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Last Update: August 6, 2007 By registering, you will open an account with EA in the United States. Your data will be stored in the USA. Though EA may share your data with EA affiliates in countries with varying personal data protection laws, your data is always protected by our Privacy Policy. EA and EA affiliates use your data to administer your account, provide information of interest to you, and to communicate with you. You may opt out of receiving marketing materials by changing your account preferences. More information about how EA uses your data and your related rights can be found in our Privacy Policy below. By registering, you agree that EA may process your data in accordance with the following Privacy Policy and that you will abide by Terms & Conditions below. I. EA ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY Electronic Arts (EA) and its subsidiary companies respect the privacy rights of our online visitors and recognize the importance of protecting the information collected about you. We have adopted a corporate wide Online Privacy Policy that guides how we collect, store and use the information you provide online. Electronic Arts adheres to the Safe Harbor Principles that were established by the U.S. Department of Commerce in consultation with the European Commission to comply with the European Commission’s Directive on Data Protection that went into effect in October, 1998. If you have any questions, complaints, or comments regarding our privacy statement or policies, please contact the Privacy Policy Administrator for the country in which you reside. To review the contact information, go to privacyadmin.ea.com. If your country is not listed, contact the United States’ Privacy Policy Administrator by writing to: Privacy Policy Administrator, Electronic Arts Inc., 207 Redwood Shores Parkway, Redwood City CA 94065. This privacy policy applies to the following web sites operated by Electronic Arts: In addition, Electronic Arts owns several other domain names that point to the web sites listed above, and we will from time to time add new sites that may or may not be listed above. Please note that this policy applies only to sites maintained by Electronic Arts or its subsidiaries, and not to web sites maintained by other companies or organizations to which we link. This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected by Electronic Arts online, not offline. Third Party Sites. What is personal information and when does EA collect it? Information collected will vary depending upon the activity and may include your name, e-mail address, phone number, mobile number, home address, birth date, and credit card information. In addition, we may collect demographic information such as gender, zip code, information about your computer, hardware, software, platform, media, Internet IP address and connection, information about online activity such as feature usage, game play statistics and scores, user rankings and click paths and other data that you may provide in surveys or online profiles, for instance. We may combine demographic information with personal information. Prize winners may also be required to provide Social Security or Social Identification Number for tax purposes. We do not require personal information to obtain access to any of our sites; however, you will not be able to access areas that require registration. Whatever the purpose may be, we will only collect information to the extent reasonably necessary to fulfill your requests and our legitimate business objectives. PLAYSTATION®3 Xbox EA's Online Stores Job Postings Online Chat Rooms and Profiles Statistical and Usage Data In-Game Advertising Public Data A Special Note About Children Once we have obtained parental consent, we are prohibited from conditioning a child's participation in an activity - like contests - on the child's disclosure of more personal information than is reasonably necessary to participate in the activity. If for any reason you are concerned that your child's personally identifiable information maintained by Electronic Arts is not correct or complete, should you wish to have your child's personal information deleted from our records, or if you want Electronic Arts to discontinue further collection or use of your child's personal information, please contact your Privacy Policy Administrator who will be happy to review, update or remove your child's information as appropriate. What about cookies and other technologies? Certain of our sites use an outside ad company to display ads. These ads may contain cookies. Cookies received with banner ads are collected by our ad companies, and Electronic Arts does not have access to this information. Most browsers are automatically set to accept cookies whenever you visit a website. You can disable cookies or set your browser to alert you when cookies are being sent. However some areas of our sites will not function properly if you do so. For more information concerning how to disable your cookies, please visit http://support.ea.com. DoubleClick, the company that serves many of the ads that appear on the pogo.com site, may also collect information regarding your activities online, including the sites you visit. Other ad serving companies may also collect similar information. For more information on DoubleClick's services to opt out of those services, please visit DoubleClick's website at http://www.doubleclick.com/us/about_doubleclick/privacy/. For more information about the practices of some of the other large ad serving companies that may collect information on your use of the site, you should visit Atlas DMT, Eyeblaster, Klipmart and PointRoll to view their privacy statements and opt out policies. Other technologies used include clear GIFs and IP address logging. Clear GIFs (a.k.a. web bugs, beacons or tags) are small graphic images placed on a web page, web-based document, or in an e-mail message. Clear GIFs are invisible to the user because they are typically very small (only 1-by-1 pixel) and the same color as the background of the web page, document or e-mail message. We do not use clear GIFs to collect personal information about you. However, we may use clear GIFs capture statistical usage information