THE PRIVACY POLICY
At Cali High Sports (“CHS”, “we”, “us”, “our”) we value your support and respect your privacy rights. As a demonstration of our commitment to protecting your rights, we created this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain how we treat the information collected and received from your use of our website, http://www.calihighsports.com (“Website”). This Privacy Policy is provided to help you make an informed decision whether to continue to visit and use the Website, and to demonstrate our commitment to fair information practices and the protection of privacy. This Privacy Policy applies only to the Website, and we are not responsible for the practices of persons, companies, or websites that CHS does not control, manage, or employ. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to our Terms of Use Agreement (“Terms of Use”). Both this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use govern your interaction with the Website, and your registration to and use of the Website.
About the Service
CHS is a web-based interactive multimedia communications service that allows members to create athlete profiles which can be shared with coaches, recruiters and fans in order to showcase their talents and abilities. To accomplish this, each CHS member creates his or her own profile ("Profile"), which contains Personally Identifiable Information (defined below) that the member chooses to include. Such Personally Identifiable Information may include, among other things, the member's name, age, height, weight, high school, sports, and other similar information; it may also include shared content uploaded by the member to CHS, such as photographs, video and audio files, which may contain the member's Personally Identifiable Information and likeness (collectively, the "Profile Information").
Notice Concerning Children
PLEASE NOTE: This Website and any information, products, or services provided therein are limited to audiences thirteen (13) years of age or older. The Website does not direct any content specifically at children. If we learn or have reason to suspect that a user is underage, we will promptly delete any Personally Identifiable Information in that user’s account.
What Information This Privacy Policy Covers
Most of our Website’s functionality can be used without revealing any personal information, though for some specific features or services personal information may be required. If you do not use these specific features or services on the Website, then the only information we collect will be “Non-Personal Information” (i.e., information that cannot be used to identify you). Non-Personal Information includes information such as the web pages that you have viewed. In order to create a Profile or access certain features and benefits on our Website, you may need to submit “Personally Identifiable Information” (i.e., information that can be used to identify you). Personally Identifiable Information can include information such as your name, home address, high school, telephone number and email address. You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the Personally Identifiable Information you submit to CHS. Inaccurate information may affect your ability to use the Website, the information you receive when using the Website, and our ability to contact you. For example, your email address should be kept current because that is one of the primary manners in which we communicate with you.
What You Consent to by Using Our Website
Please understand that by submitting any Personally Identifiable Information to us, you consent and agree that we may collect, use and disclose such Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, and as permitted or required by law. If you do not agree with these terms, then please do not provide any Personally Identifiable Information to us. If you refuse or withdraw your consent, or if you choose not to provide us with any required Personally Identifiable Information, we may not be able to provide you with the products or services that can be offered on our Website.
What Information We Collect
We gather two types of information about users through the Website:
1. Non-Personal Information. When users come to our Website, we may track, collect and aggregate Non-Personal Information indicating, among other things, which pages of our Website were visited, the order in which they were visited, and which hyperlinks were “clicked,” etc. Collecting such information may involve logging the IP address, operating system and browser software used by each user of the Website. Although such information is not Personally Identifiable Information, we may be able to determine from an IP address a user’s Internet Service Provider and the geographic location of his or her point of connectivity.
We also use or may use Cookies to help us determine, without limitation, the type of content and sites to which a user of our Website links, the length of time each user spends at any particular area of our Website, and the specific functionalities that users choose to use. Essentially, Cookies are a user’s identification card for the CHS servers. Cookies allow CHS to serve you better and more efficiently, and to personalize your experience at our Website. Cookies are not used to retain Personally Identifiable Information.
You should be able to control how and whether Cookies will be accepted by your web browser. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject Cookies in the "Help" section of the toolbar. If you reject our Cookies, certain of the functions and conveniences of this Website may not work properly, but you do not have to accept our Cookies in order to productively use many functionalities of the Website.
2. Personally Identifiable Information. We collect Personally Identifiable Information that you provide to us when using the Website, such as when you register with the Website, participate in our public forums, send us email messages, participate in contests/sweepstakes and make purchases on our Website. Among other things, we may collect and use the Personally Identifiable Information that you provide to respond to your questions, provide you the specific services you select, send you the products that you order, send you updates about CHS, send you email messages about Website maintenance and updates and inform you of significant changes to this Privacy Policy.
a. Updates. CHS may offer you the ability to receive email updates either via email or another subscription service such as Facebook or Twitter. In order to subscribe to these services, you may be required to provide us with Personally Identifiable Information such as your name, email address and zip code.
