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Privacy Statement

Privacy & Security

St. Joseph Athletic Association created this statement to communicate our firm commitment to privacy. We take the proper measures to ensure that your registration and shopping experience with us is safe, secure and enjoyable. This statement details our current information gathering and sharing practices for the St. Joseph Athletic Association website.

St. Joseph Athletic Association is continually improving this site by adding new functionality and features to this site. St. Joseph Athletic Association is also improving and adding products, services and programs. Because of these changes, changes in the law and the changing nature of technology, St. Joseph Athletic Association's data practices will change from time to time. This Privacy & Security statement is subject to change without notice. We encourage you to review our Privacy and Security statement whenever you use this web site to make sure you understand our current practices. We also encourage you to review the privacy policy posted on any web site you visit before using the site or providing personal data about yourself.

Information We Collect and How We Use It

When you place an order or registration with us, we will need to collect your name, e-mail address, shipping address, credit card number and credit card expiration date. Some registrations and items also require parental information, child information, and/or team information be supplied. St. Joseph Athletic Association also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests, and favorites. This information allows us to process your order and contact you if necessary.

Information relating your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by St. Joseph Athletic Association. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring website addresses. This information is used by St. Joseph Athletic Association for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the St. Joseph Athletic Association website.

All of your information is stored on a secured server. If you do not wish to register your credit card number online, you may contact the St. Joseph Athletic Association member facility and arrange to place your order over the phone. Contact information for each St. Joseph Athletic Association member facility is listed its website. The e-mail address for this facility (St. Joseph Athletic Association) is stjoeathletics@sbcglobal.net.

If you choose to participate in a contest or a promotion, we may ask for your name, address and phone number in order to administer the contest and notify the winners. If you volunteer to participate in an online survey, we may ask for contact information and possibly additional information such as your interests and demographics. Supplying this information is strictly voluntary. The information is used to provide you with a more personalized shopping experience, including future recommendations and promotions that may be of special interest to you. You may opt out of receiving this enhanced information if you so choose.

Information about your activity on the site is automatically collected when you sign in. We use this information to enhance and personalize your shopping experience. We monitor our site traffic patterns and site usage to better understand our customers and markets and improve the layout and design of our site. We use the information to notify you of any site changes, new features and services and to keep you informed of any special deals and promotions offered by St. Joseph Athletic Association, its affiliates, or its member facilities. You may opt-out of receiving this information if you so choose.

To the extent that we use third party advertisers or contact lists to personalize your shopping experience, including future recommendations and promotions that may be of special interest to you, they may adhere to their own privacy customs and policies. St. Joseph Athletic Association does not control the privacy policies of third parties and/or their opt out lists. We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your personal information to others.

In addition to the information you provide when you use St. Joseph Athletic Association's websites, we use technology to collect anonymous, non-personally identifiable information about your use of the site. For example, we use "cookie" technology, described below, to track which pages on our site our visitors view and which web browsers our visitors use. We also use "action tags" to assist in delivering the cookie. These action tags allow us to compile statistics and other data about our customers on an aggregate basis, by embedding a random identifying number on each user's browser. Then we track where that number shows up on our site. We share non-personally identifiable aggregated data with third parties.

Our emails often contain hyperlinks to additional information on our site. We use technology to track how often these links are used and which pages on our site subscribers choose to review.

We use third party advertising companies to serve ads and e-mails. These companies may use technology, similar to those outlined above, to measure the effectiveness of ads and e-mails and use information about your visits to this and other web sites so that we can provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. For this purpose, we may also provide these third party advertisers anonymous information about your site navigation and purchases.

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Information Disclosure

When you place an order with us, we share your information with our member facilities, vendors, suppliers, and distributors to fulfill your orders. We also share sales information with third parties in order to properly process service and returns and perform other administrative duties. We do not sell or rent any of your personally identifiable information with anyone outside of St. Joseph Athletic Association and its member facilities.

We retain other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include but may not be limited to advertising, fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and email, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments, and providing services and customer service. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions but may not use it for other purposes.

