Privacy Policy

Last modified on Mar 03 2022.

This privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) applies to visitors of www. abiosgaming.com (the “Website”). It also applies to any general contact and/or communications which you may have with us before you choose to take up our applications or services (“Abios Service”). The Website is operated by Abios Gaming AB a company registered in Sweden, whose principal office is at Hälsingegatan 38, 11160, Stockholm, Sweden with the organization number 556926-0705 (“Abios”, “we”, “us” and/or “our”) will all process Personal Data as set out in this Privacy Policy. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, we are the “Data Controller” of your personal information. This is because we are the organisation which determines why and how your personal information is processed. By “personal information”, we mean information which, either by itself or when combined with other information that we hold or which is available to us, can be used to identify you.

Please note: This Privacy Policy does not apply to how Abios processes information about players. If you are a player and want to know what we do with your personal information, please refer to our specific Abios Player Privacy Notice for more information.

The Information Abios Collects
The Way Abios Uses Information
Our Legal Basis of Processing
Who Abios May Disclose Your Information
Your Rights
Our Commitment to Data Security
Transfers outside of the EEA
How Long Abios Holds Your Information
Abios Contact Information
Updates to this Privacy Policy

i. The Information Abios Collects

This Privacy Policy applies to Abios collection and use of your personal information in the form of:

a) User-provided Information: You may provide Abios with personal information if you register for an Abios Service, purchase, subscribe to, view, register or download certain products from the Abios Service, or otherwise use the features and functionality of the Abios Service.

The Abios Service mainly refers to the website https://abiosgaming.com, but also refers to our social media accounts on Linkedin, X, Instagram or Facebook.

Website Users

Usage of https://abiosgaming.com

Personal data is collected to analyse website performance and serve personalised ads. The data might be accessed by third-party advertising and analytics partners listed in b).
If you inquire to become a user of any of Abios Services, then Abios may, through an inquiry form, request information such as your name, email address, job title, company name/website, company industry and country.

Usage of https://dash.abiosgaming.com

To be able to provide robust log-in and account management to our API dashboard service we require an email address, this email address is managed by us internally at AWS. When handling this data, it is always encrypted in transit and all passwords are hashed.

Users of Services

The data Abios collects about users who want to subscribe to Abios Services is strictly limited to the data we need to maintain contact with You and understand your need(s). At first contact via the forms on our website, the mandatory information is name and email. As one of our representatives gets in contact to better understand your needs, they might ask for more information about you or your business, but it is always at your discretion to share that information. The services that we use to manage your data are:

Communication & Account management
Payments
Digital Agreements

b) “Cookies” Information: When you access the Abios Service, we may send cookies – small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters – to Your device. These cookies help us keep track of Your preferences on the site, such as your game filter. They are also used by the analytics services that we use to learn how might improve the site based on how You interact with the Website. Those services are:

Google Analytics (Site usage)
Google Ads
Google Tag Manager
Microsoft Advertising
LinkedIn
Twitter
Facebook
Pingdom (Uptime & Response times)
Hotjar (Page interactions)
Abios‘ Own (Site preferences)

ii. The Way Abios Uses Information

We will use your email address for administrative communications such as notifying you of major Abios Service updates, product announcements, for customer service purposes, to address copyright infringement or defamation issues, or to contact you regarding any content that you have downloaded or accessed from the Abios Service.

If you want to stop receiving communication materials, these same materials will contain instructions for unsubscription from these materials. You can unsubscribe at any point by contacting us using the contact details provided below in this Privacy Policy.

Abios uses the information that we collect to understand the usage trends and preferences of our Users, to improve the way the Abios Service works and looks, and to create new features and functionality.

Abios may use “Automatically Collected” information and “Cookies” information to maintain and improve the Abios Service, including to do the following things: (a) remember your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you access the Abios Service; (b) monitor aggregate site usage metrics such as total number of visitors and pages accessed; (c) track Your status or other activities in Abios Service; get a deeper understanding of user behaviour across the Abios Service; and (d) serve personalised ads and content for our users.

iii. Our Legal Basis of Processing

Under applicable data protection laws, we have to have a legal basis to process your personal information. The legal basis which we have outlined in this Privacy Policy includes (as relevant):

Processing that is necessary for performance of a contract: This includes such things as administering and managing your account/contract and the provision of services relating to that account/contract;
Processing that is necessary for our own legitimate interests or those of third parties (including the other Abios group companies and our clients). These interests are:

for management and audit of our business operations to ensure that they comply with all applicable laws and good business practices;
for market research and analysis, developing statistics in order to assess the effectiveness of our Website and communications in order better use these tools;
sharing your personal information with our service providers, law enforcement, regulatory, and/or other government organisations, such as:

IT systems, network providers, data storage and backup providers;
professional services providers (such as lawyers, accountants, auditors, consultants);
data protection regulators, gambling regulators, other similar organisations;

for our own direct marketing communications which we send to you about our own products and services; and/or
anonymising the personal information so that it can be used for research and/or statistical analysis and/or improvements to Abios operations.