b. Registration/Creating a Profile. CHS offers you the ability to register with the Website and create an online Profile. In order to register, you are required to provide us with Personally Identifiable Information such as your name, email address and high school. You may also elect to provide us with other Personally Identifiable Information such as the sports in which you participate, your birth date, birth city, height, weight, GPA, and general description of yourself and other Profile Information. In the event that you elect to register with the Website, please refer to the “Safety Tips” Section below.
c. Forums. CHS offers the ability to comment on Profiles and may offer other public forums from time to time (the “Forums”) where you can share comments and thoughts. In order to participate in the Forums, you may be required to register with us and/or provide us with Personally Identifiable Information such as your name and email address. Personally Identifiable Information shall not include any information posted or sent by or to you via any public Forum or the Website.
d. Purchases. When purchasing products through our Website, you are required to provide us with Personally Identifiable Information, such as your name, address, billing information (i.e., credit card information and billing address) (“Billing Information”), shipping address, email address and birth date.
e. Participation in Contests, Sweepstakes, and Other Promotions. From time to time, CHS may offer you the opportunity to participate in a contest, sweepstakes, or other promotions on or through the Website. If you desire to participate in any such contest, sweepstakes, or other promotion, you will be asked to provide us with certain information necessary to conduct such contest, sweepstakes, or other promotion. This information may include, among other things, your name, age, mailing address, email address, and phone number.
f. Communications with CHS. We may receive Personally Identifiable Information when you send us an email message or otherwise contact us.
How We Use the Information
Please take some time to familiarize yourself with the different ways CHS uses the information that we gather.
1. Non-Personal Information. We use Non-Personal Information in aggregate form to build higher quality, more useful services by performing statistical analyses of the collective characteristics and behavior of our users, and by measuring demographics and interests regarding specific areas of our Website.
2. Personally Identifiable Information. This Privacy Policy serves as notice that we collect Personally Identifiable Information in the manners described herein. Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy or as specifically agreed to by you, CHS will not disclose any Personally Identifiable Information we gather from you on the Website. In addition to the other uses set forth in this Privacy Policy, we may disclose and otherwise use Personally Identifiable Information as described below.
a. Updates. We use Personally Identifiable Information collected when you sign-up for our various email or update services to send you the messages that you request us to send. We may also archive this information and/or use it for future communications with you.
b. Registration/Creating a Profile. We may use Personally Identifiable Information collected when you register with the Website to create your online Profile. We may make publicly available certain Personally Identifiable Information, such as your name, in connection with your Profile. You may elect to make publicly available other Personally Identifiable Information, such as your high school, in connection with your Profile on the Website. In the event that you elect to do so, please refer to the “Safety Tips” Section below. We may also archive this information and/or use it for future communications with you. Any Personally Identifiable Information (including video content) that you disclose on the Website (for example, on your Profile Information) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others. Any videos or other content that you submit to the Website (including any Personally Identifiable Information contained therein) may be distributed through the internet and other media. Please understand that any information that is disclosed in your Profile or in Forums on our Website becomes public information. We have no control over the use of such information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your Personal Information on these areas of the Website.
c. Forums. We use Personally Identifiable Information collected during your use of the Forums to facilitate your use of the Forums. In addition we may publish this information either on the Website and/or in other publications. We may also archive this information and/or use it for future communications with you and/or your designee(s).
d. Purchases. We use Personally Identifiable Information collected during the purchasing process to fulfill the order. Billing Information may be archived by us or our providers. We may archive Personally Identifiable Information other than Billing Information and/or use it for future communications with you.
e. Communications with CHS. When you send us an email message or otherwise contact us, we may use the information provided by you to respond to your communication and/or as described in this Privacy Policy. We may also archive this information and/or use it for future communications with you.
f. Participation in Contests, Sweepstakes and Other Promotions. We use the Personally Identifiable Information that we collect from you when you participate in a contest, sweepstakes, or other promotion through the Website for processing purposes. Also, we may archive this information and/or use it for future communications with you.
g. Disclosure to CHS Operations and Maintenance Contractors. Our operations and maintenance contractors sometimes have limited access to your Personally Identifiable Information in the course of providing products or services to us. These contractors may include vendors and suppliers that provide us with technology, services, and/or content related to the operation and maintenance of the Website. Access to your Personally Identifiable Information by these contractors is limited to the information reasonably necessary for the contractor to perform its limited function for us.
h. Government Authorities, Legal Rights and Actions. CHS may share your Personally Identifiable Information with various government authorities in response to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process; to establish or exercise our legal rights or to protect our property; to defend against legal claims; or as otherwise required by law. In such cases we reserve the right to raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us. We also may share your Personally Identifiable Information when we believe it is appropriate to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal or suspected illegal activities; to protect and defend the rights, property, or safety of CHS, the Website, our users, customers, or others; and in connection with our Terms of Use and other agreements.
