Privacy Policy for Lynda's Legacy

HZM Labs (“we”,”our”,”us”, or “Company”) is a developer and publisher of Hidden Objects and Puzzle Games. Lynda’s Legacy is a Hidden Objects Game available via app stores including the Google Play Store.


In this Privacy Policy, you will be informed about:

1. Personal Data

We should first clarify what is Personal Data (PD) or what personal information relating to identifying a person, like name, email, etc.

"Processing PD refers to any operations performed on the data, including collecting, recording, organizing, structuring, storing, modifying, consulting, using, publishing, combining, erasing, and destroying data."

We are very committed to informing you and making sure your data is secured and protected, and we value the trust that you have placed with us. When you download the Game from the App Store and/or Play Store, that is when information like your name or email address are being processed for further use that we will discuss below. Any PD which you freely offer to us will be treated strictly in accordance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

2. Information Collection and Use

2.1. Collecting Personal Information

When you use our Services, we collect:

data about your account, how you use our Services, progress in the game, game version, date and time of your session, IP address, Internet provider and connection speed, Browser version, Device IDs, Operating system.

When you sign up to use our Services through Facebook, we collect and use the following information that you have provided and made available on Facebook like:

Name, email address, IP address, profile picture, friends list, and other unique IDs.

We can assure that the data is safely secured, and it’s only used so we can provide an enjoyable experience for all our Users.

When you download our Game from the Play Store, you submit certain information to those platforms (name, email address, payment information, device identifiers). We have no control or claim responsibilities for any of that information.

2.2. Collecting Purchase information

When and If you make in-app purchases as part of using our Services, we collect your Purchase History. This does not include payment methods or banking information, that type of information is not collected by our Company. We only care about your purchase history so we can make the payment for virtual goods an easier process.

3. Usage of Personal Data

We process your data only when it’s mandatory for the performance of our Services.

3.1. Processing is required for the fulfilment of a contract to which you are party or in order to take steps at your plea prior to entering into a contract. In order to install and use our Application or Services, we need to process your PD.

3.2. Processing is required in order to provide you with our Products and Services, in which you can purchase our products and services that are available in the Application, and we process your PD in order to perform those types of requests.

3.3. Processing is required so we can inform you of Operational changes, and how our Services have changed and improved since you have started using them.

3.4. Processing is required in order to respond to your Requests and Complaints regarding the Application and to provide you with the necessary support services.

3.5. Processing is required for Marketing purposes, in which we collect information like your email, so we can send you news, offers and promote new products to you that are customized based on your interests and behavior.

3.6. Processing is required for Conducting Surveys, and if you decide to participate, you will be asked to provide certain personal information.

3.7. Processing is required to show Personalized advertisements in the Services, and to fit the content of the ad is service of your interests.

3.8. Processing is required for Improvement of our Products and Services, where we might analyse previous uses by you of our Service, as well as requests and complaints we have received in order to improve our Services and fix potential errors, or offer new products that might be of interest to you.

3.9. Processing is required in order to avoid Abusive use of our Services. We strive to prevent theft and abuse and make sure our safety of our Services is maintained.

3.10. Processing is required in order to analyze the results of a Marketing Campaign, where we use several different metrics to gain knowledge about how the users received our campaigns and how we can improve them and our products in the future.

3.11. Processing is required in order to protect our Interest, Rights and Assets, according to any law, regulations and agreement.

4.Protection of Information

HZM Labs wants to promise you that we take the security of your PD very seriously. And we will store your PD as long as is necessary in order to provide you with the fullest extent of our Services.

Our Systems and Services are protected with different defense mechanisms in order to be able to prevent losing data, potential demolition of data, unapproved entry, stealing, change of data, or any other illegal processing of the PD that you provided. For unintentional disclosure, we do not accept liability to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

We cannot guarantee that breaches on our system won’t happen by outsiders, and we cannot 100% guarantee the safety of your PD. If you uninstall our app, or close your account, you must know that we may continue to store your PD if doing so is required, so that we would be able to fulfill our legal obligations.

