Privacy Statement
TotalTriathlon.com respects the privacy of visitors to our online sites. TotalTriathlon.com will only collect your personally identifiable information, such as your name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address, when you provide it to us at this website. TotalTriathlon.com and/or the companies we hire will use this information to comply with your request for information or as otherwise disclosed to you on the web page when you submit your information to us. From time to time, we may refer to this information to better understand your needs and how we can improve our products and services. We may use this information to contact you. We will not sell or otherwise transfer the personally identifiable information you provide to us at this website to any third parties for their own use unless we tell you when you submit your information to us that we intend to do so.
Like many websites, some TotalTriathlon.com websites use a technology called "cookies". A cookie is a small text file that a web server gives your browser to store on your computer when you access a website. Cookies are capable of storing many types of data and may be placed on your browser by TotalTriathlon.com or by a third party. Cookies are used for a variety of purposes on TotalTriathlon.com websites:
- TotalTriathlon.com uses cookies to help us analyze usage of our sites and traffic among our sites more accurately and to provide you with information of interest to you. For example, cookies are used on some TotalTriathlon.com websites to record the total number of hits received on the sites and web pages.
- Cookies also allow TotalTriathlon.com to determine whether you came to a TotalTriathlon.com site from an advertising banner or link on a non-TotalTriathlon.com website, so that we can, for example, measure the effectiveness of the links among our sites and the effectiveness of our advertising on non-TotalTriathlon.com websites.
- Similarly, cookies allow us to determine whether you register on or visit any of our websites, which enables us to analyze how particular users use our sites and whether registered and unregistered users of our websites use our sites differently.
- Cookies also allow us to maintain information about how particular visitors use our site, which enables us to better provide such visitors with information relevant to their interests. This may include using information about your use of our sites in conjunction with personally identifiable information that you have volunteered to us on one of our sites.
This is not an exhaustive list of all uses of cookies on TotalTriathlon.com’s websites. In all cases in which cookies are used, however, neither TotalTriathlon.com nor any third party will use the cookie to collect personally identifiable information from our site unless you voluntarily agree to enter the information. Most web browsers are set up to accept cookies. You can, however, reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Note, however, that some portions of our sites may not work properly if you refuse cookies.
In addition to cookies, TotalTriathlon.com may collect non-personally identifiable information about how you use our websites using other analysis technologies. These analysis technologies may be provided by third parties. Information that might be collected using these technologies includes, for example, the pages you visit on our site, the paths you take within our sites and the length of time that you spend on our websites. We use this information in the aggregate in order to better understand how to improve the quality of our websites.
Some TotalTriathlon.com websites use a third party adserving service to display advertising on other, non-TotalTriathlon.com websites. In addition to placing advertisements on certain non-TotalTriathlon.com web pages, these services and/or TotalTriathlon.com may also place a segment of code called a clear pixel tag, also known as a "GIF", on certain TotalTriathlon.com web pages that do not contain advertisements for the purpose of measuring the effectiveness of advertisements in bringing visitors to our web sites. GIFs may also be used with cookies to track the total number of visitors to our website, the number of visitors to various web pages, and the domain names of our visitors' Internet service providers. No personally identifiable information is collected in this process.
As is common among Internet site operators, TotalTriathlon.com websites maintain web server logs. Web servers automatically identify your computer by its IP address and collect that information in its web server logs. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer by your Internet service provider (e.g., AOL, MSN, Earthlink) whenever you log onto the World Wide Web or "surf" the web. GSK web server logs collect statistical data that is generated by your computer when it visits the TotalTriathlon.com website, such as the type of web browser (e.g., Internet Explorer, Firefox) and operating system (Windows XP or Mac OS) used to access the site, the domain name of your Internet service provider, the date and time you access our site, and the pages you visit. TotalTriathlon.com website use this non-personally identifying web server log information for a variety of purposes. Some of these purposes include: system administration; to examine overall traffic trends on our sites; trouble-shooting; and to gather broad demographic information about users of our sites. No personally identifiable information is contained in these web server logs.
As a convenience to our visitors, TotalTriathlon.com's sites currently contain links to a number of websites that we believe may offer useful information. The privacy policy and provisions described here do not apply to those sites. We suggest contacting those sites directly for information on their data collection and distribution policies.
From time to time, TotalTriathlon.com may decide to modify its practices and policies, and we reserve the right to revise this TotalTriathlon.com Internet Privacy Statement as necessary to disclose such changes in our practices and policies. Any such changes to this TotalTriathlon.com Internet Privacy Statement will be promptly communicated on this page. Any information that y ou submit before the change in policy will be used by TotalTriathlon.com and/or the companies we hire in a manner that is consistent with the TotalTriathlon.com Internet Privacy Statement in effect at the time you submitted your information. Continued use of our sites after receiving notice of a change in our privacy statement shall indicate your consent to the use of newly-submitted information in accordance with the changed, amended, or updated TotalTriathlon.com Internet Privacy Statement.