Privacy Policy
Maintaining your privacy and the security of your personal
information is our highest priority.
Germantown Swim Team and YourSiteMate are committed to protecting
your privacy and giving you a safe and secure online experience.
We follow all relevant federal and state laws and industry
guidelines regarding your personal information and how it is
protected. We constantly strive to exceed these guidelines
and protecting your privacy is our topmost priority. This
Statement of Privacy applies to the Germantown Swim Team website
and governs data collection and usage. By using the
Germantown Swim Team website, you consent to the data practices
described in this statement.
YourSiteMate reserves the right to amend this policy at any time
by posting an updated version to the website. Under no circumstances,
however, would we change the privacy policy in a way that would
permit distribution of your personal information to third persons
without your approval.
Information Collected – What,
Why and How it’s Used
This website collects personal information about you like your name,
contact information (mailing address, phone numbers, and email), and
login information (user name, password). Germantown Swim Team may
also collect additional information about you during the registration
process unique to their type of organization or business.
Germantown Swim Team may also collect anonymous demographic information
which is not unique to you such as ZIP code, age, gender,
preferences, interests and favorites.
Within this website, only authorized administrators of Germantown Swim Team
and YourSiteMate have access to the personal information of the website’s
members. Germantown Swim Team and YourSiteMate will not sell or share
membership data to third party vendors.
YourSiteMate and its parent company (BullFrog Software, Inc.) do not collect
personal information for its own purposes. All personal information is
collected on behalf of Germantown Swim Team.
This website also collects information about your computer hardware and
software when you use the Germantown Swim Team website. This information
can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times
and referring website addresses. This information is used by YourSiteMate
for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service,
to help us improve our products and services and for security purposes.
This website uses "cookies". A cookie is a text file that is saved on your
computer by a website. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or
deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you
and can only be read by the website that issued the cookie to you.
The purpose of a cookie is to tell the website that you have returned
to a specific page. For example, if you personalize pages or register
with a website and/or its services, a cookie helps to recall your
specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process
of recording your personal information such as billing addresses,
shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same website,
the information you previously provided can be retrieved so you can
easily use the features that you customized. You have the ability to
accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept
cookies but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline
cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not
be able to fully experience the interactive features of the services
of websites you visit (including YourSiteMate).
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally
identifiable information or personally sensitive data using
Germantown Swim Team website features like message boards,
blogs and photo galleries, this information may be collected
and used by others. YourSiteMate does not read any of the
private online communications on the Germantown Swim Team
website.
Germantown Swim Team and YourSiteMate encourage you to review
the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to or from
Germantown Swim Team so that you can understand how those websites
collect, use and share your information. Germantown Swim Team and
YourSiteMate are not responsible for the privacy statements or
other content on websites outside of the Germantown Swim Team
and YourSiteMate family of websites.
Germantown Swim Team and YourSiteMate collect and use your personal
information to operate the Germantown Swim Team website and deliver
the services you have requested. Germantown Swim Team and YourSiteMate
may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of
other products or services available from Germantown Swim Team,
YourSiteMate and their affiliates. Germantown Swim Team and
YourSiteMate may also contact you via surveys to conduct research
about your opinion of current services or of potential new services
that may be offered.
Germantown Swim Team and YourSiteMate keep track of the websites and
pages our customers visit within the Germantown Swim Team website in
order to determine what services are the most popular. This data may
be used to deliver customized content and advertising within the
Germantown Swim Team website.
Germantown Swim Team and YourSiteMate will disclose your personal information,
without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief
that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply
with legal process served on Germantown Swim Team, YourSiteMate or the website;
(b) protect and defend the rights or property of Germantown Swim Team and YourSiteMate; and,
(c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of
the Germantown Swim Team website.
What We Will Never Do
Neither Germantown Swim Team, and/or YourSiteMate have direct access
to your password. This data is encrypted by the system and cannot
directly be accessed. If you forget your password, we can reset
it at your request. You will then be required to change it when you
next log in.
Germantown Swim Team and YourSiteMate will not independently contact
you regarding new features, products or other services. Germantown Swim Team
and YourSiteMate will not send unsolicited email (spam) to the email
addresses collected.
Germantown Swim Team and YourSiteMate do not sell, rent or lease its
customer lists to third parties. Germantown Swim Team and/or YourSiteMate
may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners
about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases,
your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address,
telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition,
Germantown Swim Team and YourSiteMate may share data with trusted partners
to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail,
provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third
parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to
provide these services to Germantown Swim Team and YourSiteMate. All
such third parties are required to maintain the confidentiality of your
information.
Germantown Swim Team and YourSiteMate do not use or disclose sensitive
personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations,
without your explicit consent.
Security
Germantown Swim Team and YourSiteMate secure your personal information
from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Germantown Swim Team and
YourSiteMate secure the personally identifiable information you provide
on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from
unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such
as a credit card number) is transmitted to the Germantown Swim Team
website, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the
Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Within YourSiteMate, only authorized employees, who are trained in the
proper handling of confidential customer information, have access to
your records. Information collected is stored in a secure operating
environment that is not available to the public.
This site is not intended for unsupervised access by children under
the age of 13. We will not knowingly collect information from site
visitors of this age group.
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about this Privacy Policy,
please contact us.
Contact Germantown Swim Team using the "Contact Us" link available on the Germantown Swim Team
website.
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Here
Last Update: February 18, 2008