Privacy Policy
Please read this privacy policy (this "privacy policy") carefully before using this website.
Table of Contents
- General
- Information Automatically Collected; Cookies; Web Beacons
- Our Security Practices
- How You Can Review Your Personal Information
- Choice
- Links
- Special Rules for Children
- Parental Consent
- Contact Us; Privacy Administrator
- Notification of Changes
General
The National Association of Professional Baseball
Leagues, Inc., and the Professional Baseball Promotion Corp.
(collectively "Minor League Baseball" or “MiLB”) produce
PBEO.com, the Official Website of Professional Baseball
Employment Opportunities (“PBEO”). PBEO is the
Official Job-Seekers service of Minor League Baseball™ (the
"Website"). This Privacy Policy is applicable to this
Website.
You can visit and enjoy our Website without
disclosing any personal information about yourself. However,
we offer some special services, and for these services to
work properly we will need you to share with us certain
personal information about yourself. The personal
information we collect may include, but is not limited to,
full name, street address, e-mail address, telephone
number(s) (e.g., home, work, mobile and/or fax) and birth
date. We may also collect other personal information that
will be identified on applicable page(s) of this Website. If
you submit any personal information to us, or to our
third-party service providers acting on our behalf, you can
be assured that we will not sell, lease, or share your
personal information with or to anyone else, except as
follows: (1) to our sponsors; (2) to one or more MiLB Clubs,
to the extent that you've submitted information that relates
specifically to such Club(s) (e.g., you've asked to receive
our newsletters and job information or other club related
goods and services), so that they may learn more about you,
and provide better services to you; (3) upon notice posted
on an applicable location of our Website where we collect
your personal information for an economic transaction and
notify you that we will be sharing such information with a
third party (e.g. ESPN.com), where such third party is
clearly identified; and (4) on occasion, we may offer a
special promotion (such as a sweepstakes, contest, fantasy
baseball game or free subscription to goods and/or services)
on this Website in conjunction with a third-party service
provider, sponsor, or promotional partner, and share your
information with that service provider, sponsor, or
promotional partner so that it can send you other special
promotions it offers, but only if you give us permission to
do so.
Special Offers and Promotions.
With your permission, we may also send you e-mails with
special offers and promotions. If you don't want to receive
these, you may change your preferences by accessing the
"Newsletter Preferences" section within your Website
account.
Information Automatically
Collected; Cookies; Web Beacons
We use automatic methods such as cookies (small
amounts of data, which often include an anonymous unique
identifier that is sent to your browser from a Website's
computers and stored on your computer's hard drive),
single-pixel GIF images ("web beacons") or similar
technologies, alone or in combination with personally
identifiable information you choose to provide us, to make
our Website work better, to understand Website usage and
trends, to deliver a more personalized experience and to
improve our content and offerings. Examples of the
information we collect and analyze using such methods
include, without limitation, the Internet protocol (IP)
address used to connect your computer to the Internet;
e-mail address; login name and password; operating system
type, version and computer platform; purchase history, which
we may aggregate with similar information from other
customers; the full Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
clickstream to, on, and from our Website, including date and
time; cookie information; and products you viewed or
searched for. We may also use software tools to measure and
collect session information, including page response times,
download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page
interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and
mouse-overs) and methods used to browse away from the page.
We may also use cookies to enable you to use a
"shopping cart" if you want to purchase goods or services
while on our Website, and to offer you products, programs,
or services based on purchase and Website usage behavior
that you and/or other customers have exhibited. If you do
not want information collected through the use of cookies,
there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows the
user to accept or reject cookies. If you set your browser
not to accept cookies, you may not be able to take advantage
of certain services on our Website.
We do not transfer cookies associated with our
Website to any other company, nor do we authorize any other
company to access the cookies we have placed on your
computer's hard drive. We may allow other companies that are
presenting advertisements or providing services on our pages
to set and access cookies on your computer and/or web
beacons or similar technologies on certain of our pages
and/or certain emails sent by us.
Many advertisements are managed and placed on our
Website by third parties. These companies are called
"network advertisers." Network advertisers who place
advertisements on our Website may use cookies and Web
beacons to collect non-personally identifiable information
about your visits to our Website and other Websites in order
to provide advertisements about goods and services of
interest to you. If you would like to obtain more
information about this common industry practice of network
advertisers and to make choices about their use of your
information, please
click here.
We do not install any spyware or adware in
connection with our Website, or distribute any commercial
message, or authorize any third party to distribute any
commercial message, by means of spyware or adware. "Spyware"
or "adware" is any software which has been downloaded to
and/or installed on an Internet user's computer, without the
user's actual consent, and facilitates the distribution of
any commercial message to the user. If you feel you may have
spyware from another company installed on your machine,
there are various anti-spyware/adware software applications
available on the Internet to identify if this has occurred.
Aggregated Demographic Information.
We may share aggregated demographic information with third
parties, but this information is not linked to any personal
information that can identify you or another individual
person. Therefore, no personal information is disclosed in
this manner.
