Privacy Policy

The AAU (including Play AAU, AAU Sports and all other AAU websites) is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. This Statement of Privacy applies to the AAU websites and governs data collection and usage. By using the AAU websites, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

COLLECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
The AAU websites collect personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. The AAU websites also collect demographic information, such as your zip code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by the AAU. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by the AAU for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the AAU websites.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through AAU public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: The AAU is not responsible for any of your private online communications.

The AAU encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from AAU websites so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. The AAU is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the AAU websites.

USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
The AAU collects and uses your personal information to operate the AAU websites and deliver the services you have requested. The AAU also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from the AAU and its affiliates. The AAU may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Except as otherwise prohibited by law, the AAU may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners or have the external business partners contact you about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) may be transferred to the third party. In addition, the AAU may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

The AAU keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within the AAU websites, in order to determine what AAU services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

The AAU will disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on the AAU or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of the AAU; or, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the AAU websites or the public.

USE OF COOKIES
The AAU websites use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Play AAU pages, or register with Play AAU site or services, a cookie helps Play AAU to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Play AAU website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Play AAU features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the AAU websites you visit.

SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
The AAU secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. The AAU secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT
The AAU will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. The AAU encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how the AAU is protecting your information.Your continued use of this website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

CONTACT INFORMATION
The AAU welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that the AAU has not adhered to this Statement, please contact the AAU at support@aausports.org. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.

California residents are entitled to request and obtain from the AAU once per calendar year information about any of your personal information shared with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes, including the categories of information of information and the names of addresses of this businesses with which the AAU has shared such information, To request this information, please contact us at support@aausports.org. California residents under the age of 18 may request and obtain removal of content or information posted on the AAU websites. While the AAU will seek to remove such information, such action does not ensure the complete or comprehensive removal of the content or information. To request removal of content or information, please contact us at support@aausports.org.