Startswimming.com takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.
What This Privacy Policy Covers
- This policy covers how Startswimming.com treats personal information that Startswimming.com collects and receives, including information related to your past use of Startswimming.com products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
- This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Startswimming.com does not own or control, or to people that Startswimming.com does not employ or manage.
Information Collection and Use General
- Startswimming.com collects personal information when you register with Startswimming.com, when you use Startswimming.com products or services or when you visit Startswimming.com pages or the pages of certain Startswimming.com partners. Startswimming.com may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
- When you register we ask for information such as your name, address, email address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. Once you register with Startswimming.com and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
- Startswimming.com collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners.
- Startswimming.com automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, Startswimming.com cookie information, and the page you request.
- Startswimming.com uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.
Children
- Startswimming.com complies with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.
- Children ages 14-17 must have parental permission before opening an account on StartSwimming.com
- Children under the age of 13 are not permitted to open accounts on Startswimming.com.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
- Startswimming.com does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
- We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Startswimming.com under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Startswimming.com communicate with you about offers from Startswimming.com and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
- We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
- We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Startswimming.com's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
- We transfer information about you if Startswimming.com is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Startswimming.com will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
- Startswimming.com works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business.
Cookies
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier, that is sent to your browser from a web site's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive.
Each web site can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.
Choices about Cookies
- You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. (Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.)
- If you reject all cookies, may not be able to take full advantage of all areas of Startswimming.com.
How Startswimming.com uses Cookies
- Startswimming.com may set and access Startswimming.com cookies on your computer.
- Startswimming.com lets other that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to Startswimming.com's cookies.
- Startswimming.com uses web beacons to access Startswimming.com cookies inside and outside our network of web sites and in connection with Startswimming.com products and services.
Confidentiality and Security
- We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
- We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
- Startswimming.com may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your Startswimming.com account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.
Effective Date: December 20, 2006