Privacy policy
At Gamers Sans Frontieres you can rest assured that your personal information will never be rented, sold, or otherwise shared with any third party. Of course, this excludes the sharing of your shipping address with one of our shipping providers, UPS, FedEx, or USPS, in order to ship you yours items. This also excludes the transmitting of your credit card information (fully encrypted) to our credit card processor (Shopify payments), in order to process your payment. These two exceptions are completely normal and necessary for any transaction to take place on any website where a physical product is being sold. In addition, we will never include you on any email newsletter unless you have elected to receive it, so your information is safe with us.
To find out more about Gamers Sans Frontieres, please go to our service section, or you can contact us here.
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Introduction
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Gamers Sans Frontieres respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes what information Gamers Sans Frontieres collects about you during your visit to the Gamers Sans Frontieres website and what TGamers Sans Frontieres does with that information.
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Your visit to the Gamers Sans Frontieres website is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms and Conditions. Thus, by using this website, you are consenting to Gamers Sans Frontieres’s collection, storage, and use of your information as set out in this Privacy Policy. If you would prefer that Gamers Sans Frontieres not collect any information from you, please do not provide us with any such information. You must review this Privacy Policy carefully to make sure you understand our practices and procedures. If you have any questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy, just ask.
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Gamers Sans Frontieres may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. If Gamers Sans Frontieres changes this Privacy Policy, we will post the revised policy here. As Gamers Sans Frontieres may make changes at any time without notifying you, Gamers Sans Frontieres suggests that you periodically consult this Privacy Policy.
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Information That Gamers Sans Frontieres Collects
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Gamers Sans Frontieres collects and stores personal information. Personal information means personally identifiable information, such as your name, mailing address, phone number, email address, Facebook account information, and other financial information.
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Gamers Sans Frontieres also collects and stores non-personal information. Non-personal information includes your browser type, your internet service provider and its location, the URL of the previous website you visited, your operating system, your IP address, and the date and time you accessed the Gamers Sans Frontieres website.
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How and When Gamers Sans Frontieres Collects Information
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If you communicate with Gamers Sans Frontieres, Gamers Sans Frontieres may collect and store any information that you provide to us in any such communication. This information may include, for instance, your username on the Gamers Sans Frontieres website and your email address.
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Gamers Sans Frontieres also collects personal information when you provide it in connection with a request for a product, service, or information. For example, if you create an account on the Gamers Sans Frontieres website, Gamers Sans Frontieres will collect your email address and a username that you create. If you order an item from Gamers Sans Frontieres, Gamers Sans Frontieres may collect your name, mailing address, telephone number, credit card number and expiration date, and email address. If you submit a design to Gamers Sans Frontieres, Gamers Sans Frontieres may collect your name, tax identification number, mailing address, email address, PayPal account information, other registration information, and questionnaire responses regarding your design. If you sign up to receive a newsletter, Gamers Sans Frontieres will collect your email address.
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Gamers Sans Frontieres allows you to sign in to the Gamers Sans Frontieres website using a Facebook account. Facebook sign-on features may also enable you to create an account more easily by prepopulating Gamers Sans Frontieres’s registration form with the information you provided to the social networking site. Typically, the first time you use Facebook, Facebook will inform you of the information that will be shared with Gamers Sans Frontieres. Gamers Sans Frontieres may use that information for purposes described in this Privacy Policy. To learn more about what information Facebook collects when you use it to sign into the Gamers Sans Frontieres website, please refer to Facebook’s privacy policy.
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Gamers Sans Frontieres uses analytic and reporting technologies to record non-personal information. Gamers Sans Frontieres may also use web beacons and cookies to collect your non-personal information. A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. A web beacon is an often-transparent graphic image, usually no larger than a 1x1 pixel that is placed on a web page or in an e-mail that is used to monitor the behavior of the user visiting the website or receiving the e-mail. Cookies and web beacons used by Gamers Sans Frontieres are not linked to personal information.
