Our Commitment To You
An Overview Of Our Privacy Policies
Protections Specifically For Children
Publishing Guidelines
Your IP Address
Cookies
Information We Collect From You
Information Other Web Sites May Collect From You
How We Use Personal Information
Spyware
Report Known Abuse

Our Commitment To You

SportsWorld has created this security policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to protecting you and your children's personal information and informing you about how we handle it.

Our security policy applies to all communications, postings, transactions, and data gathered, on the web sites copyrighted by SportsWorld. This security policy does not apply to any web sites other than ours, or off-line points of contact between us and the audiences we serve.

If, at any time, you discover that any of our security policies are being violated, please let us know immediately so that we may take swift and appropriate action.

Please review this security policy periodically as we may update it from time to time.

Refer to the date and time stamp at the bottom of this page for the last update to this policy.

An Overview Of Our Privacy Policies

1. Each time you visit any of our web sites, or provide us with information, then you are agree to accept the practices described in this security policy at the time of your visit or submission.

2. SportsWorld cares about your privacy and dislikes “spam” as much as you do. We do not collect any personal information about you while visiting our web sites unless you specifically input the information into our forms and submit the form to us.

3. We do record statistical information for the purpose of improving our web sites and cookies may be used for monitoring our success; however this information never contains any personally identifiable information about you.

4. When our forms ask you to provide us with contact information and when you e-mail us, your contact information is used only to meet your requests or respond, if necessary, to your request. Your individual iinformation is never released outside of our organization and is never given or sold to third parties for any purpose.

5. Subscriptions and e-mail responses: Our managed e-mail services are NOT spam or junk mail; they are opt-in subscription sevices. If spam is your business - don't even ask!

6. External Links: SportsWorld has no control over, and is therefore not responsible for, the privacy practices or content of external web sites linked on our sites. Where we have provided links to web sites outside our domains, we do so as a courtesy and can not control, nor are responsible, for their content. They had been researched and approved prior to placement on our site(s) and we periodically review these sites while providing these links. If, however, you consider the content provided by any of these links to be objectionable - please let us know immediately so that we can review it and take appropriate action.

Protections Specifically For Children

No web site created and maintained by SportsWorld will ever:

• Where prior parental consent is not obtained, online contact information shall only be used to directly respond to the child's request and shall not be used to re-contact the child for any other purposes.

• Collect personally identifiable off-line contact information from children under 13 without prior verifiable parental consent.

• Distribute to third parties any personally identifiable Information collected from a child under 13 without prior verifiable parental consent.

• Give the ability to children under 13 to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information without prior verifiable parental consent. We will also make best efforts to prohibit a child from posting any contact information on the sites within our control.

• Entice a child under 13 by the prospect of a special game, prize or other activity, to divulge more information than is needed to participate in such activity.

Publishing Guidelines

An important component of SportsWorld is the recognition given to its athletes.

We will regularly publish SportsWorld related materials, such as photo's, movies, quotes, testimonials, etc., on our web sites and in public outlets such as newspapers, magazines, and television.

We will only publish, or authorize to publish, content that projects the subjects and SportsWorld in the best light.

Our Handling of Submitted Materials:

Content submitted to SportsWorld will always be reviewed against socially accepted norms for decency and cleanliness. Materials not meeting these criteria will be immediately destroyed.

Adults - defined as Teachers, Parents/Guardians, School Administrators, and our Community Partners. Materials submitted by any of these parties will only be accepted if they are, have been, or will be members of SportsWorld.

Children - defined as anyone under the age of 18 years. Content knowingly submitted by a child will not be published unless accompanied by the express written or electronic permission of that child's parent or guardian. Content that features a single child must also be accompanied by the express written or electronic permission of that child's parent or guardian. Content featuring two or more children will be considered “Public Domain” - please see below.

Public Domain - SportsWorld related content that is submitted featuring children and/or adults in a public setting within their participating school (e.g. school yard, classroom, cafeteria, school rally / activity / event, etc.) will be received with the expectation that it meets or exceeds that individual school's own privacy policies and is therefore approved for publication by SportsWorld.

