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GoffRugbyReport, along with an mobile applications we might develope, adopt this policy.
When you create a user account, you are agreeing to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used by Rugby Magazine and its affiliates.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Your Personal Information is the information that identifies you as an individual, such as name, postal address, telephone number, and email address. Our site is targeted at a general audience and not targeted to children, and do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 14 years of age.
We collect Personal Information when you submit it to us, including but not limited to when you register for or subscribe to certain products or services, create a profile, participate in a sweepstakes or contest, take a survey, use an interactive feature (such as Email), or participate in a forum.
We may receive Personal Information about you from third parties, including, for example, information about your transactions, purchase history, or relationships with various product and service providers, and your use of certain applications. For example, if you access an Online Service through a third party connection or log-in, such as Facebook Connect, that third party may pass certain information about your use of its service to us. This information could include, but is not limited to, the user ID associated with your account, any information you have permitted the third party to share with us, and any information you have made public in connection with that service.
OTHER INFORMATION
Other Information is any information that does not reveal your specific identity, such as browser information, information collected through cookies and other technologies, demographic information, and aggregated information.
We may combine Other Information with your Personal Information, and when we do, we treat the combined information as Personal Information.
We collect Other Information when you submit it to us.
It may include your gender, education, occupation, financial information (such as your income, investments, portfolio transactions and value, and other information), interests, photos, connections, and comments.
Other Information we receive from third parties may include demographic data, information about your interests, and information about your activities on other websites.
We also might collect Other Information automatically; our servers receive and record information about your computer and browser, potentially including your IP address, browser type, and other software or hardware information.
If you access our Services from a mobile or other device, we may collect a unique device identifier assigned to that device ("UDID") or other transactional information for that device in order to serve content to it.
We also may use cookies and other tracking technologies (including browser cookies, pixels, beacons, and Adobe Flash technology including cookies), which are comprised of small bits of data that often include an anonymous unique identifier.
Websites send this data to your browser when you first request a web page and then store the data on your computer so the website can access information when you make subsequent requests for pages from that site.
We may use these technologies to facilitate our login processes; personalize your experience on Rugby Magazine; display relevant content, products, services and advertising, as described further below; and collect and store information about your usage of our Services, such as pages you have visited, search queries you have run, and advertisements you have seen.
We may also use cookies and similar tools to relate your use of our Services to Personal Information obtained from you or a reputable third party.
For example, if you have asked us to provide you information about our upcoming products or promotions, cookie and/or clickstream data about your activities on our Services may allow us to limit the materials we provide you to items we think you will find interesting, based on your prior online activities and preferences.
Third parties that support our Services by serving advertisements or providing services, such as providing users with the ability to comment on content, allowing users to share content, or tracking aggregate site usage statistics, may also use these technologies to collect Other Information.
GoffRugbyReport does not not control these third‐party technologies and their use may be governed by the privacy policies of third parties using such technologies.
For more information about third-party advertising on our Services, see the section on delivering advertising below.
Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies, but you can change your settings to notify you when a cookie is being set or updated, or to block cookies altogether.
Please consult the "Help" section of your browser for more information.
Please note that by blocking any or all cookies you may not have access to certain features or personalization available through our Services.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We use the Personal Information we collect from and about you for the purposes set forth below.
Please note that we may use and disclose Other Information for any purpose, except where we are required to do otherwise under applicable law.
If we are required to treat Other Information as Personal Information under applicable law, then we may use and disclose it for all the purposes for which we use and disclose Personal Information.
To improve the quality of our products and services, we may combine the Personal and Other Information we collect with information that you provide to us in connection with your use of other Dow Jones products, services and websites, or information from third parties.
To provide and manage our services. We use the information we collect from and about you to provide our products and services and features to you, including: to process and fulfill your subscription, to send you information about your relationship or transactions with us, to measure and improve those services and features, to personalize your experience to allow you to comment on content, participate in online games, contests, promotions or rewards programs, to provide you with customer support, and to respond to inquiries.
Some Services use the information we collect in site-specific ways. For example: To deliver relevant online advertising.
We may use any of the information we collect (in certain cases, such as with respect to financial information, only with your express permission) to assist us in delivering relevant ads to you when you visit our Services.
(See Information We Collect, above, for details on the types of information we may use.)
We may work with third-party online advertising companies and advertisers who help deliver these ads to you. We will not sell, rent, or share your Personal Information with these third parties for such parties' own marketing purposes, unless you choose in advance to have your Personal Information shared for this purpose.
Information about your activities on our Services and other non-personally identifiable information about you may be used to limit the online ads you encounter to those we believe are consistent with your interests.
Third-party advertising networks and advertisers may also use cookies and similar technologies to collect and track non-personally identifiable information such as demographic information, aggregated information, and Internet activity to assist them in delivering advertising on our Services that is more relevant to your interests.
