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This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for www.championangler.com. The statement does not include the privacy practices for partnered sites. We encourage our users who visit external sites from links within Championangler.com to read the privacy statements of those sites, as their privacy practices may differ from ours.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, contact us via Customer Service e-mail. If you prefer to write us our postal address is below. Champion Angler LLC
2551 Drew Street Suite 301
Clearwater, FL 33767
Welcome to ChampionAngler.com In order to make you feel comfortable and secure in our online community and store, ChampionAngler.com has taken numerous precautions to guard your security while interacting within the community and making online purchases. Our goal is to make you feel as comfortable as possible while interacting and shopping on our website. For each visitor to our Web site, our Web server automatically recognizes the consumer's domain name and e-mail address (where possible).
ChampionAngler’s privacy/security policy will inform you about: • What personally identifiable information is being collected? • How is the information being used? • With whom do we share your information? • How do I access, update, or delete my personally identifiable information? • What information will be disclosed if required by law? • What personal information is collected in your FISHBOOK profile. • What are cookies and how do we use them? • What choices are available to you regarding the collection, use and distribution of the information and how you can correct any inaccuracies in information? • What kind of security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under our control? Privacy What personally identifiable information is being collected? When you visit the ChampionAngler Web site, in order for us to provide you with the products or services that you have requested, you may be asked to provide us with personally identifiable information. For example, you will have to register and make an account if you want to make a FISHBOOK or order one of our products, When you registered to purchase and item you will be asked for your name, shipping and billing addresses, your e-mail address, and your credit card number or other payment-related information. If you request one of our newsletters or send an inquiry to one of our customer service representatives, we will also store a record of your request along with your e-mail address. In addition, our Web servers track various technical details about your visit, such as you computer's IP address and which pages you visited, however that information does not typically contain any personally identifiable information about you. We post customer testimonials on our web site which may contain personally identifiable information such as the customer's name. We do obtain the customer's consent prior to posting the testimonial to post their name along with their testimonial. How is the information being used? The information we collect is used to provide the products and services that you have requested or that we think you might have an interest in. It is also used to improve the content of our Web site, to notify you of problems with your requests, or to update you about changes to our Web site. With whom do we share your information? In order to operate this Web site and in order to provide you with the products and services you have requested, we occasionally need to share information with third parties. We may transmit your personal information to service providers who assist us in processing orders, shipping products to you, processing your payment information, conducting surveys, on and offline sweepstakes, processing job applications, sending you e-mails and newsletters. We have agreements with these service providers that they will protect your privacy in accordance with our standard Privacy Statement. Some of those organizations may have their own Privacy Statements which may give you additional protections, so you are encouraged to read those statements when presented to you. We contract with Google to serve ads on our behalf across the Internet and sometimes on this site. They will collect anonymous information about your visits to our Web site, and your interaction with our products and services. They may also use information about your visits to this and other Web sites to target advertisements for goods and services. These targeted advertisements may appear on our site or on other sites that you visit. The anonymous information is collected through the use of a pixel tag, which is industry standard technology used by most major web sites. No personally identifiable information is collected in this process. How do I access, update, or delete my personally identifiable information? If you are a registered user of the Web site, you can manage many aspects of your registration information. For security reasons, however, some parts of your personal information may not be changed online and may require you to call or write to us in order to verify your identity before such changes can be made. The online registration area will also permit you to exercise control over the use of your e-mail address, allowing you to opt-out of future e-mail messages from this Web site. Unfortunately, due to various legal and recordkeeping requirements, we may be required to maintain records about your purchases or other activities on this website. However, you will always be permitted to opt-out of any marketing uses of information stored about you. If you prefer to manage your personal information via other means, you may contact us by postal mail at: Champion Angler LLC
2551 Drew Street Suite 301
Clearwater, FL 33767
