ENTROPIANS.COM PRIVACY POLICY


GENERAL INFORMATION:

Entropians.com and its administrators, moderators and/or agents (hereinafter "Staff"), values the privacy of its users, registered members, and others who visit and use (collectively or individually, hereinafter "Members") Entropians.com and any other web sites or services owned or operated by Entropians.com.

Entropians.com respects each individual’s right to personal privacy. We will collect and use information through our Web site only in the ways disclosed in this statement.

Any Member Content or personal information you provide on the Website remains subject to this Privacy Policy and the Entropians.com Terms of Service.

Entropians.com will never use your contact information to send unsolicited commercial messages ("spam"), nor will Entropians.com ever disclose your contact information for such purposes.

NOTE TO CHILDREN: Entropians.com is NOT intended for persons under the age of 13 years. If you are under 13 years of age, then we encourage you to visit web sites more suited to a younger audience.

NEVER DISPLAY ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT COULD BE USED TO FIND YOU IN THE REAL WORLD - for example, your full legal name, mailing or home address, or telephone numbers.

NEVER TRANSMIT ANY OF YOUR ENTROPIA UNIVERSE ACCOUNT INFORMATION TO ANOTHER FORUM MEMBER, ADMINISTRATOR OR MODERATOR. Entropians.com Staff will NEVER ask for such information.


THE INFORMATION ENTROPIANS.COM COLLECTS:

Member-provided Information: You may provide to Entropians.com what is generally called "personally identifiable" information (such as your name, email address, postal mailing address, home/mobile telephone number, etc.) when you register as a Member and if you participate in certain activities on Entropians.com. In addition, you may choose to post certain information to your public "profile" on Entropians.com such as your date of birth, general location, interests, occupation, web site URLs, videos, blogs, IM addresses, and comments.

"Cookies" Information: When you visit Entropians.com, we may send one or more cookies - small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters - to your computer. Entropians.com uses both session cookies and persistent cookies. A session cookie disappears after you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to Entropians.com. Persistent cookies can be removed. Please review your web browser "Help" file to learn the proper way to modify your cookie settings.

"Automatically Collected" Information: When you participate in Entropians.com and, for example, participate in forums, control panel, profile, news, diaries, gallery or the Arcade, or open one of our HTML emails, we may automatically record certain information from your web browser by using different types of technology, including database logging, "clear gifs" or "web beacons." This "automatically collected" information may include Internet Protocol address ("IP Address"), web browser type, the web pages or sites that you visit just before or just after Entropians.com, the pages you view on our site, and the dates and times that you visit Entropians.com.


THE WAY ENTROPIANS.COM USES THIS INFORMATION:

When you choose to create a public profile on Entropians.com, you may post, at your option, certain personal information that will be publicly displayed to other Members on Entropians.com. Entropians.com uses the information that we collect to operate, maintain, enhance, and provide to you all of the features and services found on Entropians.com. We will use your email address, without further consent, for administrative purposes such as sending you account activation and welcome emails, notifying you of major Entropians.com updates, for customer service purposes, to address copyright infringement issues, or to contact you regarding any Entropians.com activities in which you are presently participating.

Entropians.com uses your email address to send to you activity emails, newsletters, and, from time to time, notices about special activities, features, or items available on Entropians.com. You may opt-out of receiving such notices by indicating your preferences in the Edit Profile section of Entropians.com. Entropians.com uses all of the information that we collect to understand the usage trends and preferences of our Members, to improve the way Entropians.com works and looks, and to create new features and functionality.

Entropians.com uses "automatically collected" information and "cookies" information to: (a) remember your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit Entropians.com; (b) provide customized third-party advertisements, content, and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of third-party marketing campaigns; (d) monitor aggregate site usage metrics such as total number of visitors and pages viewed; and (e) track your entries, submissions, and status in any games, promotions, or contests.


WHEN ENTROPIANS.COM DISCLOSES INFORMATION:

Entropians.com does not share your personally identifiable information with other organizations for their marketing or promotional uses without your express consent. Entropians.com may disclose "automatically collected" and other aggregate non-personally-identifiable information with interested third parties to assist such parties in understanding the usage and demographic patterns for certain programs, content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or other functionality on Entropians.com.

