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This site is owned and operated by Thrustmaster of Texas,
Inc. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance
to us. At Thrustmaster, we want to make your experience online
satisfying and safe. Because we gather certain types of information
about our users, we feel you should fully understand our policy
and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use
of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information
we gather and how we use it.
Information Thrustmaster Gathers and Tracks
Thrustmaster gathers two types of information about users:
- Information that users provide through optional, voluntary
submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive our electronic
newsletters, to participate in our message boards or forums,
to email a friend, and from participation in polls and surveys:
- Information Thrustmaster gathers through aggregated tracking
information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout
our sites. This information allows us to better tailor our content
to readers' needs and better understand the demographics of our
audience. Under no circumstances does Thrustmaster divulge any
information about an individual user to a third party.
Thrustmaster Gathers User Information In The Following Processes
We offer the following free services, which require some type
of voluntary submission of personal information by users:
Electronic newsletters policy
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. Thrustmaster
gathers the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe.
Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following
the link provided in every newsletter that points users to the
subscription management page. Users can also subscribe to the
newsletters at the time of registration.
Polling
We may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily
share their opinions with other users and see what our audience
thinks about important issues. Opinions or other responses to
polls are aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular
user. Thrustmaster may use a system to "tag" users
after they have voted, so they can vote only once on a particular
question. This tag is not correlated with information about individual
users.
Surveys
Thrustmaster may occasionally conduct user surveys to better
target our content to our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated
demographic information in these surveys with our sponsors, advertisers
and partners. We never share any of this information about specific
individuals with any third party.
Children
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection
Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally
identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without
requesting parental consent.
Usage Tracking
Thrustmaster tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of
our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with
data about individual users. Thrustmaster does break down overall
usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type,
and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string
(information contained in every user's browser). Thrustmaster
sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms that users enter
in our Search function, but this tracking is never associated
with individual users. We use tracking information to determine
which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic
to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but
rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue
to build a better service for you.
Cookies
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the
browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain
Personal Information although it will enable us to relate your
use of this site to information that you have specifically and
knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie
can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't
read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by
other sites. Thrustmaster uses cookies to track user traffic
patterns (as described above). Our advertising system delivers
a one-time cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If
you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies,
you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do
not need to have cookies turned on to use this site.
Use of Information
Thrustmaster uses any information voluntarily given by our
users to enhance their experience, whether to provide interactive
or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future
content based on the interests of our users. As stated above,
we use information that users voluntarily provide in order to
send out electronic newsletters. We send out newsletters to subscribers
on a regular schedule (depending on the newsletter), and occasionally
send out special editions when we think subscribers might be
particularly interested in something we are doing. Thrustmaster
never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties,
including advertisers, sponsors or partners. When we use tracking
information to determine which areas of our sites users like
and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track
what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs
overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for
you. We track search terms entered in Search function as one
of many measures of what interests our users. But we don't track
which terms a particular user enters. We will not disclose any
information about any individual user except to comply with applicable
law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety
of our users or the public.
Sharing of Information
We will not share information about individual users with
any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid
legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users
or the public.
Security
Thrustmaster operates secure data networks protected by industry
standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security
and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as
necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the
information provided by our customers.
Opt-Out Policy
We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such
choices include:
- Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.
- Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which
completely alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable
information from our users
Your Consent
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use
of this information by Thrustmaster. If we decide to change our
privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that
you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use
it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
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