Privacy Policy

The JoAnn Buck Website ("Website") is owned and operated by JoAnn Buck ("Company"). The following privacy statement describes the practices of the Company with respect to the collection, maintenance and disclosure of information on the Website. If you have any questions about this privacy statement, please contact Customer Support for more information. Overall Privacy Policy

We place a high value on your privacy, with the following practices:

1. We will never sell or rent your email address.
2. The information we collect is for usage within our own organization to improve our services and to better target our client's offerings.
3. If you elect to provide us with additional information (by filling out forms, etc.), we will collect it and use it to improve our product offerings.
4. From time to time, we will rent out our list of postal mail addresses (not email addresses) to providers of highly targeted information. You may have your name removed from these lists by emailing customer support.
5. Please be aware that we partner with many sites, who may have privacy policies that differ from ours. Please see their individual privacy policies for more information.

Information Collected

This Website offers services individuals who want to purchase sporting goods from our site. The personal information required is a contact name (first and last), as well as postal and email addresses. The provision of this personal information upon placing an order is not optional and by not submitting the requested information we will not be able to provide members with the services they wish to obtain on the Website.

To improve services and the quality of the Website as well as our site visitors' experience on the Website, we conduct surveys among site visitors that request the provision of personal information such as name and email address as well as non-personal information regarding the site visitor's experience on the Website. Participation in the surveys and any other corresponding submissions of personal information is optional.

To keep site visitors informed with respect to new listings of goods and product lines on the Website we offer innovative search features, as well as an emailing list service. In order to provide this emailing list service we collect email addresses from site visitors who want to participate. The provision of information in the form of email is not optional if a site visitor chooses to participate in the emailing list service.

Use of Personal Information Collected

Personal information collected on the Website is used primarily for the purposes it is requested.

We use non-personal information such as aggregate demographic data and information about our members' to analyze and develop our marketing strategy. In addition, to determine how site visitors found out about us, our site visitors' interests regarding our services and how to further improve the Website based upon this data. We may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the requirements of the law or comply with a legal process served on the Website.

Correcting/Updating Personal Information

If a site visitor or member's personal information changes, or if a member no longer desires our service, we have provided a way to correct, update or remove all personal information. Site visitors or members can have their personal information updated, changed or removed by contacting a customer service representative at customer support.

Cookies

We may use cookies, which are small text files that are stored on the site visitor's computer, to gather and keep track of information related to the site visitor. Cookies will also help us review the Website traffic patterns and improve our Website. Although many Website browsers are set to accept cookies, a site visitor can set his/her Web browser to reject cookies. If this Website uses cookies, which are disabled on a visitors browser, it may prevent the site visitor from using some of the convenience features of the Website. Non-personal information collected through cookies is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information.

Log Files

We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track site visitors' movements, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Links to Other Websites

The Website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that JoAnn Buck is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage site visitors to be alert when they leave this Website, and to review the privacy statements of each and every Website that they visit before disclosing personal information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected on this Website.

If you have any questions about the security at the Website, you can send an email message to customer support.

Children's Use of Website

The JoAnn Buck site is suitable for viewing by all members of your family. In fact, we know that some site visitors call on the talents of young people to assist in searching for goods to buy. This section also includes certain guidelines from the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998.

For the protection and privacy of children, we seriously discourage unsupervised persons under the age of 13 from purchasing goods on JoAnn Buck. Further, we encourage parental guidelines that match ours with respect to placing orders. This guideline protects children and their privacy.

We do not knowingly acknowledge registrations or requests for any goods or services from persons under the age of 13. If it comes to our attention that a request has come from a person under the age of 13, we will not respond to such a request. Instead, we will automatically delete any information provided by a person who acknowledges being less than 13 years of age.

We will not knowingly accept an order for goods or services from anyone under the age of 13 (See Terms and Use section).

Partners

Some of our partners offer services on this Website. To provide services our partners collect personal information from site visitors. We exercise great care in choosing our partners but we neither control nor are we responsible for our partners' information collection practices. Every time our partners request the provision of information, site visitors will be notified that a different privacy policy applies, and site visitors will be granted an opportunity to review our partner's privacy policy to make an informed decision whether to provide personal information.

Notification of Changes

It is your responsibility to follow our privacy link, so you are always aware of our current practices. Anyone can follow the privacy link on any page on our site, so that site visitors and members are always aware of our current information collection, maintenance, and disclosure practices. We post the last date of revision to the bottom of our Privacy Statement. If at any point we decide to use personal information in a manner different from that stated at the time it of collection, we will notify site visitors and members by way of an alert posted to the home page. Site visitors will have an option whether to let us use their information in a different manner.

LAST UPDATED

July 10, 2007