GREENCASTLE GOLDEN KNIGHTS WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY
Last Updated on February 18, 2010
This privacy policy applies to the Greencastle Golden Knights’
website located at www.goldenknightsfootball.com
(the “Website”). The purpose of this privacy policy is to
disclose to you what information we may collect, how we may collect
it, with whom we may share it, and certain other matters related to
such information, including the choices you have regarding our
collection of information and our use and disclosure to other
parties of information we may have collected from you.
The Website is operated by Greencastle Golden Knights, Inc. on
behalf of the Greencastle Golden Knights (collectively, the
“Greencastle Golden Knights “, “we”, “our”, or “us”)
When this privacy policy uses the term “personally identifiable
information” or “personal information,” we mean information
that identifies a particular individual, such as your full name,
street address or email address. When other information, such as a
favorite team or player, is associated with personal information, it
also becomes personally identifiable information for the purposes of
this privacy policy.
Please read the information below to learn more about our data
collection policies and practices.
1.
Types Of Information That May Be Collected
2.
How Information May Be Collected
3.
How We Use The Information Collected
4.
With Whom The Information May Be Shared
5.
Chat Rooms, Forums, And Message Boards
6.
Links To Other Websites
7.
Security
8.
A Special Note For Parents Concerning Privacy
9.
Notification Of Changes And Your Acceptance Of
The Privacy Policy
10.
Correcting/Updating Personal Information
11.
Your California Privacy Rights
12.
Questions About This Privacy Policy
1. TYPES OF INFORMATION THAT MAY BE COLLECTED
The following are the types of information we may collect:
Information You Provide Us: In the course of using the website, we
may ask you to provide us with certain information, including
contact information, such as your name, mailing address, email
address, phone number, unique identifiers such as your user name,
demographic information such as your gender, and financial
information, such as your credit card number or similar information.
Site Usage Information: We may receive and store certain types of
internet usage information whenever you visit the Website, such as
your landing page, order of pages viewed, and other click stream
data. See “IP Addresses and Click Stream Data” section below.
Email Communications: When you open emails from us, we may receive
a confirmation noting you opened the email, if your computer
supports such capabilities. We also may keep track of what emails we
send you and what emails you may be receiving from our subsidiaries
and affiliates. Additionally, we keep a record of what
communications you have opted to receive or not to receive.
Information from Other Sources: We may receive information about
you from other sources and add it to the personal information we
have collected. For example, we receive magazine subscription lists
from the National Football League.
2. HOW INFORMATION MAY BE COLLECTED
We may collect information from you in several different areas on
the Website, including but not limited to those described below:
Registration: You may be asked to complete a registration form and
provide personally identifiable information; you may also be asked
to choose a user ID and password in order to take advantage of
certain features the Website may choose to offer, such as
newsletters or contests. Participation in registration is voluntary
and you will have the opportunity to decide whether or not to
disclose information to the Website.
Newsletters and Website Emails: We offer free newsletters to share
information with you about the Website, about us and our affiliates
and subsidiaries, or about our marketing partners and advertisers
and sponsors. You may receive a newsletter either by registering for
a particular newsletter or in conjunction with a special feature or
membership for which you have registered on the Website.
Participation is voluntary and you will have the opportunity to
decide whether or not to disclose information to the Website. You
may also cancel your free email subscription by following the
instructions provided on the Website or in the newsletter or email.
You may also contact us at webmaster@goldenknightsfootball.com.
Contests or Sweepstakes: We periodically operate contests and
sweepstakes through the Website that may require registration or the
submission of personal information. Participation is voluntary and
you will have the opportunity to decide whether or not to disclose
information to the Website. Your personally identifiable information
may be used to contact you for winner notification, prize delivery
confirmation or other related purposes, (see the rules of each
contest for details about how your personal information will be
used). We may also ask your permission to allow us to publicly post
some of your information on the Website, such as on a winner’s
page, in the event you win a contest or sweepstakes. Except as
required by applicable law, we will not post your information
without your permission. In some instances, a third party advertiser
or sponsor may operate or host a contest or sweepstakes on the
Website, and collect your information. In those cases, where we are
not the operator or host of the contest or sweepstakes, we do not
collect your information and we have no control over the information
collected from you. Accordingly, we urge you to review the
advertiser’s or sponsor’s privacy policy applicable to the
contest or sweepstakes before participating.
Surveys or Voting: From time-to-time we may request personally
identifiable information from you in conjunction with a survey or
voting poll. Participation is voluntary and you will have the
opportunity to decide whether or not to disclose information to the
Website.
