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Amateur
Athletic Union of the USA, Inc. is committed to
protecting your privacy and developing technology that
gives you the most powerful and safe online experience.
This Statement of Privacy applies to the Amateur
Athletic Union Web site and governs data collection and
usage. By using the Amateur Athletic Union website, you
consent to the data practices described in this
statement.
Collection of your Personal
Information
Amateur Athletic Union collects personally identifiable
information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or
work address or telephone number. Amateur Athletic Union
also collects anonymous demographic information, which
is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age,
gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware
and software that is automatically collected by Amateur
Athletic Union. This information can include: your IP
address, browser type, domain names, access times and
referring Web site addresses. This information is used
by Amateur Athletic Union for the operation of the
service, to maintain quality of the service, and to
provide general statistics regarding use of the Amateur
Athletic Union Web site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose
personally identifiable information or personally
sensitive data through Amateur Athletic Union public
message boards, this information may be collected and
used by others. Note: Amateur Athletic Union does not
read any of your private online communications.
Amateur Athletic Union encourages you to review the
privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to
from Amateur Athletic Union so that you can understand
how those Web sites collect, use and share your
information. Amateur Athletic Union is not responsible
for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites
outside of the Amateur Athletic Union and Amateur
Athletic Union family of Web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
Amateur Athletic Union collects and uses your personal
information to operate the Amateur Athletic Union Web
site and deliver the services you have requested.
Amateur Athletic Union also uses your personally
identifiable information to inform you of other products
or services available from Amateur Athletic Union and
its affiliates. Amateur Athletic Union may also contact
you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion
of current services or of potential new services that
may be offered.
Amateur Athletic Union does not sell, rent or lease its
customer lists to third parties. Amateur Athletic Union
may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of
external business partners about a particular offering
that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your
unique personally identifiable information (e-mail,
name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to
the third party. In addition, Amateur Athletic Union may
share data with trusted partners to help us perform
statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail,
provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All
such third parties are prohibited from using your
personal information except to provide these services to
Amateur Athletic Union, and they are required to
maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Amateur Athletic Union does not use or disclose
sensitive personal information, such as race, religion,
or political affiliations, without your explicit
consent.
Amateur Athletic Union keeps track of the Web sites and
pages our customers visit within Amateur Athletic Union,
in order to determine what Amateur Athletic Union
services are the most popular. This data is used to
deliver customized content and advertising within
Amateur Athletic Union to customers whose behavior
indicates that they are interested in a particular
subject area.
Amateur Athletic Union Web sites will disclose your
personal information, without notice, only if required
to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such
action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the
law or comply with legal process served on Amateur
Athletic Union or the site; (b) protect and defend the
rights or property of Amateur Athletic Union; and, (c)
act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal
safety of users of Amateur Athletic Union, or the
public.
Use of Cookies
The Amateur Athletic Union Web site use "cookies" to
help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is
a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web
page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or
deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely
assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in
the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a
convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a
cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned
to a specific page. For example, if you personalize
Amateur Athletic Union pages, or register with Amateur
Athletic Union site or services, a cookie helps Amateur
Athletic Union to recall your specific information on
subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of
recording your personal information, such as billing
addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you
return to the same Amateur Athletic Union Web site, the
information you previously provided can be retrieved, so
you can easily use the Amateur Athletic Union features
that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most
Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can
usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies
if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may
not be able to fully experience the interactive features
of the Amateur Athletic Union services or Web sites you
visit.
Security of your Personal
Information
Amateur Athletic Union secures your personal information
from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Amateur
Athletic Union secures the personally identifiable
information you provide on computer servers in a
controlled, secure environment, protected from
unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal
information (such as a credit card number) is
transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through
the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
protocol.
Changes to this Statement
Amateur Athletic Union will occasionally update this
Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer
feedback. Amateur Athletic Union encourages you to
periodically review this Statement to be informed of how
Amateur Athletic Union is protecting your information.
Contact Information
Amateur Athletic Union welcomes your comments regarding
this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Amateur
Athletic Union has not adhered to this Statement, please
contact Amateur Athletic Union at
kris@aausports.org.
We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly
determine and remedy the problem.
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