PRIVACY POLICY
“Privacy can be invaded” this comment describes how the personal information collected through our website is protected. The terms “we” and “us” refer to The Sports Vine.com. Which is part of the Terms of Use, which directs your use of the website, and is located here.
Thesportsvine values the privacy of those who use our website and makes all commercially feasible efforts to defend it. This Privacy Policy includes the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information that may be collected any time you interact with theftscene website, such as when you are using our products and services, or reach our employees and representatives.
BY USING OR OTHERWISE ACCESSING THESPORTSVINE, YOU AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT FOLLOW OR DO NOT AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU MUST IMMEDIATELY HALT AND STOP USE OF THE WEBSITE.
Provider owns the right to modify this Privacy Policy at reasonable times, so please review it frequently. Your continued use of Thesportsvine will imply your permission of the modifications to this Privacy Policy.
DATA WE SECURE AND HOW WE USE IT :
Personal Data :
You will be asked to provide us specific information related to your Personal Information. It includes, without limitation: (1) “Contact Data” (such as Your name & email address) and (2) “Demographic Data” (such as Your gender, birthday, zip code, country). The Personal Information you have provided is used for such purposes as allowing you to set up a user account and profile, delivering updates, suggestions, as well as to give comfortable and personalized user access and update the features and usability of our products. Registered users can view and change their personal information at any time by entering the website.
Except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy, and under the following circumstances, Provider will keep your Personal Information private. And will not share it with third parties except when the information is collected for the explicit reason of lead generation for various health, beauty and wellness services wherein the data collected will be shared with authorized partners of Thesportsvine so that these partners can give you personalized offers.
You are under no obligation to provide Personal Information, with the caveat that your refusal to do so may prevent you from using specific of the services.
Non-personal data :
You can contribute to our website in many different ways, including writing reviews, uploading videos and photos, participating in question and answers, tagging products, filling out your public profile, and voting on other users’ contributions. We may store these contributions (your “Public Content”), display them to other users, and use them for promotional purposes. Note that if you include personally identifiable information in your Public Content, it can be used and viewed by others. We are not responsible for the information you choose to add to your Public Content.
The provider may use the collected data for purposes of analyzing usage of Thesportsvine, managing and providing Thesportsvine and to further develop services and products.
Messaging :
The website allows you to exchange messages with others using the messaging features and/or email. We may store these messages to deliver them and will enable you to manage them.
Third party services :
We allow you to access third-party services, such as Facebook and Twitter, to share your selected Public Content with those services, and import information about who you are connected with on those other services so you can connect with them on the website. You can always opt out on your account page. Some of those third party services may also provide us with information from your accounts to enhance and personalize your use of our products. For example, you can allow Facebook to tell us who your Facebook friends are so you can follow their activity on our website. You can also further modify your privacy settings with those other services directly. For example, you can adjust your privacy setting on Facebook to prevent your Facebook friends from sharing information about you from their Facebook accounts with our websites or apps.
Activity and log data :
We automatically store information related to your use of the Site, such as the pages you view on the Site, your browser type, IP address, requested URL, browser language, referring URL, and the date and time of your visits. We use this type of information to administer the Site and provide the better service to you. We also use this information in the aggregate to perform statistical analyses of user behavior and characteristics to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the Site or to manage or improve the Site.
Cookies :
We send cookies to your computer to uniquely identify your browser and improve the quality of our service. “Cookies” refer to small pieces of information that a website sends to your computer’s hard drive while you are viewing the Site. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them). Persistent cookies can be removed by following your browser help file directions. If you choose to disable cookies, some areas of the Site may not work correctly or at all. Our cookies are linked to your information, such as your name, email address, and password. We enable some of our business partners to use cookies in conjunction with your use of the Site. We have no access to or control over the use of these cookies. These cookies collect information about your use of the Site, such as where you came from, which pages you visited within the Site and possibly other sites you visit if those sites cooperate with the same third party. But do not collect your name, email address, contact information or additional personally identifiable information that by itself would allow the third party to identify or contact you.
Feedback :
You should feel free to give us feedback, register a complaint, or ask questions about the websites or the mobile apps. We may store your communications, including any personal information you include in them so that we can effectively respond to you.
