Privacy Policy

Unknown Worlds Homepage Privacy Policy 

Effective Date: 2024.07.30 

1. Introduction 

2. Information We Collect 

3. How We Use Your Information 

4. Sharing Your Information 

5. Cookies and Related Technologies  

6. International Data Transfers 

7. Retaining and Deleting Personal Information 

8. Our Policy Concerning Children 

9. Links and Third-Party Services 

10. Protecting Your Information 

11. Your Privacy Rights 

12. Contact Us 

Click HERE or scroll down for the California Notice for California Residents 

1. Introduction 

This Privacy Policy describes how Unknown Worlds collects and uses personal information provided to us or that we otherwise collect when you visit our website or engage with us. If you apply for an employment opportunity with us, you should review this privacy policy together with the policy on the recruitment website. We encourage you to periodically review this Policy to stay informed about how we collect and process personal information.  

2. Information We Collect 

The personal information we collect and process depends on how and why you interact with us. 

A) Information you provide us:  

We collect personal information that you provide to us. For example, you may provide us with your: 

B) Information we collect automatically: 

We automatically collect certain information when you visit our website, some of which could be considered personal information (also known as “Session Data”). Session Data we automatically collect may vary, but generally includes: 
- Your device information (including OS version, model information, device ID, etc.);  
- Online identifiers (including IP address, MAC address, etc.);  
- What areas of the websites you accessed, browsed, searched for, or used; and 
- Time spent on our websites and related statistical information. 

We do not use Session Data to personally identify you. We use it to administer, operate, and improve our Sites. The process by which we collect this information is through cookies related online technologies. See our “Cookies and Related Technologies” section below for more information. 

C) Information we collect from third parties: 

When you apply to our company using third-party platforms, we may receive certain information from your profile/account on third-party platforms as permitted by the terms of the third-party platform and your privacy settings thereon. For example, if you apply with LinkedIn profile, we receive your resume that is saved in LinkedIn.  

3. How We Use Your Information 

We use personal information collected through the website for the following purposes: 
- Operate the sites and answer inquiries; 

- Prevent, detect, identify, investigate, and respond to potential or actual claims, liabilities, prohibited behavior, and criminal activity;  
- Comply with and enforce legal requirements, agreements, and policies; and 
- Achieve purposes for which we provide specific notice at the time of collection. 

In the majority of cases, our processing of your personal information is necessary to respond to you or process your request. We may also process your information to comply with a relevant legal obligation. For example, we may process your personal information to comply with legal obligations related to screening job applicants for employment, which may require the maintenance of certain records and for us to make mandatory disclosures to authorities. From time to time, we may ask for your consent to use your information for certain specific reasons. You may withdraw your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal by contacting us at the address provided in this Policy. 

4. Sharing Your Information 

We may share personal information with the following categories of parties and as otherwise described in this Policy or at the time of collection: 

- With KRAFTON or KRAFTON affiliates(LIST) for the purposes described in this Policy, including to assess job applicants, progress the recruitment process, and respond to inquiries; 
- With our service providers who help us perform and deliver our services, including: cloud service provider, website management, hosting, and analytics; communications; form processing; information technology and security; job application systems providers; recruitment providers; and auditing; 
- With the appropriate authorities if we believe disclosure is necessary to prevent physical, financial, or other harm, injury, or loss, including to protect against fraud or credit risk;  
- With legal, governmental, or judicial authorities as instructed or required by those authorities and applicable laws, or in relation to a legal activity, such as in response to a subpoena or investigation of suspected illicit or illegal activities, or where we believe in good faith that users may be engaged in illicit or illegal activities, or where we are bound by contract or law to enable a network partner to comply with applicable laws; and 
- With necessary third parties in connection with, or during negotiations for, an acquisition, merger, asset sale, or other similar business transfer that involves all or substantially all of our assets or functions where personal information is transferred or shared as part of the business assets.  

5. Cookies and Related Technologies  

We use online identification technologies such as cookies on our website to store and retrieve information about your visit in order to understand how you use our website so we can better maintain and improve it. 

Cookies are very small text files that are transmitted and stored by the server used to deliver the website to your computer, mobile device, etc., and are used to help you use various functions provided by the website.  

1) Cookies 

The types of cookies processed by us are as follows. 

a. Strictly Necessary Cookies 

Strictly necessary cookies are required to operate the website and are used to enable you to access the content you have requested or to detect malicious activities that may occur while using the website. These cookies are always active to ensure the functionality and smooth use of the website. 

b. Performance Cookies 

Performance cookies are used to understand how you navigate and use the website. We may analyze, evaluate, and study these cookies to understand and improve the needs of the website. However, these cookies do not collect or access information that directly identifies an individual, such as your name or email address, and are used in the aggregate or a quantified manner. Depending on your jurisdiction, this type of cookie may be disabled by default or or later disabled by you. 

c. Marketing Cookies 

Marketing cookies are used to track performance of marketing efforts, such as events, and may be linked to your advertising identifier. Depending on your jurisdiction, this type of cookie may be disabled by default or later disabled by you. 

