Effective date: 2026-11-05
Black Alive Privacy Policy
1. Controller
This Privacy Policy explains how UNIPLUS, storitve in trgovina, d.o.o., Cesta v Lipovce 3B, 1358 Log pri Brezovici, Slovenia (“UNIPLUS”, “Black Alive”, “we”) processes personal data in connection with the Black Alive website, installed web application, digital worlds, purchases and customer support.
UNIPLUS is the controller where it determines the purposes and means of processing. Contact: support@blackalive.com.
2. Data used for accounts, purchases and support
For a purchase through Paddle, payment details are handled by Paddle and the payment participants involved in Checkout. UNIPLUS does not store full payment-card credentials on UNIPLUS servers. Black Alive uses account and order information, product and transaction identifiers, amounts, currencies, payment/refund status and recorded consent information to provide access, reconcile transactions and support the product. Paddle describes its own handling of buyer and payment data in its Privacy Notice: https://www.paddle.com/legal/privacy.
Depending on how you use Black Alive, we may process:
- Website/security data: IP address, date/time, requested URL, browser/user-agent, response status and similar technical server-log data required for operation, security and troubleshooting.
- Local device data: browser local storage and Cache Storage used for functional settings such as language, device profile and downloaded media packs. These are primarily stored on your device.
- Microphone input: some worlds may request microphone permission to detect blowing or similar interaction. The feature is designed to process microphone input locally in the browser. UNIPLUS does not intentionally record, upload or store microphone audio for this feature.
- Purchase/transaction data: name, email, country, product, price, currency, transaction/payment reference, payment/refund/chargeback status and data required to provide or restore access.
- Payment data: earlier purchases may have used Stripe Managed Payments / Link. For those earlier purchases, full card credentials are handled by Stripe and relevant financial institutions and are not stored by UNIPLUS on Black Alive servers. UNIPLUS receives transaction, entitlement, refund and reconciliation data needed to complete the sale, provide access, support the product and keep required records.
- Account and sign-in data: email address, account identifier, verification timestamps, hashed email sign-in codes, code-attempt records and hashed server-session tokens. Secure, essential cookies maintain your session and protect requests against forgery.
- Review data: the public name you choose, review text, selected World, language, submission time, account identifier and moderation status. Reviews are checked by UNIPLUS before publication. If approved, your chosen name and review are public on the website and in the app; your account email is not published. A review does not have to use your real name.
- Support/withdrawal data: information you provide when contacting us, requesting a refund, exercising withdrawal rights or reporting a problem, together with related order or technical data.
We do not intentionally collect special-category personal data through ordinary use of Black Alive.
3. Purposes and legal bases
We process personal data where necessary to provide the service and perform a contract; take requested pre-contract steps; process payments/refunds/access restoration; comply with legal obligations; operate and secure the service based on legitimate interests; respond to support and rights requests; and establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
Where processing relies on consent, consent may be withdrawn at any time without affecting prior lawful processing.
Account and session processing is necessary to provide the account service you request. Review submission and publication are voluntary and based on your consent to publication; moderation and abuse prevention serve our legitimate interests in maintaining a useful, trustworthy feedback channel. You may withdraw publication consent or request removal by emailing support@blackalive.com. This does not affect processing that was lawful before withdrawal.
4. Paddle and earlier payment providers
UNIPLUS controls Black Alive accounts, product access, support and the corresponding records. Paddle is the seller and separately determines payment-related processing for its role under its Privacy Notice. Order/account references and transaction, payment and refund information are exchanged to connect the purchase with access and handle support. Stripe/Link records remain associated with earlier purchases; introducing Paddle does not migrate those historical records.
5. Service providers
We may use providers needed to operate Black Alive, including:
- hosting/infrastructure providers in the EU, currently including Hetzner in Germany;
- Paddle for new Paddle transactions, with its own payment participants under its Privacy Notice;
- Stripe/Link for earlier transactions made through those providers;
- Cloudflare for domain/DNS functions and, when enabled, email routing;
- Google/Gmail as the destination mailbox for Black Alive support correspondence;
- Resend for sending transactional and legally required email confirmations;
- professional advisers, accountants and public authorities where necessary or legally required.
Providers receive only information reasonably needed for their role and are subject to applicable safeguards.
