Privacy Policy

Last Modified: August 10, 2023

Effective Date - September 1,2024

Thank you for using Mecha!

This Privacy Policy applies when you use Mecha’s Platform and tells you, amongst other things, about:

  • The ways we collect and store your personal data and why we do so,
  • How we use and disclose your personal data, and
  • The choices you have about your personal data

1. Introduction

Mecha’s Privacy Policy will be applicable if you use our “Platform”, which means our applications mecha.so, mechasystems.com, and/or other domains or websites operated by Mecha, any other services and content. “Mecha”, “we”, “our”, or “us” in this Privacy Policy refers to Mecha.

For purposes of data protection laws, Mecha is the “Data Controller” of your personal data. We will refer to countries in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland collectively as the “European Countries” in this Privacy Policy.

You are requested to not use the Mecha’s Platform in case you do not want Mecha to collect, store, use, or share your data in the ways described in our Privacy Policy.

We may make amendments to this Privacy Policy and post the latest version on our Platform. Any material changes will be posted and notified to you on the Platform prior to the change becoming effective. Your use of the Platform after the effective change in the Privacy Policy will be subject to the amended Privacy Policy.

2. Data we collect

A. Data You Provide Us

Any data that is provided directly to Mecha’s Platform will be stored in Mecha’s systems, and we may use that data for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. For using our Platform, you may be asked to give us the following:

  • Information regarding your first and last name;
  • Information regarding your username;
  • Information regarding your gender;
  • Information regarding your age or birthday;
  • Information regarding your e-mail address;
  • Information regarding a password;
  • Information regarding your profile photo;
  • Information regarding the approximate physical location data that you provide;
  • Information regarding links to your profiles on various social networks;
  • Information regarding other data that helps us make sure it’s you accessing your account or helps us improve our Platform;
  • Information regarding your mobile telephone number (including for SMS text messaging services);
  • We also create a Mecha-specific ID for you when you use the Platform.

B. Data Collected While Using Our Platform

When you use our Platform, we will collect data in connection with the ways in which you use and interact with our Platform, such as:

  • Using our applications, products, and interaction with other users;
  • Any purchases made on the Platform by you;
  • Mecha will collect data communicated or shared by you in case you opt to use communication features in Mecha’s Platform that may allow you to communicate or share data with other users. This may include:
    • Data related to your participation in user forums and message boards;
    • Data related to your public posts or comments on other users’ profiles;
    • Data related to any invitations sent to other users or non-public messages, made on our websites directly or through our in-app mechanisms;
    • Any data related to your chats with other users on Mecha’s Platform; and/or
    • Data related to your posted information or other user-generated content.

Mecha has the right to access in real-time, record, and/or store archives of the above collected data on Mecha’s servers to make use of them for:

  • Protecting your well-being and safety;
  • Protecting Mecha Platform’s rights and property;
  • Conducting research, operating, improving, personalizing, and optimizing Mecha’s Platform and your experiences, including through the use of analytics; and
  • Managing and delivering advertising.

We will seek your prior consent on the above, wherever prior consent is required by law.

C. Data Collected From Payments Made By You

All the billing and financial data in connection with any purchases made on our Platform, including our website and app shops such as Google Play or iTunes, will be collected by our third-party payment processor. They will collect the data to process charges for the payments made. The data collected by them may include:

  • Data related to your postal address;
  • Data related to your e-mail address; and
  • Financial data.

No financial data like credit card numbers is shared with Mecha by Mecha’s payment processors; however, they may share any non-financial data with us related to your purchases, like:

  • Your name;
  • Billing address; and
  • The items purchased.

Any purchases made using Mecha’s platform on connected third-party applications or other platforms (like Facebook, Apple, Google, or Amazon) will be processed by that third-party application or platform and the purchase will be subject to that third-party application or platform’s terms of service and privacy policy documents. In connection with such purchases, Mecha never receives any data related to financial information, but Mecha may receive any non-financial data related to such purchases, like:

  • Your name;
  • Approximate physical location; and
  • The items purchased.

The data Mecha receives depends on the Mecha Platform you’re using and the third-party application. Our policies and terms related to charges and billing are described in Mecha’s Terms and Conditions.

D. Data Collected From Customer Support Communication

Mecha is always there to provide help through our Customer Support team. When you contact our Customer Support team, our team will collect and store the data you provide, such as:

  • Information regarding your name and e-mail address;
  • Data about your activity on our Platform; and
  • Information regarding your user ID and/or social network ID number.

For providing support and improving the Platform, Mecha will also store all the communications you may have with our Customer Service team and any additional data in such communications.

