1. Introduction
This Privacy Policy describes how MillionBrains.com collects and processes
your personal data.
We encourage you to read these terms before accepting them. Furthermore we encourage
you to print or save this Privacy Policy for future reference.
2. Consent
By accepting this privacy policy, you consent to
the collection and processing of personal data as described in this privacy policy.
By continuing the use of the MillionBrains.com website, you accept this privacy
policy. If you cannot consent to the terms, you are to discontinue all use of the
Million- Brains.com website.
3. Which information do we collect?
When you create an account on MillionBrains.com, we require certain information.
This information is your name, your country and your e-mail-address. If you wish
to, you can complete your profile information by submitting some or all information
regarding your date of birth, gender, city, phone, fax, home address or work address.
This information is called personal master data. Besides the personal master data,
you can submit personal data by taking part in the activities on MillionBrains.com;
e.g. by participating in challenges, posting in forums, posting on a blog etc. Such
information which you submit is collected by MillionBrains.com per your request
since such participation is voluntary. Furthermore MillionBrains.com collects data
on your activities on Million- Brains.com, e.g. which challenges you post or participate
in, which debates you participate in, how often you participate in challenges, which
input or comments you post etc. All payment information, such as credit card numbers
and bank account numbers is handled through a third party, and is encrypted for
your safety. Furthermore, we collect information on the general use of MillionBrains.com,
e.g. page views statistics, traffic to and from our site, ad data. We use cookies
and may store the IP-address you use to log on to MillionBrains.com.
4. For which purposes is the collected information used?
We collect the above required personal master information in order to
be able to identify you as a user ofbr /> MillionBrains.com. The non-required personal
master information is collected per your request in order for you to be able to
identify yourself better towards the MillionBrains.com website and its other users.
Other information posted by you on the MillionBrains.com website is used to facilitate
the purpose of MillionBrains.com and your use of the website. When MillionBrains.com
collects data on your use of the MillionBrains.com website, this is done in order
to improve the website, to be able to refine your user profile, and in order to
improve your possibilities to participate in the activities on MillionBrains.com,
e.g. in order to more precisely define which challenges you could have an interest
in, and to be able to tell which users of MillionBrains.com could be of specific
interest to spsspecific challenges.
5. How we use cookies and why we store your IP-address?
MillionBrains.com uses so-called cookies. Cookies are small text files,
stored on your computer, which contain an identification of your computer towards
Million- Brains.com. A cookie does not contain any information regarding you as
such. We use cookies to analyse the use of our site, customise our services, content
and advertising, and to identify you and maintain your logged-in status, among other
uses. Certain features on our site are available only through the use of cookies.
You are always free to decline our cookies, which can be done through the settings
of your internet browser, although doing so may interfere with your use of some
of our services. Should we allow advertisers on our site, those advertisers may
use cookies. We have no control over such third-party cookies. In connection with
visits to the MillionBrains.com website we may log the IPaddress used. Your IP-address
is the address of the computer which you are using to visit our website. The IP-address
is logged in order for MillionBrains.com to be able to trace which computer was
used in case of misuse or unlawful acts being done in connection with the use of
the MillionBrains.com website.
6. How secure is the collected information?
The MillionBrains.com website is technically run by a third party company
(a data processor). MillionBrains.com has entered into an agreement with this third
party company, with ensures that appropriate technical and organisational measures
to protect your personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction or accidental
loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure or access, and against all other unlawful
forms of processing, are being taken. The data processor acts only on instruction
from MillionBrains A/S with regard to the personal data collected on MillionBrains.com
website. You hereby authorise MillionBrains.com to give such instructions on your
behalf. The servers, from which MillionBrains.com is run, are located in a secure,
supervised environment in Copenhagen, Denmark which meets best industry practises
regarding security. By accepting this privacy policy, you accept that the data processor
chosen by MillionBrains.com, may process data regarding which you are the data controller,
and which are submitted by you to MillionBrains.com. On your request and conditioned
on your payment in advance of the data processor’s usual rates regarding such work,
the data processor will forward sufficient information to you iin order for you
to verify that the above mentioned technical and organisational measures are being
taken.
7. How can you access, review or change your personal information?
You can see, review and change your personal master data, by logging
in to your MillionBrains.com account. You are asked to promptly update your personal
master data, if it changes or is inaccurate. You can always see public postings
you have made on MillionBrains.com. However, when a public posting has been submitted,
you may not be able to change it. If you participate in closed projects, and make
postings in such a forum, you will be able to see such postings, as long as you
participate in the project. If you no longer participate in the project, you will
no longer have access to see such postings. You may not be able to change postings
which you have submitted in a closed project. If you request so by contacting MillionBrains.com
in writing at the postal address mentioned below, MillionBrains A/S will inform
you of which of your personal data MillionBrains.com processes as data processor,
for which purpose, who has received such information and from where the information
is collected. Such request shall only be complied with by MillionBrains A/S, if
six months have passed since your last request.
8. To whom is your personal data disclosed
Depending on your settings in your account privacy settings, the information
you post on the MillionBrains.com website is available to other users of Million-
Brains.com. You can always change your account privacy setting, and thereby define
which other users are to be granted access to your personal data. Besides this,
yyour personal data is only available to MillionBrains.com. You will be asked prior
to any other use.
9. How and when is your personal data deleted?
On your request, MillionBrains.com will close your
account and remove your personal master data from view as soon as reasonably possible.
Even though your account information and personal master data will no longer be
available to any user of the MillionBrains.com website or to you, we will still
store your data for a period of five years from your last logon to the MillionBrains.com
website. We retain such data in consideration of our financial accounting, in order
to be able to comply with the law, to prevent fraud, to resolve disputes, to be
able to assist public authorities with criminal investigations, for doing technical
troubleshooting and to enforce this Privacy Policy or other terms or policies relevant
to the MillionBrains.com website. Five years after your last logon to the MillionBrains.com
website, personal master data will be deleted. However copies of your personal master
data may be retained in backups for technical reasons. If you have made postings
in public or closed forums on the MillionBrains.com website, you may not be able
to remove it. After having closed or deleted your account on MMillionBrains.com,
any reference to your user account in such postings will however be void.
10. Third Party personal data
You are encouraged not to submit any postings containing personal data
regarding any third party person, without the acceptance of such third party person.
If content submitted by you contains information regarding any third party person,
such content can be deleted by MillionBrains.com on request from such third party
or on the initiative of MillionBrains.com. You hereby authorise Million- Brains.com
to delete such content, iif you are the data controller of such data.
11. Modifications to this Privacy Policy
From time to time MillionBrains.com may amend this Privacy Policy. If
such amendment is made, you will be informed on the MillionBrains.com website. The
first time you log in on the MillionBrains.com website, after such amendment has
taken place, you will be specifically asked to accept the amended Privacy Policy
or discontinue yyour use of MillionBrains.com.
12. Who is the data controller?
MillionBrains A/S is data controller regarding personal master information
which is collected on the MillionBrains.com website. For all other content which
you submit to the MillionBrains.com website, you are the data controller yourself.
13. How to contact us
For all questions regarding the collection of personal data and the treatment
of such on the MillionBrains.com website, you are welcome to contact us at: MillionBrains
A/S Prags Boulevard
47 DK-2300 Copenhagen S Denmark
Attn.: Chief Legal Officer Or e-mail us at
info@millionbrains.com
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