The COS Football Giveaway Privacy Policy

This privacy policy sets out how The COS Football Giveaway uses and protects any information that you give The COS Football Giveaway when you use this website.

The terms “The COS Football Giveaway,” “us,” and “we” refer to the owner of the website the registered; the term “you” refers to the user or viewer of our website.

 

The COS Football Giveaway is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website; you can then be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

The COS Football Giveaway may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective as of August 27, 2008.

What we collect

• Name and job title
• Contact information, including email address
• Demographic information, such as postal code, preferences, and interests
• Other information relevant to our products and services and/or customer surveys

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information so we can understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

 

• Internal record keeping.
• We may use the information to improve our products and services.
• We may periodically send promotional email messages informing you of new products, special offers, or other information that we think you may find interesting, using the email address you have provided. From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes; for such purposes we may contact you by email, phone, fax, or mail. We may use the information to customize the website according to your interests.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic, administrative, and management procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Except as legally required in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, we will endeavor as far as is reasonable to safeguard the confidentiality of any personal information you provide to us. Any feedback you submit to us comprising information, questions, comments, suggestions, etc., regarding our products, services, or published materials shall be deemed non-confidential. We are hence free to use the content of such feedback, including any ideas, systems, designs, techniques, procedures, methods, plans, etc., for any purpose including developing, producing, and marketing products or services.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file that asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes, and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website, in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. However, once you have used such a link to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information that you provide while visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

 

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

 

• Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes If you have previously agreed to allow us to use your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at info@theCOSfootballgiveaway.org

 

• We will not sell, distribute, or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties that we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

 

• You may request details of the personal information that we hold about you as stipulated in the applicable laws of Canada and British Columbia. A small fee may be payable for this information. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to us at info@theCOSfootballgiveaway.org

 

• If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.