Privacy Policy Privacy This site is owned and operated by Extremegamer.ca. Therefore, we want you to understand the terms and conditions under which you view this website, and under which we collect information about you. This statement will tell you what types of information we gather about you, and how we use it. If you do not wish us to gather any information about you at all, please feel free not to use the site. Information Extremegamer.ca gathers and tracks: 1. Information that you, as users, provide through optional and voluntary submissions. These can be voluntary submissions to receive electronic newsletters, to participate in our message boards or forums, and from participation in polls and surveys. 2. Extremegamer.ca gathers information through aggregated tracking of page usage by tallying page views throughout our site. This information allows us to better tailor our content to readers needs and help our advertisers and sponsors better understand the demographics of our audience. Extremegamer.ca derives its revenue from sponsorships and advertising and this makes providing such demographic information essential to keeping our service free to users. Under no circumstances does Extremegamer.ca divulge any information about an individual user to a third party. Extremegamer.ca gathers information in the following ways: Optional Voluntary Information: We offer the following free services, which require some type of voluntary submission of personal information by users: -Electronic newsletters We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. Extreme Gamer 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. -Message boards/forums Users of the site’s Message Boards and Forums must register separately for these services (both are free of charge) in order to post messages, although they needn't register to visit the site. During registration the user is required to supply a username, password, and email address. -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. Poll responses are tallied and not identifiable to any particular user. Extremegamer.ca may use a system to tag a user after they have voted to enable us to have a fair and impartial poll. This tag information is not used for any other purposes. -Surveys Extremegamer.ca may conduct user surveys at particular times in order to target the needs of our users. We may share this demographic information with our sponsors, advertisers, and partners. We will never share any of this information about specific individuals with any third party. Children and Extremegamer.ca: 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: Extremegamer.ca tracks user traffic patterns throughout our site and any pages under the domain of our site. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. Extremegamer.ca 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). 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. It only enables us to relate your use of this site to information that you have knowingly provided. The only personal information a cookie contains is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Extremegamer.ca uses cookies to track user traffic patterns. 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 may receive a warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site. However, you must have cookies enabled in order to participate in the message boards, forums, polls, or survey's. Your Information: Extremegamer.ca uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users. 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. We only use this information to see how each page performs as compared to the rest of the site. We track search terms entered in Search function as one of many measures of what interests our users. But we do not track which terms a particular user enters. Extremegamer.ca creates aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors, and partners. This allows our advertisers to advertise more effectively. It also allows our users to receive advertisements which may be of interest to them. We don't track the usage patterns of individual users and an advertiser, or sponsor, will never know that a specific user clicked their ad. We will not disclose information regarding any indivudual user except to comply with law, or a valid legal process. Opt-out policy: You can opt-out of sharing this information with us at any time. We can choose not to post on the message boards. You can turn your cookies off so we are unable to track you. And, you can choose not to sign up, or you can opt-out of our newsletter at any time. Consent: By using this site you are consenting to the collection and use of this information by Extremegamer.ca. Should you not want to disclose this information, please do not use the site. We at Extremegamer.ca would love you to enjoy our site, but we in no means want to make you feel uncomfortable. All we can do is assure you that the information you provide will only be used by those entitled and listed above for enhancement purposes, except where we may be abliged by law. Should you have any questions regarding this policy feel free to contact us at info@extremegamer.ca The Security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and modified in order to meet our expanding demands and needs. Should we change this information it will be posted here along with any relevant changes. No one except those parties mentioned above have access to your personal information which you knowingly provide, unless we are legally abliged to under law or valid legal process to divulge it.