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This Privacy Policy covers CityAthletes' treatment of personally identifiable information that CityAthletes collects when you are on the CityAthletes site, and when you use CityAthletes' services. (If you are under 14 years of age, your parent or guardian must create a CityAthletes Family Account to which you will have access. If you are under 18 years of age, you must have the involvement of a parent or guardian before CityAthletes can accept information from you). This policy also covers CityAthletes' treatment of any personally identifiable information that CityAthletes' business partners share with CityAthletes or that CityAthletes may collect on a partner's site. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that CityAthletes does not own or control, or to people that CityAthletes does not employ or manage. CityAthletes may amend this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes in the way we use your personal information we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on our pages.

1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
By accessing and/or using the CityAthletes Web site (the Site), you are expressly agreeing to comply with the following Privacy Policy, the CityAthletes Terms of Service, and the CityAthletes Membership Agreement (if you register), in addition to all applicable laws and regulations. If the Privacy Policy or Terms of Service is not acceptable to you, it will be necessary for you to cease use of the Site. By using the Site, you consent to the collection and use of your information as we have outlined in this statement and the Terms of Service Statement. The Privacy Policy and Terms of Service may be revised at any time; your continued use of the Site constitutes your acceptance of these terms and conditions.

2. INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE
To make use of some of the features in the Community, News, Directory, and Store sections of the Site, visitors must register with the Site. CityAthletes collects personally identifiable information when you register for a CityAthletes account, when you use certain CityAthletes products or services, when you visit CityAthletes pages, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. CityAthletes may also receive personally identifiable information from our business partners. When you register with CityAthletes, we ask for your name, address, city, zip code, email address, age group, gender, and sports interests. Supplying such information is entirely voluntary. Once you register with CityAthletes and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us. If you would like to remain completely anonymous, you are still free to view all of the content available to non-members on CityAthletes.com without registering.

When you make an online purchase on the CityAthletes web site we ask you for your financial information in order to bill you for the products and services you requested. All financial information is stored securely with PayPal. CityAthletes only has access to your address information and that is only for shipping purposes. We are not responsible for the transfer and storage of the information provided to PayPal for online transactions. For more information on how your financial information is secured and accessed, see PayPal's security information.

CityAthletes also automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, CityAthletes cookie information and the page you requested. Usage tracking is performed by the web statistic service provided by our web host. CityAthletes itself does not track user traffic. CityAthletes uses the information for three general purposes: to customize the advertisements and content you see, to fulfill your requests for certain products and services, and to contact you about specials and new products.

If you supply CityAthletes with your postal address on-line you may receive periodic mailings from us with information on new products and services or upcoming events. If you do not wish to receive such mailings, please let us know by emailing us at info@cityathletes.com.Please provide us with your exact name and address.

3. INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE
CityAthletes will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone. CityAthletes will not permit an outside party to use personal information obtained from the profiles of members for any business purposes or inappropriate conduct. If you receive any such contact, please notify us at info@cityathletes.com.

CityAthletes may send personally identifiable information about you to other companies or people 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 CityAthletes to provide a product or service to you. Unless we tell you differently, these companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide to them beyond what is necessary to assist us.; We respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process; We find that your actions on our web sites violate the CityAthletes Terms of Service, or any of our usage guidelines for specific products or services.

4. GENERAL PRIVACY INFORMATION
CityAthletes makes various public forums (such as discussions, classified ads, articles, and listings for clubs, leagues, and facilities) available to its users. The postings you add to these public forum are solely your responsibility. If you disclose personal information, that information can be collected and used by others in various ways, such as to send you unsolicited email. You are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and/or any account information. CityAthletes also contains links to partners, advertisers, sponsorers and third party Internet sites and services that may collect data in connection with registrations, promotions, e-commerce, etc. Each of the web sites have their own separate privacy and data collection practices, independent of CityAthletes. CityAthletes is not responsible or liable for the independent policies, actions, privacy practices or content of such web sites.

5. USE OF CITYATHLETES ACCOUNT
CityAthletes gives you the ability to edit your CityAthletes account information and preferences at any time. You are given the opportunity to opt-out of (i) receiving communications from CityAthletes about site news, membership cards, specials and new products; (ii) including your name in our Members Listing. Users can chose to opt-out during the registration process. In addition, users can also review, update, or delete their information at any time by visiting the 'Edit My Profile' page within the Member Links section of the Site. You may request deletion of your CityAthletes account by contacting us at info@cityathletes.com. Please ask us to find out what information may possibly remain in our archived records after your account has been deleted.

6. USE OF COOKIES
CityAthletes may set and access CityAthletes cookies on your computer. Cookies are used to save your session information when you log in to CityAthletes.com so that you can access our discussion board using the same login. CityAthletes may also choose to use cookies to store user preferences. Cookies may also be implemented to track general user trends and patterns to better understand our users and to improve the quality of our services. Advertisers, sponsors or other companies do not have access to CityAthletes' cookies. Furthermore, CityAthletes will not allow other companies that are presenting advertisements or sponsorships to set and access their cookies on your computer.

7. USE OF AD SERVERS
We do not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies.

8. INTERNET SECURITY
Your CityAthletes account information is password-protected for your privacy and security and all account information gathered on CityAthletes is stored within our web host's database. We always use industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving consumer data exchanged with our site. The financial information that you provide to CityAthletes when making online purchases is encrypted and transferred via the SSL (Secure Socket Layer) protocol for transferring data, providing a very high level of security. We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site.

However, as effective as encryption technology is, there are still inherent risks associated with using the Internet. No security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of the database provided by our web host, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. Also, we cannot guarantee the security of PayPal’s transferring and storage system.

9. QUESTIONS OR SUGGESTIONS
If you have questions or suggestions, please email us at info@cityathletes.com.

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