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TheHoop-la.com, collectively referred to as the "Site" in this document, are committed to safeguarding your privacy. This privacy policy, referred to as "Policy" in this document, describes the information we may collect, how we may collect and use it, with whom we may share it, and certain other privacy issues, including the precautions we take to protect your privacy. Before submitting information to TheHoop-la.com, please read this Policy. Use of any part of TheHoop-la.com, indicates your acceptance of this Policy and agreement to the collection and use of your personal information in accordance with the Policy. Please note that this Policy applies only to personally identifiable information collected on TheHoop-la.com. It does not apply to information collected or obtained by its partners through other means. When personal information is collected, we will inform you at the point of collection the purpose for the collection. TheHoop-la.com will not transfer your personal information to third parties without your consent, except under the limited conditions described under the discussion entitled "Information Sharing and Disclosure" below. We will always give you the opportunity to "opt out" of receiving direct marketing or market research information. This means we assume you have given us your consent to collect and use your information in accordance with this Policy unless you take affirmative action to indicate that you do not consent, for instance by clicking or checking the appropriate option or box at the point of collection. In some cases, when applicable, we will provide you with the opportunity to "opt in." This means we will require your affirmative action to indicate your consent before we use your information for purposes other than the purpose for which it was submitted. TYPES OF INFORMATION THAT MAY BE COLLECTEDInformation You Provide UsPersonal information you provide us, such as a user ID, name, email address, telephone number, physical address, birth date, gender, postal code or other information may be collected via the Site with your permission. Site Usage InformationWhen you browse TheHoop-la.com, you do so in complete ananomity unless you have previously indicated that you wish TheHoop-la.com to remember your login and password. We may receive and store certain types of information whenever you visit the Site. We do log your IP address (the Internet address of your computer) which tells us which part of our website you have visit and how long you spend there. We do not link your IP address to any personal information unless you have logged in to our website. Like many other commercial websites, TheHoop-la.com website may use a standard technology called a "cookie" to collect information about how you use the site. Cookies and Tracking TechnologyA cookie is a small data file that certain Web sites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you've visited, but the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Some parts of TheHoop-la.com website use cookies to track user traffic patterns. We do this in order to determine the usefulness of our website information to our users and to see how effective our navigational structure is. If you prefer not to receive cookies while browsing our website, you can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse the cookie when your browser alerts you to its presence. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser, although you may not be able to take full advantage of TheHoop-la.com website if you do so. In particular, you may be required to accept cookies in order to complete certain actions on our website. You do not need to have cookies turned on, however, to use/navigate through many parts of our website, except access to certain of TheHoop-la.com web pages may require a login and password. HOW INFORMATION MAY BE COLLECTEDWe may collect information from you in different areas on the Site, including but not limited to those described below: RegistrationYou may be asked to complete a registration form and provide personally identifiable information, including a user ID and password, to access certain features on the Site, including, but not limited to, Newsletters, Contests, Forums, store purchases, or other subscription-based or free services. Newsletters and Site EmailsWe may offer free newsletters to share information with you about the Site, our partners, affiliates and subsidiaries, or our advertisers and sponsors. You may receive a newsletter either by registering for a newsletter or in conjunction with a special feature or membership for which you have registered on the Site. You may cancel your free email subscription by following the instructions provided on the Site or, in some instances, in the designated area of certain newsletters or emails. Contests or SweepstakesWe may operate contests and sweepstakes through the Site, which may require registration. Your personally identifiable information may be used to contact you for winner notification, prize delivery confirmation or other related purposes. We may ask your permission to allow us to post publicly some of your information on the Site, such as on a winner's page, in the event you win a contest or sweepstakes. We will not post your information without your permission. In some instances, a third party advertiser or sponsor may operate or host a contest or sweepstakes on the Site, and collect your information. In those cases, when we are not the operator or host of the contest or sweepstakes, we have no control over the information collected and accordingly urge you to review the advertiser's or sponsor's privacy policy applicable to the contest or sweepstakes before participating. Surveys or VotingWe may request personally identifiable information from you via surveys or voting polls. Participation is voluntary and you will have the opportunity to decide whether or not to disclose information. At times, you may have to register to vote or to take part in a survey. Transaction InformationTheHoop-la.com DOES NOT perform the financial e-commerce transactions made on the Site therefore does not collect any of your personal financial information. The only information we may receive via monetary transactions made from TheHoop-la.com is/are via PayPal electronic receipts which may include name, address, email addresses, purchase total. When you register for a PayPal account the personal profile you fill out with them is what will be shown on any electronic receipts made not just on TheHoop-la.com but on every e-commerce PayPal transaction you make on the Internet. HOW WE USE THE COLLECTED INFORMATIONPersonally identifiable information will not be sold or otherwise transferred on an individual basis to third parties without the approval of the user at the time of collection. As a user, you will have the opportunity to indicate whether you would like to "opt out" of receiving promotional and/or marketing information about other products, services and offerings from TheHoop-la.com. The Site reserves the right to perform statistical analyses of user behavior and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the Site and to inform advertisers of such information as well as the number of users that have been exposed to or clicked on their advertising banners. We do this to offer more targeted products