Privacy Statement for CompeteSoft.com Properties

Your privacy is important, so we'd like to explain what information we collect when you visit  CompeteSoft.com  or any of their properties (http://www.mycompete.com/; http://www.quickcompete.com/;  http://www.teamcompete.com/; http://www.leaguecompete.com/ ), why we collect it and how it is used. We'd also like to explain your options to access and control your information, our data security practices and other matters. This Policy is governed by and incorporated into the Terms of Use for each site.

Electronic Communications

When you visit any CompeteSoft.com site or send e-mails to us, you are communicating with us electronically. You consent to receive communications from us electronically. We will communicate with you by e-mail or by posting notices on this site. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. This Privacy Statement is incorporated into and is subject to the Terms of Use for each CompeteSoft.com site on which you establish an account.  Your use of the CompeteSoft.com  Sites and any personal information you provide on the CompeteSoft.com Sites remains subject to the terms of this Privacy Statement and our Terms of Use.

Please note that any video, image, or other content posted at the direction of Users onto any of the CompeteSoft.com sites  becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy Statement.

Your Choices

You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through the CompeteSoft.com  Sites, in which case CompeteSoft.com  may not be able to provide certain services to you. You may update or correct your personal profile information and email preferences at any time by visiting your account profile page. Please note that media files uploaded by Users to the CompeteSoft.com Sites cannot be removed and remain subject to our Terms of Use.

To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you profile access or making corrections. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times.

Special Note About Children
This Site is not intended for children, especially kids under 13. Children may use this Site only with the direct supervision of their parent.

We do not seek to collect personal information about children under 13 years of age through this web site. If we discover such information, we will delete it. Thus, we typically retain no information about children. However, if a parent requests a review of information we may have on their child and in the unlikely event we still retain such information and haven't deleted it, then we will honor that request. In order to request a review or deletion of personal information that CompeteSoft.com may have collected about your child, please This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it us.

When you communicate with CompeteSoft.com, we make every effort to ensure your privacy and safety. As an added precaution, however, we still encourage parents to monitor their child's use of the Internet, and to help us protect their privacy by reminding them never to exchange personal information with this or any other web site without the assistance or express written permission of a parent or other responsible adult.

What Information Do We Collect From You? Why?

Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with the best and most useful content and services. Because we derive revenue mainly from advertising, collecting information is essential to keeping our services affordable to users.   We collect personally identifiable information when you provide it to us, such as when you register on one of our sites, when you subscribe for a print magazine or an e-mail newsletter or when you register to use certain services. Several of the services that we offer on our sites, such as tournaments, leagues, contests, auctions and message boards, may require registration as a condition of use. Once you register with one of our CompeteSoft.com sites you are no longer anonymous to us. We may also receive information about you from other sources and add it to the information you provided to us. When you invite new members into your Group or send messages through the CompeteSoft.com Sites, we collect and maintain on secure servers the information associated with those messages, including email addresses and content. In addition, we collect certain non-personally identifiable information and certain technical information about your computer, such as such as browser type and IP address. 

We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous User usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the CompeteSoft Sites and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing User preferences and trends.

* We May Profile You Individually.
We may build a profile of your online habits, interests and activities when you use our Site. This profile is linked to your personal identity. We compile individual profiles from "real world" contact information (e.g., street address, phone/fax), email addresses, data relating to a specific purchase, information about user PCs (e.g., IP address or browser type), data showing usage of interactive features (e.g., search engine queries), demographic information (e.g., gender, marital status, age, income, job), the personal preferences of users (i.e., favorite color, music, books), user content (e.g., chat postings), and we use these profiles for the purposes described below (please scroll down to each topic for details).

* We May Collect Information Needed to Contact You Later, or to Establish your True Identity:
If we collect personal contact information (as described below), we reserve the right to use it to contact you online or  via other methods using the information provided.  Our Sites are all developed to support GAMERS and GAMING.   In the world of online gaming there is NO REGISTRY OF GAMERS where an identity can be verified.  Anonymous identities ruin the integrity of a gaming community and make it impossible to sort out the honorable from the malicious members.  And the lack of identity makes multiple accounts possible which further degrades the integrity of he community.  The ability to provide IDENTITY to the members of the community and to be able to CONTACT them as necessary drive many of the decisions to collect personally identifiable information. 

* We May Collect Your Name, Address and Phone Number.
When you use our Site, we may request your name, street address, telephone number or other "real world" contact information. This information may reveal your identity or be linked to you personally. We use this information to complete and support the immediate activity requested, administer and run the Site, customize and personalize content to your request, improve the Site for everyone, telemarket goods and services to you, market things to you in the future (other than by telemarketing), tailor an instant offer to you during your visit, build a profile of your habits, interests or activities to treat you as an individual, build individual profiles for ongoing research, analysis and reporting, comply with laws requiring preservation of social histories, and to comply with any requirements of law. This information may be aggregated with similar data in a manner that does not reveal your personal identity and may be disclosed only to our staff and to our immediate agents.

