Privacy Policy

• Novely(“we”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. While using our products (including services), we may collect and use your relevant information in order to improve the quality of our services. we will do everything in our power to protect your privacy, as long as it is within a reasonable business scope.
  We recommend that you read the "Privacy Policy" in detail to get an understanding of what type of information we and some of the companies we work with collect, how we collect it and how we use it. Please note that our Terms of Service apply to this Privacy Policy. By creating an account with Novely, using our products or services, or submitting any personal information via the services, you agree to the collection, storage and use of your information as long as it follows the context dictated here and the adherence of local laws and regulations.

1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

• We collect the following types of information:
  Information you provide to us or upload, which includes information you supply when you register an account with us and save items to your profile, specifically including:
  · Device or SIM-related information: information related to your device. For example, IMEI number, Android version, device manufacturer details and model name, network operator.
  · Location information (only for specific services/functionalities): various types of information on your location. For example, country code, city code, mobile network code, cell identity, longitude and latitude information, language settings.
  · Log information: information related to your use of certain functions, apps and websites. For example, cookies and other anonymous identifier technologies, IP addresses, temporary message history, standard system logs, username, email address. If you register for Novely via third parties like Facebook and Google, they send us information that is necessary for your use of our Services, such as your name, email address, gender and birthdate.
  · Payment information: information related to your payment of certain products or services. For example, billing accounts, the mode and types of payment, purchase orders, payment account, credit cards, online banking, etc.
  · Professional information (such as name, gender,birthdate).

2.WHY DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

• We treat the personal information above as private by default, so it won't be displayed on the Site (unless you choose to publicly display applicable information via your account settings), revealed to other users, or rented or sold to anyone unless the data has been anonymized. We may use your information only for the following reasons:
  · Display the information as part of your profile.
  · Provide, improve, test, and monitor the effectiveness of our Service.
  · Develop and test new products and features.
  · Monitor metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, and demographic patterns.
  · Send you marketing emails, unless emailing us at nova.story@outlook.com to opt-out.
  · Diagnose or fix technology problems.
  · Investigate and prevent reported issues, illegal activity, and breaches of our terms of service.
  · Communicate with you through Feedback feature by CS.

  3.SHARING OF YOUR INFORMATION

• We will not rent or sell your information to third parties outside Novely (or the group of companies of which Novely is a part) without your consent, except as noted in this Policy.

Parties with whom we may share your information:

• We may share your information as well as information from tools like cookies, log files, and device identifiers and location data, with third-party organizations that help us measure traffic and usage trends for the service.
  Our Service Providers will be given access to your information as is reasonably necessary to provide the Service under reasonable confidentiality terms.
  In very limited situations, we are requested to share your information to the organizations with legal authority to comply with an applicable law (including investigations of any crime), regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request.

What happens in the event of a change of control:

• If we sell or otherwise transfer part or the whole of Novely or our assets to another organization (e.g., in the course of a transaction like a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation), your information such as name and email address, User Content and any other information collected through the Service may be among the items sold or transferred. You will continue to own your User Content. The buyer or transferee will have to honor the commitments we have made in this Privacy Policy.

 4. HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

• We are continuously implementing and updating physical, organizational, contractual and technological security measures to protect your Personal Information from loss, theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. The only employees who are granted access to your Personal Information are those with a business “need-to-know” or whose duties reasonably require such information.
  

 5. DELETION OF YOUR DATA

• You can request deletion of your data at any time by contacting us at nova.story@outlook.com. We will evaluate such requests on a case-by-case basis. We may keep some of your data for as long as reasonably necessary for our legitimate business interests, including fraud detection and prevention, to comply with our legal obligations includes tax, legal reporting, and auditing obligations. Sometimes, your request will only be satisfied by closing your account.
  You can delete your account, and you should understand that upon deletion of your account, you will lose the right to access or use all or part of the platform.
  

