Effective May 1st 2005
The following may change with or without notice. However, it is your sole responsibility for making sure you are familiar with the most recent revision of our privacy policy.

Privacy Notice Table Of Contents:

• Our Commitment To Privacy
• The Information We Collect
• How We Use Information
• Our Commitment To Data Security
• How To Access Or Correct Your Information
• How To Contact Us

Our Commitment To Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.

The Information We Collect:

Members registration requires:

Real name (optional).
Username.
Password.
Email address.
Secret question/answer required for forgotten passwords.
Gender.
Date of birth.
Country/Region.

On some pages, your internet protocol (IP) address may be recorded, as well as your browser version and operating system. This procedure is usually automatic on any website and is done for statistical and security purposes.

Our site also makes use of the phpBB forum platform. For more information on data collected by this platform please visit http://www.phpbb.com for details.

No other information is collect on our website. This especially includes no .NET Passport information being collected. For more information please see our .NET Passport Privacy Policy. 

The Way We Use Information:

The information collected from our Members Feature is used for statistical purposes, and as information to verify against in case of a forgotten account password.

On some pages, your internet protocol (IP) address may be recorded, as well as your browser version and operating system. This procedure is usually automatic on any website and is done for statistical and security purposes.

For more information regarding our forum privacy policy, please visit http://www.phpbb.com for details.

Regarding any .NET Passport data submitted to our website, it is used for processing of our specialty MSN Protocol utilities. It is never, in anyway recorded by our scripts, our webserver, or our server networking equipment.

Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in anyway unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses. If however you were engaged in abuse of our services, some identifying information may be used to stop further abuse. 

Our Commitment To Data Security

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. All membership data is stored on secured internal network database servers.

How You Can Access Or Correct Your Information

You can access and alter any identifying information (excluding username) submitted when registering with our Members feature by simply logging in, and visiting our account "Settings" page.

If you have forgotten your membership password, you may make use of our "Forgotten Password" feature. If however this feature does not work as desired (for instance, you forgot your secret answer), you can request that your password be reset by sending us a request that credibly verifies your case and identity.

To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

How To Contact Us

Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please contact us via our ticketed contact system, or send us a private message via our forum.