Website:
We collect the email addresses of those who communicate with us via email, aggregate information on what pages consumers access or visit, and information volunteered by the consumer (such as survey information and/or site registrations). The information we collect is used to improve the content of our Web pages and the quality of our service, and is not shared with or sold to other organisations for commercial purposes, except to provide products or services you’ve requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
It is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of the Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law.We transfer information about you if SpottedGhosts.com is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, SpottedGhosts.com will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
1: Information Gathering and Usage
When you register at SpottedGhosts.com we ask for information such as your name, email address and date of birth, and IP Address.
SpottedGhosts.com uses collected information for the following general purposes: products and services provision, billing, identification and authentication, services improvement, contact, and research.
2: Personal Information Collected by Account Holders
As a condition to using certain features of our website and services, you may be required to provide certain personal information to relevant Paranormal Investigators, such as your email address and name in order to join the relevant paranormal investigators mailing list. As a condition for this right to receive such Fan Information, SpottedGhosts.com requires each paranormal investigator to agree that it 1) will not disclose, rent or sell any Fan Information to any third party; 2) will use the Fan Information only in connection with the their mailing list, in order to provide fans with general information and news about themselves, and 3) will ensure that any email sent to its mailing list will include a mechanism by which the recipient can unsubscribe from the mailing list, along with clear instructions on how to do so. However, SpottedGhosts.com has no control over and no liability for the use of the Fan Information by the paranormal investigators. You can choose not to provide such Fan Information, but you may not be able to take advantage of the associated features.
3: Data Storage
SpottedGhosts.com uses 3rd party equipment to provide the necessary hardware, software, networking, storage, and related technology required to run SpottedGhosts.com. Although SpottedGhosts.com owns the code, databases, and all rights to the SpottedGhosts.com Service, you retain all rights to your data.
4: Disclosure
SpottedGhosts.com may disclose personally identifiable information under special circumstances, such as to comply with subpoenas or when your actions violate the Terms of Use.
5: Changes
SpottedGhosts.com may periodically update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your SpottedGhosts.com primary account holder account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.
Mobile Apps and Games
1: Games
None of our games use any personally identifiable information from you or your device, nor do they write any files to your device. Some games may require permission to use your camera on your device.
2: User Account Information
If you use any of our apps that requires user authentication then we use the same account information for our website registration, see our policy above.
3: File Storage
Some of our apps write a config file to your device so that we can log the amount of times the app has been used, these log files also contain information purely for the app to work correctly. Some of our apps write saved files created by you (ie our EVP Recorder). Some of our apps also contain many files that the app uses to work correctly.
4: Advertising
All of our free apps and games contain adverts provided by a third party (Google Admob). At the moment we only serve non-personalised adverts to users. By using our apps you are consenting to allow Google Admob to use cookies or mobile ad identifiers to display adverts to you. Please see their policy regarding their advertising (https://support.google.com/admob/answer/7676680) or in short:
“Although non-personalized ads don’t use cookies or mobile ad identifiers for ad targeting, they do still use cookies or mobile ad identifiers for frequency capping, aggregated ad reporting, and to combat fraud and abuse.”
Mobile Apps do not use cookies (used on websites), they use mobile ad identifiers, which is just an ID from your device used to help with the above.
5: Analytics
Some of our apps use Firebase Analytics, which help us see where in the world our apps have been installed and when they are being used. We do not collect any identifiable / personal information to do this.
6: More Info
More information can be found here:
Google Play Services
Admob
Google Analytics for Firebase
7: Changes to the Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, you are advised to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
This policy is effective as of 01/01/2013