Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us. At Retro Handhelds we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

• We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
• We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
• We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.

Retro Handhelds LLC (“Retro Handhelds”) operates several websites including retrohandhelds.gg. It is Retro Handhelds’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Retro Handhelds collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Retro Handhelds’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Retro Handhelds’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Retro Handhelds may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Retro Handhelds also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Retro Handhelds only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Retro Handhelds’s websites choose to interact with Retro Handhelds in ways that require Retro Handhelds to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Retro Handhelds gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive Retro Handhelds updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Retro Handhelds collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Retro Handhelds. Retro Handhelds does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Retro Handhelds may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Retro Handhelds may monitor the most popular pages on the retrohandhelds.gg site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Retro Handhelds may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Retro Handhelds does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Retro Handhelds discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Retro Handhelds’s behalf or to provide services available at Retro Handhelds’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Retro Handhelds’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Retro Handhelds will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Retro Handhelds discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Retro Handhelds believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Retro Handhelds, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Retro Handhelds website and have supplied your email address, Retro Handhelds may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Retro Handhelds and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Retro Handhelds takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Retro Handhelds uses cookies to help Retro Handhelds identify and track visitors, their usage of Retro Handhelds website, and their website access preferences. Retro Handhelds visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Retro Handhelds’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Retro Handhelds’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Retro Handhelds, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Retro Handhelds goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Retro Handhelds may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Retro Handhelds and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Retro Handhelds may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Retro Handhelds’s sole discretion. Retro Handhelds encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Retro Handhelds and GDPR

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was enacted on May 25, 2018, and will bolster the rights of European end users with regards to their personal data. The new legislation will also unify data protection laws across Europe, regardless of where the data is being processed.

Your Choices

Updating Your Information — You may update, correct, or delete information about you at any time by emailing us at hi@retrohandhelds.gg. Note however that we may retain certain information as required by law or for legitimate business purposes.

Contact Us — If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: hi@retrohandhelds.gg.

For California Residents: CCPA Information

Rights and Choices

The CCPA provides consumers located in the state of California with certain rights regarding their personal information and data. The following section describes those rights and explains how to exercise them:

Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights

You have the right to request that GG Software LP disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (as described in the section “Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights”), we will disclose to you:

• The categories of personal information we collected about you.
• The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.
• The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
• The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called data portability request)
• If we sold or disclose your personal information for a business purpose, two separate lists disclosing:
  • Sales, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased, and
  • Disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained

Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:

• Deny you goods or services.
• Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or imposing penalties.
• Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
• Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level of quality of goods or services.

Any CCPA-permitted financial incentive we offer will reasonably relate to your value and contain written terms that describe the program’s material aspects.

Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights

To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by emailing us at hi@retrohandhelds.gg.

Only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.

You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access of data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:

• Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
• Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.

Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

Information We Collect

Our websites, emails (with your consent, where required by law), and other products, services and platforms collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or device (“personal information”). In particular, our websites, apps, emails, and other products, services and platforms may have collected the following categories of personal information from its consumers within the last twelve (12) months:

Personal information does not include:

• Publicly available information from government records.
• Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.
• Information excluded from the CCPA’s scope, like:
  • health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data;
  • personal information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver’s Privacy.

Use of Personal Information

We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:

• To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to request a newsletter or ask a question about our products or services, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry. If you provide your personal information to purchase a product or service, we or our third-party service providers will use that information to process your payment and facilitate delivery. We may also save your information to facilitate new product or service orders and requests.
• To provide, support, personalize, and develop our websites, emails, and other products, services and platforms.
• To create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us.
• To process your requests, purchases, transactions, and payments and prevent transactional fraud.
• To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including investigating and addressing your concerns and monitoring and improving our responses.
• To personalize your website, apps, emails, or other product, service or platform experience and to deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests, including targeted offers and ads through our websites, apps, emails, and other products, services and platforms.
• To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our websites, apps, emails, and other products, services and platforms, databases and other technology assets, and business.
• For testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve our websites, apps, emails, and other products, services and platforms.
• To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
• As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.
• To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by the Company about our Website users is among the assets transferred.

The Company will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

Sharing Personal Information

The Company may disclose your personal information to a third-party for a business purpose or sell your personal information, subject to your right to opt-out of those sales (see ‘Sales of Personal Information’ below). When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract. The CCPA prohibits third parties who purchase the personal information we hold from reselling it unless you have received explicit notice and an opportunity to opt-out of further sales (see ‘Sales of Personal Information’ below).

We may share your personal information with the following categories of third parties:

• Subsidiaries and affiliates.
• Contractors and service providers.
• Data aggregators.
• Third parties with whom we partner to offer products and services to you.

Disclosures of Personal Information for a Business Purpose

In the preceding twelve (12) months, the Company has disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:

• [Category A: Identifiers.]
• [Category B: California Customer Records personal information categories.]
• [Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.]
• [Category G: Geolocation Data.]
• [Category K: Inferences drawn from other personal information.]

Sales of Personal Information

In the preceding twelve (12) months, the company has not sold any personal information.