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PRIVACY
Please review our Privacy Notice, which also governs your visit to MattinglyBaseball com, to understand our practices.
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ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS
When you visit MattinglyBaseball.com or send e-mails to us, you are communicating with us electronically. You consent to receive communications from us electronically. We will communicate with you by e-mail or by posting notices on this site. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.
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COPYRIGHT
All content included on this site, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, and software, is the property of Mattinglybaseball.com, Mattingly Hitting Products, Inc. or its content suppliers and protected by United States and international copyright laws. The compilation of all content on this site is the exclusive property of Mattinglybaseball.com and Mattingly Hitting Products, Inc. and protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. All software used on this site is the property of Mattinglybaseball.com and Mattingly Hitting Products, Inc. aor its software suppliers and protected by United States and international copyright laws.
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TRADEMARKS
MATTINGLY, V-GRIP, SWINGING LOGO, MATTINGLY BASEBALL, MATTINGLYBASEBALL.COM and other Mattinglybaseball.com graphics, logos, page headers, button icons, scripts, and service names are trademarks, registered trademarks or trade dress of Mattingly Hitting Products, Inc. or its affiliates in the U.S. and/or other countries. and Mattingly Hitting Products, Inc.’s trademarks and trade dress may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not and Mattingly Hitting Products, Inc.’s in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits and Mattingly Hitting Products, Inc.. All other trademarks not owned by and Mattingly Hitting Products, Inc. or its affiliates that appear on this site are the property of their respective owners, who may or may not be affiliated with, connected to, or sponsored by and Mattingly Hitting Products, Inc. or its affiliates.
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PATENTS
One or more patents apply to this Site and to the features and services accessible via the Site, including without limitation: U.S. Patent Nos. 7,086,973 and all corresponding foreign counterparts.
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Mattinglybaseball.com
Privacy Notice
Last updated: August 25,
2006.
Mattinglybaseball.com knows that you care how information
about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your
trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This
notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting Mattinglybaseball.com,
you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy
Notice.
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What
Personal Information About Customers Does Mattinglybaseball.com
Gather?
The information we learn
from customers helps us personalize and continually
improve your shopping experience at Mattinglybaseball.com.
Here are the types of information we gather.
- Information You Give Us:
We receive and store any information you enter on
our Web site or give us in any other way. See below
for examples of what we collect. You can choose not
to provide certain information, but then you might
not be able to take advantage of many of our features.
We use the information that you provide for such purposes
as responding to your requests, customizing future
shopping for you, improving our stores, and communicating
with you.
- Automatic Information:
We receive and store certain types of information
whenever you interact with us. For example, like many
Web sites, we use "cookies," and we obtain
certain types of information when your Web browser
accesses Mattinglybaseball.com. See below for examples
of the information we receive. A number of companies
offer utilities designed to help you visit Web sites
anonymously. Although we will not be able to provide
you with a personalized experience at Mattinglybaseball.com
if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware
that these tools exist.
- E-mail Communications:
To help us make e-mails more useful and interesting,
we often receive a confirmation when you open e-mail
from Mattinglybaseball.com if your computer supports
such capabilities. We also compare our customer list
to lists received from other companies, in an effort
to avoid sending unnecessary messages to our customers.
If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail
from us, please unsubscribe at websmaster@mattinglybaseball.com
- Information from Other
Sources: We might receive information about you from
other sources and add it to our account information.
See below for examples of the information we receive.
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What
About Cookies?
- Cookies are alphanumeric
identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard
drive through your Web browser to enable our systems
to recognize your browser and to provide certain features
to you. and allows for the storage of items in your
Shopping Cart between visits.
- The Help portion of the
toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent
your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have
the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie,
or how to disable cookies altogether. However, cookies
allow you to take full advantage of some of Mattinglybaseball.com's
features, and we recommend that you leave them turned
on.
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Does
Mattinglybaseball.com Share the Information It Receives?
