Updated: 29th January, 2021
Our legal team require us to use the words below for the privacy policy, and so we shall. But we wanted to add our own simple message, because our privacy policy is actually very simple.
We ask for your email address, password, and name. Nothing else. We use your name on the site to show those you quiz with who you are. Eventually we might use it for a global leader board too. We use your email address to uniquely identify you, since everyone has a different email address, and a password to stop others logging in to your account. We can also send emails such as password reset emails to you. We will never send you spam and never tell anybody or any group what your email address is unless we must do so by law.
Your privacy is critically important to us. At QuizMachine, these are our guiding principles:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
- We don’t keep your personal information longer than is necessary to provide our services to you.
- 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 your personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our services.
- We don’t rent, sell, or exchange your personal information.
- We aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what’s visible to the public, seen by search engines, kept private, and permanently deleted if required.
This Privacy Policy describes how QuizMachine collects, uses, shares, stores, and protects your personally identifiable information. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information.
Website and Other Visitors
Like most service operators, QuizMachine may collect non-personally-identifying information
of the sort that web browsers, servers, and apps typically make available, such as the
browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor
request. QuizMachine’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to
better understand how QuizMachine’s visitors use its website and app. From time to time,
QuizMachine may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by
publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website. QuizMachine may also use this
information to improve our services and undertake quality assurance for our visitors and
customers who engage with our website or apps. Where permitted by law, we may also use
information to identify your general location to provide you with services, or relevant
frequencyMarketing and advertisements.
QuizMachine also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and unique device identifiers. We use this information to recognize repeat visitors to our site and facilitate the use of our service by you.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to QuizMachine’s website and application ("app", if available) choose to interact with QuizMachine in ways that require QuizMachine to gather personally identifying information so that we may provide you with the services you request. The amount and type of information that QuizMachine gathers depends on the nature of that interaction. For example, for visitors who choose to simply play a game through our website or app without establishing an account, we will gather the minimum amount of information necessary to provide you with our service, such as device identifying information, IP address and a name you provide to us for displaying your score. If you sign up for a QuizMachine account, we may also collect the account information you provide us, such as a username, age and email address. All interactions with QuizMachine’ website or app produce metadata that may identify you or could be identifiable information when paired with other information about you. In every case, QuizMachine strives to collect only the minimum necessary information from you as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor's interaction with QuizMachine or that is required by law. Visitors to the QuizMachine website or app may always refuse to supply personally identifying information, however, doing so may prevent you from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Safety on QuizMachine
QuizMachine does not accumulate personal information about any player for distribution, sharing, or selling except as described in this privacy policy.
Aggregated Statistics
QuizMachine may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to our website and app to improve our services. For instance, QuizMachine may monitor the most popular quizzes on the QuizMachine site. QuizMachine may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, QuizMachine does not disclose personally identifying information to any third parties other than as described below.
Use and Sharing of Your Personally Identifiable Information
QuizMachine limits its disclosure of both information that could on its own or in combination with other information be used to identify you. We only disclose personally identifying information to QuizMachine employees, contractors and subcontractors that: (i) must access that information in order to process it on QuizMachine's behalf or to provide services available at QuizMachine's website and mobile applications; and, (ii) agree not to disclose that information to others.
QuizMachine will not rent, sell, or exchange potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to any third party. Other than to QuizMachine’s employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, QuizMachine discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law such as to comply with a court order, or when QuizMachine believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property, or legal rights or safety of QuizMachine, third parties or the public at large.
Use of Your Information to Communicate With You
If you are a registered QuizMachine user and supplied QuizMachine with your email address, QuizMachine may occasionally send you communications, such as emails or texts, to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with QuizMachine and our products. 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. You may choose to stop receiving our emails by unsubscribing.
Quiz Comments and User Profiles
Certain activity on QuizMachine may be displayed to other users, such as commentary on published quizzes or our blog, or the information on your QuizMachine Profile. This information includes your username and public quizzes created by you.
You should be aware that any information you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. To request removal of your personal information from these posts, contact us at support@quizmachine.net.
Cookies and Web Beacons
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. QuizMachine uses cookies to test new features and to help QuizMachine identify and track visitors, their usage of the QuizMachine website, and their website access preferences. QuizMachine visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies, but some of the QuizMachine website’s features may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Some parts of the QuizMachine website contain third-party web beacons (electronic images sometimes called single-pixel gifs) which are used along with cookies to compile aggregated statistics to analyse how our site is used.
Data Security
The protection of all of your information is of the utmost importance to QuizMachine. While no company can ever guarantee the protection of your personally identifiable information, QuizMachine implements industry standard practices and procedures. As new methods of protecting your data become available, QuizMachine will introduce additional protections. QuizMachine takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
QuizMachine follows generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, however, is 100% secure. If you have any questions about QuizMachine’s security practices, you can contact us at support@quizmachine.net. QuizMachine reserves the right not to disclose our policies, procedures and the technologies and methods we employ to advance the security of your data so as to safeguard our practices.
Data Retention
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you services contact us at support@quizmachine.net. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Contact Us
If you have questions or wish to send us comments about this Privacy Policy, please send an email to support@quizmachine.net.
Privacy Policy Changes
QuizMachine reserves the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review
it frequently. If we make a material change to our practices regarding your personally
identifiable information, we will notify, by email, and/ or by means of a notice on our Web
site prior to the change becoming effective and seek your consent for those new
practices.