| 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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