Sports Times Privacy
Policy
We strongly believe in protecting the confidentiality and security of
information we collect about individuals. The material below describes our
privacy policy and describes how we treat the information we receive about
you if you interact with our site.
Why We Need to
Know About You
We need to know about you so that we can provide you with information on
products and services and better target our sports content offering to
your interests. What we need to know about you includes your address, age
and preferences.
How We Learn
About You
What we know about you we get mostly from you. But we may also have to
find out more about you from other sources in order to make sure that what
we know about you is correct and complete. We do not collect personally
identifiable information about you except when you specifically provide
such information on a voluntary basis. For example, such personally
identifiable information may be gathered from competitions, message
boards, suggestions and transactional areas.
Your Right To
Opt Out
At our points of data collection, you have the opportunity to indicate
whether you would like to "opt in” or “opt out” of receiving promotional
and/or marketing information about other products, services and offerings
from group companies and/or third parties on whose behalf we may send out
information. Further, notwithstanding any opt out of promotional
information by the user, we reserve the right to contact you regarding
account status, changes to our service agreement and other matters
relevant to the underlying service and/or the information collected. You
can request to "opt out" of further promotional contacts at any time and
all promotional emails we send you allow you this facility. Also, upon
request, we will use commercially reasonable efforts functionally to
delete you and your personal information from our database; however, it
may be impossible to delete a your entry without some residual information
due to backups and records of deletions.
How We Protect
What We Know About You
We treat what we know about you confidentially. Our employees take care in
handling your information. They may get information about you only when
there is a good reason to do so. We take steps to make our databases
secure and to safeguard the information we have about you.
How We Use and
Disclose What We Know About You
We may use anything we know about you to help us serve you better. We will
not disclose your information to any third party save for the following
exceptions:
To help us
process questions you may have about a purchase, registration or other
inquiry you may have.
To confirm
or correct what we know about you
To help us
or law enforcement agencies prevent fraud, money laundering, terrorism and
other crimes
To allow for
verification of what we know about you
Data
processing requirements
Assisting an
agency perform research for us
Compliance
with the law or request of a government agency for example, complying with
a search warrant.
Compliance
with an audit our business
If we sell
all or any part of our business or merge with another company
Generally,
we will disclose only the information we consider reasonably necessary to
disclose.
How You Can See
and Correct Your Information
Generally, we will let you review what we know about you if you ask us in
writing or email. If you tell us that what we know about you is incorrect,
we will review it. If we agree with you, we will correct our records.
Third Party Data
Collection
You should be aware that we sometimes permit third parties to offer you
subscription, registration-based services, promotions or competitions. We
are not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties and
users should check the applicable privacy policy of such party when
providing personally identifiable information to other parties.
Sharing Your
Data in Public Areas of our Site
You should be aware that when you voluntarily disclose personally
identifiable information (e.g. user name, e-mail address) on any of our
message boards, that information, along with any substantive information
disclosed in your communication, can be collected and correlated and used
by third parties and may result in unsolicited messages from other posters
or third parties. Such activities are beyond our control.
How We Use IP
Addresses
We may use your IP address to help diagnose any problems with our server
or to administer our websites. Your IP address may be used to help
identify you and to gather broad demographic information that helps us
understand our users requirements. This specific information will only be
used internally by us and we will only share or use this information on an
aggregate basis.
How We Use
Cookies
We collect non-personal information and data through the standard
operation of our servers or through the use of cookies. Cookies are small
text files a web site used to recognise repeat users, facilitate your
ongoing access to and use of the site, track usage, follow site behaviour
and compile aggregate data that will allow content improvements and
targeted advertising. Cookies are not programs that come onto a your
system and damage files. Generally, cookies work by assigning a unique
number to the user that has no meaning outside the assigning site. Cookies
can help you for example by delivering content specific to your interests,
or to save your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you
visit our site. Our site may employ the services of an outside company to
serve and appropriately target online advertisements, promotions and
marketing messages. To do this, their software may collect anonymous data
through the use of cookies. Users should be aware that we couldn’t control
the use of cookies or the resulting information by advertisers or third
parties hosting data for us. If you do not want information collected
through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers
that allows you to deny or accept the cookie feature; however, you should
note that cookies may be necessary to provide the user with certain
features (e.g. customised delivery of information).
Links to Other Sites
Our site contains links to other sites outside of our site. We are not
responsible for the content or privacy practices or the content of such
websites.
Thank you for reading our
privacy policy and thank you for choosing our site as your reliable source
of sports news and views on the Internet. If you have any questions about
anything contained in this policy, you can contact Customer Service by
clicking here or e-mail us on
info@sportstimes.co.uk
The foregoing policies
are effective as of 1st January 2004. Sports Times reserve the right to
change this policy at any time by notifying users of the existence of a
new privacy statement. This statement and the policies outlined herein are
not intended to and do not create any contractual or other legal rights in
or on behalf of any party.
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