This Privacy Policy shall apply to all websites owned and/or operated by Macker Basketball, LLC, Gus Macker Enterprises, Inc. and/or Gus Macker Charities, Inc. (collectively referred to as “Macker”), including without limitation the website on which this Privacy Policy has been posted. It is our goal to provide you services and information that is tailored to your individual needs, and at the same time, protect your privacy. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it and applies to your use of any of the Macker websites. Macker may update this policy at any time in its sole discretion. The date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page, so check back often. Continued access of the website by you will constitute your acceptance of any changes or revisions to the Privacy Policy.
Capture and Use of Information.
If you participate in interactive activities (event registration, message boards, product purchases, membership program, etc.) on any of Macker’s websites, you may be asked to register for a free ID and password and/or to provide certain personally identifying information including, but not limited to your name, address, phone number, email address, height, birth date, gender, ZIP code, occupation, industry, and personal interests, on event-registration forms. Unique identifiers, such as IDs and passwords, are collected to verify your identity and for use as account numbers in our record system. Your contact information may also be used for a variety of purposes including contacting you when necessary for customer service reasons. Financial information that is collected is used for your purchase of products and/or services that you specifically request (e.g. clothing purchase, team registration, etc….). Registration on any single Macker website will not necessarily permit your registration and access to all Macker websites and you may be required to register more than once for access to multiple Macker websites. However, because some or all of the Macker websites are interrelated, some or all of your personal information may be transferred or shared among these sites. Macker may also combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies. Macker also collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners, including. Macker receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, Macker cookies information, and the page you request. Macker may use this information for the following general purposes: to collect information to process customer orders, to customize the advertising and content you see, to fulfill your requests for products and services, to improve our services, to contact you concerning the status of an order or to answer any questions, to contact users about upcoming Macker sales, promotions, product information, and/or Macker events, to conduct research, for website evaluation and data analysis, and to provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.
Your use of the Macker websites is conditioned on your providing the requested information in an accurate and truthful fashion. Failure to provide accurate and truthful information as requested will affect your ability to access the Macker websites. Registration information for cancelled or terminated accounts may be deleted from Macker’s databases. Although Macker uses commercially reasonable efforts to safeguard your private registration information, no data transmission made by means of the Internet is completely secure, and no system of physical or electronic security is impenetrable. Macker cannot guarantee the security of the information you send to us or the security of our servers or databases, and by using the website you agree to assume all risk in connection with the information sent to us or collected by us when you use the website. Macker accepts no liability for disclosure of registration information caused by transmission errors or the acts or omissions of third parties.
Cookies
"Cookies" are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. Generally, cookies work by assigning to your computer a unique number that has no meaning outside of our site. Our cookies do not contain any personally identifying information; we use them for a variety of purposes including to provide features such as personalization, to control the display of ads, to track usage patterns on the website, to saving your member ID and/or to keep track of your team entry cart. We may also use cookies to assist us in delivering content specific to your interests. Additionally, after you've entered your member ID and password during a session on our service, we save that information so you don't have to re-enter it repeatedly during that session. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies; however, your web browser likely includes an option that allows you to not accept them. By not accepting cookies, certain features of Macker’s websites may not function properly or may be unavailable to you.
IP Address
We may use your IP address to identify you and your team entry cart, to administer our website and to assist in diagnosing problems with our server.
Additional Uses of Information
All of the information we collect, both what you tell us and what we collect through the use of cookies, is used for a variety or reasons including to personalize your account, to customize our services and to allow our customer service representatives to contact you when necessary. Macker may also use information collected from you to tell you about products or services that may be of interest to you. Except as otherwise expressly set forth in this privacy policy, it is Macker's policy not to distribute to third parties any personally identifying information about you without your consent (usually communicated through either an “opt-out” or “opt-in” notification or mechanism). Upon obtaining your consent, Macker may provide access to or otherwise disclose your personally identifying information to third parties. While your personally identifying information is protected as outlined above, we reserve the right to use, transfer, sell, and share aggregated anonymous data about our users as a group for any business purpose, such as analyzing usage trends and seeking compatible advertisers and partners. Such information is disclosed by Macker without your consent. In other cases, Macker may, without your consent, also use contact information that you provide to send you information about our company, and/or products, services and promotional material from some of our advertisers, sponsors and/or other partners.
Third PartyTransactions
In some cases, a third party with whom we have contracted may need to coordinate, facilitate, or perform a service for us (e.g., fulfill orders or other similar activities). In these cases, Macker will provide personal information to the third party which may be used by us and by such third party(s), each pursuant to its own policies. Macker may also provide your information to our advertisers, business partners and/or sponsors, so that they can serve ads or other information to you that meet your needs or match your interests. Each such third party operates independently from, and may have privacy and security policies wholly different from, Macker. Macker bears no responsibility for the activities or policies of any third party to whom Macker may provide information.
