Yard Strength,
Inc. is committed to protecting the online privacy of its visitors and has prepared the
following statement to inform users how
personally identifying information and
non-personally identifying information may
be gathered from our website and used by yardstrength.com. Yard Fitness Center
encourages its website users and visitors to
be intelligent about choosing when, to whom,
and where to release personal information
online.
PRIVACY POLICY UPDATES
Whenever our Privacy Policy is modified we
will notify you that changes have been made
by updating the month, day, and year
currently displayed beside the link to our
privacy policy statement. This link is
located at the bottom of each page within
the yardstrength.com Web site.
CHILDREN
Children (persons under the age of 18) are
not eligible to use the Site unsupervised
and we ask that children do not submit any
personal information to us. If you are under
the age of 18, you may only use this Site in
conjunction with and under the supervision
of your parents or guardians.
NON-PERSONALLY
IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
Certain non-personally identifiable
information about our visitors is collected
by the standard operation of
yardstrength.com ‘s internet servers and may
be collected through the use of "cookie"
technology (as described below), such as the
type of internet browser you are using and
the domain name of your internet service
provider, where you go within the site, how
much time you spend in any particular area
and what you buy.
COOKIES
A "cookie" is a small amount of data that is
sent to your browser from a web server and
stored on your computer's hard drive. All
sites on yardstrength.com where you are
prompted to log-in or that are customizable
by you require that you accept cookies.
Generally, we
use cookies to:
1. Remind us of who you are and to access
your account information (stored on our
computers) in order to deliver to you a
better and more personalized service.
2. Estimate
our audience size. Each browser accessing
yardstrength.com may be given a unique
cookie which is then used to determine the
extent of repeat usage, usage by a
registered user versus by an unregistered
user, and to help target messages,
promotions and ads based on user interests
and behavior.
3. Assist us
in tracking visits to and business at our
store, and to process the items in your
shopping basket. This information collected
by cookies is sometimes called "clickstream"
or "click trail" and may also describe which
pages you have seen in each part of the
store.
4. Track your
progress and number of entries in some of
our promotions, sweepstakes and contests.
When a Yard Fitness Center -hosted promotion
uses cookies, the information written to the
cookie indicates the player's progress
through the promotion, and may be used to
track entries, submissions, and status in
prize drawings.
5. Measure
certain traffic patterns, which areas of the
web site you have visited, and your visiting
patterns in the aggregate. We use this
research to understand how our users' habits
are similar or different from one another so
that we can make each new experience on our
site a better one. We may use this
information to better personalize the
content, banners, and promotions that you
and other users will see on our sites.
Advertisers
that may serve ads onto www.yardstrength.com
may also use their own cookies. You agree
that we may use your personal information to
contact you and deliver information to you
that, in some cases, are targeted to your
interests, such as targeted banner
advertisements, administrative notices,
product offerings, and communications
relevant to your use of the Site. By
accepting the User Agreement and Privacy
Policy, you expressly agree to receive this
information. If you do not wish to receive
these communications, we encourage you to
opt out of the receipt of certain
communications. You may make changes to your
notification preferences at any time.
You have
choices with respect to cookies. By
modifying your browser preferences, you have
the choice to accept all cookies, to be
notified when a cookie is set, or to reject
all cookies. If you choose to reject all
cookies you will be unable to use those
yardstrength.com services that require
registration in order to participate. These
services include (but are not limited to):
participating in any loyalty or incentive
programs, signing up for free passes, etc.
Information
collected by the standard operation of
yardstrength.com 's internet servers and
through the use of cookies is analyzed by
Yard Fitness Center only in aggregate form
and is used to improve the content of our
website, to tailor the content and/or layout
to consumer trends and to notify users about
updates to the site. Yard Fitness Center
reserves the right to disclose or otherwise
utilize this information in aggregate form,
for any purpose, in its sole judgment.
Log data
collected on web servers both within
yardstrength.com’s control and under the
confidential control of third party ad
service provider(s) supplies Yard Fitness
Center with aggregate information about the
number of visits to different pages on our
site. This information is not personally
identifiable information and is used by Yard
Fitness Center to improve the content of our
website.
PERSONALLY
IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
www.yardstrength.com also gathers personally
identifiable information (such as your name,
street address, telephone number and e-mail
address) from voluntary submissions as part
of site registration, sweepstakes, guest
passes, member referrals. contests, and
other online promotions, when you place an
order for merchandise, complete a survey
that we use for research purposes, or when
you report a problem with our site or one of
our services. Also, if you contact Yard
Fitness Center Online, we may keep a record
of that correspondence. Such information is
only known to Yard Fitness Center when it is
voluntarily submitted or posted to us.
Wherever yardstrength.com collects
personally identifiable information we make
an effort to include a link to this Privacy
Policy on that page.
Personally
identifiable information will be used by
Yard Fitness Center only: (1) to process
your requests (e.g., register you for a
contest or sweepstakes or fulfill your
merchandise order); (2) to communicate with
you or personalize the site based on your
stated interests and preferences or make
related offers to you; (3) to administer the
site or serve you when you have questions or
problems; and/or (4) as may, in Yard Fitness
Center's sole judgment, be required by any
applicable laws, rules or regulations or the
Terms and Conditions applicable to this
website.
Personally
identifiable information will only be shared
with third parties to further the purpose
for which you provide such information
(e.g., to process your subscription request
or merchandise order) or when we believe in
good faith that the law requires it, or to
protect the rights of Yard Fitness Center or
its affiliates or subscribers.
