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<p><font face="Arial"><strong><font size="4">About SportingHelp.com</font></strong><br />
SportingHelp.com is an online service that allows our members to set up unique personal profiles that can be linked together through networks of friends. Users can also read, write and share their sporting articles, writings, stories, and weblogs with other users. SportingHelp.com&rsquo;s members can view each others' profiles, communicate with old friends and meet new friends on the service, share photos, post journals and comments, and describe their interests. To enrich our members' experience, we request and display some personal information to other members and visitors, which allows our users to identify each other and expand their network of friends. SportingHelp.com&rsquo;s members can change their profile information at any time and can control how other members and the service communicates with them.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">SportingHelp.com cares deeply about online privacy. If you have any questions concerning this privacy policy, please email us at <a href="mailto:Questions@SportingHelp.com">Questions@SportingHelp.com</a>.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial"><strong><font size="4">Articles Posted on SportingHelp.com<br />
</font></strong>SportingHelp.com is an online service that allows our members to share athletic and personal information with others. Members are requested to use only their own articles and ideas. Copyrighted material from other sources should not be used unless written permission is obtained from the original author. SportingHelp.com is not responsible for any copyright violations by any users of our site but we will work with the original authors to resolve issues. Punishments include but are not limited to: removing articles, suspending, and/or closing violators' accounts. </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">Please report any copyright issues to: <a href="mailto:Admin@SportingHelp.com">Admin@SportingHelp.com</a>.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial"><font size="4"><strong>Information Collection and Use by SportingHelp.com</strong></font> <br />
SportingHelp.com collects user submitted information such as name, email address, and age to authenticate users and to send notifications to those users relating to the SportingHelp.com service. SportingHelp.com also collects other profile data including but not limited to: personal interests, gender, age, education and occupation in order to assist users in finding and communicating with each other.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">SportingHelp.com also logs non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type, from users and visitors to the site. This data is used to manage the website, track usage and improve the website services. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members. User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">User Profile information including members' pictures and first names are displayed to people in order to facilitate user interaction in the SportingHelp.com.com social networking community. Email addresses are used for the purposes of inviting new friends to join SportingHelp.com, to add users to members' friends' networks, and to send notifications related to the service. SportingHelp.com allows users to search for other members using first and last name, email address, and schools and/or other means.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">We may also use a user's email address to send updates, a newsletter or news regarding the service. Users may choose not to receive email of this type by opting out of emails after delivery.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">From time to time, SportingHelp.com or a partner, may sponsor a promotion, sweepstake or contest on SportingHelp.com. Users may be asked to provide personal information including name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate. We may transfer personal information to certain ad partners that you have explicitly requested to receive information from. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply. </font></p>
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Our site reserves the right to display all personal writings, including but not limited to poems, stories and collected work posted by registered members. We also reserve the right to display personal information (i.e. name, email address, D.O.B., and other information collected during the registration/updating process) on any page. </p>
<p>Our site is not responsible for deleting articles and/or personal information that users no longer wish to be viewed. </p>
<p><strong><font size="4">Invitations and Other Communications to Non-members</font></strong><br />
SportingHelp.com&rsquo;s members can invite friends to join the service by sending invitation emails via our automated invitation system. SportingHelp.com stores the email addresses that members provide so that the respondents may be added to the friend's list of the member sending the invitations, and also to send reminders of the invitations SportingHelp.com does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations. </p>
<p>SportingHelp.com&rsquo;s members may also store email addresses of people they know in their internal SportingHelp.com address book and may also choose to send invitations and other communications to those addresses. </p>
<p><strong><font size="4">Use of Cookies</font></strong> <br />
