Updated – November 2, 2007
Tickets.com, Inc. Privacy Policy
Tickets.com, Inc. (the “Company”) is committed to complying with all laws
intended to protect your right of privacy. This Privacy Policy describes
(i) the type of information about you that we collect; and (ii) the Company’s
practices with respect to gathering and disseminating information about
you. This Privacy Policy was established within the context of our Tickets.com
Website and the potential for gathering personal information within electronic
media; however, this Policy is not limited to the Tickets.com Website.
Our Privacy Policy applies whenever you and the Company interact and there
is a possibility that during such interaction, we may acquire certain information
about you.
The Company may, but is not obligated to, update this Privacy Policy from time
to time. You should review this Privacy Policy periodically to familiarise yourself
with the most current version. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become
effective upon the “Updated” date above. Your purchase of tickets or other merchandise
from us constitutes your acceptance of the Privacy Policy then in effect.
1. How And When Does the Company Collect Non-public Personal Details?
In the course of selling tickets or other merchandise, we may collect and maintain
certain non-public personal details that will help us to efficiently perform
various transactions. In addition, we may be required to share your personal
details with certain entertainment organisations and venues (an “Event Host”)
as part of our contractual relationship with them. Of course, if you wish to
purchase tickets to an event and remain anonymous, you may purchase your tickets
in person, directly through the Event Host’s box office.
We do not collect personal details (such as names, addresses, phone numbers,
email addresses or credit card numbers) about you except when you specifically
provide your details on a voluntary basis. Your personal details may be collected
as you:
2. How And When Does the Company Use Non-Public Personal Details?
The Company may utilise your personal details in several discrete ways.
3. How Long Are Your Personal Details Retained?
If you are a registered user of our Website, we may retain your details
as long as you maintain your registered status. If you purchase tickets
or other merchandise using a credit card, we will retain your credit card
details for a length of time reasonably necessary to process any future
transactions related to your purchases, including refunds and charge-backs.
We occasionally purge our computer system of information relating to visitors
to our Website and their past transactions.
4. What Is “Aggregate Information” And What Does the Company Do With
It?
Generally, as visitors browse our Website, our computers automatically
collect information related to how certain features of our Website are
used, what general region our visitors are Contactinformatieing us from and how many
people visit our Website at any given time. We only use this information
in the aggregate, which means that we only derive meaning from the sum
of all such information gathered for a period of time and accordingly,
we refer to this information as “Aggregate Information”. Aggregate Information
includes, but is not limited to, your computer’s (i) Internet browser type
(eg, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5), (ii) IP address, (iii) resolution
settings, (iv) platform type and (v) originating URLs of referring web
pages. We use Aggregate Information to (a) help diagnose problems with
our computers, (b) administer our Website, (c) share certain generalised
demographic information with Event Hosts and our advertising partners about
visitors to our Website, and (d) provide our advertising partners with
information regarding which visitors saw and clicked on certain advertisements
on our Website. Aggregate Information does not contain any personal details
of any of our Website visitors.
5. What Are “Cookies” And How Does the Company Use Them?
The term “Cookie” is a nickname for files which a website’s computer system
can deposit onto a visitor’s computer hard drive when the visitor is logged
on to the website. Cookies are used to recognise a visitor’s repeat visits
to the website and what pages are accessed and what functionalities are
used while he or she is there. The use of cookies is commonplace on the
Internet and they take up minimal room on your computer hard drive. Cookies
work by assigning a number to your computer that has a specific meaning
to the assigning website. Cookies, by themselves, cannot be used to find
out the identity of any visitor. Unless you choose to provide us with information
about you, we will never know who you are, even though our computer has
previously deposited a cookie on your computer’s hard drive. Other companies
which advertise on our Website also have the ability to deposit a different
cookie on your computer’s hard drive in a process that we do not control.
Since cookies cannot be used to identify individuals (ie, we will not store
non-public personal details in a cookie), these advertisers will never
know who you are. In addition, you may modify your Internet browser’s settings
to notify you whenever any website is going to deposit a cookie on your
computer’s hard drive. This notification option generally gives you the
opportunity to decide whether to accept or refuse a cookie before it is
deposited. There may be some features on our Website, however, that require
a cookie to operate correctly. For example, to become a registered user
of our Website, you must allow us to deposit a cookie on your computer’s
hard drive.
