TSS Photography is committed to comply fully
with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998
and believes in the power of kids and we urge both kids
and their parents to use and enjoy our website. While we
encourage the interactive nature of online media, we
strive to educate parents and kids about how to
appropriately safeguard their privacy when traveling on
the Web. We urge kids to check with their parents
before entering information on any website and we urge
parents to discuss with their kids restrictions regarding
the online release of personal information to anyone they
don't know.
What Information Is Collected?
At TSS Photography, it's our policy to create
website content that requires minimum collection of
information from our visitors. Generally, we limit our
collection of information from kids to what is known as
nonpersonally identifiable information (e.g. screen name,
birthday, gender, state, zip code). This information is
collected so kids can participate in activities (e.g. play
online games) without giving unnecessary personal
information. From time to time, however, we may request
limited personally identifiable information (e.g. email
address of parent ), as explained below, in order to
conduct online contests or sweepstakes or offer other
online activities (e.g. electronic newsletters). TSS
does not condition a kid's participation in any of our
online activities or the disclosure of more information
than is reasonably necessary to participate in the
activity. As explained below, we may also collect from
parents additional types of information (e.g., credit card
and billing information) when they purchase products and
offerings at our site.
Electronic Newsletter Subscription
TSS offers kids the opportunity to sign up to receive the
TSS newsletter by email. At any time after receiving
this notification email, the child's parent has the
opportunity to exercise the option to request that we stop
sending the child the TSS newsletter and have the child's
information removed from our TSS newsletter by following
the "unsubscribe" instructions found at
the end of any of the TSS newsletter emails. In addition,
parents may at any time review any identifiable
information collected about their child (see below,
Parental Access).
All information collected for TSS newsletters is used only
to send the child the electronic newsletter and may be
transferred, disclosed, or shared with third parties who
may be engaged by us specifically to handle the
preparation and delivery of the electronic newsletter and
perform other related technical and processing functions.
These third parties may not use it for other purposes and
have agreed to maintain the confidentiality of such
information.
Contests and Sweepstakes
TSS occasionally offers contests and sweepstakes, which
may be entered online. Sometimes, when we conduct
contests or sweepstakes that may involve more than a
one-time contact, we ask additionally for the email
address of his or her parent. All the information
collected by TSS is securely maintained and used only for
the purpose of conducting the contest or sweepstakes.
The information collected in a TSS sweepstakes may be
passed to a TSS Franchise Owner.
Use of Information
TSS uses or may use personally
identifiable information that kids
provide for such purposes as sending
requested electronic postcards and email
messages on their behalf, and conducting
contests or sweepstakes, and responding
to their questions regarding our
products and services. TSS currently
does not disclose to third parties
personally identifiable information that
kids provide, except from time to time,
we may transfer, disclose or share such
information with third parties such as
Franchise Owners to deliver prizes. Such
third parties have access to personal
information needed to perform their
functions, but may not use it for other
purposes. Additionally, in the event
that all or substantially all of the
assets relating to TSS are transferred
or sold to another entity, personally
identifiable information submitted to us
may be transferred to the acquiring
entity. Finally, we may also disclose
personally identifiable information to
third parties in order to comply with
law or requests by law enforcement
agencies, to enforce our Terms and
Conditions or to protect the rights,
property or safety of our website, users
of our website and others.
Use of Photos
Your purchase, either through your local
photographer or the TSS Photography
website, acknowledges images are
the property of TSS Photography and may
be used for display purposes.
Cookies and Log Data
Cookies are information files that your web browser places
on the hard drive of your computer when you visit a
website. Cookies cannot damage user files, nor can they
read information from a user's hard drive. Cookies allow
websites to "remember" users activities on a
website as well as users visits to a site. At TSS, cookies
are used to determine the number of unique visitors to our
website over a given period and to remember user screen
names so that the need for multiple log-ins is eliminated.
We do not store any personal information into cookies nor
do we link or combine information collected through
cookies to any personal information that kids submit
online when participating in our activities. You can, of
course, disable cookies on your computer by indicating
this in the preferences or options menus in your browser.
The ads appearing on TSS are delivered to you by a third
party ad service provider. In the course of serving ads,
the ad service provider may place or recognize their own
unique cookie on your browser, and may use non-personally
identifiable information about your visit to TSS, such as
the number of times that you have viewed an ad. For more
information about the third party ad service provider and
how to "opt out" of the ad serving cookie,
please click here.
Log data collected on web servers both within TSS's
control and under the control of TSS's third party ad
service provider, who is required to maintain such data on
a confidential basis, supplies TSS with aggregate
information about the number of visits to different pages
on our site. TSS uses such aggregate information to
improve access to our content based on our visitors'
browsers and operating system types to make our content
available to as many kids as possible. We do not link the
log data collected to the personal information that kids
submit online when participating in our activities.
Parental Access
At TSS, our goal is to help parents ensure that their kids
have a safe and fun online experience. That's why we've
set up a system by which parents can call us to request a
form that allows them to review any identifiable
information collected about their child, have this
information deleted, and/or request that there be no
further collection or use of their child's information.
TSS takes steps to verify the identity of anyone
requesting information about a child and to ensure that
the person is in fact the child's parent or legal
guardian.
Security
TSS has taken steps to ensure that personally identifiable
information collected in the future is secure, including
limiting the number of people who have physical access to
our database servers as well as electronic security
systems and password protections which guard against
unauthorized access.
TSS provides a "bumper page" when linking from
TSS to an advertiser's site, which lets kids know they are
going to an advertiser's site and reminds them not to give
out information online without getting permission from
their parents.
TSS provides links to other websites that may have their
own information collection practices. TSS provides
internal "bumper pages" that inform kids that
they have linked to another site and instructs them not to
give out information online before checking with their
parents. These other websites are governed by their own
privacy policies or information collection practices,
which may be substantially different from ours. We
encourage visitors to other websites to review the privacy
policies and information collection practices of those
websites.
Questions/Concerns?
If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding
TSS's privacy policy and/or practices, please email us at:
webmaster@sports-section.com
or via mail:
Webmaster
c/o TSS Photography
2150 Boggs RD
Suite 200
Duluth, GA 30096
Or call this number:
678-740-2800
This privacy policy was last updated on January 17, 2006.
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