PRIVACY NOTICE
SportsNews.com.au knows that you care how information about you is used
and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully
and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting SportsNews.com.au,
you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.
What Personal
Information About Customers Does SportsNews.com.au Gather?
The information we learn from customers helps us personalize and continually
improve your experience at SportsNews.com.au.
Here are the types of information we gather.
• Information You Give Us: We
receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or give us in
any other way. Click here to
see examples of what we collect. You can choose not to provide certain information,
but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our features.
We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to
your requests, customizing future shopping for you, improving our stores,
and communicating with you.
• Automatic Information: We
receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact
with us. For example, like many Web sites, we use "cookies," and
we obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses
SportsNews.com.au. Click
here to see examples of the information we receive. A number of companies
offer utilities designed to help you visit Web sites anonymously. Although
we will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience at
SportsNews.com.au if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware
that these tools exist.
• E-mail Communications: To
help us make e-mails more useful and interesting, we often receive a
confirmation when you open e-mail from SportsNews.com.au if your computer
supports such capabilities. We also compare our customer list to lists
received from other companies, in an effort to avoid sending unnecessary
messages to our customers. If you do not want to receive e-mail or other
mail from us, please adjust your preferences by visiting your account
page (at the store or boards as appropriate).
• Information from Other Sources: We
might receive information about you from other sources and add it to our
account information. Click
here to see examples of the information we receive.
What About Cookies?
• Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's
hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser
and to provide certain features.
• The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you
how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the
browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies
altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of some
of SportsNews.com.au 's coolest features, and we recommend that you leave
them turned on.
Does SportsNews.com.au Share the Information
It Receives?
Information about our customers is an important part of our business, and we
are not in the business of selling it to others. We share customer information
only as described below and with contracted partners of SportsNews.com.au Pty
Limited that are legally bound as subject to this Privacy Notice.
• Agents: We employ
other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples
include fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail,
removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing
marketing assistance, processing credit card payments, and providing customer
service. They have access to personal information needed to perform their
functions, but may not use it for other purposes.
• Promotional Offers: Sometimes
we send offers to selected groups of SportsNews.com.au customers on behalf
of other businesses. When we do this, we do not give that business your name
and address. If you do not want to receive such offers, please adjust your
preferences as previously described.
• Business Transfers: As
we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy stores, subsidiaries,
or business units. In such transactions, customer information generally
is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the
promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Notice (unless, of course,
the customer consents otherwise). Also, in the unlikely event that SportsNews.com.au,
or substantially all of its assets are acquired, customer information
will of course be one of the transferred assets.
• Protection of SportsNews.com.au
and Others: We release account and other personal
information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with
the law or protect the rights, property, or safety of SportsNews.com.au,
our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other
companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk
reduction. Obviously, however, this does not include selling, renting,
sharing, or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information
from customers for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments
set forth in this Privacy Notice.
• With Your Consent: Other
than as set out above, you will receive notice when information about
you might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose
not to share the information.
How Secure Is Information About Me?
• We work to protect the security of your information during transmission
by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you
input.
• We reveal only the last five digits of your credit card numbers
when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card
number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing.
• It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access
to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished
using a shared computer.
Which Information Can I Access?
SportsNews.com.au gives you access to a broad range of information about your
account and your interactions with SportsNews.com.au for the limited purpose
of viewing and, in certain cases, updating that information. Visit your account
page in the boards or store as appropriate.
What Choices Do I Have?
• As discussed above, you can always choose not to provide information,
even though it might be needed to make a purchase or to take advantage of special
SportsNews.com.au features.
• You can add or update certain information on specific pages.
When you update information, we usually do not keep a copy of the prior
version for our records.
• If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us,
please adjust your preferences as described above. If you do not want
to receive notices from us, such as this Privacy Notice, those notices
will still govern your use of SportsNews.com.au, and it is your responsibility
to review them for changes.)
• The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you
how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the
browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies
altogether. However, you will not be able to use important features if
you do not use cookies.
• The NSW Office of Fair trading provides useful information
about online privacy on its own Web site, Site
Seeing on the Internet.
Children
SportsNews.com.au does not sell products for purchase by children. We sell
children's products for purchase by adults. If you are under 16, you may use
SportsNews.com.au only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.
Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions
If you choose to visit SportsNews.com.au, your visit and any dispute over privacy
is subject to this Notice and our TERMS OF SERVICE (Boards Only), including
limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the law
of the state of New South Wales, Australia. If you have any concern about privacy
at SportsNews.com.au, please send us a thorough description to help@SportsNews.com.au,
and we will try to resolve it.
Our business changes constantly, and our Privacy Notice and the TERMS OF SERVICE
(Boards Only) will change also. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices
and conditions, unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check
our Web site frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our
current Privacy Notice applies to all information that we have about you and
your account. We stand behind the promises we make, however, and will never
materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of
customer information collected in the past without the consent of affected
customers.
Information You Give Us
You provide most such information when you search, buy, bid, post, participate
in a contest or questionnaire, or communicate with customer service. For example,
you provide information when you search for a product; place an order through
SportsNews.com.au; communicate with us by phone, e-mail, or otherwise; complete
a questionnaire or a contest entry form; participate in Discussion Boards or
SportsNews.com.au Chat; and employ other SportsNews.com.au services. As a result
of those actions, you might supply us with such information as your name, address,
and phone numbers; credit card information; people to whom purchases have been
shipped, including addresses and phone number; content of reviews and e-mails
to us; and financial information.
Automatic Information
Examples of the information we collect and analyze include the Internet protocol
(IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address;
password; computer and connection information such as browser type and version,
operating system, and platform; purchase history, which we sometimes aggregate
with similar information from other customers to create new features.; the
full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) clickstream to, through, and from our Web
site, including date and time; cookie number; and products you viewed or searched
for.
Information from Other Sources
Examples of information we receive from other sources include updated delivery
and address information from our carriers or other third parties, which we
use to correct our records and deliver your next purchase or communication
more easily; account information, purchase or redemption information, and page-view
information; search term and search result information from some searches conducted
through Web search sites; and credit history information from credit bureaus,
which we use to help prevent and detect fraud.
Information You Can Access
Examples of information you can access easily at SportsNews.com.au include
up-to-date information regarding recent orders; personally identifiable information
(including name, e-mail, password, communications preferences, address book,
and 1-Click settings); payment settings (including credit card information
and gift certificate, gift card, and check balances); e-mail notification settings;
and prior order history.
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