In the City Driving: Impairment Simulator, players will experience driving around Nashville, TN under the influence. An attended will be enabling different impairments for the player while they are driving. By simulating what it’s like to drive around Nashville with the impairments of drinking, narcotics, drowsiness, and marijuana; this game provides an entertaining and stylized experience of the potential consequences for driving under the influence. Created by Tennessee Tech’s iCube for the Tennessee Highway Safety Office.
Effective Date: February 21, 2023
Tennessee Tech University’s iCube values your privacy as you use our virtual reality games and simulations, such as The Drop Off, Impairment Arcade VR, City Driving: Impairment Simulator, Diabetes, River Ecosystem, Drugged and Driving, Distracted Driving, Kayacking, Manatee, Moon Buggy, LIFT, Cullman Dam, FIRE, Biofilm, Heart & Lungs, Cherokee Village, No Zone VR, Arya Tiger, and Cretaceous Period.
This iCube Privacy Statement (“Privacy Statement”) covers the use, storage, sharing, and disclosure of personal information we collect through our applications: The Drop Off, Impairment Arcade VR, City Driving: Impairment Simulator, Diabetes, River Ecosystem, Drugged and Driving, Distracted Driving, Kayacking, Manatee, Moon Buggy, LIFT, Cullman Dam, FIRE, Biofilm, Heart & Lungs, Cherokee Village, No Zone VR, Arya Tiger, and Cretaceous Period and its affiliated sites, www.thedropoffvr.com, www.impairmentarcadevr.com, and www.citydrivingvr.com. It also describes your choices regarding use, access, correction, and ability to opt out of sharing your personal information with us at any time by deleting any application from your device or deactivating your account for any of our websites.
By using our websites or services, you authorize iCube to collect, use, store, share, and disclose your personal information as described in this Privacy Statement and any applicable addendums. Use of these applications and websites is limited to those 16 and older, and parental consent is needed for anyone under the age of 16 to share any information through our websites.
Please read the entire Privacy Statement before providing any personal information to us.
This Privacy Statement answers the following questions:
Personal information is information that can potentially identify you as a specific individual. It includes your name, company name, address, telephone number, email address, location, and billing information. With the implementation of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), this personal information includes direct and indirect identification under the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC.
Some iCube websites offer users the option to register with personal information in order to authenticate users, verify submitted information, provide support, and send information to users with their consent through mailing preferences which can be changed (when offered by each respective site) by following the link in their email.
Technologies
We, and our partners, use cookies and similar technologies to analyze trends, administer websites and applications, track users’ movements around the website or application, and gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level.
Log Files
We use Google and Apple’s built-in Analytics to gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes the device type, device country location, application crash reports, Apple and Google store search history, total application use-time, internet protocol (IP) address, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), and clickstream data. We do this to improve our services, marketing, analytics, or site functionality and to authenticate users. Google and Apple assure their compliance with data protection laws on Google’s Privacy page and Apple’s Privacy page.
It will also allow users to register for training or conferences, make requests that require a direct response, and receive newsletters and other publications.
iCube may use the mailing services of third parties that are authorized to use your personal information only for the benefit of iCube and our affiliates.
Social Media
Our website includes social media features that link to our Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter pages. These social media features and widgets are hosted either by a third party or directly on our website and may collect your IP address, your browser type, also the specific page you are visiting on our website. Your interactions with these social media features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing them.
We use an email service provider, myEmma, to send out emails on our behalf on some of our websites. When you sign up for these sites, we will share your personal information only as necessary for the third party to provide that service. iCube may also share or publish non-personal information, such as statistical data that provides information on how our users are using our programs and how many people are visiting our websites. Our affiliates and vendors are also committed to protecting personal information as described in their privacy statements/policies. The myEmma Privacy Statement can be found here.
iCube will disclose your personal information when required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (1) conform to legal requirements, such as to comply with a subpoena or valid national security or law enforcement requests, or prevent fraud or imminent harm or, (2) protect and defend the rights or property of iCube.
Information Shared while using City Driving
We don’t collect any personal information from this application.
Information Shared while Accessing Websites of a Third Party from City Driving
Our applications can include links to other websites with privacy practices that may differ from those of iCube. If you submit personal information to any of those websites, your information will be governed by their privacy policies.
Information Posted on iCube’s Blogs and Forums
Anytime you post on our blog or provide information, pictures, or any other type of personal information, data, or materials to forums, communities, or other social media platforms, please be aware that it will be publicly available and not subject to the terms of this Privacy Statement. Also, you may be posting using a third-party application, and we have no access to or control over such information. Please be aware that you are providing your personal information to these third parties and not to iCube. To request the removal of your personal information from our blog, you can either log in to the third-party application and remove your posting/information or contact the appropriate third-party application provider. Your interaction with these features is governed by the privacy policy of the company providing them.
Public Profiles
The profile you create will be publicly accessible unless otherwise indicated. You may change the privacy preferences of your profile or delete your profile through your account settings. Alternatively, you can contact us at privacy@ttuicube.com if you would like us to change the privacy settings of your profile.
Information Shared while Accessing Websites of a Third Party
Our websites often include links to other websites with privacy practices that may differ from those of iCube. If you submit personal information to any of those websites, your information will be governed by their privacy policies.
If you submit personal information, iCube may contact you or send you marketing information, newsletters, or promotions about our programs. If you do not wish to receive this information, you may change your news preferences by following the unsubscribe instructions contained in the emails you receive.
Upon request, iCube will provide you with information about whether we hold any of your personal information. iCube will permit you to access, correct, or delete your information in our database by contacting privacy@ttuicube.com or by logging in to your account and making the appropriate changes. We will respond to all requests for access within a reasonable timeframe.
We will retain the personal information we process on behalf of our users for as long as needed to provide services to our users, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
We may change this Privacy Statement or related program-specific addendums from time to time. If and/or when iCube makes changes to this Privacy Statement, the updated version will be posted in place of this statement. If we make any material changes, we will notify you by means of an announcement here and on ttuicube.com/privacy prior to the change becoming effective.
If you have questions or complaints regarding our privacy practices or policy, please contact us at privacy@ttuicube.com or Tennessee Tech University P.O. Box 5103, and identify the issue as such in your communication to iCube.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website.
These are some of the things we use cookies to do:
Legal Use of Cookies
iCube obtains consent to the use of cookies by showing a notification to visitors on their first visit to our website. In the notification, we include links to more information and the ability for visitors to control their cookie settings. Please note that this control is specific to the device and browser you are using and will be reset if you clear your cached cookies.
Cookies used by iCube
iCube uses site browsing, functionality, and analytics cookies. Learn more about these types of cookies and manage your site browsing cookie settings below.
Functionality Cookies
iCube uses cookies to provide essential functions for our programs. For example, cookies are used to store a user’s preferences and settings (such as language preferences), authenticate users, and detect fraud. Because these cookies are necessary to deliver the functionality of the website, you cannot turn them off without impact.
Analytics cookies
iCube uses these cookies to analyze how visitors use our site. We use this anonymous information to observe how our site is functioning to improve the user experience on our site. Analytics cookies collect aggregate statistics, not your personal information, and cannot be centrally disabled across all iCube sites. Applications such as Google Analytics allow administrators to choose their telemetry preferences.