GameZoneUSA Privacy Policy

Overview
At Gamezoneusa.com, we are committed to protecting your privacy online. We created our Privacy Policy ("Policy") in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to protecting the privacy of our shoppers.

Our Internet Video Game Superstore allows you to buy products and services, sign up for a gift registry, and receive newsletters, e-mails or other promotional information from us. We use the information that we collect about you to fulfill your product and service purchases and to create a more personalized online experience. This is just a brief overview, so please read on for more details about our Privacy Policy. This Policy may change from time to time, so please check back periodically.

Except as otherwise discussed in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. For some services, we either collect and transfer personal information to a service provider you have selected, or you may visit our Trusted Partners who may collect and use your personal information. We encourage you to ask questions and to be very cautious before you disclose your personal information to others.
Questions regarding this Policy should be directed to Privacy@Gamezoneusa.com or may also be contacted directly at the following address:

Attn: Privacy Compliance Officer
Gamezoneusa.com, Inc.
745 N. Gilbert Rd. #110
Gilbert, AZ 85234

This Privacy Policy will explain the following regarding use of our site:

What information does Gamezoneusa.com collect from you?

Where do we collect information from you and how do we use it?

Who is collecting your information?

With whom do we share your information?

How can you update or correct your Personally Identifiable Information?

What are your choices regarding collection, use, and distribution of your information?

What security precautions are in place to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of your information?

A special note about children's privacy

Use of "cookies" and "action tags"

You should carefully review privacy policies of any third party sites accessible from Gamezoneusa.com

Contacting Gamezoneusa.com about privacy questions or concerns

Privacy Policy changes

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What information does Gamezoneusa.com collect from you?
In order to better provide you with numerous products and services, Gamezoneusa.com collects two types of information about its visitors: Personally Identifiable Information and Non-Personally Identifiable Information. Our primary goal in collecting information from you is to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience while using our site.
Personally Identifiable Information
This refers to information that lets us know the specifics of who you are. Personal information is requested when you order a product or service, register for a Gift List and send us feedback. For example, this information might include your name, billing address, shipping address, telephone number, e-mail address, credit card or other payment information, and product details. With this information, Gamezoneusa.com can fill your orders and better provide you with personalized services.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information
This refers to information that does not by itself identify a specific individual. We gather certain information about you based upon where you shop on our site in several ways. This information is compiled and analyzed on both a personal and an aggregated basis. For example, this information may include the Web site's Uniform Resource Locator ("URL") that you just came from, which URL you next go to, what browser you are using, and your Internet Protocol ("IP") address. A URL is the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web. An IP address is an identifier for a computer or device on a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol ("TCP/IP") network, such as the World Wide Web. Networks like the web use the TCP/IP protocol to route information based on the IP address of the destination. In other words, an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the web, allowing web servers to locate and identify your computer. Computers require IP addresses in order for users to communicate on the Internet, browse and shop.

Where do we collect information from you and how do we use it?
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide Gamezoneusa.com's visitors with a superior customized online experience. We use the customer contact information to fill orders, contact purchasers to inform them of their order status, to send promotional information, to enhance the operation of our site and administer our systems. We review the actions of the Gamezoneusa.com visitors on an aggregate basis to determine customers' preferences. Gamezoneusa.com does research on our visitors' demographics, interests, and pages viewed based on the information provided to us during ordering, a promotion, from our server log files, from contests, drawings or surveys. We will use this data to tailor the visitor's experience at our site, to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically analyze site use, to improve our product offerings, and to customize our Site's content, layout, and services. We receive summary, but not individual, reports from our third party ad server, which tells us how many ads were presented and clicked upon.

We gather information in the following ways:

Shopping
We collect IP addresses for the purposes of system administration, to gather broad demographic information, to enable ads to be served on our site, to report Non-Personally Identifiable Information to our advertisers, and to monitor the level of activity on our site. We collect information from visitors to our site regarding the URLs they came from, domain types (e.g., .com or .org), their IP addresses, the date and time of their visit or order, the number of visits and orders, the number of visits per browsing session, the server type, the operating system and browser type used to come to the site, the country, state and telephone area code where their servers are located, the pages and page titles of our site that visitors viewed during their visit, whether the visitor's computer is enabled for Java or cookies, browser language, applications and plug-ins, and any search terms entered on our site.

