Privacy policies tend to be pretty long — and pretty confusing. That’s why we did our best to make our Privacy Policy brief, clear, and easy to read!
When you use our services, you’ll share some information with us. So we want to be upfront about the information we collect, how we use it, whom we share it with, and the controls we give you to access, update, and delete your information.
That’s why we’ve written this Privacy Policy. And it’s why we’ve tried to write it in a way that’s blissfully free of the legalese that often clouds these documents. Of course, if you still have questions about anything in our Privacy Policy, just contact us.
You should read our entire Privacy Policy, but when you only have a few minutes or want to remember something, later on, you can always take a look at this summary—so you can review some of the basics in just a few minutes.
Information You Provide
When you interact with our services, we collect information that you provide to us. For example, most of our services require you to set up an account, so we need to collect a few important details about you, such as your name, username, password, and email address. We may also ask you to provide us with some additional information that will be publicly visible on our services, such as a profile picture. Other services, such as shopping products, may require you to provide us with a debit or credit card number and its associated account information.
When you contact the customer support or licensing team or communicate with us in any other way, we’ll collect whatever information you volunteer or that we need to resolve your question.
Log Information. We also collect log information when you use our website, such as:
- details about how you’ve used our services;
- device information, such as your web browser type and language;
- access times;
- pages viewed;
- IP address;
- identifiers associated with cookies or other technologies that may uniquely identify your device or browser; and
- pages you visited before or after navigating to our website.
What information does Forestry Games collect and how do we use it?
What do we do with the information we collect? The short answer is: Provide you with an amazing set of games and services that we relentlessly improve.
We collect and use your personal information ONLY for processing your order(s). Any personal information you provide to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, etc., is not released, sold, or rented to any entities or individuals outside of our company.
We do not store and never get to see any credit card details. Furthermore, our servers employ 2048-bit SSL certificates, meaning transactions are securely handled on the servers.
How does Forestry Games protect your information?
We use industry-standard encryption technologies when transmitting and receiving your personal data. We have security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of information that we have collected from or about you.
Contract
One reason we might use your information is that you’ve entered into an agreement with us. For example, when you buy a Game and accepted our Custom License Terms, we need to use some of your information to collect your payment and make sure we show your information to the right people at the right place and time.
Your Right to Object
You have the right to object to our use of your information. With many types of data, we’ve provided you with the ability to simply delete it if you don’t want us processing it anymore. For other types of data, we’ve given you the ability to stop the use of your data by disabling the feature altogether. You can do these things on the website. If there are other types of information you don’t agree with our processing, you can contact us.
Children
Our services are not intended for—and we don’t direct them to—anyone under 13. And that’s why we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. In addition, we may limit how we collect, use, and store some of the information of EU users between 13 and 16. In some cases, this means we will be unable to provide certain functionality to these users. If we need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information and your country requires consent from a parent, we may require your parent’s consent before we collect and use that information.
Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies allow us to recognize you each time you visit this site. Cookies themselves do not contain any personal information. We use cookies to store visitor preferences and to record session information, such as items that visitors add to their shopping carts as well as visitors’ browser types.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights do you have over your data?
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
External Sites
We are not responsible for the content of external Internet sites. You are advised to read the privacy policy of external sites before disclosing any personal information.
Revisions to the Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. But when we do, we’ll let you know one way or another. Sometimes, we’ll let you know by revising the date at the top of the Privacy Policy that’s available on our website. Other times, we may provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to our websites’ homepages or providing you with an in-web notification).