SportingHelp.com uses cookies to store visitors' preferences and to record session information, for purposes including ensuring that visitors are not repeatedly offered the same advertisements and to customize newsletter, advertising, and Web page content based on browser type and user profile information. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. You may be able to configure your browser to accept or reject all or some cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set -- each browser is different, so check the &quot;Help&quot; menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences -- however, you must enable cookies from SportingHelp.com in order to use most functions on the site. Please note that SportingHelp.com allows 3rd party advertisers that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Advertisers' use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the SportingHelp.com Privacy Policy. </p>
<p><strong><font size="4">Links </font></strong><br />
SportingHelp.com contains links to sites. SportingHelp.com is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site a user should read the privacy policy stated on that site. Our privacy policy only governs information collected on SportingHelp.com. </p>
<p><strong><font size="4">Chat Rooms, WebLogs, Message Boards, Forums, and other Public Areas</font></strong> <br />
Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post public information to Journals, WebLogs, Message Boards, Classifieds or any other Public Forums that that information can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used by those people to send you unsolicited communications.</p>
<p><strong><font size="4">Correcting/Updating or Removing Information <br />
</font></strong>SportingHelp.com users may modify or remove any of their personal information at any time by logging into their account and accessing features such as Edit Profile and Account Info. </p>
<p>If a user&rsquo;s personally identifiable information changes (such as your zip code), or if a user no longer desires our service, we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or remove that user&rsquo;s personal data provided to us. This can usually be done at the member information page or by emailing <a href="mailto:Questions@SportingHelp.com">Questions@SportingHelp.com</a>. We will try to accommodate your requests.</p>
<p><strong><font size="4">Email Choice/Opt-out</font></strong> <br />
Members who no longer wish to receive updates or notifications they may choose not to by opting out of email service by following instructions at end of email. </p>
<p><font size="4"><strong>Third Party Advertising</strong></font> <br />
Ads appearing on this Web site may be delivered to users by SportingHelp.com or one of our Web advertising partners. Our Web advertising partners may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad servers may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by SportingHelp.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. </p>
<p>SportingHelp.com member accounts are secured by member-created passwords. SportingHelp.com takes precautions to insure that member account information is kept private. We use reasonable measures to protect member information that is stored within our database, and we restrict access to member information to those employees who need access to perform their job functions, such as our customer service personnel and technical staff. Please note that we cannot guarantee the security of member account information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of member information at any time. </p>
<p>This website does not have secure online ordering areas; therefore, credit card security precautions are minimal. On our store and premium membership pages, buyers are linked to a secure server provided by Pay Pal or another credit card processing. These processing services are solely responsible for all security precautions that take place on their secure server.</p>
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    <li>Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site. </li>
    <li>Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet. </li>
    <li>Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the <a href="http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html">Google ad and content network privacy policy</a>. </li>
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<p>For any additional information about the security measures we use on SportingHelp.com, please contact us a <a href="mailto:Questions@SportingHelp.com">Questions@SportingHelp.com</a> &nbsp;</p>
<p><strong><font size="4">Sharing and Disclosure of Information SportingHelp.com Collects <br />
</font></strong>Except as otherwise described in this privacy statement, SportingHelp.com will not disclose personal information to any third party unless we believe that disclosure is necessary: (1) to conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by SportingHelp.com, whether or not a response is required by applicable law; (2) to enforce the SportingHelp.com Terms of Use Agreement or to protect our rights; or (3) to protect the safety of members of the public and users of the service. SportingHelp.com reserves the right to transfer personal information to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result of the sale of SportingHelp.com or substantially all of its assets to that successor in interest For more information see the &quot;Changes in Our Privacy Policy&quot; section below. </p>
<p><strong><font size="4">Changes in Our Privacy Policy</font></strong> <br />
From time to time we may make changes to our privacy policy. If we make changes, we will post them on our site to make users aware of what the changes are so users will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and when we may disclose it. A User is bound by any minor changes to the policy when she or he uses the site after those changes have been posted. If, however, we are going to use users' personally identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify by posting a notice on our Web site for 30 days. </p>
<p><strong><font size="4">Contacting the Web Site</font></strong> <br />
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, please contact us at: <a href="mailto:Questions@SportingHelp.com">Questions@SportingHelp.com</a> (1113 Cutspring Rd., Chesapeake, Va 23322) </p>
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