Apex Events, LLC. Privacy Policy
Welcome and thank you for visiting the Apex Events website, an interactive online service operated by Apex Events, LLC., (“Apex Events, LLC.” or “Apex”). Apex Events, LLC. has posted this privacy policy in order to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy. This privacy policy applies to all of the websites offered by Apex Events, LLC. (collectively, the “Services”), including apexeventsgg.com. The following discloses Apex Events, LLC.’s online information collection and use practices and the choices you can make about the way we use and share such information.
BY ACCESSING AND USING THE SERVICES, YOU ACCEPT, WITHOUT LIMITATION OR QUALIFICATION, THIS PRIVACY POLICY, SO PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO READ THIS POLICY AND UNDERSTAND HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. PLEASE NOTE THAT OUR ONLINE INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE PRACTICES MAY DIFFER FROM OUR PRACTICES REGARDING INFORMATION OBTAINED OFFLINE. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THIS PRIVACY POLICY IN ITS ENTIRETY, YOU MAY NOT USE THE SERVICES.
This privacy policy may change from time to time. It is important that you check this privacy policy periodically. Each version of this privacy policy will be identified at the bottom of the page by its effective date.
The Personal Information We Collect. When
using our Services or registering for the Website, you may be asked to provide,
or you may choose to upload, certain personally identifiable information about
yourself (i.e. information that can directly identify you or
indicate where you might be contacted) (hereinafter referred to as
"Personal Information").
For example, you can order products, enter competitions,
participate in surveys, vote in polls, subscribe to a services
or participate in a chat room, message board or forum. The types of Personal
Information that may be collected through your participation in the Services
may include: name, address, age, date of birth, gender, e-mail address,
telephone number, fax number, credit card information, Xbox LIVE account
information, PlayStation Network account information and information about your
interests in and use of various products, programs and services. Sometimes you
can submit Personal Information about other people. For example, you might
submit a person's name and e-mail address to send an electronic greeting card
and, if you order a gift online and want it sent directly to a friend, you
might submit the friend's name and address. The types of personally
identifiable information that may be collected about other people at these
pages may include: recipient's name, address, age, date of birth, e-mail
address, gender and telephone number.
In addition, you may choose to include Personal Information
in your Apex public profile. For example, you may include information such
as your name, address, age, date of birth, gender, contact information, what
video games you play, your Xbox LIVE and/or PlayStation Network account name
and what video game consoles you own. By sharing such information on your
Apex public profile, you acknowledge that others may view and access such
information from your public profile.
We collect this Personal Information
so we can better understand your interests and tailor the Services to suit you
better. In any event, you may always decline to submit Personal
Information to any of our Services, in which case we may not be able to provide
those Services to you.
How We Use Your Personal Information.
We will use the Personal Information you provide online for the purpose(s) you
have submitted. Examples of us using your Personal Information for the
purpose(s) submitted include if you buy a game, sending to you the game in the
mail or, if you have won a contest, sending to you an e-mail notification that
you have won. In addition, we may send to you an e-mail offering products or
services which we think may interest you, or asking
you to participate in a survey. For example, we may send to you an e-mail
regarding special merchandise offers and announcements about products or
services offered by Apex Events, LLC.. We may also
contact you offline. For example, when you provide your mailing address, Apex
Events, LLC. may send to you in the mail special offers, promotions and
catalogs, which we think may be of interest to you. If you want us to stop
using the Personal Information you provided in these ways, please send an
e-mail to support@apexevents.com
How We Share Your Personal Information.
Unless disclosed at time of collection, we will not share the Personal
Information you provide with anyone not affiliated with Apex Events, LLC.
except (a) if it is for the purpose(s) you provided the information; (b) with
your opt-in or opt-out consent; (c) with other persons or companies with whom
we contract with to carry out or fulfill internal Services operations (for
example, hosting part of the Website) or our business activities (for example,
sending out a product or a promotional item that you have requested on the
Website); and/or (d) if required by courts, government authorities and other
regulatory agencies, and to the extent required to permit us to investigate any
potential violations of any law, rule, regulation, Apex rules or policies,
rights of third parties, or to investigate any other potentially improper
conduct.
One example of where we may share your Personal Information
for the purpose submitted is if you enter a contest, sweepstakes or promotion
sponsored by or co-sponsored by a non-affiliated third party. Based on
our agreement with them, these third parties may obtain Personal Information
that you voluntarily submit to participate in the contest, sweepstakes, or
promotion. We have no control over the use of this information by these
companies.
When your consent is required for use of Personal
Information that is not otherwise authorized by this privacy policy, we will
seek to obtain your consent at the place where the information is collected
either by an “opt-in” or “opt-out” method, or by other means (such as sending
to you an e-mail). We may share Personal Information with our affiliated companies,
including companies owned directly or indirectly by Apex Events, LLC., or under
common ownership. Any of these companies may use and further share this
information in the same ways we do.
