This privacy and cookie statement was most recently revised on 25 August 2021.
Your privacy and the protection of your personal data is of great importance to Rusty Lake B.V. (hereinafter: Rusty Lake). During the processing of your personal data via our games, we work in accordance with the requirements for the processing of personal data laid down in the privacy legislation (General Data Protection Regulation). This means we:
First ask for explicit permission to process your personal data in cases where your permission is required.
Take appropriate security measures to protect your personal data and we demand the same from parties who process personal data on our behalf.
This privacy and cookie statement only sees on the games of Rusty Lake, of which a complete overview is available on www.rustylake.com. For more information about Rusty Lake and the processing of personal data by Rusty Lake in general, please read the privacy and cookie statement of Rusty Lake on www.rustylake.com.
By downloading and playing our games, we obtain various personal data from you. For each purpose it is indicated what information we obtain from you, for what purpose we process this information and how long it will be stored. If you have any questions or want to know exactly what information we store of you, please contact us. Our contact details are mentioned below.
Contact
You can contact us by sending us an e-mail.
For this purpose, we process the following personal data:
Name
E-mail address
Any information you enter yourself as content of your message
We use this information in order to be able to handle your request to contact you properly and to perform the contract with you to this end. If you contact us, your personal data will be retained until we are sure that we fully answered and correctly handled your request.
Downloading our games
Our games can be downloaded via the App Store, the Google Play Store, Steam, GOG and Itch.io. We have no influence on which personal data is processed by these providers and for what purpose they use your information. Therefore, we recommend that you read the relevant privacy statement of the provider in question.
In-app purchase
In some of our games you can do in-app purchases. The in-app purchases are handled by the digital distribution service via which you downloaded our game. This may be the App Store, the Google Play Store, Steam, GOG or Itch.io We have no influence on which personal data is processed by these providers and for what purpose they use your information. Therefore, we recommend that you read the privacy statement of the digital distribution service in question.
Rating the game and writing a review
Within some of our games, you have the possibility to rate the game or write a review. Your review will be shown by the digital distribution service, via which you downloaded the game. Again, we have no influence on which personal data is processed by these providers and for what purpose they use your information. Therefore, we recommend you read the relevant privacy statement as mentioned above.
Contest
You can choose to take part in one of our contests.
For this purpose, we process the following personal data:
Name
E-mail address
Address
We need this information in order to be able to send you your price, when you win the contest and to perform the contract with you to this end. We store this information until the price has been sent to you.
Rusty Lake only shares your data with third parties when this is allowed by current legislation. It may happen that we provide your personal information to third parties, because:
we have engaged them to process certain data;
it is necessary to carry out the agreement with you;
you give permission for this;
we have a legitimate interest in this;
we are legally obliged to do so (e.g., if the police demand this in case of a suspicion of a crime).
The parties that process personal data in our or your assignment:
IT suppliers and service providers
Cookie service providers
Digital Distribution services
Payment service providers
In order to provide this service, Rusty Lake may provide your personal data to parties established outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Rusty Lake will only do this if there is an adequate level of protection for the processing of personal data. This means, for example, that we use a model contract from the European Commission or make agreements about the handling of personal data.
In our games we may use social media buttons, which redirect you to the social media platforms. This gives you the option to follow us and share content within the network. You will also see advertisements on your social media page. The buttons are active because of bits of code that come
from the social media networks. If you want to know what the social media platforms do with your personal data, please read the relevant privacy statement:
We and third parties may use cookies in our games, which are saved on your device. Cookies are small information files that can be automatically stored on or read out from the device (including a PC, tablet or smartphone) on which the game has been installed. Rusty Lake may use cookies for the following purposes:
To enable the functionality of the game (functional cookies)
To generate overall statistics and gain insights in the use of the game by the public in order to improve and optimize our games and services (analytical cookies)
To show personalized advertisements (marketing cookies)
These cookies collect the following data from you:
IP address
Cookie ID
Gaming and clicking behaviour
When you play our game for the first time and cookies are being used in the game, we will display a message with an explanation about the cookies we use. We will ask for your consent to place the cookies when we are required to do so. If you agree to the use of cookies, they will be placed on your device.
We may use the following cookies in our games:
Type | Cookie; entity | Purpose | Retention period |
Functional | Google Tag Manager Google LLC, United States Privacy statement | The cookies from Google Tag Manager make it possible to load scripts from other cookies. Google Tag Manager is purely functional and is not used for the collection of personal data. | Session |
Various: First party cookies with strictly functional purposes | These cookies enable necessary functionalities of the game, such as remembering the chosen language and whether consent for cookies has been given, displaying the cookie banner, etc. | Up to 2 years | |
Analytical | Google Analytics Google LLC, United States | These cookies are placed to gain insight into gaming and clicking behaviour and to improve the gaming experience. We have set these cookies to be privacy friendly. That means that we: | Up to 2 years |
have concluded a data processing agreement with Google;
only provide Google masked IP addresses;
do not share any further data with Google;
Marketing | Google DoubleClick Google LLC, United States Privacy statement | These cookies are used to register the gamers actions after viewing or clicking on advertisements. The purpose of this is to measure the effectiveness and to show personalized advertisements. | Up to 6 months |
Google Admob Google LLC, United States | Google Admob cookies are used to experiment with the effectiveness of advertisements in our apps and to display relevant advertisements. | Up to 2 years |
and we do not use other Google services in combination with Analytics.
If you would like to know what the cookie service providers do with your personal data, please read the privacy and cookie statement of the company in question. If you click on 'privacy statement' in the cookie table, you will be redirected to the relevant privacy statement.
We take appropriate technical and organizational security measures with regard to the processing of personal data to be carried out, against loss or against any form of unlawful processing (such as unauthorized access, corruption, alteration or disclosure of personal data).
You can always contact us if you have any questions regarding our privacy and cookie statement. Besides that, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:
You may send a request by sending an e-mail to privacy@rustylake.com. To prevent abuse, we may ask you to provide proper proof of your identity.
We will usually respond to your request within one month. This term can be extended if the request is proven to be complex or tied to a specific right. You will be notified about a possible extension of this term within one month.
We may change this privacy and cookie statement from time to time. Changes will be published in the games. It is therefore advised to consult this privacy and cookie statement on a regular basis, so you are aware of these changes.
If you would like to file a complaint about our use of personal data, please send an email with the details of your complaint to privacy@rustylake.com. We will look into it and respond to any complaint we receive.
If you think that we are not helping you correctly, you have the right to file a complaint with the national supervisory authority responsible for the protection of personal data against our processing of your personal data. For the Netherlands, this is the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens.
E-mail: privacy@rustylake.com Chamber of Commerce: 67664040