Miniconomy Privacy Statement

If you visit this website or you have created an account, then this website is processing your personal data. In this privacy statement you can read what data we collect, why we collect it and for how long we store the information.

The creators of Miniconomy value the right of privacy and therefore try to protect Miniconomy players and website visitors as much as possible. The way we achieve this is by:

• Not publishing advertisements through third-party sites
• Not making use of external tracking (web statistics/analysis)
• Not embedding content from external websites
• Only using first-party cookies and only using these for the storage of user preferences and session management

What personal information do we use?

Information we store	Why do we store this information?	For how long do we store this information?
Your IP address	To prevent farming (having multiple account helping each other) To determine from which country you are and to determine which language we should offer the game in To keep the website safe and available	For users with an account: for a maximum of 1 year For website visitors: 10 days
Your e-mail address	To verify your account To keep you informed about your account status and (changes in) Terms and Conditions of Miniconomy To facilitate orders made through the website (credit purchases) To keep you informed about events in the game (only if you opted in for this)	As long as your account is active. If your account is deactivated, your e-mail address will be stored in such a way it is not useable anymore. If you delete your account, your e-mail address will also be deleted.
Information in your player profile (managed by you)	We store this information because you have linked it to your player profile. The information is managed by you and can be fully or partly fictitious. You decide for yourself what information you share. All information is visible for all Miniconomy players. If you are younger than 16 years of age, you are requested to ask permission from your parent(s) or legal guardian.	As long as your account is active you decide for yourself what profile information is stored. If you delete your account, the information in your profile is deleted too.
Messages in clubs, chat, your notepad, the news feed and in-game text messages (SMS)	To facilitate communication with other players To safeguard an honest and safe game in accordance with the game rules and the Terms and Conditions	As long as the information is required in regards to the transfer of information. When the information is no longer required it will be deleted within one year.
Your name (students accounts only)	To allow your teacher to know who you are	As long as your account is active. If your account is deactivated, this information will be stored in such a way it is not useable anymore. If you delete your account, this information will also be deleted.
Your player name	To identify accounts To publish results of past rounds After removal of an account: to prevent abuse of previously registered names by other people and to prevent others from profiting from your achievements	As long as needed to prevent abuse and to keep game results available. If account names contrain personally identifiable information the name can be changed or removed. Please contact the Federals to request a name change or deletion.
Payment information	To process payments To refund payments To comply with tax legislations	According to the legal retention period

Security

All connections to Miniconomy pages are secured and encrypted using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer). This ensures that no information sent between your browser and the Miniconomy server can be read or altered by third parties. The connections with our payment providers are also using SSL.

Use of cookies

Miniconomy uses cookies (tiny pieces of information stored in your browser) and session storage to:

• Manage your session (PHPSESSID)
• Which language you have selected (mc_language)
• Whether you are using the big or small chat (mc_bigchat)
• Which Miniconomy manual page you visited last (MC_man_page)
• Store the contents of a club message you are typing, to enable recovery after an accidental refresh of the page (session storage)

All cookies are stored for a maximum duration of one year, but you can remove them any time you want. Read the manual of your browser on how to delete cookies. Session storage will be deleted when you close your browser.

Viewing and downloading your data

If you are logged in it is possible to view and download the data we store about you and your account.