General Privacy Statement

ShopForMyCause.com, owned and operated by League Sports Services LLC, takes privacy and data protection issues seriously. We have designed this Privacy Policy to explain how we handle personally identifiable information collected from users of the site and submit information to ShopForMyCause.com through the Internet. As the ShopForMyCause.com services evolve, we may revise this policy, so please check back frequently. If you have questions about ShopForMyCause.com’s privacy practices please contact us at privacy-policy@shopformycause.com.

ShopForMyCause.com is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Our Privacy Policy is posted below to help you understand the care with which personal information is treated whenever you use our web site.

Scope of this Privacy Policy

ShopForMyCause.com gives users the ability to contribute a portion of their online shopping transactions to participating nonprofit organizations and causes. Users of the website can shop with any of our merchant partners (“merchant” or “merchants”) by “clicking through” to their respective websites.

We take the privacy of users of this website very seriously. Because we gather certain types of information about users, we want to help you understand the terms and conditions surrounding the collection and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses the types of information we collect and how we use it.

This Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that ShopForMyCause.com does not own or control, or to people that ShopForMyCause.com does not employ or manage.

Personal Information

As part of providing you with products or services, we may obtain personally identifiable information from you. "Personally-identifiable information" is information that can be used to identify or contact you, such as your name, email address, or home address. The following represents examples of situations in which we collect personally-identifiable information from you:

• You provide us with information telephone or in writing, such as when you contact our customer service or support staff.
• You provide us with information by completing any web-based forms, applications or otherwise entering information on this website.
• We collect information about your transactions with us, our merchant partners, participating nonprofits, including information about purchases you make through the services.

Sharing Personally Identifiable Information

Gathering information about our customers is an important part of our business. We do not share your personally identifiable information with anyone, except as permitted or required by law, as otherwise specified in this privacy policy or as otherwise authorized by you, including as provided below:

• To provide our products and services, from time-to-time we may share personally identifiable information about you with our corporate affiliates, agents and service providers to perform functions on our behalf, such as to send email and postal mail, analyze data, provide marketing services, and service accounts. We contractually obligate these service providers to access and use personally identifiable information only as needed to perform their functions and for no other purposes.
• We may disclose personally identifiable information about you to third parties when we believe such disclosure is appropriate to comply with a legal requirement, such as a law, regulation, court order, subpoena or search warrant, or in the course of a legal proceeding. We may also disclose personally identifiable information as we believe appropriate to enforce or apply our rights under our agreements with customers, to protect the rights, property or safety of ShopForMyCause.com, our customers and others.

Updating/Correcting Personal Information

To change any personally identifiable information you may have provided us, or to have such information removed from our database, please contact help@shopformycause.com.

Third party links

ShopForMyCause.com makes use of merchant partner third-party links and banners. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and Web beacons at this website. A “cookie” is a small text file that contains a string of letters, numbers and characters. Internet browsers store “persistent cookies” in a folder on your computer where they remain until the cookies expire or you delete them. “Session cookies” disappear when you close your Internet browser. Web beacons, also known as “pixel tags” or “clear GIFs,” are tiny graphics on a Web page that can be used to transmit information about a website’s visitors.

This website may use both persistent and session cookies as well as Web beacons to keep track of those browsers associated with your login to this website, submitted applications, forms or click throughs to our merchant partners’ sites. We may use information we obtain through the use of cookies and Web beacons to analyze trends, to administer this website, to track users' movements around the website and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. The tracking codes contained in these cookies may be encrypted for security purposes. Some of the cookies contain the contact information that you may have submitted. All of the cookies that contain such personally-identifiable information are session cookies and expire when you close your browser. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your Web browser. Please consult the help section in your internet browser (e.g. Windows Explorer) to learn more about how to control cookies.

Testimonials

We post customer testimonials on our web site which may contain personally identifiable information such as the customer's name. We do obtain the customer's consent prior to posting the testimonial to post their name along with their testimonial.

Children's Privacy

This website is not directed at or intended to be used by people under 13 years of age. This website does not knowingly collect personally-identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If this website is made aware that it has received personally-identifiable information from someone under 13, we will use reasonable efforts to remove that information from our records.

Blogs

If you use a bulletin board, blog, or chat room on this Web site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

ShopForMyCause.com reserves the right to modify or amend this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. If there are material changes to this statement or in how ShopForMyCause.com will use personally identifiable information, ShopForMyCause.com will post a prominent notice on the ShopForMyCause.com homepage www.ShopForMyCause.com prior to implementing the change. The amended Terms shall automatically become effective immediately after they are posted. Your continued use of the site or ShopForMyCause.com services after the posting of the amended Terms on the Site constitutes your affirmative: (a) acknowledgement of the terms and its modifications; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by the terms, as amended. If you have additional questions about this Policy, please contact privacy-policy@ShopForMyCause.com.

League Sports Services LLC (dba ShopForMyCause.com)
18 Division Street, Suite 302
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

This Privacy Policy was last updated on June 2, 2009