Privacy Statement

Privacy Policy

SportsTime Ohio is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to all SportsTime Ohio websites, including those located at www.sportstimeohio.com and www.stohd.com (collectively the “Website”) and governs data collection and usage. By using the Website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

SportsTime Ohio collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. SportsTime Ohio also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, 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 SportsTime Ohio. This information can include: your IP address, your web browser your operating system, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by SportsTime Ohio for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Website.

Please keep in mind that if you disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through any SportsTime Ohio related public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: SportsTime Ohio does not read any of your private online communications.

This Website contains links to websites operated by unrelated third parties. SportsTime Ohio encourages you to review the privacy statements of these third party websites so that you can understand how these third party websites collect, use and share your information.  Please note that SportsTime Ohio is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the SportsTime Ohio and SportsTime Ohio family of Websites.

Use of your Personal Information

SportsTime Ohio collects and uses your personal information to operate the Website and deliver the services you have requested. SportsTime Ohio also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from SportsTime Ohio and its affiliates. SportsTime Ohio may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

SportsTime Ohio does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.  SportsTime Ohio may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners 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) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, SportsTime Ohio 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 prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to SportsTime Ohio, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

SportsTime Ohio does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your consent.

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

SportsTime Ohio will disclose your personal information, without notice, only 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 SportsTime Ohio or the Website; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of SportsTime Ohio; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of SportsTime Ohio, or the public.

In accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), SportsTime Ohio does not knowingly collect or store any personal information, even in aggregate, about children under the age of thirteen (13).

As time passes, SportsTime Ohio may be sold along with its assets, or other transactions may occur in which information gathered through this Website one of the business assets transferred.  In such a case, this information may be one of the business assets we transfer.

Use of Cookies

The Website uses "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a webpage 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 SportsTime Ohio pages, or register with the Website, a cookie helps SportsTime Ohio 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 SportsTime Ohio Website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the SportsTime Ohio 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 SportsTime Ohio services or websites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

SportsTime Ohio secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. SportsTime Ohio 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 websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

SportsTime Ohio will occasionally update this Privacy Policy to reflect SportsTime Ohio and customer feedback. SportsTime Ohio encourages you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to be informed of how SportsTime Ohio is protecting your information.

Contact Information

SportsTime Ohio welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you believe that SportsTime Ohio has not adhered to this Privacy Policy, please contact SportsTime Ohio. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.