General

We are committed to safeguarding your privacy online. We want to assure our users that we will not willfully disclose any personal information about you to any third party unless you have given us your permission to do so.

Please read this Privacy Policy ("Policy") for an explanation of how we will treat your personal information. By using WUSA.com (also referred to herein as the “Site”), including any of the Official Team Sites of the member teams of the WUSA, you consent to the collection and use of personal information as outlined in this Policy. If you do not agree to this Policy, please do not use our Site.

We do not collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13 without parental notification and consent. Accordingly, children under 13 years old may be restricted from participating in certain activities and transactions on WUSA.com. The statements in this Policy about our collection and use of personal information apply to our treatment of personal information from children under the age of 13. For a description of the additional protection that we take with respect to the personal information of children under the age of 13, please read “Special Rules for Children Under 13” below.

If you have any questions or comments regarding this Policy, please contact us at
feedback@wusa.com.

TABLE OF CONTENTS


A. The Organization Collecting the Personal Information

B. WUSA’s Collection and Use of Personally Identifiable Information

C. Users' Choices Regarding Collection, Use and Distribution of Personal Information

D. Security of Personal Information

E. Linking to Other Websites

F. Special Rules for Children under 13

G. Contact Us

H. Notification of Changes

A. The Organization Collecting the Personal Information


WUSA.com is owned by the Women’s United Soccer Association Players’ Association (“WUSA Players”) and operated by the WUSA Players and WUSA Festivals, LLC, which now do business as the Women’s United Soccer Association, or “WUSA.” WUSA Players and WUSA Festivals, LLC, are located c/o Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP, 1735 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103, attention to John Langel, Esquire. The Site and the WUSA previously were owned and operated by Women’s Professional Soccer, L.L.C. On September 15, 2003, Women’s Professional Soccer, L.L.C. voted to dissolve and suspend further operations of the WUSA. Thereafter, Women’s Professional Soccer, L.L.C. assigned to the WUSA Players certain intellectual property and other rights associated with the WUSA, including WUSA.com, and the WUSA (and its member teams’) marks and logos. The WUSA Players and WUSA Festivals, LLC now are hard at work to revive the WUSA as the world’s premier women’s professional soccer league.

B. WUSA’s Collection and Use of Personally Identifiable Information.


WUSA.com does not collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13 without parental notification and consent. Please review our “Special Rules for Children under 13”, for further information.

When you visit the Site, WUSA.com collects the “IP address” of the computer you are using. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. For many users accessing the Internet from a dial-up Internet Service Provider (ISP), the IP address will be different whenever you log on. We may use the IP addresses we gather from you to collect broad demographic information for both our own use and our advertisers’ use. We also may use IP addresses to help us administer the Site, track use of the Site and diagnose any potential service or technology problems.

WUSA.com collects your personal information when you chose to register with WUSA on the Site, for example in order to receive the WUSA’s newsletter. We also may collect personal information from you if you participate in our chat rooms, our polls, opinion surveys and other programs, or if you chose to purchase products or services through our website. The information WUSA collects from you may include your name or company name, your address and telephone. your e-mail address, your age, your occupation, your personal interests, and/or your favorite WUSA team or players. In addition, if you chose to order products or services through our Site, we will collect your credit card information. You also may be requested to provide a user name and password to access certain information or to use certain features of the Site. WUSA.com (and/or its web hosting provider) will maintain your personal information in secured servers.

WUSA.com will use the personal information it collects from you to customize the advertising and content you see, to better fulfill your requests for products and services, to improve our own services, to contact you to conduct research, or to analyze (and share with third parties) aggregated demographic information.

WUSA.com also may supply your personal information to certain affiliated third parties (such as our web host and Site operator, Infinity ProSports, as well as, any delivery company, manufacturer, or other company) that we use to help us make, sell, delivery and market our products to you.

It is not our policy to sell, rent or otherwise disclose your personal information to third parties unless:

• you have provided us with your express consent to such disclosure via clicking our “opt-in” box authorizing us to provide such information to such third parties;
  


• we are required by law to share your information (whether personal or non-personal), including pursuant to judicial or governmental subpoena, warrants or order. If so ordered, we will obey the law. In addition, notwithstanding any term to the contrary in this Policy, we reserve the right to use and disclose your personal and non-personal information to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving actual or potential threats to the physical safety of any person, or violations of WUSA.com’s Policy or Terms of Use;
  


• we have a parent’s permission to share the information if the user is a child under age 13. A more detailed discussion of our special rules for children under 13 can be found under “Special Rules for Children under 13” below; or
  


• the assets associated with the WUSA are transferred to another entity as part of the effort to revive or reinvigorate a women’s professional soccer league, and the customer information we have gathered is, or is likely to be, one of the business assets transferred to the new organization in order to carry forth the operations of a women’s professional soccer league. If this event occurs, WUSA will notify you before personal information about you is actually transferred, but your use of the Site and your agreement to this Privacy Policy signifies your acceptance of this transfer, should it come to pass.
  

