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Privacy Statement for Sportog, Inc.
Updated April 2008
We at Sportog, Inc. have a firm commitment to safeguarding the privacy of our members. This page will inform you about our information gathering and dissemination practices for Sportog and all of our services. If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should contact privacy@sportog.com.
Sportog is also referred to in this Statement as "we" and "us".
In General
Your Photo Albums, Album Sharing, and Address Book
Sportog is committed to providing you with a safe environment to upload, share and print your photos. Except for albums you choose to publish to a public gallery as part of the Gallery Premier Service without password protection, your photos are password protected and are not visible to others unless you explicitly share them. See Terms of Service Section 26 for further you invite visitors to see your photos, by clicking on the "Share Photos" tab or using the auto-alert feature of the Gallery Premier Service, Sportog will send an email to your list of invitees containing the URL to your album. Please note that your invitees can then forward the email containing the URL to other parties, if they choose. If you choose to have the recipients of your album invitations sign in to view your album, then the email address your invitee provides will appear in your guestbook for that album (and, conversely, if you are invited to view an album, the email address you provide will appear in the author's guestbook). If your invitee forwards your email invitation to another party, the email address given by that party will appear in your guestbook as well. Sportog uses the email addresses provided (including those in your address book) only to facilitate your photo sharing activities and for no other purpose. We will not use the addresses described in this section for any other purpose and will not disclose the addresses you provide to any third party.
Your Personal Information
Sportog only uses your personal information to conduct business with you. Your personally identifiable information will not be rented, sold or shared with any third party, except as described in this Privacy Statement or as otherwise agreed by you. Sportog may disclose information it has collected from any member of the Service and/or content any member has made available on the Service when it believes in good faith that the law or legal process requires it, or when it is necessary to do so to protect the rights or property of Sportog or others.
We may change this Privacy Policy without notice from time to time. Please visit this page for updates and changes. Regardless of later changes or updates, Sportog will not use your information in a new way without first providing you with an opportunity to opt-out.
Also, if you have not already done so, please click here to review the Terms of Service that govern your use of the Service. Our privacy policy is considered part of the Terms of Service.
Information We Collect and How We Use It
Information You Explicitly Provide
In order to establish your account or to place any orders for prints or other products provided through the Service, you will be asked to provide certain personally identifiable information to us, such as your name, mailing and email address, phone number, mobile phone number, carrier name, and a credit card number and expiration date. We will use that information to send you our film mailers (if requested) and to process and communicate with you concerning any order you may submit, and to enable services for your mobile device. We may also ask you for similar information, and information about your photography equipment and practices, if you choose to request a newsletter, enter a contest, fill out a customer survey or participate in a program. We may use this information to make improvements to our service or customize your service experience. In any event, we will not share your personally identifiable information with any other third parties without giving you the opportunity to opt-out, except as expressly described in the "Third Party Service Providers" section of this Privacy Statement.
We use aggregate non-personal information (i.e. information that does not include personally identifiable data) for statistical analysis of user behavior, product development, content improvement and marketing, promotional and advertising purposes. We may also make that aggregate non-personal information available to select third party partners.
Information We Automatically Collect
Cookies and Invisible Gifs (also known as "Clear Gifs," "Web Bugs" and "Tracker Gifs")
Generally speaking, we use cookies and invisible gifs to track users of the Service (including our email campaigns) and Sportog's website, including photo albums and the shopping areas. For example, when you visit our site, we assign you a unique User ID and store it on your computer in the form of a cookie (unless your browser's cookie support has been disabled). Through the use of cookies, User IDs, and invisible gifs, we are able to optimize the performance and functionality of our site, and to personalize our site for you and present you with content and offers specific to your interests.
Disabling Cookies
If you are uncomfortable with the idea of your information being stored in cookies, we recommend disabling cookie support in your browser, though please understand this will limit the performance and functionality of Sportog's website. Your browser documentation will provide specific procedures for disabling cookie support. If you would like to opt-out from the newsletter mailing list, please see the instructions under the Choice/Opt-Out section below.
IP Address
We analyze IP addresses in the aggregate for system administration purposes and to gather broad demographic information. We do not link IP addresses to your computer's User ID, with the following exception: when you place an order using our online checkout process we record your computer's IP address with your order to help us identify fraudulent credit card use. We may share this information with the financial institution that issued the credit card with which an order was placed, or with law enforcement authorities if we determine, or are notified, that the use of the credit card was fraudulent.
Affiliate Site ID
If you entered Sportog's website by clicking a link or promotion on another website (including a Sportog co-branded portion of another website), or if you used a site that provides universal registration services to sign up for our site, we will store the ID of that affiliate site in our database along with your computer's User ID. We do this to ensure that the affiliate site receives proper credit for any subsequent order you might place. We may also use this information in conjunction with your activities on our site to help us identify what offers and services may be of interest to you.
