Last updated: March 01, 2023

Introduction

Amerous® Chess Set (“Amerous“, “we“, “us“, or “our“) operates the https://amerouschess.shop website (the “Service“).

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information when you use our Service.

We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

We use your Personal Information for providing and improving the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions.

Information Collection And Use

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to, your name, phone number, postal address, email address (“Personal Information“).

Log Data

We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service (“Log Data“). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.

Cookies

Cookies are files with small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer’s hard drive.

We use “cookies” to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Service Providers

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service, to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services and/or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Information only to perform specific tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use your information for any other purpose.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links To Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13 (“Children“).

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Information from a children under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.

Information We Collect

We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so–for example, to provide our Services, to communicate with you, or to make our Services better.

We collect this information from three sources: if and when you provide information to us, automatically through operating our Services, and from outside sources. Let’s go over what we collect from each source and why.

Information You Provide to Us

It’s probably no surprise that we collect information that you provide to us directly. Here are some examples:

• Basic account information: We ask for basic information from you in order to set up your account. For example, we require individuals who sign up for an account to provide a username and email address–and that’s it. You may provide us with more information–like your name–but we don’t require that information to create a Amerous account.
• Public profile information: If you have an account with us, we collect the information that you provide for your public profile. For example, if you have an Amerous account, your username and any other information you put into your public profile is available to us.
• Customer service inquires: If you correspond with us–by phone, email, online chat session, or otherwise–we collect information in the content and metadata of your correspondence. This helps resolve the issue you’re contacting us about.
• Payments: If you use your debit or credit card to buy something from us–like a premium upgrade–we collect information to complete the payment, like your name, credit or debit card information, expiration date, CVV code, and postal code.
• Sweepstakes or contests: For many sweepstakes and contests we run on our Services, we collect information like your name, age, contact information to determine whether you are eligible to enter and/or notify you if you win. In some instances, we also need this information to comply with applicable laws.
• Surveys: From time-to-time, we collect information through surveys available on our Services or through third parties who help us conduct these surveys. Your participation in surveys is voluntary, so we only collect this information if you choose to participate. Your individual responses to surveys are anonymous.

Information We Collect Automatically

We also collect some information automatically:

• Log information: Like most online service providers, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, including the browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information. We collect log information when you use our Services–for example, when you create or make changes to your account by logging into our Services.
• Usage information: We collect information about your usage of our Services. For example, we collect information about the games you play, the purchases you make, the pages you visit, and the dates and times of your activities. We also collect information about the ads that you view and click on.
• Location information: In some cases we collect general information about your location, like your IP address or zip code. We may also collect precise location data (latitude and longitude) from your device if you enable your mobile device to send that data to us.
• Cookies and similar technologies: We use cookies and similar technologies like pixel tags and web beacons to collect information about your browsing activities. Cookies are small text files that websites send to your computer or other Internet-connected device to uniquely identify your browser or to store information or settings in your browser. Pixel tags and web beacons are tiny graphic images placed on websites or emails that allow us to measure the actions of users. Cookies, pixel tags, and web beacons allow us to collect information like browser type, time spent on the Services, web pages visited, referring websites, and other activities. We may use cookies and similar technologies for purposes such as: remembering your information so you don’t have to re-enter it; delivering, measuring, and improving our ads and Services; gaining insights into the use of our Services; and detecting and preventing fraud.
• Device information: We may collect information about the devices you use to access our Services, such as IP addresses, browser type, language settings, operating system, referral URLs, device identifiers, and mobile network operator. We may associate this device information with your Amerous account.

The information we collect automatically is statistical information and does not include personal information. It helps us to improve our Services and deliver a better and more personalized experience by enabling us to estimate audience size and usage patterns; store information about your preferences; speed up your searches; recognize you when you return to our Services; and provide tailored ads, content, features, and recommendations.

