Scope
This Privacy Policy describes how games2trains
("we", "us" or "our") collects, stores, uses and discloses your
personal information in connection with the performance of
the services that are made available to you through the Site.
By accepting the User Agreement during the process for
registering an games2trains account or by using the
Site, you expressly consent to the collection, storage, use and
disclosure of your personal information by games2trains
as described in this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy is valid from 1 March 2007 and is effective
upon acceptance for new users.
Collection and Storage
You can browse the Site without telling us who you are or
revealing any personal information about yourself. However,
once you give us your personal information, you are no
longer anonymous to us.
If you choose to provide us with personal information, you
expressly consent to us transferring that information to, and
storing it on, servers located in the United States. As part of
this process we may transfer your personal information to
wargamers market Inc. The laws on holding personal data in
the United States may be less stringent than the laws
applicable to the United Kingdom, but we will transfer and
store your information in a safe, confidential and secure
environment.
We may collect and store the following personal information
about you:
email address, physical address, telephone number and other
contact information, and (depending on the service used)
transactional information based on your activities on the Site
(such as information on your bidding, buying and selling
activities, item descriptions and other content you generate or
information that relates to your account);
postage, billing and other information you provide to
purchase or post an item;
community discussions, chats, dispute resolution,
correspondence through the Site, correspondence sent to us
and feedback;
computer sign-on data, statistics on page views, information
and statistics on traffic to and from the Site (including the URL
you just came from and the URL you go to next, whether they
are URLs on the Site or not), advertising data, IP address,
browser information and standard web log information; and
supplemental information from third parties (for example: (a)
if you incur a debt to us, we will generally conduct a credit
check by obtaining additional information about you from a
credit reference agency, as permitted by law; (b) if the
information you provide cannot be verified, we may ask you
to send us additional information (such as a certified copy of
your driver's licence, credit card statement, and/or a recent
utility bill or other information confirming your address), or to
answer additional questions to help verify your information.);
(c) if you register to use wargamers market's services on a
third party website, or use a third party website providing a
service for wargamers market, or use a website that
facilitates your activity on wargamers market, that website
may provide personal information about you and your
transactions back to wargamers market.
Marketing by Third Parties
We don't sell or rent your personal information to third parties
for their marketing purposes.
Use by games2trains
Our primary purpose in collecting personal information is to
provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customised
experience.
We may use your personal information to:
provide the services and customer support you request;
resolve disputes, collect fees, and troubleshoot problems;
prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities, and enforce
the User Agreement;
customise, measure, and improve our services and the Site's
content and layout;
tell you about our existing products and services, changes to
our existing products and services, new products and services
and promotional offers based on your notification
preferences; and
compare information for accuracy and verify it with third
parties.
If you do not wish to receive marketing communications from
us, we encourage you to amend your notification preferences
via the "Preferences" page in My games2trains. You
may make changes to your notification preferences at any
time. Please note that you cannot opt out of receiving
administrative information that you need to know in order for
us to provide you with our services.
Our Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose your personal information to:
othergames2trainsusers, whether located within the
United Kingdom or abroad. For example, where you are
involved in a transaction with another user, the other user
may view your email address and obtain your contact
information and postal address to help complete the
transaction;
law enforcement agencies, other governmental agencies or
third parties in response to a request for information (such as
a Section 29 (3) Data Protection Act 1998 form) relating to a
criminal investigation, alleged illegal activity or any other
activity that may expose us, you or any other wargames
market user to legal liability. The personal information we
disclose may include your User ID and User ID history, name,
city, county, telephone number, email address, fraud
complaints and bidding and listing history or anything else
that we deem relevant;
Should we plan to merge with, or be
acquired by that business entity we require that the new
combined entity follow this
Privacy Policy with respect to your personal information. If
your personal information will be used contrary to this Privacy
Policy, you will receive prior notice.
Without limiting the above, in an effort to respect your
privacy and our ability to keep the community free from
wargamers market users who attempt to carry out fraudulent
or illegal activities on the Site, we will not otherwise disclose
your personal information to other wargamers market users
or third parties without a court order (or in circumstances
where we are under a substantially similar legal obligation),
except when we believe in good faith that the disclosure of
such information is necessary to prevent imminent physical
harm, property damage or financial loss or to report or put a
stop to suspected illegal activity.
