Privacy Policy

Internet user privacy and confidentiality are of the utmost importance to me, as an individual and as proprietor/webmaster of HickokSports.com. This statement explains how my website is structured to protect the privacy of Internet users and to maintain the Internet as a highly credible medium.

Contacting Me

Users may contact me through my feedback form or through e-mail. A user's personally identifiable information (e.g., name, e-mail address) may be requested in certain instances. For example, if a user asks me a question by e-mail or through my feedback form, I need to know the user's e-mail address in order to respond. I do not share these e-mail addresses, or any other information sent to me, with any other persons or parties. In fact, I generally archive this information, for my own reference, for a relatively short period of time before purging it from my files.

If a question seems to be of sufficient interest, I may include it, along with my answer, in the Sports History FAQ area of this site. Questions and answers may be edited for clarity and/or brevity. Under no circumstances, when adding a question and answer to the FAQ, will I reveal the identity of the questioner, nor will I include any of the user's personal information or e-mail address.

Forum Use

Users may post questions, answers to others' questions, and general messages to this site's Sports History and Sports Trivia forums. You should be aware that, when you voluntarily disclose personal information, such as your name and/or e-mail address, in these forums or any public forums, such information may be collected by others and may result in the receipt of unsolicited messages. Such potential uses and misuses of personal information are entirely beyond the control of HickokSports.com.

Advertising

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp

We allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our web site. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit www.networkadvertising.org

We partner with ValueClick to serve ads and/or collect certain information when you visit our website. ValueClick may use cookies or web beacons to collect non-personally identifiable information during your visit to this website in order to help show advertisements on other websites likely to be more interesting to you. To learn more about this “behavioral advertising” practice or to opt-out of this use of your anonymous information, you can visit http://www.valueclickmedia.com/member_privacy.shtml

External Links

This site contains many links to other sites, including e-commerce sites with which HickokSports.com is affiliated or partnered in some way. HickokSports.com does not control the privacy policies of these partners, advertisers, sponsors or any other sites to which hyperlinks are provided.

Children and Minors

If you are considered a child or minor in the country, state, or province in which you reside, please be sure to ask your parents for permission before you send any information about yourself - such as your name, address, or e-mail address - over the Internet, to us or to anyone else and before making any purchases online.

Parents

We strongly encourage you to get involved with your children's online usage and to be aware of the activities in which they are participating. Be assured that any personally identifiable information collected by HickokSports.com from children, or from any other users of this site, will be kept strictly confidential and will not be shared with any others.

Disclosure

HickokSports.com openly volunteers its practices of collecting and using personal information from its users. If you have any questions pertaining to this privacy policy and its contents, please direct your correspondence to the webmaster.

We reserve the right to change our policy from time to time. A revised policy will apply only to information collected after the date the policy is changed.