vtsports.com is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vermont Sports Magazine, LLC, a New Hampshire limited liability company.
vtsports.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 vtsports.com treats personal information that vtsports.com collects and receives, including information related to your past use of vtsports.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 vtsports.com does not own or control, or to people that vtsports.com does not employ or manage.
Information Collection and Use
General
vtsports.com collects personal information when you register with vtsports.com, when you use vtsports.com products or services, when you visit vtsports.com pages or the pages of certain vtsports.com partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. vtsports.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, email address, birth date, gender, ZIP code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. When you register with vtsports.com and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
vtsports.com collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners.
vtsports.com automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, vtsports.com cookie information, and the page you request.
vtsports.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
When a child under age 16 attempts to register with vtsports.com, we ask the child to have a parent or guardian create a vtsports.com Family Account to obtain parental permission.
vtsports.com does not contact children under age 16 about special offers or for marketing purposes without a parent's permission.
vtsports.com does not ask a child under age 16 for more personal information, as a condition of participation, than is reasonably necessary to participate in a given activity or promotion.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
vtsports.com does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
We may, on occasion, provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with vtsports.com under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help vtsports.com communicate with you about offers from vtsports.com and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
We have a parent's permission to share the information if the user is a child under age 13. Parents have the option of allowing vtsports.com to collect and use their child's information without consenting to vtsports.com sharing of this information with people and companies who may use this information for their own purposes.
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 vtsports.com's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
We reserve the option to transfer information about you if vtsports.com is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, vtsports.com will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
vtsports.com displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click targeted ads meet the targeting criteria—for example, men ages 18-35 from a particular geographic area.
vtsports.com does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
Cookies
vtsports.com may set and access vtsports.com cookies on your computer.
vtsports.com lets other companies 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 vtsports.com's cookies.
vtsports.com uses web beacons to access vtsports.com cookies inside and outside our network of web sites and in connection with vtsports.com products and services.
Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences
General
You can edit your vtsports.com Account Information, including your marketing preferences, at any time.
New categories of marketing communications might be added to the Marketing Preferences page from time to time. Users who visit this page can opt out of receiving future marketing communications from these new categories or they can unsubscribe by following instructions contained in the messages they receive.
We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the vtsports.com service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the vtsports.com Newsletter, that are considered part of your vtsports.com account, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them.
Confidentiality and Security
We limit access to personal information about you to employees and independent contractors 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.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
vtsports.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 vtsports.com account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.
If you have questions or suggestions, you can contact us at:
Vermont Sports Magazine, LLC
Customer Care - Privacy Policy Issues
35 South Main Street
Hanover, NH 03755
Effective Date: March 24, 2008