or by e-mailing us. What information will be disclosed if required by law? If required by law, we may provide any and all information we have about you to law enforcement or other government agencies, pursuant to a subpoena, warrant, or other order by a court of competent jurisdiction. In all cases, we will require written documentation of the request, proof of the identity of the law enforcement official making the request, and we will take steps to authenticate the validity of the request. Any law enforcement or government agency request submitted with less than a court-issued order will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis according to the need and urgency, as well as the particular law enforcement agency making the request. What personal information is collected in ChampionAngler’s FISHBOOK, and Blogs? On certain portions of our Web site, we provide message board and chat features. Those features may require you to provide additional registration information, such as creating a username and password, providing an e-mail address or other information. It is important to understand that when you participate in online discussions, any information you choose to provide is considered "public knowledge" and it is your responsibility to protect your own privacy. If you register to make a FISHBOOK profile, blog entires or participate in chats, we will keep your information private, and in accordance with this policy. You have the choice of making certain information about yourself available to other users of the system. It is your responsibility to manage your account settings in order to maintain the level of privacy that you desire. If you inadvertently post private or other inappropriate information, we will do our best to assist you in removing it, but we will not be responsible for any problems arising from your errors. The FISHBOOK personal profiles, blogs and chat features are provided without any warranty and you use them at your own risk. What are cookies and how do we use them? A cookie is a block of text placed in a file on the user's hard drive by a Web site you've visited. These types of cookies cannot identify an individual user specifically, such as by name or address, unless the cookie data is attached to personally identifiable information such as online registration. ChampionAngler.com uses cookies to observe our site visitor's navigation throughout the site. This helps us identify ways to improve our interactive FISHBOOK network and shopping experience. ChampionAngler.com also uses a session cookie, which is a piece of identification between your browser and our server, which helps to do things like keep track of the items in a user's shopping cart, and other information. The shopping cart cookie is saved for a designated period of time in case the users' session expires or they return to complete a message or purchase within that time frame. For the convenience of our users, we also place a cookie on the users' computer when they log in to our interactive network. This gives the advantage of not having to log back in when moving between your FISHBOOK profile and the rest of the site. We do not link cookies to Personally Identifiable Information. What choices are available to you regarding the collection, use and distribution of the information and how you can correct any inaccuracies in information? If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future, please let us know by sending an e-mail or by writing to us at the above postal address and telling us that you do not want to receive e-mail from our company. If you provide us with your e-mail address, you may receive messages, status updates, and friend requests from your FISHBOOK profile and/or messages with your order status, issues regarding the operations of this Web site, and messages from subsidiaries of ChampionAngler.com and other companies with operational relationships to ChampionAngler.com You may modify your e-mail preferences by logging into your FISHBOOK profile and placing your cursor over “Profile" section and then click edit details. If you provide us with your postal address, you may receive periodic newsletter from us, or other notices containing information about new products and services or upcoming events. On occasion, we may make our postal mailing address lists available to subsidiaries and affiliated companies that are part of the ChampionAngler.com family of companies. We may also make our postal mailing address lists available to other direct mail companies who we believe may have products and services of interest to our customers. However, we do not share e-mail addresses with any outside organizations for marketing purposes. If you do not wish to receive postal mailings from ChampionAngler.com, its subsidiaries, or third-party organizations, please let us know by sending an e-mail, or writing to us at the above postal address. Please provide us with your exact name and postal address and state which lists you wish to be removed from so that we can be sure your information is removed from future mailing lists. We will request your telephone number or facsimile (FAX) number, and if you provide it, you may receive telephone or FAX contact from us with information regarding your orders. Security What kind of security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under our control? ChampionAngler.com values your business and is committed to doing everything possible to make our interactive network and ordering processes secure. As always, our 100% satisfaction guarantee applies to all purchases from ChampionAngler.com Secure Ordering Process Any credit card information you enter on our site is strongly encrypted by industry-standard protocol, SSL (Secure Sockets Layer). ChampionAngler.com uses SSL to communicate with secure browsers like Firefox and Internet Explorer. These browsers encrypt your credit card and personal information in a way that makes it extremely difficult for anyone to intercept and misuse while being transmitted between your computer and our server. Don't worry if your browser is secure or not - if it is insecure, you will not be able to purchase on our online store. Once you have completed your order online, our security procedures do not end. We take appropriate precautions to protect the security and privacy of the information stored on our computer networks. Many of the systems which store your personal information are not connected to the Internet, reducing the likelihood of security breaches. Our systems are also housed in secure facilities, and access to your data by our employees is limited to a "need to know" basis, controlled by password protected systems, and monitored for abuse. If you are still unsure of giving your credit card over the Internet, please feel free to fax, or mail your order to us. Our fax number for orders is 727-726-3318. Or, send your order to: Champion Angler LLC
2551 Drew Street Suite 301
Clearwater, FL 33767
If you have any further question regarding your online security, please contact us via e-mail Customer Service. Children In accordance with federal law, we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under age 13 without the verifiable permission of a parent or guardian. If you are under age 13, you are welcome to browse our Web site. However you are not permitted to use any of the features of our site that require the collection of any personally identifiable information. If we determine that we have erroneously collected a child's information, we will immediately undertake to delete that data from our records. Changes in this Privacy Statement We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page. |
| Last Updated ( Friday, 12 June 2009 15:47 ) |
