Privacy policy

Introduction

GameTraderHub acknowledges its obligations concerning the collection, storage, processing, use, and/or transfer of personal data under the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap. 486) ("PDPO") and the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"). We shall take every reasonable step to ensure that the personal information we have about you is accurate and only collected for proper and necessary purposes. We may periodically collect and use your personal information under this Privacy Policy.

We regularly review our Privacy Policy; occasionally, we could add, remove, or update something. We will notify you if there are any significant changes to our Privacy Policy by contacting you with the information you have provided. We will also allow you to decline the modifications if required by law using the methods we will notify you of at the time. Otherwise, your continuing use of the GameTraderHub Website, any of our products or services, or your continuous business dealings with us shall be construed as your acceptance and consent to this Privacy Policy, as it may be updated from time to time. It applies to any personal information you give us, whether it comes from the GameTraderHub Website or not.

Your rights, as set out below, shall be enforced by GameTraderHub under the co-controlling agreement. Additionally, GameTraderHub has been authorized to act asGameTraderHub's representative concerning its obligations and your rights under the GDPR.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we use your personal information, please contact us via email.

GameTraderHub will use all commercially reasonable steps to maintain the security of your personal information and guard against its accidental or unauthorized disclosure, modification, or deletion. Using the appropriate physical, technological, and procedural security measures can help to ensure that only people with the proper authorization can access your data.

Please be aware that if you do not provide us with your data (or relevant personal data relating to others appointed by you to act on your behalf), we may not be able to offer the information, products, or services you have requested or be able to fulfill your requests. Your personal information will be marked with an asterisk when it is required for us to comply with or carry out a contract clause. In some situations, when we ask for your personal information, we will inform you if doing so is required by law.

Purposes and Legal Bases for Processing

The following causes may lead to the collection of your name, mailing address, phone number, email address, date of birth, login name, payment instrument and transaction information, and any other unique identifiers linked to you:

to manage your account regarding such products and services and to carry out your transactions, and registrations for our products and services per the agreements you have with us. - executing and upholding a contract;
to finish your memberships, purchases, and registrations for third-party products and services - executing and upholding a contract;
identification, investigation, and eradication of fraud; maintenance of system security; protection of our property and safety and that of our employees; detection, investigation, and eradication of theft - legitimate interests;
to conduct research and statistical analysis to advance and improve our business, products, and services;
to provide you with marketing information about our products and services, as well as relevant products and services from third parties, including through direct marketing and by tailoring our websites, promotions, and advertising to your preferences;
in order to comply with all relevant EU rules and regulations, particularly those pertaining to legislation and anti-money laundering;
should follow any applicable non-EU laws and standards, including those that deal with regulation and anti-money laundering;
in order to uphold both our own and our employees' rights.

Periodically, we might also receive personal data from sources apart from the data subject, including when we employ AML to find beneficial owners or when you give us the personal data of others. In many circumstances, telling such individuals about the information included in this policy would be complex or too labor-intensive. We would appreciate your help explaining how their data is processed to these people. Such data is not used for marketing purposes.

Direct Marketing

Occasionally, we may also obtain personal information from sources other than the data subject. For example, we may do so when we employ AML to locate beneficial owners or when you provide us with the personal information of others. Informing such people of the information in this policy is frequently impossible or would involve an unnecessary amount of work. Please help us inform these individuals about handling their data if you can. Such data is not used for advertising.

If you have given your consent and have not subsequently opted out, your name, mailing address, phone number, and email address may also be used to send you promotional materials and carry out direct marketing activities relating to goods and services provided by GameTraderHub or pertinent third parties.

We may also gather data on what you watch and buy, how much you spend, and if you add particular products to your cart but later decide not to purchase if you have previously provided your agreement and have not opted out. We might use this data to compile a profile of your interests based on the material that we think you might be interested in (for instance, because you added it to your cart) and the content that users similar to you might have found interesting. Using this profile of your interests, we can alter our marketing materials so that instead of using the default content, we use content that is more relevant to your interests.

Recipients of the Personal Data

The following sorts of recipients could receive your information from us:

as required to fulfill our contracts with you, such as when you purchase a game from a seller on the GameTraderHub Marketplace or transfer money to another user's GameTraderHub Balance; other consumers of our products and services;
other businesses;
agents, independent contractors, consultants, or other individuals who offer administrative, telecommunications, computer, payment, debt collection, data processing, legal, or other services on the GameTraderHub Website;
when it comes to our payment services, financial institutions, payment service providers (such banks, payment institutions, or electronic money institutions), as well as card associations (like VISA or MasterCard), all of these parties are involved;
upon a court order, subpoena, or other legal process, individuals and organizations, such as supervisory authorities, regulators, or law enforcement agencies, who are permitted to acquire your personal information under applicable laws and regulations;
other parties, as notified to you at the time of collection.

GameTraderHub has a global presence. When personal data is sent from the European Union outside the European Economic Area, we ensure that an adequate level of protection is provided, for example, by signing standard contractual conditions for data transfer.

How We Use Cookies

You should know that cookies are used whenever you access our content or services through the GameTraderHub Website. Cookies are knowledge-based files that are stored on your browser. If you have permitted cookies to be installed and used on your browser using the settings offered when accessing the Site, the GameTraderHub Website will do so automatically. We may also use cookies without your consent in cases where doing so is necessary for us to provide the services you have requested, such as keeping your session after you sign into your account or remembering the items in your cart. You can change your cookie settings on our websites using the method below.

