Nintendo of Europe GmbH ("Nintendo"), Nintendo Center, P.O. Box 1501, D-63760 Großostheim, Germany, respects the privacy rights of our online visitors and recognises the importance of protecting the information we collect about you. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before giving your consent to these terms.

By using this website you accept this website Privacy Policy. Each time you use this website you will be bound by the then current privacy statement and you should review this each time you use this website to satisfy yourself that you are happy with it.

Nintendo or its local affiliates will send you the regular newsletter and alert you to new Nintendo products,or third party products, features and enhancements, special offers, upgrade opportunities, and contests and events of interest. Such announcements are delivered via e-mail, mail or similar delivery methods. To opt out of receiving emails and other communication when registering your account, just de-activate this service by clicking on the checkbox in the frame of this privacy policy. If you are a registered user you can change the respective setting on the profile page.

Nintendo may use your personal information for marketing and market research reasons, so we can improve our web sites and products to better meet our visitors' needs.

Nintendo may place web beacons in email communication sent to you which will notify Nintendo when you open such email communication and, while reading such emails, will notify Nintendo whenever you reach a certain section of such emails.

Nintendo may place cookies and web beacons on its website which may be used to collect information about the pages you visit and the navigation you choose through our website. If you are a registered user of our website, this information may be stored in Nintendo's database to customize the website for you, to provide individualized information about Nintendo products to you and for other marketing purposes.

When you register a product on this web site you have to fill out a survey. The information you will provide when filling out the survey will be stored and used for Marketing Purposes.

If you own a Wii console or if you buy such console in the future, and you link your Club Nintendo account to your Wii Shop Channel account Nintendo will collect information about the way you use your Wii and the Wii Network Services including, but not limited to, information about the games you download and/or play and how long you play them. This information may be stored in Nintendo's database to customize the website for you, to provide individualized information about Nintendo products to you and for other Marketing Purposes.

Nintendo may share your information data with other entities of the Nintendo group (in particular its branches in Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom or its European affiliates Nintendo France SARL, Nintendo Espana, S.A. and Nintendo Benelux B.V., Nintendo of America Inc. in the USA and Nintendo Co., Ltd. in Japan) to inform you about their Nintendo or third party products and for internal marketing studies, in particular its branches and European affiliates located in Europe, Japan and the U.S. (for details see below "What happens to the information provided?"). The level of data protection under the laws of Japan is lower than the level in the EU.

You have the right to revoke this consent at any time. To opt out of receiving emails when registering your account, just de-activate this service by clicking on the checkbox in the frame of the privacy policy. If you are a registered user you can change the respective setting on the profile page. For the revocation of the further use of your data, please contact us at help_za@nintendo.de. Such revocation may lead to a termination of your account.

Details of the use of your data are set out below.

Nintendo owns several domain names and we will from time to time add new sites. Please note that this Privacy Policy applies only to sites maintained by Nintendo, its branches and European affiliates and not to web sites maintained by other companies or organisations to which we link. Furthermore, from time to time Nintendo may employ third parties who may collect personal information on Nintendo's behalf. In such cases, such third parties will be instructed by Nintendo to comply with the Nintendo Privacy Policy as set forth herein.

For the purpose of web site access, newsletter registration and email subscription Nintendo requires that you submit your full name, date of birth, email address, nickname for use on the site, country, gender and password for entry to the site. You may also voluntarily provide further information specified on the registration and profile page.

Nintendo encourages parents and guardians to spend time online with their children. We urge parents and guardians to instruct their children never to give out their real names, addresses or phone numbers, without permission, when using the Internet. Nintendo recognises a special obligation to protect personal information obtained from young children. In order for children under 18 years of age to participate in online activities that require registration, we require permission from a parent or guardian (opt-in). When a child under 18 registers, he or she must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. This parent or guardian will then have to confirm their consent with their child's registration.

Some of our sites use cookies (Cookies are small data files downloaded to your computer to store information about your recent website behaviour) to keep track of the fact that you have signed in so you don't have to continually enter your username and password. Also, a permanent cookie is used to store the language you chose our website to appear in.

Nintendo may place cookies and web beacons on its website which may be used to collect information about the sections you visit, the products you are interested in and the navigation you choose through our website. If you are a registered user of our website, this information may be stored in Nintendo's database to customize the website for you, to provide individualized information about Nintendo or third party products to you and for other marketing purposes.

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, if you do disable cookies, you may not be able to use all functions of this website. 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. Cookies will be stored on your computer.

Nintendo may place web beacons on its website to collect information about the pages you visit and the navigation you choose through our website. If you are a registered user of our website, this information may be stored in Nintendo's customers database to customize the website for you, to provide individualized information about Nintendo or third party products to you and for other marketing purposes.

