Privacy Policy

TheBigMMORPGList.com is committed to protecting your privacy. This statement of privacy defines and governs how we gather and use data at this Web site.

Collection of Your Personal Information

We gather personal information from all registering members. This includes name, physical address, e-mail address, age and gender. We also store your personal preferences related to this Web site in your account data.

We also collect data relating to all network connections, primarily your IP address. We use this information to track fraudulent user activity (including but not limited to: the use of multiple accounts, account sharing, illegal forum activity.) Your browser type and version are also detected to better enhance your user experience.

We keep track of what polls you have voted in to prevent duplicate voting. This data is stored with your user account data.

Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information through our messaging system, public forms, or chat rooms - this information could be collected and used by other parties.

TheBigMMORPGList.com encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites that you choose to link to from TheBigMMORPGList.com so that you know how those web sites collect and use your personal information.

How We Use Your Personal Information

Your physical location, gender, date of membership and last login date is used in your TheBigMMORPGList.com "User Profile" to create a better sense of community at our site. In addition we give you the option of displaying your e-mail address and age. If you wish to hide this data, you can do so in the "Your Account Settings" page.

During the account creation process the user has the ability to "opt-in" to two separate mailing lists:

TheBigMMORPGList.com Newsletter
- Our newsletter is only sent from us, and no more than once per week. This service is used to notify our members about the status of the site and current events. This newsletter might contain advertisements or endorsements as a smaller part of the message, but never for this sole purpose.
TheBigMMORPGList.com Daily Digest
- Our daily digest is only sent from us once per day 5 days a week monday through friday. This service is used to notify our members about the status of the site and current events. The daily digest might contain advertisements or endorsements as a smaller part of the message, but never for this sole purpose.
Promotional Mailing
- This list will be used to notify our members of special promotions taking place related to MMORPG games. It will only be sent from us. These offers can be for beta test offers or other promotions from us or other game companies. This mailing will never be sent more than four times per month.

NOTE: TheBigMMORPGList.com never sells or shares any of your personal information with other parties. All information is strictly for internal use and all e-mails are only sent from our facilities.

You can change your subscription to either of these mailings by updating your account profile by selecting "Your Account Settings" and then modifying the options in "Alert Settings".

TheBigMMORPGList.com may access and/or disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on our company or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of our company, including the TheBigMMORPGList.com Web site; or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of TheBigMMORPGList.com, its web sites, or the public.

Securing Your Personal Information

TheBigMMORPGList.com takes all necessary measures to protect your personal information by deploying safe network models for storing and retrieving data. All credit card data is sent over secure SSL connections using 128-bit encryption.

Use of Cookies

A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

TheBigMMORPGList.com uses cookies to store your preferences at our site and to track the "session state" of your visit. If you choose to use our "auto-login" feature, we store your username and password using a simple encryption technique in a cookie on your computer.

We never use cookies to gather or share your personal information.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you will not be able to access the TheBigMMORPGList.com site - as our site requires them to function properly and prevent site abuse.

Copyright Notices

This web site is the exclusive property of The Big MMORPG List and may not be copied or reproduced without written permission. All graphics are the property of, or licensed by, The Big MMORPG List, for use within this Web site.

All game logos, or game-specific designs are used by permission by the individual publishing company. These images are copyrighted by their respective owners. These images may not be copied or reproduced without permission from their respective owners.