6. Consent/Choice Statement
Non-Vermont Computer Users. We do not sell or rent personal
details about our online customers to any third parties at present. If we engage
in such commerce in the future, our online customers will be notified in advance
by email and will have an opportunity to remove themselves from such lists
before being included therein by return email or by emailing us separately
at webfeedback@tickets.com.
Vermont Computer Users. Vermont places additional restrictions
on sharing a user’s personal details while such user resides in Vermont. We
will not rent or sell non-public personal details we collect from a user residing
in Vermont except (1) as permitted by law or (2) with the express authorisation
or consent of the Vermont User
7. Data Quality and Security Statement
We use data security systems to encrypt your personal and financial details
to reduce the risk that your information will be obtained by unauthorised
persons. Our electronic security measures are complemented by the physical
security of our facilities and limited access to certain critical areas,
such as our computer locations. However, because of the increasing sophistication
of computer hackers and others who would seek to invade our computer systems
for the purpose of stealing information, damaging our systems or denying
our systems’ ability to operate effectively to safeguard personal and financial
details as intended, we make no promises as to the security of personal
or financial details in our possession or the impenetrability of our computer
systems under unusual circumstances or our computer system’s resilience
to future sophisticated attacks.
8. When Might Information Be Disclosed As A Matter Of Law? We
may disclose non-public personal details to unrelated parties in special cases
when we have reason to believe that that disclosure is necessary to identify,
Contactinformatie, or bring legal action against a person or persons who may be causing
injury to, or interference with, the rights or property of the Company (including
our Website), computer users accessing our Website, or any third party. In
addition, we may disclose information about individuals who access our Website
to law enforcement agencies, judicial or government authorities, or to other
individuals or entities in response to subpoenas, court orders or other legal
processes.
9. Links To / From Other Sites Our Website contains
links to other Internet websites which we do not operate and, conversely, other
Internet websites may contain links to our Website. We are not aware of and
are not responsible for the privacy policies, practices or content of such
other websites. We encourage visitors to read and become familiar with the
privacy policies maintained by such other websites.
10. Information of Minors and Children. We do
not target our Website or our products or merchandise for sale on our Website
to children, and our Website does not seek to collect Contactinformatie details from
children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please
do not email us, Contactinformatie our Website, attempt to use our Website, submit information
to our Website, or ask us to email you. If you are under the age of 18, you
should get permission from a parent or guardian before you email our Website,
Contactinformatie our Website, attempt to use our Website, submit information to our
Website, or ask us to email you.
ticket privacySM
Tickets.com, Inc., a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business
in California (the "Company"), created ticket·privacySM in order
to demonstrate the Company's firm commitment to your privacy and privacy-related
concerns. The following sets forth the Company's information gathering,
use, and dissemination practices.
It is the Companies policy to allow our customers to control what personal
details you provide to us. As a customer of the Company you:
Information Collection - Notice and Disclosure Statement
From time to time, Tickets.com may ask customers to provide personal details
that will help the Company efficiently perform various transactions.
That information may be sought as you:
The Company does not collect personal details -- names, addresses, phone
numbers, email addresses or credit card numbers -- about you except when
you specifically provide such information on a voluntary basis; such as,
for instance, when you purchase sports or entertainment tickets, or make
inquiries about ticket or reservation availability.
The Company may utilise your personal details in several discrete ways.
The Company uses your Internet Protocol (IP) address to help diagnose
problems with our computer server, and to administer our website. Your
IP address is used to help identify you, and to gather broad demographic
data. Your IP address contains no personal details about you.
The Company does, however, perform statistical analysis of customer usage
in order to measure interest in, and use of, the various parts of the Company's
website, and the Company shares that information with current and prospective
advertisers, and other interested third parties. But this information is
aggregated data only (statistics, etc.), and contains no personally identifiable
information whatsoever.
