Headstart International Pty Ltd (“we”, “our”
and “us”) is committed to responsible privacy practices and to complying
with the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (“Privacy Act”) to the extent they apply to us.
This Privacy Policy sets out our policies on how we handle
personal information, the types of personal information we collect, how that
information is used and who we share that information with.
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. At any
time, the latest version of our Privacy Policy is available from our website at
headstartint.com, cactusstudios.com and zoodio.world. By
continuing to use our website, or otherwise continuing to deal with us, you
accept this Privacy Policy as it applies from time to time.
In this Privacy Policy, “personal information” has the
meaning set out in the Privacy Act. Essentially, personal information is
information or an opinion about an individual who is reasonably identifiable.
The types of personal information we collect from you depend
on the circumstances in which the information is collected.
When you visit our websites, such as headstartint.com, cactusstudios.com and zoodio.world, and
other websites operated by us (such as our Social Media channels) (“Websites”),
we collect information about you, such as details about how our Websites are
used and interacted with, browser information (including the browser type and
language preference), information about your device (such as hardware
identifiers, platform type, settings and components and the presence of
required plugins), as well as referring and exit pages (including pages viewed
and other interactions with web content). We may use such information collected
for a number of purposes, including for operating and
optimising the Websites, in connection with our advertising purposes, and for
research or analysis. We may also collect basic contact information including
your name and email address if you register and create an account with us.
When you download, access and/or play our applications/games
or use our other services ("Apps"), we collect information
from you or your device, such as your name and email address (e.g. to create
and maintain your user account), device information (such as hardware
identifiers, platform type, settings and components and the presence of required
plugins), country and region information (derived from IP address or device
settings), device event information, including crash reports and system
activity details (e.g. whether you encountered an error playing our games or
lost Internet access) and information related to your in-app or in-game
activities, such as profile information, gameplay information, as well as
information relating to your in-app/game purchases and data about how you use
our Apps. We use this data to provide our Apps and services to you, including
for the purposes of optimisation, preventing fraud, customising in-game offers
and verifying purchases.
The information that we collect can be further classified as
follows:
If you play or purchase our games or applications on your
mobile device and/or tablet, we receive information about you from the app
stores and other mobile platform providers. This information includes your
username and/or device ID and the fact that you made a purchase,
but does not include any sensitive or financial information. Some mobile
platforms may send information to us that you authorize them to provide. Our
mobile games also may request additional personal information from you, such as
push notification tokens, your device location, or a contact list, and we will
collect this information only if you give us your consent. We may collect and
store information locally on your device, using mechanisms like cookies,
browser web storage (including HTML 5), and application data caches. We may
also collect answers you provide to questions we ask and other information in
relation to your dealings with us.
When you participate in social features such as chat, any
audio, visual, and/or electronic information that you disclose may be read,
copied, collected, or used by other players, and may become publicly available.
We recommend that you ensure that your privacy settings reflect your
preferences.
If you work with us, or you apply to do so, we may also
collect information for the purpose of considering your application or relevant
to you working with us, including your qualifications, resume, reference
information from your nominated referees, bank details, feedback from
supervisors and training records.
Except as described in this section, we do not generally
require you to disclose any sensitive information (e.g. details of your race,
religious belief, sexual orientation or membership of a trade union) to us. If
you do provide us with sensitive information for any reason, you consent to us
collecting that information and using and disclosing that information for the
purpose for which you disclosed it to us and as permitted by any relevant laws.
We may also collect personal information as otherwise
permitted or required by applicable law or regulation.
We collect personal information in a
number of ways. The most common ways we collect your personal
information are:
We may use or disclose your personal information to provide
you with the Websites or Apps, or for the purposes for which we indicated when
we collected it (and related purposes). Other instances when we may use and
disclose your personal information include:
The purposes for which we use and disclose your personal
information will depend on the circumstances in which we collect it.
Whenever practical we endeavour to inform you why we are
collecting your personal information, how we intend to use that information and
to whom we intend to disclose it at the time we collect your personal
information.
