CoFishing

CoFishing Privacy Policy

Updated at 2026-11-03

Vuto Games, the developer and publisher of CoFishing (“we,” “our,” or “us”), is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how your personal information is collected, used, and disclosed by Vuto Games in the game CoFishing.

This Privacy Policy applies to our game, CoFishing, and its online services (collectively, our “Service”). Our website, cofishinggame.com, has its own privacy policy. CoFishing is distributed through Steam, and your use of Steam, including any purchase, is also governed by the Steam Subscriber Agreement and Valve's Privacy Policy. By accessing or using our Service, you signify that you have read, understood, and agree to our collection, storage, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Definitions and key terms

To help explain things as clearly as possible in this Privacy Policy, every time any of these terms are referenced, are strictly defined as:

  • Company: when this policy mentions “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our,” it refers to Vuto Games, the developer and publisher of CoFishing, that is responsible for your information under this Privacy Policy.
  • Device: any internet connected device, such as a computer or a console, that can be used to play CoFishing and use the services.
  • IP address: Every device connected to the Internet is assigned a number known as an Internet protocol (IP) address. These numbers are usually assigned in geographic blocks. An IP address can often be used to identify the location from which a device is connecting to the Internet.
  • Personnel: refers to those individuals who are employed by Vuto Games or are under contract to perform a service on behalf of one of the parties.
  • Personal Data: any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information — including a personal identification number — allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.
  • Service: refers to the game CoFishing and its online services provided by Vuto Games.
  • Steam: the platform operated by Valve Corporation through which CoFishing is distributed, and through which you sign in and make any purchase.
  • Third-party service: refers to the platforms and service providers, such as Steam, that make parts of the Service work.
  • Website: CoFishing's site, which can be accessed via this URL: https://cofishinggame.com
  • You: a person who plays CoFishing or uses the Service.

What Information Do We Collect?

We collect information from you when you play CoFishing, play online with others, or contact us.

  • Steam account information: your Steam ID, your Steam display name and that you own the game, provided by Steam when you start CoFishing.
  • Network information: your IP address and connection data, used to connect you with other players in online sessions.
  • Voice chat: your voice, when you use in-game voice chat, transmitted to the other players in your session.
  • Gameplay and save data: your progress, character, tackle, inventory, skills, catches and game settings.
  • Crash reports and technical data: your device's hardware, operating system, game version and performance, and logs sent when the game crashes.
  • Email addresses: when you contact us or ask to receive news from us.

How Do We Use The Information We Collect?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

  • To run the game and its online services: online sessions with other players, voice chat, and saving your progress
  • To personalize your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs)
  • To improve our game (we continually strive to improve the game based on the information and feedback we receive from you, including crash reports)
  • To improve customer service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs)
  • To protect the game and its players against cheating and abuse
  • To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other game feature
  • To send periodic emails

Information We Receive From Steam

When you start CoFishing, Steam tells us your Steam ID, your Steam display name and that you own the game. All purchases are made through Steam: Steam processes your payment, and we never receive your payment card or other financial details. Steam's handling of your information is described in Valve's Privacy Policy.

What Other Players See

When you play online, the other players in your session see your Steam display name and your in-game character, and hear you if you use voice chat.

Do we share the information we collect with third parties?

We do not sell your information and we do not share it with advertisers. We may share it with our current and future affiliated companies, and if we are involved in a merger, asset sale or other business reorganization, we may also share or transfer your personal and non-personal information to our successors-in-interest.

We may engage trusted third party service providers to perform functions and provide services to us, such as Steam (sign-in, online sessions, achievements and cloud saves), hosting and maintaining our servers, database storage and management, crash reporting, e-mail management and customer service. We will likely share your personal information, and possibly some non-personal information, with these third parties to enable them to perform these services for us and for you.

We may also disclose personal and non-personal information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate in order to respond to claims, legal process (including subpoenas), to protect our rights and interests or those of a third party, the safety of the public or any person, to prevent or stop any illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity, or to otherwise comply with applicable court orders, laws, rules and regulations.

How Do We Use Your Email Address?

We use the email address you give us to reply to you and, if you asked for it, to send you news about CoFishing. You can cancel your participation in any of these email lists at any time by clicking on the opt-out link or other unsubscribe option that is included in the respective email. We only send emails to people who have authorized us to contact them. We do not send unsolicited commercial emails, because we hate spam as much as you do.

