Katastrophe Publishing -- Privacy Policy
Individual Information
The only individually-identifiable customer information Katastrophe currently collects are names, submitted content and e-mail addresses, which are volunteered by customers wishing to:
- Participate in the Katastrophe owned public message boards
- Join our mailing lists.
- Submit Reader Reviews for public viewing
- Submit Cheats & Hints for public viewing
- Promotional Contests
Katastrophe will not disclose individual customer information to any third parties without the customer's permission, and maintains its information on a private, secure, internal database. However, any users who wish to participate in the public message boards are required to provide a valid e-mail address as a condition of participation, which will be publicly viewable along with any and all of their postings. A customer may opt out at any time, and have their user ID, e-mail address, and posts removed by e-mailing shroom@psxnation.com with 24 hours notice.
Katastrophe does not collect any individually-identifiable personal profile information from its customers, except when offered in the context of customer support. Katastrophe will only send someone updates by e-mail if they opt to receive them. A customer may opt-out at any time by e-mailing shroom@psxnation.com with 24 hours notice. Katastrophe will only view customer profile information in anonymized, aggregate form for statistical purposes.
COPA
Katastrophe Publishing encourages parents and guardians to spend time online with their children and to participate in the activities offered on our sites. No information should be submitted to or posted at Katastrophe and its network of sites by guests under 13 years of age without the consent of their parents or guardians. This includes submissions of publically viewed content such as message board posts, reader reviews and cheats and hints.
Unless otherwise disclosed during collection, Katastrophe Publishing does not provide any personally identifying information, regardless of its source, to any third party for any purpose whatsoever from our guests under 13 years of age. All registrants receive an e-mail confirming their registration. No information collected from guests under 13 years of age is used for any marketing or promotional purposes whatsoever, either inside or outside Katastrophe Publishing except as explicitly stated during registration for contests or promotions (and in that case, the information collected is used only for the specific contest or promotion).
Although guests under 13 years of age may be allowed to participate in some contests and promotions, if such a guest wins, notification and prizes are sent to the parents or guardians. Publication of contest winners’ names, ages or images for individuals under 13 require parental or guardian consent.
USE OF IP ADDRESSES
An IP address is a number automatically assigned to your computer whenever you’re surfing the Web. Web servers the big computers that serve up Web pages automatically identify your computer by its IP address.
Katastrophe collects IP addresses to facilitate system administration, to report aggregate information to our advertisers, and to audit the use of our site. When guests request pages from Katastrophe Publishing sites, our servers log the guests’ IP addresses. We do not normally link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means that a user’s session will be logged, but the user remains anonymous to us. We can and will use IP addresses to identify a user when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our house rules or terms of service or to protect our service, site, customers or others.
Some services within Katastrophe Publishing, such as certain message boards, may display IP addresses along with the message poster’s name and message. Please review each service before use and only use those that disclose information you are comfortable sharing.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Users should be aware that when you are on Katastrophe Publishing, you could be directed to other sites that are beyond our control. There are links to other sites from Katastrophe Publishing pages that take you outside our service. For example, if you click on a banner advertisement or an Katastrophe Publishing search result, the click takes you off the Katastrophe Publishing site. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data or solicit personal information.
Please keep in mind that whenever you give out personal information online — for example, via message boards or chat — that information can be collected and used by people you don’t know. While Katastrophe Publishing strives to protect its users’ personal information and privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose online, and you do so at your own risk.
Katastrophe Publishing’s policy does not extend to anything that is inherent in the operation of the Internet, and therefore beyond Katastrophe Publishing control, and is not to be applied in any manner contrary to applicable law or governmental regulation.
SECURITY
Katastrophe Publishing uses diligent efforts to protect the security and integrity of the information you provide to us once it is received on our systems. However, when you submit information about yourself to the Katastrophe Publishing Sites over the Internet, the information may travel over many systems that are not under the control of Katastrophe Publishing. We take the protection of user data very seriously and to that end provide extra assurances that your information will not be intercepted. In the case of shopping pages, for example, the credit card information you submit is protected by secure servers.
