Your privacy is a very private matter with us.
Mega Internet Tournaments, L.L.C., doing business as Mega Dollar Games maintains the privacy of personal information provided by all Mega Dollar Games' contestants. This privacy policy outlines our commitment to protecting your privacy rights. We will not share your personally identifiable information outside our staff and affiliated operational personnel.

We welcome your feedback on our privacy protection practices. If you feel that this company is not abiding by its posted privacy policy, email playerservices@megadollargames.com. You may also fax playerservices @ (918) 746-7121 or call our toll-free number 1-877-707-4177

The types of information we collect

1. Registration/contact information. When you register to play Mega Dollar Games, we collect information, such as name, email address, billing address, telephone number, credit card number, date of birth, etc. We use this information to determine player eligibility, to contact you for prize verification purposes and to inform you about site services in which you've expressed interest.

2. Legal and policy compliance information. Beyond the data we collect when you register, we also collect information needed to fulfill prizes and to track and verify compliance with Mega Dollar Games policies and federal, state, and local laws. For example:

In order to comply with state and federal laws, Mega Dollar Games must verify your age and state of residence. If a player is unwilling to verify his or her age or state of residence, he or she will not be permitted to play to win cash prizes.

In order to issue prizes of $600 and over, the law requires that Mega Dollar Games collect the winner's Social Security number, which is used for tax-reporting purposes. If a player is unwilling to provide this information, Mega Dollar Games will not be able to award that player his or her prize winnings.

3. Play purchases. Mega Dollar Games also collects information about your game preferences, play frequency, and play purchases. We use cookie technology to collect this information and to track usage patterns on our Site.

4. Tell-A-Friend. If you use our referral service to inform a friend about our Site, we ask you for that friend's name and email address. Mega Dollar Games will then automatically send the friend a one-time email, inviting him or her to visit the site. We store this information for the purpose of sending this one-time email and for ensuring that you receive credit for any referrals who register on our Site. The friend may email us at playerservices@megadollargames.com to request that we remove this information from our database.

How we use the information we gather

The information you supply to us when you are registering and setting up your personal Mega Dollar Games account is used to provide our basic services, such as awarding prizes, processing payments, and to make your visits to our site fun and easy. Because we store your personal information, we don't have to ask you to re-register each time you want to play our games which makes transaction processing easier and more efficient. Mega Dollar Games routinely sends all new players a welcoming email to verify their passwords and usernames.

Mega Dollar Games may, at times, share aggregate statistical information about our players with business partners, sponsors and other affiliates. For example, we may share our findings that our player base is "A certain percent male and a certain percent female." This information is in the form of compiled numbers or statistics and will not personally identify our players.

Mega Dollar Games may disclose personal information for the following business or legal reasons:

In special cases. When we have reason to believe, for example, that disclosing this information may help to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who, intentionally or unintentionally, may be causing injury or interference with Mega Dollar Games' rights or property, other Mega Dollar Games players, or anyone else who might be harmed as a result.

Law enforcement. We will disclose your personal information if requested by any federal, state or local regulatory or law enforcement agency.

Companies "Standing in the Shoes" of Mega Dollar Games. Sometimes we hire companies to help us deliver our services-- like a shipping company that delivers a package. In those instances, we need to share your information with them. These companies are basically "standing in the shoes" of Mega Dollar Games and they are only allowed to use the information to deliver the service. For instance, Mega Dollar Games uses the services of a credit card processing company and other payment intermediaries to make it easy for players to pay for the games they play. When handling player payment information, the privacy protection policies of those affiliated service providers apply. Nevertheless, Mega Dollar Games requests that our payment intermediaries honor our privacy policy wherever applicable.

In business transfers. Mega Dollar Games may sell, convey, provide, and transfer personally identifiable information in conjunction with the sale of Mega Dollar Games or the Site, the sale of all or substantially all of the assets of Mega Dollar Games or the Site, or the corporate restructuring or sale of Mega Dollar Games or its parent company. Mega Dollar Games will provide you with the opportunity to "opt out" of having your personally identifiable information transferred in connection with such business transfer.

To Satisfy IRS Requirements. Mega Dollar Games is required by law to provide information regarding the Player's winnings or rewards of $600 or more to the IRS. This information may include information such as a player's social security number, name and address. Except as provided in this section, Mega Dollar Games does not share social security numbers with any organization other than the IRS for tax-reporting purposes.

