StepMania Privacy Policy
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully, as your access to and use of the Services signifies that you have read, understand and agree to all terms within this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any part of this Privacy Policy or our Terms, please do not access or continue to use any of the Services or otherwise submit your Personal Data to us.
This document is intended to clearly outline the data and privacy practices of StepMania, Inc. (“StepMania”). StepMania is the mobile applications for iOS and Android (“Mobile App”), mini-app for Telegram (“Mini App”) and the stepmania.com website (“Website”) and all subdomains. We collectively refer to these as the “Services” in this document.
This policy was written in English. To the extent a translated version exists and that version conflicts with the English version, the English version controls.
StepMania reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time as our Services change. If StepMania makes changes to this Privacy Policy, the updated Privacy Policy will be posted on the Services in a timely manner. This policy will always be posted within the Mobile App and on the Website. If we make material changes, we will provide a prominent notice.
This policy was last updated on 11/13/2024.
StepMania may utilize connections to the Apple Health App (“HealthKit”), Health Connect , and other third-party fitness, health, and tracking applications and services (“Health Services”). You can choose to connect and share information with Health Services. If you grant access for us to read data from Health Services, we can read information such as your daily activities and related information like activity recordings, activity steps, activity distance, activity durations from Health Services.
StepMania cannot read data from or write data to Health Services unless you grant access. You can remove access at any time inside the Health Services.
StepMania only uses your Health Services data to provide and improve our StepMania ’s functionalities. We don’t use your Health Services data for any marketing or advertising purposes, or share with or sell to advertising platforms, data brokers, or information resellers.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Privacy Policy, StepMania’s use of information received from Health Connect APIs will adhere to Health Connect API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
StepMania is in no way responsible for the protection of any of your information that you agree to store with Health Services, which is governed by the privacy policies and other terms of the applicable Health Service. You and the Health Service are solely responsible for the protection of such information. Please review the Health Service's applicable policies and procedures before granting permission to sync your health data and/or other information with the Health Service.
BY USING THE SERVICES, YOU CONSENT TO THE COLLECTION, USE AND TRANSFER OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR PROCESSING IN GERMANY.
The Services are hosted on servers in Germany. By using the Services and providing information to us, you consent to the transfer to and processing of the information in Germany. We use this consent as the legal ground for that data transfer unless stated otherwise.
If you are located outside of Germany, please be aware that information we collect will be processed and stored in Germany, a jurisdiction in which the data protection and privacy laws and principles may differ from the country or region where you reside or of which you are a citizen.
StepMania collects information about you, including information that directly or indirectly identifies you if you choose to share it with StepMania . We receive information when you choose to use our services. We also collect information about how you use our Services. You also have other opportunities to share information with us.
For example:
Fitness and wellness data includes data that is imported or ingested from your connected devices’ sensors when using the Services including step counts.
We collect this data in order to provide the Services to you including reporting and analytics, participation in online challenges and races.
We also collect Personal Data, including Fitness and Wellness Data when you connect a device or service that integrates with the Services, such as other fitness tracking devices or apps. We may also collect certain information about the device or product such as make, model, and identifying number provided by the device manufacturer.
StepMania only uses your Health Services (Apple Health App (“HealthKit”), Health Connect , and other third-party fitness, health, and tracking applications and services) data to provide and improve our StepMania ’s functionalities. We don’t use your Health Services data for any marketing or advertising purposes, or share with or sell to advertising platforms, data brokers, or information resellers.
To ensure the proper functionality of the application and provide an optimized user experience, we may collect and use the unique identifier of your device. This information is used to secure your account, prevent unauthorized access, and safeguard your activity data against fraudulent practices. It also allows us to maintain your progress, even in the event of device resets or app reinstallation. Furthermore, device-specific data enables us to improve the app’s performance by addressing compatibility issues and enhancing features tailored to various devices. Your privacy is our priority, and all collected data is handled in strict compliance with applicable data protection laws, including GDPR.
When you use our Services we collect technical information from your browser, computer, or mobile device. This technical information includes device information, cookies, log files and analytics information.
