4. Advertising and third party partners
4.1 Advertising in the App
The App contains ads in various formats (such as banners, interstitial, rewarded videos, etc.) from third party advertising partners. Having these kinds of ads in the App allows us to provide the App to you without payment at the point of download. Personal information is shared between us and our third party advertising partners and service providers in order to provide ads within the App.
You will see two types of ads in the App – contextual ads (also known as non-targeted ads) and targeted ads (also known as interest-based, personalised or behavioural ads).
- Contextual ads. These are not directed towards specific Users but are rather broadly posted onto random apps. If you chose to receive contextual or non-targeted ads only within the App, please be aware that you may still see some targeted ads served by third parties if you have separately (e.g. on that third party’s website or app) agreed directly with those third parties to personalized advertising.
- Targeted ads. If you have agreed to tracking, or not opted out of tracking in your device settings, you will also see these types of ads which are designed to be more relevant to you.
To show in-game ads we may share information collected from you which can be used to identify your device. This information includes persistent identifiers such as advertising ID, and IP address, which may be combined with other personal information to serve targeted ads. Our third party partners use this information to show you ads which they think will be relevant to you. You can find the list of third party advertising partners at https://crazylabs.com/sst/3rdp.
Note that if you click on any of the ads you see in the App, this will take you outside of the App and the advertisers may use cookies and other tracking technologies (such as tracking pixel agent or visitor identification technology, etc.) on your device to collect data regarding ad performance, your interaction with such ads and the App and your interests. We recommend that you review the terms of use and privacy policy of any third party advertisers with whom you are interacting before doing so. Their privacy policy, not ours, will apply to any of those interactions.
4.2 Ads for our App in other applications/platforms
We may also promote the App in third parties’ applications and platforms. When we do this we receive information about what ads are displayed and how you interact with such ads. We use this information to measure the effectiveness of our campaigns, improve our advertising strategies and for the purposes of attribution (i.e. attributing a particular new user to a particular ad campaign on a third party application or platform).
4.3 How to control targeted ads
You can prevent or limit targeted advertising from your device settings which may vary from device to device. You can find the applicable settings for your device by following the instructions below. Please note that activation of any applicable “Do-not-track” settings on your mobile device or any other device-level setting opt outs for targeted advertising (to the extent such options exist) may not cease all tracking activities by our third party advertising partners.
To cease tracking by third parties of your on-line activities over time and across different online platforms (such as, websites, applications, etc.) and opt out of the use of your information for interest-based and targeted advertising and/or other services by certain of our third party advertising partners, please see the list of our third party advertising partners at https://crazylabs.com/sst/3rdp. You can review their privacy policies and follow the instructions on how to opt-out when available.
You will still see advertising once you have opted out but the ads you see are likely to be less relevant to your interests, and the companies you select may still collect information for other purposes, such as research, analytics and internal operations. In addition, if you use a different browser or erase cookies from your browser, or use a different mobile device, you may need to renew your opt-out choice.
You can also reset the advertising ID from your device’s settings which will prevent continued use of behavioural data connected to the previous advertising ID.
iOS Device
- iOS device with iOS 12 or a newer version (up to iOS 14): go to Settings/Privacy/Advertising and select resetting advertising identifier or limiting ad tracking setting.
- iOS device with iOS 14 or newer version: go to Settings/Privacy & Security/Tracking and disable tracking across all apps on your device or on a per App basis.
If you gave permission to be tracked in the App on a device with iOS 14 or a newer version, you can withdraw your tracking permission from device settings by tapping on the App and turning off Allow Tracking, or you can go to Settings/Privacy & Security/Tracking and tap to turn off the App displayed in the list of apps that requested permission to track you.
You can also limit targeted advertising by Apple within your device settings in Settings/Privacy/Apple Advertising settings and turning off Personalized Ads.
Android Device
- Google Android device with Android 2.3 or a later version, go to Settings/Google / Ads > enable “Opt Out of Ads Personalization”.
If you have a device running on a recent version of Android 12 or a newer version go to Settings/Google Ads > “Delete Advertising ID”, which will remove the identifier used for personalized ads altogether.