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Certified Athlete Privacy Policy

Certified Athlete is committed to safegaurding our users privacy. This privacy policy describes how user information is collected, used, and shared. By visiting CertifiedAhtlete.com, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.

Information Collection
Registration Information
To set up your Certified Athlete account, you will need to provide certain contact information, such as name, phone #, address, and email. This information will allow us to contact you about athletic recruiting opportunities and provide the information for recruiters and scouts to contact you about recruiting.

Physical and Sports Information
Athletes are not required to enter physical and sports information, but we strongly encourage our member athletes to do so. This data is viewed and searched by athletic recruiters to determine which athletes to recruit.

Transaction Information
Every transaction that you initiate or that is initiated for your account is recorded. You are able to view your transactions by accessing the "My Account" section in your Certified Athlete account.

Computer Information
We collect certain technical information from your computer each time you request a page during a visit to the Certified Athlete site. This information is collected from your computer's web browser, and may include your current IP address, type of operating system, and type of web browser software. See the section below on "Use of Cookies," which discusses how we obtain this information.

Collection of Information from Children
Certified Athlete does not knowingly collect, either online or offline, personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. The Certified Athlete service is designed and offered to athletes that are 14 and over.

Information Use
Legal Disclaimer
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Web site.

Certified Athlete Partner Academies
If you are registered or receive a service related to Certified Athlete from a Certified Athlete Partner Academy that academy has access to some of your personal information. By purchasing the service you are instructing Certified Athlete and the partner academy to use the required information necessary to fulfill that service. An academy will never receive credit card information from Certified Athlete.

Certified Athlete Partner Schools
If you are registered or associate yourself with a particular Certified Athlete Partner School that school has access to some of your personal information. This information is provided to the school to provide a more complete picture of your athletic ability and achievements. By associating yourself with a school you are instructing Certified Athlete to allow that school access to provide information about you. From your Certified Athlete account you have the ability to disassociate yourself from a school or delete any information that they provide. A school will never receive credit card information from Certified Athlete.

Certified Athlete Registered Recruiters
Recruiters have the ability to view and search athlete information for the purpose of determining whom to recruit. Athletes subscribing to the Certified Athlete system are representing that they want this information to be provided to the recruiters. An athlete has the capabilities from their personal account of managing what information is seen by recruiters. A recruiter will never receive credit card information from Certified Athlete.

Security
Our site has security measures in place to help protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the data under our control. When our site is accessed using Netscape Navigator, or Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 4.0 or higher, Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology protects information using both server authentication and data encryption to help ensure that data is safe, secure, and available only to you. All usernames, passwords, and credit card information are always sent using Secure Socket Layer technology. Certified Athlete also implements an advanced security method based on dynamic data and session identifications, and hosts the site in a secure server environment. Finally, Certified Athlete provides unique user names and passwords that must be entered each time a customer logs on. These safeguards help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of data.

Opt-Out Policy
Certified Athlete offers its visitors and customers a means to choose how we may use information provided. If, at any time after registering for information or ordering Services, you change your mind about receiving information from us or about sharing your information with third parties, send us a request specifying your new choice. Simply send your request to feedback@certifiedathlete.com.

What About Cookies?

  • Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that CertifiedAthlete.com transfers to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide increased security for your Certified Athlete personal accounts.
  • The "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, in order to log in to your personal Certified Athlete account you will need to have cookies enabled as using temporary cookies is part of our security system.

Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions
If you choose to visit CertifiedAthlete.com, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and our Conditions of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the law of the state of Kansas. If you have any concern about privacy at CertifiedAthlete.com, please send us a thorough description to feedback@certifiedathlete.com, and we will try to resolve it. Our business changes constantly. This Notice and the Conditions of Use will change also, If users have questions or concerns regarding this statement, they should first contact: feedback@certifiedathlete.com or Customer Feedback, Virtual Veterans, Inc. 8211 Lichtenauer Dr. Lenexa, KS 66219 and use of information that we gather now is subject to the Privacy Notice in effect at the time of use. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check our Web site frequently to see recent changes.

If users have questions or concerns regarding this statement, they should first contact:
feedback@certifiedathlete.com
or
Customer Feedback
Virtual Veterans, Inc.
8211 Lichtenauer Dr.
Lenexa, KS 66219

 
   
     


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