At GameFan, protecting your privacy is very important to us. The information we collected about you is used to provide a more personalized experience during your visit. Below are more details about our privacy policy.

If you are under 13 years old, you need to ask a parent or guardian for permission to join GameFan or to send us any of your personal information like your name or address. [Note to parents: GameFan wants to help parents protect the privacy of their children, especially those under the age of 13. We are currently looking into the best way to get parents involved with our site to work together to make certain their children are protected. If you have any concerns about the GameFan site or its related services, wish to find out if your child is a member of the Service, or wish to cancel your child’s membership, please contact us at feedback@gamefan.com.]

At several points on our site, we may offer email newsletters. To sign up to receive one of our newsletters, we will only ask for your email address. We will use your email address only to send you the newsletter for which you signed up. We do not give out our newsletter subscriber lists to others. However, our newsletters may contain advertisements from other businesses. If you want to update your email address or stop receiving our newsletter, just contact us at feedback@gamefan.com or follow the procedures at the bottom of each email we send you.

If you enter a contest or access another promotional feature, we may also ask for your name, address, age, and e-mail address so we can administer the contest and notify winners.

Occasionally, the information we collect is used to notify you about function changes on the Web site, new GameFan services, and special offers that we think might interest you. If you choose not receive this kind of information, visit your GameFan User Profile page and change your preferences. Make sure you do that for each account or e-mail address we have for you.

"Cookies" are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. GameFan’s cookies do not contain any personally identifying information, but they do enable us to provide features such as allowing you to store your preferences between visits. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change the preferences for your browser to prevent that. Even without using a cookie, you can still use most of the features on our site.

GameFan may ask you for personal information at other times, including, but not limited to, when you enter sweepstakes, contests or promotions sponsored by GameFan; when you submit a review of a product or web site; and/or when you report a problem with any of our Services.

GameFan may conduct email and Web-delivered surveys from time to time, as well as instant polls, to gather information about our audience. These surveys and polls are always optional. You are under no obligation to respond to them. The aggregate results of these surveys - not individual data may be shared with our advertisers to help them better understand our services and monitor the reach of their advertising on our Service. We also store some of the information that you provide to help us understand your interests and to make the site more useful for you.

We, at GameFan, are committed to protecting your privacy. GameFan does not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others, however, we may decide to do so in the future with third parties we feel are trustworthy. GameFan may let selected third parties use e-mail addresses from users who specifically and actively consent to this use. GameFan does not give these third parties access to this information but generally will make such mailings on behalf of such third parties to insure that the information is not mis-used. You always have the choice to not have your information shared or to receive these third party e-mails either by changing your preferences on the GameFan User Profile page or by simply sending an e-mail message with the words "Opt out" in the subject line to feedback@gamefan.com. (If you have registered more than one e-mail address with us, send this message from each e-mail account that you use.) Also, GameFan may provide aggregate statistics or other demographic information about our customers, sales, traffic patterns, and related site information to its affiliates, service providers or other third-parties it feels are trustworthy, but these statistics will not include personally identifying information. We take care to require that our service providers only use this data as necessary to provide the particular Service and have no rights to use this personal information for any other purpose. In addition, we will disclose personal information to government authorities if required.

Your use of our Web site constitutes your consent to the collection and use of this information by GameFan. 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.

GameFan welcomes your questions and comments about our privacy policy and the subject of privacy in general. Please send e-mail to feedback@gamefan.com.