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Privacy Policy
This site is owned and
operated by Elite Performance Academy. Your privacy on
the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At
Elite Performance Academy, we want to make your
experience online satisfying and safe.
Because we gather certain types of information about our
users, we feel you should fully understand the terms and
conditions surrounding the capture and use of that
information. This privacy statement discloses what
information we gather and how we use it.
Definition of the Information Elite Performance Academy
gathers and keeps track of.
Elite Performance Academy gathers two types of
information about users:
-Information that users provide through optional,
voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions
to receive our electronic newsletters, to participate in
our message boards or forums, to email a friend, and
from participation in polls and surveys:
-Information Elite Performance Academy gathers through
aggregated tracking information derived mainly by
tallying page views throughout our sites. This
information allows us to better tailor our content to
readers' needs and to help our advertisers and sponsors
better understand the demographics of our audience.
Because Elite Performance Academy derives its revenue
mainly from sponsorships and advertising, providing such
aggregated demographic data is essential to keeping our
service free to users. Under no circumstances does
Elite Performance Academy divulge any information about
an individual user to a third party.
Elite Performance Academy Gathers User Information In
The Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
We offer the following free services, which require some
type of voluntary submission of personal information by
users:
1. Electronic newsletters (Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users.
Elite Performance Academy gathers the email addresses of
users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove
themselves from this mailing list by following the link
provided in every newsletter that points users to the
subscription management page. Users can also subscribe
to the newsletters at the time of registration.
2. Message boards/forums
Users of the site's Message Boards and Forums must
register separately for these services (both are free of
charge) in order to post messages, although they needn't
register to visit the site. During registration the user
is required to supply a username, password, and email
address.
3. "E-mail this to a friend" Service
Our site users can choose to electronically forward a
link, page, or documents to someone else by clicking
"e-mail this to a friend". The user must provide their
email address, as well as that of the recipient. This
information is used only in the case of transmission
errors and, of course, to let the recipient know who
sent the email. The information is not used for any
other purpose.
4. Polling
We may offer interactive polls to users so they can
easily share their opinions with other users and see
what our audience thinks about important issues.
Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and
are not identifiable to any particular user. Elite
Performance Academy may use a system to "tag" users
after they have voted, so they can vote only once on a
particular question. This tag is not correlated with
information about individual users.
5. Surveys
Elite Performance Academy may occasionally conduct user
surveys to better target our content to our audience. We
sometimes share the aggregated demographic information
in these surveys with our sponsors, advertisers and
partners. We never share any of this information about
specific individuals with any third party.
CHILDREN
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy
Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly
request personally identifiable information from anyone
under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.
USAGE TRACKING
Elite Performance Academy tracks user traffic patterns
throughout all of our sites. However, we do not
correlate this information with data about individual
users. Elite Performance Academy does break down
overall usage statistics according to a user's domain
name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this
information from the browser string (information
contained in every user's browser).
Elite Performance Academy sometimes tracks and catalogs
the search terms that users enter in our Search
function, but this tracking is never associated with
individual users. We use tracking information to
determine which areas of our sites users like and don't
like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track
what individual users read, but rather how well each
page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a
better service for you.
COOKIES
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the
browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does
not contain Personal Information although it will enable
us to relate your use of this site to information that
you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the
only personal information a cookie can contain is
information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read
data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by
other sites. Elite Performance Academy uses cookies to
track user traffic patterns (as described above). Our
advertising system delivers a one-time cookie to better
track ad impressions and click rates.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your
browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before
accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message
with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned
on to use this site. However, you do need cookies to
participate actively in message boards, forums, polling
and surveys.
USE OF INFORMATION
Elite Performance Academy uses any information
voluntarily given by our users to enhance their
experience in our network of sites, whether to provide
interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to
better prepare future content based on the interests of
our users.
As stated above, we use information that users
voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic
newsletters and to enable users to participate in polls,
surveys, message boards, and forums. We send out
newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule
(depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send out
special editions when we think subscribers might be
particularly interested in something we are doing.
Elite Performance Academy never shares newsletter
mailing lists with any third parties, including
advertisers, sponsors or partners.
When we use tracking information to determine which
areas of our sites users like and don't like based on
traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual
users read, but rather how well each page performs
overall. This helps us continue to build a better
service for you. We track search terms entered in Search
function as one of many measures of what interests our
users. But we don't track which terms a particular user
enters.
Elite Performance Academy creates aggregate reports on
user demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers,
sponsors and partners. This allows our advertisers to
advertise more effectively, and allows our users to
receive advertisements that are pertinent to their
needs. Because we don't track the usage patterns of
individual users, an advertiser or sponsor will never
know that a specific user clicked their ad. We will not
disclose any information about any individual user
except to comply with applicable law or valid legal
process or to protect the personal safety of our users
or the public.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
Elite Performance Academy uses the above-described
information to tailor our content to suit your needs and
help our advertisers better understand our audience's
demographics. This is essential to keeping our service
free. We will not share information about individual
users with any third party, except to comply with
applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the
personal safety of our users or the public.
SECURITY
Elite Performance Academy operates secure data networks
protected by industry standard firewall and password
protection systems. Our security and privacy policies
are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and
only authorized individuals have access to the
information provided by our customers.
OPT-OUT POLICY
We give users options wherever necessary and practical.
Such choices include:
· Opting not to register to receive our electronic
newsletters.
· Opting not to participate in certain interactive
areas, which completely alleviates the need to gather
any personally identifiable information from our users
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection and
use of this information by Elite Performance Academy.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post
those changes on this page so that you are always aware
of what information we collect, how we use it, and under
what circumstances we disclose it.
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