SportsHook

Updated March 31, 2009

SportsHook is a social utility designed for people who play sports. By its nature, information about you is collected and some of the information may be shared with your friends and others.

We believe that sharing of information will enhance your experience on SportsHook. We also believe that you should have control over how your information is collected and shared.

This Privacy Policy (“the Policy”) is designed to help you understand how SportsHook collect and use the information you share when you use www.sportshook.com and its directly associated domains (collectively, “SportsHook” or “Site”).

By accessing SportsHook, you accept the practices described in this Policy. From time to time, SportsHook may update the Policy. We encourage you to review our Site regularly for updates. In instances where significant changes are made to the Policy, we may send you a notice at your latest email address provided to us. By continuing to access and use SportsHook after the updates have been published, you consent to the changed practices.

The Information We Collect

When you use or access SportsHook, we collect your personal information in the following ways:

Registration
When you sign up with SportsHook, you provide us with certain personal information, such as your name, your email address, your location and any other personal information that you may provide to us.

Profile Information
When you use SportsHook, you may provide additional information to fill out your profile, such as your telephone numbers, your address, your gender, the schools you attended, the sports that you participate in. Providing these additional information is optional, but enables you to identify yourself better and to find other interesting information (e.g. events, sports teams) on SportsHook.

Communications and Contacts Information
When you use SportsHook, you may invite friends, send messages, perform searches and queries, form teams, organize events and transmit information through various channels. To invite others to join your team or event, you will enter their names and email addresses.

User Content
You may post User Content (as defined in SportsHook Terms of Use) on the Site, such as photographs, videos, comments, ratings, performance data, event information, sports facility and site information. Sharing of such information enhances the utility of the Site and your experience in using the Site.

You recognize that you post such information at your own risk. We cannot control the actions of other Users with whom you choose to share your pages and information. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that User Content that you post on the Site will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

Information from other sources
SportsHook may also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspaper, other news web sites, blogs and other users of the Site (e.g. photo tags) in order to provide you with a more personalized experience.

Cookies
Like most web sites, we use cookies and web log files to track site usage. A cookie is a small data file from your browser which resides on your computer and that is tied to information about the user. We use a persistent cookie that stores your login ID (but not your password) to make it easier for you to login when you revisit SportsHook. We also use session cookies to confirm that the user is logged in. Session cookies terminate once the browser is closed.

Log files, IP addresses and information about your computer
When you visit SportsHook, we receive and log the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, email patterns, as well as the name of your internet service provider. This information is used to analyze overall trends to help us monitor and improve the SportsHook service. The linkage between your IP address and your personally identifiable information is never shared with third-parties without your permission or except when required by law.

How We Use The Information

SportsHook is an online service designed to enable people who play sports connect effectively with one another. To this end, SportsHook use the personal information collected to help you, as a User, to describe yourself and interact with others. Other information, which does not personally identify you as an individual, is collected by SportsHook and is exclusively owned by SportsHook. The information can be utilized by SportsHook in such manner as SportsHook, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate.

SportsHook will communicate with you through email and notices posted on this website or through any other means available through the service, including text and other forms of messaging. If we send any communications to you via the carrier service with which you have a mobile communications subscription or otherwise have access, you understand you will pay any service fees associated with any such access (including text messaging charges to messages your mobile device). These include a series of emails to confirm user registration and to inform new users about various features of the service.

Information you provide at registration or in your Profile section is also used to customize your experience on the web site. For example, when you login to your account we will display the events submitted by other users in your sports interest areas.

We may provide aggregated anonymous data about the usage of our services to third-parties for such purposes as we deem, in our sole discretion, to be appropriate, including, without limitation, to prospective advertisers on SportsHook. We may segment our users by interest areas, geographic location, or level of participation. This allows us to provide what is likely to be more relevant and interesting information and advertisement to you.

Communications that you initiate through the Site, like a request for contact, will list your name as the initiator but will not include your personal contact information. Your contact information will only be shared with another user if both of you have indicated that you would like to establish contact with each other.

Profile information is used by SportsHook primarily to be presented back to and edited by you when you access the service and to be presented to others permitted to view that information by your privacy settings. In some cases where your privacy settings permit it (e.g., posting to your message board), other SportsHook users may be able to add content to your profile.

Profile information you submit to SportsHook will be available to users of SportsHook who belong to at least one of the teams you allow to access the information through your privacy settings. Your name, network names, and profile picture thumbnail will be available in search results across the Site and those limited pieces of information may be made available to third party search engines. This is primarily so your friends can find you and send a friend request. People who see your name in searches, however, will not be able to access your profile information unless they have a relationship to you (friend, member of your team, etc.) that allows such access based on your privacy settings.

SportsHook may send you service-related announcements from time to time through the general operation of the service. For instance, if a friend sends you a new event invitation, or someone posts on your message board, you may receive an email alerting you to that fact.

It is possible that we may need to disclose personal information when required by law. We will disclose such information wherein we have a good-faith belief that it is necessary to comply with a court order, ongoing judicial proceeding, or other legal process served on our company or to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.

SportsHook does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification or parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. We recommend that individuals between the age of 13 and 18 ask their parents for permission before providing any information to SportsHook.

By using SportsHook, you are consenting to your personal data being transferred to and processed in the Republic of Singapore.

Security

Your account information is stored on a secured server behind a firewall.

You recognize, however, that no system connected to or data transmissions over the Internet can be 100% secure. We do not guarantee that the information on the server will not be accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed by breach of such firewalls and other security measures in place.

In the event of a breach, SportsHook may notify you by sending you an email to the most recent email address that you have provided us. If you prefer to receive a notice of breach from us in writing, please contact us at privacy@sportshook.com.

Advertising

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.

Contact Us

If you have any question or comment about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@sportshook.com, or at

SportsHook
Attn: Privacy
9 Jurong Town Hall Road iHub #03-37
Singapore 609431