To contact you.
GoffRugbyReport, or its parent company, Goff Communications, may periodically send promotional materials or notifications related to our products and services to the email address you provided to us at registration or to your account.
To help make these promotional materials more relevant to you, we may use and combine any of the Personal and Other Information we collect to assist us in sending you promotional materials.
If you want to stop receiving promotional materials from us, you can change your setting through the appropriate link on the website account services page or follow the unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.
There are certain service notification emails that you may not opt-out of as long as you are registered with or subscribed to our products and services, such as renewal notices and notifications of changes to the our products and services or policies.
We may also use your email address to respond to inquiries or requests you make to us.
HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
Information Made Public Through Use of Our Services and User Privacy Settings Certain features on our Services give you an opportunity to interact with us and others.
These may include forums, message boards, chats, submitting a letter to the editor, creating community profiles, and rating, tagging and commenting on articles.
When you use these features, you should be aware that any information you submit, including your name, location and email address, may be publicly available to anyone, including other users, search engines, advertisers, third-party application developers, and anyone else with access to our Services.
We are not responsible for any information you choose to submit and make public through these interactive features.
Our Disclosure of Information We only share your Personal Information with non-affiliated third parties when we believe sharing is permitted by you or authorized by this Privacy Policy.
We also share your Personal Information: To allow third-party service providers to assist us in providing and managing Our Services.
We may make your Personal Information available to certain third-party service providers, such as contractors, agents or sponsors, who help us manage or provide our products and services by, for example: developing or supporting products and features; sending email messages on our behalf; processing payments; fulfilling orders; delivering subscriptions; auditing; processing data or statistics; and serving, customizing or delivering marketing or ads.
These outside service providers are required to protect Personal Information entrusted to them and not use it for any other purpose than the specific service they are providing to us.
To permit third parties to send you promotional materials.
If you sign up to receive a Special Offer from a third party, GoffRugbyReport will forward your request along with your email and Special Offer delivery information, to the company making the relevant Special Offer so that it can contact you directly.
Once your information is provided to another company pursuant to your request it is not governed by this Privacy Policy.
We will not sell, rent, or share your Personal Information with third parties for such parties' own marketing purposes, unless you choose in advance to have your Personal Information shared for this purpose.
GOFFRUGBY REPORT RIGHTS AND RIGHTS OF USERS|
There may be instances when GoffRugbyReport may disclose your Personal Information, including situations where we have a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary in order to: (i) protect or defend the legal rights or property of GoffRugbyReport, affiliated companys, or employees, agents, or contractors ; (ii) protect the safety and security of users of the our products and services or members of the public; (iii) protect against fraud or for risk management purposes; (iv) comply with the law or legal process, including laws outside your country of residence; or (v) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence.
To complete a merger or sale of assets.
If GoffRugbyReport sells all or part of its business or makes a sale or transfer of its assets or is otherwise involved in a merger or transfer of all or a material part of its business, GoffRugbyReport may transfer your information to the party or parties involved in the transaction as part of that transaction.
NOTICE, CHOICE AND DATA RETENTION
This Privacy Policy is the primary means by which we provide you with notice and choice about our collection and use of your Personal Information.
If we ask for specific Personal Information that will be used in a manner different from what is described in this Privacy Policy, we will inform you at the time of collection.
Privacy Policy Changes.
GoffRugbtReport may modify this Privacy Policy as necessary.
If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy that materially expand our rights to use your Personal Information, we will provide you with notice and choice consistent with applicable law.
Data Retention.
We will retain your Personal Information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law.
GoffRugbyReport is not responsible for the privacy practices of any such third parties, and once you leave our Services via a link, enable a third-party service, or click an advertisement, you should check the applicable privacy policy of the third-party site.
SECURITY
GoffRugbyReport uses commercially reasonable administrative, technical, personnel and physical measures to safeguard Personal Information in its possession against loss, theft and unauthorized use, disclosure or modification.
THIRD-PARTY ADVERTISING AND LINKS TO OTHER SITES
GoffRugbyReport.com may include third-party advertising. This third parties’ websites and advertisers, or the Internet advertising companies that work on their behalf, may use technology to send, or serve, the advertisements that appear on our site, director to your browser. They automatically received your IP address when this happens.
They may also use cookies, Javascript, Pixel Tags, and other technologies to deliver advertising, collect information about the effectiveness of those ads, and to collect anonymous information about your visits to this site, such as the number of times you viewed an ad. This technology does not collect your name, address, or other personal information. It is designed to measure an advertisement’s effectiveness.
For more information about this type of technology and for information on opting out of information collection, visit http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/ads/ or http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/
