Privacy Policy
Bantam City Games (“Bantam City Games”, “we,” “our,” “us”) recognizes that you care how information about you is collected and used. We have created this privacy policy to inform you of our practices regarding collection, use, and sharing of information. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how it will be treated.
The practices described in this privacy policy apply to information gathered through our websites, www.starshipempire.com, www.starshipempireonline.com and within the Starship Empire game (collectively, “Site”) and do not necessarily reflect our practices with respect to information gathered through other means. Use of a Site is also subject to any applicable Terms of Service for a given Site and to our personal information gathering and dissemination practices and policies described below. This privacy policy forms part of our Terms of Service.
What information do we collect?
- When you register on our site, information specific to that registration is collected.
- When you place an order, your payment related information will be securely collected by our payment processor (BMT Micro) and we do not collect this information directly or have access to it. You can access their privacy policy here: http://www.bmtmicro.com/support/misc_forms/PrivacyStatement.html
- When you use a Site, we gather information about your computer, including your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our partners. We use IP addresses for diagnostic and statistical purposes and to administer the Site.
- We collect information regarding customer traffic patterns and Site usage. This information may include details of (1) transactions you carry out through our Site, (2) the fulfillment of your orders and (3) your visits to our Site, such as location data, traffic, weblogs, referring web addresses, and other communication data and resources you access. This information is used to analyze and improve the Site and to provide our users with a more fulfilling experience.
- We may use certain web analytics services provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”) and other partners. The web analytics help us understand how users use our Site and help us advertise online. To facilitate these web analytics, we often use cookies.
- We may monitor how our users use our Site including without limitation search terms entered, pages visited, and documents viewed. This information may be stored with an IP address. This information is used solely for purposes of enabling us to provide you with a personalized Site experience. Aggregated forms of this data may also be used in order to help us understand areas for future research and to identify future features and functions to develop for the Site.
What do we use your information for?
- To improve customer service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs)
- To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature
- To send periodic emails. The email address you provide for registration, may be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your order, your account, and notification of important product updates or related services. Your information will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested. In the event that Bantam City Games or any of its products or services are acquired by a third party, personal data we hold about our users may be transferred to this third party.
Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. In the event that Bantam City Games or any of its products or services are acquired by a third party, personal data we hold about our users may be transferred to this third party. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
You understand and agree that technical processing of your information is and may be required to:
send and receive messages regarding your use of the Site;
conform to the technical requirements of connecting networks;
conform to the limitations of our service; or
conform to other, similar technical requirements.
Usage Tracking
We may monitor how our users use our Site including without limitation search terms entered, pages visited, and documents viewed. This information may be stored with an IP address. This information is used solely for purposes of enabling us to provide you with a personalized Site experience. Aggregated forms of this data may also be used in order to help us understand areas for future research and to identify future features and functions to develop for the Site.
Security Precautions
We take precautions to protect data and information under our control from misuse, loss or alteration. Our security measures include industry-standard technology and equipment to help protect your information, and we maintain security measures to allow only the appropriate personnel and contractors access to your information. Unfortunately, no system can ensure complete security, and we disclaim any liability resulting from use of the Site.
Third party links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
Our website, products and services are directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.
Notification of Changes to Our Privacy Policy
By using our Site, you acknowledge and consent to our privacy policy. However, we reserve the right to change or modify our information collection, use and disclosure practices set forth in this privacy policy. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on the Site so our users and customers are always aware of what information we collect, use and disclose. If at any point we decide to use or disclose your personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify you in writing, which may or may not be by e-mail. If you object to the change to our privacy policy, then you must contact us using the information provided in the notice. We will otherwise use and disclose a user’s or a customer’s personally identifiable information in accordance with the privacy policy that was in effect when such information was collected.
Your Consent
By using our site, you consent to this privacy policy.
