PRIVACY POLICY
Lightside Games gives you a number of options regarding what information you will give us:
When you register a profile with Lightside Games, your profile including any information (name, address, gender) will be registered with Lightside Games.
- When you identify yourself on a Lightside Games site, you may identify yourself using a Lightside Games account.
- When you identify yourself on a Lightside Games site, you may identify yourself through a social network account in which Lightside Games may receive additional information about your profile.
In each case, we will collect and record the information you have provided. Other than names and email addresses provided at your discretion, we don't generally collect any “Personally Identifying Information” about our users (such as social security number, telephone number, street address, drivers license number, etc.), exception being for billing and payments where we store your billing information such as name, street address, phone number. We may offer you the opportunity to submit other information about yourself (such as gender, age, occupation, hobbies, interests, zip code, etc.), or we may be able to collect that information from social networking systems on which you have used Lightside Games Applications (in accordance with the terms of use of those systems), which would then also be covered by this Privacy Policy.
In addition to information about yourself, you may choose to share information about yourself in other content ("Content"), such as in games. Any action you perform with other players are considered public, and at your own discretion.
When you use a Lightside Games service on your social network page or use a Lightside Games service on someone else's page, we may record information regarding the use of that Lightside Games service, and we may collect other information that is visible on your social network page in accordance with the relevant terms of use associated with that page.
Note that it is your responsibility to read and accept our Terms of Use, as well as Privacy Policy prior to continuing.
When you invite new members into your network or send messages through the Service, we collect and maintain on secure servers the information associated with those messages, including email addresses and content.
We may use information about you that we collect from other sources, including but not limited to newspapers and Internet sources such as blogs, instant messaging services, Lightside Games games and other users of Lightside Games, to supplement your profile.
Lightside Games may contain links to other websites. We are of course not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by Lightside Games.
You should also be aware that most content delivered through Lightside Games games originates with another content provider. Such other content providers may place “cookies” on your browser, or otherwise gather information about you, including by asking you to provide information through the site itself.
Finally, in order to provide the best possible service and to allow us to make certain internal reports and make recommendations, we collect aggregate information about the use of the Service, including information about users accessing the Lightside Games site or playing Lightside Games games or using Lightside Games service on other sites, such as internet protocol addresses, browser type, browser language, referring / exit pages and URLs, other browser history, platform type, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, and the date and time (“Activity Information”).
By using the Service, you consent to our retaining all the above-described information in anonymous form as long as Lightside Games sees fit.
Children Under The Age Of 13
Lightside Games does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under 13, please do not attempt to register for Lightside Games or send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on Lightside Games.
Children Between The Ages of 13 and 18
We recommend that minors over the age of 13 ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet.
How We Use Your Information
We use public information collected to determine the kinds of content that you would like to view and to assist any advertisers in targeting their advertising.
We may also use your name, email address and other information on our system to notify you of new product releases, service notifications and to solicit your feedback and input. Those emails will contain where appropriate, unsubscribe links should you decide you do not want to receive further emails.
You understand and agree that we may access, preserve, and disclose any information we may have about you and the contents of your account if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access, preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to avoid liability, to comply with legal process, such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order, or to protect our rights and property, or that of our affiliates or the public. Lightside Games is not required to question or contest the validity of any search warrant, subpoena or other similar governmental request that Lightside Games receives.
Lightside Games may maintain copies of your Content indefinitely, or delete certain Content in whole or in part if Lightside Games determines, in its sole discretion, that such Content constitutes an "Infringing Posting" or a "Prohibited Posting" as defined in our Terms of Use or for any or no reason.
We also use non-Personally Identifiable Information and certain technical information about your computer and your access of the Service (including your internet protocol address) in order to operate, maintain and manage the Service.
Lightside Games may disclose information about you to its partners in order to provide the Service, resolve service problems and correct errors in the Service, to communicate with you about the Service, to provide you with advertising and promotional information in connection with the Service, and to enhance your experience on the Service. However, we do not give our partners an independent right to share this information.