Information We Receive from Third Parties

In some cases, we receive information about you from third parties. Here are some examples:

• Third party services: We work with third party services that provide us information about you, similar to the types of information described above that we collect automatically. This includes information like browser cookie IDs, mobile device IDs, demographic data, cryptographic hash values of email addresses, or other data about you or your devices. These services may provide us information about your use of other websites and online services to help us better understand your online activity.
• Partners: We receive information about you and your activities on and off Amerous from third-party partners, such as businesses we have a relationship with or that provide services to us. For example, if you make a purchase from one of our partners, they may share information about the purchase with us.
• Social media services: If you interact with social media features like the Facebook Like button on our Services, those companies may provide us information like your account ID or profile picture. The data we receive depends on your privacy settings with those social media services.
• Other users: We receive public information other users provide about you, like when they tag you in a photo or video. We also let users share information about their contacts so they can connect with friends on our Services.
• Related companies: We receive information about you from companies owned or operated by Amerous – for example, when you have an account with our payment services provider and use it to make a purchase through Amerous.
• Other sources: We may receive information about you from other sources, such as public databases, joint marketing partners, social media platforms, and from people with whom you interact with on our Services. For example, an advertiser may tell us information about you (like a hashed email address) to help tailor ads on our Services.

We require third parties to have lawful rights to collect, use, and share your information before providing any information to us. We take steps to ensure that others use information about you in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.

How We Use Information

We use information about you as mentioned above and as follows:

• To provide, maintain, improve, and develop relevant features and content for you and to create new features and content based on what we learn from your interactions and the interactions of others with our Services.
• To understand how you access and use our Services, for example by tracking and analyzing your visits to our websites and apps, clicks, streams, impressions, usage, and interactions with content and ads. We use this information to understand overall usage trends and preferences, track compliance with our Terms and policies, monitor suspicious account activity to prevent fraud, fight spam, and troubleshoot issues.
• To customize the content you see when you use our Services. We may show you ads, content, features, promotions, or recommendations that we think may interest you based on your online activity both on and off of Amerous Services.
• For identity and account verification, and to prevent fraud, other unlawful activity, and misuse of our Services. For example by using public or shared data to verify information you provide or to screen for suspicious, fraudulent, invalid, cloned, or already used accounts.
• To communicate with you about offers and promotions offered by Amerous and others we think may interest you, solicit your feedback, or keep you up to date on Amerous and our products. We may communicate with you through various channels, such as email, push notifications, text messaging, in product communications, and across our websites and other Services.
• To understand your viewing, streaming, gaming, reading, listening, browsing and other content consumption preferences, and personalize your experience with Amerous based on your characteristics, interests, and activities both on and off of Amerous Services. We analyze your actions and content choices to predict your interests and preferences, so we can recommend content we think you will enjoy.
• For safety and security. We use information to promote safety and security on and off our Services, such as by investigating suspicious activity or violations of our Terms or policies and to ensure our Services are being used legally.
• To allow you to communicate, collaborate, and share content with users you know through our Services. For example, we may enable you to send gifts or communicate directly with another Amerous user.
• For research and development purposes. We analyze use of our Services to improve our Services and to develop new products and services. For example, we analyze information about how individuals use our Services to understand functionality issues and to monitor and improve the performance and stability of our apps and systems. We also test and analyze certain new features with some users before rolling the feature out to all users.
• To combine the information we collect for any of the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and, for example, to enhance your user profile and better understand your preferences and characteristics. We may aggregate and/or anonymize information collected through the Services so that the information no longer directly identifies you. We may use aggregated and/or anonymized information for any purpose, including for research and marketing purposes. However, we will never sell your personally identifiable information to third parties without your explicit consent.

Sharing Information

We share information we collect as described below and consistent with this Privacy Policy. Remember that regardless of any choices you make regarding your privacy, Amerous may share information if we believe it’s necessary to comply with the law, police investigations, or other legal requirements.

