Privacy Policy
Updated March 16, 2009
At Spanish Béisbol Network (“SBN”), we understand that privacy is an important issue for visitors to the www.beisbol.net website, and SBN is strongly committed to protecting the privacy of its visitors. By visiting this site, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy applies to data collected by SBN website and services, as well as its offline product support services. It does not apply to those SBN sites, services and products that do not display or link to this statement or that have their own privacy statements. Some products and services mentioned in this statement may not be available in all markets at this time.
Collection of Your Personal Information
As a user of the SBN website, you are not required to provide us with any personal information. If you choose to sign up for email alerts, newsletters, surveys, contests, sweepstakes and questionnaires, or to request more information, we may ask you to provide personal information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address, or telephone number. We may also collect demographic information, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites. If you choose to make a purchase or sign up for a paid subscription service, we will ask for additional information, such as your credit card number and billing address, which is used to create a SBN billing account.
You can stop the delivery of future promotional e-mail or newsletters from the SBN site by following the specific instructions in the e-mail you receive. You can also contact info@beisbol.net to stop delivery of future emails or newsletters and have your personal information removed from the system. Please allow 5 business days to stop delivery and/or remove your information.
In order to access some SBN services, you may be asked to sign in with an e-mail address and password in order to establish your credentials. As part of creating your credentials, you may also be requested to provide questions and secret answers, which we use to help verify your identity and assist in resetting your password, as well as an alternate e-mail address. Some services may require added security, and in these cases, you may be asked to create an additional security key.
We may collect information about your interaction with SBN site and services. For example, we may use website analytics tools on our site to retrieve information from your browser, including the site you came from, the search engine(s) and the keywords you used to find our site, the pages you view within our site, your browser add-ons, and your browser’s width and height.
Use of Your Personal Information
SBN collects and uses your personal information to operate and improve its sites and services. These uses may include providing you with more effective customer service; making the sites or services easier to use by eliminating the need for you to repeatedly enter the same information; and performing research and analysis aimed at improving our products, services and technologies.
We also use your personal information to communicate with you. We may send certain mandatory service communications such as welcome letters, billing reminders, information on technical service issues, and security announcements. We may also occasionally send you product surveys or promotional mailings to inform you of other products or services available from SBN and its affiliates or sponsors/advertisers.
Personal information collected on the SBN site and services may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which SBN or its affiliates, subsidiaries or service providers maintain facilities. SBN abides by the safe harbor framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union.
Sharing of Your Personal Information
Except as described in this statement, we will not disclose your personal information outside of SBN and its controlled subsidiaries and affiliates, and/or SBN corporate partners/sponsors/advertisers with respect their specific sponsored promotions, contests or sweepstakes, without your consent. We do not share your contact information with third parties for marketing purposes, but instead may give you a choice as to whether you wish to receive communications from SBN on behalf of external businesses about a businesses’ particular offering (without transferring your personal information to the third party).
We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of mailings, providing customer support, hosting websites, processing transactions, or performing statistical analysis of our services. Those service providers will be permitted to obtain only the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of the information and are prohibited from using it for any other purpose. However, for credit card processing, our fraud detection vendors may use aggregate data to help improve their service. This helps them more accurately detect fraudulent uses of credit cards. We may access or disclose information about you, including the content of your communications, in order to: (a) comply with the law or respond to lawful requests or legal process; (b) protect the rights or property of SBN or our customers, including the enforcement of our agreements or policies governing your use of the services; or (c) act on a good faith belief that such access or disclosure is necessary to protect the personal safety of SBN employees, customers or the public.
Display of Advertising
The SBN website and many of the services we offer are supported by advertising. We may display ads on the SBN site and the sites of our partners. When we display online advertisements to you, we may place a persistent cookie on your computer in order to recognize your computer each time we display an ad to you. We use this information to make predictions about your characteristics, interests or preferences and to display targeted advertisements that we believe may be of interest to you. We may also associate this information with your subsequent visit, purchase or other activity on participating advertisers’ Web sites in order to determine the effectiveness of the advertisements.
Security of Your Personal Information
SBN is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer systems with limited access. When we transmit highly confidential information (such as a credit card number or password) over the Internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
If a password is used to help protect your accounts and personal information, it is your responsibility to keep your password confidential. Do not share this information with anyone. If you are sharing a computer with anyone you should always log out before leaving a site or service to protect access to your information from subsequent users.
Controlling Unsolicited E-mail (“Spam”)
SBN is concerned about controlling unsolicited commercial e-mail, or “spam.” SBN will not sell, lease or rent its e-mail subscriber lists to third parties. While SBN continues to actively review and implement new technology, such as expanded filtering features, there is no currently available technology that will totally prevent the sending and receiving of unsolicited e-mail. Using junk e-mail tools and being cautious about the sharing of your e-mail address while online will help reduce the amount of unsolicited e-mail you receive.
Changes to This Privacy Statement
We will occasionally update this privacy statement to reflect changes in our services and customer feedback. When we post changes to this Statement, we will revise the “updated” date at the top of this statement. If there are material changes to this statement or in how SBN will use your personal information, we will notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes prior to implementing the change or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to periodically review this statement to be informed of how SBN is protecting your information.
Contacting Us
SBN welcomes your comments regarding this privacy statement. If you have questions about this statement or believe that we have not adhered to it, please contact us at info@beisbol.net.
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