The main purposes for which we may use or disclose your
personal information include, both individually and combined
together:
If we are not able to collect personal information about
you, we may not be able to provide you with access to our games, application(s)
or other associated services.
We retain the information we collect for as long as
necessary to provide our Websites and Apps, and we may retain that information
beyond that period if necessary for legal, operational or other legitimate
reasons.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties
in connection with the purposes described in section 5 of this
Privacy Policy.
This may include disclosing your personal information to the
following types of third parties:
Where we disclose your personal information to third parties we will use reasonable efforts to ensure that such
third parties only use your personal information as reasonably required for the
purpose we disclosed it to them and in a manner consistent with the Privacy
Act.
If you post information to public parts of our Apps,
Websites or to our social media pages, you acknowledge that such information
(including your personal information) may be available to be viewed by the
public. You should use discretion in deciding what information you upload to
such sites.
We may disclose information where we believe it is necessary
to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding
illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to
the safety of any person, violations of our Terms of Service or this Privacy
Policy, or as evidence in litigation in which we may be involved.
We may also share or transfer information in connection
with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing,
or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company, provided that we inform the buyer it must use your personal
information only for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Policy.
We may disclose personal information outside of Australia to
our selected business partners, our associated organisations, our service
providers and to other third parties, including recipients located in Canada,
Denmark, Israel, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.
We will take reasonable steps to keep any personal
information we hold about you secure. However, except to the extent liability
cannot be excluded due to the operation of statute, we exclude all liability
(including in negligence) for the consequences of any unauthorised access to,
disclosure of, misuse of or loss or corruption of your personal information.
Nothing in this Privacy Policy restricts, excludes or
modifies or purports to restrict, exclude or modify any statutory consumer
rights under any applicable law including the Competition and Consumer
Act 2010 (Cth).
Please notify us immediately if you become aware of any
breach of security.
We try to maintain your personal information as accurately
as reasonably possible. We rely on the accuracy of personal information as
provided to us both directly (from you) and indirectly.
We encourage you to contact us if the personal information
we hold about you is incorrect or to notify us of a change in your personal
information. Our contact details are set out in section 14 of
this Privacy Policy.
A. Cookies
Our Websites may contain links to other sites. This Privacy Policy applies to
our Websites and not any linked sites which are not
operated or controlled by us. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of
each Website that collects your personal information.
We may use “cookies” and similar technology on our websites
and in other technology applications. Cookies are small text files placed on
your device to store data that can be recalled by a web server in the domain
that placed the cookie. The use of such technologies is an industry standard, and helps to monitor the effectiveness of
advertising and how visitors use our websites/applications. We may use such
technologies to generate statistics, measure your activity, improve the
usefulness of our websites/applications and to enhance the “customer”
experience.
The Websites may make use of first or third party cookies
(whether session or persistent cookies) and similar technologies, for such
things as session management, account access/ authentication, to recognize
returning visitors, for storing and honoring user
preferences and settings, combating fraud, maintaining and monitoring the
infrastructure of the Websites, ensuring security protections, analyzing how our Websites perform and other analytics
purposes, and fulfilling other legitimate purposes as further described above
in this Privacy Policy (such as fixing issues with and improving our Websites
and related user experience). We also use analytics cookies to better
understand how our Websites are being used by tracking
how you interact with the Websites and where you click.
If you prefer not to receive cookies, you can adjust your
Internet browser to refuse cookies or to warn you when cookies are being used.
However, our websites may not function properly or optimally if cookies have
been turned off.
To the extent that information collected through “cookies”
and other similar technology constitutes personal information, we will handle
such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
B. Other tracking technologies
We and our third party partners, affiliates, or analytics service providers use
standard tracking technologies (like web beacons, SDKs, APIs, scripts and tags)
to identify a computer or device used, to “remember” things about your visit or
your use of the Apps (such as your preferences or a user name) and to help us
understand things like, what pages and features you use and the games you play.
