1. Introduction
Gaming Generations, Inc., and its subsidiaries and affiliates (hereinafter collectively referred to as “GG”) respect your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how we may collect, use, and share your personal information when you use https://gaminggenerations.com/ (“Service”).
By accessing or using the Service, you consent to the collection, use, disclosure, storage and processing of your information and other information received by GG in accordance with this Privacy Policy, the Terms of Use and as required by applicable law.
The Service will be hosted within the United States, which may have different data protection laws and regulations from those that apply in your home country. By accessing or using the Service, you consent to the transfer, storage and processing of your information within the United States. Please be aware that the government, courts, and law enforcement, security or regulatory agencies of the United States may be able to obtain access to or disclosure of personal information as permitted by its laws.
If you do not consent to the collection and use of information from or about you in accordance with this Privacy Policy, then you may not use the Service.
2. HOW WE COLLECT AND USE INFORMATION
(a) We do not collect personal information on users of the Service unless you engage us to create an account or if you utilize our Service for a specific Event. To the extent that your personal information is collected as part of a specific Event, the personal information will remain private and will be deleted after the Event has been completed. We make reasonable efforts to maintain the security, integrity and privacy of any personal information you choose to give us. We have security technology and procedures in place to ensure that all information stored on our database is secured against unauthorized access and use.
(b) Financial Information. Payments are facilitated through our third party, PCI compliant payment processor, Paypal. User financial information is securely transmitted through encrypted channels directly to Paypal. We do not receive, store or share any user financial information. For additional inquiries about User financial information and payments, please refer to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy of Paypal.
(c) Information Collected or Received From Third Parties. We may receive non-personal information about you from third parties, including, but not limited to, third-party social networking services. You should always review and, if necessary, adjust your privacy settings on third-party services before linking or connecting them to the Service.
(d) Analytics information. We may collect, measure and analyze traffic and usage trends for the Service, and we may use third-party analytics tools to help us. This allows us to understand how you are using the Service, and ways to improve the Service. These companies may use this data to improve their own services and the services of others, including us. They may use cookies to collect and store information including, but not limited to time of visit, pages visited, time spent on each page and type of operating system used. We do not collect; therefore we will not share any personally-identifiable information for analytics purposes.
(e) Cookies. When you use the Service, we may send one or more cookies (small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters) to your computer that identify your browser and enhance your navigation on the Service. A cookie may also convey information to us about how you use the Service (e.g., the pages you view, the links you click and other actions you take), and allow us or our third-party business associates to track your usage of the Services. There are at least two different types of cookies: persistent and session cookies. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive after you close your browser. Persistent cookies may be used by your browser on subsequent use of the Service. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your web browser’s directions for removal of cookies. A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your browser. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is being sent. However, some features of the Service may not function properly if cookies are disabled.
(f) Log File. Log file information is automatically reported by your browser each time you access a web page. When you access or use the Service, our servers may automatically record certain log file information, including but not limited to your web request, browser type, referring/exit pages and URLs, number of clicks and how you interact with links on the Service, domain names, landing pages, and pages viewed.
(g) Use of Certain Service-Type Information. We may use information from cookies, and log files to: (i) monitor the effectiveness of the Service; (ii) monitor aggregate metrics, such as total number of visitors, traffic and demographic patterns; and (iii) diagnose or fix technology problems
(h) We don’t share, sell, or rent your personal information to third parties without your prior consent. We don’t require personal information to access our Site. However, if you prefer not to disclose personal information, you will not be able to enjoy certain features of our Site.
3. How We May Share Your Information
(a) Business Associates and Service Providers. We may share non-personal information about you with third-party business associates, event sponsors, and service providers that perform services on our behalf in connection with the Service.
(b) Business Change. If we become involved in a merger, consolidation, acquisition, sale of assets, joint venture, securities offering, bankruptcy, reorganization, liquidation, dissolution or other transaction, or if the ownership of all or substantially all of our business otherwise changes, we may share or transfer non-personal information to successor party or parties in connection with such transaction or change in ownership.
