GFG Online including its affiliates (“GFG”), collects, stores, and uses your personal information as a data controller in connection with and in order to provide and develop GFG’s products, mobile applications, services and websites (together “GFG Services”) according to this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”).

For questions and information about Privacy Policy and data subject’s rights, please contact us at [email protected].

For information about our privacy practices related to data from children, please see “Special Note About Children’s Privacy” below.

ALL GFG SERVICES ARE GOVERNED BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND BY USING OR ACCESSING ANY OF GFG SERVICES YOU GIVE CONSENT TO THE PROCESSING, USE AND DISCLOSURE OF YOUR DATA. PLEASE DO NOT INSTALL OR USE THE GFG SERVICES IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

GFG reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of GFG Services will signify your acceptance of the changes to this Privacy Policy.

  1. HOW WE COLLECT YOUR DATA

Likely situations when you make personal data available to GFG include, but are not limited to: (i) by using GFG’s mobile apps or visiting our websites, (ii) registration for GFG Services, contests and special events; (iii) accessing GFG Services using a third party ID, such as social networking sites or gaming services; (iv) subscribing to newsletters; (v) purchasing a product or services through GFG’s online stores or within the app (or “in-app purchase”); (vi) using “tell a friend,” “email this page,” or other similar features; (vii) opening a GFG Account; (viii) requesting technical support; and (ix) otherwise through use of GFG Services where personal data is required for use and/or participation.

The data we process on you may include, but is not limited to: email address, device ID, and IP-address.

GFG may supplement your data with data received from third parties in connection with demographic, advertisement, market and other analytics surveys or services.

  1. AD-SERVING TECHNOLOGY

GFG reserves the right to use and disclose the collected, non-personal data for purposes of advertising by GFG or GFG’s partners and contractors. GFG may employ third party ad-serving technologies that use certain methods to collect information as a result of ad serving through GFG Services.

When you use the GFG Services, we or third parties operating the advertisement serving technology may use demographic or other information collected directly from you and/or from third parties such as age and gender as well as information logged and/or collected from your device using cookies, web beacons and other technologies to ensure that appropriate advertising is presented within the GFG Services and to calculate the number of unique and repeat views of advertising. This technology also controls the number of times you see a given ad, delivers ads that relate to your interests and measures the effectiveness of ad campaigns. GFG or third parties operating the ad-serving technology may use demographic and geo-location information (for more information regarding use of Location Data see below Section 3) as well as information logged from your hardware or device to ensure that relevant advertising is presented within the GFG Service. GFG or third parties may collect and use data, for such purposes, including but not limited to, data such as IP address, Device ID, MAC address, installed software, application usage data, hardware type, Operating System information, browser information, unique identifiers in browser cookies, Flash cookies, and HTML5 local storage, Internet and on-line usage information and in-game information. The foregoing data may be collected, used, stored and disclosed pursuant to this Privacy Policy providing the foregoing data may be disclosed to third parties participating in ad-serving technology in a form that does not personally identify you.

GFG may display to you behaviorally targeted advertising. If you wish to “opt out” of certain targeted advertising, please visit http://www.youradchoices.com and/or www.networkadvertising.org. Please note that the links above may not reach all GFG’s advertising partners and certain behaviorally targeted advertising may still be displayed to you. If you want to be certain that no behaviorally targeted advertisements are displayed to you, please do not use or access the GFG Services.

Please note that if you “opt out” it does not mean that you will no longer receive advertising. It just means that the advertising you see displayed will not be customized to you and your interests and may be less relevant to you.

Some services may include the use of in-game advertisements or brand placement. Such ads or sponsorships will be noted as such within the services.

  1. LOCATION DATA

To the extent GFG makes location enabled GFG Services available and you use such GFG Services, GFG may collect and process your location data to provide location related GFG Services and advertisements. For example, some add-ons or offers may be available at dedicated locations. The location data is processed and stored only for the duration that is required for the provision of the location related GFG Services.

GFG may use, depending on the service (1)IP-based location based on the IP address presented by the end-user, (2) fine geo-location data based on coordinates obtained from a mobile device’s GPS radio, or (3) coarse, network-based geo-location data based on proximity of network towers or the location of Wi-Fi networks.

GPS-based geo-location is not accessed without your consent. Notwithstanding GFG’s partners who are providing location related parts of the GFG Service, GFG will not share your GPS geo-location with third parties without your consent. To the extent GFG makes available GPS geo-location to third parties in accordance with this Privacy Policy, it will be provided anonymously.

  1. ANALYTICS

GFG uses your information to perform its own analytics and to enable analytics provided by third parties. We use analytical information for supporting business analysis and operations, business intelligence, product development, improving products and services, personalizing content, providing advertising, and making recommendations. GFG may also use third-parties in order to develop and analyze use of the GFG Services.

  1. FRIENDS

If you choose to use GFG’s “tell a friend” or a similar service about GFG Services or order a gift certificate for your friend, GFG may store your friend’s name and contact details that you provide to GFG.

Please note that certain features of the GFG Services may be able to connect to your social networking sites to obtain additional information about you. In such cases, GFG may be able to collect certain information from your social networking profile when your social networking site permits it, and when you consent to allow your social networking site to make that information available to GFG. This information may include, but is not limited to, your name, profile picture, gender, user ID, email address, your country, your language, your time zone, the organizations and links on your profile page, the names and profile pictures of your social networking site “friends” and other information you have included in your social networking site profile. GFG may associate and/or combine as well as use information collected by GFG and/or obtained through such social networking sites.

