Use of Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information that a Web site transfers to a user's computer hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies make Web-surfing easier for you by saving your preferences while you are at our site. We never save passwords or credit card information in cookies. Accepting a cookie does not give anyone access to your computer or to any personal information. It is simply a small file in which we keep information that identifies you as a unique user. For example, we may use a cookie to indicate when you have already voted in an online poll to prevent multiple voting and a distortion of results. The use of cookies is an industry standard - you'll find them at most major Web sites. Most browsers are initially configured to accept cookies. However, you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent. Although you will still be able to enjoy many of the features on TA-Sports.net if you disable your browser from accepting cookies, some parts of the TA-Sports.net service will not function properly or may be considerably slower if you refuse cookies. For example, without cookies, you may have difficulty completing shopping transactions, entering contests or playing games.
About IP Addresses and Surveys Used for Research Purposes
An IP address is a number that is
automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web.
Web servers - the computers that "serve up" Web pages - automatically identify your computer by its IP address. When users request pages on TA-Sports.net, our servers log their IP addresses. Some activities within TA-Sports.net may display IP addresses along with the user's first name and message. Please review each activity prior to use and only participate in those that involve the disclosure of information you are comfortable with sharing. TA-Sports.net will also occasionally ask users to complete surveys which we use for general research purposes to improve our site and serve you better. These surveys are optional and you do not have to answer any survey question to enjoy TA-Sports.net. TA-Sports.net analyses research statistics compiled from surveys and IP addresses on an aggregated, anonymous basis, for system administration and site usage patterns and may share that analysis with advertisers and TAS business partners. However, in rare circumstances, we will use such information to identify a user when necessary to protect TA-Sports.net, its users or others.
Links from TA-Sports.net to Other Web Sites
The TA-Sports.net Privacy Policy
addresses only the use and disclosure of information we collect from you
on TA-Sports.net. You may occasionally get cookies from businesses that
advertise on TA-Sports.net which TA-Sports.net does not control and when
you link to the Web sites of third party advertisers, for example through
an advertising banner, your use of those sites will be subject to the
privacy policies of such third parties, which may differ from TA-Sports.net's
Privacy Policy.
