GREATSHOT.COM
SECURITY AND PRIVACY INFORMATION
GreatShot.Com takes your privacy and
security on the Internet very seriously. Whether you're competing in the game,
buying one of our quality products, or just browsing our site, we want to help
you understand the measures that we take to protect your personal information
with our privacy practices and the security measures built into Greatshot.com.
This statement discloses the privacy guidelines for
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What personally identifiable information do
we collect
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Who is collecting the information
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With whom do we share this
information
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What choices are available to you regarding
collection, use and distribution of the information
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How you can correct or change the information
we have collected
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Issues involving your Child's
privacy
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GreatShot.Com's
use of Cookies
By using our Web site, you consent to
the collection and use of your information by GreatShot.Com as set forth in the
policy currently in effect. If our policy changes, such changes will be posted
here on the Web site, so please check periodically to ensure you have the most
current policy.
What information is
Collected
?
When a visitor creates an account or
places an order with us, GreatShot.Com may collect personally identifiable
information, including name, address, e-mail address, phone numbers, social
security numbers, date of birth, etc. This information is not required to obtain
access to public site portion, but we do require it if you wish to compete,
place an order, or set up an account for software downloads or game
play.
In addition to game registration and
ordering, there may be other times we request and collect personal information,
including by way of example, when you enter a different Competition or a special
Prize Offer during a promotion, or marketing campaign sponsored by GreatShot.Com
or one of its business partners; when you complete surveys or other
questionnaires; or when you send an e-mail to GreatShot.Com. GreatShot.Com will
try to include the link to the security and Privacy page whenever it collects
personal information.
Our web server logs collect the
domain names of visitors to our Web sites. This information is aggregated to
measure number of visits, average time spent on a GreatShot.Com Web site, pages
viewed, etc. We use this information to measure the use of our sites and to
improve the content of our sites.
Who is collecting the
information?
When you are on a GreatShot.Com site
and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information with
Fuzzy Zoeller Productions Inc., and its subsidiaries and related companies.
Additionally, if you make a purchase your personal information may be collected
by a third party vendor working with GreatShot.Com. GreatShot.Com may also
contract with third party companies to perform services for GreatShot.Com on its
Web site that require these companies to collect personal information (e.g.
hosting a Web site sweepstakes, promotion or survey, or selling software
downloads). The GreatShot.Com Web site may also contain various links to
third-party Web sites. These sites may provide additional information, goods,
services and/or promotions. These sites are owned and operated independently of
Fuzzy Zoeller Productions Inc. and GreatShot.com, and have their own separate
privacy and data collection practices. Any information you provide to these Web
sites will be governed under the terms of their privacy policy, if any.
GreatShot.Com has no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the independent
actions or policies of these independent sites, and is not responsible for the
content or privacy practices of such sites.
GreatShot.Com's
primary goal in collecting personal
information is to facilitate order processing and player registration to enable
us to contact you if a problem arises with your order or while your are
competing in the game, providing such information when making a purchase is
required. This information may also be used to provide you with a customized
experience inside the Competition on our site, which includes interactive
communications, and other services.
The GreatShot.Com site may also
contain optional surveys and questionnaires asking for information while getting
your feedback to enhance your experience on our site. Visitors will also be given the
opportunity to ask questions or send us comments during these times. We only use
the information you provide to help us design and build better online gaming
experience, to customize your shopping experience, and to provide advice and
purchase recommendations. Taking part in any of these segments is always
optional.
We also use the information we
collect to help target valuable marketing and advertising offers. This kind of
advertising may be done with banner ads as well as promotional e-mails sent by
GreatShot.Com, or by third parties under contract with GreatShot.Com.
GreatShot.Com may also match user information with third party data to help us
better understand our customers. This means GreatShot.Com may combine the
personal information you provide us with information available from other
sources, including offline sources, to market new products or services we think
may be of interest to you.
