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This is why at 6 Pocket, Inc. and the 6 Pocket League™ we do everything in our power to protect any information we may gather about you. Our privacy policy is adhered to in strict conformance with the statements made therein, and we have engaged one of the most trusted privacy compliance auditors in the market to assure that your information is safe with us.
The following statements reflect the privacy practices of 6 Pocket, Inc. and the 6 Pocket League™ (6PI/6PL), its affiliates and subsidiaries, if any, and the 6PI/6PL web sites and pages. When you visit a 6PI/6PL web site, you can expect to be notified of:
Our Privacy Philosophy
Personally Identifiable Information We Collect
Our Privacy Policy For Minors
The Organization That Collects The Information
How We Use The Information
The Sharing of the Information
Your Choices Regarding The Collection, Distribution, And Use Of The Information
Our Security Procedures For Protection Against The Alteration, Loss, Or Misuse Of The Information Under Our Control
Questions regarding these statements should be directed, via e-mail, to privacy@6pocket.com . If we have not responded to your inquiry in a timely manner, or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, please contact us by phone at 1-979-242-4095 or by mail at 4441 W. Old Lockhart Road, Muldoon, Texas, 78949.
Our Privacy Philosophy
While rapidly changing the way all of us communicate and interact with each other, the Internet allows each of us access to more information and services than ever before, and these new online activities raise new challenges, such as the privacy issues addressed in this policy. 6PI/6PL is committed to working groups in industry, government and the private sector to have a better understanding of the requirements to address these future challenges. At 6PI/6PL, we believe a Member relationship founded on trust is simply good business. We welcome any feedback you may have.
Personally Identifiable Information We Collect
6PI/6PL’s goal is to provide its Members with an on-line experience that is satisfying and safe. Our data collection policies allow you to choose how much personal information to provide to us, and to control how we use that information. Our goal is to provide you with a satisfying online experience while allowing you to control your privacy. We collect information online primarily to make it easier for you to take advantage of your Member Benefits. When you become a Member and/or access your Member Pages, you will be asked at various times to provide information such as your name, email address, and/or information about what you like and do not like. This information is collected to help us assure a high quality on-line experience for you while you are using our services. Members who personalize our service come back more often - and it's the Members that visit us often who make us successful.
Information collected online is often defined as being either anonymous or personally identifiable:
Anonymous Information refers to information that cannot be tied back to a specific individual. As an example, 6PI/6PL may know that 5,000 people visited our Member site today, but we do not necessarily know information about them like where they live or their date of birth. What we collect from transactions such as this constitutes anonymous information. Some of the individuals who access our services decline to use the personalization features that are available to them, and therefore those individuals are anonymous to us and the data we collect is similarly anonymous information.
Personally Identifiable Information refers to information that tells us specifically who you are, such as your name, e-mail address, mailing address, Social Security Number, employer Tax Identification Number, etc. We may also collect demographic information about our Members. In many cases we need this information to provide the personalized or enhanced service that you have requested. To that end, we hope that, like most of our Members, you will find it beneficial to judiciously provide Personally Identifiable Information to 6PI/6PL so that we may provide more valuable services and products to you.
If you make a purchase via the 6PI/6PL e-store, the following Personally Identifiable Information, both bill-to and ship-to, will be collected as part of your purchase for the purposes of processing your transaction: name, address, city, state, ZIP.
The amount of Personally Identifiable Information that you choose to disclose to 6PI/6PL is completely up to you. The only way we know something about you personally is if you register for a personalized service or promotion. In other words, we will know Personally Identifiable Information about you only if you choose to share this type of information with us.
When you surf the Internet, your Internet browser (such as Netscape Navigator® or Microsoft Internet Explorer) automatically transmits some information to 6PI/6PL every time you access content on one of our sites. Examples of such information include the URL of the Web page you were just on (known as the "Refer"), the IP (or Internet Protocol) address of the computer you are using, or the browser version you are using to access our site. All of this information is collected by 6PI/6PL and is used to help improve our offerings to you.