Cookies may be utilized for the following:

we may review aggregate website usage and traffic information to produce statistics. We collect information that helps us better understand how you use the GameTraderHub Website so that we can improve its layout and content and improve the caliber of your experience;
creating your profile so that appropriate content can be shown to you on advertising networks like the Google Display Network;
to analyze traffic data to make settlements with advertising partners in a trustworthy manner;
to personalize the Site to fit better your requirements and preferences, such as choosing the display language or currency, we may save your settings between browsing sessions; to customize our websites, offers, and advertising to your interests, we may use your personal information for marketing purposes, including automated processing that includes profiling components.

We use cookies to identify you specifically to track your behavior on our Website, the content you read, and how you use our products and services. Then, based on content that we believe you found interesting (for example, because you watched it for a specific amount of time, looked for a specific genre of game, or added a product to your cart), as well as content that users who are similar to you have also found interesting, we use this data to create a profile of your interests.

By using this profile of your interests to replace the default content with content more relevant to your interests, we may tailor our websites, services, and advertising to your needs. To achieve the goals above, the Site uses two primary types of cookies: session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are temporary files stored in your browser until you log out, leave the Website, or close the browser. Persistent cookies are stored in your browser longer, as specified by the cookie's terms, or until you delete it.

To display adverts customized for you and your preferences when you visit GameTraderHub Website, partners and ad networks like the Google Serve Network may employ cookies. Cookies may record the time spent on a website or how you navigate it to accomplish this. Using the Google tool, you may see and change the data collected through cookies to learn what data the Google Display Network has collected about you. Your browser's default setting allows for cookie storage. By changing the browser settings, you can erase or block cookies. For more details, refer to the user manual for your browser. Please be aware that by doing so, you may not be able to access or activate certain services on the GameTraderHub Website.

Here is a list of the specific cookies we use, along with information on what they're used for, how they typically behave, and how long they last.

Basic information Cookies are tiny text files transmitted by a computer online. They provide details about your usage of the Website and online store. The online store uses cookies files to provide services for the Website and to make available helpful information during the purchasing process, such as remembering previous purchases. The online store uses cookies, which can be temporary or permanent.
Persistent cookies, which are used to store data like your password or login and are kept after the end of the browsing session, are deleted when you exit your browser. It facilitates quicker and easier website navigation. In any case, you may block the installation of cookies or delete persistent cookies using the appropriate options in your web browser. We suggest consulting the help section of the web browser or contacting the developer directly if there are any problems.
Necessary - for a seamless user experience on the Website, cookie files offer crucial functions like website navigation and safe online access. A website cannot function properly without cookies.
Preferences - websites can remember specifics about how they function and are put out, such as the user's present location or preferred language, thanks to cookies that save your choices.
Statistics - cookies used for statistical analysis help website owners better understand how visitors interact with their platforms by collecting and reporting anonymous data.
Marketing - Marketers use specialized cookie files to track users across websites. Their main goal is to give consumers relevant and interesting adverts because these are more valuable to advertisers and third-party publishers.

We reserve the right to preserve your data as long as we have good reasons. The specific retention periods are determined by the processing's purpose and legal justification, for instance:

personal data required to offer services while those services are being provided and afterward, for as long as necessary to satisfy legal responsibilities (such as those pertaining to accounting) or to manage any claims;
we typically retain personal data that must have been gathered following anti-money laundering legislation requirements for 5 years after the end of our relationship or after the date of the most recent transaction, including purposes of identification, screening, and reporting, unless we are required to keep this information for legal or administrative proceedings;
personal data obtained with your permission, usually until you withdraw it;
unless you effectively protest legally, personal information is frequently handled based on a legitimate legal interest.

Access to and Correction of Personal Data

According to the PDPO, you have the right to inquire whether we have your personal information on file, get a copy of it, and request that any errors be fixed. You can also ask us to provide you with a list of the types of personal data we currently hold. All requests for data access must be submitted via the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data's given form, which is available on the organization's Website. Inquiries should be made in writing and mailed to us concerning our policies, methods, and the types of data we have, as well as requests for access to and correction of personal data. We have the right to charge a reasonable fee to cover the administrative and actual costs of granting your data access requests.

Your Rights Under the GDPR

You also have the following rights under the GDPR:

right to information, which is met by this notification;
right to erase - you can request that your data be deleted and no longer processed if it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was acquired or otherwise processed, if consent was withdrawn or an objection was made, and if there is no other legal basis for processing. Any third parties to whom we may have disclosed the personal data shall be informed of its erasure unless doing so would be impracticable or take too much time;
right to restrict processing. Your personal information will only be maintained and used in other ways with your consent, to pursue legal claims or to defend the rights of another physical or legal person if there are grounds to restrict processing, such as if you contest the accuracy of your personal information. If we have disclosed the disputed personal data to third parties, we shall notify them of the restriction on processing the data unless doing so would be impracticable or involve excessive effort. We'll notify you when the restriction is about to be lifted;
right to object to processing. You are entitled to object to processing done for legal reasons, such as direct marketing or profiling. We won't continue to process your data unless we have strong justifications for doing so or unless doing so is required for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims;
right to portability. You are entitled to receive the personal data you provided to us in a structured, widely recognized, and machine-readable format and to transfer that data to another data controller;
right to complain to a supervisory authority. You can contact us if you don't like how we handle personal data. If you don't like our response, you can file a complaint with the data protection authorities.

General

If there is a discrepancy or contradiction between the English and translated versions of this Privacy Policy after it has been translated into another language, the English version shall control.