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Privacy Policy

Horseracingtoday.net (HRT) respects your privacy. This statement defines our policy regarding the information we collect from you. Please read this statement carefully and if you have any questions regarding HRT’s policy, please contact us.

HRT is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

HRT may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy was last updated on October 28, 2009.

HRT will collect information from our visitors and subscribers so that we can provide our readers a high level of service. When registering, we will ask for pertinent information needed to relay information to our subscribers and readers.

What we collect
We may collect the following information, but not limited to:

• name
• job title
• contact information including email address
• demographic information such as zip code, preferences and interests
• other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers.

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

Internal record keeping.

• We may use the information to improve our products and services.
• We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
• From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail.
• We may use the information to customize the website according to your interests.
• We will use the data collected to contact you about HRT’s site and promotional materials. HRT partners and advertisers may also contact you with promotional materials and advertisements.

Information we may disclose:

First understand that we will protect the HRT franchise and our clients and readers are our franchise. WE WILL NOT SELL your personal contact information to anyone. From time to time we may use 3rd parties to help facilitate email, direct mail and list management. We will only disclose the information necessary to correctly deliver email and/or direct mail campaigns and to maintain the integrity of HRT’s list(s).

We may release information as necessary to comply with the law(s) of State, Local and Federal authorities or as required by regulatory agencies or to enforce and protect the rights and agreements of Horseracingtoday.net or others.

Subscribers:

You may subscribe to free or paid for services with HRT. For subscriptions requiring a fee, we will need your contact information and certain financial information as required to facilitate payment. The information will include but is not limited to: name, address, email address and credit card information. Any financial information collected will be for the sole purpose of billing you for services.

Offers from The Horseracingtoday.net, its partners and advertisers.

From time to time HRT, its partners and advertisers may mail or email you promotional information tailored to your interests and related to the services provided by HRT. The promotional materials will come directly from HRT and as such our partners and advertisers will not be given any information collected by HRT. You may choose to unsubscribe from future offers and promotions at any time.

Cookies:

HRT may place cookies on your hard drive for record keeping making your use of HRT more efficient. For example, cookies are used to save your username and password so reentry of either is necessary upon entering HRT’s site. These cookies cannot read or gather other information from your hard drive. HRT cannot control cookies from our advertisers.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not.
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Our website may contain links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.