Charades Privacy Policy & Terms of Use

Privacy Policy

Welcome to Charades. We prioritize your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines our practices regarding data collection, use, and disclosure in relation to your use of Charades.

1. Consent and User Control

By downloading and using Charades, you consent to the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy. Depending on your region and device operating system, you may have the option to further configure your consent preferences within our app, including settings related to data collection for analytics and advertisements.

2. Data Collection and Use

While we ourselves do not collect or store personal data, we use third-party libraries that may do so for specific purposes. This may include information such as IP address, device model, operating system, and more. The purposes are as follows:

   a. Analytics: To enhance and optimize our product, we collect analytics data on how the product is used.

   b. Crash Data: We collect data on app crashes and issues to improve the stability and performance of our app. This information helps us identify and fix potential problems. 

   c. Advertisements: To improve user experience by serving relevant ads.

Users of this Service should be aware that these third parties can access your Personal Information. Their access is for the sole purpose of executing the tasks they are assigned by us. They are strictly prohibited from disclosing or using your information for any purpose other than these tasks.

3. Data Security

We and our partners take every means necessary to protect your data from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security. We continually implement and update administrative, technical, and physical security measures to enhance the protection of your personal information.

4. Third-Party Policies

Our app uses services from third parties, whose privacy practices may differ from ours. Please make sure you read and understand their policies:

Google Analytics Terms of Service

Firebase Data Processing and Security

Firebase Crashlytics

5. Use by Minors

If you reside in the European Union, you must be 16 years of age or older to access and/or use the Services. If you are younger than 16 years old, you must have your legal guardian’s consent and their agreement to this Privacy Policy to access and/or use the Services. In some countries, when the applicable National Law permits, users under 16 may access the Service, provided they are at least 13 years old.

6. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We encourage you to review it regularly to stay informed about our data protection practices.

Terms of Use

These terms of service (the “Terms”) apply to you and Yangmei Studios AB, a Swedish entity (hereinafter “Yangmei Studios” or “us/we”) regarding your use of the Charades mobile application (the “Application”). Supplemental terms, policies and guidelines, such as policies related to specific services (including without limitation forums, sweepstakes, etc.) as well as other operating rules and policies that may be published from time to time, may apply to the use of Charades, and your use of the Application shall, in addition to these Terms, also be governed by such terms, policies and guidelines.

1. General Terms

1.1 The user in the framework of this application (the “user”) is an individual who has appropriately joined this Agreement to use the Application. The user is deemed to have expressed consent to use of these conditions from the moment of using the Application. User must stop using the Application in case of disagreement with these terms.

1.2 These conditions are subject to change by us unilaterally and without prior notice. The changes take effect from the moment the terms are posted on this site.

2. Usage

2.1 The User has the right to use the content within the application (the "Content") exclusively for personal non-commercial purposes within the framework of technical capabilities inside the the Application. Any copying, reproduction (bringing the works to the public) is forbidden, as well as distribution and processing of content beyond the technical capabilities of the Application.

2.2 We have the right to change the Content (include new decks and cards, as well as delete them or suspend access to them) without prior notice to users. Changing the Content does not entail a change in the cost to any of our subscription services or other in-app purchases.

2.3 When subscribing to the auto-renewal subscription service, the user consents to the automatic renewal of the subscription (after the expiration of the initial (current) subscription), as well as for charging your credit card or other approved payment method for all the costs and charges that apply to such paid content.

2.4 The user has the right to cancel the auto-renewal service of a subscription no later than one day before the expiration of the term validity of the current subscription, but no later than the moment the funds are debited to pay the cost of the subscription to subsequent period.

2.5 When renewing a subscription in the order of auto-renewal service, payment of the subsequent subscription period is made at the cost of the subscription valid at the time of debiting funds.

2.6 When a user purchases the Lifetime Premium in-app purchase, the features which this purchase unlocks are available for the whole lifetime of the application, which is as long as the application is available on the platform which the application was acquired from.

2.7 Please note that we may use a third-party payment processor to facilitate payments in the Services. If you make a purchase through a third-party application store, such as the Apple App Store och Google Play Store, your purchase will be subject to such third party’s applicable payment policy.

2.8 We have the right to restrict (or block) access to the Application or the Content in case of violation of this agreement, as well as in other cases established by law.

3. Copyright

Content, as well as all objects available within the technical capabilities of the Application, including graphic images, illustrations, design elements, audio (sound effects), text, software are the objects of exclusive rights of us and / or other copyright holders.

4. Other provisions

4.1 Access to the Application is provided on an "as is" basis, without any guarantees of any kind, either direct or indirect.

4.2 The user agrees that the result of using the Application may not meet expectations of user.

4.3 Yangmei Studios or its representatives are not liable for any loss or damage that may occur to the user as a result of using the Application.

4.4 The user is solely responsible for all their actions on the use of the Application, including harm or loss caused by the User to themselves or to third parties.

5. Force majeure

Yangmei Studios shall not be liable for any delay or failure to perform resulting from causes outside the reasonable control of Yangmei Studios, including without limitation any failure to perform hereunder due to unforeseen circumstances or cause beyond Yangmei Studios’ control such as war, terrorism, riots, embargoes, acts of civil or military authorities, fire, floods, accidents, strikes, or shortages of transportation facilities, fuel, energy, labor or materials.

6. Termination

You may terminate this Agreement by ceasing to use the Application. If you have any subscription, and terminate this Agreement before the end of your subscription, you will not receive any refunds for any unexpired period of your subscription.

7. Governing law and dispute resolution

This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Kingdom of Sweden without reference to conflict of law provisions.