 6. Advertising

• You may also see our app advertised in other services (like on Facebook, Instagram, Google). When you play our games or otherwise use our apps, some third party tools (SDKs) integrated within our Services may collect and use certain information collected from your device for the purpose of ad display and optimization. Such information includes GAID (Google Advertising ID on Android devices) or IDFA (Identifier for Advertising on iOS devices), region (i.e. the location where a given language is used), geo-location information (with your consent) and IP address. For example, we use the Sensors SDK to collect your IDFA information for statistical analysis of your usage in the app.After clicking on one of these advertisements and installing our app, you will become a user of our Services. We use your personal information to display interest-based ads for features, products, and services that might be of interest to you. We do not use information that personally identifies you to display interest-based ads.
  

 7. California Consumer Privacy Act

• Below are the additional disclosures required under the California Consumer Privacy Act.
  
  

  Personal Information we Collects

  · Unique identifiers (such as your name or an ID number).
  · Contact information (such as telephone number, email address, or mailing address).
  · Professional information (such as name, gender,birthdate).
  · Commercial information (such as your communication preferences, survey data, or other information you provide in order for us to respond to your inquiry).
  · Internet and technical information (such as your IP address, device identifiers, browser type, ISP, and data from cookies and web beacons).
  
  

  Use of Personal Information

  · To provide you with a requested service and create your account.
  · To verify your identity and registration.
  · To communicate with you in response to your inquiry or a requested service.
  · To administer, assess, personalize, and improve our Site and services.
  · For security purposes. To maintain network security and performance and protect against cyber-attacks.
  · To comply with and enforce applicable laws, industry standards, and our own policies and terms.
  · For due diligence and implementation of commercial transactions, including reorganizations, mergers or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock.
  · To exercise and defend legal rights.
  · Facilitating transactions and payments.
  · Displaying relevant, tailored advertisements and improving your ad experience.
  · Facilitating the connection of third-party services or applications, such as social networks.
  · As otherwise described to you at the point of collection or pursuant to your consent.
  
  

  Your Privacy Rights

  Being a California Resident, you have some specific rights under California law:
  · Right to Disclosure of Information
  You have the right to request that we disclose certain information regarding our practices with respect to personal information. If you submit a valid and verifiable request and we confirm your identity and/or authority to make the request, we will disclose to you any of the following at your direction:
  The categories of personal information we have collected about you in the last 12 months.
  The categories of sources for the personal information we have collected about you in the last 12 months.
  Our business or commercial purpose for collecting that personal information.
  The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
  The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you.
  If we sold your personal information for a business purpose, a list of the personal information types that each category of recipient purchased.
  If we disclosed your personal information to a third party for a business purpose, a list of the personal information types that each category of recipient received.
  · Right to Delete Personal Information
  If you submit a valid and verifiable request and we can confirm your identity and/or authority, we will delete Personal Information about you that we have collected from you.
  · Right to Opt out of Sales of Your Personal Information
  We do not sell your personal information, so we do not provide any mechanism for you to exercise the right to opt out.
  · Right to Non-Discrimination
  You may exercise your rights under the CCPA without discrimination. You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for the exercise of your CCPA privacy rights, subject to certain limitations.
  · Direct Marketing and Do Not Track Signals
  Under California's “Shine the Light” law, California residents may request and obtain a notice once a year about the personal information we shared with other businesses for their own direct marketing purposes. Such a notice will include a list of the categories of personal information that were shared (if any) and the names and addresses of all third parties with which the personal information was shared (if any). The notice will cover the preceding calendar year. To obtain such a notice, please contact us at nova.story@outlook.com. In addition, under this law you are entitled to be advised how we handle “Do Not Track” browser signals. Because there currently is not an industry or legal standard for recognizing or honoring DNT signals, we do not honor Do Not Track requests at this time.

 8. HOW TO CONTACT US

• If your account has been hacked while using our service or you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the Service, please contact us at nova.story@outlook.com.
  

 9. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

• Novely may, in its sole discretion, modify or update this Privacy Policy from time to time, and so you should review this page periodically. When we change the policy in a material manner, we will update the ‘last modified' date at the bottom of this page.
  This Privacy Policy was last modified on March 24, 2022.