Privacy Policy
Your privacy is important to
BigPirateGames
Ltd. (“BigPirateGames”, “we” “us” or “our”). Therefore,
BigPirateGames
is committed to respecting your privacy and the confidentiality of
your personal data, traffic data and communications content. The
privacy policy below details the measures taken by
BigPirateGames
to protect your privacy in connection with your use of www.BigPirateGames.com
and other sites owned and operated by
BigPirateGames
(the “Sites”) and certain applications, services or software, and
content including games for use therewith, either at no charge or for
a fee (such applications, services, software and any related content
provided by
BigPirateGames
or its licensors is referred to herein collectively as
“Applications”).
BigPirateGames
does not intend to collect any personal information from children
under 13 unless
BigPirateGames
believes such collection to be permitted by law.
The key points of our privacy policy are:
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We give you choices about the personally identifiable information
you share with us and other
BigPirateGames
users.
- You can end your membership at any time.
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We only disclose information from which you may be personally
identifiable to selected third parties in accordance with this
privacy policy.
- We do not spam.
- By accessing the Site, you agree to this privacy policy.
Information Collected by the Site and Applications
We collect the following types of information about you when you use
the Site and/or Applications:
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Information provided by you. We collect personally identifiable
information, such as your name and email address, when you register
to become a member and if otherwise requested by the Site or an
Application. As part of your personal profile, you may choose to
submit or incorporate additional information, as well as other
content. We also collect all postings, messages, user feedback,
data, comments, suggestions, information, text, data, software,
sounds, photographs, audio, audiovisual, video, artwork, graphics,
files and other materials of any nature (“User Materials”) that you
submit to the Site and any correspondence between you and
BigPirateGames.
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Information collected automatically.
BigPirateGames
receives and stores information which is transmitted automatically
from your computer when you use the Site and/or Applications. This
information includes information from cookies (which are described
below), your IP address and browser type. Your IP address is the
unique address of your computer which is automatically provided to
other computers when your web browser or email application requests
a web page or email from those computers on the Internet. We also
collect information about how you use the Site and Applications.
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Information about you as a member may be supplemented with
additional information, including publicly-available information and
information from other companies.
Use and Disclosure of Information
We use this information in order to operate the Site and Applications
and improve your experience:
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We will display your personally identifiable information on your
profile according to the preferences you set. We will use your name
so that you are recognizable on our database and so that we can
personalize your experience. We will use your email address to
contact you from time to time and may also use it for security
reasons to confirm that you are who you say you are. You can control
the types and frequencies of certain emails you receive in your
email preferences.
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We may use the information collected automatically, such as your IP
address, information stored via cookies, and information about how
you use the Site and/or Applications to develop statistics and
aggregate information about the number of people who visit the Site
and to customize the Site and/or Applications. We may share this
information with third parties to help us improve our service and
better serve our users.
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We use an outside company to serve advertisements on our site. In
the process of serving advertisements, cookies are placed in your
browser’s cookie file and may use information, such as IP addresses
but excluding your name, address, email address or telephone number,
about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide
advertisements on this site and other Web sites about goods and
services that may be of interest to you. By delivering ads on the
Site, our ad serving vendor is able to record what ads a user —
identified by the unique cookie — has seen, and what pages on the
Site the user was viewing when the ads were delivered. This Web
usage information is combined with other ad delivery information
(e.g., what type of operating system your computer uses) collected
from your visits to the Site and other sites not affiliated with
BigPirateGames. This non-personally identifiable
information is used as part of the ad serving process for reporting
and to select and direct the ads you see online at the Site and
other sites not affiliated with
BigPirateGames. Unlike the cookies
BigPirateGames
uses in other parts of our site, cookies received with banner ads
are collected by our ad serving vendor and we do not have access to
this information. Additionally, some ads served are generated by
other third party ad serving systems that also may place a cookie or
transparent GIF files on your browser to provide web usage
information to those third parties.
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We may provide your personally identifiable information and the data
generated by cookies and the aggregate information to the vendors
and service agencies that we may engage to assist us in providing
our services to you. Such third party entities will be obligated to
use your personally identifiable information solely to provide the
services to us.
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Personally identifiable information about you, including the
contents of your online communications, may be accessed or disclosed
in response to legal process (for example, a court order, search
warrant or subpoena); in other circumstances in which we believe, in
our sole discretion, that the Site or the Application is being used
in the commission of a crime; when we have a good faith belief that
there is an emergency that poses a threat to the safety of you or
another person; or when necessary either to protect our rights or
property, or for us to render the service you have requested.
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Personally identifiable information collected in connection with
your use of the Site or the Applications may be stored in any
country where we or our service providers maintain facilities.
