COSPORT INTERNET PRIVACY POLICY
Your right to privacy while using the Internet is very important to
CoSport. CoSport is committed to helping you maintain control over your
personal data. We respect your right to control how much information you
provide about yourself.
CoSport has created this Privacy Policy to disclose our online information
practices and the choices you can make about the way your personal information
is collected and used at the Website.
COLLECTING INFORMATION ABOUT YOU
We do not collect personally identifiable information on our Website unless you
voluntarily provide information about yourself. For purposes of this Privacy
Policy, “personally identifiable information” means any individual information
about a user of our Website including, but not limited to, your first and last
name, contact information (such as your mailing address, telephone number and/or
fax, and E-mail address), and financial information (such as your credit card
number) if you wish to purchase products or services via the Website.
There may be times (such as when you purchase or order a product, subscribe to a
service, register to receive catalogs, or to participate in contests,
sweepstakes or promotions, etc.) when we ask you to provide certain information
about yourself, such as your name, shipping/billing address, telephone number,
email address, credit card information, birth date, gender, occupation, personal
interests, etc. We may also maintain a record of your product purchases.
Whether or not to provide such information is completely your own choice. But if
you choose not to provide the information we request, you may be unable to
purchase products, or access certain services, offers and content on our web
site. In addition, we may need to contact you via phone, email or mail to
address questions or issues specific to your order, entry, etc., even if you
have opted to not receive communications from us.
In general, you can visit many of our web pages without telling us who you are
or revealing any personal information about yourself.
USING INFORMATION ABOUT YOU
We use the personal information that you voluntarily provide to us in
order to fulfill the purpose for which you provided the information to us (that
is, in order to respond to your questions, to confirm orders, and fulfill
orders for products and services purchased via the Website.) We also use your
contact information to send you information, advertising and promotional
materials about CoSport and our respective products, services and upcoming
events. We may also call persons who provide their telephone numbers to us
via the Website in order to provide you with information about CoSport and our
respective products, services and upcoming events.
From time to time we might establish a business relationship with other persons
or entities whom we believe trustworthy and whom we have asked to confirm that
their privacy policies are consistent with ours. These are known as our Select
Partners. In such cases we might share and cross-reference information,
including personal information about you that will enable such persons or
entities to contact you regarding products and services that may be of interest
to you.
We will not disclose any personal information that you provide to us to any
unaffiliated third party, except in accordance with this Privacy Policy or with
your consent.
CoSport may disclose to the NOC of the respective represented country and the
Vancouver Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXI Olympiad and other
Olympic organizing bodies or governmental entities as may be required,
information regarding Customer, including type of package purchased, name,
address, email address and other information.
We may disclose aggregate information about users of our Website to Partners,
NOC’s, VANOC, other organizing bodies and third parties. For example, we may
disclose to any of these parties that X% of Website users reside in United
States, or Y% of Website users purchased Figure Skating tickets, etc. Our
disclosure of aggregate information does not permit the recipient of such data
to identify or contact any individual user of the Website.
We may disclose any personal information that you provide to us to our service
providers with respect to the Website, provided that such service providers have
agreed to only use such personal information to the extent necessary to perform
services on behalf of CoSport.
We use the financial information that you voluntarily provide to us solely to
charge you for products and services you have ordered via the Website.
We may use and disclose your personal information: as is required by law; to
comply with legal process; to investigate claims with respect to use of the
Website; as is reasonably necessary to enforce the terms of the Terms and
Conditions; and as is reasonably necessary to protect the interests, rights or
property of CoSport and its member organizations.
CHANGING YOUR INFORMATION
In order to change or modify information previously provided by you,
please log on to our Website and choose “My Account” and update your information
using the options on this page.
PROTECTION OF CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF THIRTEEN
CoSport, does not knowingly collect any personal information from child
under the age of thirteen without the consent of that child’s parent or
guardian. Additionally, we do not send e-mail correspondence to anyone who
tells us that they are under the age of 13 without their parents or guardians
consent.
Children under the age of thirteen should always ask their parents or guardians
for permission before providing any personal information to anyone online.
We encourage parents and guardians to participate in their children’s online
activities and use parental control or other web-filtering technology to
supervise children’s access to the web.
We note that, in the course of a child’s use of our Website, the child may
voluntarily provide further personal information about himself or herself to us
– for example, by including personal information in messages submitted to us via
the Website. We also note that we may collect personal information about a
child from the child’s parent or guardian – for example, if the parent or
guardian requests that we send our newsletter to the child.
Parental Consent and Rights of Parents
Before knowingly collecting personal information from a child, CoSport will use
reasonable efforts to ensure that the parent or guardian of the child: (a)
receives notice of our personal information collection, use and disclosure
practices; and also (b) authorizes the collection and/or use of personal
information from the child.
To exercise these rights, parents must contact us by one of the methods set
forth in the CONTACTING US WITH RESPECT TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY section of this
Privacy Policy.
USE OF LOG FILES
As true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically
and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol addresses
(“IP”), browser type, internet service provider (“ISP”), referring/exit pages,
operating system, date/time stamp and clickstream data. .
When a user accesses web pages on our Website, our servers automatically log the
user's information. We use this information, which does not identify
individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users
movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user
base as a whole.
However, once you provide us with your “personally identifiable information” for
the purposes of completing an order, we do link this automatically collected
data.
USE OF COOKIES
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for
record-keeping purposes.
SECURITY AND INTEGRITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We use industry-standard security techniques to provide secure
transmission of your personal information from your computer to our servers, and
to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of personal information we
have collected at the Website. When you transmit any financial information
via the Website, we use industry-standard SSL (secure socket layer) encryption.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be
100% secure.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your registration
information and password, and for all uses of your password. You should
remember to sign out of your CoSport account and close your browser window when
you have finished using the Website, in order to protect against others’ use of
the Website under your password. For your protection, we will never ask
you to divulge your password in an unsolicited phone call or e-mail.
OPT-OUT PROCEDURES
We will occasionally send you information, which may include, but is
not limited to:
- Special offers and updates (on products, services, special deals and promotions
- Newsletters
- Service related announcements – on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so,
we may suspend service for maintenance.
- Select partner services
At all times, you have the option of “opting-out” of receiving any future e-mail
updates by sending us an e-mail to
cosport@cosport.com, with unsubscribe in the subject line and the specific
correspondence you do not want to receive in the body.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
This Website contains links to other sites that are not owned or
controlled by CoSport. Please be aware that we, CoSport, are not responsible for
the privacy practices of such other sites.
We encourage you to be aware when you leave our Website and to read the privacy
statements of every website that collects personally identifiable information.
This Privacy Statement applies only to information collected by this Website.
CONTACTING US
You may contact us for any purpose having to do with this Privacy
Policy, including but not limited to, exercising parental rights, opting-out of
receiving third party mailings, submitting questions with respect to our privacy
practices, or requesting that we correct, update or delete personal information
that you have previously provided to us by:
Sending us a letter at:
CoSport
PO Box 905
Far Hills, NJ 07931
USA
Telephone +1 908 326 2660
Fax +1 908 234 0270
Or sending us an E-mail at
cosport@cosport.com
PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES
CoSport reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time,
so please review it frequently. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy in
whole or in part, we will inform you by posting a notice on our Website homepage
and within this Privacy Policy. Those changed will go into effect on the date
posted in the notice. The new Privacy Policy will apply to all current and past
users of our Website and will replace any prior policies that are inconsistent.
This Privacy Policy was posted on October 3, 2008.