Updated: September 6, 2023
1 Introduction
1.1 This Privacy Policy (hereinafter: “Policy”) is used by Games4.com,
a company with a commitment to protect your privacy. This Policy describes what we do with
your data and applies to all information that can identify you or may be used to identify you
(“Personal data”) by Games4.com. Games4.com can be reached via
email at [email protected].
1.2 Games4.com is committed to protecting your privacy. This Policy describes what we do with
your data and applies to all information that identifies you or may be used to identify you
(“Personal data”) by Games4.com. The services of Games4.com are intended for general
audiences over the age of 16 years old. We do not knowingly collect information from children under
the age of 16 years old.
1.3 If you are not at least 16 years old (or 13 years old in the United States), please
do not use our services. Our Services are not intended for use by children under these ages.
If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under mentioned age without
verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any
information from or about a child under the age, please contact us via
email at [email protected].
1.4 This Privacy Policy is provided in English. Translations to certain other languages
may be available and can be requested by contacting us at [email protected].
1.5 For ease of reference, each section of this privacy policy is set out below:
- Introduction
- Processing of Personal data
- Purposes of the processing
- Legal basis of the processing
- Recipients of your Personal data
- Retention of your Personal data
- Safeguarding your Personal data
- Your rights
- Amendments and questions
2 Processing of Personal data
2.1 Games4.com is a data controller under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
This means that with regard to any Personal data referred to in this Policy, Games4.com determines the
purpose for which we process this data and we determine the means necessary for the processing of this data.
As a data controller, we process the data set out in this section. Games4.com does not engage in
automated decision-making.
Data collected directly from you
2.2 When you access our Websites, we may (automatically) collect
the following information about you and/or your device:
- Your anonymous IP address;
- Your (mobile) device identifier;
- Information about your settings, such as language settings, browser information (user agent)
and/or operating system;
- Query-string;
- Your Website preferences;
- Your location and time zone.
Data you may provide to us
2.3 Access to the Websites, their content and any web search results generated by using
the Websites in general do not require you to submit Personal data to us other than the information
listed above. Under certain circumstances, you may wish to provide us with more information about
yourself, for example in relation to any enquiry you may want to make with us via email at [email protected].
When you are reaching out to us, we may process the following information about you:
- Your name;
- Your company name;
- Your email address;
- Any other Personal data you provide us with.
For our website www.games4.com we use Google reCAPTCHA before you can fill in our Contact Form. It is
a system to find out if the website visitor is a human and not a bot and helps us to protect
our contact form from cyber spam and abuse. You acknowledge and understand that the reCAPTCHA API
collects the following information:
- All cookies that Google has placed on the user's system in the last 6 months
- How many mouse clicks the user made in the browser window (or tapped if it is a touch device)
- The scrolling behavior of the user
- The webpage's CSS
- The user's system date and time
- The user's IP address
- Whether the user is currently logged in to their Google account
- The user's browser language setting
- All add-ons installed in the user's browser
- All Javascript objects
- The speed with which the user fills out the form
and sending this data to Google for analysis. The information collected in connection with your use of
the service will be used for improving reCAPTCHA and for general security purposes.
It will not be used for personalized advertising by Google.
You can find further details via this link https://support.google.com/recaptcha/?hl=en.
2.4 If you choose to provide us with any additional Personal data, we recommend that you
limit the provision of such data to the absolute minimum, and we discourage you from providing us with any
sensitive Personal data, such as data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or
philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic or biometric data or data about your life or
sexual orientation.
Data collected via our partners
2.5 Third parties may be able to process data related to you through our websites in
order to provide us with certain products and services. Such third parties may use technologies such as
cookies, ad tags or ad beacons to collect information about your interaction with any products and
services (such as advertisements) they offer through the Website.
For more information about Google's privacy policy, please
visit Google Privacy Policy.
2.6 Third-parties who provide us with products and services may also place cookies, ad tags
and/or beacons that collect the information outlined above in order to provide us with products and services
including analytics tools allowing us to analyze the performance of our Services and advertisers and
ad networks allowing the delivery of ads. These third parties may also collect information about you from
other sources and combine it with other information collected about you from third party websites not
affiliated with us.
The IP is stored, as well as location (country), browser data and what results were shown
(such as ads and organic results). Also, certain information is passed on to third parties
(such as IP address, ads shown and ads clicked on) to make our service possible.
Cookies are also
used to identify and prevent fraud and improve security.
See Games4.com Cookie Policy for more information on how we use cookies.
3 Purposes of the processing
3.1 Primary purposes for which we process your Personal data are to offer you the best services possible,
to optimize our Websites and services and to ensure continuity thereof. More specifically,
your Personal data can be used for the following purposes:
To provide our services: we may need certain information about you in order to be able to provide our services.
Data is used to properly perform our services and to improve our services.
User behavior is never tracked to match games or ads to the visitor's profile. Data is used to:
To improve our services: our Websites and services are constantly evolving, and we are constantly
working on improving your user experience and adding new functionality to our Websites.
To secure our services: in order to be able to provide your with the best user experience possible,
it is necessary to keep out hackers, automated bots or other threats. We are therefore constantly
monitoring our services and the use of our services.
To communicate with you: when you contact us, we process your contact details such as your name
and email address and any other Personal data you may provide to us in order to be able adequately
revert to you on your enquiry.
To exercise and safeguard our rights: we may need to exercise our legal rights in case you
infringe our intellectual property, engage in fraudulent acts or act in violation of this Policy
or our terms of service.
