GDRP Compliance

Your Privacy Matters!

We at Free Fire Community are fully committed to be transparent about the data we collect about you, how it is used and with whom it is shared.

This Privacy Policy applies when you use our website. We offer our users choices about the data we collect, use and share as described in this Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Settings and our Help Center.

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Data Controllers and Contracting Parties

Community Forum will be the controller of your personal data provided to, or collected by or for, or processed in connection with usage of our website.

As a Visitor or Member of our Services, the collection, use and sharing of your personal data is subject to this Privacy Policy (which includes our Cookie Policy and other documents referenced in this Privacy Policy) and updates.

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Change

Free Fire Community (“we” or “us”) can modify this Privacy Policy, and if we make material changes to it, we will provide notice through our Services, or by other means, to provide you the opportunity to review the changes before they become effective. If you object to any changes, you may close your account.

You acknowledge that your continued use of our Services after we publish or send a notice about our changes to this Privacy Policy means that the collection, use and sharing of your personal data is subject to the updated Privacy Policy.

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1. Data We Collect
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1.1 Data You Provide to Us
Registration

To create an account, you need to provide the following data:

1. Name
2. Short Bio
3. Primary e-mail
4. Secondary e-mail (optional)
5. Slug (to be used as a unique identifier across the website)
6. Country
7. Social media handles for Twitter, Facebook
8. Photograph

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You have choices about which information you would like to provide on your profile. All profile data except the slug can be changed at any point of time via Edit Profile.

Sign-up as a Writer / Affiliate

To sign-up as a writer or an affiliate, you need to provide the following additional information, if you are a user from outside of India:

1. Paypal account registered name
2. Paypal registered e-mail
3. Tax identification number relevant to country of residence

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Users from India wanting to sign-up as a writer or an affiliate, need to provide the following data:

1. Beneficiary Name
2. Address
3. City
4. Pincode
5. State
6. Country
7. Phone
8. E-mail ID
9. Bank Name
10. Bank Address
11. Bank Account Number
12. Bank Account Type
13. IFSC Code
14. PAN
15. GSTIN (if applicable)

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1.2 Service Use
We log usage data when you visit or otherwise use our website or app, such as when you view or click on content (e.g., news articles or slideshows) or ads (on or off our sites and apps), perform a search, install or update one of our mobile apps. We use log-ins, cookies, device information and internet protocol (“IP”) addresses to identify you and log your use. This is purely for gain insights into usage of our website and to help deliver a better experience to you.

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1.3 Cookies
As further described in our Cookie Policy, we use cookies to recognize you and/or your device(s) on, off and across our website and devices. We also allow some others to use cookies as described in our Cookie Policy. You can control cookies through your browser settings and other tools. You can also opt-out from our use of cookies and similar technologies that track your behavior on the sites of others for third party advertising. For Visitors, the opt-out is here.

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1.4 Your Device and Location
When you visit or leave our website, we receive the URL of both the site you came from and the one you go to next. We also get information about your IP address, proxy server, operating system, web browser and add-ons, device identifier and features, and/or ISP or your mobile carrier. If you use our website from a mobile device, that device will send us data about your location based on your phone settings. We will ask you to opt-in before we use GPS or other tools to identify your precise location.

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1.5 Other
Our website is dynamic, and we often introduce new features, which may require the collection of new information. If we collect materially different personal data or materially change how we use your data, we will notify you and may also modify this Privacy Policy.

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2. How We Use Your Data
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2.1 Services

We use the data that we have about you to show your profile and to make payments for users who have signed up as revenue sharing writer.

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2.2 Communications

We will contact you through email and push notifications for activity such as new articles published by authors you follow.

For users signed up as authors, we will send communication regarding action taken on articles submitted by you, such as article getting published, article sent back for review, article rejected.

Additionally, we will send periodic mails to our writers regarding revenue earned and payments made by Free Fire Community.

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2.3 Advertising

We serve you tailored ads both on our website. We offer you choices regarding personalized ads, but you cannot opt-out of seeing other ads.

We target (and measure the performance of) ads to users directly or through a variety of partners, using the following data, whether separately or combined:

Data from advertising technologies on and off our Services, like web beacons, pixels, ad tags, cookies, and device identifiers;

Member-provided information (e.g., profile, contact information, title and industry);
Data from your use of our Services (e.g., search history, feed, content you read, page visits, videos you watch, clicking on an ad, etc.), including as described in Section 1.3;
Information from advertising partners and publishers
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Info to Ad Providers

We do not share your personal data with any third-party advertisers or ad networks for their advertising except for: (i) hashed or device identifiers (to the extent they are personal data in some countries); (ii) with your separate permission or (iii) data already visible to any users of the website (e.g. profile). However, if you view or click on an ad on or off our site or apps, the ad provider will get a signal that someone visited the page that displayed the ad, and they may through the use of mechanisms such as cookies determine it is you. Advertising partners can associate personal data collected by the advertiser directly from you with our cookies and similar technologies. In such instances, we seek to contractually require such advertising partners to obtain your explicit, opt-in consent before doing so.

