1. Introduction
Welcome to ZeldaCentral.com (“we,” “us,” “our,” or “ZeldaCentral”). We are dedicated to providing information, news, guides, and community discussion related to The Legend of Zelda video game series. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, https://zeldacentral.com (the “Site”).
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using the Site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms, please do not access the Site.
We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. We will alert you about any changes by updating the “Effective Date” of this Privacy Policy. You are encouraged to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed of updates.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the Site includes:
- Personal Data: Personally identifiable information, such as your name, email address, and website URL, that you voluntarily give to us when you leave comments, subscribe to a newsletter, use our contact form, or interact in other ways requiring personal input.
- Derivative Data: Information our servers automatically collect when you access the Site, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the Site.
- Data from Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We may use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies on the Site to help customize the Site and improve your experience. See Section 5 (“Cookies and Tracking Technologies”) for more information.
3. How We Use Your Information
Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Site to:
- Operate and maintain the Site.
- Respond to your comments, questions, and provide user support.
- Send you administrative information, such as updates to our policies.
- Send you newsletters or other promotional communications, if you have opted-in.
- Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the Site.
- Prevent fraudulent transactions, monitor against theft, and protect against criminal activity or spam.
- Comply with legal and regulatory requirements.
- Compile anonymous statistical data and analysis for use internally or with third parties.
4. How We Share Your Information
We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:
- By Law or to Protect Rights: If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.
- Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including hosting, data analysis, email delivery, customer service, spam detection (e.g., Akismet for comments), and analytics (e.g., Google Analytics).
- Third-Party Advertisers: We may use third-party advertising companies (e.g., Google AdSense) to serve ads when you visit the Site. These companies may use information about your visits to the Site and other websites contained in web cookies to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
- Affiliate Links: ZeldaCentral.com may participate in affiliate marketing programs. If you click on an affiliate link and make a purchase, we may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. These affiliate partners may use cookies to track clicks and sales.
- Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
- With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
We do not sell your personal information.
5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store information.
- What are Cookies? Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve our Site and your experience, see which areas and features of our Site are popular, and count visits.
- Types of Cookies We May Use:
- Essential Cookies: Necessary for the website to function properly (e.g., session cookies).
- Analytics Cookies: Allow us to understand how visitors interact with the Site (e.g., Google Analytics).
- Advertising Cookies: Used by us or third-party advertisers to display relevant ads (e.g., Google AdSense).
- Functionality Cookies: Remember choices you make (like comment details).
- Your Choices: Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies. Please note that if you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could affect the availability and functionality of our Site. For more information on how to manage cookies, check your browser or device’s settings. You can often opt-out of interest-based advertising through mechanisms provided by the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) or Network Advertising Initiative (NAI).
6. Data Security
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us (e.g., using SSL encryption), please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse. Any information disclosed online is vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorized parties. Therefore, we cannot guarantee complete security if you provide personal information.
7. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. For example, comment data may be retained indefinitely unless deletion is requested, while analytics data may be retained for a specific period set by our analytics provider or our internal policy.
8. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal data under applicable laws like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) / California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). These may include the right to:
- Access: Request access to the personal data we hold about you.
- Rectification: Request correction of inaccurate personal data.
- Erasure: Request deletion of your personal data.
- Restrict Processing: Request restriction of processing of your personal data.
- Data Portability: Request transfer of your personal data to another party.
- Object: Object to the processing of your personal data (e.g., for direct marketing).
- Opt-Out (California Residents): Opt-out of the “sale” or “sharing” (for cross-context behavioral advertising) of your personal information. (Note: Clarify if you engage in activities defined as “sale” or “sharing” under CCPA/CPRA).
- Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information (California Residents): Request limitations on the use of sensitive personal information. (Note: Identify if you collect sensitive PI as defined by CPRA).
- Withdraw Consent: Withdraw consent at any time where we relied on consent to process your data.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided below. We may need to verify your identity before processing your request.
9. Children’s Privacy
ZeldaCentral.com is not intended for children under the age of 13 (or 16 in certain jurisdictions like the EEA). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under this age. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child under the relevant age without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to delete that information as soon as possible. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under the relevant age, please contact us.
10. Third-Party Websites
The Site may contain links to third-party websites and applications of interest, including advertisements and external services, that are not affiliated with us. Once you have used these links to leave the Site, any information you provide to these third parties is not covered by this Privacy Policy, and we cannot guarantee the safety and privacy of your information. Before visiting and providing any information to any third-party websites, you should inform yourself of the privacy policies and practices (if any) of the third party responsible for that website, and should take those steps necessary to, in your discretion, protect the privacy of your information. We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of any third parties, including other sites, services or applications that may be linked to or from the Site.
11. International Data Transfers
Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from your jurisdiction. If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to the United States and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer. We will take reasonably necessary steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
12. Contact Us
If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Email: we*******@**********al.com