Privacy Policy
THUUZ, INC.
PRIVACY POLICY
(EFFECTIVE AS OF FEBRUARY 1, 2010)
This is the privacy policy ("Privacy Policy"), effective as of February 1, 2010, for Thuuz, Inc. ("Thuuz", "we", "us" or "our"). This Privacy Policy sets forth our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of certain information relating to your use of Thuuz services (the "Thuuz Services"), including but not limited to delivery via our Web site [http://www.thuuz.com] (the "Site"), a mobile device, or otherwise.
We recognize the importance of protecting your privacy and our Privacy Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use and safeguard the personal information you provide to us, and to assist you in making informed decisions when using the Thuuz Services. This Privacy Policy will be continuously assessed against new technologies, business practices and our customers' needs. As we update and diversify our services, this Privacy Policy may evolve. Please check this page for updates periodically. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you here, by email or by means of a notice on our Site's home page that you must view to access the Thuuz Services.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us at [email protected].
The types of information we collect
We have several areas where you can submit information to us, and we also have features that automatically collect information from the users of the Thuuz Services and visitors to our Site.
Information voluntarily provided by you
Registration: you must register with us to use our free ad-supported game alerts. During registration to the Thuuz Services, you must provide your email address and you must supply a password to us. It is your responsibility to keep your password strictly confidential.
Communications from Thuuz: In order to keep our registered users and subscribers informed about the Thuuz Services' latest developments and features, we may send messages to your personal email address, or for subscribers to mobile Services, to your mobile telephone number, that you provided to us while registering for the Thuuz Services. We may also send newsletters or promotional emails to you. In the event we send you a promotional e-mail, each such email will include instructions detailing how you may unsubscribe from our mailing list.
Contacting Us: You are always free to contact us with a question or problem related to your use of the Thuuz Services. Our standard business practice is to retain any communications from our registered Thuuz Services users, subscribers and Site visitors to help us to serve each of you better.
Links: When using our Thuuz Services, you may click through certain links or promotions that will enable you to purchase products or use services provided by our Partners. Some of these Partners may share certain information that you provide to them with us. By clicking on and through to a link or promotion via the Thuuz Services, you agree to allow us to receive and use any information (except for credit card information) that you may provide to our Partners, under the same terms and conditions as if you provided your information directly to us. We are not, however, responsible for any other Web sites or services, or their respective privacy policies or how they treat information about their members. We strongly advise you to check their privacy policies to find out how they are treating your personal information.
Third Party Usage: You may also separately share your information with other Web sites or entities, such as those that create professional marketing lists, to receive special offers and promotions from their affiliates. These Web sites or entities may agree to share your information with us. Whether or not any third party actually shares your information with us and to what extent they do share your information with us will depend on their agreement with us and their respective privacy policies. Thuuz is not responsible for, and will assume no liability, if a Partner or other Web site or entity collects, uses or shares, any information about you in violation of its own privacy policy, or applicable law.
Marketing Data: We may purchase marketing data from third parties and add it to our existing user database to better target our advertising and to provide pertinent offers in which we think you would be interested. We may also associate this marketing data to the personally identifiable information they have provided to us.
Automatic Data Collection
Cookies: We use what are commonly called "cookies," a small data string our server writes to your hard drive, which allow Thuuz to identify you as a valid registered user or subscriber and to help us serve you better based on your registration preferences. We may also use cookies to collect non-personally identifiable information regarding your visits to help us facilitate any promotions or surveys that we provide as well as the delivery of advertising to users of the free version of the Thuuz Services. In addition, we may also use cookies in connection with a sign-in feature that allows you to save your email address and password each subsequent time you sign in.
Web beacons: Web beacons, also known as gifs, are electronic images that may be used on the Site or in our emails. A Web beacon may be used on our Web pages to collect information, deliver cookies, count visits, compile statistics on usage and campaign effectiveness and in our emails to tell if an email has been opened and acted upon.
Other types of information collected: In order to better improve the Thuuz Services, we capture other data such as a registered user's or subscriber's search criteria and results, date, time, connection speed and the IP address of each registered Thuuz Services user, subscriber and Site visitor. We keep this information for our internal security audit log, aggregate trend analysis, and system administration.
When and with whom we may share your information with
Other than as set forth in this Privacy Policy, we do not share your personal information with other companies. We do not share personal information with our advertisers.
Legally affiliated entities: In the event that Thuuz is merged with another entity, or in the event of a transfer of our assets, Site or operations, Thuuz may disclose or transfer your personal information in connection with such transaction. In the event of such a transfer, Thuuz will notify you via email or by posting a prominent notice via the Thuuz Services for 30 days of any such change in ownership of Thuuz resulting in a change of control of your personal information.
Legally compelled disclosure: We will also disclose your personal information when required to do so by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena or other legal obligation, in response to a law enforcement agency's request, or in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing your personal information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (whether intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property.
Bankruptcy: You should also be aware that courts of equity, such as U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, may have the authority under certain circumstances to permit your personal information to be shared or transferred to third parties without your permission.
Security
Thuuz endeavors to protect the security of your personal information and your choices for its intended use. We store your personal information on a secure server, and use procedures designed to protect the personal information we collect from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration or destruction.
Although we will take (and require our third-party providers to take) commercially reasonable security precautions regarding your personal information collected from and stored by the Thuuz Services, due to the open nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that any of your personal information stored on our servers, or transmitted to or from a user, will be free from unauthorized access, and we disclaim any liability for any theft or loss of, unauthorized access or damage to, or interception of any data or communications. By using the Thuuz Services, you acknowledge that you understand and agree to assume these risks.
Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not send any personal information to us by email. However, doing so is allowed, but at your own risk. We follow commercially reasonable security precautions to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during the transmission and once we receive it.
Compromise of personal information
In the event that personal information is compromised as a result of a breach of security, Thuuz will promptly notify those persons whose personal information has been compromised, in accordance with the notification procedures set forth in this Privacy Policy, or as otherwise required by applicable law.
Minors
THIS SITE IS NOT MEANT FOR MINORS. We are committed to protecting the privacy needs of children and we encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children's online activities and interests. The Site is not intended for and may not be used by children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13 and we do not target the Site to children under 13.
We may not intend to collect or solicit information from people who are minors. However, as a condition of use for minors in those countries or regions where information gathering from minors is considered illegal, guardians will be responsible for accompanying minors for prevention of any unexpected circumstances when they access the Site.
Notification procedures
It is Thuuz's policy to provide notifications, whether such notifications are required by law or are for marketing or other business related purposes, to users via email, mobile text message, written or hard copy notice, or through conspicuous posting of such notice on our Site, as determined by Thuuz in its sole discretion. Thuuz reserves the right to determine the form and means of providing notifications to our users, provided that you may opt out of certain means of notification as described in this Privacy Policy.
Changes to this Privacy Policy:
If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Thuuz Services. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions from this Privacy Policy at any time, so visitors are encouraged to review this Privacy Policy from time to time.
Contact us:
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or the privacy practices of Thuuz, you can email us at [email protected].