BoardGameGeek does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or companies , except when we have your explicit permission (for example, to pass on your contact information when you have won a contest). You will never get on some spammers list because of your interactions with BoardGameGeek.
BoardGameGeek collects personal information when you register with BoardGameGeek, when you use BoardGameGeek products or services, when you visit BoardGameGeek pages or the pages of certain BoardGameGeek partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. BoardGameGeek may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. Once you register with BoardGameGeek and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
BoardGameGeek collects information about your transactions with us.
BoardGameGeek automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, BoardGameGeek cookie information, and the page you request.
BoardGameGeek uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and investigate abuse.
BoardGameGeek reserves the right to modify all or some of this Privacy Policy at any time without notice. If we change our Privacy Policy, we will post a notice on our website so our users are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information only in accordance with the Privacy Policy under which the information was collected unless we have received explicit authorization from the appropriate user(s) to do otherwise.
We reserve the right to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person or as otherwise required by law.