GameXChange Privacy Policy
Overall privacy statement
We take your privacy seriously. Because we gather certain types
of information about our users, we want to help you understand
the terms and conditions surrounding the collection and use of
that information. This privacy statement discloses the types of
information we gather, how we use it, and how to correct or
change it. These privacy practices apply to the Web site that
you were viewing when you clicked through to this policy, which
is operated directly by us, by our partner, or by our affiliate.
1. What information does H & E Designs
collect?
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to
provide you with the best and most useful content and services.
Several of the services and features that we offer on our sites
require you to provide us with information as a condition of
usage. These include access to subscription-only areas, the
ability to post opinions or other content, participation in
sweepstakes or contests, subscriptions to print magazines and
email newsletters and participation in message boards.
We collect personally identifiable information, such as your
name, email address, postal address, phone number, mobile number
and credit card information when you provide it to us. From time
to time, we may also collect other sensitive information such as
your job title, gender, username and password. We may also
receive information about you from other sources and add it to
the information you provided to us.
Once you register with one of our H & E Designs sites you are no
longer anonymous to us.
2. What is H & E Designs' practice regarding
cookies?
Your Internet browser has a feature called cookies, which stores
small amounts of data on your computer about your visit to any
of our sites. You do not need to have cookies turned on to visit
most of our sites, although active participation in certain
areas of our sites may require cookies. Cookies alone tell us
nothing about who you are unless you specifically give us
personally identifiable information, in which case we use the
information to enhance your services in the ways described
below. By adjusting your settings on your browser, you may elect
not to allow cookies to be collected.
We also use technologies, including electronic images known as
Web bugs—sometimes called transparent GIFs, clear GIFs, or
beacons—that allow us to track general user-traffic patterns. We
also automatically receive and record information from our
servers and from your browser, including your IP address, the
time of your visit to pages on our site, and information about
pages you visited. Unless you have registered for one of our
products or services, the information we gather through the use
of tracking technologies cannot be matched with any personally
identifiable information about you.
We use cookies and tracking technologies in a variety of ways,
including:
Keeping count of return visits to our site or our advertisers'
or partners' sites;
Accumulating and reporting anonymous, aggregate (data collected
in mass), statistical information on Web-site and advertisement
usage;
Determining which features our overall user population likes
best;
Saving your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time
you visit our sites;
Displaying the most appropriate advertising or content based on
your interests.
We allow other companies that are presenting advertisements on
our sites and, sometimes, in our newsletters to use tracking
technology on your computer. We do not give any personally
identifiable information to them as part of this relationship.
Unless you visit the Web site of these companies and provide
them with personally identifiable information about yourself,
these tracking technologies tell those advertisers nothing about
who you are. Our advertisers' use of tracking technology is
subject to their own privacy policies.
3. How does H & E Designs use the information?
We use the information we gather for four general purposes:
To customize the advertising and the content you see;
To enhance the user experience in our network of sites. We use
tracking information to determine how well each page performs
overall based on aggregate user demographics and traffic
patterns to those pages. This helps us continue to build a
better service for you;
To fulfill your requests for certain products and services, such
as sending out electronic newsletters and enabling you to
participate in paid services, polls, contests, and message
boards;
To send you information you agreed to receive about topics we
think will be of interest to you.
4. How does H & E Designs share the
information?
Personally identifiable information
We will make your personally identifiable information available
to other companies or people when:
You have elected to allow us to share that information at the
time that you registered with us or provided us the information,
or through a subsequent affirmative election through our
website.
You volunteer information or create a public profile in the
course of your participation in our community features such as
forums, user opinions and reviews, chat rooms, photo sharing or
other forms of public communication and interaction.
You use cobranded services (i.e., sites or services that we
offer to you in connection with a partner, who is identified on
the site). When you use a cobranded service within our network
of sites, you grant us permission to pass your registration
information back to that service partner. Their use of your
information is subject to their applicable privacy policies.
We hire third-party vendors to provide specialized services such
as customer support; email message deployment; suppression,
merge and de-duplication services; data processing; and special
products or services that you have requested. These companies
are only allowed to use the information in order to help us
fulfill our services to you. We do not provide your information
to these companies for their own, permanent use.
You unsubscribe for a mailing that we send to you on behalf of a
third party. We may share your removal instruction with the
third party so that it may be added to that person’s list of
people to whom they may not send emails.
You are the winner of a contest or a sweepstakes that is
co-sponsored with a third party and that third party needs your
information in order to manage the prize fulfillment process.
When required by law, such as when we respond to subpoenas,
court orders, or legal process.
We believe that your actions violate applicable laws, H & E
Designs' Terms of Use, or any usage guidelines for specific
products or services, or threaten the rights, property, or
safety of our company, our users, or others.
Aggregate information
We aggregate personally identifiable information and disclose
such information in a non-personally identifiable manner to
advertisers and other third parties for marketing, promotional,
and other purposes. We do not disclose to these entities any
information that could be used to identify you personally.
Business transfers
We are always seeking to improve our network of Web sites and
our business. In accomplishing these objectives, we may buy or
sell a company, or one or more of the companies in our corporate
family may merge with or be acquired by another company. If we
sell a business, we may transfer some or all of your information
as a part of the sale in order that the service being provided
to you may continue or for other business purposes.
5. What are my options?
Users who would rather not provide any of the user data
requested by our registration process do not need to register
with us. You can still view much of the content and use many of
the services offered by our sites without registering.
We also give users the following options:
Opting not to receive our electronic newsletters or those of
third parties when registering. Users who opt in may remove
themselves from mailing lists at any time through the
subscription-management pages or by following the instructions
at the end of the e-mail they received from us;
Opting not to provide certain personal information when
registering for a site, provided, however, that you may not be
able to use some of our products or services without providing
us with certain information.
6. How can I review and update my personally
identifiable information?
You can review, correct, or change the information collected
during registration for any of our sites. The instructions for
doing this can be found in our member-services areas. Users may
change information at any time and as often as necessary. Users
who are experiencing problems with our services or who have
questions about how our services work can contact us using
e-mail addresses at the bottom of this page.