Data Controller
wargamers market (UK) Ltd is the sole data controller with regard to
the processing of games2trains users' personal
information in the context of registration of new users and
billing. games2trains is the sole data controller with
regard to any other processing of games2trainsusers'
personal information. Your personal information will not be
intentionally viewable by or shared with any third party.
User IDs and games2trains Activities
Your User ID is displayed throughout the Site and is therefore
available to the public. All of your activities on the Site will be
traceable to your User ID. Other people may see your bids,
items that you have purchased in the past, items for sale,
shop fronts, feedback ratings and associated comments,
questions you have asked and so on. Notices are sent to
other community members regarding suspicious activity and
policy breaches on the Site and refer to User IDs and specific
items. Therefore, if you associate your name with your User
ID, the people to whom you have revealed your name will be
able to personally identify your wargamers market activities.
When you re-visit the Site from a computer that you have
used to access the Site previously, certain information about
you may be visible before you log in, such as your User ID or
information relating to your wargamers market activities (for
example, details of items that you are bidding on
or "watching"). In addition, reminders from games2trains
may also be visible. Therefore, if you access the Site
from a shared computer or a computer in an internet café,
such information and reminders may also be visible to other
individuals who use the computer after you.
Cookies
We use "cookies" (small files placed on your computer's hard
drive) on certain pages of the Site to help analyse our web
page flow, customise our services, measure promotional
effectiveness, and promote trust and safety. For more
information about why we use cookies, see Cookies, Web
Beacons, and Your Privacy.
A few important things you should know about cookies are
that:
we offer certain features that are only available through the
use of cookies;
we use cookies to help identify you and maintain your signed-
in status;
most cookies are "session cookies," meaning that they are
automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of a
session;
you are always free to decline our cookies if your browser
permits, although doing so may interfere with your use of the
Site; and
you may encounter cookies from third parties on certain
pages of the Site that we do not control, for example, if you
view a web page created by another user, there may be
a "cookie" placed by that web page.
Account Protection
Your wargamers market password is the key to your
games2trains account. Use unique numbers, letters, and
special characters and do not disclose your password to
anyone. If you do share your password or your personal
information with others, remember that you are responsible
for all actions taken in the name of your account, including
actions that result in fees being charged to your account. If
you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial
control over your personal information and may be subject to
legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if
your password has been compromised for any reason, you
should immediately notify us and change your password.
Please visit the knowledgebase for further information on how
to protect your wargamers market account and personal
information.
Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your Personal Information
You can see, review and change most of your personal
information by logging into the Site and going to the "My
Account" section of My games2trains. You must
promptly update your personal information if it changes or is
inaccurate. Once you make a public posting (including in our
chat rooms, other message areas or the feedback forum),
you may not be able to change or remove it. Upon your
request, we will close your account and remove your personal
information from public view as soon as reasonably possible,
based on your account activity and in accordance with
applicable law. We do retain personal information from closed
accounts in order to comply with legal obligations, prevent
fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot
problems, assist with any investigations, enforce the User
Agreement, and take other actions as permitted by law.
Security
We use standard industry practices, including encryption,
passwords and physical security, to protect your personal
information against unauthorised access and disclosure.
However, as you probably know, third parties may unlawfully
intercept or access transmissions or private communications,
and other users may abuse or misuse your personal
information that they collect from the Site. Therefore,
although we work very hard to protect your privacy, we do
not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal
information or private communications could be comprimised
in the event of external criminal activity.
Third Parties
Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy,
this document addresses only the use and disclosure of
information we collect from you. If you disclose your
information to third parties, whether they are bidders, buyers,
or sellers on the Site or other websites throughout the
Internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure
of your information. We do not control the privacy practices
of such third parties and we encourage you to read their
privacy policies and ask questions before you disclose your
personal information to them.
General
We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the
amended terms on the Site. All amended terms shall take
effect automatically 30 days after they are initially posted on
the Site.
