Privacy Policy

Last updated: 22/05/2021

Talk With Tiles is a platform that allows users to play online Scrabble against friends and family. This privacy policy applies to the Talk With Tiles website hosted on the *.talkwithtiles.com domain.

Minor updates will be made to this privacy policy without direct notice and the continuing use of our service will be taken as an acceptance of the below policy. Significant updates such as adding a new third party service or additional piece of stored personally identifiable information (PII) will be communicated on your next interaction with our service.

Important Links

• Cookies Notice

What data do we collect?

Talk with Tiles collects the following data:

• Personally identifiable information (email address)
• IP Addresses, Geo Location, Browser Details, Access/Usage Activity
• Email Analytics - Access/Usage Activity

How do we collect your data?

You directly provide Talk With Tiles with most of the data we collect. We collect and process your data when you:

• Register, interact and use any of our platform. This can include interacting with the website or playing a game
• Opening emails sent from *.talkwithtiles.com or clicking included links

How will we use your data?

Talk With Tiles collects your data so that we can:

• Enable the functionality of our services
• Email you with game notifications
• Email you with news and updates of our community and services
• Provide community insights to the administration team through analytics tools using access and usage activity
• Provide user tracking and identification tools for the administration of our services
• Provide administration tools for the blocking of your connections to our services

How do we store your data?

Talk With Tiles stores your data on Microsoft Azure. The Microsoft privacy policy can be found here.

Your personal data is only accessible to the administration team and is protected by access controls.

Marketing

Talk With Tiles would like to send you information about our service that we think you may like. These will be sent in the form of an email sent from [email protected]. You have the right to stop Talk With Tiles from contacting you for this purpose by configuring your settings in your user profile.

What are your data protection rights?

• The right to access: You have the right to request Talk With Tiles 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 Talk With Tiles correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Talk With Tiles to complete information you believe is incomplete.
• The right to erasure: You have the right to request that Talk With Tiles erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that Talk With Tiles restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to object to processing: You have the right to request to Talk With Tiles processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to data portability: You have the right to request that Talk With Tiles transfer the data we have collected to another organisation, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

Cookies

Cookies are text files that are stored in a computer system via an Internet browser. See our Cookies Notice for more information.

How to contact us?

If you have any questions about Talk With Tiles privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Email us at: [email protected]

Third Party Privacy Policies

Talk With Tiles integrates and uses the below third party services. Your personal data may be shared with these services for the purpose of enabling the service features. Your data will not be freely given or sold to third parties for the purpose of marketing.

• Google Analytics - Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this website, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
• Facebook - Facebook is used for advertising and analytics.
• Cloudflare - Cloudflare is a global network designed to make everything you connect to the Internet secure, private, fast, and reliable.
• Microsoft Azure - Microsoft Azure, commonly referred to as Azure, is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centers.
• Google (Email Hosting) - Google (Email Hosting) is used for sending you game notification and marketing emails.
• Geo Location - Geo Location is used to identify your location for culture settings (such as language and date time format).

Changes:

• 22/05/2021 - Initial privacy policy