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» Forum Privacy Policy - What Data Is Collected & Why
DIR By: Blake
Date: April 30, 2018, 4:23 pm
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Forum Privacy Policy
Below you can find a copy of our Forum Privacy Policy, which
states what information is collected and why when you use our
website. I've edited the original privacy policy (found at the
bottom of the website) to be clearer, more transparent, and
easier to read.
Our Third-Party Partners, which provide content for the website,
are:
Most of our data is handled by the website host, CreateAForum,
so the BlakeGames forum team is not responsible for any breaches
or issues with their service.
The forum software was developed by Simple Machine Forums (SMF).
Advertisements placed on the website are controlled by Google
AdSense. Profits from advertisements do not go to the BlakeGames
forum team, but instead go to CreateAForum.
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This privacy policy sets out how BlakeGames uses and protects
any information that you give BlakeGames when you use this
website.
BlakeGames is committed to ensuring that your privacy is
protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by
which you can be identified when using this website, then you
can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this
privacy statement.
BlakeGames may change this policy from time to time by updating
this page. You should check this page from time to time to
ensure that you are happy with any changes.
What information we collect about you:
The following information is collected and logged when you
browse the website at any time:
- Your IP address
- What page or topic you are viewing and what you are doing on
that page
We collect and store the following information when you use our
website while logged in to a user account:
- Your username
- Your IP address
- What page or topic you are viewing and what you are doing on
that page
The information above is collected and logged for security and
legal purposes only, and is not visible to anyone except forum
administrators.
You may be asked to give this information when registering or
updating your information, here's why:
Username: This is visible to everyone on the forum and is used
to identify you. You may set your username to anything you like,
as long as it follows our rules.
Password: Your password is not visible to anyone, even forum
administrators, so it is your responsibility to remember it.
This password is used to log into your account, or to update
account settings. Your password can be reset through our
password recovery page or by an administrator.
Email: Your email address is required for verification purposes.
If you forget your password, we will email you a password
recovery link. Your email address is not public unless you add
it to your profile. Administrators can see your email address at
all times, but it will not be shared or misused.
Date of Birth: Your date of birth may be required when signing
up in order to confirm your age. We do not have an age
requirement in order to use our services. Your date of birth or
age are not visible unless you manually add them to your
profile.
Please note that social media information that you add to your
profile is publicly visible to anyone and may appear on other
sections of our website, such as next to your posts.
Cookies and other tracking scripts:
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on
your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added
and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when
you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to
respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor
its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering
and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being
used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and
improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We
only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and
then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by
enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you
do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or
any information about you, other than the data you choose to
share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers
automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your
browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may
prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
How we use information we collect:
We require this information to understand your needs and provide
you with a better service, and in particular for the following
reasons:
- Internal record keeping including service optimization,
website stats.
- We may use the information to improve our products and
services.
- If you choose to receive email notifications about posts or
topics, using the "Notify Me" feature, you will receive those
notifications via the email address you provided.
- We may send promotional emails or newsletters to your email
address that are relevant to our service, such as important
announcements or news related to our service.
(We are respectful of your inbox, however, so emails from us are
extremely rare and you may not receive any.)
Sharing with trusted third parties:
We may share your personal data with third parties with which we
have partnered to allow you to integrate their services into our
own Services, and with trusted third party service providers as
necessary for them to perform services on our behalf, such as:
-Serving advertisements
-Performing analysis of our Services and customers demographics
Advertisements:
Please note that advertisements appear on our website. These
advertisements are served by the Google AdSense service, and any
complaints regarding advertisement quality or security should be
directed to their service.
Data about Usage of Services:
Data about usage of our services is automatically collected when
you use and interact with our Services, including metadata, log
files, cookie/device IDs and location information. This
information includes specific data about your interactions with
the features, content and links (including those of
third-parties, such as social media plugins) contained within
the Services, Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and
settings, the date and time the Services were used, information
about browser configuration and plugins, language preferences
and cookie data, information about devices accessing the
Services, including type of device, what operating system is
used, device settings, application IDs, unique device
identifiers and error data, and some of this data collected
might be capable of and be used to approximate your location.
How we store and secure information we collect:
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In
order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put
in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures
to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
While we implement safeguards designed to protect your
information, no security system is impenetrable and due to the
inherent nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that data,
during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our
systems or otherwise in our care, is absolutely safe from
intrusion by others.
Compliance with legal, regulatory and law enforcement requests:
We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials and
private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We will
disclose any information about you to government or law
enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole
discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to respond to
claims and legal process (such as subpoena requests), to protect
our property and rights or the property and rights of a third
party, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or to
prevent or stop activity we consider to be illegal or unethical.
Communicating with you:
We may contact you directly, such as to deliver transactional or
website related communications.
We may also contact you with offers for additional services we
think you'll find valuable if you give us consent, or where
allowed based upon legitimate interests.
These contacts may include:
- Email
You may also update your subscription preferences with respect
to receiving communications from us and/or our partners by
signing into your account and visiting your Profile ->
Notifications page.
Transfer of personal data abroad:
If you utilize our Services from a country other than the
country where our servers are located, your communications with
us may result in transferring your personal data across
international borders
Links to other websites:
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest, and
these links are commonly posted by other users on the forum.
However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you
should note that we do not have any control over that other
website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection
and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting
such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy
statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy
statement applicable to the website in question.
Controlling your personal information:
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information
to third parties unless we have your permission or are required
by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send
you promotional information about third parties which we think
you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to
happen.
You may request details of personal information which we hold
about you under by visiting your profile and clicking export
data.
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is
incorrect or incomplete, please notify the webmaster. We will
promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
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