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 home page.
This notice applies to all information collected from or submitted to the YouStake Inc. web site
and/or used in creating a YouStake account.
This notice is
incorporated into and is subject to the YouStake Terms of Use. Your use of our
Web Site and any personal information you provide on the Web Site remains subject to the
terms of this notice and the YouStake Terms of Use.
Our Web Site may
contain links to other web sites operated by third parties. YouStake is not
responsible for the privacy practices or policies of such third party web sites and this notice
does not apply to those web sites.
Please note that any video, image,
or other content you post on YouStake.com (e.g., your name
with a comment to a blog post) is not considered personally identifiable information subject to
this Privacy Policy and may be published by YouStake.
APPLICATION OF THIS NOTICE
This notice applies only to the information collected by YouStake from the users of our Web
Site. It does not apply to information collected by YouStake in any other way.
THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Our Web Site tracks certain information about the visits to our Web Site. For example, we
compile statistics that show the numbers and frequency of visitors to our Web Site and its
individual pages. These aggregated statistics are used internally to improve our Web Site and
for product development and marketing purposes generally. Those aggregated statistics may
also be provided to advertisers and other third parties, but again, the statistics contain no
personal information and cannot be used to gather such information.
Our Web Site is not set up to automatically collect personally identifiable information from new
visitors to our Web Site. It does recognize the home server of new visitors. For example, we can
tell which Internet Service Provider our new visitors use, but not the names, addresses or other
information that would allow us to identify the particular visitors to our Web Site. Once a user
has visited the Web Site at least once, we may be able to match that user the next time he/she
visits the Web Site. Any information previously obtained, such as an email address provided at
registration, may be associated with that user but only if it were previously provided. This
information will be used by YouStake to provide a superior user experience and relevant
information and promotions.
We may also request information
from our users when they perform specific activities on the Web Site.
For example, we request information from you when you:
Log-on to
certain areas of our Web Site, where you are prompted to provide us with your
Username and password as a condition to gaining access to certain information,
materials or services.
Register or sign-up to use a service.
Subscribe
to a newsletter or desire to be added to our mailing lists for other products or services.
Deposit funds into your account.
Withdraw funds from your account.
Provide feedback in an online survey.
In each of the instances above,
we typically ask for items such as your name, e-mail address,
phone number, address, product preference information, YouStake username and password, as
well as other similar personal information that is needed to register or subscribe you to services
or offers. On occasion, we may ask for additional information to enable us to provide you with
access to and use of certain information, materials and services. In the case of newsletters or
mailing lists, you will be able to "unsubscribe" to these mailings at any time.
HOW WE USE INFORMATION
Our subsidiaries, affiliated companies, agents, or other businesses or persons may have
authorized access to your information (such as name or email address) for the purpose of
processing such information on our behalf, including by using the information to make
improvements to the services they provide. We may share your personally identifiable
information third parties for their commercial or marketing use with your consent or as part of a
specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. We may
disclose personally identifiable information in response to your requests for customer service.
As agreed in our Terms of Use, we may use personal information about you (such as your
name and photo) in connection with marketing and publicity purposes. We will publish a profile
page that includes your username, the date you became a member, your stats from previous
contests and, if you uploaded one, your profile picture. When you participate in a contest, we
may publish your username on a list of the contest participants, along with a link to your profile
page. We also may share personally identifiable information in other situations with your
consent.
YouStake also reserves the right to disclose
personally identifiable information that YouStake
believes, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to enforce our Terms of Use, take
precautions against liability or harm, to investigate and respond to third-party claims or
allegations, to respond to a subpoena, legal order, or official request, to protect the security or
integrity of our Service, and to protect the rights, property, or safety of YouStake, our Users or
others. Information also may be shared as described in the Merger, Sale or Bankruptcy section
below.
We do not share your personal information with other, third-party companies for their
commercial or marketing use without your consent or except as part of a specific program or
feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out.
You can opt out of receiving further marketing from YouStake at any time.
We will send you information about our various products and services, or other products and
services we feel may be of interest to you. Only YouStake (or agents or contractors working on
behalf of YouStake and under confidentiality agreements) will send you these direct mailings. At
any time you can easily opt out of receiving further marketing from YouStake by
emailing us at contact@youstake.com.
OUR COMMITMENT TO DATA SECURITY
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.
MERGER, SALE OR BANKRUPTCY
In the event that YouStake is involved in a merger, acquisition, sale, bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, receivership, assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or
equitable principles affecting creditors' rights generally, or other change of control, there may be
a disclosure of your personally identifiable information to another entity related to such event,
and we may not control how the information is treated, transferred, or used by that entity.
HOW YOU CAN ACCESS OR CORRECT YOUR INFORMATION
You can request a copy of the
personally-identifiable information that YouStake has collected
about you via the Internet by contacting our Information Privacy team at the e-mail address
below. You can also have factual inaccuracies in this information corrected by contacting this
same person.
PUBLICITY
Except where prohibited, participation
in a contest constitutes the player's consent to the use by
YouStake and its agents of player's name, likeness, voice, opinions, and biographical
information for publicity, advertising, trade, or promotional purposes in any media or manner,
now known or hereafter devised, worldwide, without further payment, consideration, notice, or
approval, as described in more detail in our Terms of Use.
SPECIAL NOTE TO
INTERNATIONAL USERS
The Web Site is hosted in the United States and is intended for and directed to users in the
United States and Canada. If you are a User accessing the Web Site from the European Union,
Asia, or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and
disclosure, that differ from United States laws, please be advised that through your continued
use of the Web Site, which are governed by U.S. law, this notice, and our Terms of Use, you are
transferring your personal information to the United States and you consent to that transfer.
TAX FORMS
In certain circumstances, such as when you win certain amounts through our Web Site
campaigns, we may require you to provide your social security number for tax purposes. Your
social security number will otherwise be kept confidential by us, except as required by law.
HOW TO CONTACT US
If you would like to contact us for any reason
regarding our privacy practices, please EMAIL US at legal@youstake.com
EMAIL YouStake
CHANGES AND UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE
This notice may be revised
periodically and this will be reflected by the "effective date" below.
Please revisit this page to stay aware of any changes. In general, we only use your personal
information in the manner described in the notice in effect when we received the personal
information you provided. Your continued use of the Web Site constitutes your agreement to this
notice and any future revisions.
For revisions to this notice that may
be materially less restrictive on our use or disclosure of the
personal information you have already provided to us, we will attempt to obtain your consent
before implementing such revisions with respect to such information.