E. Data We Collect From Third-Party Applications, Including Social Networks

Mecha will allow log in to our Platform through sign-in services such as Facebook Connect. These services may pre-populate our sign-up form, authenticate your identity information, provide an option to share personal information such as your name and email address with us. Platforms like Facebook Connect may give you the option to post information about your activities on our Platform or to your profile page to share with others within your network. Mecha Platform may receive certain additional data about you from the provider of the third-party application if you use Mecha’s Platform on connected third-party applications or connect our Platform to any third-party applications, including social networks like Facebook. All the data received by Mecha depends on the Mecha’s service you’re using, the third-party application, your privacy settings, and, if applicable, your friends’ privacy settings on that third-party application.

Indicatively, Mecha may collect and store the following from connected third-party applications:

  • Data in connection with your first and last name;
  • Data in connection with your profile picture or its URL;
  • Data in connection with your user identification number (like your Facebook ID number), which may be linked to publicly-available data like your name and profile photo;
  • Data in connection with your friends’ user ID numbers and other public data;
  • Data in connection with the e-mail address you provided to that third-party application;
  • Data in connection with your approximate physical location and that of the devices you use to access our Platform;
  • Data in connection with your gender, your birthday, age, and/or age range;
  • Data in connection with your activities on or through the connected third-party application;
  • Data in connection with other publicly-available data on the third-party application; and/or
  • Data in connection with any other data that you or the provider of the third-party application share with Mecha.

If you access our Platform from a third-party application or connect our Platform to a third-party application, you should also read that third-party application’s terms of service and privacy policy.

If you are unclear about what data a third-party application is sharing with us, please go to the third-party application to find out more about their privacy practices.

F. Cookies and Other Data Collection

In order to recognize you and your device(s) across different Platforms and devices, Mecha uses cookies and other similar technologies such as pixel tags, beacons, clear gifs, and device identifiers. Mecha allows others to use cookies and similar technologies. Mecha allows you to control or opt out from the use of cookies and similar technologies that track your behavior on the sites of others for third-party advertising. Please see our Cookie Notice for further information on this. Mecha and its partners use cookies and other similar technologies to collect and analyze certain kinds of technical data, including:

  • IP address;
  • Information regarding devices used by you such as mobile or computer devices;
  • Platform type (such as Apple iOS or Android);
  • Information regarding the version of your operating system;
  • Information regarding your mobile device’s identifiers, for example, Apple Identifier For Advertising (IDFA), your MAC Address, and/or Android Advertising ID (AAID);
  • Information regarding debugging data and application performance;
  • Information regarding your language and browser type;
  • Information regarding URLs, referring and exit pages;
  • Information regarding website page and/or the number of clicks on an application feature or website page;
  • Information regarding the amount of time spent by you on an application feature or web page;
  • Information regarding domain names;
  • Information regarding landing pages;
  • Information regarding pages viewed and the order of those pages; and/or
  • Information regarding game state and the date and time of activity on our Platform.

Mecha may connect, in some cases, the above data with your social network or Mecha user ID.

For understanding how to adjust your preferences, please see the section on How to Access, Update, and Manage Your Personal Data.

G. Data Submitted Via Platform

For purposes included but not limited to developing, manufacturing, and/or marketing goods or the Mecha Platform, Mecha may use the content of any interactions or communications submitted by you on Mecha Platform, including any concepts, inventions, ideas, techniques, or know-how disclosed therein.

Mecha will keep your name confidential and will not publicize or advertise the fact that you submitted materials or other information to us unless:

  • Permission is granted by you to us;
  • We first send notice to you that the materials or other information you submit to a particular part of a Service will be published or otherwise used with your name on it; or
  • We are required to do so by law.

3. Why do we collect your data and how we use it including legal basis

Mecha uses your data under several legal bases, including for performing our contract with you, for Mecha’s legitimate business interests, for complying with our legal obligations, or otherwise we use it with your consent.
The collected and stored data may be used:

  • for improving and enhancing our Platform;
  • for creating your account and allowing you to use our Platform;
  • for identifying and suggesting connections with other Mecha users and personalizing our Platform to you;
  • for communicating with you and informing you about the Platform you are using, including promotional offers that we think might be of interest to you;
  • for enabling users to communicate with each other;
  • for providing any technical support and for responding to your concerns or inquiries;
  • for protecting your safety;
  • for protecting Mecha’s rights and property in connection with our Platform;
  • for preventing fraud or potentially illegal activities, and for enforcing our Terms of Service;
  • for managing and delivering contextual and behavioral advertising;
  • for administering rewards, surveys, sweepstakes, contests, or other promotional activities or events sponsored or managed by us or our business partners;
  • for complying with our legal obligations, resolving any disputes we may have with you or other users, and for enforcing our agreements with third parties; and/or
  • for conducting research including marketing research.

If you are located in the European Countries (as defined above in Section 1), our legal basis for collecting and using the data described above depends on what the data is and the context in which we collect it.