The Services use logs to protect and secure the Services and analyze aggregate usage trends for the purpose of product improvement.
The information stored in these logs includes IP addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type and version, timestamps with time zones, device screen size, system settings like preferred language/locale, technical performance metrics such as network, energy and memory usage, details about technical exceptions and crashes, and product usage data such as time spent on pages and button clicks or taps. Logs can be linked to session IDs, StepMania account IDs and device identifiers.
We may collect information from you through third-parties, such as when we collect your feedback through surveys or market research.
You must be at least 16 years of age to use our Services. We do not knowingly collect any data from individuals under 16. If we become aware that an individual under 16 has provided us with Personal Data, we will remove that information and delete that individual’s account.
If You are a resident of the US and You are under the age of 13, please do not submit any personal data through our Services. If You have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 has provided personal data to us through the Services, please contact Us, and We will endeavour to delete that information from Our databases.
If You are a resident of the European Economic Area and You are under the age of 16, please do not submit any personal data through our Services. We do not collect or process Personal Information pertaining to a child under the age of 16 without verifiable parental consent, as required by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
StepMania uses the information we collect as follows below.
We use the information we collect and receive to provide the Services. This includes health and wellness data tracking, presentation of your health and wellness data in historical trends and relative to other users, guided fitness programs, participation in our online virtual challenges and races.
We use the information we collect to enforce our Terms of Service and Community Standards, and to protect you and the Services from malicious behavior.
We use the information we collect to improve the Services. This includes a thorough analysis of product usage and technical logs.
We use the information we collect to send push notifications to your registered devices if you provide permission to do so. You may revoke our permission to send you push notifications at any time from your device settings.
StepMania may deidentify and aggregate the information you and others make available in connection with the Services and use it to provide or improve StepMania’s functionalities.
This includes our “Benchmarks” feature which allows you to compare your daily activity levels to general demographic populations grouped by age, gender, geographic region and BMI.
StepMania shares the information we collect in the following ways.
StepMania collects usage logs, crash logs and system information for the purposes of resolving customer support technical issues, identifying technical errors, and profiling our products’ performance for things like battery, cpu, and network usage. StepMania may use third-party providers to collect and analyze these data.
StepMania collects product usage logs such as sessions, page views, entry/exit pages, time spent on pages, and button clicks and taps for the purpose of analyzing usage behavior and improving our services. StepMania may utilize third-party providers to collect and analyze these data.
If you choose to connect your StepMania account to a third-party service such as Apple Health, Health Connect or other third-party services or developers, StepMania will share data with these parties. You will be asked for your consent when you connect to these services, and you may revoke that consent at any time by disconnecting from these services.
If StepMania becomes involved in a business combination, securities offering, bankruptcy, reorganization, dissolution or other similar transaction, we may share or transfer your information in connection with such a transaction.
We share your information with law enforcement, public or governmental agencies, or private litigants, within or outside your country of residence, if we determine that such disclosure is allowed by the law and reasonably necessary to comply with legal or regulatory processes including to respond to court orders, warrants, or subpoenas.
We may also disclose your information if we determine that this is reasonably necessary or appropriate to prevent any person from death or serious bodily injury, to address issues of national security or other issues of public importance, to prevent or detect violations of our Terms of Service or fraud or abuse of StepMania or its members, or to protect our operations or our property or other legal rights, including by disclosure to our legal counsel and other consultants and third parties in connection with actual or potential litigation.
This section addresses the legal basis for processing your data if you reside outside the United States (within the United States, you typically provide consent when you receive notice of this Privacy Policy in a website link or mobile app). Some processing is addressed in multiple sections because more than one legal basis may apply depending on the circumstances or service.
For the purposes of applicable data protection laws, StepMania , Inc. is the controller of the Personal Data you provide to us (“Data Controller”). As a Data Controller, we process the Personal Data we maintain about you in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the processing of your Personal Data, or if you have questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please see how to contact us at the end of this document.
We collect and process your Personal Data for a variety of purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. In certain cases, separate consent is not required, including:
To perform our contractual obligations to you in connection with the Services, including but not limited to account registration, share content or achievements, or invite friends, when you ask us to customize our Services, where we need to collect Personal Data from third-party sources and when you access third-party products and services, where we collect data from third parties or publicly-available sources, or to aggregate and centralize data for the performance of the Services.