To compensate our partners: as we show and run advertisements, certain Personal data may be
needed in order to calculate the compensation to be paid to or received by or from our partners.
To comply with a legal obligation: we may be required by law or by a court order to process
(and/or transfer) certain Personal data.
4 Legal basis of the processing
4.1 We process your Personal data on the following legal basis:
Execution of a contract with you: most processing activities are carried out in order to provide
you with our services.
Our legitimate interests: your Personal data may be processed by us based on our legitimate
interest, such as our commercial interests. This may be the case with, among others, compensation of
our partners.
5 Recipients of your Personal data
5.1 Games4.com may transfer your Personal data to the following categories of recipients:
Suppliers: when such is necessary to enable the use Websites and services, we may transfer your
Personal data to suppliers, subcontractors and business partners, such as our hosting provider that hosts
the Websites, the provider of our job application platform, partners that help us to improve the
user-experience of our services and providers of IT support, data backup, recovery service and
office software.
Group companies: we may provide Personal data to other companies within the Games4.com group of
companies, if this is necessary for compliance, internal reporting, auditing or security purposes.
Professional service providers: Our accountant, legal advisers and other professional service
providers engaged by us for compliance reasons;
Advertisement partners: Information on your Website visit may be provided to advertisement
partners in order to serve you with (relevant) advertisements on our Websites and elsewhere, and to
measure effectiveness of advertisements. Ads are only be based on the topic of the website you're
looking at, your current search terms, or on your general location, but not on your interests,
search history, or browsing history.
Law enforcement agencies: we may be under an obligation to provide your information to law
enforcement, regulators, courts or other public authorities in relation to an official (court) order. In
addition we may provide your data to law enforcement agencies, regulators, courts or otherwise in order
to exercise our rights.
Fraud prevention: we may engage third parties when we believe disclosure is necessary to
investigate, prevent, or respond to suspected illegal or fraudulent activity or to protect the safety,
rights, or property of us, our users, or others.
Third parties: we may transfer data to third parties acquiring or merging with Games4.com, or
purchasing part or all of our assets, or in case of a corporate restructuring.
5.2 The third parties receiving or accessing your Personal data might be located outside
the European Economic Area (EEA). When transferring data for which we are responsible to countries outside
of the EEA (so-called ‘third countries’), we ensure ‘appropriate safeguards’. More specifically, we
contractually bind recipients of Personal data to protect your data using
the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC’s) as approved by the European Commission. We will assess in advance
(where necessary, with the help of the recipients in third countries) on a case-by-case basis if the law
or practice of the third country diminishes the effectiveness of the SCC’s. In those cases, we will implement
supplementary measures that fill the gaps in the protection and bring it up to the level required by EU law.
6 Retention of your Personal data
6.1 We retain your Personal data for as long as necessary in order to fulfil the associated
purpose as set out above.
For spam detection and statistic purposes we retain data for 7 days. We retain conversion data for 30 days.
After that, we can only retain your Personal data if this is required or necessary in order to comply with
applicable law or in order to be able satisfy any legal, reporting or audit requirements. Where possible we
anonymize or pseudo-anonymize your Personal data or retain it in an aggregated form only.
7 Securing your Personal data
7.1 We highly value the secure processing of your Personal data. Therefore, we may implements
security measures, such as but not limited to, as appropriate:
The hashing and encryption of Personal Data;
The ability to ensure the ongoing confidentiality, integrity, availability and resilience of processing
systems and services;
The ability to restore the availability and access to Personal Data in a timely manner in the event of
a physical or technical incident; and
A process for regularly testing, assessing and evaluating the effectiveness of technical and
organizational measures for ensuring the security of the processing.
8 Your rights
8.1 You are provided with the following rights:
Objection: Under certain conditions you have the right to object to the processing of
your Personal data and the conditions under which this processing takes place.
Access: You have the right to request from us, without constraint, at reasonable intervals
and without excessive delay or expense, i) a confirmation as to whether or not Personal data
regarding you is being processed, ii) information on the purposes for which Personal data is
processed, iii) the categories of Personal data concerned, and iv) the recipients
or categories of recipients to whom the Personal data is disclosed. You have the right to receive,
in an intelligible form, a communication of the Personal data being processed and of any available
information as to the source(s). Furthermore, you have the right to knowledge of the underlying logic
of the automated processing of Personal data relating to you.
Rectification, restriction, erasure, blocking or deletion: Under certain conditions you
have the right to rectification, restriction, erasure, blocking or deletion of your Personal data that is
not processed in compliance with data protection laws and regulations, in particular when the nature of
the data is incomplete or inaccurate.
Data portability: Under certain conditions you have the right to receive your
Personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format to transfer those data.
Withdraw consent: where we are processing Personal data relating to you on the basis
of your prior consent to that processing, you may withdraw your consent at any time.
8.2 You may exercise these rights by contacting us via email at [email protected].
8.3 In order to fulfil your possible requests pursuant to the rights as stated above, we may
request specific additional information from you to identify you with or we may ask you for information to
identify you with. We only collect and process such specific data with the purpose of executing your above
stated rights insofar this is requested by you.
9 Amendments and questions
9.1 Games4.com may amend this Policy at any time. In case the Policy is amended, the amended
Policy will be made available to you through publication of the amended Policy on our website.
9.2 Should you have any questions after reading this Policy, or would want to exercise any
right as stated in this Policy, please do not hesitate to contact us via
email at [email protected].
Mailing Address:
Games4
1968 S. Coast Hwy, #1921
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
United States
