Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.
We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy has been created with the help of the Privacy Policy Generator.
Interpretation and Definitions
Interpretation
The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
- Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.
- Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where "control" means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.
- Application refers to VGMGO, the software program provided by the Company.
- Company (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to VGMarket LLC, a Puerto Rico limited liability company.
- Country refers to: Florida, United States
- Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
- Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
- Service refers to the Application.
- Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
- Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
- You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.
Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- Email address
- First name and last name
- Phone number
- Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
- Usage Data
- Demographic information
- Playtesting history
- Playtester notes, screen and audio recordings, and responses to survey questions
- Tester devices
- Tester gaming profile
- IP, browser data
- Communication history
- Payment information
Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.
Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.
Information Collected while Using the Application
While using Our Application, in order to provide features of Our Application, We may collect, with Your prior permission:
- Information regarding your location
- Usage Data
- Demographic information
- Playtesting history
- Playtester notes, screen and audio recordings, and responses to survey questions
- Tester devices
- Tester gaming profile
- IP, browser data
- Screen and Audio Recordings
We use this information to provide features of Our Service, to improve and customize Our Service. The information may be uploaded to the Company's servers and/or a Service Provider's server or it may be simply stored on Your device.
You can enable or disable access to this information at any time, through Your Device settings.
Use of Your Personal Data
The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
- To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
- To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.
- To manage our pool of playtesters: Tester profiles are stored and organized based on demographic information and gaming habit profiles so that we can invite users to participate in upcoming playtests based on the specific parameters requested by a Client.
- To generate work product and feedback from playtests: Playtesters will be asked to record notes or answer survey questions as part of a User’s participation in a playtest. This may also include collecting tester voice recordings and screen recordings while actively participating in a playtest. We review and process these recordings and transmit the data to our Client game developers. In exchange for participation, testers will receive a compensation payment from VGMGO.
- To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
- To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
- For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
- For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.
We may share Your personal information in the following situations:
- With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to contact You.
- For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.
- With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.
- With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.
- With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.
- With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.
Retention of Your Personal Data
The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.
The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.
Delete Your Personal Data
You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You.
Our Service may give You the ability to delete certain information about You from within the Service.
You may update, amend, or delete Your information at any time by signing in to Your Account, if you have one, and visiting the account settings section that allows you to manage Your personal information. You may also contact Us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that You have provided to Us.
Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
Business Transactions
If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
Law enforcement
Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
Other legal requirements
The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- Comply with a legal obligation
- Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
- Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
- Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
- Protect against legal liability
Security of Your Personal Data
The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Children's Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.
If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's consent before We collect and use that information.
Links to Other Websites
Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:
- For any privacy requests, please contact: alex@vgm.co
- You can reach our data protection officer at: alex@vgm.co
- Owner contact email: michael@vgm.co
Third-Party Services and Data Processing
The services detailed below assist VGMGO (the Owner) in monitoring and analyzing web traffic, as well as understanding User behavior on our platform.
Google Analytics 4 (Google Ireland Limited)
Google Analytics 4 is a web analysis service. Google processes the collected Data to monitor and analyze how VGMGO is used, compile reports on platform activity, and may share these insights with other Google services. The Data may also be used by Google to customize and personalize advertisements within its own network. With Google Analytics 4, IP addresses are utilized during collection and subsequently discarded before Data is logged in any data center or server.
Personal Data processed: number of Users; session statistics; Trackers; Usage Data; event data; device/browser info.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Category of Personal Information collected (CCPA): internet or other electronic network activity information.
Google Analytics Granular location and device data collection
Within VGMGO, Google Analytics has granular data collection activated. This feature gathers location and device data on a regional basis, enabling the Owner to generate and scrutinize User reports based on these metrics.
Personal Data processed: browser information; city-level location; device information (type, OS version); number of Users; session statistics; Trackers; Usage Data.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy.
Category of Personal Information collected (CCPA): identifiers; internet or other electronic network activity information.
Communication Services (AWS SES, MailChimp, Firebase, AppsFlyer)
These services facilitate transactional & marketing emails and in-app messaging.
Personal Data processed: email address; name; date of birth; about me; engagement data (opens/clicks); message metadata; delivery info.
Privacy Policies: AWS SES, Mailchimp, Google Firebase, AppsFlyer
Hosting, Backend, and AI Infrastructure (AWS, Google Vertex AI, etc.)
These platforms provide on-demand cloud computing, data storage, and AI-driven analysis for game feedback.
Personal Data processed: various data types processed during storage, access, and transmission activities, including textual or gameplay interaction logs and video analysis data.
Privacy Policies: AWS, Google Vertex AI, Gemini AI, Rev.ai, Looppanel
Infrastructure Monitoring & Error Tracking (AWS CloudWatch)
CloudWatch monitors applications, reacts to performance shifts, optimizes resource allocation, and offers insights into operational health.
Personal Data processed: system logs; session metadata; error stack traces.
Privacy Policy: AWS Privacy
Registration and Authentication (Direct Registration by VGM)
We manage user registration and authentication directly using our own systems.
Personal Data processed: name; email; password; city; country; date of birth; company name; designated role (tester or client); invite code.
Tag Management (Google Tag Manager)
This service helps us manage marketing and analytics tags on our platform.
Personal Data processed: tracker identifiers; behavioral data patterns.
Traffic Optimization & CDN (AWS CloudFront)
CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs with low latency and high transfer speeds.
Personal Data processed: IP address; request metadata; cookie identifiers; diagnostic information.
Privacy Policy: AWS Privacy