However, we will normally collect data from you only where we need it to perform our contract with you (i.e., our Terms of Service), where the processing is in our legitimate interests (provided that these aren’t overridden by your interests or rights), or if we otherwise have your consent.

In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation or need to collect data from you or may otherwise need the personal data to protect your vital interests or those of another person (for example, another user).

If we ask you to provide data to comply with a legal requirement or to perform a contract with you, this will be clear from the context in which we are asking you to provide your data (for example, when we ask you to provide a username to access our Platform, this will be to create an account for you in accordance with our Terms of Service), and, if not, we will provide an explanation to you at the relevant time. We will also make clear whether providing data is mandatory.

Similarly, if we collect and use your data in connection with our legitimate interests (or those of any third party), it will be made clear to you at the relevant time what those legitimate interests are (such as personalizing our services and marketing, etc.).

4. How we share your data

We may share your data, including personal data, with third parties or allow third parties to collect this data from our Platform in the following circumstances:

A. Friends and other Mecha users

Mecha’s Platform support and often encourage you to interact with other users.

In many Mecha Platform, other users, regardless of whether they are your social network friends, will be able to:

In addition, in many Mecha Platform, other users, regardless of whether they are your social network friends, will be able to:

  • see your name, photo
  • see your profile (as described above);
  • view descriptions of your activity;
  • communicate with you within our Platform; and

B. Safety, Security, and Compliance with law

Mecha may access and monitor all your data including contents of all of your online communications in our Platform and between you and Mecha for providing our Service. Mecha may further disclose your data:

  • For satisfying any laws or regulations that may apply;
  • When Mecha has a good faith belief that we have to disclose the data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including for national security, law enforcement, or legal process purposes;
  • When Mecha believes in its sole discretion that its Platform is being used for committing a crime. We may report such criminal activity or share your data with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection, credit risk reduction, and other security precautions;
  • When Mecha has a good faith belief that there is an emergency that poses a threat to the health and/or safety of you, another person, or the public generally; and/or
  • For protecting the rights or property of Mecha or applicable third parties, including for enforcing our Terms of Service.

C. Third-Party Service Providers

MMecha may share your data with third-party companies who may perform following on our behalf, such as

  • Services related to payment processing,
  • Services related to analytics,
  • Services related to hosting,
  • Services related to customer support,
  • Services related to marketing, and
  • Services related to advertising optimization.

We ensure that we have appropriate agreements in place to protect your data as required by applicable data protection laws especially wherever we share your data with third-party service providers and business partners.

D. Sale or manager

Please note that we may disclose or transfer all of your data, including personal data, to the successor organization in the transition in the event that Mecha undergoes or evaluates undergoing a business transition, like a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or part of its assets (like selling a game), Before transferring your personal data, we will make reasonable efforts to let you and other users know of the business transition in the way described in Changes to Our Privacy Policy.

E. Other third parties

Additionally, with your consent, we may share your data with other third parties or allow them to collect your data from our Platform in some ways not specifically described in this Privacy Policy.

5. Your rights and how to access, update, and manage your personal data

A. European countrie's user's rights

If you are located in the European Countries (defined above in Section 1), you have the following data protection rights:

  • You can access or request deletion of your personal data by submitting a request to us at undefined.
  • You can correct or update your personal data, object to processing of your personal data, ask us to restrict processing of your personal data, or request portability of your personal data.
  • You can opt-out of marketing communications we send you by following the instructions in “Opting Out of Promotional Communications from Mecha” below.
  • If we have collected and processed your personal data with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal data conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
  • You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal data. For more data, please contact your local data protection authority.

To exercise your rights to access or deletion, please submit a request to us at undefined. If you have any other problems or would like to exercise any of your other rights, you can contact us at undefined. We respond to all data protection requests we receive in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

B. Accessing and deleting personal data held by Mecha

To review and update personal data associated with your Mecha user profile. Visit the ‘Account Settings’ page in the Console.

If you want to review or delete personal data associated with your account data, please submit a request to us at undefined.

For deletion requests, we will take reasonable measures to delete your personal data from our records. If you have sent content through or posted content on the Platform, we may not be able to delete it. We will keep certain records (e.g., personal data relating to payments or customer service matters) where we need (and have rights) to, such as for legal or accounting purposes. We will also keep data in order to exercise, defend, or establish our rights.

  • You can access or request deletion of your personal data by submitting a request to us at undefined.
  • You can correct or update your personal data, object to processing of your personal data, ask us to restrict processing of your personal data, or request portability of your personal data.
  • You can opt-out of marketing communications we send you by following the instructions in “Opting Out of Promotional Communications from Mecha” below.
  • If we have collected and processed your personal data with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal data conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
  • You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal data. For more data, please contact your local data protection authority.

