By visiting or using any document or resouce contained on this Website - hereafter to be read as "http://www.moddingway.com/" - you agree to be bound by the provisions of these Privacy & User Policies. If at any time you have questions or concerns regarding the information provided by this document, please forward all such discourse to webmaster@moddingway.com where the appropriate administrator will respond to you as quickly as possible. ModdingWay reserves the right to modify, add, or remove portions of these policies at any time; it is therefore in your best interest to review this document periodically. This Privacy Policy should be read in conjunction with the Terms of Use and is integrated into the Terms of Use.

1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect personally identifiable information (“PII”) and non-personally identifiable (“Non-PII”) information from you. Personally identifiable information is information that can be used to identify you personally. Non-personally identifiable information is information that must be combined with other information to identify you personally.

Personally Identifiable Information Collected

You will not be required to provide us any information when you visit our Website. However, in order to fully use our Forums, we may collect PII such as your name, email and website.

Non-Identifying Information

Whenever you use our website, we may collect Non-PII from you, such as your IP address, usage information, location, referring URL, browser, operating system, data usage, data transferred, and Internet service provider ( Google Analytics). We may also collect information messages you send to us or third parties about your activities or postings ( Disqus )

 

2. HOW WE PROTECT DATA WE COLLECT

We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information, username, password and data stored on this website. Data exchange between the site and its users happens over a SSL secured communication channel. We take reasonable steps to secure your personally identifiable information against unauthorized access or disclosure. However, no security or encryption method can be guaranteed to protect information from hackers or human error.

 

3. COOKIES

To enhance your online experience we use "cookies." Cookies are text files we place in your computer's browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, registering at our forums. We use cookies to understand Internet usage and to improve our content, offerings, and advertisements.

Visit our Cookie Policy for more information

 

4. COLLECTION OF INFORMATION BY THIRD PARTIES AND SPONSORS

We allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our web site. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information.

We use Ezoic to provide personalization and analytic services on this website, as such Ezoic’s privacy policy is in effect and can be reviewed here.

 

5. FORUMS

In order to use our forums, a user must first complete the registration form.

GDPR & COPPA compliance: In order to assure compliance with both regulations we do not allow under-16s from signing up. If you are under 16, please do not send any data about yourself to us, including your name and/or email address. No one under the age of 16 may provide any personal data. If we learn that we have collected personal data about a child under age 16, we will delete that data as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any data from or about a child under the age of 16, please contact us.

Data we collect from you when you register to our forum :

• name and/or username
• email address
• password
• consent to share data with us

Why do we collect this data and what we do with it?
We collect that to create accounts and allow you to use our forums or upload mods. We will never release nor share any of your personal details with any third party.

Right to collect or delete data
We retain your data for as long as your forums account is active. If you request, we will provide you a copy of your personal data in an electronic format. You also have the right to correct your data or have your data deleted. In any of these situations contact us. We will respond to all requests within a reasonable timeframe. We may keep data as long as they are required for operation of the site.