Updated: 01/17/2023
Please read Brunchy Cafe’s Privacy Policy before using Brunchy Cafe’s services because it will tell you how we collect, store, use and disclose your personal information when providing these services to you.
If you have questions or complaints regarding our Privacy Policy or practices, please Contact Us.
Brunchy Cafe is a brand owned by Skydea K.K.. Our website address is: https://brunchycafe.com
Brunchy Cafe develops and publishes social games for the web and mobile devices. “Brunchy Cafe,” or “we” or “us” refers to Brunchy Cafe by Skydea K.K. and the Skydea Corporate Family in this Privacy Policy. The Skydea Corporate Family means Skydea K.K.’s subsidiaries, parent companies, joint ventures and other corporate entities under common ownership and/or any of their agents, consultants, employees, officers and directors.
This Privacy Policy applies whenever you play our games or otherwise access any of our other products, services, content, brunchycafe.com and/or the other domains provided by Brunchy Cafe, together referred to as “Services.” This Privacy Policy describes:
If you do not want Brunchy Cafe to collect, store, use or share your information in the ways described in this Privacy Policy, you may not play Bruncy Cafe’s games or use Brunchy Cafe’s Services.
Information About You That We Get From Connected Third-Party Applications, Including Social Networks (like Facebook)
If you play Brunchy Cafe’s games or access any of our other Services on connected third-party applications or connect our Services to any third-party applications, including social networks like Facebook, Brunchy Cafe may receive certain information about you from the provider of the third-party application. The information we receive depends on the Brunchy Cafe game you’re playing, the third-party application, your privacy settings and, if applicable, your friends’ privacy settings on that third-party application.
For example, Brunchy Cafe may collect and store some or all of the following information shared by the provider of the connected third-party application:
If you access our Services from a third-party application or connect our Services 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 information a third-party application is sharing with us, please go to the third-party application to find out more about their privacy practices.
We and service providers acting on our behalf, like Google Analytics, store log files and use tracking technologies such as:
We and our service providers use these log files, tags, and tracking technologies to collect and analyze certain kinds of technical information, including:
In some cases, we will connect this information with your social network ID or Brunchy Cafe user ID.
Please note that companies delivering advertisements on our Services may also use cookies or other technologies as described below inThird Party Advertising Including Tailored Advertising and Analytics,and those practices are subject to those companies’ own policies.
For more information on how to limit the types of cookies you allow, please seeOpting out of Cookie Tracking.
Other Information from Your Mobile Device
If you play Brunchy Cafe games on your mobile device, in addition to your device identifiers, we may also collect:
If you want to adjust your privacy preferences on your mobile device, please see How to Access, Update and Manage Your Information.
When you use our Services (whether through a social network or through Brunchy Cafe directly), you may give us information directly (like when you’re setting up your account) and we will store that on our systems and use it for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
Some games or parts of our Services may use a more traditional registration or account set-up process where you may be asked to give us some or all of the following information:
We may also let you create a player profile, separate from your social networking site profile (for example, your Facebook profile), that other Brunchy Cafe players can see. Your player profile may include information like:
Certain information in your Brunchy Cafe profile may be publicly accessible on Brunchy Cafe’s websites that offer direct access to Brunchy Cafe games, including:
Except for games designed for children under 13, your Brunchy Cafe player ID number used to identify your account and player profile will appear in the URL of your profile page. It will only allow access to information you make public in your settings.
Information About Your Contacts
We may give you the ability to import your address book contacts or manually enter them so that you can locate your contacts on Brunchy Cafe and invite them to join you in our games or other aspects of our Services. You are responsible for getting your contacts’ permission when you opt to give their contact details to us. We may also get information about you from other Brunchy Cafe users importing or entering their contacts. We use and may store this contact information to help you and your contacts connect through our Services. If you want to remove your contacts stored by us, follow the instructions provided in the game to request that we remove them from our systems. If you need to enter a password to allow us to access your address book, we will not store that password.
Information You Generate Using Our Communications Features
Except for games designed for children under 13, you may be able to take part in certain activities on our Service that let you communicate or share information not just with Brunchy Cafe, but also with other Brunchy Cafe players. These include:
You acknowledge and expressly agree that we may access in real-time, record and/or store archives of these communications, comments, photos and drawings on Brunchy Cafe's servers to make use of them to protect the safety and well-being of our players and Brunchy Cafe's rights and property in connection with our Services; to conduct research; to operate, improve, personalize and optimize our Services and our players’ experiences, including through the use of analytics; and to manage and deliver contextual advertising.
