YOUR PERSONAL DATA
What it includes
Name and email address.
Such as:
Contact Data
Your behaviour during gameplay
Feedback Data
Social Media Data
Information you provide when you engage with us via social media (Discord and LinkedIn) such as:
Comments
Enquiries
Complaints
Feedback Data
Information relating to you which is contained within enquiries, complaints, feedback, questions which you may share with us.
HOW WE USE IT
Purpose and data: We collect and use your Feedback Data, Contact Data and Social Media Data in order to: (i) review and respond to enquiries, complaints, feedback or questions; (ii) provide customer care services; (iii) improve, test and monitor the quality and delivery of the Website or/and our games; and (iv) receive your feedback.
Legal basis and further information: We may process this personal data:
To pursue our legitimate interests in (i) promoting our business and furthering our commercial interests; and (ii) ensuring that we can improve our Website or/and our games.
Sources and recipients: We collect this information from you when you send us an enquiry, complaint, feedback or question by email or engage with us via social media.
To respond to your feedback
Purpose and data: We collect and use your (i) Contact Data to provide you with access to our discord server and development builds; and (ii) Playtester Data to assess your behaviour during gameplay.Legal basis and further information: We may process this personal data:To pursue our legitimate interests in (i) promoting our business and furthering our commercial interests; (ii) ensuring that we can improve our games.Sources and recipients: We collect this information from you when playtest our games. We do not share this information with any third parties.
To allow access to our games and assess how you play
Purpose and data: We collect and use your Contact Data as playtester in order to contact you about our products, services and business updates.
Legal basis and further information: In some cases, we process this personal data where you have given your consent to us doing so. We may also process this personal data to pursue our legitimate interests in promoting our business and furthering our commercial interests.
Sources and recipients: We collect this information from you when you subscribe as a playtester and consent or opt-in to receive these communications. You can withdraw your consent or opt-out of receiving such communications by:
contacting us at: contact@cognisim.com
using the ‘unsubscribe’ link in emails
How long we keep this information for: Until you withdraw your consent or opt-out of receiving the relevant marketing communications
To send you marketing communications
STORAGE, TRANSFERS AND DISCLOSURE
We are based in the European Economic Area (EEA), but we regularly collaborate with an international network of partners, affiliates and subcontractors based in other countries. As such, personal information we collect may be transferred, and stored and processed outside of the EEA in a country in which we or our partners, affiliates or subcontractors maintain facilities.
We will ensure that transfers of personal information to a third country or an international organization are subject to appropriate safeguards (in accordance with data protection laws).
Storage & Transfers
We retain information for as long as necessary to (i) make the Website available to you; (ii) understand how you use our Website or/and play our games, and improve our Website or/and our games; and (iii) respond to your feedback.
We also retain information when necessary to comply with contractual and legal obligations, when we have a legitimate business interest to do so and for the exercise or defence of legal claims.
Retention
Other than as set out above, we may disclose your personal data:
Where required by law, government, competent authorities or the courts or to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights, and for the purposes of preventing crime and fraud. Legal basis: our legal basis for this processing is likely to be: compliance with legal obligation or legitimate interests in: (i) obtaining advice in relation to legal and similar proceedings; (ii) communicating with relevant third parties in relation to legal and similar proceedings; and/or (iii) protecting and defending ourselves from legal and similar proceedings.
suppliers and subcontractors, as necessary for the purposes (and on the legal basis) set out in this notice.
If involved in an investment, merger, acquisition, or sale of our organisation or assets, personal data we hold may be shared on the basis of the legitimate interests of us, our shareholders, customers and other parties to a transaction, unless those interests are outweighed by prejudicial impacts upon you. Legal basis: our legal basis for this processing is likely to be: our legitimate interests pursued would typically include our interest (and that of our shareholders) in negotiating and concluding the relevant transaction, and our interest (and that of our users) in financing the business and ensuring the development and continuity of our business.
Disclosure
This notice explains how we process personal data, as a controller, in relation to individuals (“you” or “your”) who
visit our website (“Website”);
interact with us on our social media;
subscribe as a tester to one of our games; or
apply to work with us.
We update this policy from time to time, so you should check back in on a regular basis. Where appropriate, we will actively notify you.
Throughout our Website we may link to other websites owned and operated by third parties. Those third-party websites may also gather information about you in accordance with their own separate privacy notices. For privacy information relating to those third-party websites, please consult their privacy notices as appropriate.
Please be advised that the practices described in this privacy notice apply only to information gathered online through our Website. It does not apply to information that you may submit to us offline or by third parties to which we may link or who may link to us.
You have the following rights, although these rights may be limited in some circumstances:
Ask us to send a copy of your data to you or someone else
Ask us to restrict, stop processing, or delete your data
Object to our processing of your data
Object to use of your personal data for direct marketing
Ask us to correct inaccuracies
If you have any questions concerning this notice, including how you can exercise your rights, please contact us at: contact@cognisim.com.
If we can’t resolve your issue, you can contact the relevant regulator or supervisory authority in your country.
How do you contact us?
(if you have questions about this policy or to exercise your rights)
INTRODUCTION
We are CogniSim AB, a company with registration number 559479-2987, and with registered address at Solvallavägen 46a, Sundbyberg, 17237, Sweden (“we”, “us” or “our”). We are a video game studio startup, with a mission to reinvent strategy gaming by implementing cutting-edge AI.
When we decide the means or purpose of processing your personal data, we are the data "controller."
(Last updated January 2025)
