Privacy and LegalWe at YouGamers take your privacy seriously. We warrant that we will honor our privacy policies as documented herein. By using this site, you hereby agree to adhere to the Legal Statement and the Privacy Statement. Legal StatementDefinitions"YouGamers" means Futuremark Corporation, a Finnish company with headquarters at Kappelitie 6 B, FIN-02200 Espoo, Finland. "Website" and "Service" mean an online publication at http://www.yougamers.com, produced and managed by YouGamers. GeneralYouGamers take pride in offering you, our valued customer, state-of-the-art on-line services. However, owing to the unique nature of the services we provide and the ever-evolving state of technology, it is virtually impossible for us to offer a perfect system. Furthermore, YouGamers' function in providing you with these services is that of a facilitator and, as a result, we are highly dependent on data that is submitted to us by others. THIS SERVICE IS PROVIDED TO YOU "AS IS". THIS MEANS THAT YOUGAMERS DOES NOT TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DIFFICULTIES YOU MAY ENCOUNTER WITH THE SERVICE. FURTHERMORE, THE SERVICE IS OFFERED TO YOU WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY. THIS IS OUR ENTIRE WARRANTY TO YOU. NEITHER YOUGAMERS NOR ITS AUTHORIZED DISTRIBUTORS OR PARTNERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY PRODUCT YOU MAY CHOOSE TO PURCHASE OR CHOOSE NOT TO PURCHASE AS A RESULT OF RECOMMENDATIONS OBTAINED BY USING THE SERVICE. YOUGAMERS WANTS SPECIALLY TO REMIND YOU THAT WHEN WE SUGGEST AN UPGRADE AND DUE TO THIS YOU BREAK THE SEAL ON YOUR PC CASE, YOU MAY RENDER THE MANUFACTURER'S WARRANTY NULL AND VOID ACCORDING TO MOST PC MANUFACTURERS’ LIMITED WARRANTIES, YOUGAMERS SHALL NOT BE HELD LIABLE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES FOR ANY COSTS OR LOSS ARISING FROM THIS. YOUGAMERS DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL LOSS OR LIABILITY RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE, RECOMMENDATIONS GIVEN TO YOU ON THE WEBSITE, SOFTWARE FROM THE WEBSITE, SOFTWARE OR HARDWARE PURCHASED VIA THE WEBSITE. YouGamers is not liable for, among other things, any loss of data, hardware or software, or any liability resulting from: access delays; access interruptions; viruses; hackers; crackers; data non-delivery or mis-delivery; negligent acts, grossly negligent acts or omissions by YouGamers; errors in any information, goods, or documents obtained due to a recommendation by YouGamers; and Force Majeure (in some jurisdictions known as act of God), or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other action, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of the Website and its services. YouGamers makes no representations whatsoever about any other website which you may access through our website. YouGamers has no control over the content or claims of websites outside the Futuremark domain, and does not endorse or accept any responsibility for the content of such websites. Furthermore, YouGamers combines pricing and availability information of various products obtained from third party companies. YouGamers is not liable for any errors or omissions in such information. YOUGAMERS, ITS REPRESENTATIVES, LICENSORS, AND SUPPLIERS MAKE NO WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION, BUT EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF DESIGN, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR TITLE, ANY WARRANTIES ARISING FROM A COURSE OF DEALING, USAGE, OR TRADE PRACTICE, OR ANY WARRANTIES OF NON-INFRINGEMENT OF ANY THIRD PARTY'S PATENT(S), TRADE SECRET(S), COPYRIGHT(S) OR OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS. YOUGAMERS, ITS REPRESENTATIVES, LICENSORS, AND AUTHORIZED DISTRIBUTORS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES (INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE). WHILE WE TAKE EVERY MEASURE WE CAN TO ENSURE THE QUALITY OF THE SERVICES WE OFFER YOU, YOUGAMERS DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE SOFTWARE OR OTHER PRODUCTS RECOMMENDED BY US WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, OR THAT THE OPERATION OF THE SOFTWARE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT DEFECTS IN THE SOFTWARE OR OTHER PRODUCTS WILL BE CORRECTED. NO ORAL OR WRITTEN INFORMATION, RECOMMENDATION OR ADVICE GIVEN BY YOUGAMERS OR AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF YOUGAMERS SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY. This disclaimer is not intended to contravene any requirements laid down in applicable national law nor to exclude liability for matters, which may not be excluded under that law. In countries and states that do not permit exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, YouGamers' liability is limited to the greatest extent permitted by law. If you do not accept these terms and conditions in full, you must terminate the use of the Website immediately. If there is a dispute, this Limited Warranty and Disclaimer shall be interpreted and governed by the laws of Finland. The United Nations Convention of Contracts for the International Sale of Goods shall not apply to this Agreement and it is strictly excluded. You agree that should you wish to commence any kind of legal action having to do with this Agreement, it shall be brought on in a court of competent jurisdiction in Finland.
