Shootonline.com Privacy Policy 

What This Privacy Policy Covers
This policy covers how DCA Business Media LLC (dba shootonline.com) treats personal information that shootonline.com collects and receives, including nformation related to your past use of shootonline.com products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.

This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that DCA Business Media LLC does not own or control, or to people that shootonline.com does not employ or manage. In addition, certain shootonline.com associated companies such advertisers have their own privacy statements which can be viewed by clicking on the links.

Information Collection and Use

General
shootonline.com collects personal information when you register with shootonline.com, when you use shootonline.com products or services, when you visit shootonline.com pages or the pages of certain shootonline.com partners. shootonline.com may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.

When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. Once you register with shootonline.com and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.

shootonline.com collects information about your transactions with us. shootonline.com automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, shootonline.com cookie information, and the page you request.

shootonline.com uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

shootonline.com does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with shootonline.com under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help shootonline.com communicate with you about offers from shootonline.com and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.

We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;

We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of shootonline.com's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.

We transfer information about you if shootonline.com is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, shootonline.com will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

shootonline.com displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria.

shootonline.com does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.

shootonline.com works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business.

Cookies
shootonline.com may set and access shootonline.com cookies on your computer. shootonline.com lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to shootonline.com's cookies. shootonline.com may automatically collect non-personally identifiable information and data through the use of "cookies." Cookies are small text files a Web site uses to recognize repeat users, facilitate the user's ongoing access to the site and facilitate the use of the site. "Cookies" also allow a site to track usage behavior and compile site usage information that will allow for the improvement of content and target advertising.

Your Ability to Edit and Discontinue Your Account Information and Preferences

General
You can edit your shootonline.com Account Information, including your public preferences, at any time. New categories of marketing communications may be added to the Public Preferences page from time to time. Users who visit this page can opt out of receiving future marketing communications from these new categories or they can unsubscribe by following instructions contained in the messages they receive.

We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the shootonline.com service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the shootonline.com Newsletter, that are considered part of your shootonline.com account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.

You can discontinue your shootonline.com account by sending an email to our online subscription department circulation@shootonline.com 

We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs. We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.

shootonline.com may publish personal information about you to the public, with your consent, based on option that you chose in your subscription options.

Changes to this Privacy Policy
shootonline.com may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your shootonline.com account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

Revisions
At shootonline.com we take your privacy very seriously. Because of this we want to provide you with explicit information on how we collect, gather, and identify information during your visit to our site. This information may be expanded or updated as we change or develop our site. For this reason, we recommend that you review this policy from time-to-time to see if anything has changed. Your continued use of our site signifies your acceptance of our privacy policy.

Personally Identifiable Information refers to information that tells us specifically who you are, such as your name, phone number, email or postal address. In many cases we need this information to provide the personalized or enhanced service that you have requested.

The amount of Personally Identifiable Information that you choose to disclose to shootonline.com is completely up to you. The only way we know something about you personally is if you provide it to us in conjunction with one of our services.

What information do we collect and how do we use it?
shootonline.com collects information on our users in three ways: by your voluntary submissions (for instance, if you sign up for our email newsletters) and/or surveys; or contest entries; and through cookie technology.

In our effort to provide personalization and opportunities for services, we may at times ask you to submit information such as your name or email address, or to share your interests and hobbies with us. You never have to answer these questions, and you can decline this exchange of information on any site on the Internet - not just ours - at any time. However, if you should choose to withhold requested information, we may not be able to provide you with some of the services dependent upon the collection of this information, such as the purchase and shipment of products and services to people who visit our site.

The information shootonline.com collects is used in a variety of ways: for internal review; to improve the content of the site, thus making your user experience more valuable; to notify you about updates to the service; and to let you know about products and services that you may be interested in.

Email: If you have provided us your email address, shootonline.com periodically sends promotional emails to its subscribers about services offered by shootonline.com, shoot and its partners. If you do not wish to receive email information from shootonline.com, please let us know by unchecking the "contact me" option in the "My Profile" section of the website or by writing us at shootonline.com., 21 Charles Street, #203, Westport, CT  06880.

The "email this article" feature is an easy way for you to send articles through email. The email addresses that you supply to use this service will not be used for any other purpose without your consent.

With whom does shootonline.com share the information it gathers/tracks?
From time to time we share this information with other reputable organizations for marketing purposes or the information is used by shootonline.com to contact consumers for its own marketing endeavors. As a valued consumer, we offer you the opportunity to "opt out", or request not to accept these marketing opportunities. If at any time you change your mind and do not want shootonline.com to share your email address or home address with other companies and/or organizations, or would simply like to be removed from the list, please let us know by emailing us at: circulation@shootonline.com or by writing us at shootonline.com.,21 Charles Street, #203, Westport, CT  06880.

Sweepstakes/Contests
From time-to-time shootonline.com, along with other reputable companies, provides sweepstakes and other contests for the enjoyment of our users. By participating in the contest or sweepstakes and answering any and all questions, the user understands that shootonline.com and/or the involved company(s) may use the information obtained for marketing purposes. Children under 18 may not participate in any sweepstakes or contest promoted by shootonline.com.

Shootonline.com may, or may not, use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web sites. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (i.e. not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here www.doubleclick.net/naiprivacy.

About Children's Privacy
shootonline.com is committed to the safety of our children. Children under 17 may not subscribe services and/or participate in any sweepstakes or contests on shootonline.com. Also, we encourage children under the age of 17 to ask a parent for permission before providing or sending any information to anyone online.

Your Consent
By using our Web site, you consent to the collection and use of the information described in this Privacy Policy by shootonline.com. Once again, if you do not wish us to share this information with other reputable companies that we think you might be interested in, please let us know by emailing us at circulation@shootonline.com.

Questions?
We welcome your questions and/or comments. Please fill out our online comment form or send an email to webadmin@shootonline.com.