This Privacy Policy explains how
personal information is collected, used, and disclosed with respect to your use
of this site, so that you can make an informed decision about using this site. Grace
Media will comply with this Privacy Policy and other applicable U.S.
privacy laws when we gather and use information from users of this site.
Grace Media
encourages you to read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand what
information we collect and what that information is used for.
Grace
Media reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. If any
material changes are made to the Privacy Policy, Grace Media will post a new statement on this site and update the
effective date. Therefore, Grace Media
encourages you to check the effective date of the Privacy Policy whenever you
visit this site to see if it has been updated since your last visit.
PERSONAL
INFORMATION
Grace Media collects
personal information when you register with TheAthleticsDepartment.com, when you use Grace Media products and services, when you visit TheAthleticsDepartment.com pages and
when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. Grace
Media may combine information about you that we have with information we
obtain from business partners or other companies.
The term 'personal information' means information that specifically identifies an individual (such as a name,
address, telephone number, mobile number, or e-mail address).Personal information also includes
information about that individual's location or activities or demographic
information when such information is directly linked to personally identifiable
information. Grace Media uses
information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising
and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve
our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting
for internal and external clients.
INFORMATION
COLLECTION AND USE
Personal information may be
collected in a number of ways when you visit this site. Grace Media
may collect the personal information that you voluntarily provide to us by
filling out a form, sending us an email, completing a survey, or registering
for certain services on this site. Grace Media may also collect demographic information, such as your ZIP
code, age, gender, and preferences. Information Grace
Media collects may be combined with
information obtained through other services offered. Grace Media
may collect information about your visit to this site, which includes the pages
you view, the links you click, and other actions taken in connection with this
site and its services. Information that your browser sends to every web site
you visit, such as your IP address, browser type and language, access times,
and referring web site addresses may also be collected. Grace Media
may also collect additional information related to various services associated
with the buying and selling of property.
Grace Media uses personal information internally to serve users of this
site, to enhance and extend our relationship with site users and to facilitate
the use of, and administration and operation of, this site. Grace Media collects information about your
transactions with us, including information about your use of products and
services that we offer.
INFORMATION
SHARING AND DISCLOSURE
Grace Media does not rent,
sell, or share personal information about you with other people or
non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services you've
requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
We
provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Grace Media under confidentiality
agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Grace Media communicate with you about
offers from Grace Media and our
marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right
to share this information.
We
respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or
exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
We
believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent,
or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations
involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of
Grace Media's terms of use, or as
otherwise required by law.
We
transfer information about you if Grace
Media is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Grace Media will notify you before
information about you is transferred and becomes
subject to a different privacy policy.
Grace Media displays
targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including
ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click
targeted ads meet the targeting criteria'for example, women ages 18-24 from a
particular geographic area.
Grace Media does not
provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or
view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are
consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that
you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
Grace Media advertisers
include financial service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock
brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such as stores,
airlines, and software companies).
COOKIES AND WEB
BEACONS
Grace Media may automatically collect certain information through the
use of cookies' or web beacons. Cookies are bits of electronic
information that can be transferred to a computer to uniquely identify that
computer's browser. When you visit this site and use our services, Grace Media may place one or more
cookies on your computer. The use of cookies helps us improve the
quality of our services to you by identifying information which is most
interesting to you, tracking trends, or storing information you may want to
retrieve on a regular basis. If Grace Media
combines cookies with, or link them to any of the personal information, we
would treat this information as personal information. At any time, you
may adjust settings on your browser to refuse cookies. Please note that if a browser is set to not accept cookies, some portions of this
site may not function properly.
At this time, Grace Media
does not use Web beacons or similar technology on this site. Grace Media
may, however, permit third parties to place cookies or Web beacons on this site
to monitor the effectiveness of advertising and for other lawful purposes. Grace Media
does not use (or permit third parties to use) Web beacons to collect personal
information about you. These third
parties may place cookies, Web beacons, or other devices on your computer to collect
nonpersonal information. Information provided by
these devices may be used, among other things, to deliver advertising targeted
to your interests and to better understand the usage and visitation of this
site and the other sites tracked by these third parties. Grace Media
does not have access to the cookies that may be placed by the third-party ad
servers or ad networks. This Privacy Policy does not apply to, and Grace Media
is not responsible for, cookies and/or Web beacons in third party ads.Grace Media encourages you to check the privacy policies of advertisers
and/or ad services to learn about their use of cookies and other technology.
YOUR ABILITY TO
EDIT YOUR ACCOUNT INFORMATION AND PREFERENCES
You
can edit your Grace Media Account
Information, including your marketing preferences, at any time.
New
categories of marketing communications might be added to the Marketing
Preferences page from time to time. Users who visit this page can opt out of
receiving future marketing communications from these new categories or they can
unsubscribe by following instructions contained in the messages they receive.
We
reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the Grace Media service, such as service
announcements, administrative messages and the Grace Media Newsletter, that are considered part of your Grace Media account, without offering
you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them.
LINKS
Please be aware that we may provide
links to third party Web sites from this site as a service to its users. We are not responsible for the content or
information collection practices of those sites. We have no ability to control
the privacy and data collection practices of such sites and the privacy
policies of such sites may differ from this Privacy Policy. We strongly
encourage you to review and understand the privacy policies of such sites
before providing them with any information.
CONFIDENTIALITY
AND SECURITY
We
limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe
reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products
or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
We
have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal
regulations to protect personal information about you.
CHANGES TO THIS
PRIVACY POLICY
Grace Media may update this
policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat
personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified
in your Grace Media account or by
placing a prominent notice on our site.
QUESTIONS
AND CONCERNS
You
may unsubscribe at any time from receiving non-service related communications
from us. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices
applicable to this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us at:
- email us at info@gracemediaweb.com; or
- call us at the following telephone number: 512.452.8800.