Date Last Modified: March 25, 2024
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we process your personal data when you visit Tips.gg Website (the “Website”) (regardless of where you visit from).
Any information that is collected about visitors of the Website by Tips.gg is referred to as “User Information”.
TIPSGG LIMITED, a company registered at P O Box 95, 2a Lord Street, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM99 1HP is the Controller and responsible for the operation of the Website.
In case of any questions about this Privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please send us a request via email at: [email protected].
The types of User Information we collect:
The particular kinds of information we gather usually depend on how you interact with us. We may collect and process categories of data as follows, however, this list is not exclusive:
Data you give us:
- Personally identifiable information (first and last name, email address, telephone number, date of birth, display name, STEAM friend code) only if you are registering for an account on our Website;
- Username, password, and other details about the User that help us secure our Users.
By providing us with information, the User should understand that despite all efforts, the Company cannot guarantee 100% protection of personal data. Please do not provide personal data to your Profile that you would not want to be publicly available.
Data we collect automatically:
- Information on your visit of the Website, including but not limited to, traffic data, location data, IP address, browser type and version, screen resolution, browser language, time zone, operating system, type of device;
- Demographic information which indicates your age, gender, and country;
- Information from any research or surveys submitted by Website User within surveys (on a voluntary basis only) on various topics, including events and experiences, media consumption preferences, how we can improve our Website etc.;
- Information from the content of messages you submit through any of the fillable forms on the Website, such as feedback you write;
- Information from public postings, which is any information submitted to us to be displayed on the Website, including any communication/material you provide to be posted or consent to be posted to a publicly viewable area of the Website, such as a comment or a review. Please acknowledge and understand that you shall have no expectation of privacy or confidentiality with respect to the content you submit via the Website as a comment or review, whether or not your submission includes personal information;
- Information on users’ preferences (like preferred games, matches, sports teams, tournaments or run pages);
- Transaction data. When making payments through Tips.gg, you need to provide financial information such as your credit card number to our payment service providers. Payments are processed by our payment service providers in accordance with the terms and conditions of our payment service providers. Tips.gg does not collect or store your sensitive financial information, such as your full credit card number. However, Tips.gg may receive credit card-related data and transaction information, including the date, time and amount of the transaction, as well as the type of payment method used.
Tips.gg does not collect and does not process any sensitive personal data (for example, social security numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics, criminal background or any kind of membership).
This Policy only addresses what happens if you visit the Website and this Policy does not apply to information collected by Tips.gg online in the public domain or through any other means or any third-party, including through any application or content that may link to or be accessible from the Website.
We automatically collect some information about how you interact with and navigate Tips.gg, as well as the device and software you use to do so:
- Your use of the Tips.gg (such as timestamps, clicks, scrolling, browsing times, browsing heatmaps, searches, referral/exit pages, cookies on/off, and activity and interactions from our Website through third-party links, including chat logs);
- Your computer or device (such as IP addresses, mobile network information, unique device IDs, processing capabilities, manufacturer and model, language and other regional settings, geographic location, and screen resolution, color depth and similar settings);
- Your connection to the Tips.gg, including details about the network and software you’re using (such as browser type and version, operating system name and version, ISP, internal resolution of browser window, Javascript activation, Java on/off and your preference settings);
- How Tips.gg performs, including problems you may encounter (such as loading errors and response times).
We may use technologies like cookies, scripts, and our own servers to help us collect and store this information, including in log files.
Purpose of data processing:
We process the User Information for the following purposes:
- to provide services to you;
- to research and analyze your use of our Website and its operation;
- to customize the Website and its contents for you;
- to process your payments;
- to verify your identity, including during account verification, as determined by our internal rules;
- to enforce the Terms of Use and to prevent, detect, investigate, and resolve disputes and/or remediate malicious activities, fraud, other cybercrimes, take legally-required actions, or make sure you are a real person and avoid the creation of fake accounts;
- to show and/or send you marketing communications, including information that you signed up to receive (newsletters, feedback, etc.);
- to respond to your inquiries/requests and provide you with customer service and support;
- to comply with our legal obligations;
- for other reasons, to the extent permitted by the law.
Change of purpose:
We will only use User Information for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. Please note that we may process User Information without your consent in the limited number of situations only where this is required or permitted by law.