How Long Do We Keep Your Information?

We keep your information only so long as we need it to provide CoFishing to you and fulfill the purposes described in this policy. This is also the case for anyone that we share your information with and who carries out services on our behalf. When we no longer need to use your information and there is no need for us to keep it to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, we’ll either remove it from our systems or depersonalize it so that we can't identify you.

How Do We Protect Your Information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information. Access to it is limited to those authorized with special access rights, who are required to keep the information confidential. Payments are handled by Steam, so we never hold your payment details. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the absolute security of any information you transmit to Vuto Games or guarantee that your information on the Service may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by a breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.

Could my information be transferred to other countries?

Information collected through the game, through direct interactions with you, or from use of our help services may be transferred from time to time to our offices or personnel, or to third parties, located throughout the world, and may be viewed and hosted anywhere in the world, including countries that may not have laws of general applicability regulating the use and transfer of such data. To the fullest extent allowed by applicable law, by using any of the above, you voluntarily consent to the trans-border transfer and hosting of such information.

Is the information collected through the CoFishing Service secure?

We take precautions to protect the security of your information. We have physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to help safeguard, prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use your information. However, neither people nor security systems are foolproof, including encryption systems. Therefore, while we use reasonable efforts to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If applicable law imposes any non-disclaimable duty to protect your personal information, you agree that intentional misconduct will be the standards used to measure our compliance with that duty.

Can I update or correct my information?

You can contact us in order to (1) update or correct your personally identifiable information, (2) change your preferences with respect to communications and other information you receive from us, or (3) delete the personally identifiable information maintained about you on our systems (subject to the following paragraph). Such updates, corrections, changes and deletions will have no effect on other information that we maintain, or information that we have provided to third parties in accordance with this Privacy Policy prior to such update, correction, change or deletion. To protect your privacy and security, we may take reasonable steps (such as confirming that you own the Steam account concerned) to verify your identity before making corrections. Information held by Steam is managed in your Steam account.

You should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove each and every record of the information you have provided to us from our system. The need to back up our systems to protect information from inadvertent loss means that a copy of your information may exist in a non-erasable form that will be difficult or impossible for us to locate. Promptly after receiving your request, all personal information stored in databases we actively use, and other readily searchable media will be updated, corrected, changed or deleted, as appropriate, as soon as and to the extent reasonably and technically practicable.

Sale of Business

We reserve the right to transfer information to a third party in the event of a sale, merger or other transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of Vuto Games or any of its Corporate Affiliates (as defined herein), or that portion of Vuto Games or any of its Corporate Affiliates to which the Service relates, or in the event that we discontinue our business or file a petition or have filed against us a petition in bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding, provided that the third party agrees to adhere to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Affiliates

We may disclose information (including personal information) about you to our Corporate Affiliates. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Corporate Affiliate” means any person or entity which directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by or is under common control with Vuto Games, whether by ownership or otherwise. Any information relating to you that we provide to our Corporate Affiliates will be treated by those Corporate Affiliates in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Your Consent

By playing CoFishing, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

Links to Other Websites

This Privacy Policy applies only to the Services. The Services may contain links to other websites not operated or controlled by Vuto Games. We are not responsible for the content, accuracy or opinions expressed in such websites, and such websites are not investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy or completeness by us. Please remember that when you use a link to go from the Services to another website, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other website is subject to that website’s own rules and policies.

Advertising

CoFishing does not show third-party advertisements, and we do not use your information for advertising targeting.

Kids' Privacy

CoFishing is not directed at children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect Personal Data from them. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

Changes To Our Privacy Policy

We may change our Service and policies, and we may need to make changes to this Privacy Policy so that they accurately reflect our Service and policies. Unless otherwise required by law, we will notify you (for example, through our Service) before we make changes to this Privacy Policy and give you an opportunity to review them before they go into effect. Then, if you continue to use the Service, you will be bound by the updated Privacy Policy. If you do not want to agree to this or any updated Privacy Policy, you can stop using the Service and ask us to delete your data.

Third-Party Services

The Service relies on third-party platforms and services, such as Steam, and may display, include or make available third-party content or provide links to third-party websites or services (“Third-Party Services”).