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Uses
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Gamers Sans Frontieres primarily uses your personal information for processing, producing, and shipping the products that you order, administering Gamers Sans Frontieres forums, and providing customer service and support. For example, if you submit a design to Gamers Sans Frontieres, Gamers Sans Frontieres may use the information that you provide us to communicate with you and pay you any commissions that you earn. Similarly, if you sign up to receive Gamers Sans Frontieres newsletters, Gamers Sans Frontieres will use the email address you provide to send you the newsletters. Gamers Sans Frontieres does not share your credit card or other account information with unaffiliated third parties unless you authorize us to do so, or if it is necessary to fulfill our responsibilities including, but not limited to, delivering a product or service that you order. Gamers Sans Frontieres may need to share certain personal information with third party vendors for reasons such as manufacturing, printing, or logistics. The personal information is not provided to these vendors for marketing purposes.
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Gamers Sans Frontieres primarily uses your non-personal information to help Gamers Sans Frontieres' team better understand how Gamers Sans Frontieres' visitors use Gamers Sans Frontieres’ services and provide a better experience for our visitors.
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If you require help with Gamers Sans Frontieres services, a Gamers Sans Frontieres employee may ask you to confirm some of your private information, such as your name, delivery address, or other relevant identifying information. Gamers Sans Frontieres will never email you directly and ask for these details unless you have requested help or support.
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Given that the Internet is a global environment, using the Internet to collect and process personal information frequently involves the transmission of data on an international basis. By providing Gamers Sans Frontieres with your personal information, you acknowledge and agree that Gamers Sans Frontieres may store your personal information and transfer it to and from our servers located in the United States and throughout the world.
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Disclosure of Information to Third Parties
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Gamers Sans Frontieres does not share, rent, or trade your personal information with third parties for their marketing purposes.
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Gamers Sans Frontieres will disclose non-personal information, in aggregate form, to potential strategic partners, advertisers, investors, customers, and others. You may not opt-out of the sharing of this information. However, it cannot be easily used to identify you personally.
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Gamers Sans Frontieres reserves the right to disclose information, including personal information, to third party governmental agencies or third parties in order to comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes or governmental requests (such as in order to comply with a subpoena or court order), to protect Gamers Sans Frontieres’s rights, or to prevent, protect against, or investigate illegal activity such as credit fraud. For example, if you submit a design to Gamers Sans Frontieres, Gamers Sans Frontieres may disclose your information to a third party that alleges that you have infringed their intellectual property rights. Similarly, if you allege that an independent designer is infringing upon your intellectual property rights, we may disclose your information to that designer.
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Gamers Sans Frontieres contracts with several partners to help manage, monitor, and optimize Gamers Sans Frontieres’s business. For example, Gamers Sans Frontieres uses a third party to process credit card payments. Gamers Sans Frontieres also subcontracts with several shipping providers. Gamers Sans Frontieres may also subcontract out production, fulfillment, analytics, reporting, and/or other operations. Accordingly, Gamers Sans Frontieres may need to share personal information with these partners so that the partners can provide the services in question. Gamers Sans Frontieres will use commercially reasonable efforts to prevent such partners from disclosing your personal information, except for the purpose of providing the services in question. Gamers Sans Frontieres cannot guarantee that such partners will not disclose your personal information.
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Gamers Sans Frontieres also uses third party vendors to display relevant ads for Gamers Sans Frontieres at locations away from the Gamers Sans Frontieres website on the Internet. These vendors may collect anonymous information about your visits to the Gamers Sans Frontieres website, and your interaction with our products and services. These vendors may also use information about your visits to this and other websites to target advertisements for goods and services. Some of these vendors use cookies and/or web beacons to collect anonymous information and to display ads based on your previous visits to the Gamers Sans Frontieres site. You can opt out of interest-based advertising by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.
