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Sports Pro Media strongly believe in protecting the confidentiality and security of information we collect about individuals. The material below describes our privacy policy and describes how we treat the information we receive about you.
We need to know about you so that we can provide you with the kind of information that you will find relevant and useful as a user of the website.
What we know about you we get mostly from you. We do not collect personally identifiable information about you except when you specifically provide such information on a voluntary basis. For example, such personally identifiable information may be gathered from competitions, suggestions and transactional areas.
At our points of data collection, you have the opportunity to indicate whether you would like to "opt in" or "opt out" of receiving promotional and/or marketing information about other products, services and offerings from group companies and/or third parties on whose behalf we may send out information. Further and notwithstanding any opt out of promotional information by the user, we reserve the right to contact you regarding account status, changes to our service agreement and other matters relevant to the underlying service and/or the information collected. You can request to "opt out" of further promotional contacts at any time and all promotional emails we send you allow you this facility. Also, upon request, we will use commercially reasonable efforts functionally to delete you and your personal information from our database; however, it may be impossible to delete your entry without some residual information due to backups and records of deletions.
We treat what we know about you confidentially. Our employees take care in handling your information. They may get information about you only when there is a good reason to do so. We take steps to make our databases secure and to safeguard the information we have about you.
We may use anything we know about you to help us serve you better. We will not disclose your information to any third party save for the following exceptions:
Generally, we will disclose only the information we consider reasonably necessary to disclose.
Generally, we will let you review what we know about you if you ask us in writing or email. If you tell us that what we know about you is incorrect, we will review it. If we agree with you, we will correct our records.
You should be aware that third parties, specifically advertisers, may offer you subscription, registration-based services, promotions or competitions. We are not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties and users should check the applicable privacy policy of such party when providing personally identifiable information to other parties.
We may use your IP address to help diagnose any problems with our server or to administer our websites. Your IP address may be used to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information that helps us understand user requirements. This specific information will only be used within our organisation and we will only share or use this information on an aggregate basis.
We collect non-personal information and data through the standard operation of our servers or through the use of cookies. Cookies are small text files a web site used to recognise repeat users, facilitate your ongoing access to and use of the site, track usage, follow site behaviour and compile aggregate data that will allow content improvements and targeted advertising. Cookies are not programs that come onto a your system and damage files. Generally, cookies work by assigning a unique number to the user that has no meaning outside the assigning site.
Cookies can help you for example by delivering content specific to your interests, or to save your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit a website.
Our sites employ the services of an outside companies to serve and appropriately target online advertisements and track site usage. To do this, their software collects anonymous data through the use of cookies.
Users should be aware that we cannot control the use of cookies or the resulting information by advertisers or third parties hosting data for us. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to deny or accept the cookie feature; however, you should note that cookies may be necessary to provide the user with certain features (e.g. customised delivery of information) available on our web sites.
Our site contains links to other sites outside of our control. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices or the content of such websites.
Thank you for reading our privacy policy and thank you for choosing our network of sites as your reliable source of news and views on the Internet. If you have any questions about anything contained in this policy, you can contact us at via the contact Us section of the website.
Sports Pro Media reserve the right to change this policy at any time by notifying users of the existence of a new privacy statement. This statement and the policies outlined herein are not intended to and do not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party.
Whilst SportsPro Media and its agents and affiliates have done their best to ensure the accuracy of data and information contained within this website, it does not assume, and hereby disclaims any liability for any loss or damage caused by errors or omissions, whether such errors or omissions resulted from negligence, accident or other causes. This website is offered to you conditional on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein. Your use of this website constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and notices. This website contains links to websites, web pages and services also operated by SportsPro Media and its affiliates. You agree to familiarise yourself with the Terms and Conditions of Use and to abide by them if you choose to use the sites, pages or services to which they apply.
This website is for your personal use and you may copy data and information from it, distribute, transmit or reproduce content provided appropriate citation, acknowledgment and or brand association regarding origin of source within the website, electronic web link(s) to the website and copyright notices are included. Also permitted is limited not-for-financial-reward reproduction and transmission to colleagues, coworkers & other industry members. You may not modify, create derivative works, transfer, or sell any data or information from it to third parties without prior written permission from the Publisher. If the website is developed to contain bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups, forums, vertical communities and/or other message or communication facilities (collectively known as "Communities"), you agree to use the Communities only to send and receive messages and material that are proper and related to the particular forum and you agree by way of example, not as a limitation, that when using a Community, you will not:- defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others publish, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material, data or information upload files that contain material protected by intellectual property laws (or by rights of privacy of publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consents to upload files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another's computer conduct, forward or link SportsPro Media information or data to pyramid schemes or chain letters, download any file posted by another user of a forum that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such manner falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material, data or information contained in a file that is uploaded restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Communities.
The SportsPro Media web site offers access to a number of third party web pages and content. The company has no control whatsoever over the content of such sites. Third party content accessible through the website from such sources is developed by people over whom SportsPro Media exercises no control.
Products and services on this web site may request the user to register, subscribe or to provide feedback as well as providing certain data. Upon registering, subscribing or entering feedback information you may receive other access codes to which the user is responsible for maintaining confidentiality. SportsPro Media hereby undertakes to respect the privacy of personal data and contact information thereby received and to only pass on such data and information to other parties where distribution consent has been given or implied.
These Terms and Conditions of Use are governed by the laws of England. You hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of courts in the United Kingdom in all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of this web site. SportsPro Media performance under these Terms and Conditions of Use is subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing contained in this herein is in restriction of SportsPro Media's right to comply with governmental, court and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of this web site or information provided to or gathered by the company with respect to such use. If any part of these Terms and Conditions of Use are determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the Terms and Conditions of Use shall continue in effect. The above provisions constitute the entire agreement between the user and SportsPro Media with respect to this web site and it supersedes all prior communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between the user and the company in respect to this web site. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.