Privacy Policy

PlayMaker Software is committed to protecting the private information of our website visitors. The PlayMaker.com website adheres to a strict policy for ensuring the privacy of personally identifiable information and preserving the integrity of this online medium. Here we explain the type of information collected from PlayMaker.com, how that information may be used, how you can access or modify that information, and how that information is protected.

I. WHICH SITES ARE COVERED BY THIS POLICY?

This Privacy Policy applies to PlayMaker.com (“Site”). Please note that our Site may contain links to sponsor organizations and affiliates. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any organization before submitting your personal information to them.

II. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE GATHER?

PlayMaker Software collects two types of information from visitors to the Site: (A) Personally Identifiable Information, and (B) Non-personally Identifiable Information (information such as IP Addresses and cookies, which allow for a better use of the Site). Uses of this information are discussed in Section III.

A. Personally Identifiable Information
PlayMaker Software will not collect personally identifiable information from you, other than what you supply to us on a voluntary basis upon request. Personally identifiable information includes, but is not limited to, name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, and credit card information.

Registration for our website:
Our Site may at times require a free registration, which enables full access to the information and resources offered on our Site. A unique email address must be supplied to register.

Paid Products and Services:
While the majority of our Site is free, we may charge fees for select products and services. To enable the purchase of these and other products, we collect your telephone number, e-mail address, billing address and credit card information.

Forums, Feedback and Content Submissions:
On some pages of the Site, you can submit content to be published, make community postings, comments, suggestions, and vote. We may collect name, address, and e-mail addresses in connection with these activities.

Your submission of others’ Personally Identifiable Information:
On some pages of the Site, you can submit information about other people. For example, you may submit a person’s name and email address to send an article. Additionally, you may purchase a gift online and submit the person’s name, address and telephone number for delivery. This information will only be used for the stated purpose.

Contests, Sweepstakes and Special Offers:
On occasion, we may collect personal information from users in connection with optional (i.e., you opt-in to participate in these offers) sweepstakes, contests or special offers. Such information will be used as indicated at the time of collection.

Listservs and E-mail Newsletters:
On occasion, we may collect personal information from users in connection with optional (i.e. you opt-in to subscribe to these services) listservs and e-mail newsletters. Such information will be used as indicated at the time of collection.

B. Non-personally Identifiable Information
In addition to information that you provide to us, we may also collect and store certain non-personally identifiable information automatically when using the Site. This information helps us improve the experience you and other visitors have with the Site.

For example, we may collect your IP address, browser information and reference site domain, as well as related information such as the date on which you visit the Site. This information does not identify you personally and is only used in the aggregate.

As is common practice among websites, we use “cookies” and similar technologies. Cookies are text files, which store your preferences. No personal information is ever stored in a PlayMaker Software cookie, even if you have entered your name or email address on other parts of the Site.

You can generally prevent cookies from being used by changing the settings in your web browser, but please be aware that by doing so you may be unable to fully utilize the Site.

III. HOW DO WE USE INFORMATION GATHERED ON THE SITE?

Except as expressly set forth in our policies, we will not willfully disclose your personally identifiable information to any third party without first receiving your permission. We will never sell, rent, or swap your personally identifiable information with non-affiliated third parties for their own purposes.

In terms of our own use of information, we may use your personally identifiable information for the activities described in the previous sections, and for internal purposes and marketing and promotional purposes in support of our operation.

We will typically explain the extent of use at the time you are asked to provide personal information. If you do not want this information to be collected or used by us for these purposes, you can simply “opt out.” Under certain circumstances, opting out may prevent your participation in activities for which personal information is needed, as in contests.

In certain cases, we contract with other companies to provide services on our behalf. These service providers may maintain customer databases which may hold Site users’ e-mail addresses, including:

We (which includes our service providers) will use these addresses to respond to the general purposes for which we collected the information, to provide services and to operate the Site, including to respond to inquiries, to process credit card payments and billing, shipping, e-mail distribution, list processing and analysis, promotions management, to send information about PlayMaker Software programs, Site, services, membership or to correspond about a purchase or product offers.

We, or our service providers, may release personal identification information if we believe in good faith that the law or legal process requires it, we have received a valid administrative request from a law enforcement agency, or such release is necessary to protect anyone’s rights, property or safety.

On certain pages, we offer visitors the opportunity to provide comments or other user-generated content on blogs and articles. Any information that you disclose when posting a message to these areas, along with the screen name or ID used, becomes public. In addition, we may use the information that you disclose in these areas for promotional and marketing purposes. We are not responsible for any personally identifiable information that you choose to disclose in these public areas.

We reserve the right to send you e-mail relating to your account status. This includes order confirmations, renewal/expiration notices, notices of credit card problems, other transactional e-mails and notifications about major changes to our Site. If you have registered for online discussions or other services, you may receive e-mail specific to your participation in those activities.

We use non-personally identifiable information, such as IP addresses or demographic information (zip codes for example) to tailor our Site to the interests/locations of our users and to measure traffic within our Site.

PlayMaker Software uses the content from the cookies to deliver relevant local resources, remember browser preferences, and improve our visitors’ experiences on the Site. PlayMaker Software does not sell information collected by cookies nor use the information for commerce-related purposes. In addition, PlayMaker Software will not filter content based on your preferences without permission.

PlayMaker Software uses cookies to tell us which pages you visit and the amount of time between each page visit. The cookie does not remember any information about you or your computer; it just helps us at PlayMaker Software monitor Site usage and traffic; for example, it allows us to measure the number of repeat visitors to PlayMaker.com in a given month. This data is only used in the aggregate.

IV. HOW CAN I ACCESS OR CORRECT INFORMATION?

Access to personally identifiable information that is collected from our Site may be accessible for a limited period of time from the point of collection, such as where a user provides an e-mail address in order to receive an e-mail newsletter or a reminder about an upcoming or event. In other cases, personally identifiable information may be maintained, edited and deleted at the user’s discretion at any time after the information has been submitted to PlayMaker Software. For example, if you created a password-protected account within our Site, you may be able to access that account to review the information you provided and make corrections and updates as necessary. However this feature is not available throughout our Site where the user is not asked to create an account.

V. HOW IS MY INFORMATION PROTECTED?

PlayMaker Software is committed to ensuring the security of the data provided to us by Site users. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to protect the information we collect online.

VI. DO YOU HAVE ADDITIONAL CHILDREN’S GUIDELINES?

Playmaker.com is a general audience Site and does not knowingly collect or store personally identifiable information about children under the age of 13.

VII. ACCEPTANCE OF PLAYMAKER.COM PRIVACY POLICY TERMS AND CONDITIONS

By using this Site, you signify your agreement to the terms and condition of this PlayMaker.com Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms and conditions, please do not use the Site. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this policy at any time. Please check this page periodically for any changes. Your continued use of PlayMaker.com following the posting of any changes to these terms shall signify your acceptance of those changes. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us.

VIII. TERMS OF SERVICE

Please also make sure to read PlayMaker.com’s TERMS OF SERVICE to understand the additional terms and conditions which apply to your use of our Site.

The Privacy Policy posted on this Site was updated on or about March 1, 2011.