Business Transfers. As time
passes, Minor League Baseball may be sold along with its
assets (PBEO), or other transactions may occur in which
customer information is one of the business assets
transferred. In such a case, the customer information which
we have gathered may be one of the business assets we
transfer.
Disclosure for Legal Purposes.
We may be required to share your personal information and
non-personal information pursuant to judicial or
governmental subpoenas, warrants, or orders. If we are
required to do so, we will, of course, obey the law. In
addition, notwithstanding any term to the contrary in this
Privacy Policy, we reserve the right to use, disclose,
and/or share your personal and non-personal information in
order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding
illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving
potential threats to the physical safety of any person,
violations of this Website's Terms of Use or as otherwise
required by law.
Our Security Practices
Your Website account preferences are password
protected for your privacy and security. In certain areas,
we use industry-standard SSL encryption to protect data
transmissions.
How You Can Review Your
Personal Information
If you want to review or revise the personal
information you provided during registration on this
Website, and whether you want to receive communications from
us, you can either (1)
click here to log in, and then click on the profile
option at the top of the page, or (2) call MiLB.com Customer
Service at 866-WE-R-PBEO (866-937-7236). If you want to close your account
with us and have us delete the personal information in it
(except for information that we keep for record-keeping
purposes), you should contact PBEO at 866-WE-R-PBEO
(866-937-7236).
Choice
Our registration and order forms contain a box for
you to indicate whether or not you consent to receive
special offers and promotions from us. Unless you give us
your consent to use your personal information for these
purposes, we and our partners will only use it to complete
the transaction or provide the service or product you have
requested. If you indicate that you consent to receive
communications or solicitations, but you later change your
mind, you can revise your preferences by accessing the "My
Newsletters" section within your Website account.
Links
Our Website contains links to other Websites
produced and operated by Major League Baseball Advanced
Media, L.P. and unrelated third parties. In addition, if you
click on an advertisement on our Website, you may be
directed to a web page with our Website or to a third- party
Website. Please note that we are not responsible for the
privacy practices of third-party Websites. We encourage you
to be aware of this when your leave our Website and to read
the privacy policies of every Website that collects
personally identifiable information from you. This Privacy
Policy applies only to this Website.
Special Rules For Children
Because of federal law, we cannot knowingly collect
any personal information from a child under the age of
thirteen without the consent of that child's parent. The
statements in this Privacy Policy generally about our
collection and use of personal information also apply to our
treatment of personal information from children under the
age of thirteen, with the added protection of the special
"Parental Consent" rules that follow. Some services on our
Website (e.g., membership registration) require the
submission of a credit card number along with personal
information in connection with a purchase, and are therefore
not available to children without their parent's consent.
Parental Consent
Parents who are interested in services that are
available to children under the age of thirteen should
contact our Website's
Privacy Administrator for a consent form. The
consent form will include a notice describing this Privacy
Policy and will ask for the parent's consent to our
collection and use of personal information from or about
their child. If the consent form is not completed by the
parent and not returned to our Website's Privacy
Administrator, the child will not be able to access those of
our activities requiring registration and we will not
collect any personal information from that child. A child's
parent has the option to consent to our collection and use
of their child's personal information without consenting to
the disclosure of that information to third parties, but if
such disclosure is necessary to make available a service
which has been requested, then the child will not have
access to such service.
Information Collected.
Depending on the special service requested, personal
information collected may include a full name, email
address, street address, or age of a child. We will not
condition a child's participation in any activity on this
Website on the child's disclosing more information than is
reasonably necessary to participate in that activity.
If a parent has consented to our collection of
personal information about his/her child, the parent can
review his/her child's personal information by accessing the
child's Website account. A parent can instruct us to delete
the child's personal information or to stop collecting or
using the child's personal information by contacting the
Privacy Administrator.
Information Use. We may use the
personal information we collect to provide the child with
the special services for which he or she has registered, as
well as for fulfilling a requested transaction, record
keeping, or marketing back to the child. Please note that
when anyone, including a child, uses a message board or chat
room on our Website, the communications are publicly
available to the other participants.
Information Disclosure. After
obtaining the consent of the child's parent, we, our service
providers, and one or more Clubs (to the extent that any
information disclosed is specific to them), will maintain
the confidentiality, security, and integrity of the personal
information collected about the child. A child's information
will only be disclosed to our third-party service providers
and the applicable Club(s) as described in this Privacy
Policy. The following are third-party service providers of
our services which may collect or maintain personal
information from children under thirteen on our behalf:
Synacor, Inc. (vanity e-mail); and Prospero, Inc. (message
boards). These third-party service providers cannot use your
child's personal information without your consent for any
purpose other than the service you've requested on behalf of
your child.
Contact Us; Privacy
Administrator
If you have questions or concerns about this
Privacy Policy, you can contact us at:
info@pbeo.com.
Notification of Changes
If we make an important change to this Privacy
Policy, we will post a notification and link on our homepage
so that you can review the updated policy.
Last updated and effective date: July 13, 2009