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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.”

 

 

  1. 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.

 

 

  1. 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.

 

  1. 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.

 

  1. 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.

 

  1. 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.

 

 

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

 

 

  1. 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.

 

 

  1. 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.

 

 

  1. 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

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