DATA USAGE AND ANALYTICS

Applicable from: 05/22/2014

Recently, there have been a number of concerns about how data from mobile devices is used. We take your concerns very seriously, and we want to be transparent about our data policies, so we’d like to explain a bit more about it.

Analyzing data from computers and mobile devices helps developers like BolivarTech hereafter VN, provide a more optimized service, and create a better user experience. Like most online applications, media and websites, VN provide our applications and/or game developers with different data about their usage.

Some data is used for integrating different ads networks into VN applications and/or games. We strive to offer our applications and/or games to users at reasonable prices, and having advertising in our applications and/or games is a way of making them available for free for millions of players on various platforms. This data is used for ad-targeting in similar ways many websites use browsing data. All data is anonymized, and VN does not track or store any single person’s personal data.

Using data for optimizing user experience and targeting advertising in an anonymous and secure way is a completely standard practice in online media and games. Our policies for all data use have been outlined in the VN Privacy Policy and addressed in the Frequently Asked Questions here at bolivartech.com.

However, if you have any questions regarding particular permissions on different mobile devices, please read on for more information about permissions and data use on different mobile platforms.

Android permissions and data use

For Android, the following permissions may be requested for different VN applications and/or games:

Your location
coarse and fine, network-based location

This information is used to target ads coarsely using metadata, such as network IP address. For example, this prevents people in US getting ads about marketing campaigns in the Europe, or seeing a promotion targeted to Asia while playing the game in South America. This permission is not required by "No Ads" versions of VN applications and/or games unless it is required for proper operation due to the type of application, for example an application that shows the user's position as a navigation aid.

The fine location is used to target ads to specific campaigns and opportunities near to the current user position.

Storage
modify/delete SD storage contents

This permission is used for caching advertising on SD storage. This permission is not required by "No Ads" versions of VN games but may be required for other application types.

Network communication
full internet access

Full internet access is required, for example, keep the information updated in the applications or for downloading new levels in some of our games. In all of our games, we also promote new games, updates and products, so you will always have up to date information about the latest news from VN.

Phone calls
Read phone status and ID

This permission is needed to access device ID, which is then hashed to create an anonymous identifier. This is how VN can analyze how the games are played or application browsed, in order to develop a better experience or new features. The device ID is always hashed, and not used or stored as such by VN. No information regarding phone numbers or phone calls is collected or stored by VN.

When our aplications save information on the device's storages the device ID is used together with strong cryptographic algoritms to secure your data to be stolen from your device.

Permissions to view networks states and Wi-Fi state to detect and verify the presence of internet connections.

Additional permissions are asked for Markets billing service for in-app purchases.

Google Analytics

In addition to the information covered above, we use Google Analytics in most applications to collect user experience and new features related information and technical data. This is a common analytics component, used widely in mobile - for more information see http://www.google.com/analytics .

Applications to collect user experience and new features related data includes, for example, information about achieved scores and playing times. This data is used by VN applications and/or game developers to get feedback on applications and/or game performance, and keep developing the best possible applications and/or game experience. All data is completely anonymous and used in an aggregate manner. VN does not track or store any single person’s personal data.

Technical information includes aggregated device model, carrier and firmware version data, and is used to verify that the games work correctly and the game performance is good on different devices.
If you have any questions at all, please don't hesitate to contact us.