Welcome to
the Alma Mater Sports, LLC [“Alma Mater Sports, LLC”] Website at
ALMAMATERSPORTS.COM [hereinafter referred to as the “Website”]. This privacy
statement was created for the purpose of demonstrating Alma Mater Sports, LLC’s
commitment to privacy for our Website users. The following paragraphs reflect
information gathering and dissemination practices. This privacy statement may
change at any time. Any changes made to this Website will be posted on this
web page. Alma Mater Sports, LLC and any and all
entities that control, are controlled by, or are affiliated or under common
control with, Alma Mater Sports, LLC are collectively referred to herein as “us,”
“we” or “our.”
- GENERALLY:
INFORMATION PROVIDED BY YOU TO US.
The personally identifiable information received by us, typically
comes directly from visitors of the Website that are interested in
participating in activities offered on this Website or an affiliated website.
This information includes the visitor's state of residence and year of birth.
If you participate in an activity or service provided by this Website or
purchase products from us or an affiliated website, we will note, for example,
the date of the purchase or order, the type of services and/or type of products
ordered or purchased. We may collect personal information when you provide
information to our customer service representatives and when you log in, register,
or visit our Website, including when you participate in activities or services
provided on our Website, for example games, and informational and promotional
offers. This Website may offer blogs, chat rooms, message or bulletin boards,
conversation pages, profile pages, social community environments or forums and
other public forums and other features in which you may provide us with
personally identifiable information. If you provide personal information when
you use any of this Website’s features or the feature of any affiliated
website, that personal information may be publicly posted and otherwise
disclosed without limitation as to its use by a third party.
- E-COMMERCE
Alma
Mater Sports, LLC utilizes the services of PayPal for payment transactions
related to this Website. No representative of Alma Mater Sports, LLC or this
Website will ever ask you for your credit card number. We never receive your
credit card information and thus, no credit information is ever kept in our
database. PayPal’s policies can be found at www.paypal.com. Alma Mater
Sports, LLC is not responsible for the policies, privacy practices or the
content of PayPal or its website.
- USE OF
COOKIES AND IP ADDRESSES
“Cookies”
are bits of information that are stored by your browser on your computer. Most
Web browsers automatically accept cookies, however, you may edit your browser
options so as to block cookies in the future.
An
“IP address” is a number that identifies each computer on the Internet. Every
time you connect to the Internet, your computer is assigned an IP address. An
IP address identifies each sender or receiver of information that is sent in
packets across the Internet.
Alma
Mater Sports, LLC may use your IP address to assist in diagnosing problems with
our server and to administer our Website. Our Website also may use cookies to
keep track of your shopping cart and to maintain user session identity.
- EXTERNAL
LINKS
ALMAMATERSPORTS.COM
may contain links to external Websites that may not fall under the
ALMAMATERSPORTS.COM domain. Alma Mater Sports, LLC is not responsible for the
privacy practices or the content of such external websites, except amfl.us.
- E-MAIL PRIVACY;
USE AND DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
We
may send emails to our users announcing special promotions, new products,
changes in our services or other information we believe will be of interest to
our users. We may also send to our registered users, newsletters and team
updates. If you wish to be removed from our e-mail mailings, please send us an
email with the subject line "no emails" to contact@AlmaMaterSports.comor
reply to our email with the subject line "no emails."
All
members may be able to view the names, e-mail addresses and e-mails of other
league members. You may edit your name and e-mail information at any time from
within the team interface. If you need more information with regard to making
such changes, please e-mail us at contact@AlmaMaterSports.com.
If
you send Alma Mater Sports, LLC correspondence, for example, an email or
letter, or if third parties or other users inform us about your activities
related to or on our site, we may collect such information. We may use that
information and other information that we obtain from your use of our site to
resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our Terms of Use agreement.
We may share statistics about our sales, traffic patterns and related site
information with other businesses.
The purpose of the bulletin boards,
message boards, blogs, and chat rooms and other forums that we provide to
Users, is to give users an opportunity to express their opinions and share
ideas. By posting text, images, sounds, comments, opinions or ideas on this
Website, or any business or Website affiliated with us, you grant Alma Mater
Sports, LLC, an unlimited, irrevocable, non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free,
and fully sublicensable, license and right to use, reproduce, copy, broadcast,
modify, display, adapt, publish, distribute, translate and create derivative
works from, such text, images, sounds, opinions, comments or ideas throughout
the world in any media, form, software or technology of any kind. You further
grant to Alma Mater Sports, LLC the right to use your name and/or likeness in
connection with the reproduction, publication or distribution of such material.