Entropians.com may disclose Member information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with state and federal laws (such as U.S. Copyright or Criminal law) or respond to a court order, judicial or other government subpoena, or warrant. We may make such disclosures, in some cases, without providing Members notice.
Entropians.com also reserves the right to disclose Member information that we believe, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to take precautions against liability; protect Entropians.com from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful uses; to investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations; to assist government enforcement agencies; to protect the security or integrity of Entropians.com; and to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Entropians.com, our Members, or others.

YOUR CHOICES:

You may, of course, decline to share your personally-identifiable information with Entropians.com, in which case you will not be able to participate in many Entropians.com activities. You may update, correct, or delete your member information, privacy settings and email subscription preferences at any time by going to the Edit Profile section of Entropians.com; provided, however, that upon deletion of your account or profile, please note that some of your personal information, including email address and contact information may remain in Entropians.com's systems for some limited period of time.

To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you account access or making corrections. HOWEVER, you are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times.


THIRD-PARTY ADVERTISERS, LINKS TO OTHER SITES:

Entropians.com allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to serve advertisements within Entropians.com. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements that appear within Entropians.com and they automatically receive your IP Address when this happens. Such third-party ad servers may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or web beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize their advertising content.

Entropians.com does not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers or ad networks. Entropians.com's Privacy Notice does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites. Entropians.com reserves the right the add or remove third-party ad networks or ad servers in its discretion and Entropians.com may not at all times list such updated ad network or ad server partners in this Privacy Notice.

Currently, Entropians.com has relationships with the following third-party ad servers or ad networks:

Casale
http://casalemedia.com/privacy.html

Google
http://www.google.com/privacy.html

Context Web
http://www.contextweb.com/ppolicy.html


OUR COMMITMENT TO DATA SECURITY:

Entropians.com uses commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to Entropians.com, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission of information, Entropians.com makes commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of our systems. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.

If Entropians.com learns of a security systems breach, then we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. Entropians.com may post a notice on Entropians.com if a security breach occurs.


OUR COMMITMENT TO CHILDREN'S PRIVACY:

Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, Entropians.com does not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information on Entropians.com from persons under 13 years-of-age, and no part of Entropians.com is directed to persons under 13. If you are under 13 years of age, then please do not use or access Entropians.com at any time or in any manner. If Entropians.com learns that personally-identifiable information of persons less than 13-years-of-age has been collected on Entropians.com without verifiable parental consent, then Entropians.com will take the appropriate steps to delete this information.

Parents, the following are some resources that may help you in monitoring and limiting your childrens' access to certain types of material on the Internet. While Entropians.com does not endorse these products, we provide information about them as a public service to our Members.

Control Kids: http://www.controlkids.com
Cyber Sitter: http://www.solidoak.com
Net Nanny: http://www.netnanny.com


INTERNATIONAL VISITORS:

Entropians.com is owned and hosted in the United States and is therefore subject to United States law. If you are visiting from the European Union or other regions with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, please note that you are transferring your personal data to the United States and by providing your personal data you consent to that transfer.


IN THE EVENT OF MERGER OR SALE:

In the event that Entropians.com 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 Members as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control.


CHANGES AND UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE:

This Privacy Notice may be revised periodically without further notice to you and this will be reflected by the "last modified" notice below. Please revisit this page to stay aware of any changes. In general, we only use your personal information in the manner described in the Privacy Notice in effect when we received that personal information. Your continued use of Entropians.com constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Notice and any future revisions.

For revisions to this Privacy Notice that may be materially less restrictive on our use or disclosure of personal information you have provided to us, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you and obtain your consent before implementing such revisions with respect to such information.


EFFECTIVE DATE, DATE LAST MODIFIED:

Entropians.com Privacy Notice effective as of February 19, 2011.

Entropians.com Privacy Notice last modified on February 19, 2011.


ENTROPIANS.COM CONTACT INFORMATION:

Please contact Entropians.com with any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice, your personal information, our third-party disclosure practices, or your consent choices at our Contact Page.