Payment Information
If you purchase a license to use in-game virtual currency or virtual items in a game you play on Paperpeoplespellingbee.com, our third-party payment processor will collect the billing and financial information it needs to process your charges. This may include your postal address, e-mail address and financial information. Brunchy Cafe does not collect or store your financial information, like credit card numbers. However, Brunchy Cafe's payment processors may share non-financial information with us related to your purchases, like your name, billing address and the items purchased in order to fulfill your order. Brunchy Cafe may also obtain the billing and payment information that you provide when your purchase is processed by someone else (like Facebook, Apple or Google) such as when you purchase something in a game you play on a social network or that you downloaded on your mobile device. Our Terms of Service explain our policies and terms relevant to our charges, billing practices, third-party credits and virtual currencies. Please note that purchases of third party credits or currencies may also be subject to those parties’ policies.
Customer Support Correspondence
Except as provided herein, when you ask for help from our Customer Support team, we will collect and store the contact information you give them (generally, your name and e-mail address), information about your game play or activity on our Services, and your Brunchy Cafe player and/or social network ID number. We will also store the communications you have with the Customer Service team and any information in those communications in order to provide support and improve the Services. For users of our games designed for children under 13, we will use your contact information for the sole purpose of providing a one-time response to your question. We will then delete your information from our servers.
Information You Give Us For Text Messaging Services
We receive and store the information you provide, including your mobile telephone number, when you choose to sign up to receive SMS messages.
Other Sources
We may collect or receive information about you from other sources like third-party information providers. We use this information along with information you provide us directly, for example, to help you and your friends connect or to serve you advertising more tailored to your interests.
If you would like to learn more about how we secure your information, please see Security of Your Information.
The main use of the information we collect and store is to provide a better gaming experience, but there are other uses as well. The uses for which we collect and store your information include:
One important use of your information is communication. If you have provided your e-mail address to Brunchy Cafe, we will use it to respond to customer support inquiries, and keep you informed of your in-game activity, including comments from friends, let you know about in-game status such as “crops ready” as well as tell you about gift and neighbor requests. Some messages, like invites for friends to join you in a game, may include your name and profile photo. We may also send promotional e-mail messages and promotional SMS messages (e.g. text messages) (“Promotional Communications”) directly or in partnership with other parties, in accordance with your marketing preferences. Each Promotional Communication will offer you choices about receiving additional messages. Receipt of such communications depends on Brunchy Cafe having certain contact information from you. If you play one of our games designed for children under 13, you will not be able to provide us with certain contact information. Please see the section on Our Policies Concerning Children for more information.
We may disclose or publish aggregated information (information about you and other players collectively that is not intended to specifically identify you, for example, players between the ages of 21 and 25 who live San Francisco) and other non-personal information about our players for industry analysis, demographic profiling, marketing, analytics, advertising, and other business purposes.
In addition, we may share your information (which may include personal information) with third parties (in other words, parties other than How We Share Your Information) or allow third parties to collect this information from our Services in the following circumstances:
Your Consent
With your consent, we may share your information with third parties or allow them to collect your information from our Services in some ways not specifically described in this Privacy Policy.
Friends and Other Brunchy Cafe Players
The Service supports and often encourages you to interact with other players. In most Brunchy Cafe games, if you play through a social network or register through a social network (for example, Facebook Connect), your social network friends will see your name, profile photo and descriptions of your game activity. Similarly, in many Brunchy Cafe games, other players, regardless of whether they are your social network friends or not, will be able to see descriptions of your game activity (including the identification of any Brunchy Cafe games you have played), communicate with you within our Services, and view your game profile, which may include your name or a “game name” and your profile photo. In certain cases, your profile photo can reveal your social network ID or Brunchy Cafe player ID, and access to a social network ID or Brunchy Cafe player ID may allow others to view the public information associated with your related social network profile or Brunchy Cafe account. Other players may also be able to send you game requests or even friend requests through the related social network’s or Brunchy Cafe’s communication channels.
We have advertising on our Services so we can continue to offer many of our Services for free.
We do not actively share personal information with third-party advertisers for their direct marketing purposes unless you give us your consent.
When advertisers or ad networks place ads in our Services, they may collect or we may share the following types of information from within our Services:
The information collected may be used to:
Advertisers or ad networks may collect this information through the use of tracking technologies like browser cookies and web beacons, and they may use a single tracking technology or multiple tracking technologies at the same time.
Please note, after clicking on a third party advertisement, you may no longer be on a site hosted by Brunchy Cafe or the social network through which you are playing Brunchy Cafe’s games.
If you do not want to receive tailored in-application advertisements from third parties, please see How to Access, Update and Manage Your Information. Please note that no tailored advertisements will be delivered for Brunchy Cafe games designed for children under 13, though Brunchy Cafe may allow contextual advertisements to be displayed.
