PRE-GAME NOISE
WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY
THIS POLICY WAS LAST UPDATED ON November 24, 2009.
Protecting your privacy is important to Pre-Game Noise Corp. (“Pre-Game Noise”). This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) explains how Pre-Game Noise collects, uses and discloses the personal information you may provide while using Pre-Game Noise’s website, currently located at www.pre-gamenoise.com (the “Website”).
PLEASE READ THIS POLICY CAREFULLY. BY USING THE WEBSITE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND SIGNIFY THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD AND AGREED TO BE BOUND BY THIS POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS POLICY, PLEASE EXIT THE WEBSITE. PRE-GAME NOISE MAY, AT ITS ABSOLUTE DISCRETION, CHANGE, MODIFY, ADD, OR REMOVE PORTIONS OF THIS POLICY, AT ANY TIME, FOR ANY REASON, AND WITHOUT NOTICE TO YOU. YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THE PRE-GAME NOISE WEBSITE WILL MEAN THAT YOU ACCEPT THOSE CHANGES.
ALSO, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT THE INTERNET IS NOT A SECURE MEDIUM, AND NEITHER THE PRIVACY OF YOUR COMMUNICATIONS, NOR YOUR VISITS TO THIS WEBSITE, CAN BE ENSURED. THE NATURE OF INTERNET COMMUNICATIONS MEANS THAT YOUR COMMUNICATION MAY BE SUSCEPTIBLE TO DATA CORRUPTION, INTERCEPTION AND DELAYS.
As used in this Policy, “we” and “us” means Pre-Game Noise or any successor or assign of Pre-Game Noise. Each time you use the Website, you signify your acceptance and agreement, without limitation or qualification, to be bound by this Policy, and you represent and warrant that you have the legal authority to agree to and accept this Policy.
The Pre-Game Noise Terms of Use Agreement (which may be viewed by clicking here www.pre-gamenoise.com/terms (the “Terms of Use Agreement”) also contains important provisions, including provisions disclaiming, limiting or excluding Pre-Game Noise’s liability for your use of the Website and the “Content” (as defined in the Terms of Use Agreement), and provisions determining the applicable law and exclusive jurisdiction for the resolution of any dispute regarding the Website. Each of those provisions applies to any disputes that may arise in relation to this Policy or to our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information, and are of the same force and effect as if they had been reproduced directly in this Policy.
1. Non-Identifiable Information Automatically Collected
Like many other websites, the Website automatically collects certain non-identifiable information regarding Website users, such as the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your computer, the IP address of your Internet Service Provider, the date and time you access the Website, the Internet address of the Website from which you linked directly to the Website, the operating system you are using, the sections of the Website you visit, the Website pages read and images viewed, and your activities on the Website. This information can provide a great deal of information about the manner in which the Website is being used, and how it can be improved. Your non-identifiable information may be disclosed to others and permanently archived for future use. Pre-Game Noise collects non-identifiable information in the following manner:
- Cookies: This Website uses “cookies”, a technology that installs information on a Website user’s computer to permit the Website to recognize future visits using that computer. Cookies enhance the convenience and use of the Website. For example, the information provided through cookies is used to recognize you as a previous user of the Website, to track your activities on the Website in order to respond to your needs, to offer personalized Web page content and information for your use, to automatically, but for a limited time, populate online forms with personal information you have provided, for your convenience, and to otherwise facilitate your Website experience.
Advertisements displayed on the Website may also contain cookies or other technologies. Those advertisements may be provided by third party advertising companies, and Pre-Game Noise does not have any control over, or responsibility or liability for, the cookies or other technologies used in the advertisements, or for the use and disclosure of information collected through advertisement cookies.
You may choose to decline cookies if your browser permits, but doing so may affect your use of the Website, your ability to access certain features of the Website, and your ability to engage in transactions through the Website.
- Web Beacons: The Website may contain small graphic images, which are often referred to as “Web Beacons.” Web Beacons allow us to monitor and collect certain limited information about the users of the Website, such as the type of browser requesting the Web Beacon, the IP address of the computer that the Web Beacon is sent to, and the time the Web Beacon was viewed. Web Beacons can be very small and invisible to the user, but, in general, any electronic image viewed as part of a web page or an email can act as a Web Beacon. Pre-Game Noise uses Web Beacons to compile aggregate statistics about our Website and our marketing campaigns.
- Use of Javascript: The Website employs Javascript to anonymously track how users interact with the Website, including where they came from and what they did on the Website.
- Other: Pre-Game Noise may also collect non-identifiable information using other standard internet technologies.
Non-identifiable information may be used for Website and system administration purposes, to improve the Website, and to provide you with the very best service. Non-identifiable information may be used for the following purposes:
- Statistics and Reports: Non-identifiable information may be used to generate statistics, aggregate reports for internal use by Pre-Game Noise and its affiliates, subsidiaries, licensees, successors, assigns, suppliers and advertisers. These statistics and reports will contain only aggregated information, and no personally identifiable information. Your identity is kept strictly anonymous.
