Last Updated on January 1, 2007

Softball 24/7 is an online social networking community that connects people through networks of friends for communicating, sharing and making new friends. To accomplish this, each Softball 24/7 Member creates his or her own profile, which contains the personal information that the Member chooses to include. This personal information includes such things as:

Softball 24/7 also collects Member-submitted account information such as name and email address, to identify Members and send notifications related to the use of the Softball 24/7 service.

You should also be aware that Members may reveal other personal information while communicating on other areas of the Softball 24/7 website, such as while participating in discussions on Softball 24/7 Groups and/or posting information on Softball 24/7 Blogs. This information, in turn, might be viewed by other Members or visitors to the Softball 24/7 website who are not Members.

Finally, we also collect some information from Members, as well as from other visitors to the Softball 24/7 website, that is not personally identifiable, such as browser type and IP address. This information is gathered from all Members and visitors to the website.

The personal information of a Member contained in his or her profile will be shown to those people whom the Member chooses. Each Member has three options when choosing the level of sharing of his or her profile. They are:

Except where a Member might choose to include a full name in his or her profile, a Member's email address and full name will only be used in the following circumstances:

• When the Member invites a friend via email to become a Softball 24/7 Member,
• When the Member sends a request to another Member to add the other Member to his or her friend list,
• When we send notifications to the Member relating to his or her use of the Softball 24/7 service or Softball 24/7 website, and
• If the Member so chooses, when we send regular notifications, weekly updates, or other news regarding the Softball 24/7 service or the Softball 24/7 website.

Except when inviting or adding friends, a Member's email address will never be shared with or displayed to any other person. Members and their friends, and other Members within their personal networks (depending on the level of sharing a Member has chosen) communicate on Softball 24/7 with each other through the Softball 24/7 service, without disclosing email addresses.

We use information relating to the server information, IP address, and browser-type.

Except as explained above, or where you are expressly informed otherwise, we do not sell, rent, share, trade or give away any of your personal information, unless required by law or for the protection of your Membership. However, Softball 24/7 may share profile information and aggregate usage information in a non-personally identifiable manner with advertisers and other third parties in order to present to Members and other users of the Softball 24/7 website more targeted advertising, products and services. In such situations we will never disclose information that would personally identify you.

The Softball 24/7 Website contains links to other websites. This includes links that are placed there by Softball 24/7 (such as in advertisements), as well as by other Softball 24/7 Members. Please be aware that Softball 24/7 is not responsible for the privacy practices of any other website. We encourage all Members and other users of the Softball 24/7 website to be aware of when they leave our website, and to read the privacy policies of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by Softball 24/7 through the Softball 24/7 website.

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on the Softball 24/7 website. However, we do not and will not use cookies to collect private information from any Member or other user of the Softball 24/7 website which they did not intentionally submit to us, other than as stated in this Privacy Policy.

We use both "session ID cookies" and "persistent cookies." We use session ID cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close you browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. Note also that Members may optionally use a cookie to remember their email in order to automatically log in to our website. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browsers's "help" file; however, please note that, if you reject cookies or disable cookies in your web browser, you may not be able to use the Softball 24/7 website.

If we change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our web site so Members and other users of the Softball 24/7 website are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If we are going to use Members' or other users' personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection, we will notify those Members and users via email or by placing a prominent notice on our website.

If a Member elects to use our "Invite" feature to invite a friend to become a Member of the Softball 24/7 service, we ask them for the friend's email address. Softball 24/7 will automatically send the friend an email inviting them to join the site. Softball 24/7 stores this email address for the purpose of automatically adding the respondent to the friends list of the Member sending the invitation, and also to send reminders of the invitation. Softball 24/7 will never sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations and invitation reminders. Any person who receives an invitation may contact Softball 24/7 to request the removal of this information from our database.

The Softball 24/7 account of every Member is password-protected. Softball 24/7 takes every precaution to protect the information of the Members, as well as information collected from other users of the Softball 24/7 website. We use industry standard measures to protect all information that is stored on our servers and within our database. We limit the access to this information to those employees who need access to perform their job function such as our customer service personnel. If you have any questions about the security at our website, please contact us.

Members who no longer wish to receive our weekly email updates or other email notifications may opt-out of receiving these communications by following the instructions contained in the applicable email or by logging-in and changing their settings in the "Account Settings" section of the Softball 24/7 website. You can access this page by clicking on the "Settings" link on the top right of your Softball 24/7 homepage.

The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to Members by our Web advertising partners. Our Web advertising partners may use cookies. Doing this allows the ad network to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad networks may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. Softball 24/7 does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed on the computer of any Member or other user of the Softball 24/7 website by the third-party ad servers or ad networks.

This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by Softball 24/7 only, and does not cover the use of cookies by any other party.

Contacting Softball 24/7

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, Softball 24/7's privacy practices, or your dealings with Softball 24/7, please contact us.