Online Privacy Policy

Effective Date: May 4, 2023

This online privacy policy (this “Policy”) describes the information that the SMSC Gaming Enterprise collects from or about you through this website. It also describes how we use and disclose that information and some of the steps we take to protect your privacy. 

Scope of This Policy

This Policy applies to personally identifiable information (“personal information”) collected through this website, and other services we provide, whether online or offline (hereinafter, collectively, the “Services”). It does not apply to third-party sites, including social media websites or to other third-party websites we may link to via the Services. 

This Policy is Part of Our Terms of Use

This Policy is part of the Terms of Use that govern your use of this Site. A link to our Terms of Use is provided at the bottom of each page of this Site.

Additional Notices and Agreements

Privacy Notices. This Policy may be supplemented or amended from time to time by additional “Privacy Notices” posted on our Services. These Privacy Notices provide additional detail about our privacy practices. For example, certain portions of our Services may contain Privacy Notices providing additional details about the information we collect, why we need that information, and choices you may have about the ways we use that information.

Types of Personal Information We Collect

We collect the following categories of personal information from consumers:

1. Identifiers, such as name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifiers, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, signatures, physical characteristics or description, telephone number, or other similar identifiers.
2. Financial Information, including bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information that does not allow access or withdrawal of funds. 
3. Characteristics of Protected Classifications under state or federal law, such as age, gender, and marital status.
4. Commercial Information, such as records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
5. Biometric Information, such as imagery of the iris, retina, fingerprint, face, hand, palm, vein patterns, voice recordings, gait patterns, or rhythms, and sleep, health, or exercise data from which we can extract identifying information. 
6. Internet or Other Network Information, such as browsing history, search history, information regarding your interactions with our websites or advertisements.
7. Geolocation Data, such as device location that is more granular than a city or town.
8. Audio, Electronic, Visual and Similar Information, such as call and video recordings.
9. Inferences drawn from any of the Personal Information listed above to create a profile or summary about, for example, an individual’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
10. Sensitive Personal Information, including:
    1. Personal Information that reveals your:
       1. Precise geolocation that is used or intended to be used to locate you within a small geographic area (less than a radius of 1,850 feet).
    2. Biometric data processed for the purpose of uniquely identifying you.

Sources of Personal Information

Information You Manually Provide. The SMSC Gaming Enterprise collects personal information you provide when you use our Services. For example, this may include information you provide when you create an account, join our email club, or otherwise interact with our Services.

Information From Third-Party Social Media Platforms. You may be able to register with, log on to, or enhance your profile on our Services by choosing to automatically populate the requested data fields with information you previously provided to a third-party social media platform (such as Facebook or X). By doing this, you are asking the third-party platform to send us information, including personal information, from your profile on that platform.

Information Collected Automatically. The SMSC Gaming Enterprise collects information that is sent to us automatically by your web browser or mobile device. This information typically includes your IP address, the name of your operating system, the name and version of your browser, the date and time of your visit, and the pages you visit.

It also includes information collected via cookies and other similar technologies (collectively, “Cookies”). We use Cookies to collect information and support certain features of our Services. For example, we may use Cookies to:

• Collect information about the ways visitors use our Services—which pages they visit, which links they use, and how long they stay on each page;
• Support the features and functionality of our Services—for example, to prompt the settings you established on previous visits;
• Personalize your experience when you use our Services; and
• Improve our marketing efforts, including through use of targeted advertising.

The Cookies we use on our Services include Cookies that are provided by certain of our vendors and third parties. For example, we use Adobe Analytics, a web analytics tool that helps us understand how visitors engage with our Sites. To learn more about Adobe Analytics, click here.

The information we receive may depend on your browser or device settings. For example, you may be able to set your browser or device to reject Cookies or to alert you when a cookie is placed on your computer. However, if you reject Cookies, you may be unable to use all of the functionality of our Services.

