SportsBallot, Inc. is the parent company that produces the website www.SportsBallot.com (“Website”). We here at SportsBallot are committed to safeguarding your privacy online.

SportsBallot will NOT sell any of your personal information, unless you explicitly give SportsBallot permission to do so.

How does SportsBallot use personal information?

We use the personal information you supply us, including your registration data, to enhance SportsBallot.com, fulfill your requests for ballots entered, personalize your experience and provide you or permit others to provide you with special offers we think you will find valuable. We also use other information obtained from user site traffic patterns to better provide you with a personalized experience and special advertising offers and promotions. We view personalized advertising as beneficial to our users.

We also use your registration data information in connection with SportsBallot.com in order to track your progress, to notify you if you are a winner and to ensure that we comply with the applicable laws.

SportsBallot uses the information described above to do, among other things, the following:

Personalize and enhance the SportsBallot.com site and service such as providing you with your personalized advertisements we believe will be of interest to you.

Send personalized information about SportsBallot.com and its site features, prizes and special offers, unless you have opted out of receiving these types of communications.

We will also use the information we collect to develop summary reports for our advertisers. An example of a summary report might be "100,000 people clicked on this link and of those people, 35% were registered users above the age of 25." We provide this information to assist our advertisers in determining how to promote their products.We do not tell our advertisers who it was that saw or clicked on their advertisements unless you have specifically told us this is acceptable.

How can I change my personal information preferences? If a user's personally identifiable information changes (such as zip code, phone, email or postal address), or if a user no longer desires our service, we provide a way to correct, or update users' personally identifiable information. This can usually be done by editing your personal information by first logging into sportsballot.com and then clicking on the "Edit Your Profile" link on the Help page. To delete or deactivate your account or if you have any further concerns, you can email Customer Support at support@sportsballot.com.

What happens to the information in the Refer a Friend? SportsBallot does NOT store the email addresses of the people you have referred to. SportsBallot records information regarding who has referred you during their corresponding registration to award you referral tickets.

What happens to the information in the SportsBallot Bulletin Board? To use the bulletin board you can supply your name and email. All other information is optional. You have the option to selectively display parts of your personal information in your bulletin board profile. You can change your forum profile preferences by logging in to the bulletin board and clicking on profile in the navigation menu. You can also email support@sportsballot.com if you need administrative assistance with your forum preferences. The information entered in on the bulletin board will not be used for any marketing purposes. Only administrative correspondence such as policy changes will be sent to SportsBallot Bulletin Board email addresses.

Security Measures SportsBallot uses the latest security software technology to safeguard against malicious internet attacks on your personal information such as firewalling and limited access to the internet. As an additional security feature, you can choose to logout of SportsBallot.com and close your browser for your own security. If you have further questions about our security measures, feel free to email us at support@sportsballot.com.

Cookies To help us serve you better, we collect information that does not identify you personally, but rather identifies your computer or browser. This is done by using little files called "cookies" and by tracking IP addresses. A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a Website's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive. Cookies operate in the background, and you can turn them off if you wish, but doing so can impair your ability to use some of the features on our Website.

We will use cookies to make our Website work better by, for example, keeping track of your login name, and password.

We will also allow other companies that are presenting advertisements or providing services on our pages to set and access cookies on your computer. Those companies' use of cookies will be covered by their own privacy policies, not ours. We will also use IP addresses to analyze trends, help us administer the Website, track the movement of visitors, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

How and when is information disclosed to 3rd parties?

In general, SportsBallot does not disclose your personally identifiable information to any third party without first providing you with an opportunity to opt out except in special situations described below, such as to comply with the law or administer the site. Unless you have indicated that you do not wish to receive special offers from SportsBallot sponsors during registration, SportsBallot.com will make your personally identifiable information available to selected sponsors. You can elect to opt-out at anytime by clicking on the "Edit User Profile" link on the Help page and editing your personal information preferences.

Aggregated Demographic Information We will share aggregated demographic information with third parties, if you have so indicated, but this information is not linked to any personal information that can identify you or another individual person. Therefore, no personal information is disclosed in this manner.

Business Transfers. In the event that all or substantially all of SportsBallot's stock and/or assets are transferred or sold to another entity, SportsBallot.com will transfer personally identifiable information to the acquiring entity. Users will be notified via prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days prior to a change of ownership or control of their personal information.

Third-Party Advertisers and Network Advertisers To help increase privacy protections for our users, SportsBallot allows advertising on our sites from only those companies that have their own privacy policy. Once you've clicked on an advertisement and have left SportsBallot sites, our privacy policy no longer applies. You must read the privacy policy of the advertiser to see how your personal information will be handled on their site. In addition, many business advertisements are managed and placed on our site by third-party companies. These companies are called "network advertisers." Network advertisers collect non-personally identifiable information when you click on or scan one of their banner advertisements. The information is collected using technology, so you may not realize it is being collected. The network advertisers collect this information so that they can show you ads that are more relevant and interesting to you.

Organizations That Help Protect the Security and Safety of Our Guests and Our Sites We will give out personal information as required by law, for example, to comply with a court order or subpoena; to enforce our Terms of Service, or site or game rules; or to protect the safety and security of users and our sites. Our registration contains a box for you to indicate whether or not you consent to receive special offers and promotions from us. Unless you give us your consent to use your personal information for these purposes, we will only use it to complete the transaction or provide the service or product you have requested. If you check a box indicating that you consent to receive communications or solicitations, but you later change your mind, you can revise your preferences by first logging into SportsBallot.com and clicking "Edit Your Profile" on the Help page. Disclosure for Legal Purposes: The law requires that we will be required to share your personal information pursuant to judicial or governmental subpoenas, warrants or orders. If we are required to do so, we will, of course, obey the law.

Contact Us If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us at:
SportsBallot, Inc.
Attn: Privacy Administrator
PO Box 492268
Los Angeles, CA 90049
Or e-mail to support@sportsballot.com.

Notification of Policy Change If we decide to make an important change to our Privacy Policy, we will post a notification and link on our homepage so that you can review the updated policy. If at any point we wish to use your personal information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify you by means of a notice on our homepage and give you the opportunity to indicate whether you consent to the proposed use.

LAST UPDATED: January 23, 2005