Privacy
Teaching
English Games has established this Privacy Policy to explain how it
protects and manages the personal information that it collects from you
(the customer) online .
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Consent
for Collection, Use and Disclosure
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Your
registration for Teaching English Games products and services
constitute your consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
If
you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use
the site .
Teaching
English Games may occasionally update this Privacy Policy.
When it does, it will seek a customer’s prior consent, by
email,
for any new uses or proposed disclosures of information collected from
the customer prior to the change.Teaching English Games will notify
customers by emailof changes to this policy that will affect
information collected from them in the future . In certain
circumstances, however, Teaching English Games will not inform and
obtain the consent of the customer, such as in connection with an
investigation of a breach of an agreement, contravention of laws, an
emergency where the life, health or security of an individual is
threatened, the collection of a debt or in compliance with the request
of a law enforcement agency or a court order.
A
customer may withdraw his or her consent for collection, use and
disclosure at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link provided at
the end of every email.
Please note that, if you do, Teaching English Games may suspend its
provision of products and services to you . When you unsubscribe, if
you fall within the guarantee period for any product and you request a
refund, the guarantee will be honoured.
Teaching
English Games collects, at the time of your registration and
your sign-on to its web site, certain “personal
information” (information that personally identifies you)
including but not limited to your name, email address, home or work
address, telephone number, and information about your computer hardware
and software ( e.g., IP address, operating system, browser type, domain
name, URL, access times, and referring web site addresses).
Teaching
English Games has implemented this Privacy Policy to protect
personal information received from its customers, and to respond to any
inquiries . The Privacy Policy also provides that Teaching
English Games will use appropriate contractual means to establish a
comparable level of protection for personal information which is sent
for processing by third parties on our behalf.
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Purposes
for Collecting Personal Information
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Teaching
English Games collects and uses personal information for the following
Identified Purposes:
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(a)
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to
fulfill your requests for products, services or information;
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(b)
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to
develop and provide our web site and our products and services for
our customers;
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(c)
to understand customer needs regarding our services;
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(d)
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to
communicate with customers and site visitors, when necessary, and to
inform customers of upgrades, as well as of other products and services
available from Teaching English Games, its affiliates and third parties;
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(e)
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to
personalize some of our services and products for you and to deliver
targeted advertisements and offers from Teaching English Games and
third parties;
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(f)
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to
bill accounts and maintain payment records;
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(g)
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to
comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or
government request;
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(h)
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to
respond to a legitimate claim, or to address our reasonable belief,
that you are violating the rights of any third party or any of the
agreements or policies that govern your use of the Teaching English
Games site or any product or service;
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(i)
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to
protect the services, products or rights of Teaching English Games,
including but not limited to the security or integrity of the site; and
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(j)
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to
identify and resolve technical problems concerning Teaching English
Games’ site, products and services.
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Teaching
English Games also uses personal information in an aggregate
form ( i.e., not individually attributable to you) for its business
analysis, operational, marketing and other promotional purposes.
If
we hire other companies to provide some products or services on our
behalf, then we will only provide those companies the personal
information they need for the Identified Purposes, and we will limit
their rights to use and further disclose your personal information as
appropriate in the course of their work for us.
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Limiting
the Collection of Personal Information
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Teaching
English Games limits its collection of personal information to
only that information which is necessary for the Identified
Purposes.
When
you visit the Teaching English Games web site, a cookie may be
placed on your computer or the cookie may be read if you have visited
the site previously. We use cookies to allow us to determine
which products and services you have already purchased so that we do
not provide redundant information to you, and, if you are a Teaching
English Games affiliate, to track sales made to customers referred by
you so that you can receive compensation under our affiliate
program. If you choose to not have your browser accept
cookies
from the web site, you may not be able to view all the text on the
screens, or to experience a personalised visit, or to subscribe to
certain service and product offerings on the site.
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Disclosure,
Processing and Retention
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Teaching
English Games does not sell, rent or disclose your personal
information to anyone else, except :
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(a)
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to
someone you have designated to act as your agent, for one or more of
the Identified Purposes (listed in Section 2, above);
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(b)
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as
necessary if Teaching English Games has reason to believe that
disclosure is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action
against someone who may be causing injury to or interference (either
intentionally or unintentionally) with Teaching English
Games’
rights or property, other users of Teaching English Games’
web
site, products or services, or anyone else that could be harmed by such
activities; and
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(c)
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to
respond to judicial process and provide information to law
enforcement agencies or in connection with an investigation on matters
related to public safety, as permitted by law, or otherwise as required
by law.
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In
addition, as we continue to develop our business, we or our affiliates
may sell or buy other businesses or entities, or we may merge with
another company. In such transactions, personal information may be one
of the transferred business assets. Also, in the event that Teaching
English Games or substantially all of its assets are acquired, your
personal information may be one of the transferred assets.
Your
information may be stored and processed in the United States, or
in any other country in which Teaching English Games or its affiliates,
subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities. By using this web
site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your
country.
After
your account becomes inactive (that is, if you request to be
removed from our database), Teaching English Games will keep your
personal information in its archives. Your information will then be
used only as necessary for tax reasons or to prove Teaching English
Games’ compliance with any applicable law.
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Accuracy
of Personal Information
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Teaching
English Games will use reasonable efforts to keep customer
personal information accurate for the Identified Purposes, and for
minimizing the possibility of making inappropriate customer decisions
based on such information. Customers are responsible for
informing Teaching English Games about changes to their personal
information. You can do this by sending an email through the
contact form on this site.
Teaching
English Games will use reasonable efforts to protect
customers’ personal information.
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Access
to Personal Information
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Teaching
English Games will afford you a reasonable opportunity to
review the personal information in your file, upon email
request through the contact form on this site.
If
Teaching English Games is not able to provide access to some aspect
of a customer's personal information, it will provide reasons
for
denying access such as; that by doing so would likely reveal personal
information about a third party, or that it is confidential commercial
information or attorney–client privileged communications, or
that
the information relates to a breach of an agreement or a contravention
of law, or that its disclosure could reasonably be expected to threaten
the life or security of another individual.
Customers
have the right to request that inaccurate or incomplete
information be amended as appropriate, by contacting Teaching English
Games as described above. Teaching English Games will promptly correct
such personal information.
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