This Privacy Policy applies to the Baseball Dudes LLC website at http://baseballdudes.com. The Baseball Dudes website contains links to other sites. Once you enter another website (whether through an advertisement, service, or content link), be aware that Baseball Dudes LLC is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to look for and review the privacy statements of each and every web website that you visit.
While you may use some of the functionality of the Baseball Dudes website without registration, many of the specific content items, tools and services on our website may require registration. If you use our website without registering, the only information we collect will be Non-Personal Information using Cookies. If you choose to become a Member of our website, we require additional Personally Identifiable Information, such as your name, birth date and email address. We may also ask for information about your past experience as a baseball player, coach, manager or scout as well as your baseball-related accomplishments and goals. Our team does this so that we may offer you the best possible experience on our website and to tailor our services and communications to your particular interests.
NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Even if you do not register with Baseball Dudes, we collect Non-Personal Information about your use of our website, special promotions and newsletters.
The Baseball Dudes website assigns every computer a different Cookie. The information collected by Cookies helps us to monitor:
(i) how many people are using our website
(ii) how many people open our emails
(iii) what visitors like to do while on our website
Cookies are also used to facilitate a User’s login, as navigation aides and as session timers, but not to retain Personally Identifiable Information about you.
Your browser software can be set to reject all Cookies. You do not have to accept our Cookies in order to use our website. However, certain functions and conveniences of our website may not work properly if you reject our Cookies. We do not link Non-Personal Information from Cookies to Personally Identifiable Information without your permission.
PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
As you use the Baseball Dudes website, you will be given the option of receiving recurring informational/promotional messages and newsletters via email. These emails will be of a general nature and will in no way disclose personal information about you, but we require your name and email address to send them correctly. At the time you sign up for our email newsletters or any time thereafter, you can choose to opt-out of receiving additional emails from us. However, it’s important to understand that some of these emails may be important to the delivery of specific services you have requested.
This Privacy Policy does not protect you when you send content, questions or ideas to Baseball Dudes by email. If you want to keep them private or proprietary, do not send them in an email to Baseball Dudes LLC. We try to answer every email within 48 business hours, but are not always able to do so.
After you have registered on the Baseball Dudes website, you may choose to use certain interactive content, tools and services that will require you to voluntarily provide other types of information about yourself.
From time to time, the Baseball Dudes management team or contractors acting on its behalf may conduct online research surveys in order to gather feedback about our site and services, and to ask our users baseball-related questions through email invitations, surveys and online focus groups.
Personally Identifiable Information collected through this type of research will only be used by Baseball Dudes LLC and its contractors, and will not be given or sold to a third party.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy or as specifically agreed by you, Baseball Dudes will not disclose any Personally Identifiable Information it gathers from you on our website. We will only release Personally Identifiable Information to third parties:
(i) to comply with valid legal requirements such as a laws, regulations, search warrants, subpoenas or court ordes.
(ii) in special circumstances that warrant such disclosure, such as in response to physical threats made against you or others. In the event that we are legally compelled to disclose your Personally Identifiable Information to a third party, we will attempt to notify you unless doing so would violate the law or court order.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We will inform you of any material changes to our Privacy Policy that involve the use of your Personally Identifiable Information by publishing any such revisions here. Your continued use of our website will indicate acceptance of the changes. Please exit the Baseball Dudes website immediately if you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy or any revised policy.
Effective: February 1, 2013
