We take your privacy seriously and will only use your personal information to administer your account, for example sending password recovery emails.
From time to time we would like to send you a newsletter with information related to Shartak. If you consent to us contacting you for this purpose, you can use the checkbox within your account preferences to enable this (or enable it during account creation). This consent can be removed at any time by using the checkbox in your account preferences.
shartak.com will collect personal information such as email address, website url and real name. Other than a valid email address, such information is always submitted voluntarily by the user through character registration or character profile updates. User information is never sold or shared with other parties unless required to do so by law enforcement agencies.
shartak.com uses "cookies" as a means to maintain logins but not to acquire personal information. Advertising within the website may use cookies as a means to track click-throughs but these are not under our control as advertising is through Google Adsense.
Your IP address is logged whenever you access the website because that's how our web server works. The IP address you logged in from is recorded to prevent abuse.
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States . Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
Your email address will never be displayed on your profile without your permission which is indicated by updating your personal preferences and ticking the relevant checkbox.
Logging in using Facebook only uses the numeric Facebook id (visible in your Facebook profile link) and your email address. All other information that you have made public and is available through the Facebook API is discarded as soon as you have logged in (Facebook sends it, we don't request it).
Access to personal information is restricted with the exception of any information displayed within user profiles at https://www.shartak.com/profile.cgi (click for a sample) or User pages within the wiki at https://wiki.shartak.com/ whose content is also submitted voluntarily.
Feel free to contact us via the Feedback form if you have any other questions.