Ordering
When you order from us, we collect personally identifiable information from you. If you order one of our products or services, we will collect and maintain your name, e-mail address, billing address, shipping address, telephone number, product selections, credit card or other payment information, order number, referring URL, IP address and a password. We collect this, and other information, as disclosed in this Policy, in order to fill your order, to communicate with you about your order and to send you promotional materials. Before confirming your order, you will have the opportunity to review the product order form and make changes and additions to the information it contains and these changes will be automatically kept for future use.

Gift Registry
If you decide to create a Gift List through our site, you will create an account, where we will collect and use your name, e-mail address, credit card or other payment information, billing and shipping address, phone number, password and product preferences. This information is subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy except as explained here. Others will be able to search for your Gift List using your e-mail address unless you choose not to make your Gift List searchable. Those who have access to your Gift List will be able to see your name, e-mail address, city, state, and may have access to other personal information and product information that you have entered into the Gift List. If others place orders for items on your Gift List, they may have access to your address. We will use the product preferences that you include in your Gift List to inform you about offers that may be of interest to you. If you provide us with the e-mail addresses of your family and friends, we will use their e-mail addresses to send them your Gift List if you instruct us to. With your permission, we will send them the Gift List using your e-mail address. We will not use the e-mail addresses of your family and friends for any other purpose.

Gift Certificates
If you purchase a gift certificate from our site, you will give us the recipient's name and e-mail address if you wish to send the certificate by e-mail. If you wish to send a certificate by regular mail, you will give us the name, mailing information and phone number for the recipient. The recipient information you give us will only be used to send the gift certificate and for no other purpose.

Online Surveys and Polling
In order to improve our services to you, we ask some of our customers to voluntarily complete surveys, which may be collected by an independent third party. Individual survey answers are confidential, although Non-Personally Identifiable Information is collected and disclosed to third parties. If you do not wish to participate in a survey, simply decline to participate when asked.

Contests and Sweepstakes
When you enter a contest or other promotion, we may ask you for contact information such as your name, address and e-mail address in order to administer the contest, to send you promotional e-mails, notify winners and make the winners' list publicly available pursuant to certain states' laws. Your consent to such promotional use and disclosure of this information is a condition of your participation. As a condition of receiving any prize, you will be required to submit an Affidavit of Eligibility, for us to ensure that you are eligible to receive the prize according to the Contest Rules.

Newsletters & Promotional E-mails
We offer free newsletters and promotional e-mails as a service to our customers. We will send you newsletters and e-mails periodically listing current specials and deals. To stop receiving our newsletter, send an e-mail to us at promos@Gamezoneusa.com.

Contact Information and Third Party Data
If you contact Gamezoneusa.com or our customer service representatives by telephone, e-mail or letter, we may keep a record of your correspondence or comments. If you report a problem with our site, we may collect such information in a file specific to you. If you contact us through our feedback area or by calling one of our customer service representatives, we may ask for your name and e-mail address in order to send you a reply. If other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or purchases on our site, we may keep the information in a file specific to you. We use a third party to help us provide customer service. In order to help you most effectively, we provide them with your order information.

Warranty Information
All Products offered on Gamezoneusa.com come with a limited warranty. All new items purchased come with full manufacturer warranties as well as a 30 day warranty through Gamezoneusa.com. All used items purchased come with a 30 day warranty against defects. All returned items will be exchanged for same item only.

Affiliate Program
Our Affiliate Program (Affiliate Connection) is administered by a third party, on a third party's Web site. Any information collected by them is not governed by this Policy.

Advertising
In order to keep our prices low, we display advertisements. By knowing a little about you, Gamezoneusa.com will be able to deliver more relevant advertisements and content to you in the form of targeted banners and promotions. For example, advertisers give us an advertisement and tell us the type of audience they want to reach. Gamezoneusa.com takes the advertisement and includes it in a Gamezoneusa.com e-mail to prior customers meeting that criterion. We may also have our third-party advertising server display ads linked to certain search terms that you have entered, or to certain pages that you are viewing. In this process, advertisers never have access to individual account information; only Gamezoneusa.com has access to individual's accounts. Additionally, Gamezoneusa.com may share aggregated data with advertisers.