Cookies: As with many Websites, our Website uses a technology
called “cookies.” A cookie is a unique, random number that is
stored in the browser on your computer. The cookie doesn’t
actually identify you, just the computer that is used to visit the
site. Cookies automatically identify your browser to the Website
whenever your computer is used to visit the Website. Cookies also
let us know how many people visit our website and where visitors go
on the site. In addition, cookies can let us know non-personally
identifiable information, like what web browser is being used to
access the website. For registered users, cookies can make using the
Website easier for you by saving information such as your passwords
or preferences. By tracking how and when you use the Website,
cookies help us determine which areas are popular and which are not.
Many improvements and updates to the Website are based on data
obtained from cookies. Accepting cookies allows you, among other
things, to personalize your experience on the Website. Cookies may
also allow the Website to present to you advertising which may be of
interest to you. If you do not want information collected through
the use of cookies, your browser should contain an option that
allows you to disable or delete cookie data at any time. Some areas
of the Website, however, may not provide you with a personalized
experience if you have disabled the use of cookies. The cookies are
not tied to personal information.
IP Addresses and Click-Stream Data: We may collect IP addresses
and/or click-stream data. An IP address is a number associated with
the service through which you access the Internet, like your ISP
(Internet service provider), your company, or your university.
Standing alone, your IP address is not personally identifiable. At
times, we also use IP addresses for purposes of system
administration and to report aggregate information to our
advertisers and sponsors, for example regarding the frequency with
which our guests visit various parts of our sites. We may combine
this information with personally identifiable information.
Click-stream data is information collected by our computers when you
request Web pages from the Website. Click- stream data may include
such information as the page served, the time, the source of the
request, the type of browser making the request, the preceding page
view and other such non-personal information. When analyzed, this
data helps us analyze how visitors arrive at the Website, what type
of content is most popular, what type of visitors in the aggregate
are interested in particular kinds of content and advertising, and
the like.
Transaction Information: If you conduct a financial transaction
with our Website, such as buy season tickets or official Greencastle
Golden Knights merchandise, we will ask you to complete an order
form that will request certain information from you, including
contact information, demographic information and financial
information. We will use this information to complete the
transaction that you have requested, i.e., to deliver the
information, products or other services that you order, and to
invoice you. For your protection, such information is collected and
stored through encrypted means.
3. HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION COLLECTED
As applicable, the information you provide to us may be used to:
- Contact you about the
Website
- Contact you relating to
your membership status as we use membership areas in the Website
- Confirm or fulfill an
order you have made
- Inform you of a prize you
have won; monitor or improve the use of the Website
- Customize the advertising
and content you see
- Monitor compliance with
our terms and conditions of use of the Website
- Maintain website security
- Enhance navigation
- Send you our newsletter
- Send you promotional
material or special offers on behalf of our marketing partners
and/or their respective affiliates and subsidiaries and other
third parties.
4. WITH WHOM THE INFORMATION MAY BE SHARED
At times, we may share your personal information with others for
various purposes. The following outlines the ways in which your
information may be shared with others and the ways in which you may
opt-out of having your information shared:
Agents: We employ other businesses, certain services and
individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include
fulfilling orders, sending e-mail, removing repetitive information
from customer lists, Website analysis, analyzing data, providing
marketing assistance, processing credit card payments, and providing
customer service. They may have access to personally identifiable
information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it
for their own purposes, like sending you marketing offers about
their products.
Aggregate Information: We may share aggregate information, such as
demographics and Website usage statistics, with advertisers,
sponsors or other organizations. When this type of information is
shared, the other parties do not have access to your personally
identifiable information
Opt-In / Opt-Out Offers: When you provide us with personal
information, you may be presented with the opportunity to share your
personal information with third parties for various purposes, such
as receiving information or special offers. An opt-in/opt-out
message will ask you if you would like your information to be
shared. When you allow us to share your personal information with
third parties, we require third parties who have access to that
information to agree to abide by our current Website privacy policy.
Once the information is transferred, however, we cannot control the
privacy practices of these other companies.
Third-Party Offers: Throughout the Website you may be presented
with opportunities to receive special offers from third parties. By
participating in these offers, you consent to allowing your
information to be shared with third parties. When you allow us to
share your personal information with third parties, we require third
parties who have access to that information to agree to abide by our
current Website privacy policy. We cannot control the privacy
practices of these other companies, however, and you should review
the privacy practices of such companies prior to providing your
personally identifiable information.
Other Promotional Offers: We may send offers to you on behalf of
our marketing partners. When we do this, we do not give that partner
your name and address. If you do not want to receive such offers,
you may reply to “Unsubscribe,” change your Preference Profile
page, or through other procedures we notify you about on our
Website,
Third-Party Ad Serving & Audience and Traffic Measurement
Services: The Website may use a third party network advertiser to
serve the advertisements on the Website or may use a traffic
measurement service to analyze the traffic on the Website. Network
advertisers are third parties that display advertisements based on
your visits to this Website and other Websites you have visited.
