Sports Power Rankings.com Privacy Policy Effective Date: March 8, 2008
1. WHAT THIS PRIVACY POLICY COVERS Sports Power Rankings, a wholly owned subsidiary of Garrett Gosselink Insurance Agency, Inc. (“Sports Power Rankings”) takes the protection of your privacy very seriously. This policy covers how Sports Power Rankings treats personal information about you that Sports Power Rankings collects and receives, including information related to your use of Sports Power Rankings products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable, like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Sports Power Rankings does not own or control, or to people that Sports Power Rankings does not directly employ or manage.
2. INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE Sports Power Rankings collects personal information when you register for access to certain services, when you use certain Sports Power Rankings products or services, when you visit web pages on the Sports PowerRankings.com web site or the web pages of certain Sports Power Rankings partners, when you sign up for or respond to e-mail newsletters or other free services, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes sponsored by Sports Power Rankings. Sports Power Rankings may combine information about you that we obtain directly with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
At certain times, we ask for information that may include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, mailing address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, and personal interests. Furthermore, once you register with Sports Power Rankings and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us. Sports Power Rankings automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, Sports Power Rankings cookie information, and the page you request. Sports Power Rankings also collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our advertisers and/or business partners, including information about your use of products and services that we offer.
Sports Power Rankings uses information collected about you to customize the advertising and content you see, to fulfill your requests for products and services, to improve the quality and relevance of our services, to contact you, to conduct research, and to provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.
3. INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE Sports Power Rankings does not rent or sell your personal information to other people or non-affiliated companies (or share your personal information with other people or non- affiliated companies) except to provide products or services you've requested, either when we have your permission or under the following circumstances:
a. We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Sports Power Rankings under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Sports Power Rankings communicate with you about offers from Sports Power Rankings and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
b. We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
c. We believe it is necessary to share 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 Sports Power Rankings's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
d. We transfer information about you if Sports Power Rankings is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Sports Power Rankings will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy. Sports Power Rankings displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria (for example, men aged 35-44 from a particular geographic area). Sports Power Rankings does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
4. COOKIES Sports Power Rankings may set and access Sports Power Rankings cookies on your computer. Sports Power Rankings also lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to Sports Power Rankings's cookies. Sports Power Rankings also uses web beacons to access Sports Power Rankings cookies inside and outside our network of web sites and in connection with Sports Power Rankings products and services.
5. YOUR ABILITY TO EDIT AND DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT INFORMATION AND PREFERENCES You can change your Sports Power Rankings account information (including your name, account username, account password, and email address) at any time by e-mailing support@SportsPowerRankings.com . You may also opt-out of any future marketing- related communications by e-mailing support@SportsPowerRankings.com and notifying us of your desire to be removed from our marketing mailing lists. Sports Power Rankings will make all reasonable efforts to process requested changes in your marketing preferences or account information within 72 hours of the receipt of your email request. We reserve the right to send you certain communications related to Sports Power Rankings products and services, such as service announcements and administrative messages, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them. You can terminate your Sports Power Rankings account at any time by e-mailing support@Sports PowerRankings.com and notifying us that you would like to terminate your account. Sports Power Rankings will make all reasonable efforts to process account termination requests within 24 hours of the receipt of your email request. After your account is terminated, some information about you may remain in our archived records.
6. CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY We limit access to personal information about you to employees and/or independent contractors under confidentiality agreements who we believe have a reasonable need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs. We also employ a variety of procedural safeguards to protect personal information about you. While none of these safeguards represents a foolproof means of protecting your personal information from unauthorized access, we take very seriously the protection of your privacy.
7. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY Sports Power Rankings may update this policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your Sports Power Rankings account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.
8. QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS If you have questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please email us at support@Sports PowerRankings.com .