External Links
For your convenience we may provide links to websites operated by companies other than CHS (“Third Party Sites”) that we believe may be of interest to you. We do not disclose your Personally Identifiable Information to these Third Party Sites without obtaining your consent. We do not endorse and are not responsible for the privacy practices of these Third Party Sites. If you choose to link to one of these Third Party Sites, you should review the privacy policy posted on the other website to understand how that Third Party Site collects and uses your Personally Identifiable Information. Further, it is up to you to take precautions to ensure that whatever links you select are free of such items as viruses, worms, Trojan horses, date or time bombs and other items of a destructive nature
Confidentiality & Security of Personally Identifiable Information
We consider the confidentiality and security of your information to be of the utmost importance. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to keep your Personally Identifiable Information private and will not share it with third parties, except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy, or unless we have good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary in special cases, such as a physical threat to you or others. CHS takes reasonable measures to protect your Personally Identifiable Information from disclosure to or access by third parties. Please note that we do not guarantee the security of Personally Identifiable Information, and there is some risk that an unauthorized third party may find a way to circumvent our security systems or that transmissions of your information over the internet will be intercepted.
Updating or Deleting Your Personally Identifiable Information
We maintain a procedure in order to help you confirm that your Personally Identifiable Information remains correct and up-to-date or choose whether or not you wish to receive material from us or some of our partners.
You may change, update, delete, or otherwise modify your Profile Information at any time using the functionalities of the Website. [NOTE to CHS: We advise that if this capability is not currently in place, it should be added to the Website]. You may also email us at [info@calihighsports.com] in order to delete or update your Personally Identifiable Information on our systems and/or remove Personally Identifiable Information from your Profile. We try to answer every email promptly, but may not always be able to do so. Keep in mind, however, that there will be residual information that will remain within our databases, access logs and other records, which may or may not contain your Personally Identifiable Information.
If you have any privacy-related questions or unresolved problems, you may contact CHS using the information provided below.
Changing Our Privacy Policy
Please note that we review our privacy practices from time to time, and that these practices are subject to change. Any change, update, or modification will be effective immediately upon posting on our Website. We will notify you of any material change to this Privacy Policy by posting a notice on our Website’s homepage for a reasonable period of time following such update, and by changing the effective date (located at the bottom of this page). Be sure to return to this page periodically to ensure familiarity with the most current version of this Privacy Policy.
International Users
Our Website is hosted in the United States and is intended for and directed to users in the United States. If you access the Website from any region or country with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure, that differ from United States laws, please be advised that through your continued use of the Website, which is governed by U.S. law, this Privacy Policy, and our Terms of Use, you are transferring your personal information to the United States and you consent to that transfer.
CHS makes no representation that the Website operates (or is legally permitted to operate) in all geographic areas, or that the Information, Website, or Services are appropriate or available for use in other locations. Accessing the Website from territories where the Website, or any content or functionality of the Website or portion thereof, is illegal is expressly prohibited. If you choose to access the Website, you agree and acknowledge that you do so on your own initiative and at your own risk and that you are solely responsible for compliance with all applicable laws.
Protecting Children’s Privacy
CHS strongly believes in protecting the privacy of children. In line with this belief, we do not knowingly collect or maintain Personally Identifiable Information on our Website from persons under 13 years of age, and no part of our Website is directed to persons under 13 years of age. If you are under 13 years of age, then please do not use or access this Website at any time or in any manner. We will take appropriate steps to delete any Personally Identifiable Information of persons less than 13 years of age that has been collected on our Website without verified parental consent upon learning of the existence of such Personally Identifiable Information.
California Privacy Rights
Under California Law, California residents can request in writing from businesses with whom they have an established business relationship: (a) a list of the categories of Personally Identifiable Information and the type of services provided to the customer, that a business has disclosed to third parties (including affiliates that are separate legal entities) during the immediately preceding calendar year for the third parties' direct marketing purposes and (b) the names and addresses of all such third parties. To make such a request from CHS, if entitled, please use the contact information listed below. We will respond to such properly addressed written requests. Please note that we are only required to respond to each customer once per calendar year.
Safety Tips
CHS is committed to protecting the privacy and safety of our users, especially those who are minors. Accordingly, we remind you that the Website and your Profile are publicly available to anyone using the internet. We recommend that you use caution in electing what Personally Identifiable Information to make publicly available on your Profile or the Website, if any. We also recommend against meeting in person with someone you “meet” through your use of the Website without parental or other adult consent and supervision. In the event that you feel threatened, harassed, or otherwise unsafe as a result of your Profile or the use of the Website, report it to your parents, your school, the authorities, or CHS at [info@calihighsports.com].
Contacting CHS
If you have any questions, comments or complaints about this Privacy Policy or our Website, please contact us:
