The MCLEAN YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION (“MYS”) takes seriously the issue of safeguarding your privacy on-line. Accordingly, MYS has developed this privacy policy statement (this "Privacy Policy") to explain MYS’s views and practices regarding your on-line privacy as it relates to your (the “User’s”) interaction with MYS. This Privacy Policy summarizes generally MYS’s personal identifying information collection and use practices for the web site located at the www.mcleansoccer.org and any other site provided by MYS (collectively, the “Site”). MYS reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time by posting a new privacy statement at this location. Please review this Privacy Policy on a periodic basis.
- About MYS
- The Personal Identifying Information MYS Collects
- The Way MYS Uses that Personal Identifying Information
- MYS's Use of “Cookie” Files and IP Addresses
- Accessing External or Third Party Web Sites
- MYS's Commitment to Security
- Ways to be Excluded from the Collection of Personal Identifying Information
- Ways to Correct, Delete, or Update Personal Identifying Information Collected by MYS
- MYS's Policy for Children
- How to Contact MYS for Answers to Additional Questions about this Privacy Policy
The purpose of MYS is to provide a place for every player and a player for every place. All our programs, such as house, training, travel and tournaments, must maintain fiscal discipline and are to be mutually supported by the MYS Board, volunteers and leadership. MYS is a volunteer organization and depends on the active participation of its members. Join us.
To improve the quality of the products and services MYS offers to you and your family, and to operate the Site, MYS collects certain personal identifying information (as described below) . MYS gathers most information during its semi-annual registration process to allow you and your family to use MYS’s services and products. MYS may request or receive personal identifying information at other times, including, but not limited to, when you purchase a product using the Site, when you access content on the Site, when you report a problem with our Site, and when you complete survey forms. Site users will need to “accept” the terms of use in order to continue with certain operations.
Below, we provide examples of the types of personal identifying information MYS does and does not collect.
Contact Information: Upon registration and at other times, MYS may request or require contact information, such as your name and the names of your children who are being registered to play soccer within MYS, address, phone number(s) and e-mail address(es).
Demographic Information: MYS may collect demographic and profile data (e.g., gender, grade-level ).
Use of Photographs and Player Identification: By submittingarticles and photographs for website posting and/or media distribution, team representatives and individual members authorize MYS on behalf of all named and pictured parties to in fact publish these items. It is MYS policy not to refer to pictured minors by name. So any photograph reference will refer to players generally but not specifically.
Below, we provide more detail on how MYS uses your personal identifying information.
Contact Information: MYS may use your contact information to (i) provide its services, (ii) create a personalized experience, (iii) complete a transaction conducted through the Site, and (iv) get in touch with you when necessary with respect to MYS news, transactions conducted through the Site, material changes in our Site’s policies, new services MYS may offer, or otherwise. The Site is hosted by a third party in order for MYS to provide its services and complete transactions conducted through the Site. We do NOT rent, license, or sell contact information to any third party.
Demographic Information: MYS may use demographic data on an aggregated basis, which will not identify any particular User, for internal business purposes and may also share such aggregated demographic information with advertisers or other third parties, including our business partners, suppliers, sponsors, and vendors (i) for management and monitoring purposes, (ii) to improve the quality of MYS’s services, (iii) to provide our services, (iv) when we employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf (i.e., analyze data and provide customer service), and (v) when it is specifically stated otherwise.
MYS may use cookies to enhance your experience while using our Site. Cookies are pieces of information, which MYS uses for record-keeping purposes, which the Site transfers to your computer’s web-browser for storage on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies enable MYS to customize your experience on the Site. Cookies also make web-surfing easier by automatically performing certain functions such as saving your personal preferences and by ensuring that you don’t see the same information repeatedly. We also use cookies to manage and monitor the Site. MYS, however, will not use cookies to record passwords or other personal identifying information discussed herein. Many consider the use of cookies to be an industry standard. Consequently, your web browser is likely set to accept cookies. If you would prefer not to receive cookies, however, you can alter the configuration of your browser to refuse cookies. If you choose to have your browser refuse cookies, you should understand that it is possible that some areas of our Site will not function properly when you view them.
MYS may use cookies to enhance your experience while using our Site. Cookies are pieces of information, which MYS uses for record-keeping purposes, which the Site transfers to your computer’s web-browser for storage on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies enable MYS to customize your experience on the Site. Cookies also make web-surfing easier by automatically performing certain functions such as saving your personal preferences and by ensuring that you don’t see the same information repeatedly. We also use cookies to manage and monitor the Site. MYS, however, will not use cookies to record passwords or other personal identifying information discussed herein. Many consider the use of cookies to be an industry standard. Consequently, your web browser is likely set to accept cookies. If you would prefer not to receive cookies, however, you can alter the configuration of your browser to refuse cookies. If you choose to have your browser refuse cookies, you should understand that it is possible that some areas of our Site will not function properly when you view them.
To the extent hyperlinks or gateways are utilized to access external or third party sites or you access the Site from external or third party sites, you should be aware that these external or third party sites are not controlled by MYS and therefore, are not subject to this Privacy Policy. MYS suggests that you check the privacy policies of these sites to determine how the proprietors of these third party sites will utilize your personal identifying information.
MYS places a premium on making sure that personal identifying information remains private and secure and is not subject to misuse or manipulation. Accordingly, this Site has industry standard security measures in place, including storage of personal identifying information in a secure environment, to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under MYS’s control. Although MYS has endeavored to create a secure and reliable Site, nevertheless the confidentiality of any communication or material transmitted via the Internet cannot be guaranteed. Accordingly, you should consider carefully if you want to submit sensitive information via the Internet.
The collection, use, and distribution of your personal identifying information as described in this Privacy Policy is necessary for MYS to provide its products and services and to operate the Site. Accordingly, MYS maintains your information for so long as you are an active MYS member by virtue of one of more player registrations in a calendar season (Fall-Spring) and/or are active as a volunteer. Nevertheless, MYS may also contact you, from time to time, regarding its services, this Site, or otherwise. If MYS sends you such a communication, MYS will provide you with the opportunity to opt-out of receiving similar future correspondence by sending and e-mail to soccermcl@aol.com.
At any time, you may contact MYS to correct, modify, or delete the information you provide to MYS through this Site. Please e-mail soccermcl@aol.com with any requests or changes. In addition, when you and your family cease to use MYS’s services and no longer wish to be included as a part of its directory, you may contact MYS at POB 724, McLean, VA 22101 to request to have your information removed from our database. In the event that MYS receives such a request or change, MYS may require you to confirm or verify any change to your record.
MYS cares about the safety of children on its Site and encourages parents and guardians to monitor their children’s use of the Internet. Although the Site is a general audience site, MYS intends registration and commerce transactions only for users 18 years of age and older. MYS will not knowinglycollect personal identifying information from users under the age of 18.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the information collection and dissemination practices of this Site, or MYS’s use of your personal information, you can contact MYS at:
McLean, VA 22101
(703) 506-8068
