We are strongly committed to safeguarding subscribers' privacy. We operate under the following strict privacy policy:

The only information we obtain about our subscribers is information we need to process credit card charges for subscription fees. The information collected is never revealed, sold, or made public for any reason.

Personally identifiable information provided by subscribers (name, email or home address, etc.) is never disclosed to any individual or business.

Collection of your Personal Information

Basement Empires collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Basement Empires also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Basement Empires. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Basement Empires for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Basement Empires Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Basement Empires public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.. Note: Basement Empires does not read any of your private online communications.

Basement Empires encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Basement Empires so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Basement Empires is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Basement Empires and Basement Empires family of Web sites.

Cookies
Each time a subscriber logs into this site, we store a temporary 'cookie' in the browser files of that subscriber's computer. This cookie is used during your online session to allow you free access to the Subscribers Area, without repeatedly requiring you to re-enter your user name and password.

When you log off or leave the site, the cookies file is automatically removed.

External Links
In order to provide visitors with greater value, some of our pages may provide links to various third party websites. In no case is subscriber information or 'cookies' provided to the third party sites.

However, keep in mind that many sites do attempt to capture visitor information when you browse those sites. Once you leave our site, we are not able to alert you should another site attempt to gather information from your browser.

Private Forums
We provide our subscribers with a multi-tiered Discussion Forum that makes sharing information with other subscribers easy. To protect your privacy when posting or replying to messages in the message board, your personal information and email is not revealed.

However, remember that any information you disclose in the message board areas can be read by all other subscribers, so exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Security
We use a variety of security measures including encryption and authentication from Thawte to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of your personal information under our control.

Choice/Opt-In
Our site gives users the opportunity to opt-in to receive communications from us. You can be assured that we never reveal, sell, or make available your email address to anyone for any purpose. This site also gives users options for removing their information from our database in order to stop receiving our communications.

Use of your Personal Information

Basement Empires collects and uses your personal information to operate the Basement Empires Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Basement Empires also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Basement Empires and its affiliates. Basement Empires may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered. Basement Empires may also contact you from time to time via your email address to provide you with a variety of information, including weekly wrap ups, newsletters, bulletins and similar information.

Basement Empires does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Basement Empires may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Basement Empires may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Basement Empires, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Basement Empires does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Basement Empires keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Basement Empires , in order to determine what Basement Empires services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Basement Empires to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Basement Empires Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only 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 Basement Empires or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Basement Empires ; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Basement Empires , or the public.

Other
If you have questions regarding our privacy policy, feel free to contact us.