MONKEY GODS LLC and RKG GAMES, INC. ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY
Monkey Gods LLC and RKG Games, Inc. ("RKG"), are committed to maximizing your experience on our websites within a trusted environment. This privacy policy explains how we collect, protect, use and share information gathered about you online. We hope this disclosure will help increase your confidence in our websites and enhance your user experience. Please note that this privacy policy applies only to information submitted and collected online at our website. It does not apply to information that you may submit to us offline, or to websites maintained by other companies or organizations to which we may link.
RKG does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13
This is not a website directed to children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13 years of age. If you are under 13 years of age you should not use this website, and under no circumstances should you send information about yourself to us. If we discover that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with personally identifiable information, we will immediately delete that child’s personally identifiable information from the website. For you are older than 13 but younger than 18, you and your parents are advised that some content (including comments in chat rooms) might be objectionable to persons under the age of 18.
What types of information does RKG collect?
We only collect information from you on a voluntary basis. When registering for our Games, you create an online profile which includes your name, gender, and zip code. If you wish to purchase “Pro” versions of our games you will additionally need to submit your billing address, billing phone number, and credit card number, either through our site or one of our partner sites, such as PayPal. You will have voluntary opportunities to share other data about you in forum posts, chat rooms, and comments sections but you are not required to do so in order to play our games and use our service. To utilize all of the services of our websites (including our customer Support Forums), we may ask you to register with a unique username and password combination. For purposes of registration, we may collect identifiable information about you such as your name, email address, and demographic information such as age, gender and zip code. During gameplay or while visiting our websites, we also may collect your IP address, browser type, domain name, access times and referring website address. This information may be collected during registration, during gameplay sessions for our games, or in response to specific requests from you, for things such as signing up for an email newsletter, chat room, or other online information service we may offer, entering a contest, answering a survey, or contacting us. Surveys may be conducted strictly for internal profiling purposes and/or for the purposes of allowing you to generate virtual currencies for use on our site.
Some of our games work in conjunction with other social networking websites. If you choose to play our games on those websites, or by logging in remotely to those websites, we my access additional information about your profile including but not limited to demographics, likes/dislikes about certain topics, and other data that is visible on your social networking profile or pages. When you invite new members to join you in playing games, either through Live mode or challenge mode, we may collect information, including email addresses and content of those invitees, on our servers. Additionally, we may use other publicly available data sources including blogs, websites, instant messaging applications, and your usage of our games to supplement data in your profile.
On our websites and in our games, we collect your internet protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, computer platform/operating system, browser language, referring Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”), the destination which you visit after leaving us (the “exit page”) and URLs, other browser history, , your click activity and frequency, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed (including the order of those pages viewed), the amount of time spent on particular pages and/or in a specific game. This information is “stamped” with the date and time it occurred. We use this information to improve our games and provide a better gameplay and web browsing experience.
What is RKG’s Policy on Spam?
We do not send Spam (unsolicited email) or sell email addresses to third parties. So that we can provide you with the best possible user experience, we will always verify any email sign ups with a follow up email. This process is called double opt-in and is designed to prevent unauthorized parties from submitting your email address without your permission.
How does RKG Use the information it collects?
When you play our games, we collect data about your progress in the game, your achievements, and other key metrics about your play. We store this data indefinitely in order we track your game achievements, game advancement, and skills earned and to better much you with other players in multiplayer games.
For use of our websites, we only keep track of anonymous demographic data (e.g., your age, usage of the RKG website, favorite features). Our website contains links through which an online user can email us. We collect personal information contained in the email for the purpose of responding to a user’s questions and/or comments. From time to time, we may post on our website job openings at RKG and provide an email address to which interested applicants can submit their resume. Although we can assure you that any personal information contained in a resume will be used solely for its intended purpose (i.e., to evaluate the applicant’s qualifications), such information is not subject to this privacy policy.
No matter what method we use to collect information and no matter how we use that information, we will only collect the information deemed reasonably necessary to fulfill your online requests and our legitimate business objectives.
What happens if I refuse to provide my personal information to RKG?
If you choose not to submit personally identifiable information when requested, you may not be able to access certain areas of our website and you may considerably limit the services we can provide you. For example, you will not be able earn achievements, ranks, or post historical high scores. To simply access our website, however, you do not need to give us any personally identifiable information.
Does RKG use cookies or other means to collect information?
