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LAST UPDATED: February, 2009

JOCKlife, LLC (JL) takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy and how we will strive to protect all registered users privacy and to enhance the end users experience.

What This Privacy Policy Covers

This policy covers how JL treats personal information that JL collects and receives, including information related to your past use of JL products and services. Personal information is considered information that is personally identifiable including a person(s) name, mailing address, email address, and/or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available. Upon registeration, JL only requires a verification of operating email address and does not require and/or request any additional personal information. All additional personal information provided by registering party will solely and strictly be used for promotional contest give-a-way convenience and viewer demographic data gathering.

This policy can not be goverened by JL pertaining to the practices of entities not owned and/or controlled by JL or to persons that JL does not employ or manage. In addition, mostly all of JL partner companies have set, standing privacy policies which can be viewed by visiting each particular company’s website.

Information Collection and Use

JL collects personal information upon user’s registation with JL, use of JL products or services, visiting JL pages and/or the pages of certain JL partners, and upon entering contests, promotions or sweepstakes. JL may combine information of registered users that may have information obtained from business partners and/or other companies.

Upon registration, JL ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, income, and personal interests. Upon registering with JL and signing on to extra services, you are no longer anonymous to JL departments.

JL may and will collect information pertaining to users interactions and/or transactions upon use of the site and with some of JL’s business partners. All information collected will be strictly for internal uses and purposes only.

JL automatically receives and records information on server logs already built into your internet browser, which may include IP addresses, set JL cookie information, requested pages and the duration and/or frequency content is viewed.

JL uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content a user may or may not see, fulfill requests for products and/or services, improve JL services and content, contact users, conduct research, and provide anonymous, empirical reporting for internal and/or external clients.

Children’s Use of Site

When a child under the age 13 attempts to register with JL, automatic rejection of the registration will occur.

If a parent and/or guardian has reason to believe that his or her child has submitted personal information to JL, the correct, cooresponding parent and/or guardian can contact JL via the e-mail address listed below. JL will promptly delete the information upon request of the parent and/or guardian and/or at the organic unraveling of information that a child under the age of 13 is a registered user of the site. JL believes that parents and/or guardians should supervise their children’s online activities to the best of their abilities and consider using parental control tools available from online services and software manufacturers that help provide a kid- friendly online environment. These tools can also prevent children from otherwise disclosing their name, address and other personal information without parental permission to an online entity. To receive information on tools that may of be assistance, please contact JL at the email address listed.

JL is a general audience site and is not directed to children under the age of 13. JL respects the privacy of parents and/or guardians and children and is committed to complying with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

Information Sharing and Disclosure

JL does not rent, sell, or share personal information about users with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products and/or services requested, upon permission, and/or under the following circumstances:

JL provides the information to trusted partners whom work on behalf of or with JOCKlife, LLC under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help JL communicate offers from JL and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not and will not have any independent right to share this information.

JL responds to subpoenas, court orders, or legal processes, and/or to establish and/or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;

JL believes it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical and/or mental safety of any person, violations of JL’s terms of use, and/or as otherwise required by law.

JL transfers information about users if JL is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, JL will notify all registered users prior to personal information and/or data is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy. All registered users are able to terminate accounts at anytime to due to any circumstance.

JL may display targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click targeted ads meet the targeting criteria set ads. I.E. – men ages 18-24 from Buloxi, MS, USA.

JL does not provide any user’s personal information to any advertiser when users interact with and/or view a specified targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad users are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make assumptions claiming set users meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.

JL advertisers may include financial service providers and/or institutions (i.e. banks, finanacial planners and/or insurance agents) and non-financial companies (i.e. retailers, fast food, and consumer electronics companies).

JL does business together with third party vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business.

Cookies

JL may set and access JL cookies on your computer strictly to ensure quality of demographic data for potential advertiser’s utilization to better target their message to the desired person(s).

JL may and potentially will let potential partner companies display advertisements on JL products allowing set advertisers to set and access their cookies on the user’s computer. Other companies’ use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the policy located on this site. Advertisers and/or other thrid party companies do not and will not have access to JL cookies.

JL uses web beacons to access JL cookies inside and outside our network of web sites and in connection with WebSideStory products and services.

JOCKlife.com may employ cookies to recognize visitors and their privileges in order to provide visitors with user specific information, as well as to track site usage. Cookies can also help provide information that is targeted to visitors’ interests. Cookies are stored on your browser, not on the JOCKlife.com site. You are free to decline JOCKlife.com cookies if your browser permits, although in that case you may be required to re-enter your password more frequently during a session. Also, visitors who do not accept cookies may not be able to access certain portions of the JOCKlife.com site. Cookies used by JOCKlife.com are not tied to personally identifiable information and do not contain personally identifiable information about a visitor, and JOCKlife.com does not use cookies to obtain such information. Cookies used by JOCKlife.com are “session cookies,” meaning that they can be automatically deleted at the end of a session (technically when the user quits the browser).

Advertisers and Sponsors of JOCKlife.com may use cookies within their advertisements or promotions. JOCKlife.com will likely not have access to these cookies or any information that they may contain. Visitors who want any information about these cookies should contact the sponsors and advertisers directly. Once you click on a sponsor link or advertisement and leave the JOCKlife.com sites our privacy policy no longer applies. You must read the privacy policy of the individual advertiser to see how your personal information will be handled on their site. There may be times when we use third-party advertising companies (the “Companies”) to serve ads when you visit our site. These Companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to our and other web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. In addition, we may share web site usage information about visitors to our sites with this these Companies for the purpose of managing and targeting advertisements, for market research analysis on our site and other sites and for tracking a specific activity on our site relating to the marketing efforts of an advertiser. For these purposes, the Companies may note some of the pages you visit on our site as well as some of the activities you undertake through the use of Web Beacons and pixel tags (also called clear gifs). In the course of serving advertisements to this site, the Companies may also place or recognize a unique “cookie” on your computer. As is always the case, information collected and used by these Companies will not be tied to a user’s personal information and will only be used in the aggregate. If you want to prevent a third-party advertiser from collecting data, currently you may visit each ad network’s web site individually and opt-out or visit the NAI gateway opt-out site to opt-out of all network-advertising cookies. This site will also allow you to review the third party advertising companies.

Ability for Registered Users to Edit Account Information and Preferences

New categories of marketing communications may be added to the Marketing Preferences page from time to time. Users whom visit this page can opt out of receiving future marketing communications from these new categories or they can unsubscribe by following instructions contained in the messages they receive.

JL reserves the right to send certain communications relating to JL services to registered users via email. Such communications may and/or will be service announcements, administrative messages and/or the JL newsletter. These communications will be considered part of your JL account upon registration and users will be able to opt out of set communications through the proper selections and/or requests. All email communications will be accompanied by an ability for end recipients to unsubscribe and/or opt-out of receiving any and all communications at any moment between not and eternity.

JL will limit access to personal information pertaining to registered users with regards to JL employees whom are believed to be in reasonable need to necessitate contact and/or interaction with set information provided by a registered user. JL employees will only view user information to provide products and/or services to users and/or in order to effectively and efficiently provide the best website possible to its viewers.

JL has adapted and implemented physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about any and all users.

JL may update this policy at any time. Notification of any and all significant changes to this policy will be transmitted and/or communicated to all applicable users. This is inline with the way JL treats personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in registered user’s JL account and/or by placing a prominent notice on the site.

You can edit your JOCKlife, LLC Registration Information, including your marketing preferences, at any time from now until eternity.

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