Last Edited Date: 11 July 2017
Welcome to the Gaming Glossary. The Gaming Glossary team values the privacy of users, subscribers, publishers, members, and others who visit and use the Gaming Glossary (collectively or individually, “ you” or “ users”) and wants you to be familiar with how we collect, use, and disclose information from and about you.
By agreeing to this Privacy Policy in your Gaming Glossary account setup, or by using the Gaming Glossary, you expressly consent to the information handling practices described in this Policy.
Information Gaming Glossary Collects
User-provided Information : You may provide a variety of information about yourself to us, such as your name, email address, postal mailing address, telephone number, credit card number, and billing information when you register for a Gaming Glossary; enter contests or sweepstakes; or otherwise use the features and functionality of the Gaming Glossary.
Automatically Collected Information: When you access the Gaming Glossary or open one of our emails, we may automatically record and store certain information about your system by using cookies and other types of technologies. Cookies are small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters that are sent to your browser. For information about what cookies are, how they work, how Gaming Glossary uses them, and how to remove them, please see our cookie policy at /legal/cookie-policy. Information we automatically collect may include Internet Protocol address (“ IP Address”), a unique user ID, device type, device identifiers, browser types and language, referring and exit page addresses, platform type, version of software installed, system type, the content and pages that you access on the Gaming Glossary, the number of clicks made, the amount of time spent on pages, the dates and times that you visit the Gaming Glossary, and other similar information. Examples of how Gaming Glossary uses automatically collected information include to: (a) automatically update the Gaming Glossary application on your system; (b) remember your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you access the Gaming Glossary; (c) provide customized advertisements, content, and information; (d) monitor the effectiveness of marketing campaigns; (e) monitor and store aggregate site usage metrics such as total number of visitors and pages accessed; and (f) track your entries, submissions, and status in any promotions or other activities.
Information from Other Sources : We may obtain information about you from third parties and sources other than the Gaming Glossary, such as advertisers or social media networks for which you have approved our access to information (e.g., information from your Facebook account provided by the Facebook APIs). When you access the Gaming Glossary through social media networks or when you connect a Gaming Glossary to social media networks, you are authorizing Gaming Glossary to collect, store, and use such information and content in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We may also obtain information from third party services regarding your use of such services, including about your use of the content you choose to broadcast through the Gaming Glossary. If we combine or associate information from other sources with information that we collect through the Gaming Glossary, we will treat the combined information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
How Gaming Glossary Uses Information
Gaming Glossary uses the information that you provide or that we collect from or about you to: operate, maintain, enhance, provide, create, and develop all of the features, functionality, and services (new or existing) found on the Gaming Glossary; improve your experience with the Gaming Glossary by delivering content that we hope you will find relevant and interesting, including advertising and marketing messages; allow you to comment on content, and participate in online games, contests, or rewards programs; and understand the usage trends of our users.
We use your email address for administrative communications such as notifying you of major Gaming Glossary updates, for customer service purposes, or contacting you regarding any content that you have posted to or downloaded from the Gaming Glossary.
Gaming Glossary may periodically send promotional materials or notifications to you related to the Gaming Glossary. If you want to stop receiving promotional materials, you can go to your account settings once you have logged in to the Gaming Glossary or (for email) follow the unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.
When Gaming Glossary Discloses Information
Gaming Glossary does not share information that can identify you personally with third parties for their own marketing or promotional uses without your consent. We may share such information for the following purposes:
We may disclose such information to service providers working on our behalf, such as, to: provide web site hosting, maintenance, and security services; fulfill orders; conduct data analysis and create reports; offer certain functionality; or assist Gaming Glossary in improving the Gaming Glossary and creating new services and features. We require that these parties process such information in compliance with this Privacy Policy, we authorize them to use the information only for the purposes for which it is provided to them, and we require these parties to use reasonable confidentiality measures.
If you connect to a third party service (such as Facebook, Twitter, or another third-party application) through an icon or link on the Gaming Glossary or otherwise link your Gaming Glossary account with a third party service, we may share information (such as your user name, the fact that your connection originated from the Gaming Glossary, and other relevant usage and diagnostic information) with such third party. With your consent, we may also send information about the content you watch or your activities on the Gaming Glossary to such third parties. The third party’s use of your information will be subject to that service’s privacy policy and this Privacy Policy will not apply.