To enable many of the features available within the 6PI/6PL sites, we will assign "cookies" to your Internet browser (such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer). A cookie is a small text file that contains a unique identification number stored on your computer. Cookies by themselves cannot be used to find out the identity of any user. This unique identification number automatically identifies your browser - but not you - to our server computers whenever you interact on one of our Internet domains. When you visit our site, a cookie is read by our server computers. Every Web page that you access that includes advertising or content served from 6PI/6PL will have the contents of your cookie reported in our server logs. But only when you agree to provide Personally Identifiable Information directly to 6PI/6PL, such as through registration, will we be able to know anything about you other than the random number that our server computers originally assign to your browser.
There is a lot of confusion about cookies, how they are used, and what they can do. Cookies only contain information that the server computer "knew" in the first place, and can only be read by the serving domain that placed them. For instance, Yahoo! utilizes cookies, but 6PI/6PL servers can't read their contents nor can Yahoo!'s servers read ours. Cookies are an essential part of how the Internet works today, and allow server computers to recognize your computer's browser when you return. If you have ever gone to a Web page that automatically provides personalized content without you having to "sign in," such as your own stock portfolio, this is almost certainly being accomplished with a cookie. Since cookies are only text files, they cannot "run" on your computer and have no ability to search your computer for other information, or transmit it to anyone.
Cookies are part of the technology implemented by your Web browser. But don't just take our word for it - read what the companies who wrote the browsers have to say!
For Netscape, please visit:
http://home.netscape.com/security/basics/privacy.html#cookies
For Microsoft, please visit:
http://www.microsoft.com/insider/internet/articles/security2.htm#cookies
We employ a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons or tracking pixels), that help us better manage content on our site by informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive.
Clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We do not tie the information gathered by clear gifs to our Members’ personally identifiable information.
We use clear gifs in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. If you would like to opt-out of these emails, please contact us at privacy@6pocket.com .
Our Privacy Policy For Minors
6PI/6PL is concerned about the safety of children when they use the Internet. We want you and your family to be safe while visiting our Internet sites. That is why we have established the following guidelines for the way we interact with children when they access our services. Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request Personally Identifiable Information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting verifiable parental consent.
Additionally, 6PI/6PL offers levels of protection for minors that are beyond what federal law requires. While 6PI/6PL will not target registration to those under 13 without using the safeguards listed above, we recognize that some minors will utilize the registration forms associated with our general release products. If a Member registers with us and their birth date indicates that they are under 13 we will:
Never knowingly send a copy of a mass emailing to them, even if they gave us permission to email them during registration.
Never voluntarily share their Member information with any third party, even if they gave us permission to share their Member information during registration.
Never list them in any Member Directory in a manner in which their age can be easily identified.
Never serve ads that are rated other than "G", (appropriate for all ages)
In summary, the management and employees of 6PI/6PL are very proud of our industry-leading steps to safeguard the privacy of all minors online. We're doing what we can to ensure that Personally Identifiable Information regarding registered users under the age of 13 won't leave our company for commercial use; and that someone using our site won't be able to easily look up another person's age. It is important to state that 6PI/6PL does not maintain personal information about children under age 13. These users become anonymous since 6PI/6PL strips the database of any personally identifying information collected from individuals under 13 years of age.
The Organization That Collects The Information
The data you provide to 6PI/6PL is only collected by us. It is not sold or knowingly shared with any other entity.
How We Use The Information
As conceived, the majority of the services provided by 6PI/6PL are the result of the Membership Annual Dues. Thus, our ability to provide enhanced services and content to our Members is not wholly dependent on our ability to provide venues for advertising partners desiring to reach specific demographic segments of our Member base.
Generally, advertisers have little interest in reaching a specific Member of our services - and as a matter of policy we provide no mechanism for an advertiser to reach you or any other specific Member. Instead, our advertising partners have the need to reach Members who share common demographic characteristics such as a specific gender or age range. For instance, certain products, such as sporting goods, may be purchased more often by men then by women, and therefore when advertising those types of products, the advertiser would prefer to target their messages just to men. Going forward, the better job 6PI/6PL does in providing a mechanism for advertisers to reach specific sub-segments of our users, the more revenue we can generate from advertising and that, ultimately, will assist in our ability to develop new services to extend to our Members. Importantly, at no time is your Personally Identifiable Information used to determine what advertising you receive nor do we use it to determine what type of advertising any other Member of 6PI/6PL will receive.
