- Forum Privacy Policy -
In this Privacy Policy, "we", "we" and "our" refer to Escape From Cheaters.
This Privacy Policy sets out how Escape From Cheaters uses and protects all information you provide when you use Escape From Cheaters products and services. This only contains Escape From Cheaters (www.escapefromcheaters.com). Escape From Cheaters may change this policy as needed. We will provide a more prominent notice (including an email notification of changes to our Privacy Policy).
- What information we collect about you and how we use the information
1.1 Account and profile information
You do not need to create an account to access this forum, such as searching for and viewing public member profiles, forums, topics, and posts. If you decide to create an account, you will need to provide us with some personal information in order for us to provide you with our services. This includes a display name (such as "John Doe"), a nickname (such as @ john-doe), a username (such as johnxdoe), a password, and an email address. Your display name and nickname are always public, but you can use either your real name or a pseudonym. After registration, your account display name, nickname, and username will be the same. We recommend that you change your display name and nickname to keep your username private and secure. You can change them on the edit page of your account.
Once you have registered and created an account, you will also be able to add this public information:
- Member Title
- Character
- Biography (About me)
- Website
- Profession
- Signature
- Social media account addresses
- Location (country)
- Time zone
- And other details about your profile information displayed in our community.
In addition, when using Escape From Cheaters, the following information may be collected (not public):
- Internet Protocol (IP) address (not public)
- Geographical location
- Browser type and version (not public)
- Operating system (not public)
- Reference source (not public)
- Length of visit, pageviews, site navigation, and all other relevant browsing activities (not public)
Most of the activity on Escape From Cheaters is public, including your profile information above. You can also choose to publish your location on your profile. Information posted about you by other people using our forum may also be public. For example, other people may mention you in posts using @nickname.
You are responsible for your topics, posts, and other information you provide through our services, and you should carefully consider what you post, especially if it is sensitive information.
If you wish, you may register your account by linking your account to another service (e.g. Facebook login), and that other service may send us information about your account on that service. We use the information we receive to provide you with features, such as cross-mail or cross-service authentication, and to operate our community. We'll create a new account for you based on the third-party account information you share with our community.
1.2 Contact information
We use your contact information, such as your email address, to verify your account and to secure it - and our services - and to prevent spam, fraud and abuse. We also use contact information to personalize our services, enable certain account features, such as confirming sign-in, changing your password, posting information about our community, and informing you about new replies to forums and topics you subscribe to. You can also unsubscribe from email notifications.
If you send us an email, we will retain the content of your message, email address and contact information to respond to your request.
1.3 Private messages and non-public messaging
We offer certain features that allow you to communicate more privately or control who sees your content. For example, if you have a forum administrator, you can select the "Make this topic private" checkbox when you create a topic, or click the "Private" button in the first post of your topic, or use private messages to organize private conversations. In these cases, we store and process your message and related information. This includes the content of the message, images, information about who you have communicated with and when to better understand the use of our community, to protect security and to review reported messages. We share the content of your private messages with the people you send them to; we don't use them to show ads. When you use features such as private messaging,
1.4 Cookies
A cookie is a small piece of information that is stored on your computer or mobile device. Like many websites, we use cookies and similar technologies to collect more information about your use of the website and to keep our community running. Cookies are not required for many parts of our community, such as searching for and viewing public profiles. Although most web browsers automatically accept cookies, many browsers allow you to block cookies or to notify you when a website is attempting to place a cookie on your computer. However, some features of our community may not work properly if you disable cookies. We do not support the Do Not Track browser option. You can read more about the use of cookies and similar technologies here.
We use cookies for the following purposes
1.4.1 Authentication - We use cookies to identify you when you visit our community. When you create a topic or send a reply as a guest (not a registered user), we store your name and email address in cookies. We use this information to identify current visitor content (topics, posts) and show it to you, even if the content is moderated (not approved by moderators). The name is used as the author of the topic / post. We also store your name and email address in cookies so that these fields remain filled in when you submit a new reply or create a new topic (you do not fill in this information each time you post content). We recommend that you do not use the visitor mail option on non-personal devices, or at least delete your browser's cookies when you opt out.
