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PoconoThunder.net (Pocono Racing News Site): Information > Privacy Policy |
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COLLECTION OF INFORMATION & USE THEREOF
We are committed to protecting our users privacy. To that end, we offer this statement to inform our users of how we define, gather and utilize personal information. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify or otherwise alter this policy at any time. Such changes and/or modifications shall become effective immediately upon the posting thereof. Without limiting the foregoing, we may occasionally notify you by email about changes to the Site or provide notices of changes by displaying notices or links to notices to you generally on the Site. Please review this policy periodically. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes and/or modifications will constitute your acceptance of the revised privacy policy. For your information, this page was last updated on January 1, 2002. It is PoconoThunder.net's policy to respect and protect the privacy of visitors to PoconoThunder.net. Accordingly, PoconoThunder.net DOES NOT extract without permission personal information about its visitors or their computer at any time while on a PoconoThunder.net's website. PoconoThunder.net will, however, analyze information about our visitors as a group to make our website better, but visitors are not individually identified when we do this. PoconoThunder.net will collect personal information such as names, home addresses, e-mail addresses, age, etc., but only when a visitor voluntarily gives it to us in the process of ordering products, entering contests or sweepstakes, or registering with PoconoThunder.net. This information is used internally by PoconoThunder.net to fulfill your requests and for marketing and research purposes. PoconoThunder.net will NOT sell, rent or give a visitor's personal information to any third party unless PoconoThunder.net asks for and receives the visitor's permission at the time the personal information is collected. PoconoThunder.net does however, share aggregate information about the users of PoconoThunder.net with our advertisers, business partners, sponsors and certain others. As mentioned above, this aggregate information is used to develop, improve and customize PoconoThunder.net to better serve visitors to our website. Where PoconoThunder.net's information collection activities involve children, PoconoThunder.net provides special privacy protections. PoconoThunder.net is committed to protecting the online privacy of children. In accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA"), PoconoThunder.net will not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen (13) without first obtaining parental consent. Prior to providing any personally identifiable information (your name, email address, address, phone number etc.), either by placing an order for merchandise, setting up a PoconoThunder.net site account, entering a contest or sweepstakes (if eligible), or participating in any other activity offered through PoconoThunder.net, children under the age of thirteen (13) must have a parent or legal guardian complete and return (by mail) a Parental Consent Form to PoconoThunder.net. The consent form states that the child's "Parent" or "Legal Guardian", by his or her signature, consents to the collection and transfer of the child's personally identifiable information. You may revoke consent by completing a "PoconoThunder.net Revocation of Parental Consent Form" and sending it in. In compliance with COPPA, PoconoThunder.net is sensitive about children consulting with parents or guardians before furnishing personal information or ordering anything online. It's also PoconoThunder.net's intention to adhere to the Children's Advertising Review Unit (CARU) Guidelines on Internet advertising with its special sensitivities regarding solicitations to children under thirteen (13). PoconoThunder.net encourages parents/guardians to supervise and join their children in exploring cyberspace. PoconoThunder.net is proud of its website and believes that it is suitable for people of all ages. Occasionally, PoconoThunder.net may ask, on a voluntary basis and with prior parental permission, if appropriate, for personal information to provide to sponsors of particular activities and/or products. This will be made clear in each individual case where we have third-party sponsors. In the event children under the age of thirteen (13) are eligible, with parental consent, to participate in contests, sweepstakes or other activities offered through our site, we will only collect and use information (e.g., email address, mailing address, name, age) to the extent that it is necessary to administer the activity. We will never require that, as a condition of participation, a child disclose more information than is necessary to participate in an activity. Please note that if a parent does not permit PoconoThunder.net to delete personally identifiable information, a child's participation in those PoconoThunder.net activities for which the personally identifiable information has been requested may not be possible. PoconoThunder.net will not disclose information collected from children under the age of thirteen (13) (or from adults for that matter) to third parties unless indicated otherwise or in special cases where PoconoThunder.net has reason to believe that disclosure is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference (whether intentionally or unintentionally) with PoconoThunder.net's rights or property or anyone else who may be harmed by such actions or if required by law. PoconoThunder.net recommends