Overview
Effective: 15 November 2004
TheGoaliesMind.com is committed to protecting and respecting
your privacy. Indeed, protection of your data is one of the key
success criteria by which we measure our performance.
This document discloses the privacy practices for www.TheGoaliesMind.com
including:
What personally identifiable information of yours is collected
What organization is collecting the information
How the information is used
With whom the information may be shared
What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and
distribution of the information
What kind of security procedures are in place to protect the loss,
misuse or alteration of information under TheGoalieMind.com's
control
How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
Questions regarding this privacy policy should be directed to
TheGoaliesMind.com by sending an email to support@thegoaliesmind.com
Table of Contents
Under 18s
Information We Collect
Our Use of Your Information
Our Disclosure of Your Information
Your Use of Other Users' Information
"Tell a friend" services
Reviewing and Changing Your Personally Identifiable Information
Other Information Collectors
Security
1. Under 18s
Children are not eligible to use our services and we ask that
minors (under 18 years of age) do not submit any personal information
to us.
2. Information We Collect.
Our primary goal in collecting personal information from you
is to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and personalized experience
while using our services. This allows us to provide services and
features that most likely meet your needs, and to customize our
service to make your experience easier and quicker.
Using the Site's web server log files, we use IP addresses to
analyze trends, track users' movement, and gather broad demographic
information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to
personally identifiable information. This information may include
the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on our site
or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our
site or not), what browser and operating system you are using,
your IP address etc.
In addition, we use cookies on certain pages of our site. We
may also offer certain features that are only available through
the use of a cookie. Cookies can also help us provide information
which is targeted to your interests. Cookies are stored on your
hard drive, not on our site. Most cookies are "session cookies,"
meaning that they are automatically deleted at the end of a session.
The other type of cookie we use is a 'persistent' cookie. This
stays on your hard drive and we use this to automatically identify
who you are. We use this cookie so that you do not need to log
in manually every time you visit the site if you are a registered
user. The cookie itself contains no personally identifiable information
but it does pass an ID to our server which allows us to tie the
cookie to your personal information. We do this to allow us to
let you know on the homepage what has changed on the site since
your last visit. We also use the cookie to track how often you
visit the site so we know who our most loyal users are. You are
always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although
in that case you will not be able to use certain features on our
site. For example, if you disable cookies, you will need to log
in manually each time you visit the site as we cannot use a cookie
to remember who you are. We have no access to or control over
these cookies. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies
by TheGoaliesMind.com only and does not cover the use of cookies
by any advertisers.
Surveys & Contests. From time-to-time our site may request
information from users via surveys, contests or for a particular
service (e.g. newsletter). Participation in these surveys or contests
is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether
or not to disclose this information. Information requested will
include contact information (as supplied to the site during registration)
and supplementary information on your professional interests,
opinions and preferences (e.g. choice of software, working practices,
opinions on industry issues, feedback on the TheGoaliesMind.com
web site). We will use the contact information to notify winners.
We will not publish winners' details on the site though on request
we will provide details of any winners' name and organization.
If the survey or contest has a sponsor then we will share information
given by entrants with the sponsor.
Payment Processing. In order to process payments online we require
the billing address for the credit card used and our external
payment provider requires your credit card details. For details
of how your information is used, please see following section.
3. Our Use of Your Information.
We use personally identifiable information about you to improve
our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically analyze
site usage, to improve our content and product offerings and to
customize our site's content, layout, and services. We believe
these uses allow us to improve our site and better tailor it to
meet our users' needs.
We use your e-mail address to send you newsletters or other communications
(for example, new product launches) that you have requested from
the Site. Out of respect for our users we offer an opt-out (see
4. below).
We use information in the file we maintain about you, and other
information we obtain from your current and past activities on
the Site, to resolve any disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce
our User Agreement. At times, we may look across multiple users
to identify problems or resolve disputes, and in particular on
rare occasions we may evaluate your information to look for users
using multiple User IDs or alias.
Payment Processing. We take online payments for product purchases.
In addition to the information outlined above, we require the
billing address of the credit card you use so that we can pass
this to our payment processors who check the address against the
cardholder's details for security purposes. We store these billing
details on our servers in case we need to contact you in the future
regarding payments. Our payment processors require that you provide
your credit card details to process the transaction. This is done
on a secure server using SSL (secure sockets layer). TheGoaliesMind.com
does not have any access to these credit card details and they
are not stored or processed in any way by TheGoaliesMind.com.
In the case of a suspected fraudulent transaction, card details
may be disclosed to TheGoaliesMind.com by the payment processors
for the sole purpose of performing further checks. TheGoaliesMind.com
is not permitted to then retain these details. These details are
stored securely by our payment processors in order to process
future payments you may make, but our payment processors do not
use your information for any other purpose.
Your Personal Information is stored in our databases, which are
located in the US.
4. Opt-Out of Email Communications
If at any stage you wish no longer to receive any e-mails that
you receive from the site you can stop them by clicking on the
link provided in all of our email communications.
5. Our Disclosure of Your Information
Unfortunately, due to the existing regulatory environment, we
cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other
personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in
ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.
By way of example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be
forced to disclose information to the government or third parties
under certain circumstances, or third parties may unlawfully intercept
or access transmissions or private communications. We can (and
you authorize us to) disclose any information about you to law
enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion,
believe necessary or appropriate, in connection with an investigation
of fraud, intellectual property infringements, or other activity
that is illegal or may expose us to legal liability.
As a general proposition, we do not sell or rent any personally
identifiable information about you to any third party.
Advertisers. We do aggregate personally identifiable information
and disclose such information in aggregate to advertisers and
for other marketing and promotional purposes. However, in these
situations, we do not disclose to these entities any information
that could be used to personally identify you.
Legal Requests. TheGoaliesMind.com cooperates with law enforcement
inquiries and other third parties to enforce laws, intellectual
property and other rights. Local, and international law enforcement
agents can request and may receive your personally identifiable
information.
6. Discussion Forums
If you choose to post messages in our forums, or leave a message
or comment in other areas of the site, or leave feedback for us
or other users, we will store such information in a file personal
to you. This is so that we can see what contributions you have
made to the site.
7. "Tell a friend" services
TheGoaliesMind.com offers a service whereby you can e-mail site
content to a friend or colleague. This will involve entering the
e-mail address of your friend. We do not use the e-mail addresses
you enter for any purpose other than to send your e-mail. We do
not store, rent or sell these e-mail addresses.
8. Other Information Collectors
Except as otherwise expressly discussed in this Privacy Policy,
this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information
we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose your information
to other parties, whether they are other members of the Site or
other sites throughout the Internet, different rules may apply
to their use or disclosure of the personal information you disclose
to them.
9. Security
In order to process and protect your credit card details, our
payment providers use SSL (secure sockets layer) encryption. The
secure server is hosted by the payment processors and not TheGoaliesMind.com.
On TheGoaliesMind.com site we use best endeavor to safeguard
the confidentiality of your personal identifiable information
but we do not use encryption (such as SSL) or firewalls to further
protect the information as it travels across the Internet. This
is because we do not believe that, apart from the credit card
information processed by our processors, the personal information
we currently collect warrants such measures and the accompanying
loss of speed experienced. You should be aware that "perfect
security" does not exist on the Internet.
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