1.4.2 Status - We use cookies to determine whether you are logged in to our website.
1.4.3 Security - We use cookies as part of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including the prevention of fraudulent use of login information and to protect our website and services in general.
Cookies used by our service providers
1.4.4 Our service providers use cookies and these cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.
1.4.5 We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information about your use of the website. The information we collect about our site is used to generate reports on the use of our website. The Google Privacy Policy is available at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
1.4.6 We publish ads based on the Google AdSense theme on our website. Google has tailored these to your interests. We publish Google AdSense ads on our website. To determine your interest, Google uses cookies to track your behavior on our website and on other websites. By tracking this behavior, Google can customize the ads you see on other websites based on your interests (but we don't post interest-based ads on our website). To view, delete, or add topic categories related to your browser, visit https://adssettings.google.com. You can also disable the AdSense partner network cookie using these settings or by using the Network Advertising Initiative's multiple cookie opt-out mechanism at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org. However, these opt-out mechanisms use cookies themselves, and if you delete cookies from your browser, your opt-out will not be maintained. To ensure that your opt-out persists in a particular browser, you may want to consider using Google Browser Extensions at https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996.
1.5 Log information
We receive information when you view content or otherwise interact with our community, which we call "log information", even if you have not created an account. For example, when you visit our website, log in to our community, or use email notifications, we may receive information about you. This log information includes information such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring web page, pages visited, your location, your mobile carrier, device information (including device and application IDs), search terms, and cookie information. We use log information to operate our services and to ensure their secure, reliable and robust performance. We use the information you provide to us and the information we receive, including log information and information from third parties, to draw conclusions such as what topics you may be interested in and what languages you speak. This will help us better design our services for you and personalize the content we display to you.
- Information we share and disclose
2.1 How we share the information we collect
You should be aware that all information you provide in our community - including the profile information associated with the account you use to submit information - may be read, collected and used by all citizens who use these websites. Your messages and certain profile information may remain even if you close your account. We encourage you to consider the sensitivity of the information you enter into these services. If you would like to request the removal of your information from our publicly available websites, please contact us. In some cases, we may not be able to delete your information, in which case we will notify you if we are unable to delete your information and why.
2.2 Sharing with third parties
2.2.1 Service Providers: We share information with third parties to help us operate, provide, improve, integrate, customize, support, and market our services. We work with third-party service providers to provide us with website and application development, hosting, maintenance, backup, storage, virtual infrastructure, payment processing, analysis, and other services that may require access to or use of your information. If a service provider needs to access information about you in order to perform services on our behalf, it will do so in accordance with our strict guidelines, including policies and procedures designed to protect your information.
Our administrators may choose to add new functionality or change community activity by installing third-party applications on the community. This may give third-party applications access to your account and related information, such as your name and email address, and to all content that you use for applications. We do not control the policies and procedures of third-party applications, and this Privacy Policy does not cover how third-party applications use your information. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of third parties before connecting to or using their applications or services to learn more about their privacy and data protection policies. If you object to the sharing of your information with these third parties, please delete your contact information and let us know as soon as possible.
2.2.2 Links to Third Party Sites: Our community may contain links that direct you to other websites or services whose privacy policies may differ from our own. If you submit information to any of these third-party sites, your information will be governed by their privacy policies, not this one. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policies of all websites you visit.
2.2.3 Social media widgets: The Services may contain links that direct you to other websites or services whose privacy policies may differ from our use. Your use of and information sent to third party sites is governed by their privacy policies, not this one.
2.2.4 Third party widgets: Some of our services include widgets and social media features like Facebook "share" or Twitter "tweet" buttons. These widgets and features collect your IP address from which page you visit the Services and may set a cookie for the feature to function properly. Widgets and social media features are either hosted by third parties or directly on our services. Your interaction with these features is governed by the Privacy Policy of the company providing them.