(c) Necessary Disclosure: Regardless of the choices you make regarding your information and to the extent permitted or required by applicable law, we may disclose information about you to third parties to: (i) enforce or apply the Terms of Use, this Privacy Policy or any applicable end user license agreement; (ii) comply with laws, subpoenas, warrants, court orders, legal processes or requests of government or law enforcement officials; (iii) protect our rights, reputation, safety or property, or that of our users or others; (iv) protect against legal liability; (v) establish or exercise our rights to defend against legal claims; or (vi) investigate, prevent or take action regarding known or suspected illegal activities; fraud; our rights, reputation, safety or property, or those of our users or others; violation of the Terms of Use, our policies or agreements; or as otherwise required by law.
4. Updates to this Privacy Policy
We may update this policy from time to time, and the updated version of this policy will be effective upon posting. Please check this page to review the most up-to-date version of this policy. By continuing to use the Service after an updated version has been posted, you agree that the new policy will apply to you.
5. Third-Party Sites and Services
The Service may reference or provide links to other websites, applications, or resources. If you access any website, application, or resources provided by a third party, our Privacy Policy will not apply. Your interactions with such websites, applications, and resources are subject to the privacy policies of the third parties that operate them. Please review those policies carefully to understand how those parties will treat your information.
6. YOUR CHOICES ABOUT YOUR INFORMATION
(a) Controlling Your Settings. You can limit your browser or mobile device from providing certain information by adjusting the settings in the browser, operating system or device. Please consult the documentation for the applicable browser, operating system or device for the controls available to you.(b) Do Not Track. At this time, we do not recognize “do not track” signals sent from web browsers. In some cases, you may be able to disable tracking mechanisms, but doing so may disable certain features of the Service. To disable tracking, please consult the documentation for your browser, operating system or mobile device. For some devices, it may not be possible to disable tracking mechanisms. You may also disable tracking by certain third-party services by opting out.
Google Analytics
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/
ScorecardResearch
https://scorecardresearch.com/optouttag.aspx
AdChoices
https://www.youradchoices.com/faq.aspx
7. How We Protect Your Information
We take certain physical, technological and administrative measures to protect the information you provide through the Service against loss, theft, and unauthorized access, use, disclosure or modification. However, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or guarantee that information on the Service may not be accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed. You should use caution whenever submitting information online and take special care in deciding what information you send to us via email.
8. How Long We Keep Your Information
We may retain your information as long as necessary for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise required by law.
9. What kinds of security measures do we take to safeguard your personally identifiable information?
The security and confidentiality of your personal information is extremely important to us. We have implemented technical, administrative, and physical security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access and improper use. To prevent unauthorized electronic access to personal information, we limit access to only those employees performing a legitimate business function; maintain information collected online behind a firewall-protected server; verify your identity by asking you for an email address or by other means; store your personal information on servers separate from other corporate information and systems; and notify you by email if we learn that a breach has occurred. We also collect personal information from you only on SSL-protected (encrypted) web pages and it is transmitted over the Internet only through an SSL-protected (encrypted) channel. From time to time, we review our security procedures to consider appropriate new technology and methods. However, please understand that, despite our best efforts, no security measure is perfect or impenetrable.
10. Your California Privacy Rights
Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83, if you are a California resident and your business relationship with us is primarily for personal, family or household purposes, you may request certain data regarding our disclosure, if any, of personal information to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to support@gaminggenerations.com with “Request for California Privacy Information” in the subject line. You may make such a request up to once per calendar year. If applicable, we will provide to you via email a list of the categories of personal information disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the immediately-preceding calendar year, along with the third parties’ names and addresses. Please note that not all personal information sharing is covered by Section 1798.83’s requirements.
11. Children’s Privacy
The Service is not directed to children and is intended for use by adults only. If you are under the age of 13, please have your guardian access the Service on your behalf.
12. QUESTIONS/CONTACTING US
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, you may email us at support@gaminggenerations.com or contact us by mail addressed to:
Gaming Generations, Inc.
9348 State Rd 16, Ste 104
Onalaska, WI 54650