Your information, and the contents of all of your online communications in our Services and between You and Brunchy Cafe may be accessed and monitored as needed to provide our Service and may be disclosed:
Brunchy Cafe games or their purchase pages may display an “offer wall” that is hosted by an offer wall provider. The offer wall allows third-party advertisers to provide virtual currency to players in exchange for interacting with an advertisement or for completing a marketing offer that may include signing up for an account with one of those advertisers. These offers are not made by Brunchy Cafe. These offers may be shown to you based on certain technical information, like your geographic area or de-identified demographic information. After clicking on one of these offers, you will no longer be on a site hosted by Brunchy Cafe or the social network through which you are playing Brunchy Cafe's games. To properly credit player accounts and to prevent fraud, a unique identifier, in some cases your social network ID or Brunchy Cafe player ID, will be shared with the offer wall provider.
We will share your information with third-party companies to perform services on our behalf, like processing payments, analyzing data, optimizing game play, e-mail delivery, hosting services, customer service and to help us in our marketing efforts, including managing and delivering contextual and tailored advertisements. We contractually require these third-party service providers to maintain the confidentiality of the information we share with them, and we contractually require them not use your information for anything other than to provide services on our behalf.
In the event that Brunchy Cafe undergoes a business transition (including proposed transactions), like a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or part its assets (like selling a game), we may disclose or transfer all of your information, including personal information, to the successor organization in the transition. We will make reasonable efforts to let you and other players know (in the way described in Changes to Our Privacy Policy) of the business transition before transferring your personal information.
Information We Receive From a Third-Party Application Where You Play Our Games or From Your Mobile Device
To manage the information Brunchy Cafe receives about you from a third-party application where you play our games, like Facebook, you will need to follow the instructions for the third-party application for updating your information and changing your privacy settings. The privacy management tools for applications on Facebook can be found here. To review and update information associated with your Brunchy Cafe game profile in certain games, visit the “settings” page in that game. You also can manage some aspects of information collection and use by visiting the “settings” page of your mobile device and reviewing the permissions of each application or “app.”
Once Brunchy Cafe receives your information from a third-party application or your mobile device, that information is stored and used by Brunchy Cafe in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You may access and update that information as described below.
Accessing and Updating Your Information Held by Brunchy Cafe
If you want to review, delete, or change the information Brunchy Cafe has about you or have additional questions, contact us here. We will respond to your request within thirty days.
Stopping Use of Your Information
If you no longer want Brunchy Cafe to make active use of your information, you may contact us here. Place “Delete My Account” in the subject line and include your first name, last name, e-mail address and your social network ID for the social network from which you access our Services (if applicable) in the body of the e-mail (for example, your Facebook user ID). We will respond to your request within thirty days. Please note that certain records, for example those relating to payments or customer service matters, will be held for legal and accounting purposes. If you have sent content through or posted content on the Service, we may not be able to delete it.
Opting Out of Geolocation
If you have previously allowed us to access your geolocation data, you can stop making geolocation available to us by visiting your mobile device’s settings for the relevant application or the “settings” page for the relevant game.
Opting Out of Ongoing Collection of Information About Non-Brunchy Cafe Apps You Have On Your Device
To the extent that one of our games is collecting information about non-Brunchy Cafe apps you have on your device, the game will provide you with an option to stop making that information available to us in the “settings” page for the relevant game.
Opting Out of Promotional Emails from Brunchy Cafe
If you want to stop receiving promotional e-mails from Brunchy Cafe, click on the “unsubscribe” link in any promotional email from Brunchy Cafe or visit the e-mail preference page. Please note that once we receive your request, it may take an additional period of time for your opt-out to become effective. Your unsubscribe or e-mail preference change will be processed promptly, and in no event longer than ten business days.
Opting Out of Other Communications
You can opt out of receiving SMS messages (for example, text messages) by texting back STOP to the number we send the text from for that particular SMS message program. In some cases a preferences management page will also be available. When we receive an opt-out message from you for SMS messages, we may send a message confirming our receipt of your opt-out.
When you install our apps on your mobile device you can choose to receive push notifications, which are messages an app sends you on your mobile device even when the app is not on. You can turn off notifications by visiting your mobile device’s “settings” page.
Note that if you opt-out of our Promotional Communications or other forms of communication, we may still e-mail or communicate with you from time to time if we need to provide you with information about the Service or if we need to request information 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.
Opting Out of Third-Party Tailored Advertising
If you are interested in more information about tailored advertising and your choices to prevent third parties from delivering tailored web and mobile web advertising you may visit the following websites:
These opt-out tools are provided by third parties, not Brunchy Cafe. Brunchy Cafe does not control or operate these tools or the choices that advertisers and others provide through these tools.
