Privacy Policy

Welcome to Episodle. We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy notice or our practices with regards to your personal information, please contact us at [email protected].

When you visit our website (the "Site") and use any of our services (the "Services"), we appreciate that you are trusting us with your personal information. We take your privacy very seriously. In this privacy notice, we seek to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use it, and what rights you have in relation to it.

1. Information We Collect

We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the Site. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Site, and other technical information.

We use third-party tools to understand how you interact with our game:

• Microsoft Clarity: We capture how you use and interact with our website through behavioral metrics, heatmaps, and session replay to improve our game. This data is captured using first and third-party cookies.
• Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to measure site traffic and understand user behavior.
• Google AdSense: We use Google AdSense to serve advertisements. Google uses cookies (like the DART cookie) to serve ads based on your visit to this site and other sites on the Internet.

2. How We Use Your Data

We process your information for purposes based on legitimate business interests, the fulfillment of our contract with you, compliance with our legal obligations, and/or your consent. Specifically, we use the data collected to:

• Deliver and facilitate delivery of services to the user.
• Respond to user inquiries/offer support to users.
• Fix bugs and improve game UI/UX via session recordings and heatmaps.
• Target advertising to you through partners like Google AdSense to maintain the site's free-to-play status.

3. Third-Party Advertising and Cookies

We share information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including advertising networks such as Google AdSense. Third-party vendors use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet.

You may opt-out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings. For more detailed information on our use of cookies, please review our Cookie Policy.

4. Your Privacy Rights (GDPR & CCPA)

Depending on where you are located, you may have specific rights regarding your personal information:

• General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EEA, UK, Switzerland): If you are a resident of the European Economic Area, you have the right to request access to and obtain a copy of your personal information, request rectification or erasure, restrict the processing of your personal information, and if applicable, to data portability. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
• California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA): If you are a California resident, you have the right to request information about what personal information we collect, request deletion of your data, and opt-out of the "sale" of your personal information (which may include data shared for targeted advertising).

To exercise these rights, please contact us at [email protected].

5. Do Not Track Features

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track ("DNT") feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage, no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized.

6. Contact Us

If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may email us at:
[email protected]