TheSportSource®.com Privacy Statement
The Sport Source®. ("TSS"), in association with our partners
and specific affiliate entities of the Official Website of The Sport Source®
(the "Website"). We are committed to safeguarding your privacy
online. This Privacy Policy is applicable to this Website and Products
and Services owned by the Company.
GENERAL
You can visit and enjoy the Website purchase and use products and service
without disclosing any personal information about yourself unless required.
However, we offer some special services, and for these services to work
properly we will need you to share with us certain personal information
about yourself. If you submit any personal information to us, or to our
third party service providers acting on our behalf, you can be assured
that we will not sell, lease, or share your personal information with
or to anyone else, except as follows: (1) to our third party service providers,
and only so that they may help us provide the services you've requested
and in certain circumstances to provide you with related offers; (2) to
one or more organizations, to the extent that you've submitted information
that relates specifically to them; or you've purchased specific merchandise
from the store), so that they may learn more about fans like you, and
provide better services to you; and (3) on occasion, we may offer a special
promotion (such as a, contest, or a free subscription to goods and services)
on the Website in conjunction with a third party service provider, sponsor,
or promotional partner, and share your information with that third party
service provider, sponsor, or promotional partner so that it can send
you other special promotions it offers, but only if you give us permission
to do so.
Special Offers and Promotions. With your permission, we may also
send you e-mails with special offers and promotions. If you don't want
to receive these, you may change your preferences.
We may also use IP addresses to analyze trends, help us administer the
Website, track the movement of visitors, and gather broad demographic
information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally
identifiable information, except as may be necessary to verify users'
locations to determine the applicability of subscription products, as
applicable.
Aggregated Demographic Information. We may share aggregated demographic
information with third parties, but this information is not linked to
any personal information that can identify you or another individual person.
Therefore, no personal information is disclosed in this manner.
Business Transfers. As time passes, The Sport Source®., may
be sold along with its assets, or other transactions may occur in which
customer information is one of the business assets transferred. In such
a case, the customer information which we have gathered may be one of
the business assets we transfer.
Disclosure for Legal Purposes. The law requires that we may be
required to share your personal information and non-personal information
pursuant to judicial or governmental subpoenas, warrants or orders. If
we are required to do so, we will, of course, obey the law. In addition,
notwithstanding any term to the contrary in this Privacy Policy, we reserve
the right to use and disclose share your personal and non-personal information
in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities,
suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical
safety of any person, violations of this Website's Terms of Service, violations
of reproduction of content or materials in-print or online or as otherwise
required by law.
SECURITY PRACTICES
Access codes provided to customers are password protected for your privacy
and security. In certain areas, we use industry-standard encryption to
protect data transmissions.
LINKS
The Website contains links to other sites produced by The Sport Source®
and/or websites operated by unrelated third parties. Please note that
we are not responsible for the privacy practices of third party websites.
We encourage you to be aware of this when your leave the Website and to
read the privacy policies of every website that collects personally identifiable
information from you. The Privacy Policy applies only to this Website.
SPECIAL RULES FOR CHILDREN
Because of federal law, we cannot collect any personal information from
a child under the age of thirteen [the "COPPA Act"] without
the consent of that child's parent. The statements in this Privacy Policy
generally about our collection and use of personal information also apply
to our treatment of personal information from children under the age of
thirteen, with the added protection of the special rules that follow.
PARENTAL CONSENT
Some services on the Website (e.g., Shop, MATCHFIT™, COLLEGE PROFILER])
require the submission of a credit card number along with personal information,
and are therefore not available to children. Other services on the Website
(e.g. tips from the pros, college planning et al) are available to children
under the age of thirteen.
INFORMATION COLLECTED
Depending on the special service requested, personal information collected
may include a name, email address, address, phone of customer or user
of the specific area.
INFORMATION USE
We may use the personal information to provide the family, parent, customers
or user with the special services for which he or she has registered,
as well as for fulfilling a requested transaction, record keeping, marketing
back to.
INFORMATION DISCLOSURE
After obtaining the consent of the parent, we, our service providers,
and one or more partners (to the extent that any information disclosed
is specific to them), will maintain the confidentiality, security, and
integrity of the personal information collected about the customer. Information
will only be disclosed to our third party service providers and the applicable
partners(s) as described in this Privacy Policy. Third party service providers
of our services which may collect or maintain personal information from
our customers our behalf: can't use your personal information without
consent for any purpose other than the service you've requested.
Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy
The Sport Source® respects the intellectual property of others, and
we ask our users to do the same. The Sport Source® has no responsibility
for content on other web sites that you may find or access when using
our site or from advertisers products or services. Material available
on or through other web sites may be protected by copyright and the intellectual
property laws of the United States and/or other countries.
It is The Sport Source® policy, in appropriate circumstances and
at its discretion, to disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who
may infringe or repeatedly infringe the copyrights or other intellectual
property rights of The Sport Source® and/or others.
CONTACT US
If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, you can contact
us at:
The Sport Source® - 1845 Summit Avenue, Ste. 402 - Plano, Texas 75074
Or send an e-mail to sports@thesportsource.com
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
If we decide to make an important change to our Privacy Policy, we will
post a notification and link on our homepage so that you can review the
updated policy. If at any point we wish to use your personal information
in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we
will notify you by means of an e-mail and give you the opportunity to
indicate whether you consent to the proposed use.
LAST UPDATED: February 23, 2005 - The Sport Source®
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