Privacy
The information solicited by and submitted to the Five Star Sports Picks is considered confidential, is solely for statistical purposes and will not be shared, bartered or sold to ANY third party. We maintain the information to improve the quality of our site and to communicate with visitors who wish to receive additional information. An anonymous visitor to our site will remain anonymous in all cases. Five Star Sports Picks does not attempt to identify visitors if they do not voluntarily register on the site. We do provide links to but do not control the privacy of third party sites. Whenever in question, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of those sites.

What personal information do we collect from you and why?
We collect and maintain a variety of Personal Information about you to enable us to provide you with the best service. “Personal Information” is information about you by which you may be identified. We currently collect Personal Information through email and the various online inquiry forms on the Site. The Personal Information we collect and maintain about you includes:

Your name, Your phone number and address (street and email)
We only collect Personal Information that you voluntarily provide to us or voluntarily provide to our Partners (defined below) who share that information with us. We also use your Personal Information for other things that may include, but are not limited to, the following:

Contacting You
We use your Personal Information to communicate with you in the event we have any questions with regard to your online inquiry. [We may also contact you to tell you about products and services provided by our Partners, other affiliates and other third-party organizations.]

Use of Cookies
Cookies are a standard technology used by commercial web services to store small pieces of information on your hard drive by sending a small string of text to your browser. They make your use of this Site more pleasing and efficient by “personalizing” your Site experience and gathering Site statistical data, such as which parts of the Site you have previously visited, what material you downloaded, your Internet provider’s domain name and country, and the addresses of websites you visited immediately before and after our Site. They enable us to tailor the information you receive and to assist our Partners or other third party organizations with whom we have strategic alliances by identifying you as our customer or Site user. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, unless you have configured yours not to accept them. [In order for us to provide you with services on our Site, your browser must accept cookies, as they are essential for site administration and security.] We do not use cookies either to collect individually identifiable information or to collect non-individually identifiable information using a cookie that is combined with a personal identifier.

How we use your information
The information we collect is used to (i) to respond to your inquiries; (ii) provide customer services and resolve any complaints; (iii) improve the Site and service and resolve any technical problems; (iv) communicate with you concerning the services offered on the Site by us or any of our Partners; (v) cross-reference with other Personal Information that we have acquired about you or may acquire about you through other sources; (vi) create aggregate data; (vii) ensure compliance with the Site Terms of Use; and (viii) comply with any applicable laws and regulations. We may provide your information to government officials and agencies as required by law, and Partners as part of business operations, transaction processing, and marketing efforts, as identified below. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Partner” shall mean any person or entity with whom we enter into any kind of business transaction who is under an obligation to us to use reasonable care to keep Personal Information confidential.

Disclosure of information we collect
Except as provided in this Privacy Policy, we will not sell, trade, or disclose to third parties any Personal Information obtained by us through this Site or from our Partners about you, without your consent. We may disclose Personal Information (i) to companies that help process the transactions you request, in order to protect your transactions from fraud and verify your identity; (ii) that we in good faith believe is necessary or appropriate to cooperate in investigations of fraud, intellectual property infringements or other activity that is illegal or may expose us or you to legal liability, or to conduct investigations of violations of the Site Terms of Use; (iii) when required by law or to comply with a court order, subpoena, search warrant or other legal process; (iv) to comply with legal, regulatory or administrative requirements of governmental authorities (including, without limitation, requests from the governmental agency authorities to view your Personal Information); (v) to protect and defend us, our subsidiaries and affiliates and any of their officers, directors, employees, attorneys, agents, contractors and partners, in connection with any legal action, claim or dispute; (vi) to prevent imminent physical harm; (vii) to share aggregated statistical or demographic data with our affiliates, business partners or for public relations (this aggregated information is not tied to Personal Information); (viii) to provide data, including Personal Information about you, with our parent, affiliates, subsidiaries and Partners; (ix) to sell or otherwise provide to third parties in the event of a bankruptcy or liquidation; and (x) to sell or otherwise provide to third parties in the event of a future merger or acquisition by another company. In the event we merge or are acquired by another company, the successor company will have access to your Personal Information in order to continue to provide services, but would continue to be bound by this Privacy Policy unless and until it is amended as described in the subsection labeled “Changes to this Privacy Policy” below.

Changes to this privacy policy
By using this Site, you agree to this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to change, modify or amend this Privacy Policy at any time. When this Privacy Policy is changed, modified or amended, the revised Privacy Policy will be posted on this Site. Any revised Privacy Policy will only apply prospectively to Personal Information collected or modified after the effective date of the revised policy. It is your responsibility to periodically check and review our Privacy Policy for changes.

If you have a privacy question about this Site, please email: FiveStarSignups@gmail.com