We also track customers' traffic patterns throughout their online session, including which pages a customer views while using the site. This information is ultimately stored in the form of store categories, and, in some cases, specific URLs. We use your IP address to diagnose problems with our servers, software, to administer our site and to gather demographic information.

We may share aggregated statistics about pages viewed on our site, sales and other shopping information with third parties.

Cookies
We use cookies in the operation of our site; to find out what cookies are and how we use them, click here.

Action Tags
We use action tags in the operation of our site; to find out what action tags are and how we use them, click here.

Who is collecting your information?
Ad Servers: We use third party ad servers to serve ads both on and off our site. Those third parties may use "action tags" throughout the site to count the number of visitors who click on a banner ad and to track the number of customers who continue on to make a purchase. They may also place their own "cookie" on your computer to help those ads to run. We do not provide them with any of your Personally Identifiable Information. For more information about the information they collect, please see the section "Use of Cookies" below. Or click here to view the privacy policy of our off-site ad server; you can also view the privacy policy of our on-site ad server by clicking here.
Image Servers: We use a third party image serving company to serve the graphics that visitors see on our site more quickly. They collect a visitor's IP address and the URLs of any graphics viewed and the date and time of the visit. However, they do not collect and we do not provide them with any Personally Identifiable Information. They may also use a "cookie." To learn more about their information practices, Click here.

Website Analysis Agent: We may use an outside service to collect Non-Personally Identifiable Information on an aggregated basis so that we can improve the marketing and layout of our site. They may use cookies to perform their service. For more info, please see the section "Use of Cookies" below.

Financing Services: We use third party lenders to provide credit and financing to customers who desire it. Those lenders collect personally identifiable information to provide their financing services. Click here to see the privacy policy of the bank administering the Gamezoneusa.com credit card. Click here to see the privacy policy of the lender administering our Gamezoneusa.com Credit Account.

Surveys and Polling: We use a third party surveyor to run optional surveys for Gamezoneusa.com. That surveyor collects Non-Personally Identifiable Information for the sole purpose of providing reports to Gamezoneusa.com about our shoppers' interests and opinions.

Marketing Partners, Co-branded Services, Framing/Windows on Third-Party Sites: We run promotions for merchants where you may visit the merchants' sites (for example, our Trusted Partners' sites). In some of those promotions, a window or frame containing the merchant's site may appear. Any time you are in a window, you should assume that your personal information is being collected, used and disclosed in accordance with that merchant's policies. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information that you supply to those merchants. Any information that you share with them will be used and disclosed in accordance with that merchant's privacy policy. However, once you click on a return link to our site, you can expect that further information that you disclose will be treated in accordance with this Policy.

Links and Banner Ads to Third-Party Sites: Please be aware that our site may contain links to other sites on the Internet that are owned and operated by third parties. The information practices of those websites linking from or to our site are not covered by this Policy. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit personal information. Additionally, other companies or ad servers, which place advertising on our site may collect information about you through the use of cookies when you view or click on their advertising. We cannot control this collection of information. You should contact advertisers directly if you have any questions about their use of the information that they collect.

With whom do we share your information?
Fulfillment: The information collected by Gamezoneusa.com is used only for the limited purposes of processing orders, keeping you informed about your order status, for statistical purposes, for improving our site and its performance, to serve ads, and to notify you of products or special offers that may be of interest to you. We will disclose your Personally Identifiable Information to third parties to charge your credit card, fill your order, deliver your order, provide customer service, provide you with credit and deliver promotional e-mails to you from Gamezoneusa.com. For example, we must release your credit card information to the card-issuing bank to confirm payment; and release your address and telephone information to the delivery service to deliver products that you ordered.
Other Parties: We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others without your consent. We may provide Non-Personally Identifiable Information about our customers' sales, traffic patterns, and related site information to third party advertisers, but these statistics do not include any Personally Identifiable Information. We may release account information when we believe that such release is reasonably necessary to enforce or apply our Terms and Conditions or to protect the rights, property, and safety of Gamezoneusa.com, our users, or others. If customers do not pay us for products ordered, we may submit their account information to a third party collection agency.

Services Provided on Our Site: Except as otherwise stated in this Policy, at present Gamezoneusa.com does not disclose its customers' Personally Identifiable Information to other merchants. Where you sign up for goods or services offered through our site, but sold by a third party, we give your personal information to that third party (e.g., our Wireless Store and the magazine offer during checkout).

