When you engage in certain activities on the IA World Wide Web site (http://www.interplayart.com) (this "Site"), such as ordering or registering products, downloading software, or entering contests, participating in chat rooms, IA may ask you to provide certain information about yourself by filling out and submitting an online form. It is completely optional for you to engage in these activities. If you elect to engage in these activities, however, IA may ask that you provide us personal information, such as your first and last name, mailing address and zip code, e- mail address, employer, job title and department, telephone and facsimile numbers, and other personal identifying information. When ordering products or services on this Site, you may be asked to provide a credit card number. Depending upon the activity, some of the information that we ask you to provide is identified as mandatory and some as voluntary. If you do not provide the mandatory data with respect to a particular activity, you will not be ableto engage in that activity.  When you submit personal information to IA on this Site, you understand and agree that this information may be transferred across national boundaries and may be stored and processed in any of the countries in which IA and its affiliates and subsidiaries maintain offices, including without limitation, the United States. You also acknowledge that in certain countries or with respect to certain activities, the collection, transferring, storage and processing of your information may be undertaken by trusted vendors of IA.

2. How your personal information is used