- Purpose
Our Privacy Policy explains how Meta Hero Project and its agent, Oasis Digital Studios Limited (the “Companies”) their subsidiaries and affiliate companies use, store and disclose your personal information. It also describes the choices available to you concerning the use of, your access to, and how to update and correct your personal information.
- Scope
This Privacy Policy applies to personal information that the Companies collect when you use or access the Companies’ web and mobile applications and other Services offered by the Companies that mention this policy (collectively referred to as “Services”) including sites such as, but not limited to:
“Personal Information” is defined as any information about an identifiable individual.
Personal information will be handled by the Companies in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the Personal Information Protection and this Privacy Policy.
- Consent
When you sign up for a user account, the Companies will ask you to provide the necessary personal information required under the lawful basis of performance of a contract in order for the Companies to provide you with the Services. Such information will include specific personal information including Name and email address. In the event that you no longer wish to receive the Services from the Companies and you provide the Companies with notice that you no longer wish to receive the Services, the Companies will work with you to delete all personal information relating to you and used to provide you with the Services.
- Security
The Companies take commercially reasonable measures to help safeguard your personal information from loss, disclosure, alteration, misuse and unauthorized access, theft and destruction. This includes, when required or appropriate and feasible, obtaining written assurances from third parties that may access your data that they will protect the data with adequate safeguards. The internet is not 100% secure. The Companies have no control over the security protocols for internet networks that may be used by you. The Companies cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information and we do not accept liability for unintentional disclosure. The Companies are not responsible for the security of information that you transmit to us over networks that the Companies do not control, including the internet and wireless networks.
If you have any questions about the security of your personal information, please contact us at info@metaheroproject.com
- Collection of Information
The Companies collects the following types of information:
Information that you provide to the Companies directly to deliver Services requested
When you use the Services to register an account with the Companies, the Companies will collect your name and email address.
- Marketing
Users will be asked upon signing up for the Companies Services if they would like to receive marketing information on our various products. Such marketing messages may be delivered to those users who choose to opt-in via personal contact such as email, SMS or by text message. Users may change their preferences to withdraw their consent to receive these personal messages at any time.
- Cookie Policy
A cookie is a small text file that is placed and stored on your computer, mobile or other devices by webpages that you visit. The Cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the webpage, how the visitor found the webpage and recent webpages visited. All cookies used by the Companies are in accordance with current regulations.
Before Cookies are placed on your device, you will be shown a pop-up requesting your consent to the Companies’ use of Cookies. Your consent enables the Companies to provide the best possible service to you.
If you do not consent to the use of Cookies certain features of the Companies Service may not function as intended. You are also able to delete Cookies from your device at any time.
The Companies may use cookies for language selection and other semi persistent settings for visitors who are not signed in. The Companies may use an encrypted session cookie for signed in users to identify who is signed in. Any other information in the encrypted session cookie is only available to read by our servers and should be treated as server data. It could include temporary messages or errors while using the app.
The Companies may also use any of the following categories of Cookies.
- Essential Cookies
The Cookies are strictly necessary for the Companies websites to function. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. These Cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
- Analytics Cookies
These Cookies track information about visits to the websites so that we can make improvements and report performance. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these Cookies collect is aggregated and anonymous.
- Functional or Preference Cookies
These Cookies enable the websites to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They are used to remember information you have entered or choices you make (i.e. username or language) on the Companies websites. They may be set by the Companies or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages.
- Use of Information
The Companies may use the information collected from you for the following purposes:
The Companies may use personal information to provide products, Services or information requested by you. Examples include: to manage your individual information and account, help you efficiently access your information after you sign in, allow access to certain functionalities and features of the Companies’ Services, and respond to your inquiries.
The Companies may use personal information for the following administrative purposes:
- Process transactions
- Transfer your information that you choose to share with third parties upon your direction
- Measure interest in the Companies’ Services
- Develop new products and Services or improve existing products and Services
- Monitor metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, and demographic patterns applicable to the Services
- Send you Service-related emails (i.e., account verification, changes or updates to features of the Service, technical and security notice)
- Compliance with legal obligations and regulatory requirements (i.e., respond to legal process or request for information issued by government authorities)
- Prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities
- Enforce the Companies Terms and Conditions
- Sharing of Information
The Companies will not rent, share, transfer or sell your information to third parties without your consent or as agreed for the purposes of delivering the services as noted in this Privacy Policy.
The Companies may disclose information collected in the following circumstances or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy:
With Vendors and Service Providers
The Companies may disclose your information to third party service providers that perform services on behalf of the Companies, such as web-hosting companies, analytics providers and information technology providers. The Companies entrust personal information to the following types of service providers:
- Providers of IT and related services
- Customer service activities
- Fraud prevention
- Providers of services you have requested
The Companies have contracts with service providers that forbid them from using or disclosing personal information except as necessary to execute the contracted services on behalf of the Companies or to fulfil legal obligations.
With Law Enforcement or Government Authorities
The Companies may disclose information as may be permitted or required by laws of any jurisdiction that may apply to the Companies, as provided for under contract, or as the Companies deems reasonably necessary to provide legal services. In these circumstances, the Companies take reasonable efforts to notify you prior to disclosing information that may reasonably identify you, unless prior notice is prohibited by applicable law or is not possible or reasonable in the circumstances.