Data Analysis Agents: The information collected by or for Gamezoneusa.com may be provided to an outside company for the purpose of analysis. That analysis is to help us to improve our site and product selection, and to notify you of special offers that may be of interest to you. That data analysis agent may not share any Personally Identifiable Information with others, or use it for any other purpose than to help Gamezoneusa.com.

Ad Servers, Advertisers, Image Servers and Website Analysis Agents: These third parties have permission to use their cookies' identification numbers and internal web site tracking features to serve ads on our site and to collect aggregated information to create statistics about our customers and visitors, traffic patterns, and related site information. In the event that our ad server collects any Personally Identifiable Information on our behalf, it will not be used by them or disclosed to any third parties. To learn more about our on-site ad server's information practices, click here. To review the privacy policy of our off-site ad server, click here. To find out about the information practices of our image server, click here.

Compliance with Service of Process or Law Enforcement: Occasionally Gamezoneusa.com may be required by law enforcement or judicial authorities to provide Personally Identifiable Information to the appropriate governmental authorities. We will disclose Personally Identifiable Information upon receipt of a court order, subpoena, or to cooperate with a law enforcement investigation. Gamezoneusa.com fully cooperates with law enforcement agencies in identifying those who use our services for illegal activities. We reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that we in good faith believe to be unlawful.

How can you update or correct your Personally Identifiable Information?
We believe you should have the ability to access and edit the personal information that you have provided to us. During the online ordering process you can review, change, or delete the information that you have submitted. You may change any of your personal information in your account online at any time. We encourage you to promptly update your information if it changes. You may ask to have the information on your account deleted or removed; however, because we keep track of past purchases, you cannot delete information associated with past purchases. Also, as a security measure we "back up" the data stored on our systems, and such prior information cannot be completely removed from our databases. As a result, you should not expect that all of your personally identifiable information will be completely removed from our backed-up databases.

What are your choices regarding collection, use, and distribution of your information?
Email: We may from time to time send you e-mail or other communications regarding current promotions, specials and new additions to the Gamezoneusa.com site. You may "opt-out," or unsubscribe from our newsletters by following the unsubscribe instructions in any e-mail you receive from us, or by sending an e-mail to optout@Gamezoneusa.com. After doing so, Gamezoneusa.com users will not receive future communications or mailings unless they open a new account or enter a contest.
Ad-servers: You may also set your browser so that it will not accept "cookies;" however, you will be unable to shop on our site if you do so. Alternatively, you may visit our ad server's website to receive a "null cookie" to prevent assignment from the ad server of a unique identifier. In that case, you may see the same ads repeatedly. To decline our ad server's cookie, you must click on the "OPT-OUT" button on their website. To go to our on-site ad server, click here. To set a "null cookie" on our off-site ad server, you must click on the "click here" link on the bottom of the optout page of their website. To go to that page, click here.

What security precautions are in place to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of your information?
At Gamezoneusa.com you can be assured that your personal and account information is secure, consistent with current industry standards. The importance of security for all Personally Identifiable Information associated with our customers is of utmost concern to us. Our secure servers protect the information using advanced firewall technology.
In order to most efficiently serve you, credit card transactions and order fulfillment are handled by established third party banking, processing agents and distribution institutions. They receive the information needed to verify and authorize your credit card or other payment information and to process and ship your order.

When you access your account information, the information is kept on a secure server. All of the customer data we collect is protected against unauthorized access by physical security means.

A special note about children's privacy
You must be at least 18 years old to have our permission to use this site. Our policy is that we do not knowingly collect, use or disclose Personally Identifiable Information about visitors under 18 years of age. If you are the parent or guardian of a minor under 18 years of age and believe that they have disclosed personally identifiable information to us, please contact us at privacy@Gamezoneusa.com so that we may delete the minor's information.

