| The
Ticket Company International, Inc. a Texas corporation with
its principal place of business in Texas (the "Company"),
created this privacy policy in order to demonstrate the Company's
firm commitment to your privacy and privacy?related concerns.
The following sets forth the Company's information gathering,
use, and dissemination practices. |
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| It
is the Company's policy to allow our customers to control
what personal information you provide to us. As a customer
of the Company you: |
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- Control
what personally identifiable information is collected;
- Control
what the Company can do with the information; and
- Have
our commitment to your right of privacy
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| Information
Collection - Notice and Disclosure Statement |
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| From
time to time, The Ticket Company International, Inc. may ask
customers to provide personal information that will help the
Company efficiently perform various transactions. That information
may be sought as you: |
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- Register
for general information;
- Register
for a free trial or demonstration of certain products
and services;
- Sign
up or subscribe to products and services; or
- Participate
in a special offer or contest.
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| The
Company does not collect personal information -- names, addresses,
phone numbers, email addresses or credit card numbers -- about
you except when you specifically provide such information
on a voluntary basis; like, for instance, when you participate
in our auction, sports or entertainment tickets, or make inquiries
about ticket or reservation availability. |
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| The
Company may utilize your personal information in several discrete
ways. |
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- If
you are purchasing sports or entertainment tickets, the
Company utilizes your personal information to communicate
with you about your ticket order or ticket inquiry. Also,
as is always the case whenever you buy a ticket to a sport
or entertainment event, the entertainment organization
is entitled to know the name and address of all who purchased
a ticket. The Company has no control whatsoever over the
entertainment organization's use of that information.
- If
you participate in our ticket auction, your The Ticket
Company International, Inc. user name will be visible
to anyone visiting the Company's web site, and your email
address will be available to other members of The Ticket
Company International, Inc. in order to facilitate communication
about tickets being bought and sold on the auction. At
no time, unless you volunteer the same, will any third
party know your actual name or any personal information
about you.
- If
you come to our web site from one of our strategic partners
or register with us, your personal information provided
to us may be shared with our strategic partners and used
in accordance with their standard policies.
- As
a valued customer of The Ticket Company International,
Inc. the Company will occasionally contact you, typically
by email (or any other way you prefer) in order to notify
you of special ticketing promotions, and up-to-date news,
sports, and entertainment interests. Of course, if you
do not wish to receive this personalized information,
you can always let us know by e-mailing us at The Ticket
Company International, Inc., and we will happily abide
by your wishes.
- Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the Company reserves the right to contact
you, utilizing your personal information, to inform you
of information that might affect your sports or entertainment
experience.
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| The
Ticket Company International, Inc. users should be aware that
if they voluntarily disclose personal information in the auction,
chat areas, on bulletin boards, or in classified areas within
the Company's web site, that information might be collected
and disseminated by third?parties, and result in, among other
things, unsolicited inquiries, messages, and offers from third?parties.
This third?party conduct is out of the control of the Company. |
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| The
Company uses your Internet Protocol (IP) address to help diagnose
problems with our computer server, and to administer our web
site. Your IP address is used to help identify you, and to
gather broad demographic data. Your IP address contains no
personal information about you. |
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| The
Company does, however, perform statistical analysis of customer
usage in order to measure interest in, and use of, the various
parts of the Company's web site, and the Company shares that
information with current and prospective advertisers, and
other interested third parties. But, this information is aggregated
data only (statistics, etc.), and contains no personally identifiable
information whatsoever. |
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| The
Ticket Company International, Inc. users should be aware that
non-personal information and data maybe automatically collected
by virtue of the standard operation of the Company computer
servers or through the use of "cookies". Cookies are files
a web site can use to recognize repeat users, and allow a
web site to track web usage behavior. Cookies take up minimal
room on your computer and cannot damage your computer's files.
Cookies work by assigning a number to the user that has a
specific meaning to the assigning web site. Cookies, by themselves,
cannot be used to find out the identity of any user. Unless
you choose to provide us with information about you, the Company
will never know who you are, even though we assign your computer
a cookie. Other companies that place advertising on our site
also have the ability to assign a different cookie to you
in a process that the Company does not control. But since
cookies aren't useable for identifying individuals, these
advertisers will never know who you are ? and the Company
will never tell them! If you do not want information to be
collected through the use of cookies, your browser allows
you to deny or accept the use of cookies. There may, however,
be some features on the Company's web site that require the
use of cookies in order to customize the delivery of information
to you. |
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| Consent/Choice
Statement |
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| The
Company does not sell or rent personal information about its
customers to any third parties at this time. In the event
the Company does engage in such commerce in the future, you
will have an opportunity to remove yourself from any such
lists prior to your inclusion therein by e-mailing us at The
Ticket Company International, Inc. |
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| Data
Quality and Security Statement |
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| The
Company maintains strict data security systems that ensure
specific individual information will not be made available
to any unauthorized person. We use a multi-level security
system to control access to information stored for our customers.
This is complemented with physical security of our facilities
and limited access to certain critical areas. |
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| The
Company is committed to educate our employees about the issues
and laws surrounding individual rights to privacy. We provide
information to all employees on the importance of consumer
privacy. We provide ongoing education to our employees on
the laws and accepted practices under which the Company operates.
All new employees agree, as a condition of employment with
us, to safeguard the personal data that is under our control.
We ensure that all employees understand the provisions of
our Privacy Policy. |
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| The
Company is committed to work with recognized trade associations
and organizations that support consumer privacy. |
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| In
each country where we operate, we actively participate in
the Direct Marketing Association's efforts to maintain and
develop appropriate industry guidelines that safeguard the
individual's right to privacy. We recognize and actively support
sectoral codes of practice and relevant legislation which
covers other industry?specific guidelines on privacy such
as the European Union Data Protection Act, the recommendations
of the Office of Telecommunications in the UK, and the National
Health and Medical Research guidelines in Australia. |
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| Data
Protection and Privacy legislation was originally developed
in Europe and now exists in many countries worldwide. Wherever
the Company operates, we are committed to adhering to the
relevant data protection legislation and/or industry codes
of practices. |
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