- Other: Non-identifiable information may be used and disclosed when required by law, when disclosure may assist Pre-Game Noise in facilitating improvements to the Website or in enhancing your experience on the Website, and for other Website and system administration purposes.
2. Collection of Personal Information
During your use of the Website, you will be asked to provide your personal information (such as your name, email address, postal code, telephone number, age and gender) for purposes such as facilitating communications and transactions with you, providing you with Content, products and services, and otherwise enhancing your Website experience. IF YOU CHOOSE NOT TO PROVIDE REQUESTED PERSONAL INFORMATION, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO USE CERTAIN FEATURES OF THE WEBSITE. Once you provide this information, Pre-Game Noise may issue to you a username and a password, thus allowing you to become a “Registered User” of the Website and to access a “User Account”, in which you will be able to make several decisions that relate to your information and privacy.
Once you are a Registered User, you may be entitled to access additional Content, products and services, and you may be entitled to make or engage in additional posts, submissions, communications and other interactions on or in relation to the Website.
Pre-Game Noise does not knowingly collect any personal information from individuals under the age of 16 years of age, or any age that is prohibited under applicable laws, unless such collection complies with applicable laws, if any. If you are under 16 years of age, or any age that is prohibited under applicable laws, do not send any information about yourself to Pre-Game Noise. If Pre-Game Noise discovers that an individual under the age of 16, or any age that is prohibited under applicable laws, has provided Pre-Game Noise with personal information, Pre-Game Noise will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete that individual’s personal information from its system.
3. Use of Personal Information
Pre-Game Noise may use your personal information to contact and correspond with you, to respond to your inquiries, to process transactions and charge you for products and services, for sweepstakes, contests and other promotions, and as otherwise permitted by law in order to provide the very best service to you. Pre-Game Noise may develop a user profile for you, which will be used to provide the very best service to you. Additionally, Pre-Game Noise may keep a record of all correspondence and interactions with you.
4. Tracking Information
Pre-Game Noise may use non-personal information to create aggregate tracking information, reports regarding Website user demographics, Website traffic patterns, and patterns relating to the use of Content, products, services and user interactions, and then Pre-Game Noise may provide those reports to advertisers and others, enabling them to better target their advertisements or other products and services to Pre-Game Noise’s users. None of the tracking information in the reports can be connected to the identities or other personal information of individual users. Pre-Game Noise also may link tracking information with Website users’ personal information; however, once such a link is made, all of the linked information is treated as personal information and will be used and disclosed only in accordance with this Policy.
5. Disclosure of Your Personal Information
Pre-Game Noise may disclose your personal information in the following circumstances:
- Disclosure to other users of the Web Site: If you are a Registered User, Pre-Game Noise may disclose your personal information on its Website and may provide your personal information to other Registered Users of the Website, subject to any limitations designated by you in your User Account. When you make or engage in posts, submissions, communications and other interactions on or in relation to the Website, your personal information may be disclosed on the Website as the source of such interactions. Pre-Game Noise has no control over how that personal information will be used by users of the Website or other third parties who obtain access to such personal information, and Pre-Game Noise assumes no risk or liability relating to the use of your personal information by such users of the Website or other third parties. Therefore, you should carefully designate in your User Account which information may be disclosed to users of the Website and other third parties, and you should exercise caution when using the Website in a manner in which your information may be disclosed. You can access your User Account by clicking here: [www.pre-gamenoise.com/account. Users should be able to select which information will be disclosed, and when and to whom it may be disclosed. Also, users should be able to designate their choices with respect to virtually every service offered by the website, including which emails and notifications they receive (if any). Furthermore, users should able to cancel their User Account or delete Content provided by them at any time].
- Disclosure to Affiliates, Subcontractors, Service Providers etc..: Pre-Game Noise may provide your personal information to its affiliates, subcontractors, service providers, or any other person with whom Pre-Game Noise proposes to enter into, or has entered into, any sort of contract or agreement for the purpose of providing the very best service to you
- Disclosure to Transaction Service Providers: In order to process certain transactions, Pre-Game Noise may disclose your personal information and other information to certain transaction service providers, such as your credit card issuer and your financial service provider.
- Sweepstakes, Contests and Promotions: If you choose to enter a sweepstakes, contest or other promotion through the Website, your personal information may be disclosed to third parties in connection with such promotion, including, without limitation, for the purpose of posting your entry, with attribution or otherwise, as permitted in the official rules for the promotion in question, for fulfilling your prize, or for including your name on a winners' list. Also, by entering a sweepstakes, contest or other promotion, we may require you to consent to the use of your personal information or other information, such as your name, voice, likeness or other Content in advertising, promotional and marketing materials. In addition, we may offer certain promotional Content, such as sweepstakes, sponsored by or co-branded with a third party, who may obtain the personal information that you submit, but only where specifically stated on the registration page or in the official rules for such promotion.
