Privacy Policy

Future US, Inc. NPower Statement of Privacy
Last Updated on October 1, 2007

At Future US, Inc. ("Future"), we are excited to be working with Nintendo of America Inc. ("Nintendo") to provide you with NPower magazine and the NPower website located at www.nintendopower.com. We are committed to protecting the personal information you provide to us and have drafted this privacy policy to explain our data collection practices. Your use of this website is subject to this NPower Statement of Privacy ("Privacy Policy") so please carefully read the complete privacy statement.

Occasionally, Future may revise and update this Privacy Policy. Please check back from time to time to ensure that you are aware of any changes to our privacy practices. If we make a material change to this Privacy Policy, we will post a notice of the change on this web site.

Personal Information Collected.

We may collect personal information about you such as your first and last name, physical address, email address, phone number, and credit card number (collectively, the "Personal Information") so that we can provide you with the services you request such as NPower updates, participation in our forums and registration for various sweepstakes or contests. When you subscribe to NPower magazine your Personal Information will be collected by our trusted outside fulfillment company and that company will use that information to fulfill your subscription request. Please note that the Personal Information you provide to us when you sign-up for NPower will be shared with Nintendo, so that it can continue to serve you as a Nintendo customer. Such Personal Information will be handled by Nintendo in accordance with its privacy policy located at http://www.nintendo.com/privacy.

Use of Personal Information.

In addition to the above, we may use your Personal Information for the following primary purposes:

1. To help us create and deliver content relevant to you.
2. To alert you to special offers, updated information and other services.
3. To help us determine if any modifications need to be made to our publications or with respect to our subscriptions.
4. To contact you regarding participation in a reader survey.

In addition to our outside fulfillment company, we may occasionally share your Personal Information with trusted third parties we hire to provide limited services on our behalf such as packaging, mailing and delivering Nintendo Power magazine, answering customer questions about products or services, and sending postal mail. We will only provide such third party companies with the limited Personal Information they need to deliver such services. All such third parties are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.

We will disclose your Personal Information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

1. conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on us;
2. protect and defend our rights or property; or
3. act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of any of our websites, or the public.

Control of Your Personal Information.

Your Personal Information provided for a magazine subscription is handled and controlled by our outside fulfillment company. If you have any questions about your Personal Information or wish to change or delete your Personal Information deleted, please write to us at Nintendo Power, Customer Care, P.O. Box 5770, Harlan. IA.

Security of Your Personal Information.

Our trusted subscription fulfillment company has technical, administrative, and physical security measures in place to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access and improper use. They also review security procedures periodically to consider appropriate new technology and updated methods. But, despite our best efforts, no security measure is ever perfect or impenetrable.

Special Notification with Respect to Children's Privacy
(Users under the Age of 13).

Future complies with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 ("COPPA"). In accordance with COPPA regulations, we DO NOT:

1. Request or knowingly collect personally identifiable online or offline information from users under 13 years of age without their parents' or legal guardians' permission;
2. Knowingly use or share personal information from children under 13 years of age with third parties without the permission of such child's parent or legal guardian;
3. Give children the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute their Personal Information; or
4. Entice children with the prospect of a special game, prize or other activity to divulge more personal information than is needed to participate in the activity.

This website is designed to only collect Personal Information from individuals who are 13 years of age or older. Any users under 13 who try to register are screened via an online age check that uses cookies.

Use of Cookies.

Most browsers are automatically set to accept cookies. You can disable cookies or set your browser to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, some areas will not function properly if you do so. There are many sources for additional information about Internet cookies, and we encourage anyone concerned about the use of cookies to do more research on the topic so you can make an informed decision about accepting them from any site. As technology advances and cookies provide more functionality, we expect to utilize them in different ways. Currently, to ensure we are publishing content customers need and want, we may elect to collect aggregated site-visitation statistics using cookies.

Third Party Advertising.

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit certain of our websites. These companies may use aggregate information, which is not personally identifiable, about your visits to this and other websites 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: http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp.

Future US does not provide any Personal Information to an advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad. Downloads or other content interacted with from third party advertisers is subject to the advertiser's privacy policies and not the terms of this Privacy Policy.

If you click on a third party advertisement on this website, please know that such third parties may set cookies on your computer based on you viewing their ad. Other companies' use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to Future cookies.

IP Addresses.

An Internet Protocol ("IP") address is a unique string of numbers that is assigned to your computer by your Internet Service Provider. Web servers automatically identify your computer by its IP address. We will use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer this website. Your IP address also may be used to gather broad demographic information. Your IP address is not tied to any of your Personal Information.

Non US Visitors.

This Privacy Policy is intended to meet the laws and requirements of the United States. If you are visiting this website from outside the United States, any information you provide will be treated in accordance with the laws of the United States or, if the law in jurisdiction does not permit you to access our website, then you must not maintain access to it.

Contact Information.

If you have questions regarding this statement, please contact us at webmaster@futureus.com. We welcome your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy, please contact us by e-mail, or postal mail at

Future US, Inc.
Attention: Webmaster
4000 Shoreline Court, Suite 400
South San Francisco, CA 94080

Opt-Out

If you do not want Future to send you e-mail, regular mail, or other messages about NPower Magazine, you can opt-out either (i) when you subscribe to the magazine on-line or (ii) from any email you receive from us. If you have opted-in and, at a later date, wish to have your name removed from our e-mail or regular mail databases, please email us at webmaster@futureus.com and let us know you would like to be removed from our mailing list. Please note that by opting out of receiving messages from Future, you are not opting out of receiving messages from Nintendo.