6. International transfers
Some providers may process data outside the EEA. Where required, transfers rely on an adequacy decision, Standard Contractual Clauses or another lawful mechanism.
7. Local storage, cookies and tracking
Black Alive currently uses browser storage primarily for functional purposes such as language selection, local world media, device settings and access-related functionality.
The Global product currently does not use third-party advertising pixels or cross-site behavioural advertising trackers. Payment providers may use technologies necessary for payment security, fraud prevention and checkout operation under their own policies.
Black Alive keeps anonymous daily aggregates of public-page requests, referral domains, countries, media requests and response bytes. It also counts the first successful world start per page, public Golden Fish purchase-button clicks, installation UI clicks, supported Chromium appinstalled events, iOS installation-instruction views and standalone /app/ opens. These are aggregate event counts, not unique people, visits or proof of a completed installation. Short allowlisted UTM source, medium and campaign codes on requested page URLs are counted as landing-campaign totals; other query data and referral paths are discarded. Do not put personal information in campaign codes. No analytics cookies, browser storage, fingerprint, visitor recognition, raw IP or IP hash is used. Anonymous event requests omit account cookies and contain only a fixed event name and a random per-event nonce. Nonces are held only in memory for up to ten minutes to suppress duplicates, never stored in the database or linked across visits. Only daily totals are retained for 30 UTC calendar days; offline or blocked events can be missed. The connection IP is used transiently for local GeoIP country lookup and is not retained or hashed for analytics. The owner-only dashboard also summarizes existing verified Paddle Live checkout, payment and refund records. It separates paid sales, zero-value review purchases and historical Stripe data, and does not infer payment fees or net revenue. Operational order, consent and payment records retain their existing purposes and retention rules.
We use our legitimate interest in understanding overall service demand and media delivery (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)) for the limited transient processing needed to form these totals. We discard identifying data and keep no individual analytics profiles. This implementation adds only the anonymous aggregate requests described above, not advertising or cross-site tracking. Do Not Track (DNT: 1) and Global Privacy Control (Sec-GPC: 1) exclude requests from these statistics. Essential sign-in and request-protection cookies, language preferences and requested world storage retain their existing functional purposes. You may object to legitimate-interest processing at support@blackalive.com. Cookieless operation is not a general exemption for tracking.
Country totals use the locally installed DB-IP IP to Country Lite database. Only the country code is kept in daily statistics; the request IP is not stored or hashed in analytics, and no visitor IP is sent to DB-IP. IP geolocation is approximate and may reflect a VPN or proxy. IP Geolocation by DB-IP · CC BY 4.0. The database is used without changes and is provided without warranties.
8. Retention
We keep personal data only as long as necessary. Transaction/accounting records are retained for statutory periods. Support/dispute records are retained as reasonably needed to resolve matters and protect legal rights. Security logs are retained for a limited period appropriate to security and troubleshooting. Data stored locally on your device remains until replaced, expired under browser rules or cleared by you or your browser.
Account data is retained while the account remains active or as needed to address an account-deletion request and applicable legal claims. Sign-in codes expire after 10 minutes and sessions after seven days. Pending and rejected reviews are retained for up to 90 days unless needed to resolve abuse or a legal claim; approved reviews are retained while published, subject to removal requests. Ask support to remove a review or close an account.
Delivery-audit, consent and payment-related records are retained according to their purpose and applicable obligations. Retention is reviewed, including expiry and lawful erasure or anonymisation requests; records may be retained where continued retention is legally justified. An append-only operational audit does not exclude applicable data-protection rights. No separate fixed retention period for these new records is stated here.
9. Your rights
Subject to applicable law, you may request access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability, objection to legitimate-interest processing, and withdrawal of consent where applicable. Contact support@blackalive.com.
You may also complain to the Information Commissioner of the Republic of Slovenia, Dunajska cesta 22, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, email: gp.ip@ip-rs.si.
10. United States privacy
Black Alive does not currently sell personal information or use personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising. Residents of U.S. states with applicable additional privacy rights may contact support@blackalive.com.
11. Children
Black Alive is not designed to collect personal data from children. A person who lacks legal capacity to purchase should purchase only through a parent or legal guardian.
12. Security
We use reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal data. No internet service can guarantee absolute security.
13. Versions and contact
Each document has its own version and effective date. Earlier purchase/consent snapshots remain unchanged. Contact: support@blackalive.com.