Additionally, Nintendo may place web beacons in email communication and newsletters sent to you. These web beacons will notify Nintendo when you open such e-mail communications and newsletters and what electronic content you download.

Web beacons are tiny graphics files invisibly integrated into websites or into communications sent to you. When you access websites or communications which contain such web-beacons, the respective graphics files are loaded from the Nintendo server. The technique used to integrate such graphics files into websites or communication sent to you allows Nintendo to identify you as the individual accessing the files, provided that you are a registered user of the Nintendo website.

Nintendo may use your personal information for internal demographic studies and market research, so we can improve our web sites and products to better meet our visitors' needs.

The information you provide will also allow us, besides sending you the regular newsletter, to alert you to new Nintendo or third party products, features and enhancements, special offers, upgrade opportunities, and contests and events of interest. Such announcements are delivered via e-mail, SMS, mail or similar delivery methods if you consent to the use of your personal data for such services (see below). Nintendo does not sell personal information that we collect, but only employs that information for its own purposes and those of its branches and affiliated companies.

Provided you consent, (see below) Nintendo may share your information with other entities of the Nintendo group, in particular its branches in Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom and its European affiliates Nintendo France SARL, Nintendo Espana, S.A. and Nintendo Benelux B.V. Nintendo may also share your information with its affiliated companies Nintendo Co.,Ltd. in Japan and Nintendo of America Inc. in the U.S.

The level of data protection under the laws of Japan is lower than the level in the EU.

The reason for such transfer to affiliated companies inside and outside Europe is to enable them to inform you about their promotions and Nintendo or third party products and to conduct internal marketing studies.

Nintendo may also share your information with third party outsourced data processors acting in the interests of Nintendo and strictly in compliance with the Nintendo Privacy Statement as set forth herein.

Because an email address might contain personal identifying information, we protect the privacy of the sender by limiting access to these email messages and keeping them in a secure email system. Most email messages are deleted after they are responded to, however in certain cases, when necessary for the intended purpose, hard copies or data from certain email correspondence may be kept on file. Any such copies will also be stored in a secure location, and information from these messages will not be used for marketing purposes. In the event that Nintendo becomes legally obligated to disclose information obtained from consumers on its web site pursuant to legal or administrative process, Nintendo will take all reasonable steps to remove personal information from the data where possible.

If you do not want Nintendo to use the data as outlined in this privacy policy you can revoke your consent to the use of the data any time by sending an email to help_za@nintendo.de.  In addition you can request the deletion of all or part of your personal data from our database. This may lead to a termination of your account.

Nintendo will only collect personally identifiable information to the extent deemed reasonably necessary to perform the services provided through the Nintendo Website and to serve our legitimate business purposes, and Nintendo will maintain appropriate safeguards to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of the information you have provided. In addition, Nintendo will take reasonable steps to ensure that third parties to whom we transfer any data will provide sufficient protection of that personal information. (For example, if they are sending out an email announcement on Nintendo's behalf).

After you provided personal information to Nintendo you can review, change or delete it by clicking here, or sending an email to us at help_za@nintendo.de. A request to delete your personal information may lead to a termination of your account.

If you already own a Nintendo Wii console or if you buy a Wii console in the future, and if you choose to take advantage of the Wii Network Services, you have the option to link your Club Nintendo account to your Wii Shop Channel account.

When opening a Wii Shop Channel account you can choose whether or not to link your Club Nintendo account to the Wii Shop Channel account. If you decide not to do so, you will nevertheless be able to enjoy all services and advantages of the Wii Network Services. But by linking your Wii Shop Channel account to the Club Nintendo account you can take advantage of several additional features.

* You will be able to redeem your Stars to get Wii Points online (service dependent on availability)

* You will be able to claim Stars for Virtual Console games you purchase (service dependent on availability)

* You will be able to check your statistics from Wii games with online functionality (service dependent on availability)

By linking your Wii Shop Channel account to the Club Nintendo account you agree that:

Nintendo will collect information about the way you use your Wii and the Wii Network Services including information about the pages and Channels you visit, the products you are interested in and the games you play and/or download and the time you play; this information may be stored in Nintendo's database to customise this website and the Wii Network Services for you, to provide individualized information about Nintendo or third party products to you and for other Marketing Purposes;

the data collected through the Wii Shop Channel account will be processed and stored by Nintendo of America, Inc.

You can de-link your Wii Shop Channel account and Your Club Nintendo account any time. If you want to do so, just change the respective setting in your Wii Shop Channel menu.