WinStar StableMates
PRIVACY POLICY AGREEMENT
Thank you for visiting WinStarStableMates.com. This Privacy Policy constitutes a legally binding agreement between you and WinStarStableMates.com and WinStar Farm, L.L.C. (collectively referred to as “WinStar”). Additionally, all of WinStar’s owners, officers, employees, agents, contractors, affiliates, service providers, servants, and partners are covered by the terms and conditions of this Agreement and, insofar as their involvement with this Site shall have all the rights and privileges as if they were WinStar. In this Agreement, the term "Site" includes all web sites and web pages within WinStarStableMates.com as well as any equivalent, mirror, replacement, substitute or backup web sites and web pages that are associated with the Site, including but not limited to WinStarFarm.com. By using this Site, you understand, acknowledge and agree that you will abide by the terms of this Agreement as well as the separate Terms of Use Agreement, adopted and incorporated herein. Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains our online information practices and the choices you can make about the collection and use of the personal information you submit on WinStarStableMates.com.
Our computer systems are currently based in the United States, so that your personal data will be processed by us in the U.S. where data protection and privacy regulations may not offer the same level of protection as in other parts of the World, such as the European Union. If you create a user account with this Site as a visitor from outside the United States, you will by that act consent to the collection and/or processing in the United States of your personally identifiable information, which includes the use of cookies as described below.
You may be able to order and buy products, enter contests, vote in polls, express an opinion, purchase a membership, or participate in one of our online forums or communities. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected at these pages include: name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information, and information about your interests in and use of various products, programs, and services. You also may be able to submit information about other people. For example, you might submit another person's name and e-mail address to ship a product to in order to send a product directly to that other person, you might submit the recipient's name and address. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected about other people at these pages include: recipient's name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number. At certain parts of the Site, only persons who provide us with the requested personally identifiable information will be able to order products, programs, and services, or otherwise participate in the Site's activities and offerings. We also collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit many of our Web pages such as the type of browser you are using, the type of operating system you are using, and the domain name of your Internet service provider.
We do not record or store credit card information; as we use a secure third party to take in, handle, and process all credit card information. That third-party provider is authorize.net.
We use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for our products, programs, and services, to respond to your inquiries about our offerings, and to offer you other products, programs or services that we believe may be of interest to you. We use this information to communicate with you, such as to notify you when you have won one of our contests or when we make changes to our membership agreements, to fulfill a request by you, or to contact you about your account with us. We use the information that you provide about others to enable us to send them your gifts or messages. From time to time, we also may use this information to offer our products, programs, or services to them. The information we collect in connection with our online forums and communities is used to provide an interactive experience. We use this information to facilitate participation in these online forums and communities and, from time to time, to offer you products, programs, or services. If you choose to submit content for publication, we may publish your screen name and other information you have provided to us. We use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of our site and to enable us to personalize your Internet experience. We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze site usage, as well as to offer you products, programs, or services. We may disclose personally identifiable information in response to legal process, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency's request or where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our terms of use, or as otherwise required by law. In addition, we may transfer information about you if we are acquired by or merged with another company. Our agents and contractors who have access to personally identifiable information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy by, for example, not using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for us. Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
From time to time, we may ask your permission to disclose personally identifiable information about you to companies whose practices are not covered by this Privacy Policy (e.g., other marketers, magazine publishers, retailers, participatory databases and non-profit organizations) that want to market products or services to you. If at some point you grant us permission to transfer your information for these purposes and later decide that you no longer want us to do so, simply so notify us and we will edit your preferences accordingly. We may, on occasion, combine information we receive online with outside records to enhance our ability to market to you those products or services that may be of interest to you. When registering with our site, we provide you with an opportunity to express your preferences with respect to receiving details about other products and services from us and about products and services from selected third parties. If you ever decide in the future that you would like to update these preferences, you may do so by emailing us, and we will edit your preferences accordingly. Finally, we will not use or transfer personally identifiable information provided to us in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you with an opportunity to opt out of these unrelated uses.
We send "cookies" to your computer primarily to enhance your online experience. "Cookies" are files that can identify you as a unique customer and store your personal preferences as well as technical information (including click through and click stream data). Cookies can either be permanent (i.e., they remain on your computer until you delete them) or temporary (i.e., they last only until you close your browser). We may also use "Web beacons" that monitor your use of our sites. Web beacons (or Web bugs) are small strings of code that provide a method for delivering a graphic image on a Web page for the purpose of transferring data, such as the IP (Internet Protocol) address of the computer that downloaded the page on which the Web beacon appears, the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the page on which the Web beacon appears, the time the page containing the Web beacon was viewed, the types of browser that fetched the Web beacon and the identification number of any cookie on the computer previously placed by that server. When corresponding with you via HTML capable e-mail, Web beacons let us know whether you received and opened our e-mail. If you choose to furnish the site with personally identifiable information, this information can be stored in or linked to other data stored in the cookies/Web beacons. By using the Site and thereby accepting this Privacy Policy, you specifically agree to our use of cookies and Web beacons as described herein. You may adjust your browser to reject cookies from us or from any other Web site. Additionally, by setting your Web browser to display HTML e-mails as text only, you may be able to prevent the use of some Web beacons. Please consult the "Help" section of your browser for more information. However, certain areas of our sites can only be accessed in conjunction with cookies or similar devices and you should be aware that disabling cookies or similar devices might prevent you from accessing some of our content.
We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online.
This Site is made available to adults age 18 or older. We do not attempt to obtain or will obtain any information from anyone under the age of 18.
From time to time, we may update this privacy notice. We will notify you about material changes in the way we treat personally identifiable information by placing a notice on our site. We encourage you to periodically check back and review this policy so that you always will know what information we collect, how we use it, and to whom we disclose it.
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or its implementation, please contact us by email.
