--------------------------------< GAME NETWORKS Privacy Policy >------------------------------ Overview GAME NETWORKS (together with its subsidiaries, "GN" or "we") considers the protection of personal privacy to be one of our most important values. GN is protecting all of member's personal information with our security policy. In addition, we will do our best to provide you with the best service. As a condition of using the Gamenetworks, you agree to be bound by the terms of this Policy. Additional terms and conditions which govern your use of the Gamenetworks are contained in our User Agreement, and, as applicable, in certain other service-specific license agreements or terms of use, which you will be notified of at the time of your registration for the applicable services. Information Collection, Storage and Use in Gamenetworks.com We refer to information that identifies an individual as "Personal Information." In general, GN collects Personal Information from users of the Gamenetworks Sites in connection with access to certain online areas or services, including during (i) registration for certain online community services and tools such as Board and Game Forum; (ii) registration for special communications, such as email updates and newsletters; (iii) subscription registration; (iv) user surveys; (v) events, sweepstakes, contests or promotions; and (vi) registration for online multi- or single-player gaming, either through the site operated by GN (together with its subsidiaries, "Gamenetworks"), within a game publisher's site or through the game itself. Your Personal Information is stored on GN computer servers (or those of its service providers) located in the Korea. We may gather data about the areas of the Gamenetworks you visit or access. We do not use any of this navigational data about where you "as an individual user" go on Gamenetworks or share any of this data with third parties. However, we do use and share navigational data in aggregate, non-personal form to understand how our users as a group use the Gamenetworks. Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information in public areas of Gamenetworks.com, such as the member home pages and message boards, your information can be viewed and possibly used by others. We advise users to be especially careful in such public areas about disclosing Personal Information, such as full name, home address, or phone number. Below are more details about the Personal Information we, or third parties may gather from you and how we may use it. A. Email Newsletters. Hereafter Gamenetworks.com may offer email newsletters to its registered users. We will use your email address to send you only the specific newsletter(s) that you signed up for. If you want to update your email address or stop receiving a newsletter, follow the procedures to unsubscribe at the bottom of any newsletter we send you or simply visit http://www.gamenetworks.com/ to update your profile. B. Membership Information. When you register for membership on a GN Site, we will ask you for certain minimum required information, such as your name, birth date, gender, email address and country. We may also ask for additional information about you and your interests. We do this so we can better understand your preferences and tailor the Gamenetworks to suit you better. The more information you volunteer, the more we can tailor the Gamenetworks,com and promotions to your interests. - Service Providers. We offer our members other services provided by third parties such as email and user-pages, among others. When you register for membership on Gamenetworks.com, you may be automatically registered to receive the services we offer and some of your Personal Information may be transferred from GN to those third-party service providers. By becoming a member, you authorize us and our third-party service providers to send you email updates and information about promotions and special offers. We take care to require that our third-party service providers only use our member's data as necessary to provide the particular service and to give you updates on that service provider's products and services. - Game Publishers. We provide game publishers with certain hosted technology and software that enables various game related functionalities, such as online multi- or single-player gaming. If you are not already a registered user of the Gamenetworks you may be asked to provide Personal Information in connection with your use of such services. We share Personal Information with game publishers that offer such services to enable those entities to operate the services you have elected to receive. Game publishers may also use Personal Information for other business purposes, provided that such use shall be in compliance with the terms of this Policy, except that a game publisher (a) will not contact you or otherwise use or transfer your Personal Information, unless you have expressly consented. Upon giving such consent your Personal Information will be subject to the game publisher's privacy policy. - Advertisers. GN may send you emails on behalf of our advertisers. If you opt to receive information from our advertisers they may use your Personal Information to send you advertisements or other notices, via email or postal mail, and it is possible that your information may be shared with others. - Other Parties. We occasionally provide third parties with Personal Information limited only to your physical address in order to send you promotional mailings. C. Email Updates to Members. If you so elect at registration, we may periodically send you promotional email about products or services offered by the Gamenetworks, our partners and advertisers. If you want to update your email address or stop receiving these types of promotional emails, please follow the procedures to unsubscribe at the bottom of any email we send you or simply visit http://www.gamenetworks.com to update your profile. We may contact you regarding account status, changes to this Policy, our terms of services or other terms of use, to confirm your registration or for any other business reason related to your use of Gamenetworks. D. Promotions. We