Version date: November 27th, 2021.
Game Press United (“Game Press United,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects the privacy of everyone (“Sites’ visitor,” “user,” or “you”) that uses our website at www.gamepressunited.com as well as other devices or online applications connected thereto (collectively, “sites.”)
The following Game Press United Privacy Policy (or “Privacy Notice”) is designed to inform you, as a user of the Sites about the types of personal information that Game Press United may gather about or collect from you in connection with use of the Sites. It is also intended to explain the conditions under which Game Press United uses and discloses that personal information and your rights in relation to that personal information.
The Sites are hosted in the United States and are subject to U.S. State and federal law. If you are accessing our site from other jurisdictions, please be advised that you are transferring your personal information to us in the United States, and by using our Sites, you are agreeing to that transfer and use in of your personal information accordance with this privacy notice. You also agree to abide by the laws of the State of Colorado and U.S. federal law concerning your use of the sites and your agreements with us. if your use of the Sites would be unlawful in your jurisdiction, please do not use the Sites.
Game Press United gathers personal information from users of the Sites. When you browse our Sites, subscribe to our services, or contact us through various social or web forms you are voluntarily sharing personal information with us. This information also includes various data that we collect automatically. This may be the user’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, operator system, browser type and the location of the Sites the user views right before arriving at, while navigating, and immediately after leaving the Sites. It may also include various technical aspects of users computer or browser and users browsing habits that are collected through cookies. Game Press united may analyze various mentioned personal information gathered from or about users to help Game press United better understand how the Sites are used and how to make them better. By identifying patterns and trends in usage, Game Press United is able to better design the Sites to improve users’ experiences, both in terms of content and ease of use. From time to time, Game Press United may also release the anonymized information gathered from the users in the aggregate, such as publishing a report on trends in the usage of the Sites.
When we believe disclosure is appropriate, we may disclose your information to help investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing; to protect and defend the rights, property, or safety of Game Press United, our users, our potential employees; to comply with applicable law or cooperate with law enforcement; to enforce our Terms of Use or other agreements or policies; in response to a subpoena or similar investigative demand, a court order or a request for cooperation from a law enforcement or other government agency; to establish or exercise our legal rights; to defend against legal claims; or as otherwise required by law. In such cases we may raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us. We will notify you, if permitted, before undertaking such disclosures.
Game Press United reserves the right to transfer all information in its possession to a successor organization in the event of a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, or other sale of all or a portion of Game Press United’s assets. Other than to the extent ordered by a bankruptcy or other court, the use and disclosure of all information will be subject to this Privacy Notice, or to a new Privacy Notice if you are given notice to that Privacy Notice and if you are given an opportunity to affirmatively opt-out of it.
A “Cookie” is a string of information which assigns you a unique identification that a website stores on a user’s computer, and that the user’s browser provides to the website each time the user submits a query to the website. We use Cookies on the Sites to keep track of services you have used, to record registration information regarding your login name and password (if ever applicable to the Sites,) to record your user preferences, to keep you logged into the Sites and facilitate purchase procedures (again, if ever applicable to the Sites.) Game Press United also uses cookies to track the pages that users visit during each of the Sites’ sessions, both to help Game press United improve user’s experiences and to help Game Press United better understand how the Sites are being used. as with other personal information gathered from users of the Sites, Game Press United analyzes and discloses aggregated form information gathered using Cookies, so as to help Game Press United, its partners and others better understand how the Sites are being used. SITES USERS WHO DO NOT WISH TO HAVE COOKIES PLACED ON THEIR COMPUTERS SHOULD SET THEIR BROWSERS TO REFUSE COOKIES BEFORE ACCESSING THE SITES, WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT CERTAIN FEATURES OF THE SITES MAY NOT FUNCTION PROPERLY WITHOUT THE AID OF COOKIES. SITES’ USERS WHO REFUSE COOKIES ASSUME ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY RESULTING LOSS OF FUNCTIONALITY.
Game Press United currently uses the following cookies:
General Provisions
Game Press United contractually prohibits its contractors, affiliates, vendors, and suppliers from disclosing any personal information received from Game Press United, other than in accordance with this Privacy Notice. These third parties may include advertisers, providers of games, widgets, utilities, and a variety of other third-party applications accessible through the Sites. Game Press United neither owns nor controls third-party websites or applications accessible through the Sites. Thus, this Privacy Notice does not apply to personal information provided to or gathered by the third parties that operate them. Before visiting a third party or using a third party application, whether by means of a link on the Sites, directly through the Sites or otherwise, and before providing any personal information to any such third party, users should inform themselves of the privacy policies and practices (if any) of the third party responsible for those Sites or applications, and should take the steps necessary to, in those users’ discretion, protect their privacy.