C. Users' Choices Regarding Collection, Use and Distribution of Personal Information


Our registration forms contain a box for you to “opt-in” to indicate whether you consent (i) to receive special offers or promotions from us and (ii) to sell or rent your information to third parties that offer goods and services that you might be interested in purchasing or otherwise using. Unless you give us your consent to use your personal information for these purposes, we and our partners will only use it to give you access to the Site, to complete the transaction or to provide the newsletter, service or product you have requested. If you indicate that you consent to receive communications or solicitations, but you later change your mind, you can revise your preferences.

D. Security of Personal Information


WUSA.com has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under its control. We have put together appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information.

Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that the personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this privacy notice.

Whatever a user transmits or discloses online can be collected and used by others or unlawfully intercepted by third parties. No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Although we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot warrant the security of any information you transmit to us. In addition, we may disclose information to law enforcement or other government officials if we determine such disclosure to be appropriate, or if we are compelled to disclose it by court order or other requirement of law.

E. Links to Other Websites


WUSA.com contains links to other sites operated by unrelated third parties. Please note that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of any third party websites. We encourage you to be aware of this when your leave WUSA.com and to read the privacy policies of every website that collects personally identifiable information from you. This Policy applies only to WUSA.com.

F. Special Rules for Children under 13


In accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, WUSA.com has adopted special procedures applicable to personal information from users under the age of 13. It is WUSA.com's policy not to collect any personally identifiable information from these users for our own use without notice to, and consent of, a parent or guardian. Additionally, if WUSA.com determines that a user is under the age of 13, based on the information provided during the registration process, that user will not be permitted to register without notice to and consent of the child’s parent or guardian. The statements in this Policy generally about our collection and use of personal information also apply to our treatment of personal information from children under the age of 13, with the added protection of the special rules that follow, which supersede any conflicting portions of the Policy with respect to users under the age of 13.

When a user under the age of 13 attempts to register on applicable portions of WUSA.com, the user may either be prohibited from registering for the activity or will be asked to submit his or her first name, e-mail address, and parent's e-mail address. No more information than is reasonably necessary as a precondition for participation in an activity will be requested.

When a user under the age of 13 attempts to submit his or her registration information, WUSA.com's system will ask the user’s age. If the user is under the age of 13, the user will be prohibited from continuing until the parent or guardian enters his/her e-mail address and any child under the age of 13 will be prohibited from registering without the consent of a parent or guardian. By following the instructions provided in a parental notice, the parent or guardian will be given the option to continue with the registration and to supply a credit card number for verification purposes only (no charges will be made). In addition, we will send a separate e-mail notification to the user's e-mail address to inform him/her that notice of their activity was e-mailed to their parent's e-mail address. The registration will become invalid if the parent or guardian unsubscribes the user at any time. We will maintain the confidentiality, security, and integrity of the personal information collected about the child. The child’s personal information will not be disclosed to third parties unless the child’s parent or guardian affirmatively consents to such disclosure by clicking the Site’s “opt in” box authorizing us to provide the child’s personal information to such third parties. Notwithstanding the foregoing, your child’s personal information will also be in the possession of the web hosting service and operator of WUSA.com, Infinity ProSports, which will have such information solely to help operate the Site and provide requested services to your child. They can't use your child's personal information without your consent for any purpose other than the service you've requested on behalf of your child. WUSA.com will not retain any personal information from a user under the age of 13 if a parent unsubscribes their child. If unsubscribed, all information provided to the website by the child will be deleted.

WUSA.com suggests that you discuss this statement with your children.

G. Contact Us


If you have any questions or comments about this Policy, you can contact us at comments@WUSA.com.

H. Notification of Changes


If we decide to make an important change to our Policy, we will post a notification and link on our homepage so that you can review the updated policy. Your continued use of WUSA.com following the posting and notification of changes to the Policy will acknowledge your acceptance of such changes. If at any point we wish to use your personal information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify you by means of an e-mail and give you the opportunity to indicate whether you consent to the proposed use.