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About Us and our Privacy Policy

Founded in 2018, MODUS GAMES is a subsidiary of MAXIMUM GAMES.

Founded in 2009, MAXIMUM GAMES is a video game publisher and distributor specializing in physical and digital distribution of innovative games worldwide. The company is based on California and has three subsidiaries in Europe:

• Maximum Games Ltd, registered with the Registrar for Companies of England and Wales under the number 2955670
• Maximum Games Ireland Ltd, registered with the Registrar for Companies of Ireland under the number 577081
• Maximum Games BV, registered with the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce Register under the number 856022329

Your privacy is very important to us. Accordingly, we carry out our business activities in full respect of essential data protection principles such as lawful, fair and transparent personal data processing, as well as accountbility. We are particularly committed to operate in compliance with all laws and regulations pertaining to data privacy, notably the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR), in force as of May 25^th, 2018 (collectively referred hereafter as “Applicable Law”).

We wish to provide our customers with a clear overview of our personal data processing practices. Accordingly, we have developed this privacy policy (hereafter “Policy”) for you to understand how we collect, use, and communicate your personal information.

Finally, we wish to remind you of the rights you have over said information.

Essential definitions

Personal data (or Data) refers to all information relating to a natural person identified or identifiable, directly or indirectly, by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

Processing means any operation performed on Personal Data, whether or not by automated means, including but not limited to collecting, recording, structuring, altering, retrieving, consulting, disclosing or erasing said data.

Data subject: a natural person who can be identified or is identifiable, directly or indirectly, by means of personal data processing.

Other definitions used in this Policy shall have the meanings set forth by the GDPR. In this regard, MAXIMUM GAMES acts as data controller for the purposes of the Applicable Law.

About the collection AND USE of your Personal Data

We can collect the following types of data:

1. information relating to your identity (name, contact email, phone number, location)
2. identity of the gaming console
3. Internet provider and IP address (traffic sources)
4. visitor behaviour, including purchase history and times spent playing games
5. Any addition information you may provide when using the contact form

This collection is made for the purposes below, based on MAXIMUM GAMES’ legitimate interests:

1. assess feedback from gamers and customers improve our products and services
2. demographic studies to measure community engagement develop new games for the right audiences

Also, collection of Persona Data can be made on the basis of your consent:

1. internal marketing purposes
2. to process your job application
3. to process your request and answer your questions

Please be aware that regarding the purposes above; you are free to withdraw your consent at any time. If you choose to do so, you will no longer be able to gain access to new levels and services. Regardless, personal data Processing carried out prior to your consent withdrawal will remain lawful.

The Data that is indispensable for Maximum Games to fulfil the purposes that are described above is marked with an asterisk on the various pages of the Site. Should you not fill in these mandatory fields, Maximum Games may not be able to take care of your demands and/or to provide you the requested services. Other Data is purely optional and allow us to know you better and to improve our communications and services accordingly.

We may allow you to share information about our Services on websites (in their fixed or mobile version, including corresponding applications) of social networks (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), including through sharing buttons. We remind you that access to these Social Networks requires your acceptance of their contractual conditions, including provisions relating to the Personal Data Regulations for the processing carried out by them, regardless of our pages on these Social Networks.

To learn more about protecting your Personal Data when browsing these Social Networks, we invite you to consult their respective privacy policies and our Cookies policy.

HOW LONG DO WE SAVE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We will retain your Personal Data for a period no longer than necessary for the fulfillment of the purposes above. However, said data can be retained for longer periods of time in order to meet legal or regulatory requirements from national law.

As a newsletter subscriber: The Data that is used for the purpose of sending you information concerning the offers, news and events of Maximum Games shall be kept for a period of three (3) years as of the date on which it was collected or as of your last contact with Maximum Games. Upon expiry of this timescale, Maximum Games may get in touch with you to find out whether you wish to continue to receive information about our offers, news and events. Your Data shall be destroyed within a maximum of 1 month following any request on your part to unsubscribe.

