Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy communicates the privacy practices of San Marcos Basketball Organization ("we," "us," or "our"), a 501c3 non-profit corporation. This Privacy Policy informs you about how San Marcos Basketball Organization collects, uses, and discloses personal information when you use our website or otherwise interact with us. By using our services or by providing personal information to San Marcos Basketball Organization, you comply with and acknowledge the terms of this Privacy Policy and agree to our Terms & Conditions.

Personal Information San Marcos Basketball Organization Collects

By "personal information," we refer to information that identifies, describes, relates to, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could agreeably be linked, indirectly or directly, with you. Personal information does not encompass information that is publicly available, de-identified, or aggregated.

Generally, San Marcos Basketball collects the following categories of personal information:

  • Contact information (e.g., name, alias, email address, phone number, mailing address, IP address, personal identifiers, online identifiers, and other similar identifiers)
  • Information related to demographics (e.g., age and date of birth, sex, gender, gender identity, ethnic origin, medical condition)
  • Internet or alternative electronic network activity information, including search history, browsing history, and information regarding your interactions with our websites or advertisements
  • Geolocation data inferred from your IP address
  • Audiovisual information
  • Information regarding health (e.g., limited health information relating to children's and teenagers' medical state/ability to play basketball)
  • Inferences based on the other kinds of personal information our organization collects

How San Marcos Basketball Uses the Personal Information It Collects

Generally, San Marcos Basketball uses your personal information to:

  • Provide our coaching services to you
  • Contact and communicate with you
  • Accommodate children's and teenagers' different abilities, and promote safety for all participants
  • Security and fraud prevention
  • Administer sweepstakes, contests, promotions, and surveys
  • Understand your needs and interests better
  • Market or advertise our non-profit organization website or cross-promote our mission and efforts with other companies
  • Analyze, administer, and improve our services, marketing, and advertising
  • Enforce and implement our protect rights, property, or terms, and meet lawful obligations

How We Collect Personal Information

San Marcos Basketball Organization collects your personal information in different ways, including directly from you, from external parties, from service providers, and automatically through your use of our site and coaching services. In some cases, you may have the option to choose what information you wish to provide, but sometimes our organization requires certain information from you to use features of our services.

Information San Marcos Basketball Automatically Collects from You

Besides the information you provide to us, we collect information automatically when you use our website and services.

Examples of the kind of personal information that we may collect automatically are:

  • Your IP address or another device identifier
  • Information about your approximate geographical position, as determined through your IP address
  • Software and hardware information
  • Browser type and language, operating system, time of access, duration of visit, and referring website address
  • The pages you view on our San Marcos Basketball site and other actions you take during your visit
  • The website pages you view immediately before and after you use our site
  • Information from a referring source such as an external party website, social media site, blog, etc.

Cookies

We use cookies and may use other tracking technologies to collect and store information about your interactions with our site, including data about your browsing behavior. We also use cookies for optimization purposes.

Cookies are small files that a site moves to your electronic device via a web browser that permits the site's or a third party's systems to recognize your electronic device and capture and retain certain data.

In general, our site uses cookies and alternative tracking technologies as follows:

  • Collecting data about how visitors use the site (for instance, which pages they visit, which links they use and click, and how long they read each page)
  • To optimize the functionality of our San Marcos Basketball site, including by personalizing content for you, greeting you by your name, pre-filling forms for you, and recalling your preferences (e.g., your choice of language and location)
  • Personalizing the visitors' experience when they use the site
  • For analytics purposes. For instance, to help our organization better understand how our site is used, to see what information most interests you, and determine how to market our non-profit organization to you. More details on website analytics are provided below.

If you do not wish to have cookies transferred on your electronic device, you should set your browser to decline cookies before visiting our San Marcos Basketball Organization website. Please go over your browser's Help menu for instructions, or check out www.allaboutcookies.org for more information. Please mind that if you disable all cookies, some features of our site may not operate properly.

Website Analytics

Our San Marcos Basketball site uses analytics technology, including Google Analytics, to support the function, operation, and performance of our online platform and to analyze your interactions and experiences with our site, including the features you interact with, how you navigate, and scrolling activity; and also general information about site traffic data, performance, and related statistics.

You may exercise choices related to the use of cookies from Google Analytics by accessing https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout or downloading the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Disclosure of Personal Information

San Marcos Basketball Organization may disclose your information to external parties in particular circumstances and for specific purposes, as described below.

Service Providers. When and if necessary, we might disclose personal information to service providers in order for them to provide their services to San Marcos Basketball Organization. For instance, we may share your personal information with vendors that assist us with processing payments, carrying-out auditing and quality control, communicating with you on behalf of our organization, and otherwise running our non-profit organization.

Advertising Partners and other Third Parties. We may distribute personal information with third parties for advertising and marketing purposes, to improve our services, or to offer you other services or products that may interest you.

Compliance with Law or Protection of Rights. We may communicate personal information as necessary for the following reasons: (a) to comply with any legal process; (b) to respond to solicitations from public and government authorities; (c) to carry out our terms and conditions; (d) to protect our operations and ensure our privacy, safety, rights, or property, and/or that of you or others; and (e) to permit us to pursue feasible remedies or reduce damages that our organization may sustain.

How Our Organization Protects the Security of Personal Information

San Marcos Basketball uses appropriate technical and organizational measures to assure a level of security that is reasonable and appropriate to the risk of the personal information we hold. While our organization tries to ensure the integrity and security of personal information, we cannot warrant that our security measures will hinder third parties from illegally obtaining access to personal information.

San Marcos Basketball does not represent or warrant that personal information about you will be protected against loss, misuse, or alteration by third parties. Any transference of personal information through the website is at your own risk, and we are not answerable/responsible for the circumvention of our organization's security measures.

How Our Organization Protects Your Child's Privacy

Your child's privacy is important to our organization. As a result, we strive to operate our site in compliance with all applicable state and federal laws that protect the privacy of children's personal information.

Our website is intended for parents, not for individuals under the age of 18. Our organization does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone who is under 18 years of age. We may, however, collect personal information about an underage from a parent or guardian.

If you believe that an underage individual has submitted personal information to us, please contact us in any manner described in the Contact section so that we can delete the information or take other appropriate action.

International Visitors

Our services and this Privacy Policy are directed to residents of the United States. If you access our website from outside the United States, please be aware that your personal information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States and that the data protection and other laws of the United States may not be as extensive as those in your country.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

Our organization may modify or update this Privacy Policy from time to time, so make sure to review it periodically. Unless otherwise indicated, any changes to this Policy will apply immediately upon posting to the service. Your continued use of our services after the effective date of any modification to the Privacy Policy will be deemed to be your agreement to the changed terms.