Finally, GreatShot.Com does research
on our users' demographics, interests, and behavior based on the information
provided to us when making a purchase, during a promotion, from surveys and from
our server log files. We do this to better understand and serve our users. This
research is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis so as to prevent
identification of personal information relating to any one individual.
GreatShot.Com may share this aggregated data with our business
partners.
With whom does GreatShot.Com share my
information?
GreatShot.Com never provides your
personal information to third parties without your consent. GreatShot.Com shares
the information you provide with GreatShot.Com subsidiaries and related
companies, except as stated in this policy or on our Web
site.
GreatShot.Com on occasion share your
personal information with third-party business partners so that they may provide
services to GreatShot.Com that are consistent with the terms of this Privacy
Policy, and this Web site (e.g. database management, sending targeted e-mails
and conducting contest and other promotions on behalf of GreatShot.Com).
GreatShot.Com takes great pride in utilizing only reputable business partners.
GreatShot.Com may also, on occasion, provide personally identifiable information
to third-party businesses as part of a specific product, service, or
promotion.
GreatShot.Com’s
Web site may also utilize third party
vendors to provide products and services directly to GreatShot.Com consumers.
Such relationships are designated with a “Provided by Company” legend or logo,
or other similarly worded designation. If you desire to purchase a product or
service from such third party, your personal information will be collected by
the third-party company, and shared with GreatShot.Com. You may review the
privacy practices of the third party either by clicking the link on the bottom
of the page, or by clicking on the “Provided by Company” logo, which will take
you to their Web site. Additionally, when you purchase or download software
applications from GreatShot.Com or a third party, your personal information is
shared with the software developer/licensor in order to register you as a
licensed software user, and to permit them to provide you any required support.
Although these software developers are encouraged to develop and follow
appropriate privacy policies, GreatShot.Com cannot be responsible for the
privacy practices of such companies. If you are concerned about the privacy
policy of a certain developer or software company, you may contact them directly
or visit their individual Web sites.
GreatShot.Com shares Web site usage
information about visitors to our Web site, who have received a targeted
promotional campaign, with a reputable third-party advertising company for the
purpose of targeting future campaigns and upgrading visitor information used in
reporting statistics. For this purpose, we and our third-party advertising
company note some of the pages you visit on our Web site through the use of
pixel tags (also called clear gifs). The information collected by our
third-party advertising company through the use of these pixel tags is not
personally identifiable. For more information about our third-party advertiser,
please go to http://www.privacychoices.org/.
To opt out of the targeting program, please go to http://www.privacychoices.org/optout.htm.
GreatShot.Com may also disclose
personal information in special cases when we have reason to believe that
disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal
action against someone who may be violating this site's Terms of Use or may be
violating GreatShot.Com's or other's rights or causing injury to or interference
with GreatShot.Com's or other's property. GreatShot.Com may also disclose or
access personal information when we believe in good faith that the law requires
it.
GreatShot.Com may also disclose
aggregated user statistics in order to describe our Web site to prospective
business partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful
purposes.
What choices do I have
regarding collection, use and distribution of my
information?
GreatShot.Com or its business
partners may, from time to time, send you e-mail or direct mail regarding the
competition or our products and services. If you choose not receive this type of
information you can tells us when you sign up for an account, or follow the
removal process and remove your name from our mailing
list.
During certain GreatShot.com
promotions, we will ask for your email address in order to contact you in the
event you won a prize. If you
participate in these types of promotions you may receive a related promotion
email. These emails may include
some targeted advertisements. If
you do not want to receive these targeted promotions; than you can choose not to
participate in these particular promotions or contests.
If you ever have questions concerns
regarding an e-mail you receive from GreatShot.Com or one our business partners,
or to be removed from a mailing list, please contact us at privacy@GreatShot.Com.
When you place an order or provide
personal information, your transactions are encrypted for security. Encryption
scrambles the information in your purchase, including your credit card number,
so this information can only be viewed by GreatShot.Com.
