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Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Privacy Policy
At SonyEricssonWTATour.com, we are committed to safeguarding your privacy online.
We want to assure our users that SonyEricssonWTATour.com will not willfully disclose
any specific individual information about you to any third party unless
you give us your express permission to do so.
SonyEricssonWTATour.com does not
solicit any personally identifiable information from children under
the age of 13. Accordingly, children under 13 years old may be restricted
from participating in certain activities and transactions on SonyEricssonWTATour.com.
If you would like more information about SonyEricssonWTATour.com's policy for
collecting information from children, please read our Alert For Parents
below.
Please read this Privacy Policy ('Policy') for an explanation
of how we will treat your personal information. By using SonyEricssonWTATour.com,
you consent to the collection and use of personal information as outlined
in this Policy. If you do not agree to this Policy, please do not
use our site. If we make any material changes to the Policy, those
changes will be posted here so that you are always aware of what personal
information is collected, how that information is used, and under
what circumstances that information may be disclosed. Since this Policy
may change from time to time, you should check back periodically.
Your continued use of SonyEricssonWTATour.com following the posting of changes
to the Policy will signal your acceptance of such changes.
If you have any questions or comments regarding this Policy, please
contact webmaster@wtatour.com
Types of personally identifiable information
of yours or third party personally identifiable information is collected
from you through the site.
As stated above, SonyEricssonWTATour.com does not solicit
any personally identifiable information from children under the age
of 13. Please review our Alert For Parents, if you have any questions
regarding our Policy with respect to children.
SonyEricssonWTATour.com does not
collect personally identifiable information through the site unless
that information is provided by you during registration for various
features on the site (e.g., newsletters, purchases, etc.). Information
required to participate in such features may vary but will typically
include your first and last name; address including city, state, zip
code and country; complete date of birth; and e-mail address; and,
in the case of making purchases, a credit card number and expiration
date. You may also be requested to provide a username and password
for certain features. All of the personal information submitted by
you will be maintained by SonyEricssonWTATour.com in secured servers behind corporate
firewalls.
The organization collecting the information
SonyEricssonWTATour.com
is operated by WTA Tour, Inc. d/b/a Sony Ericsson WTA Tour and our website host,
ATP Tour, Inc. The Sony Ericsson WTA Tour is located at One Progress Plaza, Suite
1500, Saint Petersburg, FL 33701. ATP Tour, Inc., is located at
201 ATP Tour Boulevard, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082.
How the information
is used
SonyEricssonWTATour.com may use information provided at registration or
information obtained through third parties to offer better targeted
products and services to you. We use targeting to customize and enhance
your online experience on the site.
SonyEricssonWTATour.com uses 'cookie' technology.
Cookies are pieces of information transferred to your hard drive for
record-keeping purposes. Such technology is an industry standard and
is used by most major Web sites. SonyEricssonWTATour.com does not use cookies
to retrieve information from your computer that was not originally
sent in a cookie. In order to effectively use the site and some of
its features your browser must accept cookies.
Users are advised that
SonyEricssonWTATour.com cannot control the use of cookies or the resulting information
by advertisers or third parties hosting data for SonyEricssonWTATour.com. If a
user does not want information collected through the use of cookies,
there is a simple process in most browsers that allows the user to
deny or accept cookies. However, cookies may be necessary to provide
the user with certain features available on SonyEricssonWTATour.com.
With whom
the information may be shared
SonyEricssonWTATour.com will not provide any personally
identifiable information about you to advertisers or other partners
without your consent. As stated above, SonyEricssonWTATour.com may, however, provide
advertisers and/or other partners with anonymous aggregated information
about our users to illustrate trends and patterns. SonyEricssonWTATour.com has
no responsibility or liability for third party privacy policies or
actions.
We will never give out any information linking your real
name to your screen name unless you authorize us to do so, or unless
required to do so by law.
What choices are available to you regarding
collection, use and distribution of the information
You are not required
to receive any mailings that you do not wish to receive. During any
registration process on the Site, you may have the option to sign
up to receive newsletters and selected sponsor offers and discounts.
You will not receive such information if you do not select such options.
If, after you choose to receive such information, you wish to discontinue
receiving these items, you may change your subscription preferences
by visiting the registration area or by indicating your preference
by following the instructions provided within the e-mails received.
If a username and password is required to access the feature, you
will need to provide such information to update your registration
preferences. If you have forgotten your password, you may obtain it
by visiting the registration area and requesting it to be sent to
you at the e-mail address you originally provided during registration.
The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss,
misuse or alteration of information under our control
SonyEricssonWTATour.com
has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse
and alteration of the information under its control. In addition to
physically protecting the servers, we protect against data loss by
regularly backing up data, performing consistency checks with independently
recorded log files to prevent tampering, and restricting access to
information on our servers via several user authentication technologies.
Only those individuals needed to carry out the business functions
will have access to information on individual SonyEricssonWTATour.com visitors.
The Sony Ericsson WTA Tour train their respective, relevant employees about the
SonyEricssonWTATour.com Privacy Policy, and those violating these policies will
be subject to disciplinary action by their employer.
It is important
to remember that whatever you transmit or disclose online can be collected
and used by others or unlawfully intercepted by third parties. No
data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot warrant
the security of any information you transmit to us. In addition, we
may disclose information to law enforcement or other government officials
if we determine such disclosure to be appropriate, or if we are compelled
to disclose it by court order or operation of law.
Any information
voluntarily disclosed by users and posted on our site (on message
boards and/or in chat areas) may be viewed and used by others. If
users post personal information that is accessible to the public online,
the user does so at his or her own risk. Users accept that they may
receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.
Alert For
Parents
It is SonyEricssonWTATour.com's policy not to solicit any personally identifiable
information from children. If SonyEricssonWTATour.com determines that a person
is under the age of 13, based on the information provided during any
registration process, that person will not be permitted to register,
in accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of
1998.
Children who indicate that they are under 13 years old will
not be able to make credit card purchases or participate in certain
features of SonyEricssonWTATour.com that do not require registration but necessitate
the collection and retention of personal information (e.g., entering
a sweepstakes).
If you have any questions or comments, you can contact
webmaster@wtatour.com
Copyright 2008 WTA Tour, Inc. d/b/a/ Sony Ericsson WTA Tour. All
rights reserved.
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