Legal Purposes
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, Macker may provide access to our database and release your personal information to third parties in order to cooperate with official investigations or legal proceedings, including, for example, in response to subpoenas, search warrants, court orders, or other legal process. We may also release personal information in special cases, when we believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent or take action regarding any illegal or unauthorized activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person or violations of our Terms of Use. In addition, Macker reserves the right to use the information we collect about your computer, which may at times be able to identify you, for any lawful business purpose, including without limitation to help diagnose problems with our servers, to gather broad demographic information, and to otherwise administer our website(s).
General Privacy Information
Macker makes various public forums (such as message boards, chat rooms or news groups) available to its users. When you disclose personal information in such public forums, that information can be collected and used by others in various ways, including by sending unsolicited messages. You are solely responsible for any postings you make on public forums on Macker, and for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and/or any account information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you're online. Further, the Macker website(s) contains links to partners, advertisers and third party Internet sites and services that may collect data in connection with registrations, promotions, e-commerce, etc. Macker is also linked to, and in some cases framed by, certain partner websites. Each of the websites (linked from Macker, or linking to Macker) have separate privacy and data collection practices, independent of Macker, and Macker has no responsibility or liability for these independent policies or actions and is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Websites. Macker may also display targeted advertisements based on personal information. Third party advertisers (including ad-serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click targeted ads meet the targeting criteria. However, Macker does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted advertisement. However, by interacting with or viewing an advertisement you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the advertisement. Macker does business with a multitude of vendors, partners, sponsors, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business. For more information regarding providers of products or services that you've requested please contact us via the link listed in the last section of this privacy agreement.
Security
Macker has established and maintains reasonable security procedures to protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of your personally identifiable information. We use a variety of industry-standard security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information. For example, all credit card and registration information supplied by users through RegistrationMacker.com is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology through Comodo (for more information visit comodo.com). All credit card information supplied by users is encrypted by Comodo SSL certificate and transmitted to Authorize.net (for more information visit authorize.net). RegistrationMacker.com does not retain any credit card information in our data base. RegistrationMacker.com is a verified Authorize.net user. For more information please click on the authorize.net logo or visit the authorize.net website. "Perfect security," however, does not exist on the Internet. Although your privacy is very important to us, due to the existing legal regulatory and security environment, we cannot fully ensure that your private communications and other personally identifiable information will not be disclosed to third parties.
Changes To Our Policy.
Macker reserves the right to modify or supplement this privacy policy at anytime. If we make any changes, we will update the Macker Websites and this privacy policy to include such change. Please regularly review this privacy policy to keep up to date with any changes that may affect your use of the Macker Websites. Your continued use of the Macker Websites once the revised privacy policy has been posted on the Macker Websites affirms your agreement to such changes.
Kids and Parents
Macker’s Websites are intended for general use by a broad and mature audience.The website is not intended for use by children, especially those under age 13. No individual under the age of thirteen (13) is permitted to provide any personal information (except such information as described below) or use our message board, public discussion areas, forums and/or chats. Minors between the ages of 13 and 17 must get the permission of their parent(s) or legal guardian(s) before making purchases or utilizing services provided on this website. If your children disclose information about themselves in publicly accessible areas of the website, they may get unsolicited messages from other parties. Accordingly, you should tell them not to do so.
Macker does not knowingly solicit personal information from children under the age of thirteen (13) other than is necessary to determine that person’s age or other criteria, primarily for the purpose of properly placing that person’s team into a tournament that he/she is registering to play in. By registering their minor child to play in a tournament, the parent and/or legal guardian of that player understands and agrees that the minor player may receive communication from Macker and/or its advertisers or sponsors regarding the tournament that he/she is registered to play in and/or other tournaments, or special offers being offered for tournament players. If a parent or guardian does not want their minor child to be contacted in this way, they may contact Macker at the address provided below to have them removed from the mail/email list. Macker may also collect and use a child’s personal information for the sole purpose of responding to a single request or inquiry by that child. All personally identifiable information collected by us from/about children under age 13 is securely maintained and used only for the limited purposes set forth herein.
Parental Access
Macker is the operator of its websites. Please send an email or letter to Macker at the email address provided below if you would like to do any of the following:
Access personally identifiable information that has been collected from you or your child;
Correct factual errors reflected by such information;
Request to have any information collected for you or your child deleted;
Request that we no longer collect or maintain such information from you or your child.
Contact Us
If you have any questions, comment or concerns regarding our privacy policy and/or practices, please send an email to privacy@macker.com or contact us at: Macker Basketball, LLC, Attn: Website Inquiry, 812 Industrial Park Drive, Greenville, Michigan 48838. Phone: 1.616-754-0373.
For users in Canada: If you wish to make an access request for your personal information, please contact us at contact information listed above.
In addition, if at anytime, you no longer want us to send you any regular communications, which you have signed up to receive, you may “opt-out” of such future communications by changing your user registration profile on the Macker Websites. To unsubscribe from a newsletter you are already subscribed to and no longer wisth to receive, simply click the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the newsletter.
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