Change of Control
If the Companies sell or otherwise transfers part or the whole of its assets to another organization (i.e., in the course of a transaction like a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation), then your information may be sold or transferred as part of such a transaction as permitted by law and/or contract. The buyer or transferee will have to honour the commitments the Companies have made in this Privacy Policy.
- Transfer of Data
The Companies takes all reasonable steps to ensure that the data we collect under this privacy statement is processed according to the provisions of this statement and the requirements of applicable law wherever the data is located. The Companies operates throughout the world and as we don’t necessarily store your data in your country of origin, we do transfer personal data from your country to the European Economic Area and to other countries, some of which have not been determined by the European Commission to have an adequate level of data protection. Some of these data transfers may include a transfer between internal entities, to third party suppliers and to cloud based storage providers.
Any transfer we make is done using a variety of legal mechanisms, including contracts, to help ensure your rights and equivalent protections travel with your data. We want to ensure that data is stored and transferred in a way which is secure. We will therefore only transfer data outside of the European Economic Area or EEA (i.e. the Member States of the European Union, together with Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein) where it is compliant with data protection legislation and the means of transfer provides adequate safeguards in relation to your data.
Ways in which we safeguard your data include, but are not limited to:
- Through the use of a transfer agreement which includes the current standard contractual clauses put in place by the European Commission for the transfer of personal data;
Other circumstances under which your data could be transferred include when it is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract between ourselves and a third party and the transfer is in your interest for the purposes of the contract and where you have consented to the data transfer.
- Individual’s Data Rights
We respect the rights and freedoms of individuals and as such we would like to make you aware of the following:
You have the right to:
- Request access to your data
- Request rectification of your data where there are errors or inaccuracies or the data is not current
- Request that the data we hold is removed entirely from our systems (the right to have data removed is only applicable where it does not conflict with our legal and regulatory requirements to keep certain records according to the data retention period)
- Request us to restrict processing of your data
- Object to our processing of your data
- Request your data in a format that is commonly used/accepted
- Send your data to another controller
- Withdraw consent already provided – at any time
You also have the right to complain to us. To lodge a complaint or to exercise any of your rights listed above, please contact us at info@metaheroproject.com and direct your email to the attention of the Data Protection Officer.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
- Third Party Services and Content
The third party vendors with which the Companies share your personal information are contractually required by the Companies to keep this information confidential and may generally not use such information for any purpose other than to help the Companies provide solutions to our users customers.
The Companies’ Services may include integrated content or links to content provided by third parties. This Privacy Policy does not address the privacy, security, or other practice of the third parties that provide such content.
The Companies may use third party service providers to collect personal information on its behalf. These third party service providers may be located in countries where the privacy laws provide different levels of protection for personal information. If you would like more information about the Companies’ use of these service providers, please contact us at info@metaheroproject.com
- Retention
Due to the nature of the Companies’ business personal data will be kept for as long as the Companies provide services to the user.
Customer Service interactions result in the capture of certain information such as names and email addresses. Upon completion of a customer service ticket, such information will be kept on file by the Companies for 30 days and then deleted, with the exception of tickets relating to purchases. All customer personally identifying information from tickets relating to purchases will be deleted 30 days after the ticket has been completely resolved. Other, non-identifying information will be retained by the Companies to allow for the on-going evaluation of merchant issues and responses.
- Updates or Changes to the Companies Policies
The Companies may modify or update this Privacy Policy from time to time, so please review it periodically. If the Companies make any material changes in the way it collects, uses, and/or shares the personal information that you have provided, the Companies will notify you by posting notice of the changes in a clear manner. Your continued use of the Companies’ Services after any modification to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such modification.
- Your Choices and Rights
Subject to local law, you may have certain rights regarding information that the Companies have collected and that is related to you. Please contact the Companies to update or correct your information if it changes or if you believe that any information that we have collected about you is inaccurate or out of date. You can also ask to see what personal information the Companies retain about you, and to erase your personal information. If you would like to exercise the rights you may have, please contact us at info@metaheroproject.com
Although the Companies strive to provide individuals with access to their personal information, there may be instances where the Companies may not provide access, including but not limited to: where the information would put another individual’s privacy at risk, where the access would reveal confidential commercial information, or the requested information contains legal privilege. If the Companies determine that access should be limited in any specific instance, the Companies will provide an explanation of why that assessment has been made and a contact point for any further concerns.
- Children’s Privacy
The Companies do not knowingly collect or solicit any information from anyone under the age of 13, or from a minor in a jurisdiction where parental / guardian consent for the collection of information is required until the age of majority in that jurisdiction, or knowingly allow such persons to register for the Service. The Service and its content are not directed at children under the age of 13. In the event that the Companies learn that they have collected personal information from a child under the age of 13 without parental consent, or from a minor in a jurisdiction where parental / guardian consent for the collection of information is required until the age of majority in that jurisdiction, the Companies will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that the Companies might have any information from or about a child that requires parental or guardian consent, please contact info@metaheroproject.com.
In some cases our services may be utilised by governmental bodies for the purposes of facilitating student identification for government approved education. In all such cases, parental / guardian consent will be required for the collection of personal information for participating minors.