Privacy Policy

At BackgammonMasters.com, your privacy is of utmost concern to us. We are committed to protecting your personal information and to ensuring that it will be used only as needed to operate your BackgammonMasters Account safely and effectively. We secure all user information using 128-bit SSL encryption. We never sell or give any private information to any third party except as needed for payment processing or legal purposes.

1. Personal Information Collected: At BackgammonMasters, we consider the information used to identify a person to be their "Personal Information." In this category, we include; first and last name, date of birth, physical address, mailing address, email address, phone number, and credit card information. Other information may be required in some cases. You will be asked Personal Information when you register for a new account, make a deposit, or perform other transactions using the BackgammonMasters Servers.

2. BackgammonMasters reserves the right to record a log of your activities involving our servers, including your IP address, your time and date of access, the web pages you have visited within our site, software crash reports, type of browser used, and language use. This information is necessary to continue to provide the best possible service to our users, and will not be used in any manner not relevant to BackgammonMasters Services and Games.

3. Children: Minors (those under the age of 18 and those under the legal age of majority in their jurisdictions) are not allowed to use the Software or play the Games provided by BackgammonMasters, nor may they participate in any contests or tournaments related to BackgammonMasters. BackgammonMasters reserves the right to ask for proof of age at any time, both before play, and during play if there is suspicion that a player may be under the legal age of majority. Additionally, we may need to access and verify your Personal Information in this respect. If we become aware that a minor has attempted to or has submitted personal information via the online site, we will not accept this information and will take steps to remove such information from our records.

4. User Account Responsibility: You are responsible for any actions taken using your user account. You are advised to keep your Account Name and password from being seen or used by others. If your identity is used improperly, you are solely responsible for any actions taken using your Account. If you believe that your Account Name and/or password has in any way been compromised, you should notify the support team at BackgammonMasters immediately.

5. In addition to the information mentioned above, BackgammonMasters reserves the right to collect information from online vendors and service providers that refer you to the BackgammonMasters.com site, and from customer lists lawfully acquired from third party vendors. In addition, BackgammonMasters may engage the services of third-party service providers to provide technical support, process your online transactions, and maintain your online Accounts. We will have access to any information you provide to such vendors, service providers, and third-party e-commerce services. This information may be disclosed only to our staff and to third parties involved in the completion of your transactions or in support of your use of the Service. We take steps to ensure that our arrangements with third party service providers and online vendors protect your privacy.

6. Information Use: We use the Personal Information we collect from you to deliver our Service, to provide customer support, to undertake necessary security and identify verification checks, to process any of your online transactions, meet certain business requirements, and for any other purpose related to the operation of the Service.

7. Unless you have elected not to receive promotional information, we may also use your Personal Information (including your email address and phone number) to provide you with information regarding any similar products, services and promotions, including other online gaming products of ours. We will not sell, lease, or share your Personal Information except as set forth in this Privacy Policy Section.

8. Limits of Confidentiality: Due to the legal, regulatory and security environment, BackgammonMasters.com may be required, under certain circumstances, to disclose personally identifiable information about you. BackgammonMasters.com may disclose your Personal Information also if we believe in good faith that such action is necessary: (i) to comply with any legal process served on us; (ii) to protect and defend our rights or property; (iii) to protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public. Further, we can, and you authorize us to, disclose your Personal Information (including, your player identification, name, street address, city, state, zip code, country, phone number, e-mail, and company) to third party agents of BackgammonMasters as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy, or any other unlawful or prohibited activity or activity that might expose us to legal liability.

9. Opting Out. You may "opt out" of receiving any promotional communications either by choosing to opt out where such option is made available on the BackgammonMasters.com website or the Service or in an email you receive from us, or at any time by sending an email to privacy@BackgammonMasters.com, or by writing to us at Customer Service, BackgammonMasters.com, JD Lucky Skill Ltd, 212 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9HG. In addition you may contact us at the aforementioned addresses if you: (i) want to confirm the accuracy of the Personal Information we have collected about you; (ii) would like to update your Personal Information or delete your Personal Information; and/or (iii) have any complaint regarding our use of your Personal Information. If requested, we will change any information you have provided to us or mark any information to prohibit future use, provided that you provide evidence as we may reasonably require for such changes.

10. Cookies: BackgammonMasters reserves the right to use cookies, small text files that are stored on your computer or equipment when you visit certain online pages that record your preferences. We may send you a temporary cookie when you visit www.BackgammonMasters.com website. We use cookies to track use of the BackgammonMasters.com site. We may use the data generated from cookies to compile statistical data on your use of our website. In addition, we may use cookies for certain security concerns. In no event will we use cookies to supply information to any third party, nor will we use cookies to track your use of other sites.

11. Consent to Use of Electronic Service Providers - ESPs. In order to play games for real money on the Service, you will be required to send money to, and receive money from, us. We may use third party electronic payment processors and/or financial institutions ("ESPs") to process such financial transactions. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you consent to Personal Information necessary for the processing of transactions being shared with ESPs, including, where necessary, the transfer of information outside of your country. We take steps to ensure that our arrangements with ESPs protect your privacy.

12. International Transfers: Personal Information collected on the Service may be stored and processed in any country in which we or our affiliates, suppliers, subsidiaries, or agents are. By using the Service, you consent to any transfer of information outside of your country. Nevertheless, we take steps to ensure that our affiliates, agents, subsidiaries, and suppliers comply with our standards of privacy regardless of their location.

13. Third-Party Practices: Although BackgammonMasters does its best to work only with trustworthy online sites, BackgammonMasters does not take responsibility for any information that you provide to third-party online sites which link to or from the BackgammonMasters website. This includes, but is not limited to, affiliate sites and advertisers. Since these third-party sites are not operated by BackgammonMasters, we take no responsibility for their privacy policies, if any. We recommend that you read their privacy policy before submitting any information on any website.

14. Consent to Security Review: We reserve the right to conduct a security review at any time to validate your identity, age, the registration data provided by you, and to verify your use of the Service and your financial transactions for potential breach of our End User License Agreement and of applicable law. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you authorize us, our staff, affiliates, subsidiaries, agents, and suppliers to use your Personal Information and to disclose your Personal Information to third parties for the purposes of validating the information you provide to us in the course of using the Services including, where necessary, the transfer of information outside of your country. Security reviews may include but are not limited to ordering a credit report and/or otherwise verifying the information you provide against third party databases. In addition, to facilitate these security reviews, you agree to provide such information or documentation as we may request.

15. BackgammonMasters reserves the right to use software to determine whether other active processes operating on your hardware represent a threat to the BackgammonMasters.com System, either by using artificial intelligence to play the Games or by altering the BackgammonMasters Software.