We believe your privacy is important. This Privacy Notice explains how we handle information about our users so that you can make an informed decision about whether to use our site. Please read it carefully and visit this page from time to time to check for updates.

This Privacy Notice is incorporated into and is subject to our Terms of Use. Content posted on our site is published content and is not subject to this Privacy Notice.

Types of Information We Collect

Information Provided by You. When you participate in certain activities on our site, you will be asked to provide certain personally identifiable information such as your name or email address.

Information Provided by Cookies: When you visit our site we may send a small text file to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. This file is commonly called a cookie and it may be stored on your computer and accessed whenever you visit our site. Cookies can be rejected or removed by most browsers, but you may not be able to use all the features of our site if you reject or remove cookies.

Information Collected in Log Files: Our servers automatically record log files that contain a variety of information sent by your browser when you access our site. Information collected in these log files may include details about your requests, your hardware, your IP address, your software, page views, time on certain activities, cookies, etc.

Information Provided by Web Beacons: Our servers may also set web beacons on web pages that you view. A web beacon (sometimes called a clear GIF) is a small file placed on a web page that allows a web site to count users who have viewed that page or to access cookies. Web beacons and cookies allow us to personalize your experience and/or gather anonymous information for auditing and reporting purposes.

Note: We do not knowingly collect any information from persons under 13 years of age, and no part of our website is directed to persons under 13. If you are under 13 please do not use or access our site.

How We Use the Information We Collect

Any content that you voluntarily disclose online is publicly available and can be collected, used, and redistributed by others via the internet or any other media outlet.

We may use your email address and other personally identifiable information to contact you for site administrative purposes and to operate and maintain various features on our site. We will not use personally identifiable information to send you commercial solicitations or other marketing messages without your consent.

We use all of the information we collect to improve our services and to create new features, promotions, and functionality by tracking and analyzing your preferences and usage of the site. We use cookies and web beacons to identify you when you visit our site and to personalize the experience based on your usage and preferences.

Disclosure of Information

We may provide both personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies, or other businesses or persons who provide services to us. We require such third-parties to agree to handle the information consistent with our own practices and we use reasonable confidentiality and security measures to insure compliance with these requirements.

We will not provide your personally identifiable information to unrelated third parties without your consent, or except as part of a specific program or feature which you have opted to participate in or use.

We may share non-personally identifiable information with third-parties for use in understanding demographics and usage patterns for our site, and in connection with various advertising and promotions.

We may share your personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information as required by law, to respond to a court order, subpoena, search warrant, or other administrative process, or based on our good-faith belief that disclosure is otherwise required. This includes disclosures necessary to enforce our Terms of Service, protect against liability, investigate or defend against third-party claims, assist government enforcement agencies, and to protect our site and the rights of our users.

Control Over Our Collection of Information

You can choose not to submit personally identifiable information to us, and you can set certain preferences on your computer that will limit the nature and/or amount of non-personally identifiable information that we collect by visiting your account profile page.

Third-party advertising services that serve advertisements on our site may also collect information subject to their own privacy policies and terms of service. We do not control what information these third-parties collect or how they use such information. We do not provide any personally identifiable information to such third-parties without your consent. You should consult their respective privacy policies and terms of service for more information regarding their practices. We currently have relationships with the following third-party ad servers or advertising networks:

Atlas DMT
Accipiter Ad Manager
Unicast Viewpoint

Data Security

While we use commercially reasonable efforts to protect the security of all of the data we collect, we cannot warrant the security of any information you provide to us. If we learn of a security breach, we may try to notify you and/or post a notice on our site. Certain locations provide a legal right to notification of a security breach. If you wish to receive written notice of any security breaches, please notify us at the following address, privacyquestions@sportnet.com

General Provisions

This site is hosted in and directed to users in the United States of America.

If our site is acquired by or merged with a third party we reserve the right to transfer or assign the information we have collected. In the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors' rights generally, we may not be able to control how your personal information is treated, transferred, or used.

This Privacy Notice may be updated periodically. We will use reasonable efforts to use your personal information consistent with the version in effect when we collected the data in question.

Please contact us at privacyquestions@sportnet.com if you have any questions regarding this Privacy Notice.

This Privacy Notice was last modified on June 13, 2007.