Tickets.com users should be aware that non-personal details and data may
be automatically collected by virtue of the standard operation of the Company
computer servers or through the use of "cookies". Cookies are
files a website can use to recognise repeat users and allow a website to
track web usage behaviour. Cookies take up minimal room on your computer
and cannot damage your computer's files. Cookies work by assigning a number
to the user that has a specific meaning to the assigning website. Cookies,
by themselves, cannot be used to find out the identity of any user. Unless
you choose to provide us with information about you, the Company will never
know who you are, even though we assign your computer a cookie. Other companies
that place advertising on our site also have the ability to assign a different
cookie to you in a process that the Company does not control. But since
cookies cannot be used to identify individuals, these advertisers will
never know who you are - and the Company will never tell them! If you do
not wish information to be collected through the use of cookies, your browser
allows you to deny or accept the use of cookies. There may, however, be
some features on the Company's website that require the use of cookies
in order to customise the delivery of information to you.
Consent/Choice Statement
The Company does not sell or rent personal details about its customers
to any third parties at present. In the event the Company does engage in
such commerce in the future, you will have an opportunity to remove yourself
from any such lists before your inclusion therein by emailing us at webfeedback@tickets.com.
Data Quality and Security Statement
The Company maintains strict data security systems which ensure specific
individual information will not be made available to any unauthorised person.
We use a multi-level security system to control access to information stored
for our customers. This is complemented with physical security of our facilities
and limited access to certain critical areas.
The Company is committed to educate our employees about the issues and
laws surrounding individual rights to privacy. We provide information to
all employees on the importance of consumer privacy. We provide ongoing
education to our employees on the laws and accepted practices under which
the Company operates. All new employees agree, as a condition of employment
with us, to safeguard the personal data that is under our control. We ensure
that all employees understand the provisions of our Privacy Policy.
The Company is committed to work with recognised trade associations and
organisations that support consumer privacy.
In each country where we operate, we actively participate in the Direct
Marketing Association's efforts to maintain and develop appropriate industry
guidelines that safeguard the individual's right to privacy. We recognise
and actively support sectoral codes of practice and relevant legislation
which covers other industry-specific guidelines on privacy such as the
European Union Data Protection Act, the recommendations of the Office of
Telecommunications in the BE, and the National Health and Medical Research
guidelines in Australia.
Data Protection and Privacy legislation was originally developed in Europe
and now exists in many countries worldwide. Wherever the Company operates,
we are committed to adhering to the relevant data protection legislation
and/or industry codes of practices.
Privacy in Belgium
We will adhere to the overall privacy principles of Tickets.Com set out
on this website. In addition, in the United Kingdom we will ensure that:-
1. In the BE the company responsible is Tickets.Com Limited, a subsidiary
of Tickets.Com Inc. The address is Tickets.Com, 405 Midsummer Boulevard,
Milton Keynes MK9 3BM. Data is kept on the company’s database but supplied
to any venue from which you choose to purchase tickets. In using our service
you consent to us supplying your data to the venue as this is necessary
for the purchase of tickets. Venues hold personal data subject to their
own privacy policies under the Data Protection Act. From time to time we
may Contactinformatie you with details of special offers or other promotions which
we think will be of interest to you. If you have asked us by email or otherwise
in writing not to Contactinformatie you, we will not do so.
2. We may use aggregated information and statistics for the purpose of
monitoring website usage in order to help us develop the website and our
services and may provide such aggregated information for third parties.
However, these statistics will not include any information that can be
used to identify any living individual.
3. Tickets.Com is an international business and all its computer and information
systems are web based. The servers housing the web-based information are
physically situated in the United States of America and in giving personal
data to Tickets.Com you consent to the transfer of data out of the European
Economic Area (EEA) in particular to the United States of America.
4. Web servers and other means of processing data used by Tickets.Com will
have in place at all times appropriate technical and organisational security
measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the harm that might
result from unauthorised or unlawful processing or the accidental loss
of, destruction or damage to personal data.
5. Data stored on the web servers of Tickets.Com may be accessed by subsidiaries
in other countries. Details of these countries and their Data Protection
Policies are set out elsewhere in this Privacy Policy and most of those
countries are either countries within the EEA or countries which adhere
to data protection standards which are deemed to be sufficient by the EEA.
The USA does not have the same standards of protection for personal data
as in the EEA, but there, as elsewhere, Tickets.Com maintain standards
of privacy in accordance with the International Standards set out at the
commencement of this Privacy Policy.
6. For information regarding Privacy Policy as applied to the BE please
Contactinformatie us by email at ukwebfeedback@tickets.com You may also obtain information
from the office of the Information Commissioner who administers Data Protection
on 01625 545745 or email data@dataprotection.gov.uk.