• With co-brands and facilitators. We work with co-branded partners and other companies to provide services on our platform. For example, you can link your Amerous account with third party apps and services. In connection with enabling those services, we share information about you with those parties.
• With service providers. We share information with vendors, service providers, contractors or agents who perform functions on our behalf. This includes services like technical infrastructure, customer support, and processing or fulfilling orders.
• With other users. We share information with people you interact and connect with on Amerous, like sending messages or content to other users.
• With social media services. If you use social media logins like Facebook Login, we share information with those social media services. We also enable you to share information with social media services after you log into them using your Amerous credentials.
• Between Amerous companies and subsidiaries. Amerous shares information internally within the Amerous family of companies. This includes sharing for business purposes, safety and security, and to provide the very best experiences across Amerous products.
• With business partners. We share information we collect with business partners and customers. This allows partners to personalize the services they offer you by better understanding your preferences and acquiring complementary data that may be useful to provide you with better service. We limit the information provided to what is needed for the partner to do its job.
• With advertisers. We share aggregated information and non-identifying information with advertisers to help understand, generally, how individuals interact with Amerous advertisements. We may also share a unique identifier so advertisers know if their ads were shown or clicked on.
• To comply with legal requirements. Amerous will access, use, preserve, transfer and disclose your information as we reasonably determine necessary: (i) to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, governmental request or regulatory requirement; (ii) to respond to claims, law suits, or legal processes; (iii) to protect and defend our rights, interests, and property or that of third parties; (iv) to protect the safety, rights, property or security of the public or any person; or (v) to detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.
• With your consent. We share information about you with your consent or at your direction, such as if you authorize us to share information with another service.
• Aggregated or de-identified information. We may share information that has been aggregated or reasonably de-identified, so it can no longer reasonably identify a specific individual. For instance, we may publish reports that contain aggregated statistics about how people use our services.

Security

We care about the security of your information. While we work hard to protect your personal information, no system is completely secure. We take reasonable physical, technical and administrative measures to protect personal information from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction considering the risks involved in processing and the nature of the personal information. To learn more about security, you can check out our security practices.

Your Rights & Choices

Marketing communications from Amerous. You can opt out of promotional emails by following the unsubscribe instructions in those emails or adjusting your notification settings. You can continue to receive service-related and other non-promotional communications.

Cookies and similar technologies. Most browsers let you remove or reject cookies and similar technologies. To do this, follow the instructions in your browser settings. Many browsers accept cookies by default until you change your settings. Please note that removing or rejecting cookies could affect the availability and functionality of our services.

Promotional communications. You may opt out of receiving promotional communications from us by following the instructions in those communications. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional communications, like service related emails.

Mobile notifications. With your consent, we may send promotional and non-promotional push notifications or alerts to your mobile device. You can deactivate these messages at any time by changing the notification settings on your mobile device.

Children’s Privacy

Our services are not directed to children under 13. If you learn that a child has provided us with personal information without parental consent, you can contact us here. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13, and if we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will take steps to delete such information from our files.

California Resident Rights

If you are a California resident, you have the rights outlined in this section.

Right to Know and Access. You have the right to request that Amerous discloses what personal information we collect, use, disclose and sell about you. You can make this request up to twice in a 12-month period.

Right to Request Deletion. You have the right to request that Amerous and our service providers delete the personal information we have collected about you.

Right to Non-Discrimination. You have the right to not receive discriminatory treatment from Amerous for exercising your rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

Submit Requests. To exercise your rights under the CCPA, you (or your authorized agent) may submit a request by contacting us here. We will verify the requests by matching the information provided by you to the information we have on file about you.

Verification Process. To verify Right to Know, Right to Delete, and Right to Non-Discrimination requests, we will match the identifying information provided by you to the personal information we maintain about you. Depending on the sensitivity of the personal information requested, we may also request additional information from you to verify your identity. The verifiable consumer request must: provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information; describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

Agents. You may designate an authorized agent to make requests on your behalf. To do this, you must provide the authorized agent with power of attorney pursuant to California Probate Code sections 4000 to 4465. If an agent submits a request on your behalf, verification procedures may include: requiring the agent to submit proof they have been authorized by you to act on their behalf; verify the agent’s identity; directly contact you to confirm that you provided the authorized agent permission to submit the request. Direct requests from authorized agents require verification directly with you that they were authorized to make the request.

Disclosures. In the last 12 months, Amerous has disclosed the following categories of personal information for business purposes: identifiers, internet activity information, inferences.

Sales. In the last 12 months, Amerous has not sold personal information.

Changes to this policy

We may amend or update this Privacy Policy. We will provide you notice of amendments to this Privacy Policy, as appropriate, and update the “last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of our services confirms your acceptance of our Privacy Policy, as amended. If you do not agree to our Privacy Policy, as amended, you must stop using our services. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or about how we collect, use, and share your personal information, please contact our Data Protection Officer at [email protected].

We are committed to working with you to obtain a fair resolution of any privacy concern.