for our web pages, features or other elements on a web page. We may correlate this information to a user to personalize user experience and for statistical analysis of user experiences on our web pages. EA also maintains log files which contain Internet Protocol ("IP") addresses. An IP address is a numeric address that is assigned to your computer by your Internet Service Provider. In general, we only use log files to monitor traffic on our Web sites, to report aggregate information to our advertisers and to troubleshoot technical problems. In the event of user abuse of our websites, however, we may block certain IP addresses or console IDs provided by our licensed hardware manufacturers. IP addresses and console IDs may be used to personally identify you in order to enforce our Terms of Service. What happens to the information provided? If you register to become a member of EA Online, your user name is reserved for you with our partner, America Online, Inc. (AOL). We send your user name to AOL, but we don’t send AOL any of your personal information. However, if you register to become a member of pogo.com (our online games service), and you are 18 years of age or older, you may opt-in for an AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) Account. If you do, you give EA permission to send AOL your email address and you are automatically registered for an AIM Account. AOL will email you directly concerning your AIM account. As with all third party sites, Electronic Arts does not control AOL’s privacy policies and practices. We urge you to review AOL’s privacy policy at www.aol.com. Members may register for other services from our site(s) (for example, MyPoints on pogo.com). If you opt in to any of these services, we may collect additional information requested by a service provider and pass this information, together with all other registration information (including personal information), to that service provider. Use of your information by a service provider will be governed by that service provider’s terms of service and privacy policy. We may also retain any additional information collected for use in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy. Participation in these other related services is optional and is not required to play games on pogo.com or ea.com, or participate in any of our other web sites. The personal information you provide will allow us to alert you to new products, features and enhancements; special offers; upgrade opportunities; and contests and events of interest. From time to time, we are approached by companies and organizations that provide products or services that we believe may be of interest to you, and we may provide your personal information to such third parties. We see this as a value-added service helping you to find useful products or services. We strive to limit use of the information you provide to those offers that we think you would appreciate receiving. You may opt out of this service. See the opt-out information below. We may send emails that may contain information regarding third-party products or services; however, this doesn’t mean that we’ve traded your personal information to any party. We may use survey information in marketing surveys to select and direct advertising that is more likely to be of interest to a particular member. This information may be transmitted to an ad server owned by the advertising company (for example, on pogo. com, this is DoubleClick) to match members with ads that they are more likely to be interested in. However, we do not disclose any member's personal information to our advertisers without the member's consent. Participation in member surveys is entirely optional. We may share aggregate consumer data (which does not contain personal information) with the advertising companies. From time to time, Electronic Arts may employ third-party contractors, such as Digital Impact, to collect personal information on our behalf, or to provide email delivery, product or promotional fulfillment, or other services on our sites. When requesting these services, you may be asked to supply your name, mailing address, telephone number and email address. When our third-party contractors collect and/or have access to the personal information you provide when requesting such services from Electronic Arts, Electronic Arts requires that they adhere to our stated privacy policies and protect the confidentiality of personal information they collect or have access to in the course of their engagement by Electronic Arts. Finally, we may use your personal information for our internal marketing and demographic studies, so we can consistently improve our sites to better meet our visitors' needs. To enforce legal rights and comply with the law, or to comply with an order from a government entity or other competent authority, or when we have reason to believe that a disclosure is necessary to address potential or actual injury or interference with our rights, property, operations, users or others who may be harmed or may suffer loss or damage, we may also disclose personal information to law enforcement, or the appropriate civil authorities. Where is the information held? Opt-out Provision Safeguarding Your Personal Information Review, Correction of Your Information and Requesting Removal from
Mailing Lists and Deactivating Your Account By using this site, you signify your assent to the Electronic Arts Online Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use any Electronic Arts site. We reserve the right to make changes in this policy at any time. Please check the policy each time you use our web site to ensure you are aware of any changes in our privacy practices. Our privacy policy will indicate the date it was last updated. Also, if there is a substantive change in the way that we use your personal information, we will notify you via e-mail of the relevant changes. If you choose to opt-out of our changed practice, our e-mail will contain instructions on how to opt-out. Your continued use of our site will signify your acceptance of the changes to our Online Privacy Policy. For more information and updates to our Online Privacy Policy, visit privacy.ea.com. Version 20426_16.DOC |
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