Your Privacy Is Important To Us
We want you to know that when you use our Internet Web site, your
personally identifiable information will be respected and protected.
The following are guidelines for protecting the information you
provide us during a visit to the www.virtual-swim.com
site.
Virtual-Swim Information
When you register on the www.virtual-swim.com
site, we may collect specific information such as your name, address,
phone number, email address, birth date, password, a password
reminder and your best swimming times if you register for a customized
animation. This information is used to inform you of your own
customized animation and access to our Gallery. This information
is also used as a basis to provide you with additional emails
and communications if you opt in to receive such communications.
We will not provide any information about you or your email address
to any other companies. You may unsubscribe from receiving additional
emails and communications by Opting-Out.
Registered User Profile Information
When you register to create a customized animation on www.virtual-swim.com,
a unique online profile will be created for your use and enjoyment.
Online Purchases
When you purchase a customized animation on www.virtual-swim.com,
we will validate your credit card information in order to ensure
the fulfillment of your order. This information will include the
credit card type, number, expiration date, billing address, shipping
address, contact telephone numbers and confirmation email address.
Guest Login
It is not required that you register in order to visit www.virtual-swim.com.
Promotions
We occasionally sponsor promotions to give our registered members
the opportunity to win various prizes. Information collected by
www.virtual-swim.com for promotions
can include contact information, such as email address. Generally,
unless otherwise stated in the promotion or survey, contact information
is used to notify promotion winners and survey information and
survey results are used to develop improved promotions and other
service enhancements.
Emails
We use email addresses to deliver information relevant to our
registered users, such as your own customized animation and follow-up
confirmation emails. Email addresses will not be shared with any
other company or any third parties for the purpose of providing
you with information or promotional opportunities.
Cookies
Cookies are small bits of information that are stored on your
computer hard drive by your web browser. Cookies help establish
a user session and allow our server to correctly provide site
users with the appropriate information. We also use cookies to
ensure you obtain the information you request and to authenticate
your authority to access the site. If you are a registered user
on our site and you elect to create a custom animation, the cookie
stored on your computer may contain your custom animation. We
also use cookies to track the usage of www.virtual-swim.com
in order to improve the site according to our customers' needs.
In addition, we may use cookies when working with outside advertising
companies to provide them information regarding use of the site
or click-through traffic on advertisements. Most people accept
cookies, but you can configure your browser to not accept cookies
if you choose. However, if you disable your cookies and are a
registered user, you may not have access to some pages on the
site. Although you cannot log into the site as a registered user
if your cookies are disabled, you can still purchase on the site
by logging in as a guest.
Domain Names
In general, you can visit most parts of the www.virtual-swim.com
site without telling us who you are or revealing any information
about yourself. Our web servers identify the domain names of visitors,
but this is not captured as personally identifiable information.
This information is aggregated to measure the number of visits,
average time spent on the site, pages viewed and similar site
usage information in order to know how to improve the site's content.
Other Uses
We may disclose personal information if required to do so by law,
court order, or as requested by a governmental or law enforcement
authority, or in the good faith belief that disclosure is otherwise
necessary or advisable. Situations may include: to perform, maintain
or enforce contracts formed between ourselves and our customers;
to protect our rights or properties of www.virtual-swim.com,
our customers or others; or when we have reason to believe that
disclosing the information is necessary to identify, contact or
bring legal action against someone who may be causing interference
with or damage to our rights or properties, whether intentionally
or otherwise, or when anyone else could be harmed by such activities.
Opting-Out
As a registered user, you will occasionally receive emails about
your customized animation and other noteworthy www.virtual-swim.com
news items. We hope you will find these updates interesting and
informative. Of course, if you would rather not receive this information,
you can go to www.virtual-swim.com
and update your profile accordingly. In addition, emails sent
to you will also contain a message on how to opt out of that type
of communication in the future.
Consent
By using this web site, you agree to the collection and use, consistent
with applicable laws, of information available on or through this
site (including your personally identifying information) by ourselves,
our affiliates, licensors, licensees, contractors and permitted
agents. Should a change to our privacy policy occur, we will post
those changes on this page so that you are always aware of the
nature of the information we collect, how we use it, and the circumstances
under which we disclose it. Unless otherwise required or permitted
by applicable law, we do not intend to use your personally identifiable
information collected through this site in ways not described
here without first providing you the opportunity to opt-out of
that use.
Internet Security
When you place orders to purchase customized animations using
your www.virtual-swim.com account
information, we use secure servers to protect your personal information.
Secure Socket Layer (SSL) software encrypts the personal information
that is transmitted between you and united.com.
Other sites
This privacy policy covers only the www.virtual-swim.com
site, and does not cover any other site. While we make every effort
to protect your information on www.virtual-swim.com,
we do not control the policies of other sites (including those
we may link to). We have no control over other sites' privacy
policies or use of any personal information you or others may
share with them. Please do not assume that our Privacy Policy
covers those other sites.
Customer Release of Personal Information
In order to protect your privacy and our proprietary databases
and storage systems, we recommend that you not share any of your
personally identifiable information, such as your password information,
with any third-party information aggregators that would allow
them access to sensitive account information.
Children
www.virtual-swim.com complies with
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. This Act applies
limitations and regulations that apply to the online collection
of personal information from children under the age of 13.
How to contact us
If you have comments or questions about this Privacy Policy, please
e-mail us. Please reference this Privacy Policy in those communications.
