Shards of Britannia (“we,” “us,” "the team," or “our”) is dedicated to protecting your privacy rights and being transparent about our use of your information. If you reside in or access our Game from the European Economic Area (“EEA”), we will adhere to the privacy protections required by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This document is referred to as the “Privacy Policy”.
This Privacy Policy applies to our use of your information throughout the game “Shards of Britannia” (https://shardsofbritannia.com/play/). We will refer to Shards of Britannia as “Game” or "Service" throughout this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy covers the information that (i) you may provide us with (such as when you create an account for the Game or play the Game) and (ii) we may collect from you automatically when you access or play the Game. This information is necessary to provide the Game and meet your expectations, as well as to protect us and other players from harm.
Shards of Britannia is a video game project that uses the Legends of Aria video game server and client to provide service to our users. In order to use our service, users will need to have an active Legends of Aria account.
Our service is separate from the Legends of Aria platform, and we have our own policies and procedures in place for data collection, storage and usage. However, the Legends of Aria platform also collects and stores user data for the purpose of providing the service. We recommend that users review the privacy policy of Legends of Aria, which can be found at this link: https://classic.legendsofaria.com/privacy-policy/
In the case of any conflicts between our privacy policy and the Legends of Aria privacy policy, the Legends of Aria privacy policy will take precedence.
We protect your rights regarding information that can identify you as an individual (such as your online username or account name) as well as information that can only personally identify you in conjunction with other information that we collect from you (such as your IP address or device ID). This information is referred to as “Personal Information”.
Some of your information may be collected, stored, used, disclosed, or shared in an anonymized and encrypted form. This means that the personal aspect of that information cannot be used by anyone to identify you.
The information we may collect includes:
We may collect information from you when you communicate with us or other users of the service, including what you say in-game, in chat or when you e-mail or correspond with us directly in chat. We may store this information to respond to support requests or to enforce the rules.
For users who choose to make donations to the Game, we do not collect, store or have access to sensitive bank or payment related information. All donations are processed by our third-party providers, Donorbox, Patreon, Stripe, and PayPal. We recommend that you review the privacy policies of these providers before making a donation.
To provide personalized service, the following pieces of information are collected and used:
We use the information we collect to:
We do not share your Personal Information with any third-party, unless we have obtained your consent or as required by law.
We retain user information for as long as necessary to provide the Service. We may also retain certain information as required by law.
Shards of Britannia uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your device, to help the website analyze how users interact with the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.
Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators, and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
By using Shards of Britannia, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. If you wish to opt out of Google Analytics, you can do so by enabling the decline option for tracking in our website, or by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to indicate that information about the website visit should not be sent to Google Analytics.
For more information on Google Analytics’ privacy practices, please see the following links:
Data collected via Google Analytics is retained for a period that is in compliance with Google’s data retention policies and is used solely for the purposes of analyzing website traffic and user interaction with our Game.
If you have any concerns about the use of Google Analytics or the data it collects, please contact us.
We take reasonable precautions to protect user information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, no security measures can be 100% effective. You should take care to protect your information, including your password, and not share it with others.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting a notice on our website.
If you disagree with our data collection and processing practices, we encourage you not to play our Game. However, if you do play our Game, the information collected is necessary for the Game to function. You can request that we delete your account at any time after you have created it. If you do so, we will delete all information that we have collected from you.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, how we collect, store, and use the information, or the safeguards we have in place to prevent data breaches, please contact us or:
Shards of Britannia
5245 Elmore Ave #1078
Davenport, IA 52807
Email: [email protected]
This Privacy Policy is in line with GDPR, COPPA and other international laws.
This page was last updated 2023-12-28 18:24
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