AFG media (‘AFG’), the owners of Yourhorseracingnews, knows that you care
about how your personal information is used and shared, and we take your privacy
seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.
By visiting the Yourhorseracingnews website or any AFG website, you are accepting
the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy.
What Does This Privacy Policy Cover?
This Privacy Policy covers AFG’s treatment of personal information that
AFG gathers when you are on the Yourhorseracingnews website or any AFG
website and when you use AFG services. This policy does not apply to
the practices of third parties that AFG media does not own or control, or
to individuals that AFG does not employ or manage.
What Personal Information About Users Does AFG Collect?
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you
with a friendly, customized, and efficient experience. We only collect
personal information that is relevant to the purpose of our website.
We do not process this information in a way that is incompatible with the
purpose for which it has been collected or subsequently authorized by you.
We collect the following types of information from our users:
- Information You Provide to Us:
We receive and store any information you enter on our website
or provide to us in any other way. You can choose not to provide
us with certain information, but then you may not be able to
take advantage of many of our special features. The personal information
you provide is used for such purposes as:
- Registration: In order for you to use Yourhorseracingnews services,
such as submitting new links to the website, you
must complete a registration form. As part of this registration
form, we require your email address.
- Automatic Information:
- We receive and store certain types of information
whenever you interact with us. Yourhorseracingnews automatically
receives and records certain "traffic data" on
our server logs from your browser including your IP address,
Yourhorseracingnews cookie information, and the page
you requested. Yourhorseracingnews uses this traffic
data to help diagnose problems with its servers, analyze trends and administer
the website.
- Yourhorseracingnews may also add on any
page display the total counts that page has been
viewed. This includes member profile pages.
- Social sharing of data: Yourhorseracingnews allows other
users to browse stories that you have made a runner,
submitted, blogged, or commented on.
- Profile information: Yourhorseracingnews allows other users
to browse your full name, location, and instant messaging
URL, within your member profile should you provide
this optional information.
- Syndication:Yourhorseracingnews allows for the RSS syndication of
all of its public content within the website.
- Friends Data: Much like other social services Yourhorseracingnews
allows non-friends to browse through your friends
activities
- API: Yourhorseracingnews will allow 3rd parties access to all Yourhorseracingnews
data this is already publicly available through Yourhorseracingnews.com.
Yourhorseracingnews will forever keep private passwords
and blog settings.
Marketing
- By joining Yourhorseracingnews you are
consenting to receive marketing emails from Yourhorseracingnews.
The frequency of emails will not exceed one per month, exceptional
circumstances notwithstanding. You can opt out of receiving marketing
emails by contacting andputting ‘unsubscribe’ in the subject line.
- Yourhorseracingnews
will never supply your details to any 3rd party marketing companies.
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 tell us how
and when pages in our website are visited and by how many people. Yourhorseracingnews
cookies do not collect personal information, and we do not combine
information collected through cookies with other personal information
to tell us who you are or what your screen name or email address
is.
- The "help" portion of the toolbar
on the majority of browsers will direct you on how to prevent
your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell
you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. We strongly
recommend that you leave the cookies activated, however, because cookies
enable you to take advantage of some of Yourhorseracingnews most attractive
features.
- Some of our business partners may use cookies on our website (for
example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control
over these cookies.
Will AFG Share Any of the Information it Receives?
Information about
our users is an integral part of our business. We neither rent nor
sell your personal information to anyone without your express permission.
We share your personal information only as described below.
- Yourhorseracingnews
Personnel: Yourhorseracingnews personnel (including, for the avoidance
of doubt, consultants and/or contractors) may have access to
user information while carrying out their duties in the normal course of
Yourhorseracingnews business.
- Business Transfers: In some cases, we may choose
to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, user information
is typically one of the business assets that is transferred.
Moreover, if Yourhorseracingnews, or substantially all of its assets, were
acquired, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred.
- Protection
of Yourhorseracingnews and Others: We may release personal information
when we believe in good faith that release is necessary to comply
with that law; enforce or apply our conditions of use and other agreements;
or protect the rights, property, or safety of Yourhorseracingnews, our employees,
our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies
and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
- With
Your Consent: Except as set forth above, you will be notified when
your personal information may be shared with third parties or
used for a purpose incompatible with the purpose(s) for which it was originally
collected, and you will be able to prevent the sharing of this information
by opting out.
Is Information About Me Secure?
- Your Yourhorseracingnews account information
is protected by a password for your privacy and security. You
need to work to protect against unauthorized access to your password
and to your computer by logging off once you have finished using
a shared computer.
- Only employees who need personal information to perform a specific
job (for example, a customer service representative) are granted
access to it. All of our employees are kept up to date on our
privacy and security practices.
What Information Can I Access?
You can access your personal information
on our website and correct, amend, or delete information that is
inaccurate. Simply log on to your profile in the normal manner and
click on the ‘Modify’ button.
What Choices Do I Have?
- As stated previously, you
can always opt not to disclose information, but then you may
be unable to use certain features on our website, such as posting
new links.
- You are able to add or update certain information
on pages, such as those listed in the "What Personal Information About Users
Does Yourhorseracingnews Collect?" section
above. When you update information, however, we often maintain
a copy of the unrevised information in our records.
- You may request deletion of your Yourhorseracingnews account by emailing
us at
- As explained earlier, the "help" portion of the toolbar on the majority
of browsers will direct you on how to prevent your browser from
accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive
a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. Please note, however,
that if your browser does not accept cookies, you will not be
able to take advantage of some of our attractive features.
Can Children Use Yourhorseracingnews
Services?
You must be 18 years and older to register to use the Yourhorseracingnews
website. As a result, Yourhorseracingnews does not specifically collect
information about children.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Yourhorseracingnews may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time,
at its sole discretion. Use of information we collect now is subject
to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used.
If we make changes to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting
an announcement on the Yourhorseracingnews website so you are always
aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what
circumstances if any, it is disclosed.
Conditions of Use
If you decide
to visit Yourhorseracingnews website, your visit and any possible
dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms
of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes,
and application of UK national law.
Effective Date of this Privacy
Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of February 1, 2007