We respect your privacy and we do our part to protect your privacy when you are online on our site. The following describes the practices for collecting and disseminating information for this website.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on May 10, 2018.
Legal property
GameRant (the ‘Website’) is owned and operated by Valnet inc. (“Us” or “we”), a corporation incorporated under the laws of Canada, headquartered at 7405 Transcanada Highway, Suite 100, Saint Laurent, Quebec H4T 1Z2.
Collect personal data
When you visit our website, we collect certain information related to your device, such as your IP address, which pages you visit on our website, or you are redirected by another website, and at what time you access our website.
We do not collect other types of personal data. If you access our website through a social media account, please refer to the social media provider’s privacy policy for information about their data collection.
Log files
Like most standard website servers, we use log files. This includes Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), referring / outgoing pages, platform type, date / time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, manage the site, user movement in the aggregate to track, and collect broad demographic information for total use.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer linked to information about the user. We and some of our business partners (for example advertisers) use cookies on our website. These cookies follow use of the site for security, analytics and targeted advertising.
We use the following type of cookies:
- Essential cookies: these cookies are essential for the hosting of our website.
- Functionality cookies: These cookies help us to remember choices you have made on our website, remember your preferences and personalize your website experience.
- Analytics and Performance Cookies: These cookies help us to collect statistical and analytical usage to analyze the website usage.
- Cookies on social media: these cookies allow you to interact with content on certain social media platforms, so “like” our articles. Depending on your social media setting, the social media network will record this and may display your name or identifier in relation to this action.
- Advertising and targeted advertising cookies: These cookies track your browsing habits and location to deliver your ads in accordance with your interests. Please see our “Advertisers” section below for details.
If you want to disable cookies, you can do so through your individual browser options. See http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ for more information on cookies and how to manage them.
Pixel tags
We use pixel tags, which are small graphic files that we and our trusted third-party partners can track your use of your website and data collection, including the number of pages you visit, the time you spend to each page, what you click on next, and other information about your visit to the website.
Advertisers
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to these and other websites to provide advertisements about goods and services that are of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.
Advertisers, as third party providers, use cookies to collect usage and demographic data in order to serve ads on our site. For example, Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visits to our sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by reviewing the privacy policies of Google ads and content networks.
We have reviewed the policies of our advertising partners to ensure that they comply with all applicable data privacy laws and recommended data security practices.
We use the following advertisers:
Links to Other Websites
This page contains links to other sites. Please note that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site, and to read the privacy statements of any website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement only applies to information collected by this website.
Purpose of data collection
We use the information we collect to:
- Manage our website, including problem solving, and statistical as well as data analysis;
- To enhance our website and enhance user experience by ensuring that you have access to personalized content in accordance with your interests;
- Analyze user usage and optimize our services.
- To ensure that our website remains safe and is not subject to hacking or fraud.
- Share information with our partners to deliver targeted ads and features on social media.
Data shared with third parties
We do not sell or rent your personal data to third parties. However, our partners, including advertising partners, may collect data related to your use of the website as disclosed herein. Please see our “Advertisers” section here for details.
How your data is stored
All data collected through our website is stored on servers in the United States. Our servers are certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield.
IP address and string of data of user agents of all visitors are stored in rotating log files on Amazon servers for up to 7 days. All our employees, agents and partners are committed to keeping your data confidential.
We have reviewed our partners’ privacy policies to ensure that they comply with similar policies to ensure your data security.
Consent under applicable laws
If you are in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), a permission window will appear when accessing this website. If you click “yes”, your consent will be stored on our servers for twelve (12) months and your data will be processed as disclosed in this privacy policy. After twelve months you will be asked to give permission again.
We comply with the IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework.
You can withdraw permission at any time. Submitting permission may limit your ability to access certain services and will not allow us to personalize the website experience.
Data security
Our servers comply with ISO 27018, a practice code that focuses on the protection of personal data in the cloud. We follow all reasonable precautions to ensure the security of your data.
In the event that we become aware of any data breach, security, unauthorized access or disclosure of personal data, we will take all reasonable precautions to protect your data and we will inform you as required by all applicable laws.
Access, modify and delete your data
You have the right to request information about the data we have submitted to you, request correction and / or deletion of your personal information. Please contact us at [email protected] or at the postal address mentioned above, attention: data compliance department.
Age
This website is not aimed at people under 16. By visiting this website. You hereby guarantee that you are 16 years of age or older or visit the website under parental supervision.
Legal disclaimer
While we make every effort to maintain the privacy of users, we may need to disclose personal information as required by law, in which we have a good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current lawsuit, court or legal process that is being served. becomes one of our sites.
Notification of changes
Whenever we change our privacy policy, we will post these changes on this Privacy Policy page, and in other places we deem appropriate, so that our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, as one, we leave it open.
contact information
If users have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, you may contact us at [email protected] or by email at the postal address mentioned above, Attention: Data Compliance Department
