At 3D Joe Corporation, ("3D Joe"), we respect your right to privacy and we understand that visitors to 3D Joe Sites need to control the uses of their personal information. The privacy policy below details the measures taken by 3D Joe to protect your privacy in connection with your use of www.3djoe.com and other sites owned and operated by 3D Joe ("3D Joe Sites"). 3D Joe does not intend to collect any personal information from children under 13 unless 3D Joe believes such collection to be permitted by law; please read below for 3D Joe's policy with respect to children under 13.
3D Joe gathers user information to provide you with a customized experience on our site. Your user information helps us tailor the content, services, goods and advertising to your current and future needs. For this reason, we may ask you to register or to provide personal information when you play games, write reviews, download free software, enter a contest, order products, subscribe to a newsletter and/or visit certain areas of a 3D Joe site. If you choose not to register you may not have access to areas that require personal identification.
If you register with 3D Joe Sites or purchase products from us, from time to time we may e-mail you with messages about our services or third party products and services we believe may be of interest to you, such as new products, features, services, special offers and updated information. The newsletters may contain code that enables our database to track your usage of the newsletters, including whether the e-mail was opened and/or what links (if any) were clicked. We will combine that information with other information we have about you and may use that information to improve your site experience and/or provide customized e-mail communications to you. In addition, if you register with an 3D Joe site or purchase products you may automatically receive e-mails confirming your registration and/or purchase and providing you with necessary information relating to the access or use of your registration and/or purchase. With the exception of the e-mails described in the preceding sentence which are necessary to provide customer support and deliver products and services to you, you may opt-out of receiving e-mail from us as described below under "What are my options to control the use of my personally identifiable information?".
When you register, 3D Joe asks for your e-mail address, a user selected user name, and other information.
3D Joe may use an online order form for users to request information, products and services. For that order form, we collect a user's contact information (e-mail address) and necessary financial information to process the order (i.e. credit card number). Contact information from the order (including e-mail) is used to deliver digital products and information from 3D Joe. 3D Joe may use third parties to accept and process orders and credit card purchases for merchandise and products, including software. 3D Joe currently uses the services of Authorize.net for credit card processing for 3djoe.com and Wells Fargo for credit card billing. Authorize.net collects information from consumers solely to process payment transactions on behalf of its merchants and will only share consumer information with the merchant who originated the transaction, vendors, processors, banking institutions, and credit card associations as necessary to process payment transactions. Authorize.net does not sell or rent this information, and will only share it as stated in its Privacy Policy. Wells Fargo collects information from consumers solely to process payment transactions on behalf of its merchants and will only share consumer information with the merchant who originated the transaction, vendors, processors, banking institutions, and credit card associations as necessary to process payment transactions. Wells Fargo does not sell or rent this information, and will only share it as stated in its Privacy Policy.
3D Joe may occasionally present a special contest or promotion that is sponsored by another company. To qualify for entry in that contest or promotion, we may ask you to provide personal information. If we plan to share that information with the sponsor(s) or with others, we will provide a statement to that effect in the contest or promotion terms.
All communication on the internet takes place between pairs of IP Addresses. Our Web servers will log the IP address that any connection is made from. We may use these IP addresses to help diagnose technical problems or prevent abuse of our systems or other site users. Your IP address may also be used to gather aggregate demographic data and target advertisements accordingly.
A "cookie" is a small line of text that is stored with your Web browser for record-keeping purposes and to help us provide better service to you. Your browser has options to accept, reject, or provide you with notice when a cookie is sent. We use cookies to save your password (in an encrypted format) on your machine so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our site. We also use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and track your downloads and purchases from the 3D Joe Sites.
We use an outside company MoochiAds, to serve advertisements on our site. In the process of serving advertisements, MoochiAds may place a cookie in your browser's cookie file and may use information (excluding your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other Web sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you. By delivering ads on the 3D Joe Sites, MoochiAds is able to record what ads a user -- identified by the unique cookie -- has seen, and what 3D Joe site pages the user was viewing when the ads were delivered. This Web usage information is combined with other ad delivery information MoochiAds has (e.g., what type of operating system your computer uses) collected from your visits to 3D Joe Sites and other sites not affiliated with 3D Joe. This non-personally identifiable information is used as part of the ad serving process for reporting and to select and direct the ads you see online at 3D Joe Sites and other sites not affiliated with 3D Joe. Unlike the cookies 3D Joe uses in other parts of our site, cookies received with banner ads are collected by MoochiAds and we do not have access to this information. Additionally, some ads served by MoochiAds are generated by third party ad serving systems that also may place a cookie or transparent GIF file on your browser to provide web usage information to those third parties.