Due to our contractual obligations with these third parties and the need to share information to deliver and support the Service, we cannot provide you with the opportunity to opt-out of sharing information (whether Personally Identifiable Information or other information) with these third parties.
Lightside Games, certain of its partners, and each of their contractors and employees may view the Content that you transmit to the service to provide the Service and otherwise perform the tasks set forth in this Privacy Policy.
Controlling Your Personal Information
Be advised that if you send messages or post material containing personal information, that information may be collected and used by others.
You can terminate your account at any time which will remove your profile and other personal information from view. Lightside Games, however, may (but is not obligated to) keep information about you that is on its system following your termination. Please contact Lightside Games to terminate your account or for any other questions about your personal information.
Transfer of Information
We reserve the right to transfer your personal information in the event of a transfer of ownership of Lightside Games or the acquisition of substantially all the assets of Lightside Games related to the business which collected such information, such as acquisition by or merger with another company. In such an event, Lightside Games will notify users who have provided email addresses when information about those users is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
Others' Information
You may decide to provide us with another person's email address so that person may be invited to join Lightside Games or so that we may facilitate your communication with other people through the Service (such as when you upload an address book).
You may also provide us with another person's contact information for purposes of delivering information through Lightside Games service. We use this information to contact and, if necessary, remind that person that he or she has been invited to join Lightside Games or received content through an Lightside Games service. We may disclose such information if required to do so in order to comply with legal process, as described above.
Cookies
The Service sends "cookies" to your computer when you access the Lightside Games site, or otherwise view content through a Lightside Games game, or use Lightside Games service and the Service uses such cookies as described in here. The Service uses cookies to improve the quality of our service, make recommendations, and make the Service easier to use for our users. A cookie is a small text file recorded on your hard drive that identifies you as a unique user and contains certain information about your particular login session and/or your use of the Service.
Use of Information
Lightside Games may contain links to other web sites, and content in Lightside Games game and Lightside Games service may be hosted by other web sites. In addition, as described above, most content offered through Lightside Games games or Lightside Games service is served or hosted by other sites. These other sites maintain their own policies regarding cookies and the collection and use of personal information. It is up to you to review those policies yourself.
Third-Party Advertising Companies
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our site and on certain Lightside Games games and Lightside Games service. Our system and the third-party advertising technology uses information derived from Activity Information, Lightside Games's cookies on your hard drive, your visits to our site, the Lightside Games games that you view and the Lightside Games service you use to target advertising within our site or Lightside Games games or Lightside Games service. In addition, our advertisers may use other third-party advertising technology to target advertising on our site and other sites. In the course of advertisements being served to you, a unique third-party cookie or cookies may be placed on your computer. Similarly, third-party advertising companies may provide us with pixel tags (also called “clear gifs” or “beacons”) to help manage and optimize our online advertising. Beacons enable us to recognize a browser's cookie when a browser visits the site on which the beacon is located, and to learn which banner ads bring users to a given site.
Lightside Games does not provide any Personally Identifiable Information to third-party advertising companies. Note, however, that if an advertiser asks Lightside Games to show an advertisement to users with certain characteristics or a segment of that group and you respond to that advertisement, the third-party advertising company may conclude that you have the characteristics of the audience that they are trying to reach.
Security
Lightside Games takes appropriate precautions to protect our users' information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number or your password), we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). Because email and instant messaging are not recognized as secure communications, we request that you not send private information to us by email or instant messaging services.
Additional Questions
California Residents: Your California Privacy Rights
Under California law, California Residents who have an established business relationship with Lightside Games or one of its subsidiaries may choose to opt out of Lightside Games disclosure of personal information about them to third parties for direct marketing purposes. As detailed above, our policy is not to disclose personal information collected online to a third party for direct marketing purposes without your approval.