Information about our customers
is an important part of our business, and we are not
in the business of selling it to others. We share customer
information only as described below and with subsidiaries
Mattinglybaseball.com, Inc. controls that either are
subject to this Privacy Notice or follow practices at
least as protective as those described in this Privacy
Notice.
- Affiliated Businesses
We Do Not Control: We work closely with our
affiliated businesses that are listed on or linked
from our website but we do not control those businesses
or the links. You can tell when a third party is involved
in your transactions, and we share customer information
related to those transactions with that third party.
- Third-Party Service
Providers: We
employ other companies and individuals to perform
functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling
orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and
e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer
lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance,
providing search results and links (including paid
listings and links), processing credit card payments,
and providing customer service. They have access to
personal information needed to perform their functions,
but may not use it for other purposes.
- Promotional Offers:
Sometimes we send offers to selected groups
of Mattinglybaseball.com customers on behalf of other
businesses. When we do this, we do not give that business
your name and address. If you do not want to receive
such offers, please see Opt-Out/Remove/Change/Modify
below.
- Business Transfers:
As we continue to develop our business, we might sell
or buy stores, subsidiaries, or business units. In
such transactions, customer information generally
is one of the transferred business assets but remains
subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy
Notice (unless, of course, the customer consents otherwise).
Also, in the unlikely event that Mattinglybaseball.com,
Inc., or substantially all of its assets are acquired,
customer information will of course be one of the
transferred assets.
- Protection of Mattinglybaseball.com
and Others: We release account and other
personal information when we believe release is appropriate
to comply with the law; enforce or apply our Conditions
of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights,
property, or safety of Mattinglybaseball.com, our
users, or others. This includes exchanging information
with other companies and organizations for fraud protection
and credit risk reduction. Obviously, however, this
does not include selling, renting, sharing, or otherwise
disclosing personally identifiable information from
customers for commercial purposes in violation of
the commitments set forth in this Privacy Notice.
- With Your Consent:
Other than as set out above, you will receive
notice when information about you might go to third
parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose
not to share the information.
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How
Secure Is Information About Me?
- We work to protect the
security of your information during transmission of
personally identifiable information by using Secure
Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information
you input.
- We reveal only the last
five digits of your credit card numbers when confirming
an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit
card number to the appropriate credit card company
during order processing.
- It is important for you
to protect against unauthorized access to your password
and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished
using a shared computer.
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What
About Third-Party Advertisers and Links to Other Websites?
Our site includes third-party
advertising and links to other websites. We do not provide
any personally identifiable customer information to
these advertisers or third-party websites. Below are
some examples as well as information on how to contact
these companies to learn more or opt-out of their information
collection practices.
These third-party websites
and advertisers, or Internet advertising companies working
on their behalf, sometimes use technology to send (or
"serve") the advertisements that appear on
our website directly to your browser. They automatically
receive your IP address when this happens. They may
also use cookies, JavaScript, web beacons (also known
as action tags or single-pixel gifs), and other technologies
to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize
advertising content. We do not have access to or control
over cookies or other features that they may use, and
the information practices of these advertisers and third-party
websites are not covered by this Privacy Notice. Please
contact them directly for more information about their
privacy practices.
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Which
Information Can I Access?
Mattinglybaseball.com gives
you access to a broad range of information about your
account and your interactions with Mattinglybaseball.com
for the limited purpose of viewing and, in certain cases,
updating that information. Below are some examples,
the list of which will change as our Web site evolves.
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What
Choices Do I Have?
As discussed above, you can
always choose not to provide information, even though
it might be needed to make a purchase or to take advantage
of all of the Mattinglybaseball.com features
- If you do not want to
receive e-mail or other mail from us, please see Opt-Out/Remove/Change/Modify
below. (If you do not want to receive Conditions of
Use and other legal notices from us, such as this
Privacy Notice, those notices will still govern your
use of Mattinglybaseball.com, and it is your responsibility
to review them for changes.)
- The Help portion of the
toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent
your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have
the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie,
or how to disable cookies altogether. However, you
will not be able to use some important features on
Mattinglybaseball.com if you do not use cookies.