To exercise your rights to access or deletion, please submit a request to us at undefined. If you have any other problems or would like to exercise any of your other rights, you can contact us at undefined. We respond to all data protection requests we receive in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

C. Opting out of Promotional Comunications from Mecha

If you want to stop receiving promotional e-mails from Mecha, click on the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any promotional email from Mecha or visit our Email Settings page. Your unsubscribe request or e-mail preferences change will be processed promptly, and in no event longer than ten business days. During that processing period, you may receive additional promotional emails from us.

Please note that if you opt out of receiving promotional communications from us, we may still communicate with you from time to time if we need to provide you with data about the Platform you are using from us, if we need to request data from you with respect to a transaction initiated by you, or for other legitimate non-marketing reasons, for example, if we update this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Service.

6. Our policies concerning children

Most of our Platform are not intended for children under the age of 13 (or under 16 for children located in the European Countries) (collectively, “Children”). Children are not permitted to use these Platform, and we do not knowingly collect any personal data from Children.

Though our Platform do not target Children as the primary audience, we may collect age data before allowing a user to proceed for certain Platform. For users who identify themselves as Children in our age-gate on such Platform, if we allow Children to use the Platform, we will either provide a version of that Service that does not collect, use, or disclose “personal data” (as defined in the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”)), except as permitted by COPPA, or obtain legally valid parental consent.

If we learn that we have inadvertently gathered personal data that is not subject to a COPPA exception from a Child, we will take reasonable measures to promptly remove that data from our records.

7. International operations and transfers out of European countries

IMPORTANT: When yoou use our platform, your personal data may be sent to United States and possibly other countries.

As part of our international operations, we may transfer personal data to our “Affiliated Entities,” which are any other corporate entities under common ownership with Mecha, or to our business partners and service providers from time to time for our legitimate business purposes. For example, Mecha provides certain services to its Affiliated Entities.

We store personal data about you and visitors to our sites on servers located in the United States, and we may also store this data on servers and equipment in other countries. Personal data collected in the European Countries may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside of the European Countries. The data we hold may also be processed by employees operating outside of the European Countries who work for us, one of our Affiliated Entities, or one of our business partners or service providers. This staff may be engaged in, among other things, (i) the processing of transactions and your payment details, or (ii) the provision of support services.

When we transfer your personal data internationally we will take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal data is treated securely, lawfully, and in the manner, we describe here. Please note that laws vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, so the privacy laws applicable to the places where your data is transferred to or stored, used, or processed in, may be different from the privacy laws applicable to the place where you are resident.

8. Data retention

How long we retain your personal data depends on why we collected it and how we use it, but we will not retain your personal data for longer than is necessary for our business purposes or for legal requirements.

We will retain personal data about you and connected with your account and/or the Platform you use from us for as long as you have an active account with us. We will take reasonable measures to delete this personal data if you delete your account. However, you acknowledge that we may retain some data after you have closed, or we have deleted, your account with us where necessary to enable us to meet our legal obligations or to exercise, defend, or establish our rights.

9. Security of your data

We implement reasonable and appropriate security measures to help protect the security of your data both online and offline and to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. These measures vary based upon the sensitivity of your data.

If you have an account registered directly with Mecha, your profile data is protected by the password you use to access your Mecha account. It is important that you protect and maintain your Mecha account’s security and that you immediately tell us of any unauthorized use of your account. If you forget the password to your Mecha account, the Platform allow you to request that instructions be sent to you that explain how to reset your password. If you access our Platform through a social network and your social network account is hacked or otherwise compromised, this may lead to someone accessing or deleting your Mecha accounts without your permission. So, be careful to keep your social network account data, including your social network account password, secure as well. We urge you to log out of your Mecha account and any social network account you have used to access our Platform when you are finished using them.

When you sign into your Mecha account or enter payment data, we and our third-party payment processor use encryption to transmit that data.

While we take precautions against possible security breaches of our Platform and our customer databases and records, no website or Internet transmission is completely secure. We cannot guarantee that unauthorized access, hacking, data loss, or other breaches will never occur, and we cannot guarantee the security of your data while it is being transmitted to our Service. Any transmission is at your own risk.

10. Contact Us

If you have questions about data protection, or if you have any requests for resolving issues with your personal data, we request you to contact us so that we can reply to you more swiftly and efficiently.

United States

Name of the Controller: Shoaib Merchant

Address:Mecha Systems Inc. 5742 Steutermann Road Washington, MO - 63090, USA

Email: [email protected]

India

Name of the Controller: Anjali Potdar

Address: Mecha Systems Private Limited, 2nd Floor, Action House, Vadsar Bridge, Makarpura, Vadodara, Gujarat - 390010, India.

Email: [email protected]

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy and/or privacy practices, please send an e-mail to [email protected].