HyTek Gamer (abbreviated HyTek Gamer [HTG]) operates hytekgamer.com. This Privacy Policy describes HyTek Gamer’s use and sharing of Personally Identifiable Information (“PII” or "Registration PII” – your full name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, or credit card number) that Members voluntarily provide to HTG when they register. The term “User” refers to a Visitor or a Member. This Privacy Policy applies to the services offered by HTG, including any HTG named URL (the hytekgamer.com website”, herein “Website”), the hytekgamer.com instant messaging service, the hytekgamer.com application developer service and music, video embedded players, hytekgamer.com mobile services, and any other features, content, or applications offered from time to time by hytekgamer.com in connection with the Website (collectively, the “Website Services”). The Website Services are hosted in the United States.

The Website is a general audience site and does not knowingly collect PII for children under 13 years of age. Anyone using or accessing the Website must be 13 years of age or older.

From time to time hytekgamer.com may modify this Privacy Policy to reflect industry initiatives or changes in the law, hytekgamer.com’s PII collection and use practices, the features of hytekgamer.com’s Services or technology, and such modifications shall be effective upon posting by hytekgamer.com on the Website. Your continued use of hytekgamer.com’s Services after hytekgamer.com posts a new or revised Privacy Policy signifies your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy. It is therefore important that you review this Privacy Policy regularly to ensure you are updated as to any changes. If hytekgamer.com materially changes its practices regarding collection or use of your PII, your PII will continue to be governed by the Policy under which it was collected unless you have been provided notice of, and have not objected to, the change.

COLLECTION AND SUBMISSION OF PII AND NON-PII ON HYTEKGAMER.COM
General. When hytekgamer.com collects PII from you it is because you are voluntarily submitting PII to us in order to register as a Member of hytekgamer.com. hytekgamer.com may also collect PII from you if you choose to participate in hytekgamer.com Services activities like sweepstakes, contests, and surveys, because you want us to furnish you with products, services, newsletters, or information, or in connection with content or suggestions you submit to hytekgamer.com for use or review.

In addition, hytekgamer.com collects other non-PII including IP address, aggregate user data, and browser type. This data is used to manage and improve hytekgamer.com’s Services, track usage and for security purposes.

hytekgamer.com’s Members may also choose to provide or store non PII information in their profiles, including but not limited to date of birth, interests, hobbies, lifestyles choices, groups with whom they are affiliated (schools, companies) , videos and/or pictures, private messages, bulletins or personal statements (collectively “Profile Information”). The Profile Information in a Member’s profile is provided at their sole discretion. Members cannot provide to others or post PII on the Website.

hytekgamer.com Members can changes their Registration PII and Profile Information at any time and can control how Visitors, other Members and hytekgamer.com communicate with them by controlling their account settings, available within the "Settings” portion of their hytekgamer.com profile.

Cookies. Cookies are small bits of information that hytekgamer.com places on any computer you use to access the Website. hytekgamer.com uses cookies to identify your Internet browser, store Users’ preferences, and determine whether you have installed the enabling software needed to access certain material on hytekgamer.com’s Services. Data in cookies may be read to authenticate user sessions or provide services.

Third party advertisements displayed on hytekgamer.com’s Services may also contain cookies sent by Internet advertising companies or advertisers (known as “Third Party Cookies”). hytekgamer.com does not control these third party cookies and Users of hytekgamer.com’s Services should check the privacy policy of the Internet advertising company or advertiser to see whether and how it uses cookies. The “Notice” section below provides for more information on customized advertising on hytekgamer.com. A pixel tag is a tiny image inserted in a webpage and used to record the number and types of views for that page. hytekgamer.com may allow third party pixel tags to be present on hytekgamer.com’s Services for purposes of advertising, providing services or data and statistics collection.

You can program your computer to warn you each time a cookie is being sent, block third party cookies or block all cookies. However, by blocking all cookies you may not have access to certain features of hytekgamer.com’s Services.

NOTICE: HYTEKGAMER.COM WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH NOTICE ABOUT ITS PII COLLECTION PRACTICES
When you voluntarily provide PII to hytekgamer.com, hytekgamer.com will make sure you are informed about who is collecting the information, how and why the information is being collected and the types of uses hytekgamer.com will make of the information to the extent it is being used in a manner that differs from what is allowed pursuant to this Privacy Policy. Permission to so use the PII may be provided by failure to reply to an opt-out agreement.

At the time you provide your PII, hytekgamer.com will notify you of your options regarding our use of your PII (See “Choice” below). Except as described in this Privacy Policy, hytekgamer.com will not share your PII with third parties unless you have given hytekgamer.com permission to do so (See “Use” below).

hytekgamer.com Services may be linked to Internet sites operated by other companies. hytekgamer.com Services may also carry advertisements from other companies. hytekgamer.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of websites or other services operated by third parties that are linked to or integrated with the hytekgamer.com Services or for privacy practices of third party Internet advertising companies. Once you leave hytekgamer.com Services via such a link, access a third party application or click on an advertisement, you must check the applicable privacy policy of the third party or advertiser site to determine, among other things, how they handle any PII they collect from you.

hytekgamer.com may use your Profile Information, cookies and similar tools to customize the content and advertising you receive. Profile Information you provide in structured profile fields or questions and other non PII about you may also be used to customize the online ads you encounter to those we believe are aligned with your interests. The information used for this feature does not provide your PII or identify you as an individual to third parties.

