Last Revised: March 1, 2014
This Website is operated by TheSportsBrat (“Company” or “we” or “us” or “our”). The following privacy policies (the “Policies”) apply to www.thesportsbrat.com (the “Website”). By visiting this Website, you (“you” or “Visitor(s)”) accept that your visit is subject to these Policies. We reserve the right to update these Policies. At such time, we will also revise the “last updated” date at the end of these Policies. We recommend that you periodically review these Policies. By visiting or using this Website, you consent to the data collection and use practices described in these Policies as they may be revised from time to time. Your continued use of this Website after such modifications will constitute your acknowledgement of the modified Policies, and your agreement to abide and be bound by the modified Policies.
1. Collection of Personal Data. The Company automatically collects and/or tracks (1) the home server domain names, e-mail addresses, type of client computer and type of web browser, and Internet Protocol address indicating locations of Visitors to the Website, (2) the e-mail addresses of Visitors that communicate with the Company via e-mail, post messages to our bulletin boards, or post messages to our chat groups, (3) information knowingly provided by the Visitor in online forms, registration forms, surveys, and contest entries, and (4) both aggregate and user-specific information on what pages Visitors access.
The Company places Internet cookies, flash cookies, and/or web beacons and similar technologies (collectively, “Internet cookies”) on Visitors’ hard drives. Internet cookies save the Visitor’s name, password, user-name, shopping cart, stock portfolio, screen preferences, the pages of the Website viewed by the Visitor, and the advertisements viewed or clicked by the Visitor. When the Visitor revisits the Website, we recognize the Visitor by the Internet cookie and customize the Visitor’s experience accordingly. Internet cookies are stored on the Visitor’s hard drive and are not stored, in any form, by the Company. Visitors may decline the Internet cookie by using the appropriate feature of their web client software, if available. When a Visitor performs a search on Company’s search engine, Company records information identifying the Visitor or linking the Visitor to the search performed. As necessary to provide service, the Company records limited information for every search request and uses that information initially to solve technical problems with the service and to calculate overall usage statistics, but reserves the right to use that information for any purposes authorized by these policies.
We sometimes supplement the information that we receive that has been outlined in these policies with information from other sources and companies. Such outside information includes updated delivery and address information from carriers or third parties, which enables us to correct our records and deliver your next purchase from this website or future communications more easily; account information, purchase or redemption information, and page-view information from some merchants with which we operate co-branded businesses or for which we provide technical, fulfillment, advertising, or other services; search term and search result information from some searches conducted through the web search features; search results and links, including paid listings (such as Sponsored Links from Google); and credit history information from credit bureaus, which we use to help prevent and detect fraud and to offer certain credit or financial services to some Visitors.
Some content or applications on the Website, including advertisements, are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers and application providers. These third parties may use cookies (alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies) to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content. We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
2. Use of Personal Data Collected. Personal data collected by the Company will be used by the Company for editorial and feedback purposes, for marketing and promotional purposes, for a statistical analysis of users’ behavior, for product development, for content improvement, to inform advertisers as to how many visitors have seen or clicked on their advertisements, and to customize content and layout of Company’s site. Data on visitors’ home servers is aggregated for internal review and archived in our internal database. Names, postal and e-mail addresses, and phone numbers collected may be added to our databases and used for future calls and mailings regarding site updates, new products and services, upcoming events, and status of orders placed online.
Any personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data that you disclose through the communities, forums, message boards, chat rooms, or other public online forums hosted on this Website, may be collected and used by others. We recommend caution when giving out personal information to others in these public online forums. We encourage you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to visit via hyper-links posted on this Website so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or other content on third-party websites accessed through this Website.
3. Disclosure of Personal Data to Third Parties. The Company reserves the right to share Personal Data it collects with advertisers and any other individuals, organizations or entities. Through the use of third party cookies, advertisers will be electronically notified when visitors view or click on their advertisements. Any other third party to which Company shares, rents, sells, or otherwise discloses personal data will be pre-screened by Company, determined by Company to be reputable, and will use the personal data for marketing products and services which Company determines, in its sole judgment, that visitors might find of interest.
4. Your Control of Information and Opt-Out Right. Visitors can access some of the information that we collect and process about them. For example, Visitors can access information regarding recent orders from the Website; personally identifiable information (including name, e-mail, password, communications preferences, address book); payment settings (including credit card information and gift certificates); e-mail notification settings; and prior order history. Visitors may opt out of having their personal information collected by the Company, used by Company for secondary purposes, disclosed to third parties, or used by the Company or third parties to send promotional correspondences to the visitor, by contacting the Company via postal mail, e-mail, or telephone, or by checking the appropriate box or filling out the online form.
5. Access to and Ability to Correct Personal Data. Upon request via postal mail, e-mail, or phone, Company will provide to Visitors a summary of any personal information retained by the Company regarding the Visitor. Visitors may modify, correct, change, or update their personal record or cause their personal record to be removed from Company’s database. The Company will only send personal records to the e-mail address on file for the Visitor’s whose name is associated with it.
6. Collection of Personal Data from Children. Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features/register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at:
The Sports Brat
PO Box 675515
Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067
(310) 961- 0976
Legal@TheSportsBrat.com
7. California Privacy Rights. California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to Legal@TheSportsBrat.com or write us at: PO Box 675515, Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067. The Company does allow other parties to use tracking technologies in connection with the Website to collect certain user data over time and across websites and services (e.g., vendors and ad networks). The Company responds to browser “do not track” signals or other mechanisms designed to give consumers choice as to the collection of certain of their data over time and across sites and services by allowing users to adjust their browser settings while visiting our website.
8. Company’s Right to Contact Visitor. Company reserves the right to contact site Visitors regarding account status and changes to the terms of service, privacy policy, or any other policies or agreements relevant to Website Visitors.
9. Company’s Right to Change Privacy Policies. Company reserves the right to change these Policies at any time by notifying Visitors of the existence of the new or revised policy.
10. TheSportsBrat can be contacted by mail at PO Box 675515, Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067, by phone at (310) 961-0976, or by e-mail at Legal@TheSportsBrat.com. The Web server on which this Website is housed is owned and maintained by bluehost.
Effective Date of these Privacy Policies: these Policies are effective as of March 1, 2014 and last updated March 1, 2014.