As a candidate: in the event of a negative outcome to your application, the recruiter will ask the candidate’s permission to keep his/her information. If the latter refuses, the information is destroyed. If, however, the candidate agrees, his/her Personal Data is kept for a period of two (2) years

Finally, the connection logs that are collected, subject to your consent, using the cookies and other tracers implemented on our Site, shall be kept in accordance with applicable laws and regulations for a period of time that does not exceed thirteen (13) months. For more details, see our cookies policy.

DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

Your Data shall be processed by Maximum Games. It shall not be transferred or made accessible to any third party apart from possible subcontractors of Maximum Games (carriers, providers of hosting and maintenance services of the Site, etc.), for purely technical and logistical reasons.

Finally, Maximum Games may disclose your Data to third parties if such disclosure is required by law, by a regulatory provision or by a court ruling, or if this disclosure is necessary to ensure the protection and defence of its rights.

How do WE SECURE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We will protect personal information by reasonable security safeguards against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.

About international transfers of your Personal Data

The recipients of your Data may be located abroad, including outside the United States of America or the European Economic Area. Any transfer of your Data outside the European Economic Area shall only take place subject to appropriate safeguards being in place, such as contractual safeguards, in keeping with applicable data protection laws and regulations.

Your rights as a Data Subject

As a Data Subject, in accordance with Applicable Law, you can exercise the following rights:

• access to your Personal Data
• rectification or erasure of your Personal Data
• restriction of processing of your Personal Data
• Data portability whenever this is applicable
• Objection to the Processing. Note that you can exercise this right in the context of an automated decision based solely on automated processing, which produces legal effects concerning you

If you are a French national, you also have the right to decide the manner in which your Personal Data may be used after your death.

These rights may be exercised directly by contacting our Data Protection officer, sending an e-mail to support@maximumgames.com or by sending a letter to 590 Ygnacio Valley Rd. Ste. 220, Walnut Creek, CA 94596. Kindly be aware that you may be asked additional information to provide proof of your identity.

Please be informed that you have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant Data Supervisory Authority in your country.

Policy updates

The Policy may be updated from time to time in order to adapt it to legal or commercial developments.  Any modifications or additions made to the Policy shall take effect when published on the website. If we make significant changes we will let you know but please regularly check this Policy to ensure you are aware of the most updated version.

Last update on 01 March 2019.

COOKIES

Founded in 2018, MODUS GAMES is a subsidiary of MAXIMUM GAMES.

Founded in 2009, MAXIMUM GAMES is a video game publisher and distributor specializing in physical and digital distribution of innovative games worldwide. The company is based on California and has three subsidiaries in Europe: registered with the Registry of Commerce and Companies of [city] under the number [number].

Your privacy is very important to us. Accordingly, we carry out our business activities in full respect of essential data protection principles such as lawful, fair and transparent personal data processing, as well as accountability. We are particularly committed to operate in compliance with all laws and regulations pertaining to data privacy, notably the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR), in force as of May 25th, 2018 (collectively referred hereafter as “Applicable Law”).

We wish to provide our customers with a clear overview of our personal data processing practices, especially regarding cookies placed by Maximum Games.

Accordingly, we have developed this Cookies policy (hereafter “Policy”) for you to understand how we use various cookies on the website to improve the interactivity of the site and our services.

WHAT IS A « COOKIE»?

A cookie is a small piece of data that a website stores on the visitor’s computer. Cookies work to make your experience browsing our site as smooth as possible and they remember your preferences, so you don’t have to insert your details again and again.

There are different types of cookies. Some cookies come directly from our website and others come from third parties which place cookies on our site.

Cookies can be stored for varying lengths of time on your browser or device. Session cookies are deleted from your computer or device when you close your web-browser. Persistent cookies will remain stored on your computer or device until deleted or until they reach their expiry date.

Cookies are stored for a maximum period of 13 months.