2.3 Law, Disadvantages and Public Interest
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Privacy Policy or the Foundations, we may retain, use or disclose your personal information if we believe it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, legal process or authority. request; to protect the safety of any person; to protect the security or integrity of our platform, including to help prevent spam, abuse, or malicious activity on our services or to explain why we have removed content or accounts from our services; deal with fraud, security or technical issues; or to protect the rights or property of those who use our rights or property or our services. However, nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections you may have to a request from a third party, including the government, to disclose your personal information.
2.4 Non-personal information
We share or disclose non-personal information, such as aggregated information such as community statistics (web users, visitors, current viewers of a topic, etc.), the number of people who clicked on a particular link (topic views), or voted on a topic (even if only one voted) .
- Use and management of your information
3.1 Use or correction of your personal information
You have the right to request a copy of your information, to object to the use of your information. If you have registered an account with our community, we will provide you with tools and account settings to access, correct, delete or edit the personal information you provide to us and associated with your account. You can request the download of your account information, including the content (messages) you have created. You may also request that your personal information be corrected, deleted or modified.
Your request and choices may be restricted in certain circumstances: for example, if complying with your request would reveal information about another person, or if you request the deletion of information that we or your administrator have permitted by law or have compelling legitimate interests to retain. If you have asked us to share information with third parties, for example by installing third party applications, you will need to contact these third party service providers directly to delete or otherwise restrict your information.
3.2 Deleting your personal information
You can request the deletion of your account. This includes personal information, profile information, content created, logs, etc ... Cookies should be deleted from your page. Almost all browsers have the option to delete cookies.
Keep in mind that search engines and other third parties may still retain copies of your public information, such as your profile information, even if we have removed the information from our community.
3.3 Restrictions on processing
3.3.1 Please ask us to stop using your information: In some cases, you may ask us to stop using, storing, using and otherwise processing your information if you believe we do not have the appropriate rights to do so. For example, if you believe that a community account has been created for you without your permission, or that you are no longer an active user, you can ask us to delete your account (contact us). If you have given us permission to use your information for a limited purpose, you can contact us to withdraw your consent, but this will not affect the processing that has already taken place. You can also refuse to use your information for marketing purposes by contacting us. When you make such requests, we may take the time to investigate and facilitate your request. If there is a delay or dispute as to whether we have the right to continue to use your information, we will restrict access to your information until the request is approved or the dispute is resolved, unless your administrator objects (if applicable). If you object to sharing your information with a third-party application, disable the application or contact your system administrator.
3.3.2 Prohibition of communication: You can opt out of receiving email notifications related to your subscribed forums and posts or promotions from us by using the unsubscribe link in each email, updating your subscription settings under My Profile> Subscription Page, or contacting us as described below to remove your contact from our promotional email list or registration database.
3.4 Data portability
Data portability means the ability to get some of your data in a format that you can store on your devices or share with other communities. Depending on the context, this applies to some but not all of your information. If you request it, we will provide you with an electronic file of the basic information about your account and the information you create in spaces under your exclusive control, such as your topics (with your posts only), replies to other topics, private messages and conversations (with your messages only), etc.
- How we store and protect the information we collect
We use data hosting providers to maintain the information we collect and use technical measures to protect your information. While we take precautions designed to protect your information, no security system is impenetrable, and due to the inherent nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that data transmitted over the Internet or stored in our systems or otherwise in our care will be absolutely protected from intrusion.
- Children and our community
Our community is not for children and you are not allowed to use our services if you are under 13 years old. You must also be old enough to consent to the processing of your personal information in your country (in some countries we may allow your parent or guardian to do so on your behalf).).
- Online Privacy Policy only
This online privacy policy only applies to information collected through our website, not information collected offline.
- Your consent to this policy
By using our site, you agree to our privacy policy.
- Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting a new privacy policy on this page.
We will notify you by email and / or visible notice on our service before the change takes effect and will update the "effective date" at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are encouraged to review this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy will be effective upon posting on this page.
- Take contact
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us or open a public or private topic in our community.
