1. Introduction
Welcome to Transport Empire Manager ("Transport Empire Manager", "TEM", "the Game", "we", "us", or "our").
We are committed to protecting your personal data and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store and protect information when you use Transport Empire Manager and its associated services.
This Privacy Policy applies to the Transport Empire Manager game available on Android and iOS, the website transportempiremanager.com, and related online services operated by Transport Empire Manager.
2. Data We Collect
Depending on how you use Transport Empire Manager, we may collect and process different categories of information.
2.1 Account Information
Account information may include:
- Email address.
- Username or player name.
- Company name.
- Player ID, UUID or other internal account identifiers.
- Account creation date and account status.
- Language, country or regional preferences.
Transport Empire Manager may also allow users to begin playing using a guest account. Guest accounts may have limited account recovery capabilities until they are secured or associated with account credentials.
2.2 Gameplay Information
Because Transport Empire Manager is a persistent online management game, we process information required to maintain your company and game progress.
This may include:
- Company level, experience and progress.
- Game statistics.
- Vehicles owned or operated.
- Routes, deliveries, jobs and transport activity.
- Virtual money, diamonds and other virtual currencies or items.
- Factories and other in-game assets.
- Licenses and unlocked game features.
- Corporation membership and corporation activity.
- Projects, campaigns and events.
- Rankings and achievements.
- Other gameplay history necessary to operate game systems.
2.3 Technical and Device Information
When you use the Game or website, certain technical information may be processed automatically.
This may include:
- Device type and platform.
- Operating system.
- Application version.
- Device or application identifiers.
- Language and regional settings.
- IP address and network information transmitted during normal internet communication.
- Diagnostic and error information.
- Application performance information.
- Security and abuse-prevention information.
2.4 Support and Communication Information
If you contact Transport Empire Manager for support, we may process information that you voluntarily provide to us.
This may include:
- Your email address.
- Your player ID or UUID.
- Your username or company name.
- Your device platform.
- The content of your support request.
- Screenshots or other files you choose to provide.
- Information necessary to investigate the reported issue.
3. How We Use Your Information
We process information primarily to operate, maintain, secure and improve Transport Empire Manager.
Information may be used to:
- Create and manage player accounts.
- Authenticate users and maintain account access.
- Save and restore game progress.
- Process gameplay actions.
- Maintain the in-game economy.
- Operate vehicles, routes, factories and other game systems.
- Provide multiplayer functionality.
- Operate corporations, rankings, campaigns, events and projects.
- Provide customer and technical support.
- Investigate bugs and technical problems.
- Improve game stability and performance.
- Develop and improve game features.
- Prevent cheating, exploitation, fraud and abuse.
- Protect accounts and the security of the Game.
- Understand how the Game and website are used.
- Provide advertising where applicable.
- Comply with applicable legal obligations.
4. Cookies and Local Storage
The Transport Empire Manager website may use cookies, local storage and similar browser technologies to provide functionality and remember preferences.
These technologies may be used for purposes including:
- Maintaining website or account sessions.
- Remembering user preferences.
- Remembering cookie and privacy choices.
- Security and abuse prevention.
- Analytics and website performance measurement where applicable.
For example, our website may use browser local storage to remember that you accepted the cookie notice. This prevents the notice from being displayed again on every page or refresh.
You may delete cookies and locally stored website information through your browser settings. Removing this information may cause certain preferences to be reset.
5. User Account Management
5.1 Account Creation
You may create an account in order to maintain and recover your Transport Empire Manager progress across supported devices.
5.2 Guest Accounts
Transport Empire Manager may allow gameplay using a guest account. Guest account progress may be associated with a particular installation or device and may be more difficult or impossible to recover if the application is removed, the device is lost, or the device is changed before the account is secured.
5.3 Account Reset
The Game may provide an account reset option. Resetting game progress is different from deleting the underlying account and may reset gameplay information while preserving certain account information.
5.4 Account Deletion
You may request permanent account deletion through the account deletion functionality available inside the Game or through our Account Deletion page.
Account deletion may permanently remove or anonymize account information, game progress, vehicles, virtual currencies, virtual items, company data and other information associated with the account.
Certain information may be retained where reasonably necessary for legal compliance, accounting, security, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, enforcement of our terms, or other legitimate purposes.
Information may also remain temporarily in backups until those backups are automatically rotated or deleted.
6. Multiplayer and Social Features
Transport Empire Manager is a multiplayer game and includes features that allow players to interact with each other.
Certain gameplay information is therefore intentionally visible to other players.
This may include:
- Player name.
- Company name.
- Company statistics.
- Company progress.
- Rankings.
- Corporation membership.
- Corporation-related activity.
- Other gameplay information designed to be public within the Game.
The Game may also provide chat, messaging or other communication features. Messages and content submitted through these features may be stored and processed as necessary to provide the service, enforce community rules, investigate reports and prevent abuse.
Please do not share sensitive personal information through public profiles, chat, corporations or other multiplayer areas.
