Terms of Service & Privacy Policy

Last updated: 5 January 2024

VU VAN HUNG built the Merge Tank game as a Free game. This SERVICE is provided by VU VAN HUNG at no cost and is intended for use as is.

This page is used to inform visitors regarding my policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use my Service.

If you choose to use my Service, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation to this policy. The Personal Information that I collect is used for providing and improving the Service. I will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

The terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, which is accessible at Merge Tank unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy.

Information Collection and Use

I collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you, including:

• Log Information: I log information about your use of the Services, including the type of device you use, the features you use, access times and your location based on your Internet Protocol ("IP").
• Device Information: I collect information about the device you use to access the Services, including information about the device manufacture, device model, device's OS, time zone of device, language of device.
• Device identifiers: I collect online identifiers of the device you use to access the Services, including IDFA, Google Ads ID, Google Play Account ID.
• Usage Information: I collect information relating to your use of the Services, including your game progress, scores, achievements and interactions with other players.
• Consumption information: I collect information about your consumption habits relating to your use of the Services, including which purchases you make with both virtual and real currencies and the reception of virtual goods in-game.

The game does use third party services that may collect information used to identify you.

If you log into the Services using a third-party site or platform such as Facebook, Apple Game Center and Google Sign-In, we access information about you from that site or platform, such as your screen name, profile information and friend lists, in accordance with the authorization procedures determined by such third-party site or platform provided that you have given the third-party site in question such consent.

You can learn more about how such third-party sites or platforms process your personal data in the relevant privacy policy:

• Facebook
• Game Center
• Google Play Games
• AdMob
• Firebase Analytics
• Firebase Crashlytics

If you log into the Services using a third-party site or platform, you represent and warrant that your access and use of such features in connection with the Services will comply with the applicable terms and policies of such site or platform; and that you are over the minimum age limit that is prescribed for such third-party site or platform by the legislation in the individual jurisdictions.

Use of information - purpose and legal basis

I use information about you for the following purposes in accordance with the legal bases for each type of personal data as described below:

• To provide and maintain the Services and the game experience;
• To enable us to provide our games (Services), to ensure that your purchases are activated in the games, and to provide you with player support if you need it;
• To enable us to optimize our Services for you and for the device that you are using, as well as to deliver customized in-game events, offers and promotions;
• To communicate with you regarding App-related information, including confirmations, technical notices, updates, security alerts and support and administrative messages;
• To personalize and improve the Services and provide tailored content and features;
• To respond to your comments and inquiries and provide customer support services;
• To gather analysis or valuable information so that I can improve our Services;
• To monitor and analyze trends, usage and activities in connection with the Services;
• To detect, prevent and address technical issues and bugs;
• To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which I offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information;
• To enable players to communicate with each other in games or on our social media accounts;
• To serve advertising;
• To provide and deliver the products and services you request and send you related information.

I only process your information to the extent that is necessary to achieve the purposes for which the information has been collected.

Storage of information

Your Information is kept for as long as necessary in order to provide you with the Services or otherwise fulfill the purposes as described above unless further storage is required in order to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim or to comply with applicable law, including accounting rules.

Service Providers

I may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:

• To facilitate our Service;
• To provide the Service on our behalf;
• To perform Service-related services;
• To assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

I want to inform users of this Service that these third parties have access to your Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.

Sharing of information

We disclose information about you to the following categories of recipients based on the legal bases under Sections 6(1)(b), 6(1)(c) and 6(1)(f) of the GDPR (see a description of the legal bases above):

• Social networks, see more under "Social Sharing features";
• Third parties if we are required to disclose your personal data by applicable law, rule, regulation, legal process or in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company;
• The authorities if we believe your actions are inconsistent with the spirit or language of our policies or if the disclosure is necessary to protect the rights, property and safety of Falcon or others;
• Other players in order to provide certain in-app features, such as leaderboards, if you log into the Services using a third-party service;

Furthermore, if you have given your consent in accordance with Section 6(1)(a) of the GDPR, we share your Device identifiers to advertising network companies for the purpose of them serving behavioral advertisements to you within the Services.

Social sharing features

The Services offer or can offer social sharing features and other integrated tools (such as the Facebook “Like”, “Share” button), which let you share actions you take in the Services with other media. You must be over the minimum age limit that is prescribed by the legislation in the individual jurisdictions to use any social sharing features integrated in the Services. The use of such features enables the sharing of information with your friends or the public, depending on the settings you establish with the entity that provides the social sharing feature.

Security

I value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and I cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links to Other Sites

This Service may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by me. Therefore, I strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. I have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Children’s Privacy

These Services do not address anyone under the age of 13. I do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. In the case I discover that a child under 13 has provided me with personal information, I immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact me so that I will be able to do necessary actions.

Push notifications

We send push notifications or alerts to your mobile device to provide game-related information, service updates, promotional communications and other related messages, if you have agreed to such notifications. You can deactivate these notifications by changing your notification settings on your device.

Payments

We may provide paid products and/or services within the Services. In that case, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).

We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

The payment processors we work with are:

• Google Play In-App Payments. Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://policies.google.com/privacy

You agree to pay all fees and applicable taxes incurred by you or anyone using an Account registered to you. I may revise the pricing for the goods and services offered through the Service at any time. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT "MERGE TANK" GAME IS NOT REQUIRED TO PROVIDE A REFUND OR ANY REASON THAT YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE MONEY OR OTHER COMPENSATION FOR UNUSED VIRTUAL RESOURCES WHEN AN ACCOUNT IS CLOSED, WHETHER SUCH CLOSURE WAS VOLUNTARY OR INVOLUNTARY.

Your Rights

If you are based in the EEA, Switzerland, or are a legal resident of California in the U.S., you have certain rights in relation to your Information. For Californian residents, please refer to Addendum 1 – California Privacy Rights... For EEA, United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Brazil-based, you will find more information below on when which rights can apply. To exercise your rights, please email us at gomsuhn@gmail.com

• Access: You have the right to access information and to receive an explanation of how we use it and who we share it with. This right is not absolute. For example, we cannot reveal trade secrets or give you Information about other individuals.

• Erasure

  • You can delete your account, or remove certain personal information, by logging into your Game account. If there is any other personal information you believe we process that you would like us to erase, please email us at gomsuhn@gmail.com
  • You may request that we erase the personal information we hold about you in the following circumstances:
    (a) you believe that it is no longer necessary for us to hold such personal information;
    (b) you believe the personal information we hold about you is being unlawfully processed by us.
  • You can also exercise your right to restrict our processing of your personal information (as described below) whilst we consider your request.
  • We may need to retain personal information if there are valid grounds under data protection laws for us to do so (e.g., for the defence of legal claims or freedom of expression) but we will let you know if that is the case. Where you have requested that we erase personal information that has been made available publicly on the Game Services and there are grounds for erasure, we will use reasonable steps to try to tell others that are displaying the personal information or providing links to the personal information to erase it too.

• Objection and withdrawal of consent: You have the right to withdraw your consent where you previously provided such consent; or object to our processing of your Information where we process such Information based on our legitimate interests (see above under How we use your personal Information).

• Portability: You have the right to receive a copy of the Information we process based on consent or contract in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format or to request that such Information is transferred to a third-party.

• Correction: You have the right to correct any Information held about you that is inaccurate.

• Restriction: You have a right, in certain circumstances, to stop us from processing Information other than for storage purposes.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

I may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, you are advised to review this page periodically for any changes. I will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately after they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about my Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact me at gomsuhn@gmail.com.