Such information may be linked to or combined with other
personal information we process about you, such as your user ID, for purposes
such as improving the quality of our Apps, tailoring recommendations to your
interests, providing and personalising our Apps including making our Apps
easier to use, and for fraud prevention, security and authentication purposes.
Please refer to guidance provided by your device
manufacturer, operating system developer, or individual web browser if you
would like help in managing your preferences with respect to tracking
technologies used in our Apps.
C. Interest-Based Advertising
Some of our Apps employ ad-serving technologies that use cookies, clear GIFs,
web beacons, tracking pixels, and other similar technologies to deliver
interest-based advertising to you about third-party products and services. We
may via our third-party advertising partners, also advertise our Apps to you on
third parties' websites. You may also see our Apps advertised in other services
(like on Facebook).
You can find more information here:
When you use our Apps and play our games, some third-party tools (SDKs)
integrated within our Apps may collect and use certain information collected
from your device for the purpose of ad display and optimization. Such
information includes GAID (Google Advertising ID on Android devices) or IDFA
(Identifier for Advertising on iOS devices), region (i.e. the location where a
given language is used), geo-location information (with your consent) and IP
address. This Privacy Policy does not govern our third-party advertising
partners, as they have their own privacy policies, which are accessible using
the links provided below. We have no access to or control over such third
parties. In addition to identifiers, these third parties may also collect
information relating to:
They use this information (alone or in combination with the
information they have collected about you when you use third-party websites or
services) to:
We recommend that you review our advertising partners'
privacy policies for more information, further details of which are set out
below:
You can learn more about ad-serving companies and the
options available to limit their collection and use of your information by
visiting the websites of the Network
Advertising Initiative and the Digital
Advertising Alliance, and the web pages for Facebook's ad preferences tool and privacy policy. Similarly, you
can learn about your options to opt out of mobile app tracking by certain
advertising networks through your device settings and by resetting the
advertiser ID on your Apple or Android device. For more information about how
to change these settings go to:
Please note: adjusting your
preferences as described in this section does not mean you will no longer
receive advertisements, it only means the ads you do see will be less relevant
to your interests. Our advertising partners will also still use your device’s
advertising ID to serve you with ads that may be less relevant to you; for
example, we may use this for frequency capping (in other words, to control the
maximum number of times you see the same ad from us). You may also reset the
Advertising ID associated with your device by following the instructions
provided by your device manufacturer or operating system developer.
D. Analytics Technologies
We use our own game servers and third-party analytic technologies to collect
information about how you use our Websites and Apps, your computer or device
and the health of our Apps.
You can find more information here:
You may request access to, or update or correct your,
personal information held by us. To make a request, please contact us in
writing (see our contact details in section 14 of this Privacy
Policy). We may require that the person requesting access provide suitable
identification and where permitted by law we may
charge an administration fee for granting access to your personal information.
If you become aware that any personal information
we hold about you is incorrect or if you wish to update your information,
please contact us (see section 14 of this Privacy Policy).
If you have any questions, comments or complaints about our
collection, use or disclosure of personal information, or if you believe that
we have not complied with this Privacy Policy or our obligations under
Australia’s privacy laws, please contact us (see section 14 of
this Privacy Policy).
When contacting us please provide as much detail as possible
in relation to your question, comment or complaint.
We will take any privacy complaint seriously and any
complaint will be assessed with the aim of resolving any issue in a timely and
efficient manner. We request that you cooperate with us during this process and
provide us with any relevant information that we may need.
If you are not satisfied with the outcome of our assessment
of your complaint, you may wish to contact the Office of the Australian
Information Commissioner.
We recognize the need to provide further privacy protections
when it comes to children. Some of our Apps are directed to children, while
other Apps or portions of them are intended for use by adults and teens aged 13
and older. For Apps that are directed to children or that allow children to
submit personal information, we will collect, use, and disclose personal
information as described in this Privacy Policy, with certain differences and
specific practices as described below.