may ask you for Personal Information at other times, including, but not limited to, when you enter sweepstakes, contests or promotions sponsored by GN or a third party. If you choose to enter sweepstakes, contests or promotions sponsored by a third party, the Personal Information you provide will be subject to the privacy policy of the third party sponsor. We encourage you to check the applicable third party policy before providing any Personal Information. E. Surveys and User Research. GN conducts email and web-delivered surveys from time to time, as well as instant polls, to gather information about our users. Taking these surveys and polls is entirely optional. You have no obligation to respond to them. We share only the aggregate results of these surveys, not Personal Information, with our advertisers and partners to help them better understand our services and monitor the reach of their advertising or other offerings on our service. We also use some of the Personal Information that you provide in these surveys to help us understand your interests and to make the Gamenetworks more useful to you. F. Use of Cookies. On the Internet, a "cookie" is a piece of information (a file) that a Web site transfers to a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. The use of cookies is common on the Internet. The process we use to serve advertisements and to track use of the Gamenetworks involves cookies. We use cookies to recognize users who have already registered for Gamenetworks site, allowing those users to speed up their future activities on the Gamenetworks. GN occasionally uses web beacons on the Gamenetworks in order to count users and to recognize registered users by accessing the GN cookies. G. Software Updates; Interactive Material. GN automatically updates software used in conjunction with certain of the services available on the Gamenetworks. In order to update this software, GN collects a user's current version information from the user's computer. This information is not archived and is only used to determine which software requires updating. H. Sites You Visit. As you access our Partner Sites (some Game company related our game services) and browse around the Gamenetworks, GN may store information about which pages and which Partner Sites you visit and other information presented in your browser's URL address line. GN will use this information to help determine what our users are most interested in. I. Sharing Non-Personal Information. GN may share information that is not Personal Information -- meaning non-personal, aggregate, or summary, information regarding our users -- with other third parties not mentioned in this Policy. This kind of information does not identify you individually. J. Merger or Acquisition. In the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of all or substantially all of its assets, or the sale of an individual website owned by GN, GN may transfer your Personal Information to a third party as a part of such merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale. K. Legal Authorities. We may also disclose Personal Information in cases when we reasonably believe that it is necessary to identify someone who may be violating GN policies or Gamenetworks' User Agreements or other terms of use, or who may be a threat to GN or third party rights, property, or personal safety. The Gamenetworks may disclose Personal Information to comply with valid legal process such as a duly issued search warrant, subpoena or court order. Access to Other Sites through GN Each Partner Sites Sites: You should be aware that when you are on Gamenetworks, you will have the opportunity to visit, or link to, other sites associated with GN. These sites are identified as our "Partner Sites". These sites are not owned or operated by GN, but are part of a larger network of sites with which the Gamenetworks share content and advertising opportunities. We do not share your Personal Information with these Partner Sites. Linking to Other Sites: You may also visit independent web sites, not owned or operated by GN, through links on the Gamenetworks. Such sites are operated by external, third-party service providers. Some of these sites will have their own separate membership processes and privacy policies. We do not control sites that are operated by others and are not responsible for the information practices of these sites. Other sites may set their own cookies, collect data or solicit personal information. It is always a good idea to check the privacy policy and terms of use of any site before offering any of your Personal Information. We do not share your Personal Information with these independent web sites. Information Storage and Security Your Personal Information is stored on GN computer servers (or those of its service providers) located in the Korea. We protect your Personal Information with technical, administrative and physical safeguards to protect against loss, unauthorized access, destruction, misuse, modification and improper disclosure. No computer system or information can ever be fully protected against every possible hazard. But GN is committed to providing reasonable and appropriate security controls to protect our Gamenetworks.com and all Personal Information against foreseeable hazards. Notwithstanding these security measures, please be aware that when you submit Personal Information to the Gamenetworks over the Internet, the information may travel over many systems that are not under the GN's control. We take the protection of user data very seriously and to that end take reasonable safeguards to prevent interception of any Personal Information. In the case of shopping pages, for example, the credit card information you submit is protected by secure servers. Accessing, Correcting and Updating Your Information To access, correct or update your account or other Personal Information such as your city or interests, please use the "Change Account Info page" at the GN Site on which you are registered. If you have any other questions, comments or complaints about this Policy, please contact us via our online form, available at http://www.gamenetworks.com.
