Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which PC Game Haven (“we”, “us”, or “PC Game Haven”) collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users of wordpress-470374-2190261.cloudwaysapps.com (the “Site”). This privacy policy applies to the entirety of PC Game Haven and all communications which are directly related to the content of the Site.

Personal identification information

We may collect personal identification information from Users in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when Users visit our site, subscribe to the newsletter, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our Site. Our comment section can be used anonymously by leaving the name and email fields blank

You may, however, visit our Site anonymously or by using a VPN to keep your data obscured. We will collect personal identification information from Users only if they voluntarily submit such information to us via our comment section, contact forms, and newsletter signup form. However, this information is ALWAYS kept strictly private and will never be shared with any third-party regardless of the circumstances.

Non-personal identification information

We may collect non-personal identification information about Users whenever they interact with our Site. Non-personal identification information may include the browser, the type of computer and technical information about Users means of connection to our Site, such as the operating system and the Internet service providers utilized and other similar information.

This information is kept strictly private and is NEVER shared with third-parties. EVER.

Cookies

Our Site may use “cookies” to enhance User experience. User’s web browser places cookies on their hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about them. An example of cookie usage on PC Game Haven would be remembering the name and email used in our comment section enhance user experience.

Users may choose to set their web browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If they do so, note that some parts of the Site may not function properly.

How we use collected information

PC Game Haven may collect and use Users personal information for the following purposes:

  • To improve customer service
    Information you provide helps us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently. Leaving an email in our comment section will ensure you are alerted of any replies to your comment or question.
  • To personalize user experience
    We may use information in the aggregate to understand how our Users as a group use the services and resources provided on our Site. This allows us to keep creating content our Users like while dropping the content our Users do not like.
  • To improve the Site
    We may use feedback you provide as well as aggregated data to improve our content and overall user experience; user experience includes things such as page load time and page layout.

How we protect your information

We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information, and data stored on our server and/or database.

Sensitive and private data exchange between the Site and its Users happens over an SSL secured communication channel and is encrypted and protected with digital signatures. Our Site is also in compliance with PCI vulnerability standards in order to create as secure of an environment as possible for Users.

At PC Game Haven, we believe that keeping your data protected is extremely important. You can rest assured that all data collected will be kept exclusively private.

Sharing your personal information

We do not sell, trade, or rent Users personal identification information to others under any circumstances. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates and advertisers for the purposes outlined above.

Do Not Track policy

California law requires that websites and online services disclose how they respond to a Do Not Track signal. Some browsers have incorporated “Do Not Track” features. Most of these features, when turned on, send a signal or preference to the website or online service that a user visits, indicating that the user does not wish to be tracked. Because there is not yet a common understanding of how to interpret Do Not Track signals, we do not currently respond to Do Not Track signal.

We continue to work with the online industry to define a common understanding of how to treat Do Not Track signals.

Third party websites

Users may find advertising or other content on our Site that link to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors and other third parties. We do not control the content or links that appear on these sites and are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our Site. In addition, these sites or services, including their content and links, may be constantly changing. These sites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies. Browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link to our Site, is subject to that website’s own terms and policies.

PC Game Haven is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Advertising

This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a CafeMedia (“CafeMedia”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and CafeMedia will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about CafeMedia’s data usage, click here www.cafemedia.com/publisher-advertising-privacy-policy

At PC Game Haven we believe in a very strict no generic, targetted, or personalized ad policy. Any advertisements you see will be for PC gaming related websites that are personally vetted by the Editor in Chief for quality and relevance. This means no Google Ads or anything else of along those lines.

Due to our no personalized ad policy, this means we are able to collect even less of your data and ensure that more of what we do collect is kept within our control and not that of an advertising agency where we cannot control what happens.

Access, Correction, Deletion

At PC Game Haven we respect your right to privacy and want to provide our Users with reasonable access to the information they may have provided through use of our Site. If you wish to see or request deletion of any information we might have stored related to you, please see the “Contact us” section for steps on how to get in touch.

Updates to this policy

This policy is updated as needed per national and international guidelines and regulations. Please remain aware of any changes to this policy as your continued use after an update is effectively consent to the content herewithin.

Your acceptance of these terms

By using PC Game Haven, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.

Advertising Privacy Statement

This Site is affiliated with AdThrive, LLC (“AdThrive”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site. AdThrive uses standard and widely-available tools for the placement and serving of ads, including those provided by Google, Inc. and its affiliates. We publish interest-based advertisements on the Site; that is, ads that are tailored to reflect your interests. To help understand your interests, AdThrive, Google and our other advertising partners will track your behaviour on our website and on other websites across the Internet using cookies.

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

By using this Site, you consent to the use of such cookies and the sharing of data captured by such cookies with AdThrive, Google, and our other third party partners. You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting: https://adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of the network cookie using those settings or using the Network Advertising Initiative’s multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org. However, these opt-out mechanisms themselves use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your opt-out will not be maintained.

For European Economic Area Residents

If you reside in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), then under the GDPR and applicable data protection laws you have the rights, among other things, to access your personal data, have us erase it, and/or restrict its further processing. If you wish to access or delete your personal data (if any) maintained by us or AdThrive related to advertising on the Site, you can contact us at branton@pcgamehaven.com and contact AdThrive at info@adthrive.com. If you wish to see a list of the advertising partners we work with or change which of those partners track your behavior using cookies, click the ad preferences link at the bottom of the site. (Available in the EU.)

For California Residents

California law gives residents the right to opt out of the “sale” of their personal information to third parties, including for advertising purposes. Under California law, the sharing of your information with a service provider for advertising purposes could be considered a “sale.” To opt out of the sharing of your information for advertising information, click the opt out link provided in the footer of this page. You also have the right to request from us the categories of personal information that we have shared and the categories of third parties to whom the information was provided. To make such a request, please contact us at info@adthrive.com. To be clear we do not share your name, contact information, or any other sensitive information with third parties, and the categories of third parties that we share information with for advertising purposes are supply side platforms, programmatic advertising exchanges, and demand side platforms.

Contact us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us using this contact form, or send mail to:

PC Game Haven
PO Box 1899
Vernon BC, Canada
V1T2M0