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In the event Gamers Sans Frontieres goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition, or sale, your personal information will likely be among the assets transferred to a successor-in-interest. Gamers Sans Frontieres reserves the right to transfer any personal and non-personal information to such successor-in-interest.
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Children's Privacy
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The Gamers Sans Frontieres website is intended for adults. Gamers Sans Frontieres does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. However, if the parent or guardian of a child under 13 believes that the child has provided us with personal information, the parent or guardian of that child should contact us if they want this information deleted from our files so that it is not in retrievable form. If Gamers Sans Frontieres otherwise obtains knowledge that Gamers Sans Frontieres has personally identifiable information about a child under 13 in retrievable form in our files, Gamers Sans Frontieres will delete that information from our existing files so that it is not retrievable.
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Security
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Gamers Sans Frontieres endeavors to protect all personal Information collected through the Gamers Sans Frontieres website in a safe, confidential, and secure manner.
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To this end, Gamers Sans Frontieres uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), an advanced security protocol that protects your credit card information and promotes secure online ordering. SSL Internet connections are encrypted, and may protect credit card ordering information, including your name, address, and credit card number, so it cannot be read in transit.
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Gamers Sans Frontieres also uses secure technology, privacy protection controls, and restrictions on employee access to safeguard your personal information.
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Reviewing and Making Changes to Personal Information
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You can obtain a copy of and request that we correct errors in your personal information by contacting us. For your protection, you will be required to provide proof of your identity to obtain a copy of your personal information. If your personal information changes or if you no longer want to use Gamers Sans Frontieres services, you may correct or update your personal information and/or your account through the account management screen. If you would like to deactivate your account, you can contact us to request deactivation.
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Opting Out of Communications from Gamers Sans Frontieres
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Gamers Sans Frontieres wants to communicate with you via email only if you want to hear from us. When you purchase an item from Gamers Sans Frontieres, Gamers Sans Frontieres may from time to time send you email messages describing new products and offers. If, for any reason, you would no longer like to receive email messages from Gamers Sans Frontieres, you can unsubscribe by clicking the Unsubscribe button at the bottom of one of those emails.
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Your privacy is important to us, and for this reason we will never share or sell your email address with any third parties for direct marketing purposes. Please note, if you decide not to receive marketing emails from Gamers Sans Frontieres, you may still receive “Transactional” email messages regarding your order (i.e. order confirmation, shipping information, customer service notifications, etc.). If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, please contact us at legal@gamersansfrontieres.com
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Waiver of Liability
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Whenever we obtain your personal information, we use commercially reasonable efforts to protect it from unauthorized access or disclosure. Nevertheless, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. Accordingly, Gamers Sans Frontieres assumes no liability for any disclosure of data due to errors in transmission, unauthorized third party access, or other acts of third parties, or acts or omissions beyond our reasonable control.
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10.2
The content that you store, post, or transmit on or through the Gamers Sans Frontieres website, such as forum postings and t-shirt designs, may be accessed by other users, including people that you do not know. We are not responsible for the actions of others. Therefore, you should use care in communicating with other users and only disclose your personal information to other users that you know to be trustworthy. You should not assume that your content will be kept private.
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Cookies Used
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Here is a list of cookies that we use. We’ve listed them here so you that you can choose if you want to opt-out of cookies or not.
_session_id, unique token, sessional, Allows Shopify to store information about your session (referrer, landing page, etc).
_shopify_visit, no data held, Persistent for 30 minutes from the last visit, Used by our website provider’s internal stats tracker to record the number of visits
_shopify_uniq, no data held, expires midnight (relative to the visitor) of the next day, Counts the number of visits to a store by a single customer.
cart, unique token, persistent for 2 weeks, Stores information about the contents of your cart.
_secure_session_id, unique token, sessional
storefront_digest, unique token, indefinite If the shop has a password, this is used to determine if the current visitor has access.-
Conclusion
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If you have any other comments or queries about our privacy policy or the way we collect and use your information please ask.
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