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2.4 Aggregate Insights

We use your data to produce and share aggregated insights that do not identify you. For example, we may use your data to generate statistics about our users, their preference in sports, to calculate ad impressions served or clicked on, or to gain visitor demographics that help in improving user experience.

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2.5 Security and Investigations

We use your data (including your communications) if we think it’s necessary for security purposes or to investigate possible fraud or other violations of our User Agreement or this Privacy Policy and/or attempts to harm our Members or Visitors.

3. How We Share Information
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3.1 Our Services

Your profile is fully visible to all members and users of our website. Additionally, articles published by writers will be fully visible to all members and users of our website.

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3.2 Legal Disclosures

It is possible that we will need to disclose information about you when required by law, subpoena, or other legal process or if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to (1) investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities or to assist government enforcement agencies; (2) enforce our agreements with you, (3) investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations, (4) protect the security or integrity of our website (such as by sharing with companies facing similar threats); or (5) exercise or protect the rights and safety of Free Fire Community, our Members, personnel, or others. We attempt to notify Members about legal demands for their personal data when appropriate in our judgment, unless prohibited by law or court order or when the request is an emergency. We may dispute such demands when we believe, in our discretion, that the requests are overbroad, vague or lack proper authority, but we do not promise to challenge every demand.

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3.3 Change in Control or Sale

We can also share your personal data as part of a sale, merger or change in control, or in preparation for any of these events. Any other entity which buys us or part of our business will have the right to continue to use your data, but only in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy unless you agree otherwise.

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4. Your Choices & Obligations
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4.1 Data Retention
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We retain your personal data while your account is in existence or as needed to provide you access to our website. Even if you only use our website once in every few weeks, we will retain your information and keep your profile open until you decide to close your account. In some cases, we choose to retain certain information (e.g., visits to sites, time spent on the website) in a depersonalized or aggregated form.

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4.2 Rights to Access and Control Your Personal Data
We ensure that you have complete rights and control over your personal data. You can control or modify the rights to your personal data in the flowing ways:

Delete Data: You can ask us to erase or delete all or some of your personal data
Change or Correct Data: You can edit some of your personal data through your account. You can also ask us to change, update or fix your data in certain cases, particularly if it’s inaccurate.
Object to, or Limit or Restrict, Use of Data: You can ask us to stop using all or some of your personal data (e.g., if we have no legal right to keep using it) or to limit our use of it (e.g., if your personal data is inaccurate or unlawfully held).
Right to Access and/or Take Your Data: You may at any time order a complete data copy, which you may transmit to another controller of the data. Your data will be delivered within 10 working days by Free Fire Community as spreadsheet files in Microsoft Excel-format. Logical relations between datasets will be preserved in form of unique identifiers. You are required to pay €1,000 + any applicable taxes on delivery for each data copy order.
Request data deletion
Visitors can contact Free Fire Community here for processing data requests listed above.

From the contact form which shows on this page, choose “Others” in the options, type in the details and your request in the subsequent steps of the guided form. Our team will reach out to you within 4 business days and process the deletion request.

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4.3 Account Closure
If you choose to close your Free Fire Community account, your personal data will generally stop being visible to others on our website within 24 hours. We generally delete closed account information within 30 days of account closure, except as noted below.

We retain your personal data even after you have closed your account if reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations (including law enforcement requests), meet regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse, enforce our User Agreement, or fulfill your request to “unsubscribe” from further messages from us. We will retain de-personalized information after your account has been closed.

Comments or published content associated with closed accounts will show a generic user as the source. Your profile may continue to be displayed in the services of others (e.g., search engine results) until they refresh their cache.

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5. Other Important Information
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5.1. Security

We implement security safeguards designed to protect your data, such as HTTPS. We regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks. However, we cannot warrant the security of any information that you send us. There is no guarantee that data may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.

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5.2. Cross-Border Data Transfers
We process data in India and Singapore and rely on legally-provided mechanisms to lawfully transfer data across borders. Countries where we process data may have laws which are different, and potentially not as protective, as the laws of your own country.

5.3 Lawful Bases for Processing
We will only collect and process personal data about you where we have lawful bases. Lawful bases include consent (where you have given consent), contract (where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you (e.g. to deliver the LinkedIn Services you have requested)) and “legitimate interests”.

Where we rely on your consent to process personal data, you have the right to withdraw or decline your consent at any time and where we rely on legitimate interests, you have the right to object. If you have any questions about the lawful bases upon which we collect and use your personal data, please contact us here

5.5. Contact Information
If you have questions or complaints regarding this Policy, please contact us here

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6. Cookie Policy
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This website uses cookies. We use cookies to personalize content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyze our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services. You consent to our cookies if you continue to use this website.

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Cookies are small text files that can be used by websites to make a user’s experience more efficient.

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The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other types of cookies, we need your permission.

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This site uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third party services that appear on our pages.

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We use a consent management platform in European countries which uses cookies to process personal data like the IP-address or browser information in order to personalise advertising for users. We value your privacy and hence ask for your permission to use your information through a pop-up. You can change/withdraw your consent by clicking on the blue settings button on the lower right corner of the page