Privacy StatementLast Updated on March 5, 2007. Because YouGamers wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, we are disclosing our information practices. We are hereby notifying you of:
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact YouGamers by email, info@yougamers.com.
Contact Information
Mr. Tero Sarkkinen / Chief Executive Officer
PRIVACY STATEMENT FOR YouGamersYouGamers (a publication of Futuremark Corporation) has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to personal privacy. The following discloses YouGamers' information gathering and dissemination practices for following websites: www.yougamers.com Log filesWe use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site, in other words for normal web statistics. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. CookiesWe use cookies to permit the:
Cookies are linked to a user account. If no user account exists, cookies are not used. Online FormsWe have some forms on our site for gathering / receiving information and feedback from our users. Unless otherwise explicitly stated, through the forms we collect, but do not store, information such as name, email and in some cases phone numbers and / or street addresses. Unless otherwise explicitly stated, the information is used to be able to contact the user, and is not handed over to third parties for their promotional use. Personally Identifiable InformationAny personally identifiable information collected without limitation throughout the website, public forum areas of the web site, may be used for YouGamers’ marketing purposes. No personally identifiable information is sold, or handed over to third parties in a form that enables identification of any single user of the web site. Public Forums DisclaimerThis site makes chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. Performance and PC Configuration DatabasesYouGamers web site contains data from users from around the world who benchmark their computers, send those results to us, and give us their permission to gather their computers' system information. Many of our unique services, such as the Game-o-Meter(tm), are based on this database. In order to use many of our services, we need to scan your PC’s software and hardware configuration. We do not scan any personally identifiable information from your PC. RegistrationYouGamers features an optional user registration form. The registration requires your user name, email address, and a password. The registration also includes other information fields, but those are optional and not required to complete the registration. You can opt-in to receive information from YouGamers and from YouGamers partners. If you create a user account at our site, we store your scanned PC configuration and link it to your user account. ServicesFuturemark reserves the right to use all data it collects via the Website to produce derivative products and services and offer those for free or under commercial terms to its customers. In ABSOLUTELY NO instance do we ever use or attach personal user information to any of these products or services. LinksThis site contains links to other sites. YouGamers is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other Web Sites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of these linked websites, because their privacy practices may differ from ours. ContestsWe may run contests on our site in which we ask our users for contact information (like their email address). We use the customer contact information from the entry form to send the user information about our company and its products, or to contact them when it becomes necessary (notices like, updates, patches, etc.). Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings (see the choice/opt-out section below). YouGamers may choose from time to time to give away prizes by random drawing. The method or methods for entering such contests will be communicated on the Web Site. If you're selected as a winner, you will be notified by email at the address you provided. You will be asked to acknowledge a "Release", and depending on the Prize, you may be asked to provide a mailing address, so that your prize can be delivered. SecurityThis site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. All the data regarding users and their computers' system information are stored on a server. This server is located in a locked and guarded space and only authorized YouGamers personnel have access to the database containing given user names and passwords. The security of your personal information is of paramount importance to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). Choice/Opt-OutYouGamers gives users the following options for removing their information from our database so that they no longer receive future communications or access to our other services:
Correct/UpdateIf your e-mail address changes or if you want to remove your data, please email our web administration webadmin@futuremark.com for any corrections or updates. Notifications of ChangesIf there are any changes to this policy, we will give notice about it on our Homepage. If we decide to change the way we are using personally identifiable information, we will notify the users by email. The users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected. Legal DisclaimerThough we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Web site. Contacting YouGamersIf you have any questions or comments about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web Site, you can contact webadmin@yougamers.com.