Some of the advertisements that appear on hytekgamer.com Services may also be delivered to you by third party advertising companies. These companies utilize certain technologies to deliver advertisements and marketing messages and to collect non PII about your visit to or use of hytekgamer.com Services, including information about the ads they display, via a cookie placed on your computer that reads your IP address.

Third party applications created by third party developers may also be available on the hytekgamer.com Services. Third party applications are small bits of software, often with interactivity, that can be installed into Members’ profiles or shared with other Users. hytekgamer.com does not control the third party developers, and cannot dictate their actions. When a Member or Visitor engages with a third party application, that Member or Visitor is interacting with the third party developer, not with hytekgamer.com. hytekgamer.com strongly discourages Members from providing PII to the third party’s application.

CHOICE: HYTEKGAMER.COM WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH CHOICES ABOUT THE USE OF YOUR PII
Except as described in this Privacy Policy, hytekgamer.com will obtain your permission before we use the PII you provide to us in a way that is inconsistent with the purpose for which it was submitted or intentionally share your PII with third parties that are not affiliated with hytekgamer.com.

USE: HYTEKGAMER.COM’S USE OF PII
hytekgamer.com will only use the PII you provide under this Privacy Policy in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy. If hytekgamer.com obtains PII from a third party, such as a business partner, our use of that information is also governed by this Privacy Policy. Unintentional, accidental or unauthorized use of PII is exempted from this agreement.

In order to locate other hytekgamer.com Members who you may already know, hytekgamer.com allows Visitors and Members to search for Members using Registration PII (i.e., full name or email address). hytekgamer.com may also enable Members to publicly display some Registration PII as an element of their Profile Information if they choose to do so via a profile setting under “Settings”. Search engines may index the portion of a Member’s profile (including the Profile Information it contains) that is publicly displayed. Do not provide any information you do not want known to others.

If you have consented to receive promotional materials (e.g., newsletters) or notifications from hytekgamer.com, hytekgamer.com may use your email address to send you such materials related to hytekgamer.com Services. If you want to stop receiving such materials from hytekgamer.com, you can change your profile settings under “Settings” or follow the unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.

HyTek Gamer and hytekgamer.com employees, agents and contractors must have a business reason to obtain access to your PII. hytekgamer.com may share your PII with those who help us manage or provide hytekgamer.com Services’ information activities (for example, message board administration, order fulfillment, statistical analyses, data processing), or with outside contractors, agents or sponsors who help us with the administration, judging and prize fulfillment aspects of contests, promotions and sweepstakes.

These outside contractors, agents or sponsors may temporarily store some information on their servers, but they may only use your PII to provide hytekgamer.com with a specific service and not for any other purpose. hytekgamer.com may also provide your PII to a third party in those instances where you have chosen to receive certain information and have been notified that the fulfillment of such a request requires the share of your PII. hytekgamer.com may also share your PII with Affiliated Companies if it has a business reason to do so. hytekgamer.com may provide your PII under court order or upon proper demand by a government agency.

hytekgamer.com may customize the advertising and marketing messages you receive on the hytekgamer.com Website, or may work with outside companies to do so. Your non PII and/or Profile Information may be shared with these companies so this customization can be accomplished. hytekgamer.com prohibits these companies from sharing your non PII and/or Profile Information with any third party or from using it for any other purpose. Anonymous click stream, number of page views calculated by pixel tags, and aggregated demographic information may also be shared with hytekgamer.com’s advertisers and business partners.

hytekgamer.com may access or disclose PII, Profile Information or non-PII without providing you a choice in order to: (i) protect or defend the legal rights or property of hytekgamer.com, our Affiliated Companies or their employees, agents and contractors (including enforcement of our agreements); (ii) protect the safety and security of Users of the hytekgamer.com Services or members of the public including acting in urgent circumstances; (iii) protect against fraud or for risk management purposes; or (iv) comply with the law or legal process. In addition, if hytekgamer.com sells all or part of its business or makes a sale or transfer of all or a material part of its business, hytekgamer.com may transfer your PII to the party or parties involved in the transaction as part of that transaction.

When a Member who is located in the European Union chooses to post Profile Information that will be publicly disclosed, that Member is responsible for ensuring that such information conforms to all local data protection laws. hytekgamer.com is not responsible under the EU local data protection laws for Member posted information.

SECURITY: HYTEKGAMER.COM PROTECTS THE SECURITY OF PII
hytekgamer.com uses commercially reasonable administrative, technical, personnel and physical measures to safeguard PII and credit card information in its possession against loss, theft and unauthorized use, disclosure or modification. In addition, hytekgamer.com uses reasonable methods to make sure that PII is accurate, up-to-date and appropriately complete.

ACCESS, REMEDIES AND COMPLIANCE: HOW TO ACCESS, CORRECT OR CHANGE YOUR PREFERENCES REGARDING YOUR PII AND HOW TO CONTACT HYTEKGAMER.COM PRIVACY CONCERNS
Whenever possible, Members may review the Registration PII we maintain about them in our records. We will take reasonable steps to correct any PII a Member informs us is incorrect. If you are a Member, you can view and change your Registration PII, Member preferences and Profile Information by logging into your account and accessing features such as “Edit Profile” and “Settings”.

You may request hytekgamer.com to stop using your PII, and hytekgamer.com will take reasonable steps to try to honor that request while retaining any record of your PII that is necessary to comply with applicable law.

If you would like to communicate with us about this Privacy Policy or hytekgamer.com’s collection and use of your PII please contact hytekgamer.com at: support@hytekgamer.com