The Sharing of the Information
If you are providing us Personally Identifiable Information, it will only be used within the 6PI/6PL Internet domains unless you choose to allow third party data sharing (by opting in for such distribution during the registration process). Should you choose to provide your information to third parties, 6PI/6PL will share aspects of your information with our valued partners. All of our partners help contribute towards many of the services available on the 6PI/6PL. We may use an outside shipping company to fulfill orders, and a credit card processing company to bill you for you Membership and any goods and/or services purchased through 6PI/6PL from our Member Merchandise page. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.
Other companies that place advertising on our site, and or for which we act as an affiliate marketer, may collect information about you when you view or click on their advertising or content through the use of cookies (using the same techniques as described above). Due to the way the Internet technically operates, we cannot control this collection of information - but we can control which companies are allowed to place such advertising on our site and for which companies we will act as an affiliate. You should contact these advertisers or content providers that place information on 6PI/6PL directly if you have any questions about their use of the information they potentially collect. It should be noted that anyone placing advertising on our web sites can only collect Anonymous Information about you unless you actively provide Personally Identifiable Information to them. In some cases, we may allow third party advertising companies to place cookies and Web Beacons on the sites’ Web pages.
Our server computers will retain whatever Personally Identifiable Information you have provided to us, and it is potentially available for distribution to third parties - most obviously law-enforcement agencies acting under subpoena power, per the terms of this section of our Privacy Policy. Although unlikely, 6PI/6PL may be required by law enforcement or judicial authorities to provide Personally Identifiable Information the appropriate governmental authorities. If requested by law enforcement or judicial authorities, we will provide this information upon receipt of the appropriate documentation. We do not use this information to target any advertising to our Members, nor is it ever willingly distributed to any third party, such as an advertiser, except if subpoenaed.
Finally, 6PI/6PL does not control the information collection and distribution policies on Internet domains other than 6PI/6PL Internet domains.
Your Choices Regarding The Collection, Distribution, And Use Of The Information
6PI/6PL does offer you the ability to control the email communications we make to you. It is our intention to give you as much control over our relationship as possible. First, as mentioned earlier, the Member always has the final word on whether 6PI/6PL - or any Internet company - knows who you are. It is your choice to share Personally Identifiable Information with 6PI/6PL, and we encourage you to consider only sharing information with any site on the Internet in which you feel you receive true value in exchange for that information transfer and if you respect the privacy practices of the firm.
If you do choose to share Personally Identifiable Information with 6PI/6PL, you can control whether we contact you or share the information with third parties; either through choices you make at the time you share information with us, or through updates to your information. Any time information is requested from you on a 6PI/6PL or 6PI/6PL Internet domain, you should see a clear indication of what your information distribution choices are. 6PI/6PL will always give you a chance to unsubscribe to any email communication from us - clear directions for doing so will appear in any email message we send to you. At times, 6PI/6PL may enter into co-branding arrangements with other companies, and if so, an opt-in question may be present for contact from these firms as well. Their opt-out features are specific to each organization, but you should never receive email from these organizations unless you have indicated that it is acceptable. All email from 6PI/6PL, or from co-brand partners who gain your permission to send you commercial email, will include an opportunity to opt out of future communications.
6PI/6PL does reserve the right to send a one-time registration confirmation email, and infrequent Service Alert messages to its Members to inform them of specific changes that may impact their ability to use a service they have previously signed up for, regardless of email contact opt-in status. We may also periodically contact you regarding new or upgraded services or product offerings. We also reserve the right to contact you if compelled to do so as part of a legal proceeding or if there has been a violation of our Terms of Service. 6PI/6PL is retaining these rights because in limited cases we feel that we may need the right to contact you as a matter of law or regarding matters that will be important to you.
If your personally identifiable information changes you may contact us at privacy@6pocket.com with the necessary changes.
If at any time you wish to cancel you Membership in 6PI/6PL without a refund, you may do so by contacting us at info@6pocket.com requesting that your Membership be cancelled and we will cancel your Membership and fully remove your information from all 6PI/6PL databases.
Our Security Procedures for Protection Against The Alteration, Loss, Or Misuse Of The Information Under Our Control
6PI/6PL operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary, and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our Members. Secure Socket Layer or SSL encryption is used to transmit sensitive data such as credit card information.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
Member Information Privacy Policy, last updated July 22, 2008
© 2008 6 Pocket, Inc. DBA The 6 Pocket League. All rights reserved.
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