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If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend
about our site or particular features or content, we ask them for
the friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send the
friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the Site. We store
this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time
email.
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We maintain archives of our web logs, database, and other systems
and information. Please note that it is possible some of this
information may remain archived after we delete the information from
our active database. We also may maintain archives for disaster
recovery, legal and other non-marketing purposes.
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We reserve the right to transfer your personally identifiable
information in the event of a transfer of ownership of
BigPirateGames, such as acquisition by or merger with
another company.
Collection of Information on Other Sites
This privacy statement applies only to information collected by
BigPirateGames. The Site contains links to other sites and
services that are not owned or controlled by
BigPirateGames, including our affiliates. Please be aware
that these sites have their own privacy policies and that
BigPirateGames
is not responsible for their privacy practices. We therefore encourage
you to read the privacy statements of each and every site that
collects personally identifiable information.
Cookies
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Cookies are a common Internet technology. Many web sites use cookies
to provide useful features for their users. Cookies are small files
that are written or downloaded to your computer’s hard drive when
you access a site. They allow us to store and quickly retrieve login
information on your computer and provide data that we can use to
improve the quality of our service. Most Internet browsers are
initially set up to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can set your
browser to refuse cookies, although you may not be able to take full
advantage of the Site or the Applications if you do so.
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We may link information stored in cookies such as your age, gender
and country with your personally identifiable information and we may
use such information to gather statistics about the number of people
who visit the Site and to customize the Site and/or Applications.
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We and our advertisers may set and access cookies or use other
technologies such as web beacons (which are electronic files that
allow a web site to count users who have visited that page or to
access certain cookies) in order to present advertisements on the
Site or Applications. We and our advertisers may also use third
party ad networks to help present and manage advertisements. These
ad networks use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies on
your computer to help present, better target, and measure the
effectiveness of their advertisements, using data gathered over time
and across their networks of Web pages to determine or predict the
characteristics and preferences of their audience. We may share
certain non-personally identifiable information about you (such as
user age and zip code) with ad network providers, to help them
deliver more relevant advertisements through their ad networks.
You control who sees your profile information on the Site
Your profile information on the Site and Applications will only be
shared with people you have specifically agreed to share such
information with. You can limit who can view certain personal
information, such as email addresses and phone numbers. Please bear in
mind that if you choose to share your personal information (including
any User Materials) with other people on the Site or an Application,
you do so at your own risk. We recommend that you don’t share your
personal contact information.
Reviewing, deleting and changing your Profile
You can review, delete, correct and revise your personal profile,
including who has access to your personal profile in your account at
any time or contact us for assistance via the email to support@BigPirateGames.com;
requests of this nature will be completed within [30] days.
Internet awareness
Whenever you voluntarily post personal information in public areas,
like journals, weblogs, message boards and forums, this information
can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used by others to
send you unsolicited communications. We recommend that you exercise
discretion in deciding what information you disclose on the Internet.
Children
This product and website is intended for use by those 21 or older for
amusement purposes only. Without derogating from the foregoing,
BigPirateGames
does not knowingly collect personal information from children under
the age of 18. Children under the age of 18 should not use our
websites or games at any time. If
BigPirateGames
learns that a person under the age of 18 has provided it with personal
information,
BigPirateGames
will take reasonable steps to delete such information as soon as
possible.
Security and confidentiality
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BigPirateGames
uses a variety of safeguards to help protect your personal
information, including technical, administrative and physical
controls. Please bear in mind though, that it is impossible for
BigPirateGames
to guarantee that impenetrable security measures are in place. For
example, we cannot control any illegal and/or unforeseen activity of
other users that may allow them to get around the privacy or
security settings on the Site and Applications. Consequently, you
acknowledge that there are circumstances in which your personal
information may be accessed by unauthorized persons.
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The security of your personal information depends in part on your
protection of your account password. Please do not disclose your
account password to unauthorized people.
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We limit access to your personal information only to employees that
we authorize to access that information in order to do their jobs in
connection with the Site and Applications.
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If you become aware of any breach of data security or have any other
questions about the security of our website, please contact us via
the email to support@BigPirateGames.com
Acceptance of and Changes in Privacy Policy
Your use of the Site, including any dispute concerning privacy, is
subject to this Privacy Policy and
BigPirateGames’s Terms of Service. By using the Site, you
are accepting the practices set out in this Privacy Policy and those
Terms of Service. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy
at any time by posting the changes on this page. Please check the
revision date at the bottom of this page to determine if the policy
has been modified since you last reviewed it. Your continued use of
any portion of the Site following posting of the updated Privacy
Policy will constitute your acceptance of the changes.
Canceling membership
You always have the option to cancel your membership at any time. If
you are a member and no longer wish to participate in the Site you can
cancel your membership.