If Yard
Fitness Center intends to disclose
personally identifiable information to third
parties in circumstances not outlined above,
you will be advised at the time that we
request that you provide us such
information, such as in the rules of a
sweepstakes or contest or as part of the
terms of a given promotion, and you will be
provided with the opportunity to opt out of
our online database so that participation in
the registration, sweepstakes, contest or
other activity is possible without
disclosing personally identifiable
information to such third parties. Yard
Fitness Center does not currently sell any
personally identifiable information to third
parties.
In an effort
to further protect your privacy, at any time
you can request that we remove you from our
databases.
SHOPPING
SERVICES
Yard Fitness Center strives to offer its
visitors a secure and safe environment for
credit card purchases. Some of the shopping
and fulfillment services offered on
yardstrength.com may be operated by third
party shopping partners.
They collect
personally identifiable information
necessary to accept, process and ship your
ordered merchandise on behalf of Yard
Fitness Center to provide you with
information you may request and updates on
the status of your order, and to assist your
purchasing experience. Our shopping partners
collect personally identifiable information
from you by "active" means, whereby you
actively give our shopping partners, as
yardstrength.com ‘s agents, that information
when ordering merchandise.
Personally
identifiable information entered into any of
the yardstrength.com shopping services is
used only to complete your transaction and
never revealed to others or used by our
shopping partners for any purpose not
authorized by Yard Fitness Center. Our
shopping partners do not own the personally
identifiable information they collect and
provide such information only to Yard
Fitness Center (or its designee) and to the
delivery services (e.g., the U.S. Postal
Service and UPS) they use to deliver
merchandise that you order from the
yardstrength.com shopping services. However,
as authorized by Yard Fitness Center, our
shopping partners will provide personally
identifiable information in response to
legitimate subpoenas or other appropriate
law enforcement activities.
Credit card
information provided to buy merchandise is
used solely to determine that your card is
valid, that sufficient credit is available
to pay for the purchase and to apply the
cost of your purchase to your card when the
items are shipped. Credit card information
you provide is transmitted across the
Internet securely using encryption from your
browser to our shopping partners' secure
order processing systems. Some versions of
browsers and firewalls do not permit
connection to secure servers. In such cases,
you will not be able to connect to the
server and therefore won't be able to place
an order through a secure connection. While
no method is completely impenetrable, our
shopping partners utilize state-of-the-art
encryption technology used in e-commerce
today. Unfortunately, no data transmission
over the Internet can be guaranteed to be
100% secure. Consequently, while our
shopping partners are committed to
protecting your personal information, they
cannot entirely ensure or warrant the
security of any information you transmit to
them.
Please be aware that yardstrength.com
advertisers or web sites that have links on
our site may collect personally identifiable
information about you. The information
practices of those web sites linked to
yardstrength.com are not covered by this
privacy policy.
External Service Providers. There are a
number of separate services offered by third
parties that we refer to as external service
providers that may be complimentary to your
use of the Site (e.g. merchandise providers,
shipping, packaging). If you choose to use
these separate services, disclose
information to the external service
providers, and/or grant them permission to
collect information about you, then their
use of your information is governed by their
privacy policy. We do not disclose your
personal information to external service
providers unless you provide your explicit
consent. With your consent we may provide
some of your personal information to the
external service provider offering such
services, for your convenience. To prevent
our disclosure of your personal information
to an external service provider, you can
decline such consent or simply not use their
services. Because we do not control the
privacy practices of these third parties,
you should evaluate their practices before
deciding to use their services. Users who
register on a Yard Fitness Center co-branded
web site grant Yard Fitness Center
permission to pass your email address back
to that co-branded web site. The use of your
email address by the co-brand web sites is
limited by their applicable privacy
policies.
Internal
Service Providers for Our Operations. We may
use third parties that we refer to as
internal service providers to facilitate or
outsource one or more aspects of the
business, product and service operations
that we provide to you (e.g., [list some
examples if appropriate] and therefore we
may provide some of your personal
information directly to these internal
service providers. These internal service
providers are subject to confidentiality
agreements with us and other legal
restrictions that prohibit their use of the
information we provide them for any other
purpose except to facilitate the specific
outsourced Yard Fitness Center related
operation, unless you have explicitly agreed
or given your prior permission to them for
additional uses. In some instances, the
internal service provider may collect
information directly from you (such as for
Yard Fitness Center surveys or for a
co-branded credit card). In these cases, you
will be notified of the involvement of the
internal service provider, and all
additional information you provide them and
their additional uses will be strictly up to
you. If you provide additional information
to an internal service provider directly,
then their use of your personal information
is governed by their applicable privacy
policy.
SECURITY
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the
Internet can be guaranteed to be 100%
secure. As a result, while we strive to
protect your personal information,
yardstrength.com cannot ensure or warrant
the security of any information you transmit
to us or from our online products or
services, and you do so at your own risk.
Once we receive your transmission, we use
reasonable efforts to ensure that collected
personally identifiable information is
secure and not readily accessible to
unapproved individuals or third parties.
yardstrength.com has limited the number of
people who have physical access to our
database servers and has implemented
electronic security systems and password
protections which help further guard against
unauthorized access.
Due to the
existing regulatory environment, we cannot
ensure that all of your private
communications and other personal
information will never be disclosed in ways
not otherwise described in this Privacy
Policy. By way of example (without limiting
the foregoing), we may be forced to disclose
personal information to the government or
third parties under certain circumstances,
third parties may unlawfully intercept or
access transmissions or private
communications, or users may abuse or misuse
your personal information that they collect
from the Site. Therefore, although we use
industry standard practices to protect your
privacy, we do not promise, and you should
not expect, that your personal information
or private communications will always remain
private. CONTACT INFORMATION If you have any
questions, comments or concerns regarding
Yard Fitness Center’s privacy policy and/or
practices, please e-mail us at
info@yardstrength.com or write us at
contact. This
policy, like the online medium itself, is
subject to change and, as such, we encourage
you to review this policy from time to time.