors; improve performance and user experience; moderate UGC; handle complaints and disputes; comply with legal obligations; and protect the lawful rights and safety of users, the Operator, and others.
10. Legal Bases and User Choice
Where applicable law requires a legal basis for processing, we rely on the basis appropriate to the activity, which may include performance of a contract, legitimate interests that are not overridden by your rights, compliance with legal obligations, protection of vital interests, or your consent.
Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw consent as permitted by law. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before withdrawal. Optional device permissions may generally be changed through your device settings.
11. Sharing and Disclosure
We do not sell your personal data. We may share personal data with service providers only where reasonably necessary to operate, secure, support, or improve the Game, or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.
We may disclose personal data to service providers that support hosting, cloud infrastructure, authentication, communications, analytics, crash diagnostics, security, anti-cheat, customer support, image storage, or purchase verification, but only to the extent reasonably necessary for the relevant service.
We may also disclose information with your consent; in connection with a lawful business transfer; to protect users, the Game, or our lawful rights; or when required by a valid legal process, court, regulator, or competent authority.
12. Third-Party Services
The Game may integrate third-party services such as Google Play, Apple App Store, sign-in providers, cloud hosting, communications, analytics, crash reporting, security, or customer-support services. Those providers may process data under their own privacy policies as well as under contractual obligations applicable to services they provide to us.
13. International and Cross-Border Data Transfers
Because the Game may use servers, cloud services, and technical providers located in different countries or regions, personal data may be processed outside the country or region where you reside. Where cross-border processing occurs, we will take reasonable and legally required safeguards appropriate to the applicable data-protection law.
14. Data Retention
We retain personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, taking into account account status, service provision, security and anti-cheat needs, dispute resolution, transaction and accounting requirements, and legal obligations.
When data is no longer reasonably necessary, we will delete, anonymize, or otherwise handle it in accordance with applicable law.
15. Data Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards appropriate to the nature of the data and risks involved, which may include access controls, authentication, network-security measures, database restrictions, security logging, backups, vulnerability remediation, and security updates.
No method of Internet transmission or electronic storage is completely secure. We therefore cannot guarantee absolute security. Where a personal-data breach requires notification to users or regulators under applicable law, we will comply with the relevant notification requirements.
16. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on applicable law, you may have rights to ask whether we process your personal data; request access; request correction of inaccurate data; request deletion where applicable; withdraw consent; object to certain processing; lodge a privacy complaint; and exercise other rights provided by law.
Some information may not be immediately deleted where retention is lawfully necessary for security, fraud prevention, transaction records, legal claims, or compliance obligations. To exercise a privacy right, contact [email protected]. We may need to verify your identity before acting on a request.
Where provided by applicable law, you may also have a right to data portability. This may allow you to request certain personal data you provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and, where technically feasible and legally applicable, to request transmission of that data to another controller.
17. Account and Data Deletion
Where the Game offers account creation, we will provide an account-deletion method in the Game and/or an external deletion channel as required by applicable platform rules and law.
You may also contact [email protected] to request account or personal-data deletion. After account deletion, Game progress, virtual items, chips, and other account data may be permanently lost and may not be recoverable.
We may retain limited information where necessary or permitted for legal obligations, fraud prevention, security, transaction disputes, or legal claims.
18. Children's Privacy
The Game is not specifically directed to children. Users below the minimum age required by applicable law for independent use of digital services must use the Game only with the permission and supervision of a parent or legal guardian where required.
If we learn that we collected a child's personal data without legally required parental authorization, we will take appropriate steps consistent with applicable law.
19. Cookies and Similar Technologies
If the official website, web version, or related services use cookies, local storage, or similar technologies, they may be used to maintain sessions, save preferences, improve security, understand service performance, and improve user experience. Where consent is required by applicable law, we will provide an appropriate choice mechanism.
20. Automated Security and Anti-Cheat Analysis
We may use automated systems to identify abnormal login behavior, suspicious gameplay, bots, scripts, cheating, malicious requests, abnormal transfers, prohibited trading, or other security risks. Automated indicators may lead to further review and reasonable enforcement action under the Terms of Service.
21. Business Transfers and Change of Operator
If the Game undergoes a corporate reorganization, business transfer, merger, acquisition, asset sale, or lawful change of operator, personal data related to operation of the Game may be transferred to the successor operator where permitted by law. We will update the controller/operator information and provide notice where the change materially affects personal-data processing or where notice is otherwise required.
22. Compliance With Applicable Data-Protection Law
We process personal data in accordance with the laws and regulations lawfully applicable to the relevant processing activity. This Policy does not limit any non-waivable privacy or data-protection rights available to you under mandatory applicable law.
23. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy because of changes to Game functions, permissions, SDKs, service providers, payment methods, platform rules, applicable law, security requirements, or the operating entity.
Where a change materially affects your privacy rights or the way we process personal data, we will provide reasonable notice through the Game, official website, app-store page, email, or another appropriate channel where required. The updated Policy applies from the stated effective date.
24. Contact Us
For questions, privacy requests, account-deletion requests, or complaints regarding this Privacy Policy or our processing of personal data, contact: [email protected]
Game: Texas Hold'em: Rise of AI
Data Controller / Operator: As identified on the current app-store developer page.