You acknowledge and agree that Vuto Games shall not be responsible for any Third-Party Services, including their accuracy, completeness, timeliness, validity, copyright compliance, legality, decency, quality or any other aspect thereof. Vuto Games does not assume and shall not have any liability or responsibility to you or any other person or entity for any Third-Party Services.

Third-Party Services and links thereto are provided solely as a convenience to you and you access and use them entirely at your own risk and subject to such third parties' terms and conditions.

Information about General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

We may be collecting and using information from you if you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), and in this section of our Privacy Policy we are going to explain exactly how and why is this data collected, and how we maintain this data under protection from being replicated or used in the wrong way.

What is GDPR?

GDPR is an EU-wide privacy and data protection law that regulates how EU residents' data is protected by companies and enhances the control the EU residents have, over their personal data.

The GDPR is relevant to any globally operating company and not just the EU-based businesses and EU residents. Our players’ data is important irrespective of where they are located, which is why we have implemented GDPR controls as our baseline standard for all our operations worldwide.

What is personal data?

Any data that relates to an identifiable or identified individual. GDPR covers a broad spectrum of information that could be used on its own, or in combination with other pieces of information, to identify a person. Personal data extends beyond a person’s name or email address. Some examples include financial information, political opinions, genetic data, biometric data, IP addresses, physical address, sexual orientation, and ethnicity.

The Data Protection Principles include requirements such as:

  • Personal data collected must be processed in a fair, legal, and transparent way and should only be used in a way that a person would reasonably expect.
  • Personal data should only be collected to fulfil a specific purpose and it should only be used for that purpose. Organizations must specify why they need the personal data when they collect it.
  • Personal data should be held no longer than necessary to fulfil its purpose.
  • People covered by the GDPR have the right to access their own personal data. They can also request a copy of their data, and that their data be updated, deleted, restricted, or moved to another organization.

Why is GDPR important?

GDPR adds some new requirements regarding how companies should protect individuals' personal data that they collect and process. It also raises the stakes for compliance by increasing enforcement and imposing greater fines for breach. Beyond these facts it's simply the right thing to do. At Vuto Games we strongly believe that your data privacy is very important and we already have solid security and privacy practices in place that go beyond the requirements of this new regulation.

Individual Data Subject's Rights - Data Access, Portability and Deletion

You can ask us to access, correct, move or delete your personal data, or object to its processing, and you can complain to your local data protection authority. Vuto Games processes or stores all personal data in fully vetted, DPA compliant vendors. We do store all conversation and personal data for up to 6 years unless you ask us to delete it. In which case, we dispose of all data in accordance with this Privacy Policy, but we will not hold it longer than 60 days.

California Residents

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) requires us to disclose categories of Personal Information we collect and how we use it, the categories of sources from whom we collect Personal Information, and the third parties with whom we share it, which we have explained above.

We are also required to communicate information about rights California residents have under California law. You may exercise the following rights:

  • Right to Know and Access. You may submit a verifiable request for information regarding the: (1) categories of Personal Information we collect, use, or share; (2) purposes for which categories of Personal Information are collected or used by us; (3) categories of sources from which we collect Personal Information; and (4) specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you.
  • Right to Equal Service. We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your privacy rights.
  • Right to Delete. You may submit a verifiable request and we will delete Personal Information about you that we have collected.
  • Request that a business that sells a consumer's personal data, not sell the consumer's personal data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

We do not sell the Personal Information of our users.

For more information about these rights, please contact us.

California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)

CalOPPA requires us to disclose categories of Personal Information we collect and how we use it, the categories of sources from whom we collect Personal Information, and the third parties with whom we share it, which we have explained above.

CalOPPA users have the following rights:

  • Right to Know and Access. You may submit a verifiable request for information regarding the: (1) categories of Personal Information we collect, use, or share; (2) purposes for which categories of Personal Information are collected or used by us; (3) categories of sources from which we collect Personal Information; and (4) specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you.
  • Right to Equal Service. We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your privacy rights.
  • Right to Delete. You may submit a verifiable request and we will delete Personal Information about you that we have collected.
  • Right to request that a business that sells a consumer's personal data, not sell the consumer's personal data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

We do not sell the Personal Information of our users.

For more information about these rights, please contact us.

Contact Us

Don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.