* We May Collect Your Email Address.
We may request your email address or other information needed to contact you online. This information may reveal who you are or be linked to you personally. We use it to complete and support the immediate activity requested, administer and run the Site, customize and personalize content to your request, improve the Site for everyone, telemarket goods and services to you, market things to you in the future (other than by telemarketing), tailor an instant offer to you during your visit, build a profile of your habits, interests or activities to treat you as an individual, build individual profiles for ongoing research, analysis and reporting, comply with laws requiring preservation of social histories, and to comply with any requirements of law. This information may be aggregated with similar data in a manner that does not reveal your personal identity and may be disclosed only to our staff and to our immediate agents.

* We May Collect Other Kinds of Information from You:
When you use our Site, we may collect personal information about you described below.   Each site has a profile management module allowing you to modify your profile once you create it.  However, CompeteSoft reserves the right to reject any profile changes made and cancel the account if in our sole opinion they were made in an effort to circumvent or alter the true identity of the member using the account.  You may later have us modify or remove the information, but you may not access the information yourself.

* We May Collect Purchase Information.
We may collect information resulting from a specific purchase you make, such as payment method and credit card numbers, associated with your personal identity. We use this information to complete and support the immediate activity requested, administer and run the Site, customize and personalize content to your request, improve the Site for everyone, telemarket goods and services to you, market things to you in the future (other than by telemarketing), tailor an instant offer to you during your visit, build a profile of your habits, interests or activities to treat you as an individual, build individual profiles for ongoing research, analysis and reporting, comply with laws requiring preservation of social histories, and to comply with any requirements of law. This information may be aggregated with similar data in a manner that does not reveal your personal identity and may be disclosed only to our staff and to our immediate agents.  Note that we DO NOT RETAIN any credit card data on our servers once it is passed over to the credit card approval and processing service (which is sent over an SSL Encrypted link). 

* We May Collect Information About Your Computer.
When you visit our Site, we may automatically collect information about your computer configuration, such as your browser type, operating system, IP address or ISP domain name. In some cases, this information may reveal your identity or be linked to you personally. We use this information to complete and support the immediate activity requested, administer and run the Site, customize and personalize content to your request, improve the Site for everyone, telemarket goods and services to you, market things to you in the future (other than by telemarketing), tailor an instant offer to you during your visit, build a profile of your habits, interests or activities to treat you as an individual, build individual profiles for ongoing research, analysis and reporting, comply with laws requiring preservation of social histories, and to comply with any requirements of law. This information may be aggregated with similar data in a manner that does not reveal your personal identity and may be disclosed only to our staff, immediate agents, and to our partners and affiliates.

* We May Collect Interactive Data.
You may decide to input data while using certain interactive features at our Site, such as queries submitted to a search engine, bids placed at auction, purchases initiated at the Site and so forth. This information may reveal your identity or be linked to you personally. We use this information to complete and support the immediate activity requested, administer and run the Site, customize and personalize content to your request, improve the Site for everyone, telemarket goods and services to you, market things to you in the future (other than by telemarketing), tailor an instant offer to you during your visit, build a profile of your habits, interests or activities to treat you as an individual, build individual profiles for ongoing research, analysis and reporting, comply with laws requiring preservation of social histories, and to comply with any requirements of law. This information may be aggregated with similar data in a manner that does not reveal your personal identity and may be disclosed only to our staff, immediate agents, and to our partners and affiliates.

* We May Collect Demographic Data About You.
We may collect information about your demographic or social characteristics, such as gender, age and income level. This information may reveal your identity or be linked to you personally. We use this information to complete and support the immediate activity requested, administer and run the Site, customize and personalize content to your request, improve the Site for everyone, telemarket goods and services to you, market things to you in the future (other than by telemarketing), tailor an instant offer to you during your visit, build a profile of your habits, interests or activities to treat you as an individual, build individual profiles for ongoing research, analysis and reporting, comply with laws requiring preservation of social histories, and to comply with any requirements of law. This information may be aggregated with similar data in a manner that does not reveal your personal identity and may be disclosed only to our staff, immediate agents, and to our partners and affiliates.

* We May Keep Note of Your Personal Preferences.
We may gather information concerning your personal likes and dislikes, such as your favorite color, taste in music, books or other Site content. This information may reveal your identity or be linked to you personally. We use this information to complete and support the immediate activity requested, administer and run the Site, customize and personalize content to your request, improve the Site for everyone, telemarket goods and services to you, market things to you in the future (other than by telemarketing), tailor an instant offer to you during your visit, build a profile of your habits, interests or activities to treat you as an individual, build individual profiles for ongoing research, analysis and reporting, comply with laws requiring preservation of social histories, and to comply with any requirements of law. This information may be aggregated with similar data in a manner that does not reveal your personal identity and may be disclosed only to our staff, immediate agents, and to our partners and affiliates.