As noted above, with your opt-in or opt-out consent, we may
share the Personal Information you provide online with companies not affiliated
with us (i.e. third party companies) who
want to market products or services to you or to ask you questions, both online
and offline. If you want us to stop sharing your Personal Information with
these companies, contact us at support@apexeventsgg.com. If you
consent to receiving communications from non-affiliated companies, you may need
to communicate with them directly if you later decide that you no longer wish
to receive their communications or if you wish to change any data you provided
online. In this instance, any changes or amendments to your Personal
Information must be given directly to each company who communicates with you as
these changes, amendments and/or deletions will not be exchanged between us and
non-affiliated companies. We cannot guarantee how these non-affiliated
companies will use your Personal Information.
Please note that we reserve the right to access or disclose
your Personal Information and other information we gather as required by
courts, government authorities or other regulatory agencies and to the extent
required to permit us to investigate suspected fraud, harassment or other
violations of any law, rule or regulation, Apex rules or policies, or rights of
third parties or to investigate any suspected conduct which we deem
improper.
Use and Disclosure of Non-Personally Identifiable Information.
We also may collect certain non-personally identifiable
information, such as pages viewed, advertisements clicked, browser type (e.g.,
Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome), operating system (e.g., Windows or
Mac OS) and other data.
We sometimes use the non-personally identifiable
information that we collect to improve the design and content of our Services
and to enable us to personalize your Internet experience. We may
aggregate such information collected in a manner that does not identify any
individual (“Aggregate Information”) to improve and enhance your experience
with the Services and for our market research and advertising activities.
For example, we may share Aggregate Information with affiliated and
unaffiliated third parties, such as business partners, advertisers, ad
networks, manufacturers, distributors and retailers, in an aggregate, anonymous
form, which means that the shared information will not contain nor be linked to
any Personal Information.
Other Web Sites. Our Services may contain links to other web sites
whose information and privacy practices may be different than ours. We encourage
you to be aware that when you leave our Websites, or surf the Internet, that
you read the privacy statement of each and every web
site you visit because we have no control over information that is submitted or
collected by other sites. We do not endorse, screen, or approve, and are
not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other web
sites.
Cookies.
“Cookies” are pieces of information that may be placed on your computer by a
web site for purposes of facilitating and enhancing your communication and
interaction with the web site. Many web sites use cookies for these
purposes. When you use our Services, we may send one or more cookies to
your computer or other device that uniquely identifies your browser. We
use such cookies to improve the quality of our service, including for storing
user preferences, improving ad selection, measuring aggregate, anonymous data
for usage and traffic of our Services, and tracking the frequency and placement
of advertisements.
You may stop or restrict the placement of cookies on your
computer or flush them from your browser by adjusting your web browser
preferences, in which case you may still use our Services, but certain Apex
features and services may not function properly. For example, you may
need to re-register with us every time you visit our Website in
order to participate in certain promotions and other offers.
Clickstream Data.
As you use the Internet, a trail of electronic information is left at each web
site you visit. This information, which is sometimes referred to as
“clickstream data,” can be collected and stored by a web site’s server.
Clickstream data can reveal the type of computer and browser you use and the
address of the web site from which you linked to our Services. We may use clickstream
data as a form of non-personally identifiable information to anonymously
determine how much time visitors spend on each page of our Website, how
visitors navigate throughout the Website and how we may tailor our web pages to
better meet the needs of visitors.
Web Beacons.
Our Services may also use web beacon technology to help
track usage. Web beacons (also called single pixel gifs or action tags) allow Apex
Events, LLC. to track page viewing counts and patterns, which we use to focus
and tailor future content development and otherwise measure and improve the
performance of the Services.
At times, some of the advertisers on our Services and their
ad service providers set cookies and web beacons when you click their
advertisements. While we use cookies and web beacons in other parts of the
Services (as discussed above), cookies and web beacons received with banner ads
are collected by those advertisers and their ad service providers. The
advertiser’s privacy policy and/or that of its service provider governs the use
of this information and Apex Events, LLC. is not responsible for the privacy
practices of such other companies.
Supplementing Information.
From time to time we may supplement information you give us
with information from other sources, such as information validating your
address. Thus, information we obtain through the Services may be intermingled
with and used in conjunction with information obtained through sources other
than the Services, including both offline and online sources.
Discussions and Community Tools.
We may, from time to time, make chat rooms, message boards,
forums, blogs, news groups and other publicly accessible forums and community
tools available to you. You should be aware that Personal Information you post
to chat rooms, message boards, forums, blogs, news groups or other publicly
accessible forums and community tools may be viewed and used by anyone with
access to such forums. We are unable to control such uses of your
Personal Information, and by using the Services you assume the risk that the
Personal Information provided by you may be viewed and used by third parties.
