Advertisers. By becoming a member, you authorize IGN to
share your Personally Identifiable Information with our advertisers. Our
advertisers may use your Personally Identifiable Information to send you, via email
or postal mail, advertisements or other notices, and it is possible that your
information may be shared with others.
C. Email Updates to Members. If you so elect at registration, the IGN Sites
will periodically send you promotional email about services offered by the IGN
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://my.ign.com to update your profile.
The IGN Sites may contact you regarding account status, changes to the user
agreement, and to confirm registration.
D. Promotions. We may ask you for Personally Identifiable Information at
other times, including, but not limited to, when you enter sweepstakes, contests or
promotions sponsored by a third party. If you choose to enter sweepstakes, contests
or promotions of this nature, we may share your Personally Identifiable Information
with the third party so they can contact you. The third party may use that
information to send you advertisements or other notices, and it is possible that
your information may be shared with others.
E. Surveys and User Research. IGN conducts email and web-delivered surveys
from time to time, as well as instant polls, to gather information about our
audience. It is important to remember that 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 individual data, with our advertisers and
partners to help them better understand our services and monitor the reach of their
advertising on our service. We also store some of the information that our users
provide in these surveys to help us understand your interests and to make the site
more useful for 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 our site involves cookies. Cookies help IGN and
our advertising service (discussed below) track the frequency and placement of
advertisements. Cookies also enable us to measure aggregate, or total usage and
traffic to our site 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 our site 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 IGN 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].
G. Sites You Visit. As you access our Affiliate Sites and browse around the
IGN Sites, IGN may store information about which pages and which Affiliate Sites
you visit and other information presented in your browser's URL address line. IGN
will use this information to help determine what our users are most interested
in.
H. Other Third Parties. IGN may share 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.
I. 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 IGN, IGN may transfer your Personally Identifiable
Information to a third party as a part of such merger, acquisition, reorganization,
or sale.
J. Legal Authorities. The IGN Sites may also disclose Personally
Identifiable Information in cases when we have reason to believe that it is
necessary to identify someone who may be violating IGN's
User Agreement or may be causing
injury to IGN's rights or property, other users, or anyone else. The IGN Sites may
disclose Personally Identifiable Information of our users to government authorities
at our discretion.
Access to Other Sites Through
IGN
Our Affiliates Sites. You should be aware that when you are on an IGN Site,
you will have the opportunity to visit, or link to, other sites associated with
IGN. These sites are identified as our "Affiliates" and/or - "Partner Sites" These
sites are not owned or operated by IGN, but are part of a larger network of sites
with which the IGN Sites share content and advertising opportunities. We do not
share Personally Identifiable Information of our members with these Affiliate
Sites.
Linking to Other Sites. You may also visit independent web sites, not
operated by IGN, that are connected to our network for our users. Such sites are
operated by external, third-party service providers. Some of these sites will have
their own separate membership processes and privacy policies. The IGN Sites do not
control sites that are operated by others and so cannot be 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.
Security The IGN Sites use
diligent efforts to protect the security and integrity of the information you
provide to us once it is received on our systems. However, when you submit
information about yourself to the IGN Sites over the Internet, the information may
travel over many systems that are not under the control of IGN. We take the
protection of user data very seriously and to that end provide extra assurances
that your information will not be intercepted. In the case of shopping pages, for
example, the credit card information you submit is protected by secure servers.
Updating Your Information
To update your account information such as your city or interests, please use the
"Edit profile page" at the IGN Site on which you are registered.
Cancellations
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Canceling Newsletters. You may cancel participation in
email newsletters by following the instructions at the bottom of each
newsletter.
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Email updates and special offers: You may cancel
participation in the email announcements by following the instructions at the
bottom of each email.
Still Have Questions?
If you have any other questions about the IGN Privacy Policy, please contact us via
our online form, available at
http://www.ign.com/email.html or write to
us at:
IGN Entertainment, Inc.
Attn: Customer Service
8000 Marina Blvd.
2nd Floor
Brisbane, CA 94005
*Be sure to include the specific IGN Site to which you are a
member.
