PRIVACY POLICY (Effective: July 1, 2004)
Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory’s websites are the online source for accurate and exciting information on Louisville Slugger’s history and relationship with the greatest American sport…baseball! We are proud to provide our Internet visitors with opportunities to educate themselves about baseball bats and history, to shop for authentic Louisville Slugger products, and to have fun with our websites.
In order to do this, we need to gather data from our Internet visitors. We use various technologies to collect this information. The information is then stored in a secure database which is accessible by select members of the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory staff and our Internet Service Provider.
Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory collects data collected through various sections of its websites, including: Gift Shop Orders, Education Packet Requests, Contact Form and Press Kit Requests. LSM collects profile data through the registration process of the sections listed above and through voluntary actions of web visitors. Data collected includes demographic information, contact information and shopping preferences. This information helps us provide members with tailored e-mails based on indicated interests and preferences. Users may provide as much or as little information as they choose in fields that are not required. However, the omission of certain information may limit the value of the experience for the web visitor. Most of the information requested is required to receive the various services for the sections listed above. All required information fields are marked accordingly. Absolutely no information collected is shared with third parties.
You may choose to review or make changes to your personally identifiable information by logging into the "My Account" section of our Gift Shop (www.sluggergifts.com) site with the email address and password you submitted upon registration with SluggerGifts.com.
Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory provides reports internally for sales and marketing purposes. These reports include aggregate information about our users. The information in these reports is strictly used internally and no information contained in the reports is shared with outside companies.
Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory uses cookies to save your personal information so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit various sections of our site. Cookies are a standard internet technology that allow us to store and retrieve the login information on your system. Cookies, by themselves, cannot be used to determine the identity of any of our users.
In addition, when a web visitor comes to Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory from certain other web sites, a cookie may be placed by a third party ad server that helps Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory understand how new members come to our site. The third party ad server places similar cookies on other web sites so that it understands your interests across web sites.
Although cookies must be enabled to access certain sections of the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory website, this specific third-party cookie does not have to be present in your 'Cookies' folder to access our site. If you wish to eliminate cookies placed by this third party server, you must delete them from the 'Cookies' folder in the 'Windows' folder of Microsoft Windows systems. If you are not able to determine which cookies are being set by this server, you may choose to delete all cookies. However, this action will eliminate any control information that has been set-up by other web sites you visit. In the case of Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, the next time you visit : www.sluggermuseum.org or www.sluggergifts.com, a new cookie will be placed to guide your session interaction. The Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory site has implemented reasonable security measures in an effort to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of the information under our control. Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory uses reasonable networking, server, database, and procedural mechanisms in an effort to safeguard the integrity and privacy of data.
Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory also protects user information off-line. All of our users' information is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job are granted passwords to access personally identifiable information. Furthermore, all employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory is committed to protecting the privacy of our members and we will continue review and implement new technologies as necessary to maintain the security of our networks and servers.
The Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by these Web sites: www.sluggermuseum.org and www.sluggergifts.com.
Because we want our users to feel completely comfortable using the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory services, you have the option of not receiving e-mails as part of our service. You may answer 'no' to "I would like to receive periodic e-mails from Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory" on any of our forms and you will no longer receive e-mails as part of our service.
Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory notifies consumers who use or visit its Web site of material changes to the Privacy Policy by placing a notice next to the "Privacy Policy" link on all pages where the "Privacy Policy" link is present.
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, or our site in general, please direct them to customersvc@sluggermuseum.org.