Internet Privacy Statement and Personal Information Policy

Introduction

Bowlerexpress.com is committed to providing excellent service to all of our customers, including respecting their concerns about privacy. We understand that visitors to this website may have questions about whether and how this website collects and uses information. We have prepared this statement ("Statement") to inform you of the privacy principles that govern this website.

This Statement contains numerous general and technical details about the steps we take to respect your privacy concerns. Safeguarding the privacy of the personal information you provide when interacting with bowlerexpress.com is of the utmost importance.  We have organized this statement into different areas so that you can quickly link to the information of most interest to you.

If after reviewing our policies, should you have any questions or concerns, please contact us .

Browsing 

Bowlerexpress.com does not collect personally identifiable information from your computer when you browse the website and request pages from our servers. This means that, unless you willingly and knowingly provide us with personally identifiable information, we will not know your name, your email address, or any other personally identifiable information.  When you request a page from our website, our servers may log the information provided in the HTTP request header including the IP number, the time of the request, the URL of your request, and other information that is provided in the header.  We collect the header information in order to make bowlerexpress.com function correctly and provide you the functionality that you see.  We also use this information to better understand how visitors use bowlerexpress.com and how we can better tune it, its contents and features to meet your needs.

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Information We Collect and how bowlerexpress.com uses this information 

When we need to collect personally identifiable information from you to update your membership profile, execute a requested transaction, or provide you with a particular service, we will ask you to voluntarily supply us with the information we need. We use the personal and preference information you provide to enhance your experience at bowlerexpress.com - to provide you with benefits, services, information and communications that we think you will find of value. Occasionally, we may use third parties to provide or confirm for us contact information about you given the information you provided to us directly.  We may then use this information for market analysis and marketing purposes.

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Your bowlerexpress.com Account Profile

All members of bowlerexpress.com will create a personal account profile online within our password protected system.  Creating an account profile makes it more convenient for by eliminating the need to repeatedly enter personal contact or preference information.  The security of this information is addressed in security section below. At any time, you can access, review, or update, most of the information in your account profile information online. 

We treat the information you provide to us as confidential information; it is, accordingly, subject to our company's security procedures and corporate policies regarding protection and use of confidential information. Because laws applicable to personal information vary by country, additional measures that vary depending on the applicable legal requirements may be put in place. Information is generally processed and stored in the United States.

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Securing the Transmission and Storage of Information 

We treat the information you provide to us as confidential information; it is, accordingly, subject to our company's security procedures and policies regarding protection and use of confidential information. When we ask you for credit card data, it is transferred over a Secured Sockets Layer (SSL) line, provided you are using a SSL enabled browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. We also use SSL on other select pages where you would enter personally identifiable information. This ensures that your information is encrypted as it travels over the Internet. This secure mode is enabled before any such information is transmitted from your computer. You will know you are in secure mode when the padlock or key icon in the lower right-hand or left-hand corner of the computer screen appears in the locked position.  In addition, when accessing a secure server, the first characters of the site address may change from "http" to "https."

After information reaches bowlerexpress.com, it is stored on a secure server that resides behind firewalls designed to block unauthorized access from outside of bowlerexpress.com  Information collected on this site and covered by this privacy statement is generally processed and stored in the United States.

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Disclosure of Information to Third Parties

Bowlerexpress.com may partner with qualified companies to secure special bowlerexpress.com members only discounts or promotions for products or services. In such arrangements, the company is provided the opportunity to extend the discount or promotion to you.  However, the company is NOT given your personal information, except as necessary to complete any transaction in which you may participate.  In addition, when you provide contact details for transaction requests, we or the company may use the contact information to keep you updated about the transaction, and about future offers or promotions unless you otherwise notify us.

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Children’s Privacy

This site is not intended for children and we do not knowingly solicit or collect personal information from children.

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Cookies

This website may use "cookie" technology. "Cookies" are encrypted strings of text that a Web site stores on a user's computer. This website requires the use of a cookie to keep information you enter on multiple pages together. This cookie is an bowlerexpress.com cookie and it is a "session" cookie that expires when you close your browser. We may also use "persistent" cookies to speed up the login process, measure usage of various pages on our website, or to help us make our information more pertinent to your needs and easy for you to access. These persistent cookies will remain on your computer unless deleted by you. We do not use cookies to ascertain any personally identifiable information about you apart from what you voluntarily provide us. You may set your browser to block cookies (consult the instructions for your particular browser on how to do this), although doing so may adversely affect your ability to perform certain transactions, use certain functionality, and access certain content on our website.

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Contests and Sweepstakes

On occasion, we may conduct contests and sweepstakes that entitle the winners to prizes. Each contest or sweepstakes has it own terms and conditions. As part of entering a contest or sweepstakes certain personally identifiable information such as name and email address will generally be required. We may use this information to send future communications about specials and offers.

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Other Sites

This website may contain links to select third party sites that may be of interest to you (e.g., bowling or sports equipment, airlines, hotels, casinos, car rental companies). Bowlerexpress.com is only responsible for the privacy statement and content of this website.  We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the use of cookies on websites that you have accessed from this website.

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Website Survey

Bowlerexpress.com values your input. If you choose, we welcome your participation in an online survey regarding the usefulness of this website. The information you provide will be used only by bowlerexpress.com for research and analysis and is not personally identifiable to you.

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Legal Issues 

This is a United States website and is subject to United States law. Bowlerexpress.com may disclose personal information without your permission when required to do so by law, or in good faith belief that such action is necessary to investigate or protect against harmful activities to other website members, visitors, associates, or property (including this site), or to others.  Other laws related to personal identifiable information vary by country.

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Bowlerexpress.com Internet Privacy Statement Changes

Your use of bowlerexpress.com constitutes your agreement to the terms of this Internet Privacy Statement and Personal Information Policy.  In the future, we may need to change these terms.  All changes will be made here so that you will always know what information we gather, and how we might use or disclose that information. Your continued use of bowlerexpress.com constitutes your agreement to any such changes.  This statement was last updated on June 5, 2006

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