2) Website Analytics  
We use analytics services on our websites to allow us to record information on the use of this website and to constantly improve our offering.   
We use Google® Analytics, provided by Google Inc., which collects cookies such as IP address and site usages for reporting purposes. You can withdraw your consent by adjusting Google’s advertising settings (https://myadcenter.google.com/) and learn about Google’s privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy. Opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.    

6. International Data Transfers 

We operate globally and to provide our website may transfer your data to countries and other regions outside of the country where you are located. If your personal information is transferred, stored or processed by us, we take reasonable steps to safeguard the privacy of your personal information, including entering confidentiality and standard contractual clauses where appropriate. Additional information concerning the international transfer of your information is available depending on your region. See the supplemental terms section below for more information. 

7. Retaining and Deleting Personal Information 

In principle, we will remove your personal information without delay after the purpose of collecting personal information is achieved. . Please note, however, we may retain your personal information for other reasons, such as to comply with our legal obligations, meet regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, prevent fraud, cheating or abuse, or enforce this Policy or any other agreement we may have with you. 

8. Our Policy Concerning Children 

We do not knowingly collect, use or share any information about children. If you are a parent or guardian and you believe your child has provided us with information, you can contact us and request your child’s information to be deleted from our system.  

9. Links and Third-Party Services 

If you click on a link to a third-party website, including, without limitation, an advertisement, you will leave our website and go to the website you selected. Because we cannot control the activities of third parties, we do not hold any responsibility for that third party’s use of your personal information, and we cannot guarantee that they will adhere to the same privacy and security practices that we do. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any other service provider from whom you request services. If you visit a third-party website that is linked to our website, you should consult that site’s privacy policy before providing any personal information. 

10. Protecting Your Information 

While no one can guarantee your personal information is always completely secure, we use administrative, organizational, technical, and physical safeguards to help protect the personal information we collect and process. Our security controls are designed to maintain data confidentiality, integrity, and give us appropriate access to your data. Among other things, we update and test our security technology on an ongoing basis. We restrict access to your personal data to those employees who need to know that information to provide benefits or services to you. We use professional third-party service providers and data centers to provide our website, and enter into confidentiality agreements with them where appropriate. Those service providers and data centers implement industry-standard measures to protect the security of the personal information we collect, such as SSL (Secure Socket Layers), firewalls, digital certificates, and encryption.  

11. Your Privacy Rights 

Subject to limitations in applicable law, you are entitled to object to or request the restriction of processing of your personal information, and to request access to, correction, and erasure of your own personal information. To make a request concerning your rights or if you have any other questions, please contact us by sending an email to the address specified in the “Contact Us” section. We endeavor to respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws.  

12. Contact Us 

If you have any questions about this Policy, or your dealings with our website, please contact us by sending an email to privacy@unknownworlds.com. 

Appendix. SUPPLEMENTAL TERMS – JURISDICTION SPECIFIC 

This portion of our Policy applies to residents of the jurisdictions indicated below. In the event of a conflict between the Policy and this section, this section supersedes and controls.  

1. EEA and UK 

If you are in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or the UK, you may lodge a complaint with an applicable data protection authority for your country or region where an alleged infringement of applicable data protection law occurs. 

Our representative in the EU is VeraSafe Netherlands BV, located at Keizersgracht 555, 1017 DR Amsterdam, Netherlands. To contact them, please use the form available here:  https://verasafe.com/public-resources/contact-data-protection-representative. 

Our representative in the UK is VeraSafe United Kingdom Ltd., located at 37 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TL, United Kingdom. To contact them, please use the form available here:  https://verasafe.com/public-resources/contact-data-protection-representative. 

1) International Data Transfer 

If we transfer your data outside of the EEA to a country that is not recognized by the European Commission as ensuring an adequate level of data protection, we endeavor to apply suitable measures to safeguard your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. These safeguards may include data transfer agreements implementing the latest standard contractual clauses (a form of data transfer agreement pre-approved by the European Commission as providing adequate safeguards for personal data). You may ask for a copy of such appropriate measures by contacting us as set out in this Policy. We otherwise transfer personal data with consent; to perform a contract with you; or to fulfill a compelling legitimate interest in a manner that does not outweigh your rights and freedoms. 

2) Your Privacy Rights 

You have a right to lodge a complaint with the appropriate data protection authority if you have concerns about how we process your personal information. The data protection authority you can lodge a complaint with may be that of your habitual residence, where you work, or where we are established. 

2. United States 

1) Privacy Rights for United States Users 

Several U.S. states provide their residents with rights to: 

a. Confirm whether we process their personal information; 

b. Access and delete certain personal information; 

c. Take their data from one location to another (data portability); 

d. Opt-out of personal data processing for targeted advertising and sales; 

e. Correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information’s nature processing purpose; 

f. Opt-out of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects. 

