www.OnlineKeyStore.com considers the protection of personal privacy to be one
of our most important values. This privacy policy ("Policy") gives
you specific information on how we protect your privacy, how we treat personal
information, and the choices you have. This privacy policy complies with the
Safe Harbor framework under the E.U. Data Protection Directive. In addition, OnlineKeyStore
self-certifies compliance with the Safe Harbor framework to the U.S. Department
of Commerce.
This Policy applies to OnlineKeyStore.com
As a condition of using the OnlineKeyStore Sites, you agree to be bound by the
terms of this Policy. Additional terms and conditions which govern your use of
the OnlineKeyStore Sites are contained in our User Agreement, and, as applicable,
in certain other service-specific license agreements or terms of use, which you
will be notified of at the time of your registration for the applicable
services.
The Policy is accessible through the OnlineKeyStore Sites in several ways,
including from a link entitled "Privacy" at the bottom of the OnlineKeyStore.com
home page. You acknowledge that this Policy may change over time. If we make a
material change to the terms of this Policy, we will give you 30 days notice of
those changes ("Notice Period") through reasonably prominent
disclosure, including via email. However, you should check the OnlineKeyStore Sites
(and OnlineKeyStore.com in particular) regularly for these and other important
announcements. Your continued use of the OnlineKeyStore Sites following the
Notice Period will OnlineKeyStore that you agree to these changes.
Children
The OnlineKeyStore Sites are not directed to children under the age of 13. The OnlineKeyStore Sites prohibit registration by, and OnlineKeyStore will not
knowingly collect personally identifiable information from, anyone under 13.
This requirement will be posted at points of data collection within the OnlineKeyStore
Sites, such as registration for services.
Note to Parents. If you have any concerns about the OnlineKeyStore Sites,
please contact us via our online form, available at www.OnlineKeyStore.com OnlineKeyStore
encourages parents to spend time online with their children. We also urge
parents to instruct their children never to give out their real names,
addresses or phone numbers without parental permission when using the Internet.
Information Collection, Storage and Use
We refer to information that identifies an individual as "Personal
Information." In general, OnlineKeyStore collects Personal Information from
users of the OnlineKeyStore Sites in connection with access to certain online
areas or services, including during (i) registration for certain online
community services and tools such as message boards, chat rooms or other
community services; (ii) registration for special communications, such as email
updates and newsletters; (iii) subscription registration; (iv) user surveys;
(v) events, sweepstakes, contests or promotions; and (vi) registration for
online multi- or single-player gaming, either through the OnlineKeyStore Sites,
within a game publisher's site or through the game itself. Your Personal
Information is stored on OnlineKeyStore computer servers (or those of its service
providers) located in the United States.
We may gather data about the areas of the OnlineKeyStore Sites you visit or
access. We do not use any of this navigational data about where you "as an
individual user" go on OnlineKeyStore Sites or share any of this data with
third parties. However, we do use and share navigational data in aggregate,
non-personal form to understand how our users as a group use the OnlineKeyStore
Sites.
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal
information in public areas of an OnlineKeyStore Site, such as the member home
pages and message boards, your information can be viewed and possibly used by
others. We advise users to be especially careful in such public areas about
disclosing Personal Information, such as full name, home address, or phone
number.
Below are more details about the Personal Information we, or third parties
may gather from you and how we may use it.
A. Email Newsletters. OnlineKeyStore offers email newsletters to its
registered users. We will use your email address to send you only the specific
newsletter(s) that you OnlineKeyStore up for. If you want to update your email
address or stop receiving a newsletter, follow the procedures to unsubscribe at
the bottom of any newsletter we send you or simply visit http://www.OnlineKeyStore.com
B. Membership Information. When you register for membership on an OnlineKeyStore
Site, we will ask you for certain minimum required information, such as your
name, birth date, gender, email address and zip code. We may also ask for
additional information about you and your interests. We do this so we can
better understand your preferences and tailor the OnlineKeyStore Sites to suit
you better. The more information you volunteer, the more we can tailor the OnlineKeyStore
Site and promotions to your interests. Additionally, third-party service
providers may require you to assent to their privacy party as a condition to
receiving their service.
Service Providers. We offer our members other services provided by third
parties such as email and userpages, among others. When you register for
membership on an OnlineKeyStore Site or activate a related service by clicking on
a particular service link (i.e. email) on an OnlineKeyStore Site, you may be
automatically registered to receive the services we offer and some of your
Personal Information may be transferred from OnlineKeyStore to those third-party
service providers. By becoming a member, you authorize us and our third-party
service providers to send you email updates and information about promotions
and special offers. We take care to require that our third-party service
providers only use our member's data as necessary to provide the particular
service and to give you updates on that service provider's products and
services.
