At STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET, we are committed to protecting your privacy online. We make every effort to ensure that you and your children can freely take advantage of all of STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET’s features and content, knowing that any personal information you provide to us will be protected. Please review the outline below, detailing our information gathering policies and addressing some of the most common concerns. If you still have questions or concerns after reading the policy, please contact us at info@stocktoncougars.net.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Policies for Children Less Than 13 Years Old
2. Policies for Individuals 13 Years Old and Older
3. Participating in Forums, Chats and Q & A’s
4. E-mail Newsletter Service
5. Use of Cookies
6. About IP Addresses and Surveys Used for Research Purposes
7. Links from STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET to Other Websites
8. Your Acceptance of These Terms
9. Contact Information
1. Policies for Children Less Than 13 Years Old
As described below, STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET will not knowingly collect or maintain any personally identifiable information from children under 13-years-old without the express consent of their parent or guardian.
A number of interactive features on STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET require registration to participate. All registrants for these features will be required to enter their full name, age, zip code and e-mail address to be used as an identifier for the feature.
When a person indicating an age of less than 13 years tries to register for such features on STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET, we will not retain any of his or her personally identifiable information submitted by the child. If we become aware that we have inadvertently retained personally identifiable information from a user under the age of 13, we will delete such information from our records. We may request the disclosure of information that is reasonably necessary to participate in the feature for which the child is attempting to register (such as a favorite team or player), but which does not identify the child personally. Because STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET does not knowingly retain any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13, we also do not knowingly distribute such information to third parties.
Children who indicate that they are less than 13 years old will not be able to participate in some interactive features of STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET that do not require registration but do necessitate the collection and retention of personally identifiable information (e.g., entering some sweepstakes or contests).
STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET encourages parents and guardians to spend time online with their children and to participate together in the interactive activities offered on STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET.
2. Policies for Individuals 13 Years Old and Older
To participate in some of the interactive features on STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET, you may be required to submit some personal information that allows STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET to fulfill your order or process your request. In addition, STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET may share information submitted by you with MISL League business partners and sponsors. STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET will not share any personal information submitted by you without posting a notification that STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET intends to do so, and giving you an opportunity to elect not to have it shared.
Registration- You will be required to register to take advantage of some of the interactive activities on STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET. To register, you will need to submit your full name, age, zip code and e-mail address as an identifier for the feature. You may also be asked to provide optional information, such as your favorite MISL team and activity, mailing address, and demographic information. These fields are optional, and will not interfere with your registration should you choose to leave them blank.
Optional fields are used internally to help STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET better tailor our services to suit our users’ needs. No optional demographic information is ever shared with any outside entity, except in an aggregated format.
For information about registration for children, please consult Section 1 in this Privacy Policy.
Other Services- STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET may offer you an opportunity to participate in various contests, surveys or other promotional features, or you many sign up to receive other information from the PASL or its member teams (e.g., online newsletters, notification about events in your area or merchandise specials). The information you will be required to submit will vary, but will typically include your full name, age, and e-mail address. You may also be requested to answer certain optional survey questions, such as your favorite PASL team or activity. Information received through such activities will be used by STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET or PASL teams to send you the requested information or to administer contests and notify prizewinners. Such information may be shared with PASL business partners, unless you opt out of receiving future mailings at the time you sign up, or later, by following the procedures in Section 4 below. Unless expressly noted otherwise, children who indicate they are under 13 years old will not be allowed to sign up for such activities.
3. Participating in Forums, Chats and Q & A’s
To participate in an online chat or send e-mail to STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET, we request a first name, city, state, province or country, and e-mail address which will only be used to acknowledge receipt of the message or to respond to the sender’s request when STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET determines that a response is warranted.
Please note that information or statements that are volunteered while participating in a STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET chat, fan forum or Q & A session will not be treated as confidential and may be posted on STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET. You will not be able to change or remove any public postings made once posted. All submissions will become the property of STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET. Please review the Terms of Use for more information about making submissions to STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET.
STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET does not maintain a record of any of the information collected through such activities in retrievable form, nor does STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET share the information with PASL business partners or sponsors for promotional purposes, except in aggregate form.
4. Opting Out
STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET provides you the opportunity to opt out of receiving various communications, advertisements and promotions offered either by STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET or by our partners. If you do not want to receive such mailings, simply tell us after you register. You can also easily edit your account to no longer receive such offers and mailings. You will need your User ID and password in order to access your account.
You also have choices with respect to cookies. By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject all cookies, you will be unable to use those STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET services that require registration in order to participate. If you choose not to accept cookies, or cancel your cookies after registration, you will not have the ability to log on to STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET, make transactions (i.e., order and pay for products through STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET) or access your account. In limited circumstances, we may retain information that you have requested be removed but which cannot be completely deleted from our databases due to technical constraints and the backup of our computer system. See Section 7 below for more information on cookies.
5. Security Policies
Please keep in mind that whatever you publicly disclose online- for example, in a chat or through e-mail- can be collected and used by others, and any Internet transmission you make may be unlawfully intercepted by third parties. No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure. While we take reasonable measures to protect your personal information, STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET cannot warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk. In addition, STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET may disclose information to law enforcement or other government officials if we determine such disclosure to be necessary or appropriate, or if we are compelled to disclose it by court order or operation of law.
6. Use of Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to a user’s computer hard drive for informational and record-keeping purposes. Cookies make web surfing easier for you by saving your preferences while you are at STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET. Accepting a cookie does not give anyone access to your computer or to any personal information. It is simply a small file in which we keep information that identifies you as a unique user. For example, we may use a cookie to indicate when you have already voted in an online poll to prevent multiple voting and a distortion of results.
The use of cookies is an industry standard; you will find cookies used at most major websites. Most browsers are initially configured to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent. Although you will continue to enjoy many of the features on STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET, if you disable your browser from accepting cookies, some parts of STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET will not function properly or may be considerably slower if you refuse cookies. For example, without cookies, you may have difficulty completing shopping transactions, entering contests or playing games.
7. About IP Addresses and Surveys Used for Research Purposes
An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web; it performs a function for individual computers much like a Post Office Box number serves Postal Service customers. Web servers – the computers that “serve up” web pages- automatically identifies your computer by its IP address. When users request pages on STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET, our servers log their IP addresses.
This logging allows PASL to better understand the traffic that comes to STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET, and to tailor content and services to better suit your needs. In many cases, users visiting STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET from work or from other services that utilize a “firewall”, a computer used to control the flow of Internet traffic to and from another computer network, may share a single IP address with other users behind the same firewall.
Please review each activity prior to sue and only participate in those that involve the disclosure of information you are comfortable with sharing. STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET will occasionally ask users to complete surveys or questionnaires which we use for general research purposes to improve STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET and serve you better. These surveys are always optional and you do not have to answer any survey question to visit STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET.
STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET analyzes research statistics compiled from surveys and IP addresses on an aggregated, anonymous basis, for system administration and usage patterns, and may share that analysis with advertisers, PASL business partners and sponsors. In rare circumstances, however, we will use such information to identify a user when necessary to enforce compliance with our Terms of Use to protect STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET, its users or others.
8. Links from STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET to Other Websites
The STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET Privacy Policy addresses only the use and disclosure of information we collect from you on STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET. When you link to the website of a third party, either through an advertising banner on STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET or through clicking through a link to an outside website, your use of those websites will be subject to the privacy policies of these third parties, which may differ from STOCKTONCOUGARS.NET’s Privacy Policy.
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