  1. DISCLOSURE AND TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA

Personal data may be disclosed to third parties including third parties located outside the European Union or the European Economic Area in accordance with applicable legislation and this Privacy Policy.

GFG may use third parties to collect and process personal data on GFG’s behalf and in according to GFG’s instructions. GFG is not liable for the acts and omissions of these third parties, except as provided by mandatory law.

  1. DATA RETENTION AND CORRECTNESS

GFG retains the collected data for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Thereafter GFG deletes all aforementioned data in its possession within a reasonable timeframe. GFG does not verify the correctness of personal data.

Please note that some data may be further retained if necessary to resolve disputes, enforce GFG user agreements, and comply with technical and legal requirements and constraints related to the security, integrity and operation of GFG Services.

  1. COOKIES, BEACONS AND TRACKING

The GFG Services may use “cookies” and other technologies such as pixel tags, local shared objects, hardware-based device identifiers, Operating System-based identifiers, clear GIFs and web beacons. GFG treats information collected by cookies and similar technologies as non-personal data.

Cookies: A “cookie” is a small file stored by your browser when told to do so by a website. Typically websites place a number of different cookies on an end-user’s machine. Some of the cookies are “1st Party”, from the website itself, and others are “3rd party”, belonging to advertising and analytics entities or social networks. GFG’s cookies typically do not include personal data and are used to quickly identify your device and to “remember” your browser during subsequent visits for purposes of functionality, preferences, and website performance. You can disable cookies or set your browser to alert you when cookies are being sent to your device; however, disabling cookies may affect your ability to use the GFG Services.

Flash cookies & HTML5: GFG may also use Flash cookies (local shared objects) and HTML5 local storage. Flash cookies are small files similar to browser cookies, but which are not stored in the browser and can also be used to remember your settings, to personalize the look and feel of the GFG Services, or for advertising and analytics. You may prevent Flash cookies from being stored by following the instructions provided by Adobe at http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/disable-local-shared-objects-flash.html.

Web Beacons and pixel tags: A “web beacon” or a “pixel tag” is an electronic image (often not visible to the end-user) that allows GFG to count users who have visited certain pages or viewed certain advertisements. Additionally, e-mails and other electronic communications GFG sends to you may contain pixel tags that enable GFG to track your usage of the communication, including whether the communication was opened and/or what links were followed, if any.

  1. THIRD PARTY TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Please note that your access to and use of the GFG Services may be subject to certain third party terms and conditions and GFG is not liable for any such third parties’ use of your personal data.

Please note that in accordance with the valid license agreements concluded by GFG in some cases GFG may be obliged to share with its licensors all and any user data (including personal data) that GFG collects through any of the GFG Services using the license provided by the licensor in the same form and format as such user data is actually collected.

Certain GFG Services that GFG may offer, such as multiplayer gaming, social networking and gaming console services, may use third party services to provide authentication for the GFG Services with a gaming console ID, social networking ID, or gaming network account. In connection with such use, certain personally identifiable user and/or membership data may be transferred automatically to and from GFG.

GFG may disclose your personal data to third parties in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, restructuring, the sale of substantially all of GFG’s stock and/or assets or other corporate change, including, without limitation, during the course of any due diligence process provided, however, that this Privacy Policy shall continue to govern such personal data.

  1. SAFEGUARDS

GFG follows generally accepted industry standards and maintains reasonable safeguards to attempt to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of the information in GFG’s possession.

  1. OTHER

You may choose to disclose data about yourself in the course of contributing user generated content to the GFG Services.

Any data that you disclose in any of these forums, blogs, chats or the like will become public information, and there is no expectation of privacy or confidentiality with respect to that data.

GFG may store and/or transfer your personal data to its affiliates and partners in and outside of EU/EEA member states and the United States in accordance with mandatory legislation and this Privacy Policy.

  1. SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

GFG does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years of age. If GFG learns that GFG has inadvertently gathered personal data from children under 13 years of age, GFG will take reasonable measures to promptly delete such personal data from GFG’s records.

GFG understands the need to provide extra privacy protections to users who are children. To that end, features and services such as social networking plug-ins, behaviorally targeted advertising, and collection of data for the purpose of building user profiles are not available to users under 13. GFG also does not allow our third party partners who engage in such practices to access personally identifiable data from users under 13.

GFG and its partners do collect non-personally identifiable data from children. This includes, for example, collection of IP-based geolocation data to ensure that the product, service or features served comply with applicable laws of that nation.

GFG and its partners also collect data to assess general information about the use of products, such as the number of visitors to our sites and services and which sections of a site or service are popular. GFG also uses this data to provide contextually-relevant advertising to users, to prevent users from seeing the same ad repeatedly, and to allow users to personalize their experience on the site or service (for example, to save a high score in a game). GFG and its partners may also use cookies, pixels, hardware-based identifiers, Operating System-based identifiers, and software-set identifiers, to manage and measure the performance of advertising.

Please note that GFG’s partners may have their own policies related to tracking technologies for analytics and ad-serving purposes. GFG persuades that companies comply with GFG’s privacy policy, nevertheless GFG does not actually control third-party data collection and use. GFG encourages parents to review the list of operators below and to become familiar with those parties policies and practices. Please note that the list of operators below is not fully comprehensive.

  1. FURTHER INFORMATION

This Privacy Policy is governed by the laws of the State of South Carolina without regard to its conflict of laws provisions.

GFG makes good faith efforts to enable you to review, update or correct your personal data in GFG’s possession.

GFG will need sufficient information from you to establish your identity and to verify your access request, and also to assist us in handling your request.