To comply with laws, regulations, court orders, or other legal obligations or to assist in an investigation.
To operate our business and provide the Services, other than in performing our contractual obligations to you for StepMania ’s “legitimate interests” for the purposes of applicable law - except where overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms that require protection of Personal Data.
For example, the following areas include processing covered by Legitimate Interests, subject to applicable law:
a. You may indicate your consent in a number of ways, including, as permitted by law, ticking a box (or equivalent action) to indicate your consent when (i) providing us with your Personal Data through our Services or a form (including enrolling in Promotions); or (ii) registering or creating an account with us. Due to different countries’ laws governing consent for the collection and use of Personal Data, the requirements for consent will differ across regions. We may request your consent for a number of activities including:
We may ask for your consent to contact you by push notifications about other offers, products, Promotions, or services that we think may be of interest to you and for other marketing purposes.
We may also ask for your consent to share your Personal Data with certain Third-Party business partners in order to offer certain goods, services, or programs. To withdraw consent, please go to the preferences of the specific third-party service or app.
We may ask for your consent to provide Personal Data to allow third parties to contact you regarding their products, services, Promotions, or offers. Typically this is in conjunction with a fitness challenge or race (your consent for third-party marketing is not required for participation).
When you use our StepMania App we may ask for your consent to collect these (this consent may be captured at the operating system level). To change your consent status for this data, please go to the preferences of the StepMania App.
We may request your consent to use your Personal Data for Research purposes. We may also request your consent to contact you to determine your interest to participate in certain Research initiatives and to share identifying results. For market research, we may ask questions on behalf of business partners and share your response with business partners.
We use cookies, pixels, mobile device and advertising IDs, for purposes of interest-based and cross-app, cross-device advertising. The consent for which may be managed at the operating system level.
YOUR RIGHTS
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Rights |
Description of the Right |
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Right 1 The right of access |
You have the right to be provided with clear, transparent and easily understandable information about how, for what purpose and under which legal grounds we use Your Personal Data and Your rights. |
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Right 2 The right to be informed |
A right to access Personal Data held by us about You. Whether provision of Personal Data is mandatory or voluntary; if mandatory – the legal consequences of refusal to submit them |
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Right 3 The right to rectification |
A right to require us to rectify any inaccurate Personal Data held by us about You. |
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Right 4 The right to erasure |
A right to require us to erase Personal Data held by us about You. This right will only apply where (for example): we no longer need to use the Personal Data to achieve the purpose we collected it for; or where You withdraw Your Consent if we are using Your Personal Data based on Your Consent; or where You object to the way we process Your Personal Data. This right is not absolute and will not apply when legitimate and overriding reasons apply. |
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Right 5 The right to withdraw Consent |
A right to withdraw Your Consent, where we are relying on it to use Your Personal Data (for example, to provide You with marketing information about our services or products). |
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Right 6 Right to receive information on disclosure |
A right to receive information on to whom Your Personal Data were disclosed, and the grounds and purpose of the disclosure (information about processors, sub-processors, joint controllers). |
We transfer data to the United States and to other countries/regions for processing. We may request your consent for this transfer or the transfer, in other cases, may be justified by a legal basis other than consent.
We employ reasonable protections for your information that are appropriate to its sensitivity. The Services use industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to allow for the encryption of personal information.
Please be advised, however, that we cannot fully eliminate security risks associated with the storage and transmission of Personal Data.
We keep your account information, for as long as your account is in existence because we need it to operate your account. We keep other information, like your activity data, until you use your account settings to delete the data or your account because we use this data to provide you with your personal statistics and other aspects of the Services. We also keep information about you and your use of the Services for as long as necessary for our legitimate business interests, for legal reasons, and to prevent harm.
You have the right to delete your data. You may do so via the StepMania app in the settings page.
You may contact us with any questions regarding your information or this policy at support@stepstg.com or at https://t.me/Stepmania_support_bot