Thank you for visiting www.11kicks.com (together with all content on the site and other websites operated by Como Games Ltd & Co KG or its affiliates ("CG") (the "Site")).
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") explaining our policies and practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of information we receive and collect on the Site and the choices you can make about the way you share your personal information with us. This Privacy Policy forms part of the Terms of Use, available at Terms of use.
Introduction
We are committed to respecting your online privacy and recognize your need for appropriate protection and management of any personally identifiable information ("Personal Information") you share with us.
"Personal Information" means any information that may be used to identify an individual, including, but not limited to, a first and last name, pen name, personal profile, a home or other physical address, credit card details and an email address or other contact information.
Currently, we do not require you to provide Personal Information in order to have access to our Site. Certain features of the Site, however, are only accessible and usable by registered users. Therefore, in order to provide you with all the services given on the Site, you must create an account ("Account") and provide us with your name, email address a password that you will use for your Account and other specified information. Following you initial registration, we shall then send you an email to your email address instructing you how to confirm your registration. It is your responsibility to remember and maintain the security of your password. Passwords should not be disclosed to any other person.
By voluntarily providing us with your Personal Information during the registration process, or by sending us a comment, request or a question, you are consenting to the collection, use and distribution of your Personal Information by us, under the terms and for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy.
The Way We Use Personal Information
We may use your Personal Information for several purposes: (1) to enable you to use certain services and features of the Site; (2) to contact you and to respond to questions and comments you may send us; (3) to save you from re-entering the information when you return to the Site; (4) to provide you with marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you (as further detailed below); (5) to detect and protect against error, fraud or other criminal activity; (6) to enforce our Terms of Use including carrying out security reviews to validate your identity, age, contact details and financial information; and (7) in any other way as described to you at the time of collection of your Personal Information.
In addition, we may combine your Personal Information and aggregate it with information collected from other users of the Site, in order to better design the Site and its services, by analyzing and evaluating the way the Site is being used. We may disclose such aggregated information as provided below.
Please note that we may transfer your Personal Information within CG or to CG's third-party service providers, across borders, and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world.
Subject to any applicable law, we may share and provide Personal Information and non-personally-identifiable information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies, or other businesses or persons for the purpose of processing such information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information in compliance with our Privacy Policy, and we use reasonable efforts to limit their use of such information and to use other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
We may also employ third party service providers to perform some of the Site-related services (such as hosting and maintenance services, payments clearance services etc.). Such third parties shall have limited access to your Personal Information to the extent necessary to perform their tasks, and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose. [Notwithstanding, third party service providers that may perform, credit checks on behalf of the Company, may keep such records to use in future security checks.] We may also use your email address to send you updates, newsletters or news regarding our services, or, to those of our partners who have offers that may interest you. You may choose not to receive such emails by sending a single email with the subject "BLOCK" to 11kicks. Please note that such email must come from the email account you wish to block. Account holders that register to participate in a game on the Site will receive update emails and notifications during the course of such game. It is not possible to block such emails and notifications and by registering for a game you consent to the receipt of such emails and notifications.
Aggregated Information
Anonymous Information about visits to the Site - When you visit the Site, information about your visit (such as how you navigate the Site) may be collected and stored. This information may include your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser and platform type, the length of your visit, the date and time of your visit, the pages you viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, and the websites you visit before and after visiting the Site. It does not include any personally identifiable information such as your name, e-mail address or telephone number.
We use this information mainly to monitor and analyze the aggregate use of the Site, and for the Site’s technical administration. As mentioned above, we may aggregate such data (alone or with Personal Information) in order to better design the Site and services.
Subject to the provisions of any applicable law, we may disclose and share such aggregated information (from which your Personal Information cannot be isolated) with interested third-parties. We may also provide advertisers with aggregate information and/or non-identifying information about the Site and its users.]
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some of our Site pages utilize "cookies" and other tracking technologies to collect information and to tailor the Site to the needs and interests of our customers. A "cookie" is a small text file that that is transferred from the Site's servers to your computer’s hard drive, and uniquely identifies your browser. Cookies can only be read by the server that sent them to you, and cannot read data from your hard drive..
Tracking technologies (including cookies) may record information such as internet domain and host names; internet protocol (IP) addresses; browser software and operating system types; clickstream patterns; and dates and times that our Site is accessed. Our use of cookies and other tracking technologies allows us to improve our Site and your use thereof.