Administration :
We may use the information described above for routine administrative purposes, such as investigating abuses on our products, responding to user inquiries and enforcing and applying our Terms of Service and Statement.
TRANSFER OF INFORMATION :
Public Content :
Individual portions of the website are open to any viewer, such as our community forums and your profile. Any information you post in these locations may be available and accessible to other members. Also, the website contains features that permit you to upload, post, transmit, display, perform or distribute content, information or other data, including your personal information. Any information that you choose to disclose using such features becomes public information. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information using such elements, and you agree to assume all responsibility for doing so.
If you post content for public view on the website, we may distribute such public content to a broader audience by sharing it (or portions of it) with third parties so that they can publish it on their websites and media platforms. We may ask them to credit you as the source of these contributions by including your account name and profile photo.
Third party advertising :
Google AdSense is used on The Sports Vine.com. Adsense serves ads based on the content of the sites you view. As you browse websites that have partnered with Google or Google sites, such as YouTube, Google may place a cookie in your browser to track the types of pages visited or content that you viewed. Based on this information, Google associates your browser with relevant interest categories and uses these categories to show interest-based ads. For example, if you frequently visit travel websites, Google may show more ads related to travel. Google will not associate sensitive interest categories with your browser (such as those based on race, religion, sexual orientation, health, or sensitive financial types), and will not use such categories when showing you interest-based ads.
Opting out of interest-based advertising: If you prefer not to receive interest-based advertising, you can click on the “Opt out” button on the Google Ads Preferences Manager Page. Google also offers many options to save your opt-out settings in your browser permanently. After you opt out, Google will not collect interest category information, and you will not receive interest-based ads.
Investigations :
We reserve the right to investigate abuses on the website and enforce and apply our Terms of Service and Statement. We may disclose information about you to third parties if we have a good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to (A) take action regarding suspected illegal activities. (B) enforce or apply our Terms of Service and Statement. (C) comply with legal process and law enforcement instructions and orders, such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, judicial proceeding, or other legal process served on us. (D) protect our rights, reputation, and property, or that of our users, affiliates, or the public.
Data Security :
The provider is committed to protecting the security of Your information and takes reasonable precautions to protect it. However, Internet data transmissions, whether wired or wireless, cannot be guaranteed to be 100% secure and as a result, we cannot ensure the security of information You transmit to us; accordingly, You acknowledge that You do so at Your own risk. Once we receive Your data transmission, we make all commercially reasonable efforts to ensure its security on our systems.
Links to Third Party Sites or Application:
The provider may make available links through advertisements or otherwise enable you to access third party sites or applications. Please note that, while using such websites, you are using sites developed and administered by people or companies not affiliated with or controlled by us. The provider is not responsible for the actions of those people or companies, the content of their sites, the use of information You provide to them, or any products or services they may offer. Our link to those sites does not constitute our sponsorship of, or affiliation with, those people or companies.
We suggest you read the privacy policies on all such third party websites.
Children’s privacy :
The website is intended for general audiences and is not directed to children under 13. Provider does not solicit or knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If Provider becomes aware that it has received personally identifiable information from a child under the age of 13 without parental consent, Provider will take steps to remove such information and terminate the child’s account. If you become aware that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us at contact@thesportsvine.com.
By registering with the Website, You now consent to receive periodic email communications from Provider regarding the Services, new product offers, promotions and other matters. As part of registration, You may also elect to receive regular newsletters. You may opt-out of receiving newsletters at any time by (a) following the unsubscribe instructions contained in each newsletter, or (b) changing the email preferences in your account.
However, despite any requests to close your account or your indicated email preferences, we may still need to contact you as required by law or on legal matters, for example, to inform you of any updates to our Terms of Service or this Statement.
DISPUTE RESOLUTION :
If you believe that Thesportsvine has not adhered to this Statement, you may contact us via email at contact@thesportsvine.com
MODIFICATIONS TO THIS STATEMENT :
We may revise this Statement from time to time. The most current version of the Statement will govern our use of your information and will always be located here. If we make a change to this Statement that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes before implementing the switch on the Site and/or via the email associated with your account. By continuing to access or use the Services after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Statement.