Information Sharing
Third Party Service Providers
We may share your personally identifiable information with those companies that assist us in providing the Service to you. Following are some examples of our use of third party service providers: We may share your credit card information with a financial institution to effect your purchase of our products using your credit card. We may share personally identifiable information (not including credit card information) with third parties that assist us with the administration of our newsletters or contests or that help us understand what our customers want and need from our service, including analysis of the results of particular surveys we may perform. We also engage third parties to assist us by tracking the number of visitors to our website, including visitors that have "clicked-through" from specified promotions on third party websites and those visitors' activities on the site. We may also choose to offer certain third party products, such as Custom Printed Cards, through the Service and may disclose certain portions of your personally identifiable information (not including credit card information) to allow those product producers to fulfill your product order.
Other Sites that Offer Services
Sportog has various partners that allow us to offer our services through the partner's own website, or a co-branded website (each, a "Co-Branded Site"). To the extent you take advantage of our services through any Co-Branded Site, Sportog's use of your information will be governed by the specific Privacy Policy provided on that Co-Branded Site. Please be sure to review the applicable policy if you use our services through a Co-Branded Site.
Opting-Out, Updates and Security
Choice/Opt-Out
The Service provides you with the opportunity to opt-out of receiving newsletters and other promotional communications from Sportog. To discontinue your receipt of such newsletters and communications, you can do so in the "My Account" section of our website or you can send an email with your request to service@kodakgallery.com. Sportog will continue to send you non-promotional, service emails concerning your account. If you wish to opt-out from receiving promotional communications from Kodak, please review Kodak's privacy policy at www.kodak.com for instructions and further information.
Correct/Update
If you want to review or change any information you previously provided to us, please go to the "My Account" section of the site or you can send an email with your request to service@kodakgallery.com.
De-Activating Your Sportog Account
If you want to de-activate your account with Sportog, please send an email to service@kodakgallery.com with your request. Please note any service will be billed/refunded as agreed when you signed up; we do not offer refunds for subscription services such as Gallery Premier or Gallery Mobile. Please be sure to include the email address of the account you wish to de-activate. Your account will be de-activated and you will no longer receive communications from us; however, we will keep your account information in our database for record-keeping purposes only.
Security
The Service has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. Except as otherwise stated in this Privacy Statement, access to that data is limited to authorized Sportog staff members and is further restricted by password protection mechanisms. By default, all orders placed on our site are done on a secure server that encrypts all financial information through SSL. We will not store your credit card information in our database unless you explicitly instruct us to do so.
Other Sites; Contact Information
Links to Other Sites
This site may contain links to other sites. Sportog is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other websites.
Contact information on privacy
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of the Service, or your dealings with us, you can email your questions to privacyconcerns@kodakgallery.com.
Privacy Glossary
Here are definitions for commonly used privacy and related Internet terms.
Aggregate information
Information that may be collected by a website but is not "personally identifiable" to you (see definition below). Aggregate information includes demographic data, domain names, and website traffic. As long as none of these fields is linked to a user's personal information, the data is considered aggregate.
Browser
Also called a Web browser. Software that enables you to search and or navigate through websites or "browse" parts of the Internet, especially the World Wide Web. Examples: Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Cookie
A block of text placed in a file on your computer's hard drive by a website you've visited. A cookie is used to identify your computer the next time you access the site. Cookies cannot identify an individual user specifically unless the cookie data is attached to personally identifiable information collected some other way, such as via an online registration form.
Domain name
The company, individual, or organization "name" you use to access a website, e.g. www.kodakgallery.com.
Email
See electronic mail.
Email address
The computer version of a postal address. Like a postal address, it contains information about who the e-mail recipient is and where he or she resides on the Internet.
Electronic mail
Commonly referred to as email, this form of communication enables you to send messages and files from your computer through the Internet to one or more email addresses.
Encryption
Data that is scrambled into a private code for secure transmission.
Internet
A worldwide system of interconnected computer networks, whose use is not controlled by any government agency or central authority.
Invisible Gif
An invisible gif is a simple signal sent from certain emails or Web pages to the sponsor of the emails or Web pages, allowing the sponsor to keep track of the number of users who access the emails and Web pages.
Opt-in
An option giving you the ability to agree to the collection and dissemination of your personally identifiable information. A site that provides this option is stating that it will not gather or track personally identifiable information about you unless you knowingly provide such information and consent to such activities.
Opt-out
An option giving you the choice to prevent personally identifiable information from being used by a particular website or shared with third parties.
Password
A private, unique series of letters and/or numbers that you create and must use to gain access to a website or the Internet, specific data available online, or to make modifications to restricted-access software (e.g. parental control software).
Personally identifiable information
Information that can be traced back to an individual user, e.g. your name, postal address, or e-mail address. Personal user preferences tracked by a website via a "cookie" (see definition above) is also considered personally identifiable when linked to other personally identifiable information provided by you online.
Privacy statement
A page on a website that lays out the site's privacy policy, i.e. what personal information is collected by the site, how it will be used, whom it will be shared with, and whether you have the option to exercise control over how your information will be used.
Web browser
See browser.
website
A collection of "pages" or files on the World Wide Web that are linked together and maintained by a company, organization, or individual. Anyone with a website may be considered a content provider or a publisher.
World Wide Web
A part of the Internet that links text, sound, and images in the form of Web pages and sites.
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