Privacy Statement for the Section 101™ Mountain Jam Web Site
Section 101™ and the Mountain Jam understand your concerns with privacy and use of personal information. We have created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. We believe in the importance of keeping your information confidential and secure whether you submit your own pages or browse through the Section 101™ Mountain Jam website.
This privacy and security policy discloses Section 101™ and Mountain Jam’s practices for www.MountainJam.com. If you have questions or concerns regarding this policy, contact our Consumer Privacy Advocate by emailing privacy@S101.com; using the subject line of “Privacy.”
1. Information Section 101™ and the Mountain Jam Collects and How It’s Used
In order to best serve you, personal information collected in Section 101™ and the Mountain Jam is used to; improve the user experience, allow the user to customize content or layout; provide services; notify users of product updates; contact users for marketing purposed and improve the quality and features that we provide
Section 101™ and the Mountain Jam not only collect information submitted by users who subscribe to our services. We also collect information when a web page is visited and other information that is provided by users or visitors to Section 101™ and the Mountain Jam, or in response to email communications from us.
All information provided by Section 101™ and the Mountain Jam users in any of the above-listed ways or otherwise becomes the property of Section 101™ and the Mountain Jam once entered and may be used and disclosed as permitted in this Policy.
2. Browsing on our Website
If you visit Section 101™ and the Mountain Jam without entering any personal data, we still gather and store certain information about your visit. This information does not identify you personally, but can be linked back to you at some point for identity, if necessary.
As a visitor, some of the types of information we collect include IP address, type of browser and operating system used to access Section 101™ and the Mountain Jam, date and time you access Section 101™ and the Mountain Jam, the pages you visit (based on click-through tracking) and, if you linked to Section 101™ and the Mountain Jam from another website, the address of that website, as well as additional information related to your visit.
Your Pages
Section 101™ and the Mountain Jam pages are published through the browser and publicly to the World Wide Web. As long as a page is tagged “public” everyone who visits Section 101™ and the Mountain Jam will have access to that information. Information disclosed on those pages is available to all Section 101™ and the Mountain Jam registered members and non-registered visitors and may increase the risk of receiving "spam" or unsolicited email from other parties. Use discretion when disclosing personal information online.
If you prefer that non-members not have access to your information, then use the Security Tab under the Update your profile box where you can choose to block them. Should you not want your personal information used by Section 101™ and the Mountain Jam for any reason, please specify that in the email settings of your personal profile.
Other Uses
We may share your personal information with our affiliated partners to identify products or services in which you may have interest, improve the user experience, engage in market research and for other internal business purposes. We may also aggregate your personal information with others' and prepare reports on Website usage, purchase history or other factors for sale or distribution to others. Those reports are aggregated and may not include personally identifying information. Finally, from time to time, we may use your personal information to send you email or postal communications regarding products or services offered by us or by third parties in which we think you may be interested.
Third Parties That May Receive Your Personal Information
In addition to our own internal uses of your personal information, we may provide your personal information to non-affiliated third parties under one of several circumstances:
* To provide you with services or products that you have requested;
* To our advertising partners solely to assess the effectiveness of ad campaigns we have provided for them;
* To contractors or service providers who may provide services or perform functions on our behalf, in which case those service providers may use your information only for the purposes provided and not disclose it to any third party except upon our direction;
- Section 101™ and the Mountain Jam run contests on our site in which we ask visitors for contact information and demographic information. The customer's contact information is also used to contact the visitor when necessary and may be shared with other select companies who want to contact the user. We may share your contact and demographic information with the contest prize providers.)
- Section 101™ and the Mountain Jam may provide online ticketing to venues and artists in which we ask customers for contact information. Section 101™ and the Mountain Jam run may provide your e-mail address to the venues, artists and/or promoters of the events for which you purchase tickets. By purchasing tickets, you acknowledge that Section 101™ and the Mountain Jam run have no control over and are not responsible for the privacy policies of those venues, artists or promoters or their subsequent use of your e-mail address.
* To enforce our rights or as required by law or order of a court or government agency; and
* On occasion, unless you opt-out (as described below), to other third parties who may wish to send you email or postal mail regarding services or products that you may find of interest or for other reasons that are disclosed to us and that we believe to be appropriate and consistent with our commitment to prevent abuse of your personal information.
3. Your Right to Opt-out of Communications From Us and Others
You always have the option of removing yourself from receiving marketing emails from us. If at any time you choose to opt-out of any category of email from us, you can click on the remove link at the bottom of the email or respond to that email with the word “REMOVE” in the subject line and we will remove you from all further email marketing communication within ten (10) business days.
In addition, we provide you the opportunity to indicate your preferences as to what types of offerings of products or services you wish to receive from third parties or – subject to the exceptions below - to opt-out of disclosures to those third parties altogether. Those third parties who receive your personal information prior to your opt-out will remain able to send you such information.