Game Owners/Publishers. We provide game owners/publishers with certain
hosted technology and software that enables various game related
functionalities, such as online multi- or single-player gaming. If you are not
already a registered user of the OnlineKeyStore Sites you may be asked to provide
Personal Information in connection with your use of such services. We share
Personal Information with game owners/publishers that offer such services to
enable those entities to operate the services you have elected to receive. Game
owners/publishers may also use Personal Information for other business
purposes, provided that such use shall be in compliance with the terms of this
Policy, except that a game owner/publisher (a) will not contact you or
otherwise use or transfer your Personal Information, unless you have expressly
consented. Upon giving such consent your Personal Information will be subject
to the game owner's/publisher's privacy policy.
Co-registration with Other Sites. As a member, we offer you the ability to
co-register with select third-party partner sites. In some instances where OnlineKeyStore
provides co-registration, the co-registration partners allow you to opt-out of
their membership. If you choose to co-register with our partners and accept
their terms of service, then you are automatically registered as a member of
their select web sites and your Personal Information is transferred to those
organizations. As a result, you may receive information from one of these web
sites as any of their members would. We advise you to review the privacy and
data collection policies of the third-party partner sites for further
information. In order to cancel your membership with any of these partners you
will need to go directly to the partner's site.
Advertisers. OnlineKeyStore may send you emails on behalf of our advertisers.
If you opt to receive information from our advertisers they may use your
Personal Information to send you advertisements or other notices, via email or
postal mail, and it is possible that your information may be shared with
others.
Other Parties. We occasionally provide third parties with Personal
Information limited only to your physical address in order to send you
promotional mailings. C. Email Updates to Members. If you so elect at
registration, we may periodically send you promotional email about products or
services offered by the OnlineKeyStore Sites, our partners and advertisers. If
you want to update your email address or stop receiving these types of promotional
emails, please follow the procedures to unsubscribe at the bottom of any email
we send you or simply visit http://www.OnlineKeyStore.com
We may contact you regarding account status, changes to this Policy, our
User Agreement or other terms of use, to confirm your registration or for any
other business reason related to your use of OnlineKeyStore Sites.
D. Promotions. We may ask you for Personal Information at other times,
including, but not limited to, when you enter sweepstakes, contests or promotions
sponsored by OnlineKeyStore or a third party. If you choose to enter sweepstakes,
contests or promotions sponsored by a third party, the Personal Information you
provide will be subject to the privacy policy of the third party sponsor. We
encourage you to check the applicable third party policy before providing any
Personal Information.
E. Surveys and User Research. OnlineKeyStore conducts email and web-delivered
surveys from time to time, as well as instant polls, to gather information
about our users. Taking these surveys and polls is entirely optional. You have
no obligation to respond to them. We share only the aggregate results of these
surveys, not Personal Information, with our advertisers and partners to help
them better understand our services and monitor the reach of their advertising
or other offerings on our service. We also use some of the Personal Information
that you provide in these surveys to help us understand your interests and to
make the OnlineKeyStore Sites more useful to you.
F. Use of Cookies. On the Internet, a "cookie" is a piece of
information (a file) that a Web site transfers to a user's computer for
record-keeping purposes. The use of cookies is common on the Internet. The
process we use to serve advertisements and to track use of the OnlineKeyStore
Sites involves cookies. We use cookies to recognize users who have already
registered for an OnlineKeyStore Site, allowing those users to speed up their
future activities on the OnlineKeyStore Sites. Cookies help OnlineKeyStore and our
advertising service (discussed below) track the frequency and placement of
advertisements. Cookies also enable us to measure aggregate (total) usage and
traffic to the OnlineKeyStore Sites and to specific offerings. This aids us in
producing content that best meets our users' preferences. In order to implement
new services, we may use other types of cookies as well. We also may use
cookies to understand better what parts of the OnlineKeyStore Sites you like
best. We may use that information to display advertisements that we think will
be of particular interest to you. You may configure your browser to reject
cookies, but this may interfere with some functionality of the OnlineKeyStore
Sites. To find out more about changing your browser to reject cookies, we
suggest the EPIC Cookies Page http://www.epic.org /privacy/internet/cookies.
Certain pages of the OnlineKeyStore Sites may contain electronic images (called a
"single-pixel GIF" or "web beacon") that allow a web site
to count users who have visited that page. OnlineKeyStore occasionally uses web
beacons on the OnlineKeyStore Sites in order to count users and to recognize
registered users by accessing the OnlineKeyStore cookies.