The 3D Joe Sites contain links, including banner and other ads, to other Web sites. 3D Joe is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. The 3D Joe Sites may also link to Web sites that feature 3D Joe trademarks and names along with trademarks and names of other companies. You should look at the privacy policy on that Web site, as the Web site may not be under 3D Joe's control.
Applications you use or download from the 3D Joe Sites may contain third party digital rights management systems ("DRMS") which may allow for communication between your software and the third party and utilize security features (e.g., preventing distribution of or access to the applications in the event of unauthorized use). These DRMS are subject to their own license agreements and you agree that 3D Joe shall not be responsible for any loss or damage of any sort relating to the use of the DRMS or your dealings with such third parties. The applications may also contain DRMS produced by 3D Joe which allow for communication between the applications you use or download and our systems and which collect information describing your computer system in order to prevent illegal or unauthorized use of the applications. More specifically, the DRMS for applications licensed from the 3D Joe Sites may transmit the following pieces of information, along with other information, when you either enter a purchase key or sign in with your subscription service user name and password: Operating System, CPU Version Information (including serial number from a serial-number-enabled Pentium III), BIOS Version Information, NetBIOS Computer Name, DOS HD Serial Number, Hard Drive Size / Geometry, S.M.A.R.T. IDE HD Serial Number, Network Card MAC Address, IP Address and Size of Physical Memory.
For reasons such as improving member experience and providing customized communications to our users, we may receive information about you from third party sources and our web logs (see the "Web Logs" section below) and add it to the information that we have received from you.
Web logs automatically record anything a web server sees, which may include e-mail addresses you enter into a form or pages viewed by a user at a particular IP address. If you are not a registered user of an 3D Joe Site or if you have elected to Opt-Out of receiving e-mail from us, we will not use the information from web logs to market to you. If you are a registered user of an 3D Joe Site and have not elected to Opt-Out of receiving e-mail from 3D Joe, we may use web log information about your use of the 3D Joe Sites in order to inform you about content, products, or services in accordance with your e-mail options.
We will not share your personally identifiable information with third parties, aside from entities that perform services for us, such as e-mail marketing (VerticalResponse) fulfilling orders or processing payment, that either are bound to comply with our privacy policy or have privacy policies that protect your information unless you have "opted-in" to such sharing. If you have previously opted-in to such sharing under a prior privacy policy version, you are still considered to have opted-in under this Privacy Policy. As stated, and whether or not you have opted-in, 3D Joe may use third parties to accept and process orders for merchandise and products, including software, and such third parties may get access to your personal information for the purposes of providing services or products to you on 3D Joe's behalf. In addition, if you Opt-Out, as discussed below, we may share that information with third parties who send e-mails on our behalf so that they do not e-mail you.
However, 3D Joe may disclose information you provide if required to do so by law or if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is necessary to (1) comply with the law or with legal process served on 3D Joe; (2) protect and defend the rights or property of 3D Joe; or (3) act in an emergency to protect someone's safety.
We may request demographic information from you (for example, your age, education level or household income) from time to time. We will not share that information in a manner that identifies you as an individual with any other entity, unless we let you know that at the time of collection or we have your permission. When we share demographic information with third parties, we will give them aggregate information only.
