Privacy Policy
Customer Information
BTO
Sports is firmly committed to protecting your privacy. We do not
distribute a customer's information outside the BTO Sports
organization. This customer information is solely used to build and
maintain a typical business-to-customer data base. Within the checkout
process, we use an order form to enable your purchase of products. In
connection with your purchase, we ask for contact and shipping
information (name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, etc.) and
billing information (credit card number, etc.). To insure that you are
aware of our current privacy policy, we suggest that you stop back and
review this policy from time to time.
Secure Servers
Some
customer information is supplied to the company which processes your
credit card purchases. All order information you provide to us and all
information contained in your "Shopping Account" is transmitted using
128 Bit SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption. SSL is a widely used
coding system that lets your browser automatically encrypt or scramble
data before you send it to us. Transactions will not be permitted if
your browser does not accept SSL encryption. Only authorized personnel
from BTO Sports or its partners (Payment processor) can decode this
information and such personnel will only do so in accordance with our
or their Privacy Policy. In addition, to attempt to deter the theft of
credit card numbers and other personal information residing in our
system, we and our retail partners have installed secure "firewalls"
and/or have implemented other security measures to help protect our
systems against "hacker" break-ins. Additionally, all credit card
numbers are encrypted in our system until either the customer or BTO
Sports requires the information.
Promotional email
If
you subscribe to our promotional email, you will occasionally receive
special offers from us and email updates from us about important
functionality changes. This information is not shared with other
companies, but it is transmitted over non-secure web servers. If you
would rather not receive future emails from us, unsubscribe by typing
in your email address.
Cookies
"Cookies"
are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your
computer's hard drive. We may use cookies in several ways, just as
thousands of other sites currently do. Cookie files may be used to
better understand how you travel through our website so that we may
better tailor your experience. Cookies may be also used to tell us
whether you have visited our website previously, and to help us
determine whether you came to our website from a particular Internet
link or banner advertisement. Cookies can also be used to help you save
and retrieve passwords and other information and preferences you use on
our website, saving you from having to re-enter this information upon
every visit to our website. Cookies cannot and will not be used by us
to retrieve any personal information about you from your computer that
you have not previously and voluntarily provided to us. Most Web
browsers automatically accept cookies but if you prefer, you can edit
your browser options to block them in the future. Please note that most
of our features, as well as with other web sites, will not function if
you do not accept cookies. For more information on cookies, see Cookies
on your computer's help menu. We do not use "cookies" to store any
personally identifying information.
IP Addresses
When
you connect to our website, we record your IP addresses and information
on the type of operating system (i.e.Windows98) and browser software
you are using (i.e. AOL, Internet Explorer, Netscape). This helps us to
diagnose problems with our servers and for system administration. Your
IP address is also used to help gather aggregated demographic
information.
Communication
E-mail
addresses and other information that you send us from the order forms
are not used for marketing purposes and are not made available to
anyone outside of BTO Sports. We do NOT make your e-mail addresses or
any other information available to any other companies. Your e-mail
address will NOT be released to any third party companies.






