Internet Privacy Statement and Personal Information Policy
Introduction
Bowlerexpress.com is
committed to providing excellent service to all of our customers, including
respecting their concerns about privacy. We understand that visitors
to this website may have questions about whether and how this website
collects and uses information. We have prepared this statement ("Statement")
to inform you of the privacy principles that govern this website.
This Statement contains
numerous general and technical details about the steps we take to respect
your privacy concerns. Safeguarding the privacy of the personal information
you provide when interacting with bowlerexpress.com is of the utmost
importance. We have organized this statement into different areas
so that you can quickly link to the information of most interest to
you.
If after reviewing our policies, should you have any questions or concerns, please
contact us
.
Browsing
Bowlerexpress.com does
not collect personally identifiable information from your computer when
you browse the website and request pages from our servers. This means
that, unless you willingly and knowingly provide us with personally
identifiable information, we will not know your name, your email address,
or any other personally identifiable information. When you request a
page from our website, our servers may log the information provided
in the HTTP request header including the IP number, the time of the
request, the URL of your request, and other information that is provided
in the header. We collect the header information in order to make bowlerexpress.com
function correctly and provide you the functionality that you see. We
also use this information to better understand how visitors use bowlerexpress.com
and how we can better tune it, its contents and features to meet your
needs.
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Information We Collect
and how bowlerexpress.com uses this information
When we need to collect
personally identifiable information from you to update your membership
profile, execute a requested transaction, or provide you with a particular
service, we will ask you to voluntarily supply us with the information
we need. We use the personal and preference information you provide
to enhance your experience at bowlerexpress.com - to provide you with
benefits, services, information and communications that we think you
will find of value. Occasionally, we may use third parties to provide
or confirm for us contact information about you given the information
you provided to us directly. We may then use this information for market
analysis and marketing purposes.
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Your bowlerexpress.com Account Profile
All members of bowlerexpress.com
will create a personal account profile online within our password protected
system. Creating an account profile makes it more convenient for by
eliminating the need to repeatedly enter personal contact or preference
information. The security of this information is addressed in security
section below. At any time, you can access, review, or update, most
of the information in your account profile information online.
We treat the information
you provide to us as confidential information; it is, accordingly, subject
to our company's security procedures and corporate policies regarding
protection and use of confidential information. Because laws applicable
to personal information vary by country, additional measures that vary
depending on the applicable legal requirements may be put in place.
Information is generally processed and stored in the United States.
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Securing the Transmission and Storage of Information
We treat the information
you provide to us as confidential information; it is, accordingly, subject
to our company's security procedures and policies regarding protection
and use of confidential information. When we ask you for credit card
data, it is transferred over a Secured Sockets Layer (SSL) line, provided
you are using a SSL enabled browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer
or Netscape Navigator. We also use SSL on other select pages where you
would enter personally identifiable information. This ensures that your
information is encrypted as it travels over the Internet. This secure
mode is enabled before any such information is transmitted from your
computer. You will know you are in secure mode when the padlock or key
icon in the lower right-hand or left-hand corner of the computer screen
appears in the locked position. In addition, when accessing a secure
server, the first characters of the site address may change from "http"
to "https."
After information reaches
bowlerexpress.com, it is stored on a secure server that resides behind
firewalls designed to block unauthorized access from outside of bowlerexpress.com
Information collected on this site and covered by this privacy statement
is generally processed and stored in the United States.
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Disclosure of Information to Third Parties
Bowlerexpress.com may
partner with qualified companies to secure special bowlerexpress.com
members only discounts or promotions for products or services. In such
arrangements, the company is provided the opportunity to extend the
discount or promotion to you. However, the company is NOT
given your personal information, except as necessary to complete any
transaction in which you may participate. In addition, when you
provide contact details for transaction requests, we or the company
may use the contact information to keep you updated about the transaction,
and about future offers or promotions unless you otherwise notify us.
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Children’s Privacy
This site is not intended
for children and we do not knowingly solicit or collect personal information
from children.
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Cookies
This website may use
"cookie" technology. "Cookies" are encrypted strings of text
that a Web site stores on a user's computer. This website requires the
use of a cookie to keep information you enter on multiple pages together.
This cookie is an bowlerexpress.com cookie and it is a "session"
cookie that expires when you close your browser. We may also use "persistent"
cookies to speed up the login process, measure usage of various pages
on our website, or to help us make our information more pertinent to
your needs and easy for you to access. These persistent cookies will
remain on your computer unless deleted by you. We do not use cookies
to ascertain any personally identifiable information about you apart
from what you voluntarily provide us. You may set your browser to block
cookies (consult the instructions for your particular browser on how
to do this), although doing so may adversely affect your ability to
perform certain transactions, use certain functionality, and access
certain content on our website.
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Contests and Sweepstakes
On occasion, we may conduct
contests and sweepstakes that entitle the winners to prizes. Each contest
or sweepstakes has it own terms and conditions. As part of entering
a contest or sweepstakes certain personally identifiable information
such as name and email address will generally be required. We may use
this information to send future communications about specials and offers.
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Other Sites
This website may contain
links to select third party sites that may be of interest to you (e.g.,
bowling or sports equipment, airlines, hotels, casinos, car rental companies).
Bowlerexpress.com is only responsible for the privacy statement and
content of this website. We are not responsible for the privacy
practices or the use of cookies on websites that you have accessed from
this website.
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Website Survey
Bowlerexpress.com values
your input. If you choose, we welcome your participation in an online
survey regarding the usefulness of this website. The information you
provide will be used only by bowlerexpress.com for research and analysis
and is not personally identifiable to you.
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Legal Issues
This is a United States
website and is subject to United States law. Bowlerexpress.com may disclose
personal information without your permission when required to do so
by law, or in good faith belief that such action is necessary to investigate
or protect against harmful activities to other website members, visitors,
associates, or property (including this site), or to others. Other
laws related to personal identifiable information vary by country.
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Bowlerexpress.com
Internet Privacy Statement Changes
Your use of bowlerexpress.com
constitutes your agreement to the terms of this Internet Privacy Statement
and Personal Information Policy. In the future, we may need to
change these terms. All changes will be made here so that you
will always know what information we gather, and how we might use or
disclose that information. Your continued use of bowlerexpress.com constitutes
your agreement to any such changes. This statement was last updated
on June 5, 2006
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