Public Forums DisclaimerThe owner of this discussion board is Futuremark Corporation, a Finnish corporation, hereinafter referred to as YouGamers. All content, information and opinions (collectively, the "Material") presented on the YouGamers Discussion Board at http://www.yougamers.com/forum/ (the "Discussion Board") are those of the authors of posts and messages (collectively, the "participants") and not YouGamers'. YouGamers does not guarantee the reliability, completeness, accuracy, timeliness or up-to-date-ness of the material presented on the Discussion Board. The material is published "as is", and does not represent the official views and opinions of YouGamers. Any reliance upon the Material presented on these forums shall be at User's own risk. YouGamers does not review the substance of the content posted by users on these forums and is therefore not responsible for any of such content. YouGamers merely provides a space for its users to express and exchange their own opinions. NOTICE THAT by submitting the post(s) on the Discussion Board the participant grants YouGamers the copyright of the material submitted. Any solicited or non-solicited idea, suggestion, or comment that is mentioned in this discussion forum becomes the intellectual property of YouGamers and might end up in one of it's products or services without credit or monetary consideration given to the originator of the idea. The following disclaimer and terms of use apply generally to all postings to the YouGamers Discussion Board. It is hereby also understood that any person posting to YouGamers will have been presented with this disclaimer and terms of use prior to doing so and, as such, be subject to its terms: CONDITIONS OF USE: You are entirely responsible and liable for all postings to the Discussion Board. Listed below are some, though not all, violations which may result in YouGamers deleting your postings. You agree not to do any of the following actions while posting to the Discussion Board: (1) harass, threaten, embarrass or slander any person or entity; (2) transmit via Discussion Board any information, data, text, files, links, software, chat, communication or other materials ("Content") that YouGamers considers to be unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, hateful, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable; (3) impersonate in the Discussion Board any business or person, living or dead, famous or not yet so; (4) disrupt the normal flow of dialogue in the Discussion Board or otherwise act in a manner that negatively affects other users; (5) post or transmit any unsolicited advertising, promotional materials, or any other forms of solicitation; and (6) intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, including but not limited to any regulations having the force of law while using or accessing the Discussion Board or in connection with your use of the Discussion Board in any manner. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: You agree that you will not upload or transmit any Content to the Discussion Board that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights ("Rights") of any party. You alone are responsible that you indeed have the right to submit Content to the Discussion Board. CONTENT: You must evaluate, and bear the risk associated with, the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any Content. YouGamers shall not be responsible for any Content. YouGamers does not prescreen or monitor all Content as a matter of policy, but YouGamers shall have the right, but not the responsibility, to remove Content which is deemed in YouGamers' sole discretion harmful, offensive, or otherwise in violation of this Agreement, national or international legislation or any rules YouGamers has in place at the time. YouGamers may elect at its sole discretion to monitor some, all, or no areas of the Discussion Board for adherence to this Agreement or YouGamers' rules. As some jurisdictions do not enforce the aforementioned limitations as such, these terms might not apply to you. In such case that any provision of this disclaimer shall be found to be void, invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall in no way be affected or impaired thereby. WHAT TO DO:If you witness a posting that violates these terms, please email the offending person's identification and cut and paste the relevant content into an email moderators@yougamers.com. YouGamers cannot guarantee that any action will be taken as a result of your email. Please refer to this Disclaimer page from time to time for any updates YouGamers may make to it. |
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