Withdrawal - If a parent or guardian chooses to withdraw their authorization to publish content featuring their child, SportsWorld staff and SportsWorld will make every reasonable effort to swiftly remove that content from the public domain. However, the parent or guardian must recognize that despite all our “best efforts”, content featuring their child may never be completely removed from the public domain once it has first been published.

All parties submitting content to SportsWorld, agree to have no expectation of remuneration for any submitted or published materials.

Your IP Address

Like most web sites, each time you visit our sites, we may collect your IP address and the web page from which you came.

This does not contain any personal information about you.

In order to administer and optimize our sites and to diagnose problems with our site(s), we mayy use your IP address to help identify broad demographic information and navigation patterns.

This information will never be used to contact you, nor will it be sold to outside parties.

We may use IP addresses to identify persons that violate our policies and we reserve all rights to subsequently ban them from any or all of our web sites - at our sole descretion. We reserve these rights, for our members, because we practice a ZERO tolerance for any content or action that may be disruptive to our audience.

Cookies

Like most web sites, we use uses cookies to keep track of your activities and purchases on our sites and to enhance your experience on our sites.

Neither we, nor partners on our sites, will use this information to contact you in any way unless you have expressly asked.

We may use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests during your web session with us, to save your password, and if you choose, to save other personal and financial information that you have clearly provided, so you do not have to reenter it each time you visit our sites.

Third party partners and advertisers on our sites may also place cookies on your browser while continuing to meet or exceed the privacy & protection guidelines of our sites.

If you wish to disable cookies, the "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how. However, if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain areas on our sites.

Information We Collect From You

We in no way collect personal information about you (i.e. information that could be used to contact you such as full name, postal address, phone number and e-mail address), financial information (e.g. passwords, credit and debit card numbers, bank and other financial institution account numbers) nor demographic information (postal code, hometown, gender, purchase history information and age) prior to your being notified and agreeing to allow us to do so.

Information Other Web Sites May Collect From You

On our sites, we place links to other web sites operated by parties outside SportsWorld.

Some of these other web sites contain our brand names, copyrighted materials, trademarks and other intellectual property that we own; others do not. When you click on these links and visit these other web sites, regardless of whether or not they contain our brand names, trademarks and other intellectual property, you need to be aware that we do not control these other web sites or these other web sites' business practices, and that this security policy does not apply to these other web sites.

Consequently, the operators of these other web sites may collect different kinds of information about you, and may use and disclose that information in different ways than we would if it were collected on our sites.

We encourage you to review their security policies and we remind you that we will not be responsible for their content and practices.

How We Use Personal Information

We use your personal information to help us to deliver the services you have requested on our sites, to contact you when necessary in connection with events/activities for which you have requested to be contacted, to send you information, offers and other promotional materials from us and selected third parties when you have expressly requested, and to efficiently perform transactions on our sites.

To process transactions on our sites, we may share your personal information with our agents, representatives, contractors and service providers so they can provide us with support services such as authorization of credit card transactions, order fulfillment, sweepstakes and promotional fulfillment, as well as to your credit card issuer for their purposes.

We require these entities not to use your information for any other purpose.

Your personal information will not be passed on or sold to a third party in the event of a transfer of ownership or assets, or a bankruptcy of SportsWorld.

However, we may disclose specific information when we determine that such disclosure is necessary to comply with law, to cooperate with law enforcement or to protect the interests or safety of SportsWorld, visitors to our sites, users of services or products provided by us, or our partners.

SpyWare

Simply put, we:

...Don't like it,

...Don't want it,

...Won't use it,

...Won't knowingly allow it's distribution through any of our web sites.

If you would like to purge your computer of these menacing downloads, consider the following free Ad-aware program from our friends at LavaSoft:

Ad-aware is a privacy tool, that scans your memory, registry, hard, removable and optical drives for known data-mining, aggressive advertising, and tracking components. It then lists the results and offers to remove or quarantine the components. The program detects a wide range of spyware related issues and can be updated with the latest signatures via the built-in update utility.

Report Known Violations

If, at any time, you discover that any of these privacy practices is being violated, please let us know immediately so that we may take swift and appropriate action.