Use of IP addresses

An IP address is a number that's automatically assigned to your computer whenever you surf the Web. Web servers - the big computers that "serve up" Web pages - automatically identify your computer by its IP address.

We use IP addresses in only a few types of situations. We may use these addresses to identify a player when it's necessary to enforce compliance with our policies or terms of service, or to protect our service, Site, customers or others. We may also use these addresses to capture time stamps so that we can determine peak and off-peak load times. These addresses may also be used to determine browser type for demographic information. Mega Dollar Games also may be required to disclose IP address information when required in legal proceedings or by law enforcement agencies.

How you may modify information provided us.

To protect you, Mega Dollar Games verifies your identity before granting access or allowing changes to be made to your personal information. If you have registered your profile on the Site, you must supply your user name and password to access that information.

Your transaction history

For your protection and to assure our responsiveness telephone calls you make to Mega Dollar Games are recorded. Also, once you're a registered player, your online game sessions, the financial transactions you conduct online, and every play of every game is recorded and saved. This archiving allows us to process and confirm your transaction and to provide you, upon request, with a detailed account transaction and play-by-play history. This also enables us to let you pick up and continue the play of a game from exactly where it was stopped by a power outage, or other disruption.

Your enjoying the games and your satisfaction are very important to us. That's why we retain all customer correspondence, written and electronic, for up to 6 months. All letters are filed, with mailing addresses and postmarks. To assure you have received every courtesy and prompt attention, copies of all emails, including email address and our response, and play-by-play records, are retained and periodically reviewed by one of our Player Services Managers.

This retention policy supports our efforts to monitor and review communications, to ensure all questions, concerns, and suggestions are promptly and adequately addressed. This policy provides us the means to oversee and to review the work of our service staff, to continually ensure that players are having questions answered promptly, thoroughly and in the most friendly manner. It also provides us the records to ensure players are not trying to falsify their actions and play to either third parties or to Mega Dollar Games. Relevant customer transactions are electronically stored and archived for up to one year.

Links to other sites

The Site contains links to other sites, but Mega Dollar Games is not responsible for the content or the privacy protection practices of such sites. Please be aware that when you activate a link you leave our site and may be governed by an entirely different set of privacy protection policies. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of every web site you visit that collects personal information.

Policy on minors

The Site is intended only for use by individuals 18 years of age and older.

The Site is not intended to be used by minors or children. We will not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information submitted by visitors to the Site who are under the age of 18. For a full description of Mega Dollar Games' site participation policies, please read the eligibility section of our Terms and Conditions.

Security

Mega Dollar Games uses industry standard efforts to protect our players' personal information. When you submit sensitive information via the Site, this information is protected both on- and offline.

When you submit sensitive information - such as your credit card number and/or Social Security number - via our registration/order form, we want you to know that this information is encrypted and protected with SSL, the most widely used form of encryption in the industry. However, keep in mind that "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet.

Look for the Lock!

Visit a secure page on our Site.. When you do, you'll notice that the lock icon appears at the bottom of your Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer browser display. This tells you that the page is locked, or closed; unlike the unlocked or open icon that appears when you're surfing.

While we use SSL encryption software to protect sensitive information online, we also work to protect your personal information offline. Our security and privacy practices are a key element of the job of all employees. Our employees are notified and reminded of the importance we place on privacy and the responsibility they have in ensuring that players' sensitive information is protected. Our servers used to store personal information are kept in a secure locked environment.

Your acceptance of this privacy policy

By using the Site, you indicate your agreement with the terms and conditions of this privacy policy. If you do not agree with this privacy policy, then do not use the Site. We reserve the right to change the terms of this privacy policy. We will notify you of any material changes to this policy via email or by posting a prominent notice on the Site stating that the privacy policy has been updated. We will give you an opportunity to "opt out" of having your information collected and used pursuant to any different privacy policy. Also, we encourage you to review this privacy policy on a regular basis.

If you have any questions about Mega Dollar Games' site security policies and practices, please email playerservices@megadollargames.com

Site and service updates

Mega Dollar Games routinely sends players site and service announcement updates as a normal operating procedure. These service announcements, which cannot be unsubscribed, contain important information and updates about our services. Individual customer communications concerning service requests or account questions will be handled by individual email or telephone communications