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Your Privacy Is Important To Us
At Game Trust, we provide fun and exciting online games of skill and
tournaments in an accessible, understandable, and trustworthy
environment. As part of this mission our sites and all of our partners
are committed to protecting the privacy of our members and users. We
believe that our members and users should know how their personal
information is used and have choices. This Privacy Statement explains
what information we collect from our members and users, how we use that
information, and what choices are available to our users and members.
Types of Information
We collect different types of information that we use in different ways,
as explained below. Throughout our Privacy Policy we will use the
following terms: Personal Information is information about you that
identifies you as an individual. Examples of this include your name,
address, email address, telephone number, and credit card information if
you establish an account with us and any other information that
identifies you as you. Anonymous Information is information that is
collected without connecting it to any name, address, or other Personal
Information. This data provides us with anonymous information about how
people use our sites and demographic information about our users, but
does not identify you. For example, anonymous information may tell us
how many people have played a particular game of skill, participated in
a tournament or seen particular advertisements.
PRIVACY POLICY FAQ
Q: What information does Game Trust collect?
A: We require users to register to play games of skill, enter
tournaments, establish accounts, win cash prizes and receive email
notification of account matters. During this registration process, we
ask for Personal Information. If you do not provide the requested
information you may not be able to participate in some or all of the
games of skill and/or tournaments available on our sites and we may not
be able to provide you with some of the other services and offers which
may be dependent upon the collection of such information.
We also collect Anonymous Information such as your IP address, the types
of browser and operating system you use, the pages you visit on our
sites, player rating information, prize winnings, and player game
statistics. We may also collect demographic information in user surveys.
From your IP address, we can determine the Internet Service Provider and
the geographic location of the visitor's point of connectivity. In the
future, we may tailor our games to the user's geographic location. This
anonymous information is not associated with your Personal Information
and cannot be linked to you personally.
Q: Will I need to provide my social security number?
A: If you are a USA taxpayer and your total winnings on the Site in any
given year reach $600, we will request that you submit your social
security number so we can send you a Form 1099, as required by Internal
Revenue Service regulations. Failure to provide your social security
number at that time will result in the Site's inability to credit your
account for any winnings in excess of $600.
Q: What are cookies and how they are used?
A: Like most entertainment and gaming sites, we use "cookies." A cookie
is a small data file stored in your computer that identifies your
computer to us and which we use to track your visits to our sites so you
do not have to re-register each time you visit a page. They also allow
us to understand how you use our sites and how we can improve them.
We may not require users to accept cookies to enjoy the site. You can
set your browser to reject cookies, or to notify you when we, or another
company, sends you a cookie. You should be aware, however, that some
areas of our site may be significantly slower, or may not function at
all, if cookies are disabled.
Some of our advertising is placed by agencies that may also use cookies
of their own. You may learn more about their use of information by
visiting their sites.
Q: How does Game Trust use the information it collects?
A: In general, we do not disclose your Personal Information to any third
party without first receiving your permission. By registering on our
sites, however, you grant permission for your Personal Information to be
shared and/or used as stated in this Privacy Policy. We may need to
disclose Personal information when required by law when we have a
good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current
judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our sites
or to administer our sites.
Unless you have opted out as provided in this Privacy Policy, we may
make your Personal Information available to our partners, advertisers or
third parties. You can elect to opt-out of the sharing of some or all of
your Personal Information at anytime by clicking here or following a
link to your account page contained in emails we send to you. Should you
opt-out, however, you may no longer be able to participate in some or
all of the activities otherwise available on the sites.
We use the Personal Information you supply us, whether it is your
registration or other information/data, to improve our service and your
experience on our sites and provide our site users with offers, products
and services we think they will find valuable and enjoy. We may also use
your registration information and other data in promotional activities,
for marketing purposes and to track your progress, notify you if you are
a winner and provide you with prizes/awards and to ensure that we comply
with the applicable laws.
Your Personal Information may be disclosed to sponsors and or suppliers
of prizes for our tournament winners available through our sites.
Special sponsor promotions may involve a request for additional
information. By submitting this additional information, you give us
permission to share this information with the sponsor or any partners,
advertisers or third parties.
We may also use the information we collect to develop summary reports
for our partners, advertisers and third parties. An example of a summary
report might be "100,000 people clicked on this link and of those
people, 35% were registered users above the age of 25." We provide this
information to assist our partners, advertisers and third parties in
determining how to promote, and promoting, their products and services.
We may tell our partners, advertisers, and third parties who it was that
saw or clicked on their advertisements.
We may use publicly available consumer data to enhance the service we
provide you and to present you with special advertising offers and
promotions. In cases where we obtain publicly available consumer data,
we may disclose your Personal Information to the party providing us with
this data. We sometimes do this to help determine whether a particular
offer or promotion will be of interest to you or our users.
