This privacy policy describes our current practices for the gathering and use of information from visitors to our own web site/service and from people who register/use our services. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we may disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently.

Your Acceptance

By using our site/service you signify your agreement to the privacy polices described herein. If you do not agree with our privacy policies, please do not use our site/service.

Information Collected and Stored by Skabble

Skabble will collect and store information about users of its site/service only in accordance with the following:

1. Information automatically collected and stored by Skabble regarding registered users, which information is kept private by Skabble and is not for public distribution: Registration date; last authentication date; last change of details date; basic profile version; last known User IP address from which registrant connected to an Skabble site/services.

2. Information that must be provided by registered users, which information is stored and kept private by Skabble and is not for public distribution: Password (kept as hash code); private Email address; year of birth.

3. Information voluntarily provided by all users (registered and non-registered) for display on Skabble site/service and stored by Skabble: User name (mandatory for registered user); User display name (if provided this name overrides User name for display purposes); public Email; country; gender; age category; personal message (message is subject to Rules of Conduct of our Terms of Service); Board permanent message (can be provided by registered users only).

Please note that chat messages are neither collected nor saved by Skabble.

Skabble will also store bugs hunting information provided regarding Skabble site/service. This information is for Skabble internal use only and will not be distributed under any circumstances.

Personal information may be used in several ways:

To enable us to respond to you or to process, validate, and verify service requests and to perform the requested services;
To give our own web site/service designers information useful for developing new features and services that meet our registrants' needs;
To tailor the registrant's experience on our site/service, showing them content we think might interest them or altering the content according to their preferences.

Editing Your Information

You can review, correct, change, or remove your personal registration information and elect not to receive future communications from us through use of the Profile section of the site/service. To protect your privacy and security, we verify your user name and password before allowing any changes to be made to your personal registration information.

No Sharing of Information

Except as may be stated expressly in this Privacy Policy and with the exception of Internet use statistics and Users' public profile details, Skabble will not share personal information that you give us with any third parties.

Cookies

Skabble does not use cookies in connection with the users of its site/services and does not download cookies to their computers except in order to save a user's on-screen configuration preferences. Please note some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) may use cookies on our site/service. We have no access to or control over these cookies.

Chat Rooms and Forums

Our site/service may have chat rooms, forums, message boards, and news groups. Any information you disclose in these areas becomes public information, and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information to people you do not know. If you disclose your e-mail address in a chat room or forum, you may receive unsolicited e-mails or spam (but never from us). We cannot safeguard the privacy of any such information you choose to disclose online in this manner and you must do so carefully and at your own risk.

Disclosures Required By Law

There are a limited number of situations requiring us to disclose your personal information to others without first receiving your consent: (1) when ordered to do so by a subpoena or court order; (2) if you violate or breach an agreement with us; (3) if we believe conduct by you will harm the property or rights of Skabble or those of Skabble's users; (4) under exigent circumstances to protect the physical safety of Skabble, its employees, users, or the general public.

Aggregate Information

Skabble may share aggregate statistical information gathered from the registration process with advertisers, business partners, sponsors or other third parties, but none of them will receive individual identifying information about you collected at our site/service. For example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of visitors visited a certain area on a web site/service or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out registration forms, but we will not disclose anything that would identify those individuals. We share this information only on an aggregate, anonymous basis and never on an individual basis.

Security Information

Our site/service has physical, electronic, and managerial security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. We take many measures to protect this information while it is stored:

We use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) connections with 128-bit encryption for certain transactions and confidential data. When you use a secure browser, all information you submit to us is transmitted to us over the Internet in an SSL encrypted form. Every secure page has been secured with a digital certificate issued by a third party certification authority.
We monitor system and application activity logs to identify any unusual activity, from authorized or unauthorized individuals accessing our systems or making changes to stored information. We regularly perform preventative system maintenance and monitoring to ensure the security of our data systems.
Our servers are maintained in secure facilities. Skabble network operations personnel monitor our data center 24 hours per day, seven days per week. Backup tapes are retrieved daily and stored at an off-site location.
All our employees sign confidentiality agreements and only our employees who need information to perform their job and who have passed background checks are granted access to personally identifiable information or any other confidential data.
Servers are divided such that critical machines, such as data storage, are not exposed to the web.
Passwords are stored in the database as hash code, which makes it impossible to access a password even to those who have been permitted to access the data base.
All transmissions over the Skabble client side bar are encrypted.

If you have subscribed for some of our services or are a customer seeking access to your account information, you will need to provide user name and passwords. We recommend you do not divulge your password to anyone. Skabble will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited telephone call or e-mail or chat. You are responsible for the secrecy of your passwords.

No data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.

E-mails Received by Us

We do not ordinarily maintain e-mails that have been sent to us after we reply, but if you wish to review, edit, or delete any information previously e-mailed to us that we might still have, please contact us at support@skabble.com. It is important that you include a copy of the previous e-mail, including its original address line, to enable us to locate it. We use return e-mail addresses to answer the e-mail we receive at any of our site/service, but such e-mail addresses are not stored or used for any other purpose.

Unsolicited E-mails Received by You

With the exception of registration confirmation and password reset, Skabble does not send unsolicited e-mails to non-public addresses or to anyone who has asked us not to contact him or her. Any newsletters that we send are only sent to those who have subscribed to them. To stop receiving e-mails or newsletters from Skabble, either click on an unsubscribe link on the e-mail or newsletter itself or send a request to be unsubscribed to support@skabble.com.

Governing Terms

If you choose to visit Skabble, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, including as regards limitations of liability and dispute resolution.

Questions

If you have any question or concern about the privacy of your personal information as used and collected within our site/service, or any other questions about this Privacy Policy, please send us a thorough description by sending an email to: support@skabble.com.