Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

1.1 Video Game Databank is committed to safeguarding the privacy of videogamedatabank.com visitors; in this policy, Video Game Databank explains how we will treat your personal information.

1.2 By using videogamedatabank.com, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this privacy policy. Where required by law, we will obtain your consent for the use of cookies and other tracking technologies as described in this policy.

2. Collecting Personal Information

2.1 Video Game Databank may collect, store, and use the following kinds of personal information:

information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths);
information that you provide to us when using the services on videogamedatabank.com, or that is generated in the course of the use of those services (including the timing, frequency, and pattern of service use);
information contained in or relating to any communications that you send to us or send through videogamedatabank.com (including the communication content and metadata associated with the communication);
when you interact with our website, we may collect demographic and interest data (e.g., age, gender, interests) and cross-device behavior (e.g., linking your activity across devices) through Google Analytics with Google Signals enabled, where users have consented to Google’s Ads Personalization;
any other personal information that you choose to send to us.

2.2 Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.

3. Using Your Personal Information

3.1 Personal information submitted to us through videogamedatabank.com will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website.

3.2 Video Game Databank may use your personal information to:

administer videogamedatabank.com and our business;
personalize videogamedatabank.com for you;
enable your use of the services available on videogamedatabank.com;
provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information);
keep videogamedatabank.com secure and prevent fraud;
analyze and improve our website and services through Google Analytics, including generating aggregated demographic and interest reports and cross-device tracking when Google Signals is enabled;
share anonymized audience data with linked Google advertising accounts (e.g., Google Ads) for remarketing or tailored advertising, in compliance with Google’s Advertising Features Policy;
comply with applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

3.3 If you submit personal information for publication on videogamedatabank.com, Video Game Databank will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant to us.

3.4 Video Game Databank will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third party’s direct marketing.

4. Disclosing Personal Information

4.1 Video Game Databank may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers (including Google for analytics and advertising purposes), or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

4.2 Video Game Databank may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company, and all its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

4.3 Video Game Databank may disclose your personal information:

to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and
to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

4.4 Except as provided in this policy, Video Game Databank will not provide your personal information to third parties.

5. International Data Transfers

5.1 Information that Video Game Databank collects may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.

5.2 Personal information that you publish on videogamedatabank.com or submit for publication on videogamedatabank.com may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

5.3 Data collected via Google Analytics, including Google Signals, may be transferred to Google’s servers in the United States. We rely on safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses to ensure compliance with applicable data protection laws for international transfers.

5.4 You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section 5.

6. Retaining Personal Information

6.1 This Section 6 sets out our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.

6.2 Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes. For Google Analytics data, including data collected via Google Signals, we retain data for up to 26 months by default, unless otherwise configured or required by law.

6.3 Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 6, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

7. Security of Your Personal Information

7.1 Video Game Databank will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.

7.2 We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure servers.

7.3 You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

8. Amendments

8.1 Video Game Databank may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on videogamedatabank.com.

8.2 You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.

9. Your Rights

9.1 You have certain rights regarding your personal information, subject to applicable laws, including:

the right to access, correct, or delete your personal information;
the right to opt out of certain data processing, such as ad personalization;
the right to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.

9.2 For data collected via Google Analytics and Google Signals, you can manage your data through Google’s tools, such as My Activity (myactivity.google.com) to view or delete data associated with your Google account, or Ads Settings (myadcenter.google.com) to control ad personalization.

9.3 To exercise these rights or for other inquiries, contact us at videogamedatabank@yahoo.com

10. Third Party Websites

10.1 videogamedatabank.com includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third-party websites.

10.2 We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

11. Cookies

11.1 videogamedatabank.com uses cookies and similar technologies (e.g., advertising IDs) to collect and process data.

11.2 A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

11.3 Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

11.4 Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

11.5 We use both session and persistent cookies on videogamedatabank.com to recognize a computer when a user visits the website, track users as they navigate the website, improve the website’s usability, analyze the use of the website, administer the website, prevent fraud, improve the security of the website, personalize the website for each user, and deliver advertisements that may be of particular interest to specific users.

12. Analytics Cookies

12.1 We use Google Analytics, including Google Signals, to analyze the use of videogamedatabank.com and provide enhanced demographic and interest reporting.

12.2 Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies and other identifiers (e.g., advertising IDs on mobile devices). The analytics cookies used by videogamedatabank.com include _ga, _gid, and _ga_<container-id>.

12.3 When Google Signals is enabled, Google Analytics may associate session data from our website with Google’s data from signed-in users who have consented to Ads Personalization. This enables cross-device tracking, demographic and interest reporting, and audience sharing with linked Google advertising accounts (e.g., Google Ads) for remarketing purposes, in compliance with Google’s Advertising Features Policy. We do not use this data to target sensitive categories (e.g., health, religion, personal hardships).

12.4 The information generated relating to videogamedatabank.com is used to create reports about the use of our website. Data may be stored for up to 26 months by default, unless otherwise configured.

12.5 Google’s privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking via the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

13. Third Party Cookies

13.1 videogamedatabank.com also uses third-party cookies for analytics and advertising purposes.

13.2 We publish Google AdSense interest-based advertisements on videogamedatabank.com. These are tailored by Google to reflect your interests. To determine your interests, Google will track your behavior on videogamedatabank.com and other websites across the web using cookies (e.g., the DoubleClick cookie) and other identifiers. This behavior tracking allows Google to tailor the advertisements you see on other websites to reflect your interests (we do not publish interest-based advertisements on this website). You can view, delete, or add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting: http://www.google.com/settings/ads/. You can also opt out of the AdSense partner network cookie using those settings or using the NAI’s (Network Advertising Initiative’s) multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/. However, these opt-out mechanisms themselves use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser, your opt-out will not be maintained. To ensure that an opt-out is maintained, you may wish to use the Google browser plug-in available at: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin.

13.3 We use Amazon affiliate paid promotion links. Clicking these links places a persistent cookie for 24 hours on the user’s browser to track purchases on the Amazon.com website and credit Video Game Databank with a commission on any sales made during that period, as part of the Amazon.com affiliate program. We are not endorsed or sponsored by Amazon.

14. Managing Cookies and Opting Out

14.1 You can manage cookies and tracking preferences through the following methods:

Adjust your browser settings to refuse cookies. For example:
- In Microsoft Edge, go to Settings > Cookies and site permissions > Manage and delete cookies and site data.
- In Firefox, go to Settings > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data.
- In Chrome, go to Settings > Privacy and security > Cookies and other site data.
- In Safari, go to Settings > Privacy > Cookies and website data.
Opt out of Google Analytics tracking using the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Manage ad personalization and view/delete data via Google’s Ads Settings (myadcenter.google.com) or My Activity (myactivity.google.com).

14.2 Blocking all cookies may negatively impact the usability of many websites, including videogamedatabank.com.

14.3 If you block or delete cookies, you may not be able to use all the features on videogamedatabank.com.

15. Our Details

15.1 Video Game Databank is registered in the United States, at 1071 Fishinger Road, Suite 101, Columbus, Ohio, 43221.

15.2 You can contact us by writing to the business address given above or by email to videogamedatabank@yahoo.com