Privacy Policy

At GameDevFAQs, we are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose information received through our website.

Information We Collect

We collect information to provide better services to all of our users. We collect information in two ways:

  1. Information you give us. For example, we collect information when you create an account, participate in forums, submit questions and answers, fill out forms, take quizzes, enter contests or sweepstakes, communicate with us via third-party social media sites, request customer support or otherwise communicate with us.
  2. Information we get from your use of our services. We collect information about the services that you use and how you use them. This information includes:
    • Device information
    • Log information
    • Location information
    • Local storage
    • Cookies and similar technologies

Information You Give Us

We collect information you provide directly to us. For example, we collect information when you create an account, participate in forums, submit questions and answers, fill out forms, take quizzes, enter contests or sweepstakes, communicate with us via third-party social media sites, request customer support or otherwise communicate with us. The information we collect includes:

  • First and last name
  • Email address
  • Username and password
  • Phone number
  • Address
  • Payment information
  • Any information you choose to provide in public forums or submit to us for contests, sweepstakes, promotions, studies or surveys

Information We Get From Your Use of Our Services

We collect information about the services that you use and how you use them. This information includes:

  • Device Information We collect information about the device you use to access our services, including IP address, browser type, language preference, referring site, operating system, date/time stamps, and related data.
  • Log Information As you interact with our website, we automatically collect server logs, which may include information like device IP address, access dates and times, app crashes and other system activity, type of browser, and the third-party site or service you were using before interacting with our services.
  • Location Information We may collect information about the location of your device each time you access or use one of our mobile applications or otherwise consent to the collection of this information.
  • Local Storage We may collect and store information locally on your device using mechanisms such as browser web storage and application data caches.
  • Cookies and Similar Technologies We use various technologies to collect information when you interact with our services, including cookies and web beacons. Cookies are small data files stored on your device that allow us to collect information about your device identifiers, IP address, web browsers used to access our services, pages or features viewed, time spent on pages, links clicked and conversion information. Web beacons are graphic images that are placed on a website or in an email that is used to monitor the behavior of the user visiting the website or sending the email. They are often used in combination with cookies.

Use of Information

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

  • Provide, maintain, improve and develop new services and features
  • Monitor metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic and demographic patterns
  • Diagnose technical issues and administer our websites
  • Enable you to access and use our websites
  • Communicate with you about services you have requested or participate in
  • Send you confirmations, technical notices, updates, security alerts and support/administrative messages
  • Provide support and maintenance for our services
  • Respond to user inquiries and comments and provide customer service
  • Send marketing communications that you have consented to receiving
  • Personalize content and experiences based on your preferences
  • Notify you about changes to our websites
  • Manage sweepstakes, contests, promotions or surveys
  • Detect, investigate and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be fraudulent or illegal
  • Enforce our Terms of Service
  • For any other purposes that we may specifically disclose at the time you provide information or that is described in this Privacy Policy

Disclosure of Information

We will not share or distribute your personal information to any third parties without your consent, except in the following circumstances:

  • Service Providers. We share your information with third party service providers who use this information to perform services for us, like payment processing, hosting services, email delivery and customer support services.
  • Business Transfers. Information may be disclosed and transferred in connection with any merger, sale of company assets, financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company. You will be notified if any such transfer results in a material change in how your personal information is collected or used.
  • Affiliates. We may disclose information with affiliated companies for business purposes like analytics, fraud prevention, marketing and coordinating sales channels.
  • Research & Anonymous Data. We may share aggregated, anonymized data with third parties for industry research and analysis, demographic profiling, marketing and advertising, and other lawful purposes. This data will not identify you personally.
  • Legal Requirements. We may also retain, preserve or disclose your information if we have a good faith belief that it is reasonably necessary to (a) respond, based on applicable law, to a legal request (e.g. subpoena, search warrant, court order); (b) enforce our Terms of Service or other applicable agreements or policies; (c) collect amounts owed to us; (d) assist with investigations of suspected fraud, harassment or other violations of ethics codes and policies that govern student, faculty, and staff conduct; and (e) as required or expressly permitted by law or regulations applying to us.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use cookies and other technologies to analyze trends, administer the website, track users’ movements around the website, and gather information about our user base. This allows us to offer customized content and recognize you when you return to our website.

Users can control the use of cookies at the browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some features or areas of our site may be limited.

Security

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit information via our website, your information is protected both online and offline.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to your personally identifiable information.

The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

Third Party Websites

This Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected by any third party, including through any application or content that may link to or be accessible from our website.

We are not responsible for the privacy policies, terms of service or security of any linked or integrated third-party applications, websites or services.

Our Policy Towards Children

Our website is not directed to individuals under the age of 13. We do NOT knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13 without verifiable parental consent. If it comes to our attention that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to delete that information.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will post the new Privacy Policy on this page.

The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting this Privacy Policy to check for any updates or changes.

Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints about our Privacy Policy, the information we hold about you, or if you wish to exercise your rights, we encourage you to contact us.

We will attempt to resolve complaints and disputes and make every reasonable effort to honor your wish to exercise your rights as quickly as possible and in any event, within the timescales provided by applicable data protection laws.

Email: [email protected]