COOKIE SETTINGS

In order to use some cookies, we require your consent. You have indeed the possibility to reject the use of cookies by setting your preferences on cookies. This, however, may modify your browsing experience: for instance, rejecting functional cookies, which are necessary for the provision of content, may prevent you from accessing certain content on Maximum Games’ website.

You may also set your preferences regarding cookies by modifying your browser settings.

Within your browser you can choose whether you wish to accept cookies or not. Different browsers make different controls available to you. Generally, your browser will offer you the choice to accept, refuse or delete cookies at all times, or those from providers that website owners use i.e. third party cookies, or those from specific websites. Each browser’s website should contain instructions on how you can do this.

For further information please refer to: https://www.aboutcookies.org/how-to-delete-cookies/

If you block cookies on our website, you may be unable to access certain areas of our website and certain functions and pages will not work in the usual way.

How do we use cookies?

We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience by:

• Analysing how your use our site which helps us to troubleshoot any problems and to monitor our own performance
• Recognising when you log in and any preferred settings
• Giving you a browsing experience that is unique to you and to serve your content which we believe improves your site experience

What type of cookies do we use?

Please find below the information about the cookies we use, what they do and how you can alter your settings to stop cookies.

These cookies are essentials:

• __cfduid
• _icl_current_language

They allow you to navigate our site, set the language settings and display the correct page for the device you are using.

To opt out of these cookies you will need to change the settings on your browser Cookie preferences. If you choose to block these cookies our website may not work as it should and any preferences you have may be lost.

Third Party cookies

AddThis

AddThis provides web widgets that site owners embed into their pages or other content to enable visitors to create and share links to the content across social networks. They also make use of the data collected to provide advertisers and marketers with profile information for targeted behavioral advertising.  Stores the visitor’s geolocation to record location of sharer.

You can read more and change your preferences on AddThis here: https://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out/

Amazon

This is an advertiser cookie by online retailer Amazon. It is used as part of its affiliate marketing programme.

You can read more and change your preferences on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/adprefs

You can control and opt-out of Appnexus adverts and other third-party cookies here: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices

Appnexus

The company provides a range of online advertising technology and services.

You can read more and change your preferences on Appnexus here: https://www.appnexus.com/platform-privacy-policy#choices

You can control and opt-out of Appnexus adverts and other third-party cookies here: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices

Disqus

Disqus provides discussion forum software enabling website owners to plug powerful functionality into their sites.  On some forums it also enables site owners to sell space to advertisers with the ability to target interest based audiences.

You can read more and change your preferences on Appnexus here: https://help.disqus.com/terms-and-policies/disqus-privacy-policy

You can control and opt-out of Appnexus adverts and other third-party cookies here: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices

Facebook

This is an advertiser cookie and a performance improver cookie. It allows us to place advertising content onto Facebook which is relevant to you based on the information which your web browsing patterns allow Facebook to infer. This information is never connected to your profile and it is always anonymous.

You can read more and change your preferences on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/

You can control and opt-out of Facebook adverts and other third-party cookies here: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices

Google Analytics and DoubleClick

This is an advertiser cookie which we use to help us to track the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. It enables Google to serve our adverts on other sites based on your browsing history on our page and engagement with our adverts.

You can change your preferences about the adverts you see on Google by clicking here: www.google.com/settings/ads

You can control and opt-out of Google adverts and other third-party cookies here: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices

Youtube

YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.

You can change your preferences about the adverts you see on Google by clicking here: www.google.com/settings/ads

You can control and opt-out of Google adverts and other third-party cookies here: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices

We also use social media buttons on our site which allow you to share content and interact with your social network on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest and LinkedIn. These social media platforms may set their own cookies on your device. We do not control the settings of these cookies so we suggest you check the social media website for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.

Policy updates

The Policy may be updated from time to time in order to adapt it to legal or commercial developments.  Any modifications or additions made to the Policy shall take effect when published on the website. If we make significant changes we will let you know but please regularly check this Policy to ensure you are aware of the most updated version.

Last update on 01 March 2019.