We sometimes use third parties to help with some of the services
available on our site. When we supply Personal Information to these
vendors, we require that they use it only for the function they are
helping us with.
We use Anonymous Information to analyze how people use our web site and
its services. We exchange this information with advertisers and others
who are interested in our services, and may supply our sponsors with
aggregated demographic information about our users. We also use
Anonymous Information to improve the experience of all players. For
instance, Game Trust may segment players and create tournament leagues
based on anonymous player rating information and player game statistics.
Q: Can I review and correct the information collected about me?
A: You may review and update your Personal Information or other data as
necessary by clicking here. In addition, you may contact us by email.
You can also change your permission for us to share information with
third parties or to send you information from time to time. Since
anonymous data is not identifiable as originating with you, you are not
able to review or change it.
Q: Can I make choices regarding the collection, disclosure and
distribution of my Personal Information?
A: You can always choose whether or not to disclose Personal Information
and other data, and that choice may not prevent you from using those
areas of the site that do not require registration or disclosure of
Personal Information. You must understand, however, that you must
provide some Personal Information in order to participate in our games
of skill, tournaments, promotions, or other activities. IF ANY ACTIVITY
ASKS FOR ANY INFORMATION YOU DO NOT WANT SHARED, THEN DO NOT PARTICIPATE
IN THAT ACTIVITY.
You can opt out of receiving emails from us or from having your Personal
Information shared. If you elect to "opt out," from having your Personal
Information shared, or the receipt of email, as soon after our receipt
of your election as practical, we will not share your Personal
Information or other data (except as aggregate data) with partners,
advertisers, or third parties or send you emails. However, we may
continue to use your Personal Information for internal purposes, for
example, to conduct promotions, to enhance your user experience or as
necessary to administer the sites or comply with applicable laws.
You should be aware that once your Personal Information or other data is
shared, it may become the property of the partner, advertiser or third
party with whom it is shared, without limitation, and used or
transferred by that partner, advertiser or third party as solely
determined by them.
Q: Will this policy ever change?
A: We reserve the right to change this policy from time to time. While
we will usually indicate major changes by notice on our site, please
check here from time to time to see if there is a revised policy posted.
When our policy changes, information we have in our files will be
subject to the modified policy, although you are free to modify or
delete information as described Your initial and continued use of our
sites constitutes your agreement to the terms of our Privacy Policy, as
modified from time to time.
Q: How does Game Trust protect my Personal Information?
A: Our Sites have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse
and alteration of the information you provide us.
Your registration data is password-protected so that only you and Game
Trust have direct access to this Personal Information. You should not
divulge your password to anyone. We will never ask you for your password
in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited email. Also, if you
share your computer or use a computer that is accessed by the general
public (a University, library, etc.), remember to "sign out" and close
your browser window when you have finished your session. This will help
to ensure that others cannot access your personally identifiable
information. You are solely responsible or any activity which is
undertaken when your password is used.
During sessions in which you give us information such as credit card
numbers, we encrypt your transmissions using SSL ("Secure Sockets
Layer") technology. Even your registration account password is encrypted
before it is sent to our computers. This helps guard against
interception of the information while it is on the Internet. We keep
Personal Information you provide on servers that are protected by
firewalls and other technological means against intrusion or
unauthorized access. They are located in a physically secure facility,
and only our employees and agents with a need to know the information
are given access. At the same time, we rely on you to select passwords
that cannot be easily guessed. Guard them against disclosure, and
promptly report any security problems to us.
While no amount of security can give a perfect guarantee, you can have a
high degree of confidence that the personal information you give us is
protected from unauthorized access and use.
Q: What is the privacy policy of sites linked to your site?
A: Our sites contain links to other sites. Please be aware that we are
not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. We
encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the
privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects Personal
Information. This privacy statement applies solely to information
collected by our sites.
Q: Does Game Trust collect Personal Information about children?
A: Game Trust is committed to the safety of our children. We will not
knowingly accept participation of children under 18 in games of skill
and tournaments that we sponsor. If, unknown to us, children under 18
nonetheless elect to use our site, they should always ask a parent for
permission before sending any information to the site, or sending
Personal Information to anyone online.
Game Trust will not knowingly request or knowingly collect from a child
any information online that can be traced to the child, such as an email
address, name or information about the child's family.
Game Trust will not knowingly use Personal Information from children
under age 18 for any marketing or promotional purposes.
Game Trust will not send any direct email offers to users who indicate
they are under the age of 18.
Q: What should I do if I have other questions?
A: If you have questions about this policy, wish to report a violation
of our guidelines, or have any other questions or concerns, please
contact us at support@gametrust.com
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