- Disclosure in Business Transfers: Pre-Game Noise may be involved in the actual or proposed transfer, sale, financing, securitization, insuring, assignment or other disposal of any part of its business, including the Website and the Content (a “Transaction”). In conjunction with any actual or proposed Transaction, Pre-Game Noise may disclose your personal information to any other party in relation to to any such actual or proposed Transaction, but will require that such other party protect the privacy of your personal information in a manner that is consistent with this Policy. IF AT ANY TIME YOU DO NOT WISH PRE-GAME NOISE TO DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AS PART OF THE ACTUAL OR PROPOSED TRANSACTION, PLEASE MAKE THE APPROPRIATE DESIGNATION IN YOUR USER ACCOUNT, WHICH CAN BE ACCESSED BY CLICKING HERE: [www.pregamenoise.com/account)
- Law Enforcement and Legal Disclosure: Pre-Game Noise may disclose your personal information to a government institution that has asserted its lawful authority to obtain the information, or where Pre-Game Noise has reasonable grounds to believe that the information could be useful in the investigation of unlawful activity, or to comply with a subpoena, a warrant or an order made by a court, person or body with jurisdiction to compel the production of information, or to comply with court rules regarding the production of records and information, or to legal counsel.
- Disclosure to Protect Victims of Abuse: While Pre-Game Noise assumes no obligation to report or make disclosures in order to protect victims of abuse or potential victims of abuse, Pre-Game Noise may disclose your personal information when Pre-Game Noise deems, in its absolute discretion, that such disclosure could assist in the protection of victims of abuse or potential victims of abuse.
6. Protecting the Security of your Personal Information
To help protect the confidentiality of your personal information, and to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information under its control, Pre-Game Noise employs security safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information. Nevertheless, due to the nature of the Internet and Internet technologies, security and privacy risks cannot be eliminated, and Pre-Game Noise cannot guarantee that your personal information will not be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Policy.
- Storage of Personal Information: Pre-Game Noise will store and process all of your information in a secure location, or, from time to time, in other locations, within or outside of Canada, that Pre-Game Noise, in its absolute discretion, decides are necessary or convenient in order to provide you with efficient and effective service.
- Protecting Your Personal Information
- Retention and Destruction of Your Personal Information: To help protect the confidentiality of your personal information, Pre-Game Noise has a retention and destruction policy pursuant to which it will only retain your personal information for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or for as long as is required by law, whichever period expires later.
- Security Breach Procedures: Upon becoming aware of a security breach, Pre-Game Noise will take reasonable steps to attempt to mitigate the risk and harm associated with the security breach.
- Accessing and Changing your Personal Information: If you are a Registered User, you can access and change your personal information by logging into your User Account, which can be accessed here: www.pre-gamenoise.com/account. Otherwise, you may request access to your personal information and to information about Pre-Game Noise’s collection, use and disclosure of that information by contacting Pre-Game Noise by email, at contact@pre-gamenoise.com. Subject to certain exceptions prescribed by law, you will be given reasonable access to your personal information, you will be entitled to challenge the accuracy and completeness of your personal information, and you will be entitled to have your personal information amended as appropriate. You can help Pre-Game Noise maintain the accuracy of your information by keeping your User Account updated and by notifying Pre-Game Noise of any changes to your personal information.
7. Links to Other Websites
You may obtain access to other websites, Internet resources or media related, in any manner whatsoever, to this Website, whether available through a link from the Website or otherwise (“Other Sites”). When you access or click on links to Other Sites, you are contacting those Other Sites, and those Other Sites may collect information about you voluntarily, through cookies or through other technologies. Pre-Game Noise has no responsibility or liability for or control over Other Sites, or their collection, use and disclosure of your personal information. You should review the privacy policies of Other Sites that you visit so that you understand how they collect, use and disclose information.
8. Former Users
If you stop using the Website or your permission to use the Website is terminated by Pre-Game Noise, Pre-Game Noise may continue to use and disclose your personal information in accordance with this Policy, as amended from time to time.
9. Privacy Policy Changes
This Policy may be changed from time to time, in Pre-Game Noise’s absolute discretion, and without prior notice or liability to you or any other person. The collection, use and disclosure of your personal information by Pre-Game Noise will be governed by the version of this Policy in effect at that time. New versions of this Policy will be posted here. Your continued use of the Website subsequent to any changes to this Policy will signify that you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with the changed Policy. Accordingly, when you use the Website, you should check the date of this Policy and review any changes since the last version. You should also bookmark this page and periodically review this Policy to ensure that you are familiar with the most current version.
10. Contact Us
If you have any comments or questions about this Policy or your personal information, please contact Pre-Game Noise at contact@pre-gamenoise.com
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