* We May Collect Your Online Postings and Content.
Certain features of our Site may allow you to contribute content, such as instant messages, chat room postings, email messages and the like. By its nature, this information may reveal your identity or be linked to you personally. We use this information to complete and support the immediate activity requested, administer and run the Site, customize and personalize content to your request, improve the Site for everyone, telemarket goods and services to you, market things to you in the future (other than by telemarketing), tailor an instant offer to you during your visit, build a profile of your habits, interests or activities to treat you as an individual, build individual profiles for ongoing research, analysis and reporting, comply with laws requiring preservation of social histories, and to comply with any requirements of law. This information may be aggregated with similar data in a manner that does not reveal your personal identity and may be disclosed only to our staff, immediate agents, and to our partners and affiliates.

What Are Cookies and Why Do We Use Them?
Cookies are small files stored by your browser in your computer when you visit our Site. We use cookies to improve our Site and make it easier to use. Cookies permit us to recognize users and avoid repetitive requests for the same information. We mostly use "session cookies" that are automatically deleted after each visit. Cookies from our Site can't be read by other sites. Most browsers will accept cookies until you change browser settings to refuse them.  We use cookies and tracking technologies in a variety of ways, including:

• Keeping count of return visits to our site or our advertisers' or partners' sites
• Accumulating and reporting anonymous, aggregate (data collected in mass), statistical information on Web site and advertisement usage
• Determining which features our overall user population likes best
• Saving your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our sites
• Display the most appropriate advertising based on your interests

How Do We Protect Information We Collect?
We offer secure web pages to collect certain kinds of user information and we store certain kinds of data in encrypted form. We follow reasonable technical and management practices to help protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of data stored on our system. While no computer system is completely secure, we believe the measures implemented by our Site reduce the likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate to the type of data involved.

Security
Measures are in place within the registration system to prevent automated computer generated accounts from being created and generating bogus traffic, users, and data within the site.  CompeteSoft.com member accounts are secured by member-created passwords CompeteSoft.com takes precautions to insure that member account information is kept private. 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

CompeteSoft.com uses commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information.  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.  We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to CompeteSoft.com and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission of information, CompeteSoft.com makes commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of our systems. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.  For any additional information about the security measures we use on CompeteSoft.com sites, please contact us a This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

How Long Do We Keep User Information?
We generally keep user data on our server or in our archives for as long as we reasonably need it. We may alter this practice according to changing requirements. For example, we may delete some data if needed to free up storage space. We may keep other data for longer periods if the law requires it. In addition, information posted in a public forum could stay in the public domain indefinitely.

Data management requests are administered in an orderly manner to the extent feasible and within our direct control. Note: we have greater control over recently collected data than for archived data. Once data is removed from the system and archived, it may not be feasible to accommodate specific requests. In those cases, our general data retention policy applies

Outside Sources and Web Sites
CompeteSoft.com Sites contain hyperlinks to other sites. CompeteSoft.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites and companies.

CompeteSoft.com may have entered into partnership and affiliation agreements with other sites and companies. We may share aggregate information with our partners and affiliates as disclosed above. We may also transfer visitors to these sites to provide certain features. CompeteSoft.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these partners and affiliates sites.

Beware that some of these partners and affiliates may utilize a design that incorporates and utilizes a virtually identical copy of CompeteSoft.com's graphics and layout so it may appear that you are still on the CompeteSoft.com web site if you didn't notice the different domain name in the browser's address bar. These partners and affiliates may collect information from you. Before collecting personally identifying information from you our partners and affiliates' sites that utilize this design will disclose that you are no longer on CompeteSoft.com and that the site is not subject to CompeteSoft.com's privacy policy.

We may use outside companies to display advertisements on our site. These ads may contain cookies. Some of these ads maybe loaded off of these companies' servers. While we use cookies in other parts of our Web site, cookies received with banner ads are collected by our ad companies, and we do not have access to this information.

Certain Exceptional Disclosures
We may disclose your information if necessary to protect our legal rights or if the information relates to actual or threatened harmful conduct. Disclosure may be required by law or if we receive legal process.

Changes in Our Privacy Policy
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.

In the Event of Merger, Sale, or Bankruptcy

In the event that CompeteSoft.com or any of the sites in the network is acquired by or merged with a third party entity, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information we have collected from our Users as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control. In the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors' rights generally, we may not be able to control how your personal information is treated, transferred, or used.

Your Consent to This Policy
By using our Site, you agree to this Policy. This is our entire and exclusive Privacy Policy and it supersedes any earlier version. Our Terms of Service/Terms of Use take precedence over any conflicting Policy provision. We may change our Policy by posting a new version on our Site.

Legal Disclaimer
This Site operates AS-IS and AS-AVAILABLE, without liability of any kind. We are not responsible for events beyond our direct control. This Policy is governed by Texas law, excluding conflicts of law principles. Any legal actions against us must be commenced in Texas within one year after the claim arose, or be barred.

If You Have A Privacy Question

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If you have a privacy question about our Site, please write:
          CompeteSoft.com
          P.O. Box 132802
          The Woodlands, TX   77393-2802

We read every message submitted and try to reply promptly to every one. We may also file your comments to improve the site, or review and discard the information. 

 

Date of Last Revision:  September 15, 2006