Effective 10/30/2010
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.
This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the Smiling Cat Entertainment website. On some pages, you can order products, make requests, and register to receive materials. The types of personal information collected at these pages are:
We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive. With the exception of email addresses entered in the Smiling Cat Store (see below), such addresses are not used for any other purpose. We never share email with outside parties.
We use unverified names or nicknames in order to collect and display high scores from players of our games. In addition, these names may be tied back on our systems to the IP address from which the high score was submitted. This capability is used only for purposes of detecting and enforcing against violations of our terms of service. We do not use the names or nicknames collected for any other purpose.
We use IP addresses collected during our high score submission process for the purposes of detecting and enforcing against violations of our terms of service. We do not use the IP addresses collected for any other purpose.
We use information about game starts including date and time to track the popularity of games and their peak hours of use in order to improve our services. We do not tie this information back to any other information we collect.
We use personal information entered in the Smiling Cat Store for purposes of order fulfillment, order tracking, product licensing, aggregate analysis of sales data, and to keep you informed about Smiling Cat products. We do not use this information for any other purposes. We rely on our payment provider (PayPal) to collect and handle financial information such as credit card numbers. We do not handle, store, or access financial information directly. For more information on the handling of your financial information when ordering from the Smiling Cat Store, please refer to PayPal's applicable policies.
Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.
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.
We do not handle, store, or access financial information such as credit card numbers directly. We rely on our payment provider (PayPal) to collect and handle financial information such as credit card numbers. For more information on the handling of your financial information when ordering from the Smiling Cat Store, please refer to PayPal's applicable policies.
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. We do not collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 13. If we receive an email from someone who we actually know to be under the age of 13, after we respond to that email, we will delete the return email address in compliance with The Children's Online Privacy Protection ACT (COPPA). In addition, if we learn that information on our site is was submitted by someone who we actually know to be under the age of 13, we will delete that information in compliance with The Children's Online Privacy Protection ACT (COPPA).