Fliplife

Fliplife GmbH (hereafter "Fliplife"), operator of the website "fliplife.com" and the online game "Fliplife" accessible via the site (hereafter referred to together as "FLIPLIFE"), located at Schanzenstraße 6-20, D-51063 Köln (Cologne, Germany), and entered in the Commercial Register of Köln (Cologne) under Number HRB 68097, takes the privacy of personal information seriously. The following policy should help you understand what personal information Fliplife collects and how Fliplife processes this information. We recommend visiting our website regularly to check for changes to the Fliplife Privacy Policy.

1. Purpose

This Privacy Policy applies to all services offered via FLIPLIFE. Unless otherwise stated, this Privacy Policy applies only to the manner in which Fliplife handles personal information. If you obtain services from third parties, only the privacy policies of those third parties shall apply. Fliplife does not review the privacy policies of third parties.

2. Responsible party

The responsible party within the meaning of the Federal Information Protection Act (German: Bundesdatenschutzgesetz) is Fliplife GmbH, Schanzenstraße 6-20, D-51063 Köln (Cologne, Germany). For questions regarding information privacy, contact us at privacy@fliplife.com. You may send questions to this address regarding information privacy, or ask to see, change or delete the information about you stored by Fliplife at any time. Alternatively, you may write to us at the above address by regular mail or by fax at +49 (221) 788 06 18. You may also withdraw your consent to the future use of your information at any time by contacting us at the above addresses. If possible, please include your player name and email address in your message or letter. Because emails and instant messages should not be considered secure forms of communication, please do not send personal information to us via email or instant messaging services.

3. Collection of information

You may generally access our website without giving us your personal information. You are free to decide at any time whether you'd like to give us your information. We collect your information in order to fulfill the terms of the user agreement between you and Fliplife. This includes monitoring compliance with the terms and conditions of use and rules of the game, including the proper processing of payments initiated by you. If you wish to register on our website or subscribe to our newsletter, you must provide personal information. This information includes, for example, your name, your mailing address, your email address and other personal information. Fliplife may access this information for specific purposes. Individual information such as date, time of access, browser type/version, operating system, URL of the last visited website, quantity of information sent, IP address and access times may be automatically transmitted to us by your computer and stored on our server. Other than for the purpose of tracking unauthorized use of our website, we analyze this information only for statistical purposes and for providing services. The information is kept anonymous whenever possible.

In order to make visiting our website as enjoyable as possible, we, like many other companies, use cookies. Cookies are small files stored on your computer via your internet browser. These cookies are normally automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of your visit to our website. Your internet browser can be set up to generally reject cookies. However, doing so may prevent you from using some or all of our website for technical reasons. We may also obtain information from social networks where you play FLIPLIFE or through which you log in to play (such as Facebook). We collect, process and use personal information and information provided to us by you only with your consent, unless we already have legal permission to do so. If consent is provided electronically via our website, we will notify you as required by law.

4. Use of your information

We will use your personal information to develop and continuously improve our services in order to meet the needs of our customers. Fliplife uses your personal information for justifying, executing and processing your user relationship with Fliplife, as well as to process payments. We also use your information to communicate with you. This includes notifying you about new services by email with your prior express consent. We use your information in these cases to notify you about products, services and specific events related to our services that may be of interest to you. You also have the option of receiving emails from us as part of customer surveys. You may receive emails from us from the @fliplife.com and @unitedprototype.com domains. We will include information on how to unsubscribe in each email. Finally, we use your information to prevent the improper use of our websites or to track unauthorized access.

5. Distribution of information

Your personal information will not be sold to third parties. Fliplife will provide personal information received from you to third parties only in the following situations: We work with payment providers (such as credit card companies, banks, PayPal, cellular phone service providers, collection agencies, etc.), companies that create and compile statistics, and IT providers (such as data centers, hosting services, backup services, database services). These service providers only have access to your personal information to the extent necessary for performing their tasks. These providers have agreed to handle your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy as well as applicable data protection laws. In the event that Fliplife, companies controlled by Fliplife, individual subsidiaries or corporate divisions are sold, your customer information will typically be transferred along with the transferred portion of the company. In this case, your information will still be protected by this Privacy Policy and applicable data protection laws.

6. Deletion of information

If your information is no longer needed for the above purposes, including billing, it will be deleted. If information must be stored for tax or legal reasons, the information will be securely stored and deleted upon expiration of the required tax or legal storage period. The securely stored information will then no longer be available for further use.

7. Right to request and correct information

You have the right to request access to the information about you stored by Fliplife. You also have the right to correct inaccurate information as well as to block or delete information. To submit a request, contact us at privacy@fliplife.com or by regular mail at the above address.

8. Data security

We process the information collected from you in accordance with German data protection laws. All employees are bound by data secrecy and data protection requirements and are trained in this subject. During payment processes, your data will be encrypted for transmission via an SSL protocol.

9. Notes regarding the use of Social Plugins

Our website uses social plugins (“plugins”) provided by the social network facebook.com, operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The plugins are identifiable by a Facebook logo (white letter f on blue background or a thumb up icon) or the notice “Facebook Social Plugin”. For a full list of all social Plugins please see http://developers.facebook.com/plugins.

When you visit a page of our website that contains a social plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to Facebook servers. Facebook directly transfers the plugin content to your browser which embeds the latter into the website, enabling Facebook to receive information about your having accessed the respective page of our website. Thus we have no influence on the data gathered by the plugin and inform you according to our state of knowledge:

The embedded plugins provide Facebook with the information that you have accessed the corresponding page of our website. If you are logged into Facebook, your visit can be assigned to your Facebook account. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking “Like”, or entering a comment, the corresponding information is transmitted from your browser directly to Facebook and stored by it. Even if you are not logged into Facebook, there is possibility that the plugins transmits your IP-address to Facebook.

For the information on the purpose and scope of data collection and procession by Facebook, as well as your rights in this respect and settings options for protecting your privacy please visit Facebook's privacy policy: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php.

If you are a Facebook member and do not want Facebook to connect the data concerning your visit to our website with your member data already stored by Facebook, please log off Facebook before entering our website.

Further you can block Facebook social Plugins by using add-ons for your browser, like the "Facebook Blocker".

10. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to adjust this Privacy Policy in accordance with future changes in the use of your personal information.

Valid as of: September 30, 2010