5. International Transfer

All the transfer of your data in any part of the word will be in accordance with the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers of Personal Data. That requires us to protect the processing of PD from the EEA in accordance with European Union data protection law. In these specific circumstances, we will take the necessary measures to ensure the protection of your PD.

6. Your Rights

If your country is part of the European Union, here are the following rights you are entitled to in regards to your Personal Data.

You can utilize any of those rights by sending a request to the following email address: info@lyndaslegacygame.com.

6.1. Right to access

You can contact us if you would like to find out about the PD we have stored for you, for the purposes of the processing and how we collect it. In order to prove your identity, we need more information before we supply you with any of the information we have collected. We have a total of one month to provide you with a copy of the information you requested, but there might be exceptions for requests that are repetitive, unproven, needless. Be aware that there could be a reason that we will not be able to provide all the information you ask for, and if that is the case, we will inform you of the reason.

6.2. Right to correct your data

You have the right to correct or update your PD by sending us a request, if for example your PD has changed, expired, is incomplete or incorrect. We have a total of one month to make those changes.

6.3. Right to withdraw consent

You have the right to withdraw consent at any time, regarding the processing of your PD. For example, you can cancel a newsletter subscription you previously consented to by contacting us.

6.4. Right to delete your data

You have the right to request us to delete data that we have stored about you. But please note that certain data can only be deleted once and if you delete our game from your mobile devices, along with cleaning all our cookies from any device that you used to play our game or used our Services. If you do that, you will lose all the progress that you accomplished in the game, along with all the Virtual Currency and Virtual Goods, and they will not be able to be recovered. But be aware that some information might still be kept for other purposes like: email suppression lists, marketing reasons, technical security.

6.5. Right to take your data

You have the right to contact us if you want to receive your data that you have provided to us. And then you can upload the data to another Service.

6.6. Right to object

You have the right to contact us about the usage of your PD at any time if you disagree with the process of usage described in this Privacy Policy.

6.7. Rights to restriction

You have the right to contact us if you believe that we should use the PD you have provided us for only certain purposes and obtain restriction of processing.

6.8. Right to send complaints

You have the right to contact a Data Protection Authority and issue a complaint to them regarding the usage of your PD that you have provided to us.

6.9. Your California Privacy Rights

California residents reserve the right to ask companies conducting business in California a list of third parties to which the company has disclosed PD during the preceding year for marketing purposes. For the record, HZM Labs will not share your PD with third parties for their direct marketing purposes.

7. Children's Privacy

Our Services are not meant to be used by anyone under the age of 13. We do not consciously collect PD from children under 13. If we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with PD, we will immediately delete their data from our database servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you have become aware that your child has used our Services or provided us with PD, please contact us so that we will be able to take the necessary actions.

8. Social Networking Services (SNSs)

If you access our game via a third party social networking site (e.g. Facebook), X3M Labs may receive information about your social networking site profile, including without limitation your associated email address, user ID, profile and user name, profile photo and friend list (to the extent that you use viral features inside our social games).

9. With our Service Providers

Disclosure of your Personal Information and Non-Identifying Information may also occur where we engage or employ service providers, vendors or other third party entities to facilitate provision of our Services (each a " Service Provider ") (e.g., without limitation, improvement of our Services' features, user account authentication, promotion and marketing, administration, analytics, virtual currency transactions, crowd-sourcing, cloud storage and other related services), to provide the Services on our behalf, or to assist us in analysing how our Services are being used. Our Service Providers may have access to your Personal Information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

10. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy and we advise you to review this page from time to time for any changes. Well will notify you of any changes. These changes go immediately into effect once they are posted on this page. Your continued use of our Services will be regarded as acceptance of those changes around privacy and personal information.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, feel free to contact us at info@lyndaslegacygame.com


Last updated August 16, 2022