The term ‘QWENTUP’ are used in this document (or Agreement) to refer to the Web site itself.
Privacy issues are a high priority for us at QWENTUP and we follow standard industry practices to maintain your personal information. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.
QWENTUP does not spam or sell/lease its user information to third parties.
Policy Coverage
This Privacy Policy covers QWENTUP’s treatment of personally identifiable information that QWENTUP collects when you are on the QWENTUP site, and when you use QWENTUP’s services. This policy also covers QWENTUP’s treatment of any personally identifiable information that QWENTUP’s business partners share with QWENTUP. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that QWENTUP does not own or control, or to people that QWENTUP does not employ or manage.
Personal Information Collected by QWENTUP
ONLINE REGISTRATION: In order to become a QWENTUP forum member, you must first create a forum member account on QWENTUP by providing information about yourself including but not limited to name, email address, country, ZIP/postal code, birth date, a brief summary of yourself and a password. QWENTUP checks for the validity of the email addresses.
OPTIONAL PROFILE INFORMATION: Once your provide the basic information to create an forum account, you will have the opportunity to provide additional information in the Profile section describing your skills, interests, professional and academic background and favorites. Provision of this additional information beyond what is required at registration is entirely optional; it allows you to better identify yourself and create superior networking opportunities with others through shared contexts. but enables you to better identify yourself and find new opportunities on QWENTUP. Your Profile information can only be viewed by other QWENTUP visitors or registered members or members of your personal network only depending on the option you choose.
INTERNET COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL INFORMATION: The communication standards of the Internet industry transmit the URL of the site from which you visit QWENTUP, the IP address of your computer, the IP address of your ISP, various attributes of your computer such as operating system, resolution and browser software, and the date and time of your various requests for pages on QWENTUP. QWENTUP file logging system automatically logs all of this information in its log files for its analysis.
Use of Information by QWENTUP
QWENTUP is an online website that offers a variety of services designed to connect people from around the world. The information, whether personal information of any form of self-expression is used to help you describe yourself to other users. VideoGamesBlogger.com also collects additional information in order to operate and improve our service. QWENTUP is the sole owner of the information collected on the QWENTUP.
SHARING OF INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES: QWENTUP takes your privacy very seriously. QWENTUP will never sell, rent, or otherwise provide your personally identifiable information to any third parties unless it is to carry out your instructions and to provide specific services. As an example, we send your information to a credit card processing company to process a payment you have made for the use of a QWENTUP service. These third parties are bound by strict confidentiality agreements which limit their use of such information. In addition, QWENTUP may share your information to send direct mailers or complimentary coupons/offers to a mailing agency to process postal mailing. Again, such an agency would be bound by strict confidentiality agreements that limit their use of such information.
PARTNERING WITH OTHERS: QWENTUP may partner with other online services to offer a combined service. Whenever we offer such combined services, QWENTUP will make it clear who the partner is and it will be entirely up to you to use or not to use the service. Where any personal information is passed along to the partner you will be informed prior to that sharing.
PROVISION OF AGGREGATE DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES: QWENTUP reserves the right to provide aggregate demographic information of its member base to advertisers and others so as to attract pertinent advertisers to advertise on QWENTUP. We do not share personal information of individual users with advertisers.
COMMUNICATIONS TO OTHERS FROM YOU THROUGH QWENTUP: You will be able to send emails to others – members and non-members – through the QWENTUP system. For example, you may send a comment on an article written by another member. Or you may send an email notification to a non-member to see an article. In these instances, these emails will list your name and email address in the header of the message. The recipients of these emails initiated by you will get to know your name and email address. QWENTUP is not responsible for how these recipients use this information. Your contact information will only be shared with another member only if both of you indicated you would like to establish contact with each other.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY: Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, QWENTUP does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under 13, please do not send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 13 is allowed to provide any personal information to or on QWENTUP. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us.
LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES: We are not responsible for the practices employed by Web sites linked to or from our Web site nor the information or content contained therein. Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Web site to another Web site, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other Web site, including those that have a link on our Web site, is subject to that Web site’s own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.
THIRD PARTY ADVERTISEMENTS AND TECHNOLOGIES: QWENTUP uses third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, go to: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES: It is our policy to provide notifications, whether such notifications are required by law or are for marketing or other business related purposes, to you via email notice, written or hard copy notice, or through conspicuous posting of such notice on our Website page, as determined by QWENTUP in its sole discretion. We reserve the right to determine the form and means of providing notifications to you, provided that you may opt out of certain means of notification as described in this Privacy Policy.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY: If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on our website to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, please contact us.
DISCLOSURES REQUIRED BY LAW: It is possible that we may need to disclose personal information when required by law. We will disclose such information wherein we have a good-faith belief that it is necessary to comply with a court order, ongoing judicial proceeding, or other legal process served on our company or to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.