Third-party links
This Website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share User Information. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you go to third-party websites from our Website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
Retention of User Information
User Information will be deleted:
- once it is no longer needed to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected;
- once you request your Personal data to be deleted, if Tips.gg is not obligated legally to keep such data.
Sharing and Disclosing User Information
Tips.gg may share your User Information with its affiliates who are our business partners and provide certain services through the Website and with third parties located within the European Economic Area if 1) required by law; 2) to allow proper operation of the Website (for the purposes of servicing the Website, including providing customer service and marketing assistance, performing business and sales analysis, supporting the Website’s functionality, surveys and other features offered through the Website); 3) in case there is another legitimate interest.
Although unlikely, in certain instances we may be required to provide User Information in response to a court order or government investigation. We may disclose certain User Information when we believe that such a release is reasonably necessary to enforce or apply our Privacy Policy, to abide by the laws, where applicable, or to protect the interests and/or safety of Tips.gg. We may also share User Information in the event of a merger, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of Tips.gg assets, liquidation or similar proceeding, where applicable.
The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the protection and assertion of our legal rights and proper protection of our business against risks.
In case Tips.gg shares User Information with third parties, such third parties will be bound to use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them and in line with the consent that you have submitted with respect to your User Information and such third parties will be bound by the obligations related to User Information processing of the same level of data protection.
We may also share User Information with any affiliated entity (e.g. parent company or subsidiary).
User Information will be shared with those employees, agents and third-party providers on a need-to-know only basis and subject to non-disclosure undertaking.
We reserve the right, and you hereby expressly authorize us, to share User Information in the cases listed above.
Website Users’ legal rights
Tips.gg wants to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every Website User, consenting to the Terms and Conditions of the Website and this Privacy Policy, is entitled to the following:
- The right to access – You have the right to request Tips.gg for copies of User Information collected by Us. We may charge you a small fee for this service;
- The right to rectification – You have the right to request that Tips.gg corrects/completes any information you believe is inaccurate or incomplete;
- The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Tips.gg erases your User Information, under certain conditions;
- The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Tips.gg restricts the processing of your User Information, under certain conditions;
- The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to Tips.gg processing of your User Information, under certain conditions.
You shall be entitled to other legal rights as may be pertinent to data protection laws in a particular jurisdiction.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact Us at our email: [email protected].
Use of Cookies on the Website
Tips.gg uses Web analytics service to analyze and monitor activity on the Website. The Web analytics utilize cookies, which are files placed on the hard drive of your computer, tracking the way a User navigates the Website.
We set the first-party cookies, which collect information like your language preference and login information and third-party cookies, which are set by Web analytics and exist for marketing and advertising purposes.
Certain User Information is collected through enabling cookies, i.e. browser type, operating system type, network location (domain), IP (Internet Protocol) address and other similar information, as well as referrer data identifying the web pages you visited prior to and after visiting the Website and your movement and activity within the Website, however, no personally identifiable information.
Tips.gg uses Google Analytics with the extension “_anonymizeIp()”. This arranges for IP addresses to be further processed in abridged form. The User may refuse from Google Analytics tracking of User Information by:
- preventing the storage of cookies by setting his browser software accordingly;
- downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en or
- clicking this link to prevent future collection by Google Analytics on Tips.gg website. An opt-out cookie is stored in the User’s browser. However, the User should note that he must activate the opt-out cookie in every browser he uses on all devices and must also reactivate it if necessary once all cookies in a browser have been deleted.
For more information on Google Analytics’ Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, please visit https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/
Tips.gg uses aggregated User Information to analyze and improve the design, use, and content of the Website.
Tips.gg may use other technologies such as Web beacons and flash cookies to track efficiency and effectiveness of our Website.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of the Website if cookies are disabled.
Modifications of Privacy Policy
If we modify this Privacy Policy, we will update the “Date Last Modified” and such changes will be effective upon posting.
Regardless of any changes we make to our Privacy Policy, we will always use your User Information in accordance with the version of the Policy in place at the time you provided your information, unless you give your express consent for us to do otherwise.
You should review this Privacy Policy regularly to ensure that you are aware of any amendments made.
If you do not accept this Privacy Policy, you should cease any use of the Website.