Privacy policy

Last updated 16th January, 2021

Personal information we collect

When you register for an account, you provide us with the following personal information:
- Your name
- A password
- Your email address. 

If you choose to register using a 3rd party identity provider (currently Google or Facebook), we will receive certain profile information about you from your social media provider. The exact profile information we receive may vary depending on the social media provider concerned, but will be made clear on the login page owned by the relevant provider, and will typically include your name and email address.

When you use the website, we collect basic technical information such as: IP address, browser information, operating system, language preferences.

We collect usage data necessary for the games on the website to function. 


Use of your information

We use your personal data primarily in order to allow you to play the games on the website.
This includes:
- Administering the creation and management of your user account using Okta, our authentication provider.
- Occasionally contacting you regarding important information relevant to the administration of the site.
- Ensure compliance with our policies and responding to legal requests.
- Enabling communication between active users on the site. When you are connected to a game or a game lobby, other users in that lobby will be able to see: 
	- Your first name and the initial letter of your surname
	- What games you are playing in
	- Your actions in a game
- Improving our services by analysing usage data


Sharing of your information
We may share your data with certain third-party service providers where this is necessary for the functionality of the website. Examples include authentication providers and web hosting services. We will not sell your data or otherwise share it with other third parties without your consent unless where required by law.


Information shared by you
If you share any information while using the website, this may be available to other users. Specifically, if you use the chat function then the messages you send will be accessible by other users of the website and may be recorded in our system logs. 


External websites
The website may contain links to external websites. We are not responsible for the content of any external websites or how they use your data. 


Cookies
We use cookies as part of the login process and to link your session on the website to your actions in the games. These are required for the website to function.


International data transfer
We may store and use your information in countries other than your own. Our servers are located in the United Kingdom. Your user account details are stored on the servers of Okta (our authentication provider) which may be located in a different country.


Retention period
We will keep your information as long as necessary to allow you to use the website. We will only keep your data for the reasons described in this notice. If we have no legitimate need to keep your data then we will delete it.


Security
We use appropriate technologies and practices to ensure your information is as safe as possible. No technology is guaranteed to be 100% safe and therefore information provided to us is done at your own risk.


Children
This website is not intended for use by children. If we discover that we have collected personal information from a user under the age of 18 then we will deactivate their account and delete any related data.


Account access and deletion
If you wish to review the information we hold about you or delete your account then please email us at info@onlinecardgames.co.uk 


If you have any other questions about this policy, please email us at info@onlinecardgames.co.uk