and services to you and to customize and enhance your online experience on the site. We will not provide individual data but will provide only aggregated data from these analyses to third parties, unless you consent to such use. In addition, the Site reserves the right to contact a subscriber regarding account status, changes to the subscriber agreement and other matters that relate to the underlying service and/or the information collected, regardless of whether the user has opted out of promotional activities on the site. Information Sharing and Disclosure:Your personal information is never shared outside TheHoop-la.com website without your permission, except under conditions explained below. Inside TheHoop-la.com, data is stored in controlled servers with limited access. TheHoop-la.com may send your personal information to other companies or people under any of the following circumstances: when we have your consent to share the information; we need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested; we need to send the information to companies who work on behalf of TheHoop-la.com to provide a product or service to you (we will only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the service, and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose); or we want to keep you up to date on the latest information we think you'd like to hear about either from us or from our business partners (unless you have opted out of these types of communications). We will also disclose your personal information if required to do so by law, or in urgent circumstances, to protect personal safety, the public or our websites. Business Transfers:The Site may be sold along with its assets, or other transactions may occur in which your personally identifiable information is one of the business assets transferred. In such a case, your personally identifiable information, which we have gathered, may be one of the business assets transferred. Legal Process:In the event we are required to respond to subpoenas, court orders or other legal process your personally identifiable information may be disclosed pursuant to such subpoena, court order or legal process, which may be without notice to you. Message Boards:The Site and its message boards are available to its users. While you are required to register with the Site for access to these areas, you are not required to provide any personal information when using these areas but you may choose to do so. If you post personal information online, it will be publicly available and you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties. This Site cannot ensure the security of any information you choose to make public in a message board. Also, we cannot ensure that parties who have access to such publicly available information will respect your privacy. Please exercise caution when deciding to disclose personal information in these areas. TheHoop-la.com ordinarily does not review messages before they are posted to its message boards. Opinions expressed on TheHoop-la.com message board are those of the message author and not of TheHoop-la.com. Likewise, TheHoop-la.com makes no representations or warranties concerning the truth or falsity of any assertion of fact made by message authors (other than TheHoop-la.com) on TheHoop-la.com message board. THEHOOP-LA.COM SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES YOU MAY SUFFER AS A RESULT OF ANY MESSAGES POSTED BY THIRD PARTIES OR YOU TO THEHOOP-LA.COM MESSAGE BOARD. RESTRICTIONSYou
must be at least thirteen (13) years of age to post a message to any Boardhost
message board. The following content is not permitted to appear in any messages
posted on TheHoop-la.com message boards.
Links to Other Web SitesThis Policy applies only to this Site. When you are on the Site you could be directed to other sites beyond our control. For example, if you "click" on a banner advertisement, you may be taken to a different Web site. This includes links from advertisers, sponsors and others that may use the Site's logo as part of a co-branding agreement. These other Web sites may send their own cookies to you, independently collect data or solicit personal information and may or may not have their own published privacy policies. If you visit a Website that is linked to our Site, you should consult that site's privacy policy before providing any personal information. SECURITYThis Site incorporates reasonable safeguards to protect the security, integrity, completeness, accuracy and privacy of the personal information that we may collect and we have put into place reasonable precautions to protect such information from loss, misuse and alteration, such as firewalls, to ensure that your information is secure and confidential. Our security policies are reviewed periodically and revised as required. There are areas on the Site which require a password. We recommend that you do not share your password with anyone, change your passwords often, use a combination of letters and numbers, and make sure you use a secure browser. It is important to recognize that whatever you transmit or disclose online could be collected and used by others or unlawfully intercepted by third parties. No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. TheHoop-la.com does not require any financial information since PayPal handles any financial transactions on the Site. A SPECIAL NOTE FOR PARENTS CONCERNING PRIVACYThe Site is a general audience site. We do not currently collect any personal information from children under the age of thirteen. Our websites do not target and are not intended to attract children under the age of 13. TheHoop-la.com does not knowingly solicit personal information from children under the age of 13 or send them requests for personal information. The Site works with (and may provide links to) third party sites. Such third parties may permit children under the age of thirteen to register for these features on their sites in accordance with their respective privacy policies. For more information, please review the privacy policies of each respective third party site. TheHoop-la.com website contains links to other sites. TheHoop-la.com does not share your personal information with those websites and is not responsible for their privacy practices. NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES AND YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE POLICY By using this Site, you agree to the terms of this Policy. All modifications or updates will be posted on the Site. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify you by email or some other means. Your continued use of the Site constitutes your acceptance of such revised privacy policy. If you do not agree to this privacy policy, please do not use our site CORRECTION/UPDATING PERSONAL INFORMATION Your personally identifiable information (such as your address) changes, or if you no longer desire to access our Site, you may correct, update or remove the personal data you have provided to us by making changes to your profile, by using an opt out message in an email, or by emailing the Site at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it with your request. If you have any questions about this privacy policy or the privacy practices of this Site, you can contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it |
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