Gaming Glossary also reserves the right to disclose information that we believe, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to: take precautions against liability to Gaming Glossary; protect Gaming Glossary from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful uses; investigate and defend ourselves against third party claims, or allegations to protect the security or integrity of the Gaming Glossary; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Gaming Glossary, our users, or others.
Your Choices
You may decline to share certain information with Gaming Glossary, in which case Gaming Glossary may not be able to provide to you some of the features and functionality found on the Gaming Glossary. To update, correct, or delete certain information and establish preferences regarding your profile on Gaming Glossary, visit the Settings Page.
To access, review, correct, update, suppress, or otherwise limit Gaming Glossary’s use of information you have previously provided directly to Gaming Glossary, you may contact us (see Gaming Glossary Contact Information below). In your request, please include your email address, name, address, and telephone number and specify clearly what information is relevant to your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.
To protect your privacy and security, we may take steps to verify your identity before granting you access or making corrections to your information. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times.
Advertisers and Analytics Providers
We may use third-party Web analytics services on our site, such as those of Google Analytics and Mixpanel; These service providers use a variety of tracking technologies such as cookies to analyze how users use the Gaming Glossary; The information collected will be disclosed to or collected directly by these service providers, who use the information to evaluate your use of the Gaming Glossary; To learn about opting out of Google Analytics, please; click here. To opt out of Mixpanel, please click here. Because these opt outs are cookie-based, please note that if you get a new computer or device, install or start using a new browser, or erase or alter your browser’s cookie file, you may need to opt out again.
Gaming Glossary may allow advertisers, third-party advertising networks and third-party advertising serving companies to serve advertisements directly to you within the Gaming Glossary and other Gaming Glossary sites, services and software. By serving these advertisements directly to you, these companies can set their own cookies on your computer and trigger their own Web beacons and other tracking technologies to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements, and to collect and track information such as demographic information, inferred interests, aggregated information, and activity to assist them in personalizing the advertising content delivered to you. Gaming Glossary does not provide information that personally identifies you to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent. However, please note that if an advertiser asks Gaming Glossary to show an advertisement to a certain audience (for example, males age 15 to 18) or audience segment (for example, males age 15 to 18 who have participated in certain promotions) and you respond to that advertisement, the advertiser or ad-server may conclude that you fit the description of the audience that they were trying to reach.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the tracking technologies and activities of, those other advertisers, third-party advertising networks, or third-party advertising servers. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these advertisers, third-party advertising networks, or third-party advertising servers. For more information about third-party advertising networks and similar entities that use these technologies, see http://www.aboutads.info/consumers , and to opt-out of such ad networks’ and services’ advertising practices, go to the; Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out page, or the Your Online Choices page. Gaming Glossary does not control which companies participate in these opt-out programs or how these companies honor their opt-out choices.
Data Security
Gaming Glossary uses a variety of managerial, technical, and physical measures to protect the integrity and security of your information. These measures may vary based on the sensitivity of your information. However, no security precautions or systems can be completely secure. We cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to Gaming Glossary, and you do so at your own risk. We cannot guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.
Children’s Privacy
IF YOU ARE UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE, THEN PLEASE DO NOT USE OR ACCESS THE GAMING GLOSSARY AT ANY TIME OR IN ANY MANNER.
Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, Gaming Glossary does not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from persons under 13 years-of-age. If Gaming Glossary learns that personal information of persons under 13-years-of-age has been collected on or through the Gaming Glossary, Gaming Glossary will take the appropriate steps to delete this information.
If you are the parent or legal guardian of a child under 13 who has become a Gaming Glossary member, then please contact Gaming Glossary to have that child’s account terminated and personal information deleted.
Merger or Sale
In the event that Gaming Glossary, or some or all assets related to the Gaming Glossary are acquired by or merged with a third-party entity or in connection with a contemplated change of ownership transaction, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information that we have collected from users as part of that merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control event.
Changes and Updates to this Privacy Policy
Gaming Glossary reserves the right to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time (for example to reflect updates to the Gaming Glossary or to reflect changes in the law). If Gaming Glossary changes this Privacy Policy, we will provide you notice of these changes, such as by sending an email, posting a notice on the Gaming Glossary, or updating the “Last Updated” date above. Please check this Privacy Policy periodically for those changes. Your continued use of the Gaming Glossary after the posting of changes constitutes your binding acceptance of such changes.
Gaming Glossary Contact Information
Please contact Gaming Glossary with any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy using the contact form available at gamingglossary.com/contact-us/