that parents/guardians monitor and supervise the online activities of their children and to consider using available parental control tools, which can prevent children from disclosing their name, address, and other personal information without parental permission. Visitors to a PoconoThunder.net’s website who are under thirteen (13) years old should not be submitting any personal information like their name, address, e-mail address, phone number etc. without a parent's or guardian's permission. We encourage users to be smart about choosing when, and to whom to release information online. Additionally, We will allow users or their parents to opt out of the PoconoThunder.net database in the following manners: (1) To remove your name or your child's name from the database of a specific PoconoThunder.net sweepstakes or contest or other similar activity: Send an e-mail to jamsweepremove@PoconoThunder.net with the following information in the body of the e-mail form:
(2) To remove your name or your child's name from the PoconoThunder.net database entirely Send an e-mail to remove@PoconoThunder.net with the following information in the body of the e-mail form:
CORRESPONDENCE & WEEKLY NEWSLETTERS PoconoThunder.net uses automated e-mail systems to e-mail weekly newsletters and to collect and answer correspondence from our visitors. While PoconoThunder.net may not have the time or manpower to individually answer each piece of correspondence, we do read all of them! PoconoThunder.net tries to make it easy for visitors to contact PoconoThunder.net and we provide easy instructions on our website on how you can either edit information previously given (such as your address) or remove yourself from automated messages generated by PoconoThunder.net. Should you have a technical problem doing this please contact help@PoconoThunder.net. COOKIES PoconoThunder.net uses "cookie" technology to enhance a visitor's online experience by making it easier to navigate through our website or to make an activity work better. Cookies are small pieces of information or files that a website puts on a computer's hard disk for record-keeping purposes. Cookies allow a computer to "remember" information from our website for future use. The use of cookies is an industry standard and is practiced by most major websites. PoconoThunder.net DOES NOT use cookies to collect or record personally identifiable information about visitors to PoconoThunder.net. PoconoThunder.net uses information collected by cookies to learn about our visitors' preferences, so that we can make our website better. The information is about our visitors as a whole, not about individuals. REQUESTS FOR FEEDBACK PoconoThunder.net may request feedback from visitors regarding an activity or piece of content on the PoconoThunder.net website. Feedback is used for internal purposes only, and any personally identifiable information that is accidentally submitted is deleted. ADVERTISEMENTS AND LINKS PoconoThunder.net may include advertisements and/or links to websites operated by third parties that are not sponsors and are not affiliated with PoconoThunder.net. PoconoThunder.net tries to make sure that when there are links off the PoconoThunder.net website, they are working and lead visitors to interesting, fun and informative areas. However, it is hard to guarantee what exactly is presented on other sites or where links elsewhere may lead. PoconoThunder.net is not responsible for the content, practices, or information provided or requested on websites operated by third parties. Further, advertisements on and links to or from PoconoThunder.net do not constitute sponsorship, endorsement, or approval by PoconoThunder.net of the content, policies, practices or products or services offered on these websites. Parents/guardians should check each website's privacy policy and terms of use in order to understand their policies and practices regarding the collection and use of personally identifiable information. PoconoThunder.net also suggests that parents/guardians review the privacy policies of all websites that their children visit, including those websites linking to or from the PoconoThunder.net websites. Information provided to those websites will be subject to the privacy policy posted at that website. SECURITY The importance of security for all personally identifiable information associated with PoconoThunder.net visitors is of utmost concern to us. PoconoThunder.net exercises great care and implements a variety of technologies to make the PoconoThunder.net website as secure as possible against unauthorized access and to protect the information visitors choose to provide to us. PoconoThunder.net periodically reviews and updates these measures. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be one hundred percent (100%) secure. As a result, while PoconoThunder.net strives to protect a visitor's personal information, PoconoThunder.net can not ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted to us or from our online products or services, and a visitor does so at his/her own risk. PoconoThunder.net uses the industry standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption when credit card information is transmitted to us. REVIEW AND DELETION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION You may review and delete your personally identifiable information contained in PoconoThunder.net's records at any time. If you would like to review or delete this information, please contact us at: PoconoThunder.net QUESTIONS, SUGGESTIONS & COMMENTS Please contact us at privacy@PoconoThunder.net with any questions regarding PoconoThunder.net's privacy policy.
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