Safe Harbor Games (SHG) is serious about safeguarding your personal information. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices.
Note that this policy covers all information collected by this website and the client applications owned by SHG.

There is a small amount of information that we collect on our site for the benefit of the users.

• Information You Give us. During registration, we collect your email address, password, and confirmation that you are 16 years or older and have agreed to the Guidelines, and whether you have consented to allow us to use your email address for notifications and invitations.
  In addition:
  • We save your security question and answer at registration and whenever you update that information.
  • We save your password and email address at registration and whenever you updated that information.
  • We save your preferences when you entered them for each game you play.
  • We save your chat preferences whenever you changed them.
  • We save your friends list choices and whether you have marked them blocked or ignored
  • We save your information that you enter for your profile if you are a Yacht Club Member or staff member
• Information Automatically collected. We collect information for the following events:
  • The results of all matches played on our site.
  • Information regarding any failed login and registration events associated with your username.
  • Information to identify when your username entered or left a lobby.
  • Information to identify where you are connecting from to assist Fraud prevention, security, and compliance,
  • All Lobby Chat. NO private chat or game chat is collected!
• Cookies.We use session cookies(which expire once you close your web browser) to keep track that you have successfully logged into our site.

We use the information we collect in the following ways:

• To secure your account and allow you to recover your password. This process uses your email address and security question and answer to allow you to reset your password when forgotten.
• Provide public ratings information for players and Yacht Club members for player history.
• Collect sufficient information to confirm that the player's account has not been compromised and associate their other accounts together for security purposes.
• We may also use information collected to help identify player spoofing or abuse or violation of our Cruise Guidelines. This information will be kept confidential and will only be used to enforce site policy.
• We may also use this information to accurately count the number of unique visitors to our site for advertising information, but we will not reveal personally identifiable information to our advertisers.
• Your user password and security answer are one-way encrypted and not readable by anyone.

• We will not share any personally identifiable information with any third parties, with the exception of resolving verified secure ecommerce transaction providers.
• We will not resell your information to any other party.
• We may share personal information as we believe necessary or appropriate
  • to comply with applicable laws;
  • to comply with lawful requests and legal process, including to respond to requests from public and government authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements;
  • to enforce our Policy;
  • to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others.

• If you have created a public profile, note that you have elected to share information about yourself to others. You have the option of making that information available to everyone logged into the site, or just other Yacht Club Members. You have the ability at anytime to remove this information from our site.
• Whenever you have won a tournament, the results of this tournament will be available to other players which includes your username and what position (First, Second, Third) you obtained in the tournament.
• The site provides game ratings for players who play in any rated game room on site. In addition, the results of your match - who won and lost, are available to our paid memberships for Yacht Club members.
• The site provides a point ranking system for site-wide, game-wide and group-wide which supports a simple point system based on your placement in tournaments. The information may include username, points, how many first, second or third places obtained and date of most recent information.

You can typically remove and reject cookies from SHG with your browser settings. For step-by-step instructions, please check your browser’s help section. Here are links for popular browsers: Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer. If you remove or reject our cookies, it could affect how SHG works for you. In particular, without allowing first party session cookies, you will not be able to login to our site and access it's features.

Certain companies will use cookies and other information about your visits to SafeHarborGames and other websites in order to provide advertisements for products and services (including those of third parties) that may be of interest to you.

It is important that you understand that Advertisers or Web sites that link to a SafeHarborGames site may collect personal information about you. The Privacy Policy does not apply to, and cannot control the activities of other Web sites or Advertisers.

To learn more about this practice, please visit http://optout.aboutads.info/, http://www.networkadvertising.org, or http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices.

We use Google Analytics and Quantcast, services which collect information anonymously and reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. Since they each have their strengths and weaknesses, we take advantage of both of them. Each uses its own cookie to track visitor interactions.

To learn more about the information collected by Google Analytics, please visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

To learn more about the privacy policy for data that Quantcast collects, please visit https://www.quantcast.com/privacy/.

During purchase of a one year Yacht Club Membership, all financial information is collected by a third party - PayPal. When SHG receives confirmation from PayPal that a transaction is complete, we process just the information necessary to apply the Yacht Club Membership to the appropriate user. In cases where the information provided by the user is invalid, we will reach out to the user to correct that information so that the purchase if properly applied.

Safe Harbor Games does not use nor transfers any of the user's information to any other party.

Your information, including personal data that SHG collects from you, may be stored at and processed by us outside the country in which you reside, where data protection and privacy regulations may not offer the same level of protection as in your country of residence. By using SHG, you agree to this storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy. We will only process your personal information in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. We need certain personal information in order to provide you with access to SHG. If you do not agree to our use of your personal information in line with this Policy, please do not use SHG.