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Young
Masters is committed to
comply fully with the
Children's Online Privacy
Protection Act of 1998 and
believes in the power of
kids and we urge both kids
and their parents to use and
enjoy our website. While we
encourage the interactive
nature of online media, we
strive to educate parents
and kids about how to
appropriately safeguard
their privacy when traveling
on the Web. We urge kids to
check with their parents
before entering information
on any website and we urge
parents to discuss with
their kids restrictions
regarding the online release
of personal information to
anyone they don't know.
What Information Is
Collected?
At Young Masters, it's our
policy to create website
content that requires
minimum collection of
information from our
visitors. Generally, we
limit our collection of
information from kids to
what is known as
nonpersonally identifiable
information (e.g. screen
name, birthday, gender,
state, zip code). This
information is collected so
kids can participate in
activities (e.g. play online
games) without giving
unnecessary personal
information. From time to
time, however, we may
request limited personally
identifiable information
(e.g. email address of
parent ), as explained
below, in order to conduct
online contests or
sweepstakes or offer other
online activities (e.g.
electronic newsletters).
Young Masters does not
condition a kid's
participation in any of our
online activities or the
disclosure of more
information than is
reasonably necessary to
participate in the activity.
As explained below, we may
also collect from parents
additional types of
information (e.g., credit
card and billing
information) when they
purchase products and
offerings at our site.
Electronic Newsletter
Subscription
Young Masters offers kids
the opportunity to sign up
to receive the Young Masters
newsletter by email. At any
time after receiving this
notification email, the
child's parent has the
opportunity to exercise the
option to request that we
stop sending the child the
Young Masters newsletter and
have the child's information
removed from our Young
Masters newsletter by
following the "unsubscribe"
instructions found at the
end of any of the Young
Masters newsletter emails.
In addition, parents may at
any time review any
identifiable information
collected about their child
(see below, Parental
Access).
All information collected
for Young Masters
newsletters is used only to
send the child the
electronic newsletter and
may be transferred,
disclosed, or shared with
third parties who may be
engaged by us specifically
to handle the preparation
and delivery of the
electronic newsletter and
perform other related
technical and processing
functions. These third
parties may not use it for
other purposes and have
agreed to maintain the
confidentiality of such
information.
Contests and Sweepstakes
Young Masters occasionally
offers contests and
sweepstakes, which may be
entered online. Sometimes,
when we conduct contests or
sweepstakes that may involve
more than a one-time
contact, we ask additionally
for the email address of his
or her parent. All the
information collected by
Young Masters is securely
maintained and used only for
the purpose of conducting
the contest or sweepstakes.
The information collected in
a Young Masters sweepstakes
may be passed to a Young
Masters Franchise Owner.
Use of Information
Young Masters uses or may
use personally identifiable
information that kids
provide for such purposes as
sending requested electronic
postcards and email messages
on their behalf, and
conducting contests or
sweepstakes, and responding
to their questions regarding
our products and services.
Young Masters currently does
not disclose to third
parties personally
identifiable information
that kids provide, except
from time to time, we may
transfer, disclose or share
such information with third
parties such as Franchise
Owners to deliver prizes.
Such third parties have
access to personal
information needed to
perform their functions, but
may not use it for other
purposes. Additionally, in
the event that all or
substantially all of the
assets relating to Young
Masters are transferred or
sold to another entity,
personally identifiable
information submitted to us
may be transferred to the
acquiring entity. Finally,
we may also disclose
personally identifiable
information to third parties
in order to comply with law
or requests by law
enforcement agencies, to
enforce our Terms and
Conditions or to protect the
rights, property or safety
of our website, users of our
website and others.
Use of Photos
Your purchase, either
through your local
photographer or the Young
Masters website,
acknowledges images are the
property of Young Masters
and may be used for display
purposes.
Cookies and Log Data
Cookies are information
files that your web browser
places on the hard drive of
your computer when you visit
a website. Cookies cannot
damage user files, nor can
they read information from a
user's hard drive. Cookies
allow websites to "remember"
users activities on a
website as well as users
visits to a site. At Young
Masters, cookies are used to
determine the number of
unique visitors to our
website over a given period
and to remember user screen
names so that the need for
multiple log-ins is
eliminated. We do not store
any personal information
into cookies nor do we link
or combine information
collected through cookies to
any personal information
that kids submit online when
participating in our
activities. You can, of
course, disable cookies on
your computer by indicating
this in the preferences or
options menus in your
browser.
The ads appearing on Young
Masters are delivered to you
by a third party ad service
provider. In the course of
serving ads, the ad service
provider may place or
recognize their own unique
cookie on your browser, and
may use non-personally
identifiable information
about your visit to Young
Masters, such as the number
of times that you have
viewed an ad. For more
information about the third
party ad service provider
and how to "opt out" of the
ad serving cookie, please
click here.
Log data collected on web
servers both within Young
Masters's control and under
the control of Young
Masters's third party ad
service provider, who is
required to maintain such
data on a confidential
basis, supplies Young
Masters with aggregate
information about the number
of visits to different pages
on our site. Young Masters
uses such aggregate
information to improve
access to our content based
on our visitors' browsers
and operating system types
to make our content
available to as many kids as
possible. We do not link the
log data collected to the
personal information that
kids submit online when
participating in our
activities.
Parental Access
At Young Masters, our goal
is to help parents ensure
that their kids have a safe
and fun online experience.
That's why we've set up a
system by which parents can
call us to request a form
that allows them to review
any identifiable information
collected about their child,
have this information
deleted, and/or request that
there be no further
collection or use of their
child's information. Young
Masters takes steps to
verify the identity of
anyone requesting
information about a child
and to ensure that the
person is in fact the
child's parent or legal
guardian.
Security
Young Masters has taken
steps to ensure that
personally identifiable
information collected in the
future is secure, including
limiting the number of
people who have physical
access to our database
servers as well as
electronic security systems
and password protections
which guard against
unauthorized access.
Young Masters provides a
"bumper page" when linking
from Young Masters to an
advertiser's site, which
lets kids know they are
going to an advertiser's
site and reminds them not to
give out information online
without getting permission
from their parents.
Young Masters provides links
to other websites that may
have their own information
collection practices. Young
Masters provides internal
"bumper pages" that inform
kids that they have linked
to another site and
instructs them not to give
out information online
before checking with their
parents. These other
websites are governed by
their own privacy policies
or information collection
practices, which may be
substantially different from
ours. We encourage visitors
to other websites to review
the privacy policies and
information collection
practices of those websites.
Questions/Concerns?
If you have any questions,
comments or concerns
regarding Young Masters's
privacy policy and/or
practices, please email us
at:
webmaster@sports-section.com
or via mail:
Webmaster
c/o Young Masters
2150 Boggs RD
Suite 200
Duluth, GA 30096
Or call this number:
678-740-2800
This privacy policy was last
updated on January 17, 2006.
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