5.1 We may collect, process and use information about you in the following ways (either directly or via our Partners as explained above): (a) information you give us via GOG services; (b) information given when you contact us or report a problem with GOG services; and (c) we may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you don't have to respond to them. We may collect this information via GOG services or trusted third parties connected with us for optional things like surveys or polls.
When we process information about you, we do so as necessary to provide GOG services you use (i.e. to perform agreement between us, enable you to play GWENT), meet our legal obligations (f.ex. tax, accounting) or to fulfill the so-called "legitimate interests" of GOG or other reasons described in the "How we use your data" section. To clarify, by legitimate interests we mean lawful purposes that could be reasonably expected (like informing you about games we distribute and making sure our marketing is relevant for you, protecting the security of our websites and systems, conducting anti-cheat analysis and anti-fraud checks). When we rely on the legitimate interest, we consider and balance any potential impact on you and your rights. For other purposes we will ask for your consent and you will be entitled to withdraw this consent any time, with no impact on the validity of the processing before your consent has been withdrawn.
(b) to ensure that GOG services are presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer or other device from which you access GOG services.
(e) to notify you about changes to GOG services and our legal documents.
(g) To improve or modify GOG services, for example based on which games you like more and how you play them.
(h) To calculate conversion rates and other elements of GOG.com performance.
(j) to provide you with optional functionalities such as GOG Connect or authentication via Facebook account.
(k) to create a universal user's profile based on information about your use of GOG Services and other platforms (we'll rely on data made available when you merge your GOG account with your account on other platforms) in order to make our Services even more interesting for you.
Limited data about you will be visible as a part of your public profile, but it can be disabled at any time via the privacy settings in your account.
In general, we don't share information about you with third parties. There're exceptions like our partners that help us do our thing. They usually help us with things like data analytics, processing payments, internal tools or running a variety of marketing activities.
10.6 We use the reCAPTCHA service provided by Google Inc. to protect your submissions via internet submission forms on our sites. This plugin checks if you are a person in order to prevent certain website functions from being (ab)used by spam bots (particularly comments). This plugin query included the sending of the IP address and possibly other data required by Google for the Google reCAPTCHA service. For this purpose your input will be communicated to and used by Google. However, your IP address is previously truncated by Google within members states of the European Union or in other states which are party to the agreement of the European Economic Area and is, as such, anonymized. Only in exceptional cases is a full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the United States and truncated there. On behalf of us, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of our services. The IP address provided by reCAPTCHA from your browse shall not be merged with any other data from Google.
14.3 If you don't agree to those changes (regardless of whether you email us), then unfortunately we must ask you to cease using GOG services. We're sorry we have to say that, but we hope you'll appreciate that for GOG services to work properly we need to have everyone using it under the same rules instead of different people having different rules. That's why we encourage you to get in contact if you have queries.