U.S. FIGURE SKATING
dba lEARN TO SKATE USA WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY STATEMENT
VERSION
1.0
We are committed to protecting the privacy and
security of the users of our sites.
This privacy policy will advise you about how we
protect your personal information, and about what choices you have concerning
our use of such information. Please read this policy carefully. This policy may
be revised from time to time in order to address new issues and reflect changes
on our sites. We will post those changes here so that you will always know what
information we gather, how we might use that information, and whether we will
disclose that information to anyone. Please refer back to this policy
regularly.
If you have any questions or concerns about our
privacy policy, please send an e-mail to Michael Terry or contact us at U.S. Figure Skating
Association, 20 First Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80906. Phone (719) 635-5200.
SCOPE
OF PRIVACY POLICY
This policy applies to your use of all of the
sites and services owned or operated by the U.S. Figure Skating Association dba
Learn to Skate USA and any other site that we may own or operate currently or
in the future (collectively, the "Sites"). This policy does not
include the Learn to Skate USA Members Only site. Unless we say otherwise, all
references to the Sites in this policy include all such sites. This policy does
not apply to your use of unaffiliated Sites to which any of the Sites only
link. This policy covers only information collected on the Sites and does not
cover any information collected offline by us.
PERSONAL
IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION
We may request personal identification
information from you in connection with your use of, or participation in,
membership registration for usfsa.org, our contests, sweepstakes, games,
surveys, forums, subscription registrations, content submissions, chats,
bulletin boards, discussion groups, requests for suggestions, and in connection
with other activities, services or resources we make available on any of our
sites. In all of these cases, we will collect personal identification
information from you only if you voluntarily submit such information to us. We
will never intentionally disclose any personal identification information about
you as an individual user (such as, for example, your full name, street
address, telephone number, credit card number or e-mail address) to any third
party without having received your permission. If you do provide us with personal
information for any of these activities, we may use it to conduct the activity.
We may also use cookie technology (discussed in detail below) to improve your
experience of these activities, including remembering your preferences,
customizing the content and advertisements that you see or authenticate your
access to your personal information. In addition, in the event your personally
identifiable information is requested as part of our surveys or polls, such
personally identifiable information may be added to your registration
information).
We may also contact you to confirm your
registration and about your account status (for example, when a child enters a
new age group to which different policies apply), and regarding changes to the
Sites' Terms and Conditions and this Privacy Policy.
If you give us your permission, we may also use
personal identification information for internal or external marketing and
promotional purposes. On occasion, for example, we may send you e-mails to
introduce a product or service that we think might be of interest to the users
of our sites. For us to obtain your permission to send you this information, we
will give you an opportunity to "opt-in" at the time our request for
your personal information is made. If you do "opt-in," you may choose
to "opt-out" at any time, even after you have provided personal
information, by following the procedures set forth below at the end of this
Privacy Policy. Please note, however, that under certain circumstances, if you
initially do not choose to "opt-in," or if you later
"opt-out," you may not be eligible for certain benefits for which a
name, e-mail address, telephone number or other personal identification
information is needed.
We have the following exceptions to these
policies: We will release specific information about you or your account to
comply with any valid legal inquiry or process such as a search warrant,
subpoena, statute or court order. We will also release specific information in
special cases, such as if there is an attempted breach of the security of the
Sites, or a physical or property threat to you or others. We may also transfer
user information, including personally identifiable information, to a successor
corporate entity in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, sale of
assets or corporate division or other fundamental corporate change. Please note
that if you give out personal information online - for example, on one of our
public forums such as a message board or chat room - that information can be collected
and used by third parties. Although we strive to protect our users' privacy, we
cannot guarantee the security of information you post in these forums. You
disclose such information at your own risk.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality
of your information and password. You shall be responsible for all uses of your
registration, whether or not authorized by you. You agree to immediately notify
us of any unauthorized use of your registration or password.
NON-PERSONAL
IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION
We may collect non-personal identification
information through the use of:
"Cookie"
technology: A
"cookie" is an element of data that a web site can send to your
browser, which may then store it on your system.
"IP address tracking": An IP address is a number that is
assigned to your computer when you are on the Internet. When you request pages
from our Sites, our servers log your IP address.
