PublisherSpeedDating.com Privacy Policy

PublisherSpeedDating Data Use, Privacy, and Security Policy

When you interact with us, we ask you to supply us with personally-identifiable information (PII) so that we can provide, enhance, and personalize our services and marketing efforts. We use this personal information for various reasons, including to process your registration, orders, and payments, as well as for communication purposes.

Personally Identifiable Information We Collect and Store

We keep and use your personally-identifiable information internally as follows:

  • We use your name to address communications, look up users in our administrative backend, and to identify designers and judges.

  • We use your email address(es) to communicate with you periodically about upcoming speed dating events. If you list one or more designs on our site, your email address will be made available through our sell sheet database for publishers interested in your game(s) to contact you. Your email address will also be your login username.

  • We record the IP address(es) you connect from for error logging and security purposes only. It is never shared with anyone outside our development team or displayed on the public website.

Personally Identifiable Information We Share with Third-Party Services

The following third-party websites and services are used by our staff to conduct our business. The function of each third-party entity and the data shared with them are below:

  • Mailgun is an email list management service. We use it to send periodic automated emails about upcoming events and deadlines. We share your email address and your first and last name with Mailgun via its API when sending you a message. You may opt out of any or all emails from your Account Settings.

    • Other Platforms We Have Integrated With

    Additionally, our software integrates with the following web platforms. In each case, only the username or profile URL you provide to us will be shared with the respective platform to retrieve data. All of these integrations may be opted out of by simply not providing your profile information for the service to PublisherSpeedDating.com.

    Your Right to Be Forgotten

    You may, at any time, request that we delete all personally-identifiable data about you in our possession. Please make this request via email to support@publisherspeeddating.com and allow 30 days for we to comply with your request.

    Data Security

    We are serious about your security and use reasonable administrative, technical, physical and managerial measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that any security system is 100% secure. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee the security of your information and cannot assume liability for improper access to it. Thus, you hereby agree to release us from any and all liability stemming from the dissemination of your personal information as a result of a breach in security. By using our service, including our website and user interfaces, or providing information to us through any means, you agree that we can communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues relating to your use of this site.

    All transactions on this website are conducted over secure HTTP using a current SSL certificate. Every effort has been made to conform to all data security laws and best practice standards, including PCI and GDPR.

    Our web and database server(s) are physically hosted at HostDime's SOC2-certified datacenter in Orlando, Florida. Additionally, we maintain an archive of offline data backups at the Indie Game Alliance headquarters, also in Orlando, Florida.

    By using this website, you agree to immediately disclose to PSD's development staff (at support@publisherspeeddating.com) any security vulnerabilities you may discover. You further agree not to disclose such vulnerabilities to the public at large for at least 90 days after notifying us, to allow us time to cure the vulnerability without increasing the likelihood of attack by publicizing the vulnerability.