Privacy and Child Protection Policy

We at Learning Through Sports and MySportsmanship.com are dedicated to protecting the privacy of any personal information that our users provide to us on www.MySportsmanship.com. We are especially dedicated to protecting the privacy of children under the age of 13 who use or access this website. The below Privacy and Child Protection Policy is designed to answer your questions regarding MySportsmanship.com privacy policies and principles regarding children under the age of 13 who obtain parental consent to participate on www.MySportsmanship.com.

Privacy Policy

By using or accessing MySportsmanship.com you are agreeing to the following Privacy Policy. If you don't agree to the policy, please do not use this website. Learning Through Sports reserves the right to change this policy at any time. Any changes will be effective immediately as posted to the site.

You are welcome to browse our website anonymously without indicating any personal data. We may ask you for personal data when you want to register for a free account, upload your personal videos and images, enter a contest, send us a question, or complete an order. Personal data directly requested when registering for an account may include: email address, birthdate, school name, city, and state. We only ask for your name when you email us via the Contact Us Form, so that we know who to address in our response. You are not required to give your legal name.

How Do We Use Personal Data You Provide To Us?

We use the personal data requested of you in order to complete transactions requested by you, to provide customer services, to customize and develop our products or services, to respond to questions, problems or complaints, to request feedback, to send administrative communications, promotional materials (including special offers and promotions) and information about our products and service, and for other specified purposes for which the personal information was provided and any purpose relating thereto.

You may let us know if you do not wish to receive e-mails from us in the future by sending an e-mail titled "Request for Removal" to the MySportsmanship administrator through the Contact Us Form. We will respectfully remove you from our e-mail list.

Any personal information that we retain will not be rented, sold or otherwise distributed to third parties. We will use all reasonable efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of any personal information but will have no liability for disclosure of any information obtained due to errors in transmission or the unauthorized acts of third parties.

MySportsmanship.com may use cookies for site administration purposes. If you do not want to take advantage of the use of cookies, please modify your browser so that it does not accept them.

This website may detect and use your IP address or domain name for internal traffic monitoring and capacity purposes or to otherwise administer our website. No personal information is obtained, rather just the patterns of usage of our various users.

Learning Through Sports reserves the right to disclose user information when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property, other website users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. We may disclose personal information without notice to you in response to a subpoena or when we believe in good faith that the law requires it or to respond to an emergency situation.

Child Protection Policy

This Child Protection Policy is an extension of the aforementioned Privacy Policy. All topics discussed in the Privacy Policy apply to children under the age of 13 and all users, regardless of age.

Learning Through Sports encourages parents/guardians to monitor and take a part in their children's online activities. It is important for parents/guardians to know that MySportsmanship.com is compliant with COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, www.coppa.org) standards.

COPPA requires that we (a) inform parents and guardians about how we collect, use and disclose personal information from children under the age of 13, (b) obtain the prior verifiable consent of parents and guardians in order for children under the age of 13 to use certain features of the site, (c) do not collect more information than is reasonably necessary for a child to participate in a given activity on this site and (d) provide the parent with the ability to review and delete the information collected about their child.

With your children's protection in mind, we have developed MySportsmanship.com to meet all of these COPPA requirements.

• All users, regardless of age, have the option to browse our website and view sample content without any personal information being collected.
• Children under the age of 13 may register for a MySportsmanship.com account, but our administrators will NOT approve the account and will prohibit further activity of the account (i.e., uploading personal videos or images) until a parental consent form is signed and returned to (fax) 205-980-8409 or Learning Through Sports, 1 Mt Laurel Avenue, Suite 210, Birmingham, AL, 35242. (Download Parent Consent Form.)
• Your child may be asked to provide personal information such as their email address, birthdate, school name, city, and state to register for an account, submit a personal video or image, enter a contest, or submit a question to us. We do not request your child's legal name to register for an account. Only when a user (including your child) submits a question to our Contact Us form will we ask for their name, so we know who to address in our reply. Even then, your child is not required to give his or her legal name. We do not provide any personally identifying information from users under the age of 13 (or of any age) to any third party for any reason whatsoever.
  
  Parents and children should note that any personal information that a child (or anyone) chooses to disclose in their choice of username, in a blog, video or image description, or other interactive activities will be viewed and accessible by other users of the site. Children (or anyone, regardless of age) should not post any personally identifiable information including, without limitation, legal names, phone numbers, or email addresses, within their username, blogging community, video or image descriptions, or other interactive activities. Parents should talk to their children about not posting personal information in connection with their participation in these public and interactive activities on the MySportsmanship.com website. Parents should also be aware that their child's school name, city, and state will display when their MySportsmanship.com account is approved (pending receipt of the Parent Consent Form).
• Parents and legal guardians may inquire as to personal information submitted by their child under the age of 13 by emailing us through the Contact Us form or writing to the mailing address at the bottom of this page. If there is indeed information in our files, parents and guardians may ask to have it deleted and ask to not allow further collection or use of the child's information.

Linked sites from this website are not under the control of Learning Through Sports, and we are not responsible for the contents or privacy practices of any liked site or any link on a linked site.
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Questions/Complaints About MySportsmanshsip.com's Privacy and Child Protection Policy?
Contact: Learning Through Sports, Inc.
1 Mt Laurel Avenue, Suite 210
Birmingham, AL 35242
toll-free: 1 (866) 552-9192
fax: (205) 980-8409
customersupport@learningthroughsports.com