From time to time, we may use the content you write (including your name or
screen name if you post it) for promotional purposes, in e-mail newsletters or
elsewhere, and by using the Services, including without limitation these chat
rooms, forums, message boards, news groups, and other community tools, and you
agree that we may do so. Accordingly, you should exercise caution when deciding
to disclose your Personal Information in these areas, since anyone - not just
us - may use publicly posted information.
Our Commitment to Security.
The security of your Personal Information is very important to us, and we have
put in place reasonable physical, electronic, and administrative procedures to
safeguard and help protect your Personal Information.
However, because no computer system or information can ever
be fully protected against every possible hazard, and thus, we cannot guarantee
that communications between you and us or information stored on our Services or
our servers will be completely free from unauthorized access, destruction,
misuse, modification and improper disclosure by third parties such as hackers.
Your use of the Services demonstrates your assumption of these risks.
International Users.
If you are accessing our Services from a location outside of the United States,
your connection will be through and to servers located in the United States: 1)
your orders placed through our Services will be fully processed in and shipped
from the United States; and 2) all information you provide will be processed
and maintained in our web servers and internal systems located within the
United States. By using the Services, you authorize the export of Personal
Information to the United States and its storage and use, as specified above,
when you provide such information to us. This privacy policy and our legal
obligations are subject to the laws of the State of New York and the United
States, regardless of the location of any user of the Services. Any claims or
complaints must be filed in the State of New York in the United States.
Policies for Children Under the Age of 13.
The Services are not directed to children under the age of
13. To register for a user account for the Services, you must be 13 years
of age or older. You may not register for a user account for the Services
if you are under 13 years of age.
Note to Parents: Apex does not knowingly collect personally
identifiable information from children under the age of 13, and please instruct
your children to never provide personal information on this Website or any
other web site without your permission. The Children’s Online Privacy
Protection Act of 1998 (“COPPA”) requires web sites that know that visitors to
their site may be under the age of 13 to follow specific Federal Trade
Commission rules. In our attempt to fully comply with these rules, we
would like you to know that, Apex will not knowingly collect or solicit any
personally identifiable offline contact information or personal online contact
information from children under the age of 13. No information should be
submitted to the Services by children under 13 years of age.
If you have concerns about the Services, wish to find out
if your child is a member or has registered for one our Services, or wish to
cancel your child's membership, please contact us at support@apexeventsgg.com.
If you believe that your child under 13 has gained access to our Services,
please contact us at support@apexeventsgg.com.
Transfer of Business Assets.
The Personal Information you provide is considered a company asset and may be
included among transferred assets if Apex Events, LLC., any or all of its subsidiaries or affiliates or any of their assets
is ever acquired by or merged with those of a third party.
Changes to this Policy.
Because our business needs may change over time, we reserve the right, at our
discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions from this privacy policy
at any time. Such changes, modifications, additions or deletions will be
effective immediately upon notice thereof, which may be given by means
including, but not limited to, posting on the Website, or by electronic or
conventional mail, or by any other means by which you obtain notice thereof.
Any use of the Services by you after such notice will be deemed to constitute
your acceptance of such changes, modifications, additions or deletions.
If any modification, change, addition or change to these terms and conditions
are not acceptable to you, your only recourse is to refrain from using and
accessing the Services.
Services Terms of Use.
Use of the Services, including this Website, is governed by
and subject to the Apex Events, LLC Terms of Use Your use, or access of the
Services, constitutes your agreement to be bound by this privacy policy and the
Apex Events, LLC. Terms of Use.
How to Contact Us.
If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy you may
contact through the Website or email support@apexeventsgg.com
United States of America:
Our Services are maintained in the United States of America. By using the
Services, you authorize the export of Personal Information to the USA and its
storage and use as specified in this policy.
Users located in the European Union:
You now have certain legal rights pertaining to your
personal data that we collect. You can now request
the information that we collect pertaining to you, this can
be used for correction, updating, amending, or deletion under appropriate
circumstances. Most information can and should be corrected or amended in your
user profile section. If a request to have your data erased is needed:
Please send us an email at support@apexeventsgg.com
Any data request need
to have the following subject: "Data request for, “Your Username”
Please note we will verify the information and your identity before replying to any emails. Please note we will deny any requests from an email that is not attached to the Apex Username in question. If a data erasure is requested, we retain the right to withhold your request until we have verified all of your information and ensured that no fraudulent activity has occurred (as interpreted by Apex Administrative Staff). Once your request is completed you will be notified through support@apexeventsgg.com
