The following is the stated privacy policy for the Thermopylae Online game and website, as
operated by the Guild of Blades Publishing Group. By creating an account on
thermopylae-online.com either through the website or through the downloadable Thermopylae
Online computer game application, you agree to the Guild of Blades' privacy policy and its use
of personal information gathered from its users, as outlined below.
1) All users submit select information such as first name, last name, user name,
password, age, e-mail address, country of origin and perhaps state or province at the time
of creating an account.
All user data collected are used for one of several reasons. User names, and first and last
names are used to track customer and customer account types. Personal e-mails are used for
private corresponence between the Guild of Blades and its users, including but not limited
to the sending of game related update e-mails, important account notifications and other
information as related to the operation of offering game play to the users. The Guild of
Blades reserves the right to attach text based advertisements to e-mails sent to
thermopylae-online account holders, but in no case will an e-mail be sent solely for the
purpose of sending advertisements.
All personal information gathered by the Guild of Blades by users of thermopylae-online.com
shall be kept as propriatary information and under no circumstance shall it be sold or
otherwise shared with 3rd party companies or entities. User demographic information such as
gender, age and geographical locations will be compiled so as to present overall demographic
information on the user base for thermopylae-online.com to potential advertisers, partners
and affiliates of the Guild of Blades, but in compiling and sharing this data only general
statistics shall be made available and individual user data shall remain private
2) The Guild of Blades tracks origin URL/domain web address from all visitors or users
to the 1483online.com website. Additionally, when logging onto thermopylae-online.com through
your Thermopylae Online game application, the Guild of Blades reserves the right to log your
unique IP address and program serial numbers.
This data is used for two purposes only. Tracking of URLs and domains where users came from is
purely for internal Guild of Blades use and only for the purpose of understanding our own
marketing efforts and value of our advertising expenditures and strategic partnerships. IP
addresses and game serial numbers are expressly used for the purpose of accurately
indentifying a user to prevent abuse of game rules of the program technology. All this data
shall be kept private and not shared with any 3rd party.
3) User e-mails placed through the thermopylae-online.com message system shall remain
private and shall not reviewed, shared or otherwise used in any manner without the express
consent of the user who sent the mail. The Guild of Blades reserves the right review the
content of a user's sent messages when reviewing complaints by other users with regards to
violation of conduct rules as stated in the user agreeement.
4) All messages posted to the Empires of History discussion forums are public statements
and may be viewed by any persons also viewing the forum pages. There should be no expectation
of privacy with regards to any forum posts. Additionally, the Guild of Blades reserves the
right to publish quotes or other message statements in forum posts for the purpose of promoting
the Thermopylae Online site and game.
All users may view their own profile by logging into thermopylae-online and visiting their
"My Thermopylae" page. The Guild of Blades is not responsible for the information a user
choses to enter as a part of their account profile. Though it is recommended that a user not
create a Thermopylae user name or password that matches a user name and password used by that
user in other online profiles or accounts, especially sensative data like online payment
services, bank accounts, etc.
