Newgrounds.com — Everything, By Everyone.

Newgrounds has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site, Newgrounds.com.

Information Automatically Logged

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is also used to help identify you for on-line voting.

Cookies

Our site uses cookies to store your login information, if you choose to create an account and browse the site as a registered user.

Third Party Advertising

Some ads appearing on this website are delivered to you by DoubleClick, our Web advertising partner. Information about your visit to this site, such as number of times you have viewed an ad (but not your name, address, or other personal information), is used to serve ads to you on this site. For more information about DoubleClick, cookies, and how to "opt-out", please visit www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp.

We use Gorilla Nation, Max WorldWide and other third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please click here.

Advertisers & Third Party Cookies

In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party ad server, Gorilla Nation, Double Click or their affiliates, or individual advertisers may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. While we use cookies in other parts of our Web site, cookies received with banner ads are collected by our ad company, and we do not have access to this information.

Registration Forms

Our site's registration form requires users to give us contact information (like their name, email address), unique identifiers (like their email address), and demographic information (such as their zip code or age). Contact information from these forms is used to get in touch with the customer when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below.

Unique identifiers (such as email address) are collected from Web site visitors to verify the user's identity, and for use as account numbers in our record system. Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. This information is shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis.

Order Forms

Our site uses an order form for customers to request information, products, and services. We may collect contact information (such as their email address) from these forms to get in touch with the visitor when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the Choice/Opt-Out section below.

Contests

We run contests on our site in which we ask visitors for contact information. This information is used to get in touch with the visitor when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below.

External Links

This site contains links to other sites. Newgrounds is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Public Forums

This site makes chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Children's Guidelines

This site DOES NOT MEET the Online Privacy Protection Act guidelines. This site has links that are unsuitable for children.

Choice/Opt-Out

Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving promotional/marketing information from our partners, and us. This may be done from the account options page.

Data Quality/Access

This site gives users the option of changing and modifying information previously provided. This may be done from the account options page.

Contacting the Web Site

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you may contact: tom@newgrounds.com.