We may provide your information, as required by law or legal process; to protect and defend the rights of St. Joseph Athletic Association, the St. Joseph Athletic Association site, St. Joseph Athletic Association's member facility sites, or the users or incident to a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution or similar event, and under circumstances we believe reasonably necessary to protect the personal safety of users of St. Joseph Athletic Association, this site or the public.

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Links to External and/or Co-Branded Sites

Our site may contain links to other sites on the Internet that are not under our control. St. Joseph Athletic Association is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. See our Terms of Service and Legal Notices. We reserve the right to co-brand our site with other companies.

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Cookies

A cookie is a small piece of information that many Web sites use to help make shopping online easier. The information is stored on your computer's storage system. It lets you shop our site, place items in your cart and return several days later without having to reenter the information. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the St. Joseph Athletic Association services or websites you visit.

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Security

Our site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. All information is stored on a secure server.

We strive to maintain the reliability, accuracy, completeness and currency of personal data in our databases and to protect the privacy and security of our databases. Although we cannot guarantee against any loss, misuse, unauthorized disclosure, alteration or destruction of data, we try to prevent such unfortunate occurrences.

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Choosing a Personal Password

When you create an account, you need to select a personal password that you will remember. It must be at least 5 characters. To maximize your level of protection, you should choose a combination of both letters and numbers.

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Secure and Standard Account Sign In

Some older browser versions and some firewalls don't permit communication through secure servers. In that case, you'll be unable to securely connect to our server. You may choose to connect to the secure server via our standard servers, but your password will not be encrypted.

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Safe Shopping Policy

Because your credit card security is a high priority, we have taken numerous steps to ensure that your payment information is processed confidentially, accurately and securely. St. Joseph Athletic Association uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), an encryption technology that protects your credit card information. SSL encrypts all ordering information (name, address, credit card number) so no one can read it as it travels over the Internet. In-house web stations operate over a private, secure network and do not use SSL. Your credit card number is not stored on St. Joseph Athletic Association's servers once an order has been processed.

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Children's Guidelines

At St. Joseph Athletic Association, the safety of children is very important to us. We are committed to protecting the online privacy of children. We will not knowingly or intentionally collect personal information about children under the age of 13 without prior parental consent. If you are under 13 and would like to purchase items from St. Joseph Athletic Association or provide personal information about yourself and your family, please ask a parent or guardian for assistance.

St. Joseph Athletic Association cannot prohibit minors from visiting this site. St. Joseph Athletic Association must rely on parents, guardians and those responsible for supervising children under the age of 13 to decide which materials are appropriate for such children to view and/or purchase.

Each time you purchase a product at St. Joseph Athletic Association or provide information about yourself or your family, you are representing to St. Joseph Athletic Association that you are 13 years or older.

For some items or registrations, St. Joseph Athletic Association may require that player information (name, birthdate, gender, etc.) be supplied for children under the age of 18. Only the parents or legal guardian may supply such information, and by it's submittal, the parent or legal guardian is assumed to have given consent for St. Joseph Athletic Association to store this information on its secure servers. St. Joseph Athletic Association does not share specific details of this information with others.

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Choice/Opt-Out

We offer you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us at the point where we request the information. Or, You may contact us in one of the following ways:

  1. You may sign-in to your account and modify your e-mail settings
  2. You may send e-mail to the St. Joseph Athletic Association webmaster
  3. You may contact your St. Joseph Athletic Association member facility directly

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Correct/Update

We provide several different methods for you to change or modify the information you give us by contacting us in one of the following ways, and providing the details of the information you wish to change:

  1. You can sign in to your account at St. Joseph Athletic Association and alter any information you previously supplied
  2. You may send e-mail to the St. Joseph Athletic Association webmaster
  3. You may contact an St. Joseph Athletic Association member facility directly

St. Joseph Athletic Association will take reasonable steps to implement your request to opt out, correct or update information. However, please note that due to production and mailing timelines, it may take around ninety days to make the requested change and you may still receive promotional information from us as earlier directed.

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Contacting St. Joseph Athletic Association

You may contact us if you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site:

  1. You may send e-mail to the St. Joseph Athletic Association webmaster
  2. You may contact an St. Joseph Athletic Association member facility directly

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