If we allow children to create an account or otherwise
engage with us over time, we will obtain parental consent prior to the
collection of their personal information. In order to
obtain this consent, we sometimes ask your child to provide a parent's email
address so that we may directly notify you of our privacy practices and obtain
your consent. When we do this, we delete the email address provided if a parent
does not timely respond to the request for consent.
We may allow children to enter contests, sweepstakes, or
other promotions, or receive a one-time communication from us. When we do that,
we will collect the child's first name, email address, and sometimes their
state of residence, as well as a parent's email address to provide you with
notice that your child has entered the promotion and an opportunity for you to
opt your child out. We will use the collected information for the purpose of
that promotion or communication, and then delete the information from our
records once it is no longer required. We do not send text messages or other
non-email messages (like chat) to children.
At any time, you can refuse to permit us to collect personal
information from your child and can request that we delete from our records the
personal information we have collected. Parents may delete their child's
account, change their child's privacy settings, or access and modify their
child’s personal data at any time by contacting customer support at customerservice@headstartint.com.
If you are a parent or legal guardian and you give your
permission for your child to register for one or other of the services, you
thereby agree to the terms relating to use of the Apps or services by your
child.
More information is available here:
Your choices about information provided by you
If you do not want to provide us with personal information, then you can choose
not to provide it. If you choose not to provide us with personal information,
we may not always be able to provide you with the services you want. For
example, without providing an email address, you cannot create an account with
us to access and play our games.
Your choices about information provided by third parties
You may be able to control how third parties collect and share your Information
by changing your preferences or opting out of collection directly with those
third parties. Before disclosing Information to third parties, we recommend you
check their respective privacy policies for further details.
Your marketing and
advertising choices
You can exercise choices over how we use your personal information and update
your preferences at any time:
Accessing and deleting your information
You may deactivate your Headstart International account or delete the email
associated with your account by contacting us at customerservice@headstartint.com.
If you would like to access or view the personal information
we hold about you or for any reason you are concerned with the way we are using
your personal information or would like to correct or request that we delete
such personal information, you can also send your request to us at customerservice@headstartint.com.
If you are a user in the European Economic Area, UK or
Switzerland and would like to know more about your rights in connection with
your personal information, please see the relevant sections below.
Please address all privacy complaints to:
Headstart International Pty Ltd
Email: customerservice@headstartint.com
Address: 15 Stamford Road Oakleigh, 3166, Victoria, Australia
If you wish to seek access to or correct or update any
personal information we hold about you, or to unsubscribe from our direct
marketing you can also contact us using the contact details listed above.
If you are a resident of the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, the
following information applies with respect to personal data collected through
your use of our Websites and Apps.
Data Controller
Headstart International Pty Ltd is the data controller of your personal data.
Legal Basis for Processing Your Personal Data
We collect, use and share your personal data on the basis of
the following:
International Data Transfers
Personal data we collect may be transferred to, and stored and processed in,
the United States or any other country described in section 7 of this Privacy
Policy in which we or our affiliates, partners or service providers maintain
facilities or business operations. We will ensure that transfers of personal
data to a third country or an international organisation are subject to
appropriate safeguards.
Your Privacy Rights
If you are a resident of a member country of the European Economic Area, the
United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you may have the following rights with respect
to your personal data:
For each of the rights described above, you can send your
request to customerservice@headstartint.com or
by using the contact details set out below.
We hope that we can satisfy any queries you may have about
the way we process your personal data. However, if you have unresolved concerns you also have the right to complain to the relevant
data protection authority.
You can bring the complaint in your member state of
residence, place of work or where an alleged infringement of data protection
law occurred. For more information, please contact your local data protection
authority. Contact details for data protection authorities in the European
Economic Area and Switzerland are available here.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Headstart International Pty Ltd
Email: customerservice@headstartint.com
Address: 15 Stamford Road Oakleigh, 3166, Victoria, Australia