We use cookies and other tracking technologies to: (1) remember some information (e.g. user name and login password) so that you will not have to re-enter it during each visit to the Site; (2) monitor the effectiveness of marketing campaigns; and (3) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.
Please note that you may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may even choose to block cookies with your browser. However, please note that if you choose to erase or block your cookies, you will need to re-enter certain identifying information, should we in the future require such information, to gain access to certain parts of the Site.
You should be aware that the Site uses the services of third party suppliers for providing some of its services. To provide such services, such the suppliers may also use cookies, for the reasons described above.
Compliance with Laws and Law enforcement
We may disclose any and all information, including Personal Information, if we are required to do so by (or if we, in our good-faith discretion, believe that such action is necessary to comply with) any applicable law or regulation, or an order of a court or other governmental body having jurisdiction.
We may also disclose your Personal Information if we, in our good-faith discretion, believe that such disclosure is necessary to: (i) enforce the Terms of Use; (ii) take precautions against possible liability; (iii) investigate and defend ourselves against any (yours or any third party's) claims or allegations; (iv) protect our property and rights (including the security or integrity of the Site); (v) protect the property, rights or safety of any third party; and/or (vi) prevent or stop any illegal or unethical activity.
Choice
You may choose whether or not to provide Personal Information to CG. We will provide notices informing you where CG collects Personal Information on the Site, in order to help you to make this choice. If you choose not to provide the Personal Information we request, you can still visit most of the Site, but you may be unable to access certain options, offers, and services that involve our interaction with you.
Access/Accuracy
To the extent that you do provide us with Personal Information, CG wishes to maintain accurate Personal Information. You may check your profile and add information, delete information or correct any incorrect information. You may by written request, ask for a copy of the Personal Information that we keep about you (for which we may, at our sole discretion charge a small fee) or to correct the details that we hold about you.
Collection of Information by Third-Parties
Our Site may use the services of third parties to present or serve advertisements that you may see at our Site. These third party ad servers may use cookies, web beacons, clear gifs or similar technologies to help present such advertisements, and to help measure and research the advertisements' effectiveness. The use of such technologies by these third party ad servers is subject to their own privacy policies and is not covered by our Privacy Policy.
Links to Other Websites
Our Site may contain links to other websites or advertisement of third parties. Other websites may also reference or link to our Site. The fact that such links and advertisements are posted and presented on the Site is not an endorsement or representation of any kind, of those websites or their privacy policies and practices. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other websites, and encourage you to review the privacy policies of those linked websites before using them.
Children's Privacy
The Site is not structured to attract children under the age of [18]. Accordingly, we do not intend to collect Personal Information from anyone we know to be under [18] years of age and such children may not use any feature of service that requires registration.
Event of Merger, Sale, or Bankruptcy
In the event that CG is acquired by or merged with a third party entity, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information we have collected from our users as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control.
In the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors' rights generally, we may not be able to control how your Personal Information is treated, transferred, or used.
Commitment
We are committed to protecting your privacy. Protecting your privacy online is an evolving area, and CG's Sites are constantly evolving to meet these demands. We employ commercially reasonable physical, administrative, and electronic security measures and precautions to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access or use and to ensure the integrity and security of your Personal Information. If your Personal Information is accessed by an unauthorized third party, we will not be responsible for any direct or indirect damage caused as a result of such unauthorized access. Unfortunately the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your Personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any data transmitted to the Site; any transmission will be at your own risk.
We recommend you keep your login and password private and secure. For the avoidance of doubt it is clarified (and you hereby agree) that we cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage that arises as a result of any failure to protect your password or account information.
If you have any comments or questions regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy. While we cannot guarantee privacy perfection, we will address any issue to the best of our abilities as soon as possible.
Your Consent
By using this Site, you consent to the terms of our Privacy Policy and to CG's processing of Personal Information for the purposes and methods stated above. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Site. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions from this Privacy Policy at any time without notice. Such amendments, updates and modifications shall be effective immediately upon posting them on the Site. Your continued use of our Site following the posting of changes to these terms means you accept these changes. We recommend that you check the Site periodically for any such amendments to this Privacy Policy. We further recommend that you print a copy of this Privacy Policy for future reference.
Last modified: March 2010