4. Security
Section 101™ and the Mountain Jam understands the importance of security for our users. We maintain commercially reasonable precautions to protect information that we store or retain.
This site may contain links to other sites. Section 101™ and the Mountain Jam are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
5. Children's Guidelines
Children are not eligible to use our service and we ask that children under the age of 13 do not submit any information. Section 101™ and the Mountain Jam strongly encourages parents and guardians to supervise their children's online activities and to consider using parental control tools available from online services and software manufacturers to help provide a child-friendly online environment. These tools also can prevent children from disclosing online their name, address, and other personally identifiable information without parental permission. Although the Section 101™ and the Mountain Jam site is not directed to children under the age of 13, we do:
- NOT knowingly collect online contact information from children under the age of 13 without prior parental consent or parental notification, which will include an opportunity for the parent to prevent use of the information and participation in the activity. Without prior parental consent, online information will only be used to respond directly to the child's request and will not be used for other purposes without prior parental consent.
- NOT knowingly collect personally identifiable offline contact information from children under the age of 13 without prior parental consent.
- NOT knowingly distribute to third parties any personally identifiable information with respect to children under the age of 13 without prior parental consent.
- NOT knowingly give the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information with respect to children under the age of 13 without prior parental consent.
- NOT knowingly entice children under the age of 13 by the prospect of a special game, prize or other activity, to divulge more information than is needed to participate in the activity.
6. Corrections or Changes to Your Personal Information
You may also make corrections and updates to your personal information by accessing your profile settings in the Update Your Profile dialog box of our Website.
7. Cookies and Web Beacons
Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that are transferred to your computer's hard drive through your website browser. When this information is stored on your hard drive, Section 101™ and the Mountain Jam recognizes your browser and in turn customizes web page content for you.
Cookies cannot be used to retrieve data from your hard drive, obtain your email address or obtain personal information about you. When a cookie is set, your browser checks it for length, an expiration date and where it originated. Only Section 101™ and the Mountain Jam can access the cookies that we set.
We may use a third party tracking service that sets cookies on user’s computers to track visits, page views and click stream behavior. The third party tracking service reports this data to us in aggregate so we can better understand our users and to improve our Website. This information is not tied to any individual user.
We may also use a third party tracking service that sets cookies on user’s computers to keep track of your shopping cart in the stores, keep track of your membership status on the Web site, save your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our site.
If you prefer this activity does not take place, you can disable your cookies in the settings for your browser. Most browsers explain how to disable cookies under the help portion of the toolbar or notify you when you receive a new cookie. However, if you choose to disable cookies on your hard drive, Section 101™ and the Mountain Jam will not be able to provide personalization services.
Section 101™ and the Mountain Jam may use third party network advertising providers to serve advertisements. Network advertising providers are third parties that display advertisements based on your visits to this website and other information collected about other types of websites you visit. Although the advertising providers do not have access to cookies we set, they may set and access their own cookies on your computer if you choose to have your cookies enabled in your browser. Cookies let ad providers offer you advertisements or content in which you might be interested. Other companies’ use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Please click [www.networkadvertising.org] in order to learn more about the information collection practices and "opt-out" procedures of some of the third party ad providers we may use.
These advertising, or other service providers, may place “web beacons” on the website. Web beacons are small, transparent images placed at various sections of Section 101™ and the Mountain Jam to monitor user traffic. Web beacon records the number of click-throughs to the page where it resides and collects users' IP addresses, time the page was viewed, type of browser used, and existence of cookies from a previous visit. Among other things, they help better to target advertisements on the website. Information collected by a web beacon is used only by Section 101™ and the Mountain Jam its affiliates and authorized vendors.
8 Business Transfers
As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy websites, subsidiaries or business units. In such transactions, personal information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing privacy policy. Also, in the event that Section 101™ and the Mountain Jam or substantially all of its assets are acquired, personal information will be one of the transferred assets. We will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the acquirer of our users’ personal information respects the provisions of this Privacy Policy, although this may not be possible in certain legal settings.
9. Changes or Revisions to This Policy
If we are going to use your personal information in a manner different from that stated in our privacy policy at the time of collection, we will notify you via email. You will have a choice as to whether or not to let us use your information in this different manner. In addition, if we make any material changes in our privacy practices that do not affect user information already stored in our database, we will revise this Policy and update the date displayed at the top of this Policy to reflect that the policy has been changed. In some cases we will also email users who have opted to receive communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices.
10. Questions or Concerns?
If you have any questions or concerns regarding privacy, security, opting-out of email offers or understanding how your personal information is being used, please contact our Privacy Advocate at privacy@Section101.com. NOTHING IN THIS PRIVACY AND SECURITY POLICY IS INTENDED TO CREATE OR PROVIDE ANY RIGHT OF ACTION FOR VIOLATION. For any other issues, please contact our customer service department at customerservice@Section101.com.