Processing that is necessary to comply with a legal obligation – including:

processing any data subject rights requests in accordance with data protection laws; and/or
for compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.

Processing that is based on your consent – such as:

When we collect your data at events for our direct marketing communications about products and services available from Abios so that we can provide further information and marketing to you.
When we host digital events or offer reports, whitepapers or other digital documents through our own landing pages, social media or partners, we may collect your data. This may be used for direct marketing communications about products and services available from Abios so that we can provide further information and marketing to you.

iv. Who Abios May Disclose Your Information

Abios will disclose your personal information if we have a legal reason to do so, and/or where it is necessary to meet the purposes and lawful basis set out above. Such disclosures will be made to:

government departments, law enforcement agencies, regulators;
third parties in the event of a corporate transaction involving the sale of all or part of Abios;
third party service providers to provide security services; fulfil orders; conduct data analysis and create reports; offer certain functionality; assist Abios in improving the Abios Service and creating new services features; to understand the usage and demographic patterns of Abios Service and to enable them to serve personalized advertisements and content for you.
professional advisors, such as lawyers, accountants, auditors and/or consultants;
companies in the same group as Abios

v. Your Rights

Your rights are as follows:

the right to be informed about your personal information;
the right to have your personal information corrected if it is inaccurate and to have incomplete personal information completed;
the right to object to the processing of your personal information;
the right to restrict processing of your personal information;
the right to have your personal information erased (the “right to be forgotten”);
the right to request access to your personal information and to obtain information about how we process it;
the right to move, copy or transfer your personal information (“Data Portability”); and
rights in relation to automated decision making, including profiling which has a legal effect, or which causes a significant effect.

Please be aware, that some of the above rights are qualified, so they will not be applicable in all circumstances.

Where you have provided your consent, for example to marketing, you are free at any time to withdraw your consent where that is relied upon as the lawful reason for processing your personal information. To do this please use the contact information provided below to let us know. Please note that if you do withdraw your consent and there is no alternative lawful reason which justifies our Processing of your personal information for a particular purpose, it may mean that you cannot receive some marketing communications.

If you have signed up for email alerts, you can unsubscribe or change your settings at any time.

To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting your account access or making corrections to your information. This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

vi. Our Commitment to Data Security

Abios uses commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical measures designed to protect the integrity and security of your personal information.

While we take efforts to safeguard your personal information which are consistent with relevant data protection laws, the nature of the internet is such that we cannot guarantee absolutely the security of any personal information you disclose online. Any personal information that you send via the Website to us is sent at your own risk.

vii. Transfers outside of the EEA

We operate globally and may make information we gather available to worldwide business units and affiliates under the terms of this Privacy Policy.

In relation to such transfers, we will ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect that transfer. Safeguards include requiring the recipient to subscribe to 'international frameworks' intended to enable secure data sharing and where the framework is the means of protection for personal information.

viii. How Long Abios Holds Your Information

Abios will retain your personal information as long as it is strictly necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, specifically to respond to your query, or provide you with the information which you have requested. We will store categories of your personal information for the following periods of time and then delete it in accordance with our retention policy and processes:

Contact details for sales enquiries.

5 years after last contact.

Email address for newsletter.

Until you unsubscribe and we can make sure we don't have you in any systems anymore.

ix. Abios Contact Information

If you have a query about any aspect of this Privacy Policy or wish to have any part of it clarified, please contact us at [email protected].

If You have previously given us consent for Cookies, you can withdraw that consent at any given time by changing your browser settings so that Cookies are disabled. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of the Website. You can also disable cookies under our Cookie Policy.

x. Updates to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in response to changing legal, technical or business developments. You can see when this Privacy Policy was last updated by checking the “last updated” date displayed at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.

Last updated: 15 May 2024.

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