Third Party Advertisers
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Sites. These companies may use information about your visits to the Sites that are contained in Cookies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. Using a tool created by the Network Advertising Initiative, you can opt-out of several third-party ad servers’ and networks’ Cookies simultaneously. If you would like more personalized information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this personal information used by these companies, please check the following links:
Analytics
We may use third-party vendors, including Google, who use first-party cookies (Such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as DoubleClick cookie) together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on your past activity on the Sites, including Google Analytics for Display Advertising. The personal information collected may be used to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, and better understand online activity. If you do not want any personal information to be collected and used by Google Analytics, you can install an opt-out in your web browser and/or opt out from Google Analytics for Display Advertising or the Google Display Network by using Google’s ad settings.
Social Media
We may use hyperlinks on the Sites which will direct you to a social network if you click on the respective link. However, when you click on a social plug-in , such as Facebook’s “Like” button or “Twitter’s “Tweet” button, that particular social network’s plug-in will be activated and your browser will directly connect to that provider’s servers. If you do not use these buttons, your information will not be sent to the respective social network’s plug-in providers. To illustrate this further, imagine the scenario where you click Facebook’s “Like” button on the Sites. Facebook will receive your IP address, the browser version and screen resolution, and the operating system of the device you have used to access the Sites. Settings regarding privacy protection can be found on the websites of those social networks and are not within our control.
Third Party Service Providers
We may share your personal information, which may include your name and contact information (including Email address) with our authorized service providers that perform certain services on our behalf. These services may include fulfilling orders, providing customer service and marketing assistance, performing business sales and analysis, supporting the Sites’ functionality (and supporting contests, sweepstakes, surveys, and other features offered through the Sites.) We may also share your name, personal contact information, and personal credit card information with our authorized service providers who process credit card payments (if ever applicable.) These service providers have access to personal information needed to perform their functions but are not permitted to share or use such personal information for any other purpose. You can contact us to receive our current list of providers.
We take the security of your personal information seriously and use reasonable electronic, personnel, and physical measures to protect it from loss, theft, alteration, or misuse. However, please be advised that even the best security measures cannot fully eliminate all risks. we cannot guarantee that only authorized persons will view your personal information. We are not responsible for any third-party circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures.
We are dedicated to protecting all personal information on the Sites as is necessary. However, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your personal information by keeping you password and computer/mobile device access confidential. If you have an account with Game Press United and believe someone has gained unauthorized to it or your account, please change your password as soon as possible. If you lose control of your account, you should notify us immediately.
if you reside in the European Union (EU), United Kingdom (UK), Switzerland, Norway, Lichtenstein, or Iceland, you have certain data protection rights under your current laws.
These rights may include:
If Game Press United relies on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. However, please note that this will not alter the validity of the processing before its withdrawal.
If you wish to exercise any of the mentioned rights, please contact us at www.gamepressunited.com/contact. Game Press United has 30 days to respond to the request
if you are not satisfied with the way Game Press United is handling your concerns after 30 days, please note you have the right to complain to your local data protection suervisory authority.
Do not sell my personal information notice – California Consumer Policy Act (CCPA)
Game Press united has not sold or disclosed any personal information to third parties for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding twelve (12) months. Game Press United has not sold or disclosed your information ever, nor do the Sites plan to in the future, including visitors, users, and consumers.
If you are under 18 years of age
If you have registered an account with Game Press United, you have the right to request the removal of unwanted personal information that you post publicly to our Sites. To request the removal of such information, please contact us at www.gamepressunited.com/contact. Be sure to include you account’s Email address and a statement that you reside in California.
“Shine The Light Law”
California civil code section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, personal information about the personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. If applicable, this information would include a list of the categories of the personal information that was shared and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request to the contact page in the Sites header.
The Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) protects the online privacy of children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from anyone under the age of 13, unless or except as permitted by law. Any person who has provided information through the Sites represents to us that he/she is 13 years of age or older. If we learn that personal information of a person under the age of 13 through the Sites, then we will take the appropriate steps to cause this personal information to be deleted. If you are the parent or legal guardian of a child under 13 who has become a member of the Sites or has otherwise transferred personal information to the Sites, please contact Game Press United using our contact form provided in the menu tab at the top of each page. we will promptly delete any information and terminate that child’s account. (if any.)
Most web browsers and some web operating systems include a “Do-not-Track” (DNT) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. Because there is not yet a common understanding of how to interpret the DNT signal, the Sites currently do not respond to DNT browser signals or mechanisms.
Disputes regarding privacy issues contained in this Privacy Notice will be governed by the law of the State of Colorado. You also agree to abide by any limitation on damages contained in our Terms of Use, or other agreement that we have with you.
Game Press united may, in its’ sole discretion, change this Privacy Notice from time to time. Any and all changes to Game Press United’s Policy Notice will be reflected on this page and the date of the new version will be stated at the top of this Privacy Notice. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all personal information that we have about you and any potential accounts you may create. Users should regularly check this page for any changes to this Privacy Notice. Game Press United will always post changes to the Privacy Notice directly to the Sites. However, Game Press United may, as determined in its discretion, decide to notify users of changes made to this Privacy Notice via Email or otherwise. Accordingly, it is important that users always maintain and update their contact information (if ever applicable.)