Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://indiegamesnow.com.

What This Policy Cover

This “Privacy Policy” describes how Indie Games Now (Indie Games Now and referred to as “we” or “us” or “our”), and our affiliated entities, collect, use, process, and share your personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy also describes your choices regarding any applicable rights of access, deletion, or correction of your personal information. We refer to personally identifiable information as “information” or “personal data” in this Privacy Policy and it means any information that can identify a person.

This Privacy Policy also does not apply to information that is collected by third parties, like third-party websites that we may link to or promote, third-party platforms or content providers, third parties that place advertisements on our Site, ad networks, affiliate marketers or affiliate marketing sites that we may link to, social media platforms or accounts, third-party service providers, widget providers. or other third-party services or applications. This Privacy Policy also does not apply to any information that is not personally identifiable, like aggregated or anonymous information.

Our Site is not directed at children under the age of 13 and we do not knowingly collect information from individuals under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, you may not use the Site or provide your information to us through the Site or otherwise. If a child under the age of 13 has provided us with their information without parental or guardian consent, the parent or guardian may contact us by emailing us at info@indiegamesnow.com. We will remove the information and unsubscribe the child from any applicable services.

If you are a citizen of Switzerland, the United Kingdom, or a country in the European Economic Area, we explain the additional rights that you may have under European privacy laws in the European Privacy Rights section. If you are a resident of California, Nevada, or Virginia we explain additional rights that you may have in the U.S. Data Privacy Rights section.

AGE

This Website does not target people below the age of 16 (sixteen). By visiting this Website. You hereby warrant that you are 16 (sixteen) years of age or older or are visiting the Website under parental supervision.

Personal Data Collected

When you visit our Website, we collect certain information related to your device, such as your IP address, what pages you visit on our Website, whether you were referred to by another website, and at what time you accessed our Website. We will not collect any data without your prior explicit consent.

We do not collect any other type of personal data. If you are accessing our website through a social media account, please refer to the social media provider’s privacy policy for information regarding their data collection.

Legal Disclaimer

Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on any of our sites.

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.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

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.

Log Data

We want to inform you that whenever you visit our Service, we collect information that your browser sends to us that is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.

Links to Other Websites

This site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Website.

Cookies

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.

We use the following type of cookies:

  • Essential cookies: these cookies are essential to the provision of our Website.
  • Social media cookies: These cookies allow you to interact with content on certain social media platforms, such a “liking” our articles. Depending on your social media setting, the social media network will have record of this and may display your name or identifier in relation to this action.
  • Functionality cookies: these cookies help us remember choices you have made while on our website, remember your preferences, and personalize your Website experience.
  • Analytics and performance cookies: these cookies help us collect statistical and analytical usage to help up analyze website usage.
  • Advertising and targeted advertising cookies: these cookies track your browsing habits and location to provide you with advertising in line with your interests. Please see our “advertisers” section below for details.

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.

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. For further information regarding cookies and how to manage them, please see http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to track visitor data which includes general demographic information and time spent on Indie Games Now. The use of this data is restricted to Google’s Privacy Policy and their Google Analytics Terms of Service.

Advertisers

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

Advertisers, as third-party vendors, use cookies to collect usage and demographic data in order to serve ads on our site. For example, Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

We have reviewed all of our advertising partners’ policies to ensure that they comply with all applicable data privacy laws and recommended data security practices.

We use the following advertisers:

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Why We Collect Your Data

We use the information we collect in order to:

  • Administer our Website, including troubleshooting, and statistical or data analysis;
  • To improve our Website and enhancing user experience by ensuring you have access to personalized content in line with your interests;
  • Analyze user use and optimize our services.
  • To ensure that our Website remains secure and is not subject to any hacking or fraud.
  • Share information with our partners to provide targeted advertising and social media features.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

Data Shared with Third Parties

We do not sell or rent your personal data to third parties. However, our partners, including ad partners, may collect data in relation to your Website usage as disclosed herein. All such data will only be collected with your prior explicit consent. Please see our “advertisers” section above for details.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise 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 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.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Notification of Changes

Whenever we change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this Privacy Policy page, and other places we deem appropriate, so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances if any, we disclose it.