Privacy

Revised and posted as of: April 2, 2006

The Gamers Basement is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read the following statement to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our web site. If you have any questions regarding our privacy statement, please feel free to contact us by e-mail on our contact page.

Gathering of Information

Voluntary Submission

The Gamers Basement does not collect personally identifying information about any individual web site user except when knowingly provided by such individual. For example, we may ask you for information when you register for a contest or survey. You always have the option not to provide the information we request. If you choose not to provide the information we request, you can still visit most of the our website, but you may be unable to access certain options.

Cookies

A cookie is a data file that certain web sites write to your computer's hard drive when you visit such sites. A cookie file can contain information, such as a user identification code, that the site uses to track the pages you have visited. gamersbasement.com only uses cookies on our forum (for identifying members and only used internally) so feel safe to browse around. Most web site browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser settings to display a warning before accepting a cookie, or to refuse all cookies. However, if you choose to disable the receipt of cookies, you may not be able to use certain features of other sites.

Browser Level Information

Our servers (like most) automatically collect information about a site user's IP address, browser type and referrer by reading this information from the user's browser (information provided by every user's browser). This information is collected in a database and used--in an aggregated, anonymous manner--in our internal analysis of traffic patterns within our web site. This information is automatically logged by most web sites.

Use of Information

Our primary goal in collecting user information is to enhance your experience on our web site and better serve our future customers. We do not track what individual users read, but instead how well each page or content area performs overall. We do not disclose personally identifying information about our users to any third parties.

E-Mail

The Gamers Basement respects users privacy and shall not disclose, distribute or rent its e-mail subscriber newsletter list to any third party, nor shall it permit anyone else to do so.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding our privacy statement, please feel free to contact us by e-mail. This statement may change from time to time, so please check back periodically.