Non-personal identification information that we
collect might include: the browser you use, the type of computer, technical
information about your means of connection to our site-such as the operating
systems and the Internet service providers utilized, and other similar
information. We may also collect information about the areas you visit and
search terms you utilize on our sites and about the links you may select from
within our site to other areas of the World Wide Web or elsewhere online.
We may share this aggregate statistical
information with our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors and
other third parties, but we will not share any individual names, personal
navigational or other personal information. For example, we may use a
third-party advertising company to serve ads when you visit our Sites. We may
share demographic and preference information with this company to allow them to
display appropriate advertisements for you.
Some of our advertisers may display ads on our
sites, which solicit or contain technology to collect information about our
users for the advertisers, but we will not permit such advertisers to collect
any personal information from our users within our Sites.
THE
USE OF COOKIE TECHNOLOGY
A cookie is an element of data that a web site
can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. Our Site
makes use of cookies to permit the completion of the user's current activity on
the Site and for aggregate, non-personally identifiable analysis (for example
we may track the number of times users visit a portion of our Site, but we do
not track or know who those users are). We only use cookies to collect
personally identifiable information with your consent, as described above under
Personal Identification Information.
Most browsers are set to accept cookies. You can
set your browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being
sent. If you do so, please note that some parts of U.S. Figure Skating
Association Sites, such as message boards, chats, shopping, contests and game
areas, may not function properly.
PRIVACY
OF CHILDREN
We understand that young people need special
safeguards and privacy protection. We realize that they may not understand all
the provisions of our policy or be able to make thoughtful decisions about the
choices that are made available to our adult users. We strongly urge all
parents to participate in their children's exploration of the Internet and any
online services, and to teach their children about protecting their personal
information while online.
We prohibit registration by children under the
age of 13 for all interactive portions of the Sites including chats and message
boards. We will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from
children under 13.
We may, at our discretion, require users under
18 to obtain the consent of a parent or guardian to view certain content, and
we may limit access to certain content to users above a specified age. You
agree to abide by any such restrictions, and not to help anyone avoid these
restrictions.
LINKS
TO OTHER SITES
Users may find advertising or other content on
our Sites that link to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers,
advertisers, sponsors, licensors and other third parties. We do not control the
contents or links that appear on these sites. In addition, these sites or
services, including their contents and links, may be constantly changing. These
sites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service
policies, or no policy (policies) at all. We encourage you to review the
privacy policies of any third party sites or services before providing any of
them with your personal information.
SECURITY
POLICY
Protecting your privacy and your information is
a top priority. We have taken careful measures to secure both your information
and our equipment. We exercise care in providing safe transmission of your
information from your PC to our servers (unless sent by a means outside of our
control, such as e-mail).
ACCESS
TO/CORRECTION OF INFORMATION
If you would like to review any personal
information we have retained about you in our database, please send us an
e-mail request for this information at Michael Terry. To help us address your request, please
specify which information you wish to review. Once you have reviewed this
information, at your request we will correct personal information about you
that you state is erroneous. To request such a correction, please send an
e-mail to Michael Terry. You should be aware, however, that it is not
always possible to completely remove or modify information in our databases and
servers although we will always make reasonable efforts to do so upon your
request.
CHOICE/OPT-OUT
If you "opt-in" to receive information
from us or others, you can change your mind later. If at any time you would
like to stop receiving such information or opt-out of a feature, you can let us
know by sending an e-mail stating your preference to Michael Terry. To help us address your request, please
specify the feature from which you wish to opt out. You should be aware,
however, that it is not always possible to completely remove or modify
information in our databases and servers although we will always make
reasonable efforts to do so upon your request.
CONSENT
TO TRANSFER
The Sites are operated in the United States. If
you are located in the European Union or elsewhere outside of the United
States, please be aware that any information you provide to us will be
transferred to the United States. By using our Web Site, participating in any
of our services and/or providing us with your information, you consent to this
transfer.
YOUR
ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS
By using any of the Sites, you signify your acceptance
of our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use
our Sites. Your continued use of the Sites following the posting of changes to
these terms will mean that you accept those changes.