Privacy Policy
The Minnesota Cup respects your privacy and makes every effort to ensure your privacy. The following statement discloses our information gathering and disclosure practices for this Website. By using this Website, you assent to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Website.
What kind of information does The Minnesota Cup collect from users?
The Minnesota Cup will not sell, share, or rent this information to any other party, other than as disclosed in this Policy. The Minnesota Cup collects information from our users at several different points on our Website.
Registration Before you can access and use some of the Services on the Website, we ask that you register with The Minnesota Cup and provide us information including your Username and E-mail address. We request this information for identification purposes and in order to verify compliance with the Terms of Service and Federal, State and Local laws.
Correspondence If you correspond with us by means of e-mail, we may retain the information in a file specific to you.
URL & IP Address Like many other Websites, The Minnesota Cup collects information about utilization and navigation by our users. This information helps us to design our Website to better suit the needs of our users. For example, our Website may track the URL that you visited before you came to our Website, the URL to which you proceed and your Internet Provider (IP) address. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Website.
Cookies "Cookies" are pieces of information that a Website transfers to a user's hard drive for record-keeping purposes while visiting a Website. Like most major Websites, The Minnesota Cup uses cookies on certain pages. Cookies make using the Internet easier in various ways including saving your passwords and preferences and allowing our Website to remember that you have registered which in turn, allows us to speed up your future activities and allows you to enter your password/log in ID less frequently. We may also use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests. Our cookies do not contain any content specific information. Our cookies do not contain any personally identifying information although cookies may enable us to relate your use of our Website to personally identifying information that you previously submitted. For example, it enables us to enhance personalization on the Website, such as calling you by name when you return.
We only collect the Personally Identifiable Information that you provide to us. While we may gather market data from other resources, the scope of our knowledge about Personally Identifiable Information based upon your use of our Website is entirely up to you. The information you give us allows us to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically analyze Website usage, to improve our content and product offerings and to customize our Website's content, layout and services. However, for these purposes, we only use your personal information on an aggregated basis without the use of any information that personally identifies you.
With whom does The Minnesota Cup share information?
The Minnesota Cup will not share, rent, sell or otherwise disclose any of your personal data except when we have your specific permission. Please be aware that despite our best intentions and the guidelines outlined in this Privacy Policy, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Moreover, we may be legally obligated to disclose information to the government or to third parties under certain circumstances, such as illegal activity on our Website. The Minnesota Cup reserves the right to release personally identifiable information to law enforcement or other government officials, as The Minnesota Cup, in our sole and absolute discretion, deems necessary or appropriate.
What are the Privacy Policies of linked Sites and other third parties?
This Privacy Policy only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. You should be aware that when you are on the Website, you may be directed to other sites that are beyond our control and The Minnesota Cup is not responsible for the privacy practices of third parties or the content of linked sites. We encourage you to read the posted privacy policy whenever interacting with any Website.
What security procedures does the Website use to protect your information?
To help protect the privacy of data you transmit through use of this Website, The Minnesota Cup uses industry-standard, secure data networks protected by standard firewall and password protection systems. The Minnesota Cup uses standard industry practice to protect all of the visitor data we collect against unauthorized access. However, you should keep in mind that this Website and our services are run on commercial software, hardware, and networks, any component of which may from time to time require maintenance or experience problems or breaches of security beyond our control. When users submit sensitive information via the Website, your information is protected to the best of The Minnesota Cup's ability both on-line and off-line.
How will I know about changes in the Privacy Policy?
The Minnesota Cup reserves the right to update this Privacy Policy. Please visit this page periodically so that you will be apprised of any changes. However we will only use Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with the Privacy Policy that was in effect at the time the information was collected. If at any time we propose to use that information differently, we will notify users by way of e-mail to obtain your permission.
How to contact us?
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the practices of this Website, you may request more information by contacting us at support@breakthroughideas.org
