Privacy Policy

Cranky Uncle Vaccine is committed to protecting the privacy of your personal information. As such, this Privacy Policy covers how we collect, use, disclose, transfer, and store your information. Cranky Uncle Vaccine follows the EU’s General Data Protection Regulations (“GDPR”) when handling the data of our visitors, partners, members, and clients. We process data both as a Processor and Controller as defined by the GDPR.

What Data Do We Collect?

We collect personal information about players that is volunteered by those players. The most common types of information we collect include things like: email addresses, IP addresses, online quiz responses, game analytics, and cookie data. Whenever you provide your personal information, we include information about why we are collecting that information and what we intend to do with it.

How Do We Collect Your Data?

You directly provide Cranky Uncle Vaccine with the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:

Register to play the game.
Voluntarily complete the research survey at the start or end of the game.
Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies.
Register for a group code.
Play the game.

How We Will Use Your Data?

Cranky Uncle Vaccine collects your data so that we can:

Manage your account.
Analyze the game’s performance and effectiveness

As a data controller, Cranky Uncle Vaccine may pass your personal data on to third-party service providers contracted to Cranky Uncle Vaccine in the course of providing service to you. Any third parties that we may share your data with are required to store your data in accordance with applicable GDPR protections, and to use that data only to provide you with the services which we agreed to provide to you.

How Do We Store Your Data?

Cranky Uncle Vaccine stores your data on securely a managed Amazon Web Services data store. We retain your personal information for as long as is necessary to provide services to you and others, and to comply with our legal and contractual obligations. If you no longer want us to use your personal information, you can request that we erase your personal information. Please note that if you request we erase your personal information, we will retain information from deleted accounts as necessary for our legitimate interests, to comply with the law, prevent fraud, collect fees, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with investigations, enforce the terms of service and take other actions permitted by law. The information we retain will be handled in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Marketing

Cranky Uncle Vaccine would like to send you information about products and services of ours that we think you might like, as well as those of our partners. If you have agreed to receive marketing, you may always opt-out at a later date. You have the right at any time to stop Cranky Uncle Vaccine from contacting you for marketing purposes or giving your data to other partners.

If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please contact us at the information listed below.

What Are Your Data Protection Rights?

Cranky Uncle Vaccine would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request Cranky Uncle Vaccine for copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that Cranky Uncle Vaccine correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Cranky Uncle Vaccine to complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Cranky Uncle Vaccine erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Cranky Uncle Vaccine restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to Cranky Uncle Vaccine’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Cranky Uncle Vaccine transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: infovax@crankyuncle.com.

What are Cookies?

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information. When you visit our game, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org.

How Do We Use Cookies?

Cranky Uncle Vaccine uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our game, including:

Keeping you signed in
Understanding how you use our game

What Types of Cookies Do We Use?

There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our game uses:

Functionality – Cranky Uncle Vaccine uses these cookies so that we recognize you on our game and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and the location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.
Marketing – Cranky Uncle Vaccine uses these cookies to collect information about your visit to our game, the content you viewed, the links you followed, and information about your browser, device, and your IP address.

Privacy Policies of Other Websites

Our game contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our game, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

Cranky Uncle Vaccine keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on February 24, 2023.

How to Contact Us

You can contact us via our contact page.