Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms of service posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms of service.
1. Website Visitors
Like most website operators, fastpitchcentral.com collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. fastpitchcentral.com's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how fastpitchcentral.com's visitors use its website. From time to time, fastpitchcentral.com may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
fastpitchcentral.com also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on fastpitchcentral.com blog posts. fastpitchcentral.com only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
By using the fastpitchcentral.com services, you agree to be bound by the Google’s Privacy Policy . You can modify your Google privacy and security settings at myaccount.google.com.
2. Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to fastpitchcentral.com's websites choose to interact with fastpitchcentral.comin ways that require fastpitchcentral.com to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that fastpitchcentral.com gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who leave a comment at fastpitchcentral.com to provide a username and email address.
3. Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
4. Advertisements
Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by fastpitchcentral.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
5. Links To External Sites
Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms of service of every site you visit.
We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.
6. fastpitchcentral.com uses Google AdWords for remarketing
fastpitchcentral.com uses the remarketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven't completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone's past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google's privacy policy.
You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.
7. Aggregated Statistics
fastpitchcentral.com may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. fastpitchcentral.com may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, fastpitchcentral.com does not disclose your personally-identifying information.
8. Cookies
To enrich and perfect your online experience, fastpitchcentral.com uses "Cookies", similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. fastpitchcentral.com uses cookies to help fastpitchcentral.com identify and track visitors, their usage of fastpitchcentral.com, and their website access preferences. fastpitchcentral.com visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using fastpitchcentral.com's websites, with the drawback that certain features of fastpitchcentral.com's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to fastpitchcentral.com's use of cookies.
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to your website or other websites.
Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings https://www.google.com/settings/ads. (Alternatively, you can direct users to opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.)
9. Third-Party Advertising Cookie Information
At Fastpitchcentral.com, we collect specific data and work with third parties to provide personalized ads on behalf of our advertisers. This data is gathered from advertising technologies used by us or third party-like cookies, as well as information you voluntarily provide to us, such as your email address, your use of Fastpitchcentral.com Services, demographic data from advertisers or vendors, and collective information assumptions.
We prioritize maintaining your anonymity; thus, the information is used and shared without revealing your identity. For example, we partner with Google to place ads on Fastpitchcentral.com Services. Google combines their data with cookies or unique device identifiers to display ads based on your visits to Fastpitchcentral.com and related sites. You can choose to opt out of Google's cookie usage by checking their privacy policy.
Additionally, our role is to identify groups of users who can be provided with personalized ads on behalf of our clients. We merge data obtained from registrations or surveys with information automatically collected through tracking technologies as you navigate our websites and apps. This combined data helps create models to determine user characteristics, like demographic information or interests. By partnering with service providers, we can categorize users by common features. Each group is linked with a randomly assigned ID, which is then sent to our ad server for use in targeting ad campaigns on our sites and apps.
This process is also applied to our affiliate link vendors featured in our guides and product endorsements. Fastpitchcentral.com Services include links that may direct you to vendor URLs and other services not managed or controlled by us. These vendors use cookies and other technologies to collect data about your navigation from Fastpitchcentral.com Services to the merchant sites you intend to visit. If you follow a link to a vendor’s URL and complete a product purchase, we may receive a commission.
10. Option for the User to Decline the Sale or Sharing of Their Personal Information
Fastpitchcentral.com may "sell" your personal data as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), but grants you the right to opt-out at any time. California residents have specific rights under the CCPA and the California Privacy Rights Act, including the right to opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of their private data to third parties not affiliated with our service.
To exercise this right, simply click the "Contact us" link at the bottom of our webpage and send an email with the subject line "California Resident - Do Not Sell or Share.If your browser supports it, you can also activate the Global Privacy Control. This feature lets you prevent your private data from being "sold" or "shared".
Here at Fastpitchcentral.com, we prioritize the privacy of all users, particularly those under 16. We purposely do not knowingly "sell" or "share" the personal information of individuals under 16, as defined by the CCPA.
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, you may contact us via the contact form.