7. In-App Purchases and Subscriptions
Transport Empire Manager may offer virtual currency, virtual items, subscriptions and other digital purchases.
Purchases made through the Android or iOS versions of Transport Empire Manager are processed through the relevant application store, including Google Play and the Apple App Store.
We do not directly receive or store your complete payment card details.
We may receive transaction-related information from the relevant application store that is necessary to:
- Verify purchases.
- Deliver purchased content.
- Activate subscriptions or other entitlements.
- Restore eligible purchases.
- Prevent fraudulent transactions.
- Investigate purchase-related support requests.
- Maintain appropriate transaction records.
Google Play and the Apple App Store process payment information according to their own terms and privacy policies.
8. Advertising and Analytics
Transport Empire Manager may use advertising, analytics and measurement technologies to support the Game, understand how it is used and improve our services.
These services may process technical information such as:
- Device or application identifiers.
- Advertising identifiers where available.
- Application interactions.
- Game or website usage information.
- Advertisement impressions and interactions.
- Technical and performance information.
- Approximate location derived from technical information where applicable.
The availability and personalization of advertising may depend on your platform, device settings, region, age, consent choices and applicable law.
Where consent is required by law or platform rules, advertising or analytics technologies requiring such consent are used only after the appropriate consent has been obtained.
Users may be able to manage advertising personalization through their device, Google, Apple or other applicable privacy settings.
9. Push Notifications
Transport Empire Manager may send push notifications if notifications are enabled on your device.
Notifications may include information about:
- Gameplay activity.
- Vehicle or delivery status.
- Messages and social activity.
- Corporation activity.
- Events and campaigns.
- Account-related information.
- Other relevant game updates.
Notification delivery may require processing a push notification token associated with your application installation.
You can disable push notifications at any time through your device settings and, where available, through notification settings inside the Game.
10. Social Media Publishing
Transport Empire Manager publishes promotional videos, images, game updates and announcements about in-game events to official Transport Empire Manager accounts on social media platforms such as TikTok, Facebook and Instagram.
This is a one-way publishing process involving content created or selected by Transport Empire Manager for publication to our own official accounts.
Player account information is not intentionally transmitted to these social media platforms as part of this publishing process.
11. TikTok Integration
Transport Empire Manager uses TikTok Login Kit and the TikTok Content Posting API to publish videos to the official Transport Empire Manager TikTok account.
This integration involves only the official TikTok account owned and operated by Transport Empire Manager.
11.1 What Is Accessed
When the account owner authorizes the integration, TikTok provides access to basic profile information associated with the authorized account, such as display name, username and avatar, together with permission to publish videos to that account.
We may display this profile information on our internal publishing interface so that it is clear which TikTok account is currently authorized to receive published content.
11.2 What Is Stored
We store authorization information issued by TikTok that is required to maintain the integration.
This may include:
- Access token.
- Refresh token.
- Token expiry dates.
- The authorized TikTok account identifier.
This information is stored on systems controlled by us and is used solely for operating the authorized TikTok publishing integration.
11.3 What Is Not Accessed
Through the TikTok Content Posting integration, we do not read, collect or store information about:
- TikTok viewers.
- TikTok followers.
- User comments.
- Private messages.
- Unrelated TikTok users.
We do not use this integration to post content on behalf of Transport Empire Manager players or other individuals.
11.4 Transport Empire Manager Player Data
Personal data belonging to Transport Empire Manager players is not transmitted to TikTok through the Content Posting API integration.
11.5 Revoking TikTok Access
Authorization for the TikTok integration may be withdrawn at any time through the relevant TikTok account settings or through our internal administration functionality.
When authorization is revoked through our systems, we may call TikTok's token revocation functionality and remove the stored authorization tokens associated with the integration.
11.6 Published Content
Content published through this integration consists of promotional or informational content created or selected by Transport Empire Manager for publication on our official TikTok account.
Where applicable, content created or materially modified using artificial intelligence may be labelled or disclosed as AI-generated in accordance with TikTok's applicable policies and requirements.
12. Third-Party Services
Transport Empire Manager relies on third-party platforms and service providers to operate certain parts of the Game, website and associated services.
These services may be used for purposes including:
- Distribution of the Game through application stores.
- Processing and verification of in-app purchases and subscriptions.
- Advertising and advertising measurement.
- Analytics and performance measurement.
- Application functionality and infrastructure.
- Push notification delivery.
- Social media publishing.
- Website hosting and technical infrastructure.
Third-party providers may process information according to their own privacy policies, terms and legal obligations.
Depending on the platform and features you use, these providers may include companies such as Google, Apple, TikTok and Meta, as well as other technical service providers required to operate Transport Empire Manager.
We encourage users to review the privacy settings and privacy policies of third-party services they use in connection with the Game.
13. Data Sharing and Disclosure
Transport Empire Manager does not sell your personal data.
We may share or make information available to third parties only where reasonably necessary to operate the Game and associated services, protect our users and systems, or comply with applicable law.