You will know when personally identifiable information is collected because you will be asked to fill out a form. However, we may collect some information about you by using data collection technology, so that it may not be readily apparent to you that it is being collected. For instance, when you come to our website, your IP address, browser type, browser language, and referring pages are collected so that we know where to send information you are requesting. An IP address is a number that is used by computers on the network to identify your computer every time you log on to the Internet.
Much of this information is retained in a "cookie", which is a small file or record-keeping device that websites often store on a user's computer. (You can disable cookies or set your browser to alert you when cookies are being sent to your computer.) We do not use IP addresses or cookies to collect personally identifiable information, such as your name, or to link this information to personally identifiable information already collected about you. information may be used to make our website more interesting and useful to you. Additionally, we may combine this information with personally identifiable information to identify a user in order to enforce compliance with our Terms of Use , or to protect our service, website or users to the website.
With whom does RKG share my personally identifiable information?
From time to time, we may employ and share your personal information with vendors who use it solely to provide support for the internal operations of our website (e.g., technical support and network delivery). These entities will not use your personally identifiable information for any other purpose, and have agreed to maintain the confidentiality, security, and integrity of the personal information they obtain from us.
In the event that you fill out an online survey with one of our third party vendors such as SuperRewards, OfferPal, Social Gold or others, the personally identifiable information in those surveys will be subject to any terms of use and privacy policies provided by those vendors.
Additionally, by playing our games on social networking sites, you are subject to their privacy policies regarding any data they collect.
It is our policy not to share, sell or rent your personal information to any company not directly related to us as a provider or customer. We reserve the right to share your personally identifiable information with our parent or affiliated companies. Further, we may sell, transfer or otherwise disclose user information, including personally identifiable information, in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, the sale of substantially all assets, or other fundamental corporate change.
We may disclose your personal information in the good faith belief that we are required to do so by law or to comply with legal processes, respond to any claims or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of our staff or the public.
What is RKG’s policy regarding third-party advertisements and content?
When you are using our website, certain content, including advertisements, may be created or hosted by a third party. Such third parties may place cookies and/or use web beacons, which may be used to identify some of your preferences or to recognize you if you have previously had contact with them. We do not control the use of such technology by third parties, the information they collect, or how they use such information. We do not disclose your personally identifiable information to third parties serving ads or other content on our website.
What is RKG’s policy regarding links to third party websites?
You should be aware that while you are on a website operated by us, you may be directed to links to other websites. The privacy policies of these other websites are beyond our control and we take no responsibility for their practices. Because we cannot guarantee that the privacy policies of these websites meet our high standards, we recommend that you read the privacy policy of the website to which you link before you submit any personal information. This privacy policy only refers to the games and services directly provided by us.
How can I access my personal information?
If you wish to review, update, or delete any personal information that we may have collected about you, please contact us via email at privacyinfo@monkeygods.com.
What safeguards does MonkeyGods use to protect my personally identifiable information?
We maintain appropriate safeguards that ensure the security, integrity and privacy of the personally identifiable information we collect from all users. The RKG account of every user is password protected. Personal information collected by us is stored in secure operating environments that are not available to the public and are only accessible by authorized employees. We also have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.
Your California Privacy Rights
California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the "Shine The Light" law, permits our customers who are California residents to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, information about the personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. If applicable, this information would include a list of the categories of personal information that was shared and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please clearly state the nature of your request and submit it via email to privacyinfo@monkeygods.com.
What are my privacy rights if I am located outside the United States of America?
We make an effort to protect the personally identifiable information of all users of our website. We attempt to comply with local data protection and consumer rights laws to the extent they may apply to our services. If you are uncertain whether this privacy policy conflicts with the applicable local privacy laws where you are located, you should not submit your personally identifiable information to us. If you are located within the European Union, you should be aware that your personally identifiable information will be transferred to the United States of America, the laws of which may be deemed by the European Union to have inadequate data protection. If you are located in a country outside the United States of America and voluntarily submit personally identifiable information to us, you thereby consent to the general use of such information as provided in this privacy policy and to the transfer of that information to, and/or storage of that information in, the United States of America.
How do I ask a question or file a complaint?
If you have any questions, complaints or comments regarding our privacy policy or practices, please contact us via email at privacyinfo@monkeygods.com.
Changes in the Monkey Gods privacy policy
We reserve the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time. If we change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our website so that you and other users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. You should also check back from time to time to ensure you are aware of any changes. If we are going to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection, we will notify you and others via email or by placing a prominent notice on our website.
By using this website, you signify your consent to the Monkey Gods Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this privacy policy, please do not use this website. Your continued use of this website will signify your acceptance of these changes.
This RKG Privacy Policy was updated April 13, 2009.