Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how Rugby World Cup Ltd. ("RWCL") treats Personal Information that it collects and receives, including Personal Information related to your use of the RWC Sevens LIVE service. This policy applies to all Personal Information collected or submitted through the RWC Sevens LIVE website, e-mail communications between you and RWC Sevens or other means. This Privacy Policy was last updated on 24 February, 2009.
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The term "Personal Information" means information about an individual that is personally identifiable and not publicly available, such as one's name, contact details, and credit card information, as well as the products and services in which one expresses an interest and/or which one purchases.
Collection of Personal Information
In order to create an account with RWC Sevens and/or order and access certain services, products and areas provided by RWC Sevens (collectively, the "Services"), you are required to provide certain Personal Information requested by the online registration feature, ordering feature and/or other pages or functions within the Services. This information may include your legal name, personal address, personal phone number, personal e-mail address, subscriber name or "screen name" and password used to access the Services. The Company reserves the right to request any additional information necessary to establish and maintain your account for use of any of the materials, goods or services available in connection with the Services. Once a username is created for you, RWC Sevens stores such information in order to enable you to use the Services and to customize your experience.
If you choose not to provide requested Personal Information, you will not be able to register with RWC Sevens, subscribe to the Services, make any purchases or other transactions through the Service, or obtain other services or benefits that require such disclosure.
RWC Sevens is the sole owner of all Personal Information provided to it, subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy. In the event RWC Sevens is acquired by, is merged into or is otherwise succeeded by another company, RWC Sevens reserves the right to transfer its ownership of such Personal Information to such other company without notice to you. In the event of such a transfer, the privacy policy of the other company, to the extent it has one, may supplant this Privacy Policy.
Use of Personal Information
Except as set forth herein, RWC Sevens will not provide any of your Personal Information to other companies or individuals without your permission, unless required by law or for other legal purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy. RWC Sevens will not rent, sell, or share your Personal Information to any unrelated third party except as described below. RWC Sevens may use your Personal Information for the following purposes:
• To verify your user status, including without limitation by confirming that you are a RWC Sevens subscriber, that you have paid for particular content that requires payment or that you satisfy other conditions concerning particular content (e.g., geographic or time restrictions);
• To process your transactions, including without limitation for billing purposes and for delivery of the applicable Services to you;
• To confirm your subscription to or cancellation from RWC Sevens, or any particular purchases or licenses;
• To customize the advertising and content you see based on your characteristics;
• To improve our services;
• To update and inform you about RWC Sevens services and products, including the Services to which you have subscribed;
• To provide you with targeted advertising, promotions and special offers from RWC Sevens or our affiliates, advertisers, sponsors or other business partners; and
• To conduct research and surveys and aggregate data for the purpose of reporting trends (based on aggregated data that does not personally identify you) to RWC Sevens and its business partners.
Names, postal and e-mail addresses collected may be added to RWC Sevens' databases and used for future communications and mailings regarding updates, new products and services of RWC Sevens, upcoming events, and status of transactions you conduct online. If you desire not to receive the above information, you may email us at rwc7support@irb.com with such a request, in which case we will remove you from the requested lists. RWC Sevens reserves the right to contact you regarding your account status and changes to the Terms and Conditions of Use, Privacy Policy and any other policies or agreements relevant to the Services, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of, or opt in to, receiving them.
RWC Sevens may provide your Personal Information to third party subcontractors for the purpose of processing payment, delivering goods or services to you or for other purposes related to your purchase or use of the Services. RWC Sevens will provide those third parties only the information they need to perform the contemplated services. RWC Sevens do not store any financial or credit card details of any users of this service.
Cookies
Like other major websites, RWC Sevens uses cookies to track traffic patterns on our website and to provide users with a customized experience when using our products and services. A cookie is a text file that our website transfers to your computer's hard drive for record-keeping purposes and to enhance the quality of your visit to our website. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.
Most Internet browsers are set up to automatically accept cookies. You can set your browser to refuse cookies, but doing so may limit system performance and may even cause certain features of the website to malfunction or not to work at all. You agree that RWC Sevens shall not be liable to you for any such malfunction or limited system performance.
RWC Sevens reserves the right to set and access RWC Sevens cookies on your computer and to authorize the advertisers on the RWC Sevens site to set and access their cookies on your computer. RWC Sevens treats any Personal Information that may be contained in cookies with the same confidentiality as other Personal Information you provide to us. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this policy.
Disclosures Required by Law and Investigations
RWC Sevens reserves the right to disclose your Personal Information in order to comply with any subpoenas, court orders or other legal process, or to establish or exercise RWC Sevens' legal rights or defend against legal claims.
RWC Sevens reserves the right to use and disclose your Personal Information in order to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, infringement of the intellectual property of RWC Sevens or a third party, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person or violations of RWC Sevens' terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
Security and Confidentiality of Personal Information
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure the correct use of Personal Information, RWC Sevens has put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures which RWC Sevens regards as appropriate to safeguard and secure the Personal Information RWC Sevens collects online.
RWC Sevens uses encryption technology to protect the security of the information collected and transmitted through its website and Services. When RWC Sevens' registration and order forms ask users to enter sensitive Personal Information (such as credit card number and/or social security number), that information is encrypted and transmitted to a secure database server using Secured Socket Layer encryption technology.
In addition, your RWC Sevens Account Information is password-protected for your protection. . The password will be sent to you within your confirmation email. Please keep your password secret (including by not allowing friends or family members to use your account and password). You acknowledge that you are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of the password. Under no circumstances will RWC Sevens be liable to you or any third party for your failure to maintain the secrecy of your password.
No Liability for Acts of Third Parties
Although RWC Sevens will use reasonable efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of the Personal Information you submit, transmissions made by means of the Internet cannot be made absolutely secure. RWC Sevens will have no liability for disclosure of information and data you submit to it due to errors in transmission, unauthorized acts of third parties or through the use of third party cookies, programs, routines, viruses or other devices on your computer.
Once you leave the RWC Sevens LIVE service, including by clicking on links on RWC Sevens' website, you will be subject to the privacy policies of third party website operators and other companies which may differ significantly from this policy. RWC Sevens encourages you to be aware of when you leave the RWC Sevens LIVE Service and to read the privacy policies of each website that collects information from or about you.
Children
No information should be submitted to RWC Sevens or through the Services by children under 18 years of age without the consent of their parent or legal guardian.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
RWCL may update this policy from time to time. Any changes or updates will be effective immediately upon posting to RWC Sevens LIVE's website, and your use of the website or any of the Services following such posting constitutes your acceptance of the Privacy Policy as so changed or updated. We reserve the right to notify you about changes in the way we treat Personal Information by sending a notice to one or more of the email addresses specified in your RWC Sevens LIVE account or by placing a notice on the RWC Sevens LIVE site in a manner and for a period of time that we determine in our sole discretion.
How to Contact Us
You may contact us regarding this Privacy Policy via email at rwc7support@irb.com.
This privacy policy is subject to change without notice.
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