- The Federal Trade Commission
provides useful information about online privacy on
its own Web site, www.ftc.gov.
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Are
Children Allowed to Use Mattinglybaseball.com?
Mattinglybaseball.com does
not sell products for purchase by children. We sell
children's products for purchase by adults. If you are
under 18, you may use Mattinglybaseball.com only with
the involvement of a parent or guardian.
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Conditions
of Use, Notices, and Revisions
If you choose to visit Mattinglybaseball.com,
your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to
this Notice and our Condition of Use, including limitations
on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application
of the law of the state of Washington. If you have any
concern about privacy at Mattinglybaseball.com, please
contact us contact us at webmaster@mattinglybaseball.com
with a thorough description, and we will try to resolve
it.
Our business changes constantly,
and our Privacy Notice and the Conditions of Use will
change also. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our
notices and conditions, unless you have instructed us
not to, but you should check our Web site frequently
to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our
current Privacy Notice applies to all information that
we have about you and your account. We stand behind
the promises we make, however, and will never materially
change our policies and practices to make them less
protective of customer information collected in the
past without the consent of affected customers.
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Examples of Information
Collected
Information
You Give Us
You provide
most such information when you search, buy, bid, post,
participate in a contest or questionnaire, or communicate
with customer service. For example, you provide information
when you search for a product; place an order through
Mattinglybaseball.com or one of our third-party sellers;
provide information in My Account
(and you might have more than one if you have used
more than one e-mail address when shopping with us);
communicate with us by phone, e-mail, or otherwise;
complete a questionnaire; provide employer information
when opening a corporate account; participate in community
features; share information with friends; and Demographic
and profile data is also collected in some areas of
the Site. This data is used to tailor our users' experience
at our Site, directing them to content we think may
be of interest, and displaying content for which users
have shown a preference. As a result of those actions,
you might supply us with such information as your
name, address, and phone numbers; credit card information;
people to whom purchases have been shipped, including
addresses and phone number; content of e-mails to
us; and financial information, including Social Security
and driver's license numbers.
Automatic
Information
Examples of the information we collect and analyze
include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to
connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail
address; password; computer and connection information
such as browser type and version, operating system,
and platform; purchase history; the full Uniform Resource
Locator (URL) clickstream to, through, and from our
Web site, including date and time; cookie number;
products you viewed or searched for; your purchase
history; and the phone number you used to call our
toll free number. During some visits we may use software
tools such as JavaScript to measure and collect session
information, including page response times, download
errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction
information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs),
and methods used to browse away from the page.
Information
from Other Sources
Examples of information we receive from other sources
include updated delivery and address information from
our carriers or other third parties, which we use
to correct our records and deliver your next purchase
or communication more easily; account information,
purchase or redemption information, and page-view
information from some merchants with which we operate
co-branded businesses or for which we provide technical,
fulfillment, advertising, or other services; search
results and links, including paid listings (such as
Sponsored Links); and credit history information from
credit bureaus, which we use to help prevent and detect
fraud and to offer certain credit or financial services
to some customers.
Third-Party
Advertisers and Links to Other Websites
You can find out more about their information collection
and use practices of third-party advertisers and advertising
companies, including how to opt out of cookies and
other collection techniques that they use, by clicking
on the above links to their websites.
Information
You Can Access
Examples of information you can access easily at Mattinglybaseball.com
include up-to-date information regarding recent orders;
personally identifiable information (including name,
e-mail, password, communications preferences, address
book); payment settings (including credit card information
and gift certificate, gift card, and check balances);
e-mail notification settings.
Opt-Out/Remove/Change/Modify
Our users have the opportunity to opt-out of receiving
communications from us at any time. To remove, change
or modify any information you have provided to us
from our database, or to no longer receive our service,
please make such a request by editing your Preferred
Player profile or by e-mailing webmaster@MattinglyBaseball.com
or, to no longer receive communications from us, by
replying to any e-mail you receive from us with the
word "REMOVE" on the subject line. We will
use all reasonable efforts to meet your request within
seven (7) days.
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