Third-party ad serving enables us to target advertisements to you
for products or Websites you might be interested in. Audience and
Traffic Measurement Services allow us to collect anonymous traffic
and behavior information from our Website by monitoring anonymous
visitor activity. Our current policy is that we do not permit the
Websites advertisers, sponsors and/or traffic measurement services
to set and access their own cookies on your computer.
Business Transfers: In the event that all or substantially all of
our assets are sold or transferred to another party, or another
transaction occurs in which your personally identifiable information
is one of the business assets transferred, all personally
identifiable information that has been collected and saved may be
one of the business assets we transfer.
See “YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE PRIVACY POLICY AND NOTIFICATION OF
CHANGES TO THE POLICY” section below.
Administrative or Legal Process: Your personal information may be
transferred to third parties without notice to you in order to
comply with applicable law, law enforcement agencies, to protect our
rights, or protect the rights of other users of this website.
5. CHAT ROOMS, FORUMS, AND MESSAGE BOARDS
The Website may make chat rooms, forums and message boards
available to its users. You are not required to provide any personal
information when using these areas but you may choose to do so. If
you post personal information online, it will be publicly available
and you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties. We
cannot ensure the security of any information you choose to make
public in a chat room, forum, or message board. Also, we cannot
ensure that parties who have access to such publicly available
information will respect your privacy. Please exercise caution when
deciding to disclose personal information in these areas.
6. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
You should be aware that when you are on the Website you could be
directed to other Websites beyond our control. For example, if you
“click” on a banner advertisement, the “click” may take you
off the Website onto a different Website. This includes links from
advertisers, sponsors and marketing partners that may use the
Website’s logo as part of a co branding agreement. These other
Websites may send their own cookies to you, independently collect
data or solicit personal information and may or may not have their
own published privacy policies. If you visit a Website that is
linked to our Website, you should consult that Website’s privacy
policy before providing any personal information.
7. SECURITY
This Website incorporates reasonable safeguards to protect the
security, integrity, completeness, accuracy and privacy of the
personal information that we may collect and we have put into place
reasonable precautions to protect such information from loss, misuse
and alteration. Your personally identifiable information is
transferred to our computers utilizing encryption software. Only
those employees who need access to your information in order to do
their jobs are allowed access. Our security policies are reviewed
periodically and revised as required.
8. A SPECIAL NOTE FOR PARENTS CONCERNING PRIVACY
The Website is a general audience Website. We do not currently
collect any personal information from children under the age of
thirteen on the Website. If in the future, we collect personally
identifiable information from children, we will do so in compliance
with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (15
U.S.C. 6501 et seq.) including, without limitation, obtaining
necessary parental consent. For more information about the privacy
practices of an affiliated children’s Website, such as www.goldenknightsfootball.com/kids_club,
please consult the privacy policy at the children’s Website.
The Internet offers children wonderful educational and
entertainment resources. Your guidance and involvement are essential
to help ensure that children have a safe and rewarding online
experience.
9. YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE PRIVACY POLICY AND NOTIFICATION OF
CHANGES TO THE POLICY
By using this Website, you signify your agreement to the terms of
our privacy policy. We may amend this privacy policy at any time. If
we make a material change to the way in which we collect, use,
and/or share your personal information, we will post a notice on our
website and / or send an email to users who have provided an email
address. We will assume that you have given your permission for your
information to be used under the terms of the new privacy policy, if
you do not respond to our email within thirty days or continue to
use the Website thirty days after a notice is posted. Please note
that you should always update your personal information to provide
us with a current email address.
10. CORRECTING/UPDATING PERSONAL INFORMATION
If your personally identifiable information changes (such as your
email address or zip code), or if you no longer desire to access our
Website, we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or
remove the personal data you have provided to us. This can be done
by making changes to your profile, by using an opt-out message in an
email, or by emailing us at webmaster@goldenknightsfootball.com.
11. YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
A California privacy law that went into effect on January 1, 2005,
allows California residents to obtain specific information about a
business’s privacy practices if it shares information with other
companies for those companies’ direct marketing purposes.
As explained in this privacy policy, whenever you agree to let us
collect personal information about you, we will always provide you
with an option to prevent this information from being shared for
non-administrative purposes with third parties. You can exercise
this option at any time by following the steps outlined above.
Because this website has a comprehensive privacy policy and provides
you with details on how you may opt-in / opt-out of the use of your
personal information by third parties for direct marketing purposes,
we are not required to provide you with this information.
If you are a California resident and have questions about our
compliance with this law, please send an email to webmaster@goldenknightsfootball.com.
12. QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS PRIVACY POLICY
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or the privacy
practices of this Website, contact webmaster@goldenknightsfootball.com.
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