In addition, if you do not want to receive tailored in-application advertisements from third parties that relate to your interests in apps on your mobile device, you may opt- ut by adjusting the ad tracking settings on your device. You can also reset the “Advertising Identifier” (like an IDFA) from your mobile device’s settings page, which will prevent continued use of existing behavioral data tied to the previous “Advertising Identifier.” Further, depending on the platform provider (such as Apple or Google), you may be able to download apps, such as the Digital Advertising Alliance’s “AppChoices” app, that offer to provide you with control regarding the collection and use of cross-app data for tailored advertising. Like the opt-out tools mentioned above for web, these mobile opt-out tools are provided by third parties, not Brunchy Cafe. Brunchy Cafe does not control or operate these tools or the choices that advertisers and others provide through these tools.
Please note that you may still receive advertisements from third parties within Brunchy Cafe’s games even if you opt out of tailored advertising but they will not be based on your activity across unrelated web sites or apps.
Opting Out of Cookie Tracking
You can set your web browser to warn you about attempts to place cookies on your computer or limit the type of cookies you allow. Flash cookies operate differently than browser cookies and cookie management tools available in a web browser may not remove flash cookies. To learn more about and manage flash cookies you can visit the Adobe website and make changes at the Global Privacy Settings Panel.
If you disable cookies, you may lose some of the features and functionality of our Services because Brunchy Cafe cookies are necessary to track and enhance your game activities.
At this time, there is no general agreement on how companies like Brunchy Cafe should interpret Do Not Track signals. Brunchy Cafe does not currently respond to Do Not Track signals, whether that signal is received on a computer or on a mobile device. You can learn more about Do Not Track here.
Our websites and games may contain advertisements from Third-Party Services, which are companies other than Brunchy Cafe that may link to their own websites, online services or mobile applications. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these Third-Party Services. If you have any questions about how these Third-Party Services use your information, you should review their policies and contact them directly.
Most of our websites and games are not for children under the age of 13 and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under 13. Children under 13 should not use these websites or games at any time. If we learn that we have inadvertently gathered personal information from a child under 13, we will take reasonable measures to promptly remove that information from our records.
Brunchy Cafe provides education games which are intended to be enjoyed by parents, teachers, and children of all ages. Brunchy Cafe may also provide which are intended for users of all ages. In these games, Brunchy Cafe does not knowingly collect personal information (as that term is defined under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)) from users under the age of 13, except as permitted by COPPA. For example, Brunchy Cafe may collect persistent identifiers to support the internal operations of its games. If Brunchy Cafe learns that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with personal information that is not subject to a COPPA exception, Brunchy Cafe will delete such information.
How long we retain your information depends on why we collected it and how we use it. We will not retain your personal information for longer than is necessary for our business purposes or for legal requirements. For instance, we may retain some information for a few years after you have closed your account with us if this is necessary to meet our legal obligations or to exercise, defend or establish legal rights.
We implement security measures to help protect the security of your information both online and offline. We take steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. These measures vary based upon the sensitivity of your information.
If you have an account registered directly with Brunchy Cafe, your profile information is protected by the password you use to access your Brunchy Cafe account. It is important that you protect and maintain your Brunchy Cafe account’s security and that you immediately tell us of any unauthorized use of your account. If you forget the password to your Brunchy Cafe account, the Service allows you to request that instructions be sent to you that explain how to reset your password. If you access our Services through a social network and your social network account is hacked, this may lead to someone playing your Brunchy Cafe games without your permission. So, be careful to keep your social network account information, including your social network account password, secure as well. We urge you to log out of your Brunchy Cafe account and any social network account you have used to access our Services after you use it.
When you sign into your Brunchy Cafe account or enter payment information, we or our third party payment processor use encryption to transmit that information.
While we take precautions against possible security breaches of our Services 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 information while it is being transmitted to our Service. Any transmission is at your own risk. If you have questions about the security of our websites, please contact us here.
If we decide to make material changes to our Privacy Policy, we will tell you and other players by placing a notice on Paperpeoplespellingbee.com or its equivalent in-game, or by sending you a notice to the e-mail address we have on file for you prior to the change becoming effective. We may supplement this process by placing notices on game blogs, social network pages, and/or forums and on other Brunchy Cafe websites. You should periodically check www.brunchycafe.com/ and this privacy page for updates.
If you upload images to games or websites by Brunchy Cafe, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Our ad partners and our affiliate links partners may collect personal data from you for their own purposes.
Ad partners include ad networks such as third party ad servers, ad agencies, ad technology vendors and research firms. Affiliate links partners pay us when you buy things from them or another third party after clicking on an affiliate link in our content. Our ad partners use third party cookies to serve ads to you and to target you with tailored (or personalized) ads when you are on our sites and apps and when you visit third party sites. They also use cookies to measure traffic on our pages (for example to track ad views).
Ad partners and affiliate links partners may view, edit or set their own cookies on your mobile device or web browser when you interact with our sites and apps. They use cookies to track your use of our sites and apps and your activities elsewhere online. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties and we encourage you to read their privacy notices so that you understand how they process information about you.
Content within Brunchy Cafe Games and websites may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy and/or practices, please contact us here.