GreatShot.Com uses Secure Sockets
Layer (SSL) encryption technology, the highest level of security on the
Internet. The SSL protocol provides server authentication, data integrity, and
privacy on the Web. This security measure helps ensure that no impostors,
eavesdroppers, or vandals get your personal information. SSL not only encrypts
your personal and financial information transmitted, including credit card
information, but also verifies the identity of the server and that the original
message arrives safely at its destination.
However, no data transmission over
the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive
to protect your personal information, GreatShot.Com cannot ensure or warrant the
security of any information you transmit to us or from our Web site, and
therefore you use our site at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission,
we use our best effort to ensure its security on our
systems.
GreatShot.Com has international users
all over the world. When you give GreatShot.Com personal information, that
information may be sent electronically to servers outside of the country where
you originally entered the information. In addition, that information may be
used, stored and processed outside of the country where you entered that
information. Whenever GreatShot.Com handles personal information, regardless of
where this occurs, it takes steps to ensure that your information is treated
securely and in accordance with the relevant Terms of Use and this Privacy
Policy.
How can I correct or
change my personal information?
If you would like to review, correct
or change any personal information you have provided, or remove your name from
our mailing list, please e-mail us at privacy@GreatShot.Com. If you
have established an "account" on a GreatShot.Com Web site, this information can
be changed at any time by visiting this section of Greatshot.com and simply
resubmitting the information.
What about my child's
privacy?
This site is intended
for use by persons over the age of 13. GreatShot.Com does not seek to collect
information about children under the age of 13. No information should be
submitted to or posted on this Web site by users under 13 years of age. If a
child under the age of 13 submits personal information to this Web site, we
delete the information as soon as we discover it and do not use it for any other
purpose. GreatShot.Com encourages parents to take an active role in their
children's use of the Internet, and to inform them of the potential dangers of
providing information about themselves over the Internet.
When you come into our site, our
server attaches a small text file to your hard drive -- a cookie. Your unique
cookie tells us that it's you whenever you re-enter our site, so this helps us
retrieve your information quickly to improve your visit. By giving us your player account
information and any shopping cart items you may have. Cookies basically help us deliver a
better Web site experience to you.
We use cookies to basically:
(1) Remind us of who you are allowing
us to bring you a more personalized experience each time you
visit.
(2) Determine the effectiveness of
our e-commerce relationships. GreatShot.Com's e-commerce partners and affiliate
program use cookies to identify the sites from which a user enters our site.
Users linking to the GreatShot.Com site from one of our e-commerce partner or
affiliate sites are given a unique cookie. This cookie identifies from which
site the user linked to GreatShot.Com. This information is used to determine the
effectiveness of our relationships and to administrate our affiliate program.
This information may also be used to help target advertisements based on user
interests and behavior.
(3) Assist GreatShot.Com in tracking
the number of shots in your account
(4) Assist GreatShot.Com in tracking
what items are in your shopping cart
(5) Track your progress and number of
entries in some of our promotions, and contests.
(5) Measure traffic patterns, and
which areas of the GreatShot.Com site you have visited, and your visiting
patterns. This information collected by using a cookie is sometimes called
"clickstream." We use this information to understand how our users navigate our
site, and to determine common traffic patterns, including what site the user
came from. We use this information to make site navigation and product
recommendations, and to help redesign our site in order to make your experience
on our site more efficient and enjoyable. We may also use this information to
better personalize the content, banner ads, and promotions that you and other
users will see. This helps GreatShot.Com deliver you the content you want, in
order for you to make better purchasing decisions
You do have choices with respect to
cookies. This can be done by modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be
notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject
all cookies you will be unable to use those services or engage in activities
that require the placement of cookies.
Additional
Information.
Questions regarding this policy should be directed to privacy@GreatShot.Com. You may
also contact us by
Fuzzy Zoeller Productions
Inc.
GreatShot.com
GreatShot.Com Privacy Administrator
Effective Date