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Privacy Policy
Version 1.3 - 28/02/2023
Introduction
Space Casino ("we", "us") is owned and operated by STech European Entertainment Limited, a company incorporated in Malta with company number C74527 whose registered address is Level 3, Tower Business Centre, Tower street, Swatar Birkirkara BKR4013, Malta. We own and operate Space Casino an online sportsbook and casino available at URL spacecasino.com
'Personal Data' is data that may identify you or could be used to do so alongside other data, and we will collect such data in order to provide our services to you. This may include without limitation your name, gender, date of birth, residential address, telephone number, email address and IP address. Additional information such as the browsers and devices you use to access our services, bank account details and payment method information may also be held.
We adhere to the data protection standards of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulations and take data protection seriously. We also adhere to local laws and regulations specifying our obligations as data controller and/or gambling operator.
In this Privacy Policy we explain more about the data we collect, how we use it, your rights to your personal data and the process for raising complaints.
Data Controller
Space Casino is the data controller for your use of Space Casino.
Full name of Legal entity: STech European Entertainment Limited (C74527)
Email address: dpo-eu@spacecasino.com
Data Collection
Space Casino collects certain mandatory elements of your personal data in order to provide you with the services of Space Casino, an online sportsbook and casino and for us to comply with law and regulations as well as to be able to offer an enhanced product and send you personalised offers. Without collecting your personal data, we would be unable to offer you our services or your use of our services would be severely restricted.
Purpose for collecting your data
Identification data and contact details - to register you with an account and assess your eligibility to use our service and carry out appropriate identification checks
Verification data - verification of your identity and due diligence checks
Financial data - process payments to and from you.
Gaming data - to administer and maintain your account, and to provide you with essential tools designed to ensure that you gamble responsibly
Communication data - to enable us to communicate with you
Profile data - to improve our product and service, for segmentation for anti-money laundering (AML) and social responsibility measures and for targeted marketing. We carry out profiling of our customers and their activities using automated systems. All final decisions taken based on these profiles and information are taken by human-decision making processes.
Technical data - to ensure Space Casino is not accessed from a restricted or high-risk country or used through proxies or VPNs, to ensure that bonuses are not abused, to prevent application fraud, to improve website functionality, to troubleshoot technical issues and to create more products for different platforms.
Cookies data - see our Cookie policy
Marketing communication data - to provide you with promotional materials
via different communication channels including affiliates.
If you do not wish to receive marketing, promotional or sales material from Space Casino, you may contact us to opt-out from this type of communication. You will always be able to opt-out from promotional communications whilst remaining able to enjoy full use of our sportsbook and casino.
You are not able to opt out of some of the other ways in which we use your personal data where this use is essential, such as providing you with information about gambling responsibly, and protecting you against fraud, money laundering and other illegal activity.
Legal Basis for collecting your data
We process your data to be able to provide service as per our Terms & Conditions, to comply with AML laws and the requirements of our remote/online gambling licence, for marketing purposes (with consent) and for other legitimate interests.
Whom do we share your data with
Space Casino may pass on data to trusted 3rd party providers such as payment, game, marketing, governmental or regulatory, communication and AML/Fraud verification tools. Such disclosures to trusted third parties allows us to provide you with the best user experience on our site and shall not be used for the purposes of marketing other goods or services to you.
Data will only be shared with a third party if a Data Protection Agreement has been entered and if data is disclosed to a third-party located outside of EU or the UK, the Data Protection Agreement will as a minimum include the standard contractual clauses set by the European Commission. These providers will only have access to the information necessary to perform these limited functions on our behalf and are also required to protect and secure your information.
Third parties shall own and control the information that we provide to them and shall therefore be “data controllers” as defined in data protection law. Although we cannot accept responsibility for the actions of third parties, our trusted third parties have strict policies regarding the safeguarding and use of personal information.
Please note that in passing on your Personal Data to aforementioned trusted third parties, it may require the transfer of your Personal Data out of the UK and/or European Economic Area (EEA); in such instances we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to that personal data by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards in implemented:
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Space Casino may transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an “adequate” level of protection for personal data by the European Commission. For further details, see here or
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Space Casino may use specific standardised contractual clauses contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe. For further details, see here
Further information on these safeguards and related matters is available from the following website of Malta’s Office of the Information and Data Protection Commissioner
Your rights
You retain important rights to the data provided to us. Your personal data shall be provided to us by yourself, and we shall never pass on this data to another customer.
As a customer of Space Casino, you are entitled to:
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Request access to all data held by us about you - we will provide you with a copy of all data we hold about you no later than one month after your request;
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Right to require a correction to the data that we hold about you - please contact us so that we can correct any mistake in the data we hold about you as a result of change in your details or error;
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Require that we erase any personal data held about you - we will only be able to delete your personal data where we no longer need to retain it to achieve the purpose for which it was originally collected, and where we are no longer under a legal or regulatory obligation to retain the data for our records;
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Withdraw consent for data processing - if you exercise this right against Space Casino, we will no longer process your personal data, but this will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before you withdrew consent. You may no longer be able to use Space Casino, or your usage of Space Casino may be severely restricted. You may withdraw consent for data processing for marketing purposes only;
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Data portability – on request, we shall send you a copy of any personal data held by us in a machine-readable format so that we or you may easily transfer this data to another data controller.
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Restrict processing of your personal data; and
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Object to our processing of your personal data.
Space Casino reserves the right to retain and pass on any information to the police and any public, regulatory, sporting or other relevant authority as may be required in order to carry out any investigation and prosecution into any criminal matters or other type of incident being investigated by a relevant authority, and to deny you your data protection rights where there are other overriding objectives. For the same purposes, the exercise of your rights may be restricted.
Please contact our Customer Experience team if you wish to exercise any of your data protection rights or have any questions about your data protection rights or our Data Protection Officer (dpo-eu@spacecasino.com.
Retention Period
Following closure of your account, Space Casino retains some elements of personal data for a period of minimum 5 years and up to 10 years to meet our legal obligations towards Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Countering Finance of Terrorism (CFT), and for company and taxation record-keeping obligations.
We will also keep personal data for the purpose of presenting and processing in case of a litigation or a legal process which you, the relevant authorities or us may be party to, arising from our provision of services to you.
All this information is stored in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Your Right to Complain
Please contact our Customer Experience team if you have any concerns or complaints pertaining to your personal data. Alternatively, our DPO can be contacted at dpo-eu@spacecasino.com.
You may also contact the Information and Data Protection Commission (“IDPC”) on email idpc.info@idpc.org.mt, telephone (+356) 2328 7100 or through their website. However, we would truly appreciate the opportunity to address your issues before you contact the IDPC, so kindly contact us in the first instance.
Data Security and Encryption
Your Personal Data is held on servers chosen and designed to be secure and resilient. In the unlikely event of a breach of your personal data, the incident would be handled in accordance with our data breach policy.
Please note that email communications with us are not encrypted or otherwise secured against outside interference, so discretion should be used when providing personal details via email.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
Space Casino reserves the right to amend the Privacy Policy from time to time, and you will be notified by email or when you next log in to the Website should any changes be made.