Use of "cookies" and "action tags"
Gamezoneusa.com Cookies: When you use our site we will store cookies on your computer in order to facilitate and customize your use of our site. A cookie is a small data text file, which a Web site stores on your computer's hard drive (if your Web browser permits) that can later be retrieved to identify you to Gamezoneusa.com. Our cookies store randomly assigned user identification numbers, the country where you are located, and your first name to welcome you back to our site. The cookies make your use of the site easier, allow you to retrieve an earlier shopping cart, make the site run more smoothly and help us to maintain a secure site. You will be unable to shop on our site without your browser set to accept cookies.
Ad Server Cookies: We use an outside ad serving company to display banner advertisements on our site. As part of their service, they place a separate cookie on your computer. Gamezoneusa.com does not provide our third-party ad server with any of your Personally Identifiable Information or information about your purchases. Gamezoneusa.com and its third party ad server do collect and use Non-Personally Identifiable Information about you, such as your IP address, browser type, the URLs from which they came, domain types (e.g., .com), operating system, the country, the server your computer is logged onto, where the computer their servers are logged onto are located, the pages of our site that visitors viewed during their visit, where an ad was placed on a specific web site page, the time and date particular ads were served, the area code and zip code associated with your server and whether you responded to a particular ad. If you would like to know more about the information gathering practices of our third party ad server and its "opt-out" procedures, please click here.

Our third-party ad server will occasionally use outside agents, whose computers will serve ads on our site in the same manner and under the same conditions as above. In addition, other ad serving companies or advertisers may place banner ads on our site in the same manner as above, but we do not disclose to them any Personally Identifiable Information.

Image Server Cookies: As part of the ad-serving process, a third party may serve graphics upon our site. In order to customize their service, they may also place a cookie upon your computer. While Gamezoneusa.com does not control their use of that cookie, no Personally Identifiable or individual customers' product information is collected.

Ad Server Action Tags and other Data Collection Methods: An action tag is a method used by our ad server to track responses. Action tags are images embedded in a website page that are used to transparently collect information. Our ad server uses action tags to count the number of times that visitors - as a group - click on a particular banner ad or visit the pages of our site. Without collecting any personally identifiable information, they use that data to tell us (and other advertisers) which ads are the most effective on particular sites. Our ad server uses an action tag on our checkout page to keep anonymous track of the number of times that clicking on a banner ad results in a purchase. They also collect the amount of the purchase and the category of product purchased. No Personally Identifiable or individual customers' specific product information is collected. To learn more about our ad server's use of action tags and other data collection methods, please click here.

Website Analysis Agent Cookies: We may use a third party to analyze what our visitors find to be most interesting on our site. To do that, they will place a cookie on your computer with a randomly assigned unique number in order to track the pages you view on our site, along with other Non-Personally Identifiable Information.

You should carefully review privacy policies of any third party sites accessible from Gamezoneusa.com
Other sites accessible through our web site have their own privacy policies and data collection, use and disclosure practices. Please consult each site's privacy policy. Gamezoneusa.com is not responsible for the policies or practices of third parties. Please be aware that this site may contain links to other sites on the Internet that are owned and operated by third parties. The information practices of those web sites linked to Gamezoneusa.com are not covered by this Privacy Policy. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit personal information. Additionally, other companies that place advertising on our site may collect information about you when you view or click on their advertising through the use of cookies. We cannot control this collection of information. You should contact these advertisers directly if you have any questions about their use of the information that they collect.
On behalf of various sponsors, Gamezoneusa.com provides sponsored links to third-party web sites. If you click on a sponsored link or banner ad, a "window" or "frame" containing a third-party's web site may appear in the foreground with the Gamezoneusa.com web site in the background. Unless you are on Gamezoneusa.com's web site, any time that you have moved to a window, you should assume that your personal information is being collected, used and disclosed in accordance with the windowed site's privacy policy (if any). If you are unsure as to whose privacy policy applies, please contact us by eMail at privacy@Gamezoneusa.com, or by sending a letter to the address below.

Contacting Gamezoneusa.com about privacy questions or concerns
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact Gamezoneusa.com by sending a letter to:

Attn: Privacy Compliance Officer
Gamezoneusa.com, Inc.
745 N. Gilbert Rd. #110
Gilbert AZ 85234

You may also contact us by e-mail at privacy@Gamezoneusa.com.

Privacy Policy changes
This Privacy Policy was last changed on March 16, 2001. If Gamezoneusa.com makes changes to any terms or conditions of the Privacy Policy, the changes will be posted in this document so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information and to whom we will disclose it. We may change, modify, add or remove portions of this Policy at any time, and any changes will become effective immediately upon being posted unless we tell you otherwise.