Information may be disclosed to:
- Service providers: companies that provide hosting, infrastructure, analytics, advertising, notification delivery or other technical services.
- Application stores and payment providers: where necessary to process, verify or support purchases and subscriptions.
- Other players: where information is intentionally part of the multiplayer experience, such as player names, company names, rankings, corporation membership and gameplay statistics.
- Authorities and regulators: where disclosure is required by applicable law, regulation, court order or another valid legal process.
- Security and fraud-prevention parties: where reasonably necessary to investigate fraud, cheating, abuse, unauthorized access or threats to the security of the service.
We may also disclose information where reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of Transport Empire Manager, our users or others.
14. Legal Basis for Processing
Where the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), European data protection law or similar legislation applies, we process personal data only where an appropriate legal basis exists.
Depending on the circumstances, this may include:
- Performance of a contract: processing necessary to create and maintain your account, save your game progress and provide the features and services you request.
- Legitimate interests: processing necessary to operate, maintain, secure and improve Transport Empire Manager, provide support, prevent fraud and abuse, investigate technical problems and understand service performance.
- Consent: where you have provided consent for specific processing activities and consent is required by applicable law.
- Legal obligations: where processing or retention of information is required to comply with applicable laws, regulations or valid legal requests.
Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent where applicable. Withdrawal of consent does not affect processing that was lawful before consent was withdrawn.
15. Data Retention
We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
The appropriate retention period depends on the type of information and the reason it is processed.
For example, information may be retained while necessary to:
- Maintain an active player account.
- Preserve game progress.
- Provide multiplayer and game functionality.
- Process and verify purchases.
- Provide customer support.
- Maintain the security and integrity of the Game.
- Prevent fraud, cheating and abuse.
- Resolve disputes.
- Comply with accounting, legal or regulatory obligations.
When information is no longer reasonably required, it may be deleted, anonymized or otherwise removed from active systems.
Some information may remain temporarily in backups, system logs or disaster recovery systems until those records are automatically rotated, overwritten or deleted.
16. International Data Transfers
Transport Empire Manager is available internationally and may use service providers that operate in different countries.
As a result, information may be processed in countries other than the country in which you live, including countries outside the European Economic Area.
Where required by applicable data protection law, appropriate safeguards are used for international transfers of personal data.
These safeguards may include contractual protections, adequacy decisions or other legally recognized transfer mechanisms.
17. Data Security
We take reasonable technical and organizational measures intended to protect information against unauthorized access, misuse, alteration, disclosure, loss or destruction.
Security measures may include access restrictions, authentication mechanisms, technical monitoring and other measures appropriate to the nature of the systems and information involved.
However, no internet-connected service, transmission method or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Users are also responsible for protecting their account credentials and should not intentionally share account access information with unauthorized persons.
18. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have certain rights regarding your personal data.
These rights may include the right to:
- Request access to personal data we hold about you.
- Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
- Request deletion of your personal data.
- Request restriction of certain processing activities.
- Object to certain processing based on legitimate interests.
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
- Request portability of certain personal data where applicable.
- Lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority if you believe your data protection rights have been violated.
Some rights are subject to limitations and exceptions under applicable law.
We may need to verify your identity or account ownership before processing certain requests. This helps prevent unauthorized access, modification or deletion of another player's information.
Requests concerning your personal data may be submitted through our Contact page or by email at contact@transportempiremanager.com .
Requests specifically concerning account deletion may also be submitted through our Account Deletion page.
19. Children's Privacy
Transport Empire Manager is not intended for children below the minimum age permitted to use the service under applicable law.
Users who have not reached the age of legal majority in their country should use the Game only with the permission of a parent or legal guardian where such permission is required.
We do not knowingly seek to collect personal data from children in violation of applicable data protection laws.
If we become aware that personal data has been collected from a child in circumstances that violate applicable law, we will take reasonable steps to delete or otherwise appropriately handle that information.
A parent or legal guardian who believes that a child has provided personal information inappropriately may contact us using the contact information provided below.
20. Links to External Services
Transport Empire Manager and the Transport Empire Manager website may contain links to external services.
These may include links to:
- Google Play.
- Apple App Store.
- Discord.
- YouTube.
- TikTok.
- Instagram.
- Facebook.
- Other third-party websites or services.
When you follow a link to an external service, that service operates under its own terms and privacy policy.
Transport Empire Manager is not responsible for the privacy practices, security or content of third-party websites and services that we do not control.
21. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to Transport Empire Manager, our services, legal requirements or the technologies we use.
When this Privacy Policy is updated, the "Last updated" date displayed at the top of this page will be changed accordingly.
Where required by applicable law, we may provide additional notice or request consent before material changes take effect.
We encourage users to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
22. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, the personal information associated with your account, or your privacy rights, you can contact Transport Empire Manager at:
Email: contact@transportempiremanager.com
Player support is also available through the support functionality inside Transport Empire Manager and through our official Discord community.
For account deletion requests, you may use our Account Deletion page.