To exercise any of these rights send an email to privacy@unknownworlds.com. To appeal a decision regarding a consumer rights request, follow the instructions in the written notice we will provide to you. 

Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt-out of certain personal information sales. Residents who wish to exercise this sale opt-out rights may submit a request to this designated address: (e-mail: privacy@unknownworlds.com). However, please know we do not currently sell data triggering that statute’s opt-out requirements. 

2) California 

If you are a California resident, you have additional rights as detailed below. Within the preceding 12 months, we have collected or disclosed the following categories of personal information about you:  

a. Identifiers, such as name, email address, etc. 

- How collected: When you access our website we collect this directly from you. 

- How disclosed: With our affiliates and service providers (e.g., cloud storage service provider, marketing platform service provider, customer service provider).  

b. Internet or other similar network activity, such as browsing behavior while using our Sites (e.g., device model, OS version, MAC address, device ID, advertisement ID (ADID, IDFA), etc.), identifiers such as IP address. 

- How collected: When you access our website, we collect this automatically. 

- How disclosed: With our affiliates and service providers (e.g., cloud storage service provider, marketing platform service provider, customer service provider). 

d. Geolocation information obtained by IP address. 

- How collected: When you access our website, we collect this automatically. 

- How disclosed: With our affiliates and service providers (e.g. cloud storage service provider, marketing platform service provider, customer service provider). 

We determine the retention period for each of the categories of personal information listed above based on our business or commercial purposes for obtaining the information, our legal or regulatory requirements applicable to such information, and in relation to litigation or to protect our rights. 

- Your California Privacy Rights 

You may exercise the following rights at any point in time in connection with your personal information. To exercise such rights, please email us at privacy@unknownworlds.com to request your rights.  

Please note that at least your email address will be required to submit a request, and additional information may be required so we can verify you. If you exercise your rights via email, you must specify the right(s) you wish to exercise. 

We will verify your identity and respond to your request within 45 calendar days. If necessary, we may take up to an additional 45 days to respond, for a maximum total of 90 days from the day the request is received, in which case we will notify you to explain the reason for the delay. 

a. Right to Know & Right to Access 

You have the right to request the following information from us up to two times within a 12-month period:  

- the categories of personal information that we have collected from you over the past 12 months, and the specific pieces of personal information we have collected from you; 

- the categories of sources from which personal information was collected; 

- the business or commercial purposes for which personal information is collected; 

- the categories of personal information that we have disclosed for a business purpose or sold during the past 12 months (if applicable), and  

- the categories of third parties to whom the information was disclosed or sold (if applicable). 

b. Right to Delete  

You have the right to request that the personal information collected from you be deleted. 

c. Right to Correct  

You have the right to correct your personal information. You can edit your personal information to send us an email to privacy@unknownworlds.com.  

d. Right to Non-Discrimination 

You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising these privacy rights. 

e. Right to opt-out of Selling and Sharing 

You have the right to opt-out of the selling and sharing of your personal information as defined by California law by requesting that your personal information not be sold or shared in any form. With respect to targeted advertising, you can control the sharing of your personal information for targeted advertising purposes through our website by opting out from advertising cookies through the cookie banner. 

HOWEVER, WE HAVE NOT “SOLD” PERSONAL INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES AS THAT TERMS IS DEFINED BY THE CCPA WITHIN THE PAST 12 MONTHS. ALSO, WE HAVE NOT “SHARED” PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES FOR THE PURPOSE OF CROSS-CONTEXT BEHAVIORAL ADVERTISING.  

f. Rights for California Minors 

Minors under the age of 16 have the right to request the deletion, correction or copies of information publicly posted by you, such as on forums or bulletin boards.  

g. Shine the Light 

You have the right to request the categories of the personal information that we disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the past 12 months and information on the relevant third parties. Furthermore, you may also request that your personal information not be disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. 

h. Limit Use and/or Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information  

You have the right to limit our use of your sensitive personal information. However, WE DO NOT USE YOUR SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION for purposes that require us to offer this limitation option. If we collect your sensitive personal information, we will ask for your consent.  

- Authorized Agent  

You may designate another person or entity (“authorized agent”) to act on your behalf in connection with your request for rights that are guaranteed by the CCPA. An authorized agent is a natural person or business entity registered with the Secretary of State to conduct business in California that you have authorized to act of your behalf to make a request to know or to delete. 

In order to use an authorized agent for your request, we require that you provide signed permission to your agent. Your authorized agent can submit a request to know or delete by sending an email to privacy@unknownworlds.com. If you contact us, we can offer you an authorized form for your agent to submit. 

The above requirement does not apply should your agent have power of attorney pursuant to Probate Code sections 4000 to 4465. Please note that we may deny a request from an agent that does not submit proof that they have been authorized by you to act on your behalf. Under the CCPA, your agent is responsible for implementing and maintaining reasonable security procedures and practices to protect your information and use your personal information only for the purpose of fulfilling your request. 

If you have any questions about this Policy, or about exercising your rights described above, you can contact us by email at privacy@unknownworlds.com.