In the event that 3D Joe is acquired by another company, your personal information may be part of the assets transferred to the acquiring party
If you provide us with your e-mail address, and do not opt-out of receiving e-mail from us, we may e-mail you with information from 3D Joe, including information about selected third parties. If you do not want to receive information from 3D Joe, you may decline to receive it (or "Opt-Out") either when you provide personal information to 3D Joe or you may update your profile from the link via our web site. You may also choose to Opt-Out from certain types of e-mail by following the unsubscribe instructions that appear on each newsletter. You may also contact 3D Joe by postal mail at the address below. Note that you might be signed up for multiple e-mail preferences and you should be sure that you unsubscribe only from the ones you no longer want to receive. Please note that there might be a brief delay between when you submit your request to Opt-Out and when it is processed and reflected in our systems; accordingly you might continue to receive e-mails from us for a few days after you unsubscribe. We maintain records of those users who Opt-Out of specific e-mail options so that we do not e-mail them with respect to those types of e-mails and we may share this information with third parties who send e-mails on our behalf so that they do not e-mail you; this information may also be contained in web logs (see above).
The 3D Joe Sites are general audience sites and are not directed to children under the age of 13. 3D Joe assumes products purchased through credit card means are purchased by adults. 3D Joe respects the privacy of parents and children and is committed to complying with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). On those areas of the Sites that ask for age, 3D Joe does not collect personal information from individuals who identify themselves as under the age of 13 except in those limited circumstances where 3D Joe believes that such collection is permitted under COPPA.
If a parent believes that his or her child has submitted personal information to 3D Joe, he or she can contact us via e-mail or postal mail as listed below. 3D Joe will promptly delete the information upon learning that it relates to a child under the age of 13. Please note that it is possible some of this information may remain archived in web logs and back-up archives after 3D Joe deletes the information from its active database (see the Web Logs paragraph above, and the Archived Information paragraph below).
3D Joe believes that parents should supervise their children's online activities and consider using parental control tools available from online services and software manufacturers that help provide a kid-friendly online environment. These tools can also prevent children from otherwise disclosing online their name, address and other personal information without parental permission.
3D Joe has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. These include a firewall to prevent unauthorized access to our systems and maintenance of registration information in a separate database. Although we will exercise reasonable care in providing secure transmission of information between your computer and our servers, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted to us over the Internet and we accept no liability for any unintentional disclosure. We will protect the transmission of credit card information through industry standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption.
3D Joe may offer user reviews, multi-player games, bulletin boards, chat or other public functions and any posting by you is considered public information available to other users. Any posting is governed by 3D Joe's Terms of Service. You should take care to not use personal information in your screen name or other information that might be publicly available to other users.
If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site or particular features or content, we ask them for the friend's name and e-mail address. 3D Joe will automatically send the friend a one-time e-mail inviting them to visit an 3D Joe Site. 3D Joe stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time e-mail.
Your personal information is password-protected, and you should take appropriate measures to protect the secrecy of your password. If you use a computer in a public place or share a computer with others, remember to sign out and close your browser window when you finish a session with 3D Joe in order to prevent others from accessing your personal information.
3D Joe maintains archives of its web logs, database, and other systems and information. Please note that it is possible some of this information may remain archived after 3D Joe deletes the information from its active database (see the Web Logs paragraph above). 3D Joe maintains archives for disaster recovery, legal and other non-marketing purposes.
3D Joe would like to receive your comments and questions about this Privacy Policy. Please address comments or questions regarding 3D Joe's Privacy Policy to us via a method below:
For online submissions, use our online contact form.
Contact 3D Joe by mail at:
3D Joe Corporation Attn: Privacy Department 833 S 19th St Ste D Richmond, CA 94804 USAYour use of the 3D Joe Sites, including any dispute concerning privacy, is subject to this Privacy Policy and 3D Joe's Terms of Service. By using the 3D Joe Sites, you are accepting the practices set out in this Privacy Policy and those Terms of Service. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the changes on this page. Please check the revision date at the bottom of this page to determine if the policy has been modified since you last reviewed it. Your continued use of any portion of the 3D Joe Sites following posting of the updated Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of the changes.
Last Updated: 02-15-2008
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3D Joe launched it's first online game in 1998 entitled Water Balloon Drop. Now, 10 years later 3D Joe is focusing it's efforts on developing several new online games for release this year.
Our mission is to create unique casual games that focus on simple game play and offer compelling, humorous content.
We create games that are entertaining, fun to play yet hard to master. Having grown up on Pac Man, Asteroids and the like, we realize the value in creating games that aren't overly complicated. In other words, you won't find us creating yet another version of a match three puzzle game.