How We Use Personal Information Collected via Our Services

Generally, we use the personal information we collect via our Services:

• To provide the information, products and services you request.
• For security, credit or fraud prevention purposes.
• To provide you with effective customer service.
• To provide you with a personalized experience when you use our Services.
• To contact you with information and notices related to your use of our Services, for example, communications related to your booking services history or applying to open positions via our Services.
• To contact you with special offers and other information we believe will be of interest to you based on your use of our Services (in accordance with any privacy preferences you have expressed to us).
• To invite you to participate in surveys and provide feedback to us (in accordance with any privacy preferences you have expressed to us).
• To better understand your needs and interests.
• To improve our products and services.
• To improve our marketing and promotional efforts, including for market research and other analytics.
• For any other purpose identified in an applicable privacy notice, click-through agreement or other agreement between you and us.

We may de-identify and/or aggregate any personal information we collect about you. When we do so, we take reasonable measures to ensure that the information cannot be associated with a consumer, and we maintain and use the information in de-identified form. We will not attempt to reidentify the information, except solely for the purpose of determining whether our de-identification processes satisfy applicable legal requirements. After it has been de-identified, the information is no longer personal information and is not subject to this Policy. We may also disclose that de-identified and/or aggregated information to third parties for any purposes permitted by applicable law.

Please see below for information about the choices you may have about the ways in which we use your personal information.

Your Choices

In General. We respect your right to make choices about the ways in which we collect, use and disclose the personal information we collect about you via our Services. 

Previously Expressed Preferences. You may change previously expressed preferences regarding how we use personal information we collect about you. For example, if you have provided your contact information and receive periodic emails from us, you may decide to stop receiving promotional emails from us by clicking the “unsubscribe” link in the footer of any promotional email you receive from us. You may be able to change other preferences through an account you create via our Services. You can also contact us with questions by using the contact information provided below.

How to Access, Update or Correct Your Personal Information.

If you have created a profile on our Services, you may be able to access, update, or correct your personal information through your account settings. You can also contact us to:

• Confirm whether or not we are processing your personal information and access the categories of personal information we are processing about you;
• Correct inaccurate personal information;
• Delete your personal information;

You,  may contact us via our online webform by clicking here and submitting your request. We will respond to you within a reasonable time. We may ask you for additional information to verify your identity. In some cases, please note that we may limit or deny your request if we are unable to verify your identity, if your request conflicts with any of our internal policies or procedures, or conflicts with applicable laws. 

You also have the right to opt out of sales of personal information and processing of personal information for targeted advertising purposes, and can do so as provided below in the “Sales & Targeted Advertising” section.

We do not process personal information for profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.

Opt-out Preference Signals. We recognize opt-out preference signals that we are required to recognize for compliance with applicable law. Consumers may use opt-out preference signals by downloading or otherwise activating them for use on supported browsers and setting them to send opt-out preference signals to websites they visit. Please note, however, that our Services do not currently recognize the “Do Not Track” signal.

Retention of Personal Information

The SMSC Gaming Enterprise retains the personal information collected via our Services as long as necessary to provide the services, products, and information you request or as permitted by applicable law.

Steps We Take to Safeguard Your Personal Information

We maintain reasonable administrative, physical and technological measures to protect the confidentiality and security of personal information we collect about you. Unfortunately, however, no website, server or database is completely secure or “hacker proof.” We therefore cannot fully guarantee that your personal information will not be disclosed, misused or lost by accident or by the unauthorized acts of others. Further, we cannot control dissemination of personal information you post on or through our Services using any social networking tools we may provide, and you should have no expectation of privacy in such information.

How We Disclose Personal Information to Others

To our Vendors. We disclose personal information we collect via our Services to vendors who act on our behalf. For example, we may use vendors to design and operate our websites and other Services; to conduct surveys; to help us with our promotional and marketing efforts; and for our other business operational purposes. We require our vendors by contract to keep the personal information they process on our behalf confidential and to use it only to provide services on our behalf.

To Third Parties for Marketing Purposes. We disclose personal information we collect via our Services to third parties for marketing purposes. For more details, please see the “Sales & Targeted Advertising” section, below.

