By creating an account and providing your email address and password, you agree to our collection, storage, and use of your personal data in accordance with our Privacy Policy. This data will be used to grant you access to the game and to inform you of updates and developments. You have the right to request access to your personal data, as well as the right to request its correction or deletion. If you have any questions or concerns about our data practices, please contact us at [email protected].

At Picksels, we take your privacy seriously. We understand that your personal data is important and we are committed to protecting it.

When you create an account and play our game, we may collect certain information from you to grant you access to the game, improve the player’s gaming experience and to inform you of updates and developments.

By downloading or playing the Game, accessing and/or using the Services, and/or creating a PICKSELS account, you accept and agree to be bound by the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy.

We do not share or transfer your personal data to any third parties. We may share non-personal or aggregate data with third parties for research or analysis, but this will not include any personally identifying information.

We understand that you may have concerns about your personal data and we respect your right to access, correct, or delete it at any time. If you would like to request access to your personal data or request that it be deleted, please contact us at [email protected]. We will take steps to delete your data as soon as reasonably possible.

We take the necessary measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee the security of any information transmitted over the internet and we are not responsible for any unauthorized access to your personal data.

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make changes to the policy, we will notify you by posting the updated policy on our website.

If you have any questions or concerns about our data practices, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are committed to protecting your privacy and will do everything we can to address your concerns.

Picksels is committed to protecting and respecting the personal data that it collects and processes. In this context, Picksels complies with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (“GDPR”) and the Belgian Act of 30 July 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data.

The “data controller” for the purposes of applicable data protection laws to the “Picksels” website and “The Mines” game is:

Picksels SRL

Avenue de Jette, 99 1000 Brussels (Belgium)

Email: [email protected]

Belgian Company number: 0779.788.344

(“Picksels”, “we” or “us”)

“Personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

Picksels collects personal data only when necessary to fulfil a specific function. These data will not be reused for any other purpose.

Potentially the following data are collected:

- Username

- Name and email address of the person

- Password of the person

- Public address of the person

- IP address

- Datas linked to your virtual characters (name, corporations, level,…)

- Login and logout dates

- Any other information that you have voluntarily transmitted to us

- information concerning web pages visited on the website

The purpose for which we use your personal data and the legal basis we rely on to do so are as follows:

- If you have given us your consent to use it for submitting a contact form, receiving communications, playing The Mines and/or interacting with you;

- If it is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; this includes when you exercise your legal rights under data protection law, to verify your identity;

- If it is necessary for our legitimate interest, such as improving the Picksels website or The Mines.

Our website uses cookies to improve your navigation experience and to help us improve our website. A “cookie” is a small piece of data that the website asks your browser to store on your computer or mobile device. The cookies we use allow us to measure the audience of our website over time and store your language preferences to tailor your user experience. We don’t use any type of tracking cookie, or any similar mechanism that enables to identify visitors and visitors’ behavior.

Most browsers support cookies, but you can set your browser to decline them and you can delete them whenever you like. Please be aware that if you delete cookies or block them this will not prevent you from accessing the content of the website.

You can learn more about cookies on http://www.allaboutcookies.org

We will keep your personal data as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for and as long as we need it to meet our legal obligations.

We want to be clear that we do not sell your personal data.

We do not share your personal data with any third party without your consent, except when it’s necessary for processing or responding to your request or if we are required to do so by law.

The user confirms his acceptance and gives his clear, explicit and unequivocal consent for the processing of his data.

The user has the right to withdraw his consent at any time.

By using the services of Picksels website and/or the game “The Mines” the user declares, in accordance with Belgian and European civil law, that he is competent to exercise his rights, or - if he is a minor - that he has obtained the prior valid consent of his parents or legal guardians.

Picksels protects the privacy of minors and encourages parents or legal guardians to become actively involved in their children's online activities.

Minors under 16 years of age may under no circumstances give their own consent to the processing of their personal data for the purposes of using this site.

Picksels cannot be held liable if the services would be used without the above supervision and permission.

The collected and processed personal data are reserved for the exclusive use of the data controller. Under no circumstances will such data be transferred to a third party or to a State outside the European Union.

What rights can you exercise over the data concerning you?

The user may assert the rights granted to him/her below by sending a signed and dated request to the data controller, accompanied by a copy of both sides of his/her identity card, which he/she gives on the spot or which he/she sends by post to the following address -

Picksels SRL

Avenue de Jette, 99 1000 Brussels (Belgium)

Email : [email protected]

- or by any other means of telecommunication.

If you do not obtain satisfaction regarding request related to your personal data, you can contact us by email: [email protected], or by letter to the following address: Data Protection, Picksels srl, Avenue de Jette 99 - 1000 Brussels (Belgium).

The user of the web portal has the right to obtain from the data controller the disclosure, in an intelligible form, of the data undergoing processing, together with any information available on the origin of such processing.

The information shall be supplied without delay and no later than thirty days after receipt of the request.

The user may, without charge, have rectified any inaccurate personal data pertaining to him and also have rectified or deleted any personal data concerning him which, taking into account the reason for the processing, is incomplete or not relevant or whose recording, disclosure or storage is prohibited or which has been retained beyond the authorized period.

Any rectifications or erasures of data requested must be notified, by the data controller, within one month of the request being submitted, to the user as well as to those persons to whom the incorrect, incomplete and irrelevant data were forwarded, unless notification to these recipients proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort.

The user has the right to object, for serious and legitimate grounds relating to a particular situation, to the data concerning him being processed unless they are collected to comply with a legal obligation, if they are necessary for the performance of a contract to which the user is a party or if they are used for a purpose for which the user has undoubtedly given his consent.

In the event of justified opposition, the processing implemented by the data controller may no longer involve those data.

The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided, where:

the processing is based on consent or on a contract ;
the processing is carried out by automated means.

The user has the right to have his personal data deleted. He also has the right to have the use of his personal data limited. In either case, the conditions laid down by the regulation must be met. The user can request the deletion of his personal data by the following link:

The data protection policy does not prejudice the rights of Picksels with respect to certain users vis-à-vis whom a contract, the law or any other document of a contractual, regulatory or legal nature authorizes more extensive operations. In this case, the standard most favorable to Picksels applies.

These conditions of use are governed by Belgian law and the European regulation. Any dispute arising out of or related to the use of this service will be subject to conciliation. If unsuccessful, the dispute shall be submitted to the jurisdiction of the french-speaking courts of Brussels (Belgium).

A printed version of this agreement and any warning issued in electronic form will be accepted in any judicial or administrative proceedings arising out of or related to this agreement, to the same extent and under the same conditions as other commercial records and documents created and maintained in printed form.