If required by law to disclose
certain information to local, state, federal, national or international
government, courts or law enforcement authorities, we will do so. We will also
disclose information to third parties if necessary in order to comply with
applicable laws and regulations. In addition, Alma Mater Sports, LLC may share
information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal
activities or suspected fraud, or enforce or apply Alma Mater Sports, LLC
agreements.
- E-MAIL
INFORMATION GATHERED BY ALMA MATER SPORTS, LLC
Occasionally,
specific information pertaining to recipients’ responses is collected via
reviewing how many recipients open and subsequently choose to click to links
provided in an Alma Mater Sports, LLC e-mail. This information is used only
for the purposes of analyzing areas of interest, enhancing our services and
products and improving the usefulness of our Website for users. This
information is not sold or distributed to any third party outside of Alma Mater
Sports, LLC and its affiliates.
- SURVEYS
The
online surveys on this Website may ask respondents for contact information,
like e-mail address, and demographic information, like age, gender and zip
code. This information collected is used to improve the products and services
offered. Contact information collected from our surveys may also be used to
send the respondent information about Alma Mater Sports, LLC.
- PUBLIC
FORUMS
This
Website may make message boards, blogs or similar public forums available to
its users. Please remember that information that you disclose in these forums
becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding
whether to disclose your personal or other sensitive information. Alma Mater
Sports, LLC cannot and does not guarantee or warrant the security of any
information you transmit to ALMAMATERSPORTS.COM, and thus, you do so at your
own risk. Also, it is not Alma Mater Sports, LLC’s responsibility to maintain
the secrecy of any passwords you set up and/or any account information that you
have disclosed.
- SECURITY
One
of Alma Mater Sports, LLC’s highest priorities is the protection of all
personal information we receive from our Website visitors and subscribers.
Please be assured that we have security measures in place to protect against
the loss, misuse, and alteration of personal information we receive from you.
However, as with any Internet transmission, there is always some risk involved
in sending personal information. In an attempt to minimize the risk, Alma
Mater Sports, LLC uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol to encrypt the
information that you submit in ordering our products or services.
- CHILDREN’S
GUIDELINES
Alma
Mater Sports, LLC is committed to protect the privacy of children. Please see Children’s Privacy Policy
for more information.
11.
QUESTIONS
Should
you have any additional questions, comments or concerns please contact us:
Via
mail at:
Alma
Mater Sports, LLC
411A
Highland Avenue, Suite 373
Somerville,
MA 02144
ATTN:
PRIVACY POLICY
Via
e-mail at:
contact@AlmaMaterSports.com
Children’s
Privacy Policy
In
addition to our general Privacy Policy (see above), Alma Mater Sports, LLC
[hereinafter AMS] recognizes the need to provide additional privacy protections
for children when they visit the Website that this Children’s Privacy Policy is
posted. Our additional protections for children are set forth in this
Children’s Privacy Policy and this Children’s Privacy Policy uses terms that
are defined in our general Privacy Policy, for your convenience.
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA") requires that
we inform parents and legal guardians about what we do to protect the children
that visit the Website. Note that when we use the term "parent"
below, we mean to include legal guardians.
I.
TYPES OF INFORMATION
COLLECTED ABOUT CHILDREN
Children
can surf ALMAMATERSPORTS.COM and other AMS sites and view content
without the collection of personal information. We do not collect personal
information from Children. Presently, it is our policy that Children are not
allowed to register and as a result, they are not allowed to participate in the
games. We collect no personally identifiable information from Children.
A Child may be able to browse or view chat or message board postings, however,
since they are not registered, they will not be able to participate in those
features.
II. SAFEGUARDS; NOTICE FROM PARENTS
AMS utilizes safeguards to prevent children
from registering. However, if a parent discovers that his or her child has
by-passed such safeguards, the parent is encouraged to contact AMS at the
e-mail or mailing address below, immediately, so that AMS may close the child’s
account.
III. NOTICES OF CHANGES TO THIS
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY POLICY
This
Children’s Privacy Policy may be amended at any time. All material changes in
this Children’s Privacy Policy will be applied in conformance with applicable
law.
IV. CONTACT US
Should you
have any additional questions, comments or concerns please contact us:
Via
mail at:
Alma
Mater Sports, LLC
411A Highland Avenue, Suite 373
Somerville, MA 02144
Attn:
Children’s Privacy Policy
Via
e-mail at:
contact@AlmaMaterSports.com
LAST
UPDATED: August 1, 2008