Within the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Tribal Government. The SMSC Gaming Enterprise may disclose personal information we collect via our Services with other departments and enterprises of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community tribal government.

As Part of a Business Transfer. We may disclose your personal information to a successor organization if, for example, we transfer the ownership or operation of the SMSC Gaming Enterprise or a portion of our business to another organization, or if the SMSC Gaming Enterprise ceases to exist in its current form. If such a transfer occurs, we will seek assurances that the successor organization’s use of your personal information will still be subject to this Policy and the privacy preferences you have expressed to us.

To Comply with Laws and to Protect Our Rights and the Rights of Others. We may disclose your personal information to third parties when we, in good faith, believe disclosure is appropriate to comply with the law, a court order or a subpoena. We may also disclose your personal information to prevent or investigate a possible crime, such as fraud or identity theft; to protect the security of our Services; to enforce or apply our online Terms of Use or other agreements; or to protect our own rights or property or the rights, property or safety of our users or others.

As Described in a Privacy Notice or Click-Through Agreement. We reserve the right to disclose your personal information as described in any Privacy Notice posted via our Services, or as described in any click-through agreement to which you have agreed.

Sales & Targeted Advertising

We sell and process for targeted advertising purposes the following categories of personal information, as the terms “sell” and “targeted advertising” are defined by applicable privacy law: information collected via Cookies, including IP addresses and related browsing data. We sell these categories of personal information to marketing and analytics providers to analyze and better understand consumers’ needs, preferences, and interests, and to advertise and promote our products and services, including by contacting consumers regarding products, services, and topics that may be of interest to them.  You may have the right to opt-out of sales and processing of your personal information for targeted advertising, and you can do so by clicking here, or by accessing the “Your Privacy Rights” link in the footer of our websites.

Children Under the Age of 13

This Site is not intended for children or minors under the age of 13 years. If you believe that a child under age 13 has submitted personal information to us via our Services, please contact us using the contact information provided below, so that we can take appropriate action.

Links to Other Sites

Our Services may provide links to other websites or applications operated by third parties. The SMSC Gaming Enterprise does not control these websites or applications and is not responsible for their data practices. Any information you provide to third parties on their websites or applications is covered under their privacy and data collection policies and is not covered by this Policy. We urge you to review the privacy policy posted on any third party website or application you visit before using the third party’s services or providing any personal information.

This Is a U.S.-Based Website

The SMSC Gaming Enterprise is headquartered in the United States, and this Policy was drafted to comply with U.S. privacy laws that apply to us. The privacy laws of the country in which you reside may be more restrictive than the privacy laws of the United States that apply to us. By using our Services, you understand that we may process the personal information we collect about you in the United States and in other countries, such as by our vendors. Your personal information may also be subject to disclosure under the laws of the United States or other countries to which it is transferred, and it may be accessible to law enforcement and national security authorities of those jurisdictions.

This Policy May Change

We are continually improving and adding to the features and functionality of our Services. As a result of these changes (or changes in the law), we may need to update or revise this Policy. Accordingly, we reserve the right to update or modify this Policy at any time by posting the revised version of this Policy behind the link marked “Privacy Policy” at the bottom of each page of our Services. Your continued use of our Services after we have posted the revised Policy constitutes your agreement to be bound by the revised Policy. However, with respect to previously-collected personal information, we will honor the terms that were in effect when we gathered the information about you.

For your convenience, whenever this Policy is changed, we will update the “effective date” at the top of this Policy. Be sure to check the effective date to see if this Policy has been revised since your last visit.

You may access the current version of this Policy at any time by clicking the link marked “Privacy Policy” at the bottom of each page of our Services.

Contact Us                                     

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at SMSC Gaming Enterprise, Attn: Privacy Statement – Compliance Department, 2400 Mystic Lake Blvd Prior Lake, MN 55372. You may also call us at 800-262-7799 or submit a request to us using the Contact Form available here.