G. Purchase of Products or Services. When you purchase products or services
from or through the OnlineKeyStore Sites we may require Personal Information such
as name, address, telephone number and billing information, including credit
card, debit card or bank account data. OnlineKeyStore will not disclose your
Personal Information, including billing information, except to the extent
necessary to complete your transaction, for example during an online purchase
or where needed to deliver a product or service you ordered.
H. Software Updates; Interactive Material. OnlineKeyStore automatically
updates software used in conjunction with certain of the services available on
the OnlineKeyStore Sites. In order to update this software, OnlineKeyStore collects
a user's current version information from the user's computer. This information
is not archived and is only used to determine which software requires updating. OnlineKeyStore may record audio conversations or copy text chat or video images
from chat rooms on the OnlineKeyStore Sites and may disclose such material for
use in connection with promoting the OnlineKeyStore Sites.
I. Sites You Visit. As you access our Partner Sites and browse around the OnlineKeyStore
Sites, OnlineKeyStore may store information about which pages and which Partner
Sites you visit and other information presented in your browser's URL address
line. OnlineKeyStore will use this information to help determine what our users
are most interested in.
J. Sharing Non-Personal Information. OnlineKeyStore may share information that
is not Personal Information -- meaning non-personal, aggregate, or summary,
information regarding our users -- with other third parties not mentioned in
this Policy. This kind of information does not identify you individually.
K. Merger or Acquisition. In the event of a merger, acquisition,
reorganization, sale of all or substantially all of its assets, or the sale of
an individual website owned by OnlineKeyStore, OnlineKeyStore may transfer your
Personal Information to a third party as a part of such merger, acquisition,
reorganization, or sale.
L. Legal Authorities. We may also disclose Personal Information in cases
when we reasonably believe that it is necessary to identify someone who may be
violating OnlineKeyStore policies or OnlineKeyStore Sites" User Agreements or
other terms of use, or who may be a threat to OnlineKeyStore or third party
rights, property, or personal safety. The OnlineKeyStore Sites may disclose
Personal Information to comply with valid legal process such as a duly issued
search warrant, subpoena or court order.
Access to Other Sites through OnlineKeyStore
Our Partner Sites. You should be aware that when you are on an OnlineKeyStore
Site, you will have the opportunity to visit, or link to, other sites
associated with OnlineKeyStore. These sites are identified as our "Partner
Sites". These sites are not owned or operated by OnlineKeyStore, but are
part of a larger network of sites with which the OnlineKeyStore Sites share
content and advertising opportunities. We do not share your Personal
Information with these Partner Sites.
Linking to Other Sites. You may also visit independent web sites, not owned
or operated by OnlineKeyStore, through links on the OnlineKeyStore Sites. Such
sites are operated by external, third-party service providers. Some of these
sites will have their own separate membership processes and privacy policies.
We do not control sites that are operated by others and are not responsible for
the information practices of these sites. Other sites may set their own
cookies, collect data or solicit personal information. It is always a good idea
to check the privacy policy and terms of use of any site before offering any of
your Personal Information. We do not share your Personal Information with these
independent web sites.
Information Storage and Security
Your Personal Information is stored on OnlineKeyStore computer servers (or
those of its service providers) located in the United States. We protect your
Personal Information with technical, administrative and physical safeguards to
protect against loss, unauthorized access, destruction, misuse, modification
and improper disclosure. No computer system or information can ever be fully
protected against every possible hazard. But OnlineKeyStore is committed to
providing reasonable and appropriate security controls to protect our OnlineKeyStore
Sites and all Personal Information against foreseeable hazards.
Notwithstanding these security measures, please be aware that when you
submit Personal Information to the OnlineKeyStore Sites over the Internet, the
information may travel over many systems that are not under the OnlineKeyStore's
control. We take the protection of user data very seriously and to that end
take reasonable safeguards to prevent interception of any Personal Information.
In the case of shopping pages, for example, the credit card information you
submit is protected by secure servers.
Accessing, Correcting and Updating Your Information
To access, correct or update your account or other Personal Information such
as your city or interests, please use "My Account" -> "View
or change my account information" at the OnlineKeyStore Site on which you
are registered.
If you have any other questions, comments or complaints about this Policy,
please contact us via our online form, available at http://www.OnlineKeyStore.com/contact_us.html
or Deliver an E-mail to us
*Be sure to include the specific OnlineKeyStore Site to which you are a
member.
Unsubscribe
Newsletters. You may unsubscribe to email newsletters by following the
instructions at the bottom of each newsletter.
Email updates and special offers: You may unsubscribe to email announcements
by following the instructions at the bottom of each email.
Services: You may unsubscribe to any service for which you have previously
elected by following the instructions included in the OnlineKeyStore User
Agreement
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