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Privacy Policy
The Athlete's Foot Brands, LLC Privacy Policy The Athlete's Foot Brands, LLC and its subsidiaries affiliates and parent company, NexCen Brands, Inc. (collectively, "The Athlete's FootAFB", "we", "us", "our") has have developed this Privacy Policy to explain why we collect particular information from you and how we will protect your personal privacy within our web sitetreat such information. The following information summarizes The Athlete's Foot's gathering and dissemination practices of personal information for the web site located at the URL www.theathletesfoot.com (hereinafter referred to as the "Site"). The Athlete's Foot reserves the right to change its Privacy Policy at any time by posting the new privacy statement at The Athlete's Foot Homepage. We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time as we modify or expand our Site by posting the updated Privacy Policy on our Site. Any use of the Site after such update shall constitute your acceptance of the terms of such updated Privacy Policy. We suggest that you periodically review the Privacy Policy to understand how we treat your information. What Information Do We Collect and How Do We Use That Information? Contact Personal Information The Athlete's FootAFB may request or require contact and other personal identifying information, such as your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address, and social security number and financial position if inquiring about or submitting an application for franchising opportunities. We use personal information you provide only for purposes consistent with the reason you provided it, to contact you, to gather broad demographic information about our users and customers, to personalize your experience, analyze usage, respond to inquiries from you, and for other reasonable uses we may determine from time to time. We do notmay share your contact information you provide to us via your use of the Site with other third parties, including, but not limited to, our business and financial advisors or contest promoters in connection with any information provided in a franchise application, franchise information request or contest entry, service providers in connection with assisting in the determination of your suitability as a franchisee, data services providers performing services on our behalf (e.g., maintenance, backup, analysis, etc.), without your consent, except and to any court or governmental agency if required by law. In addition, we do not currently rent, license, or sell contact information to any third party. Internet Protocol Address We collect an IP address from all users of our Site. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Site. We do not share your IP address with other third parties without your consent, except to a court or governmental agency if required by law. In addition, we do not currently rent, license, or sell IP addresses to any third party. What About the Use of Cookies? Our Site may use cookies to enhance your experience while using our Site. Cookies are pieces of information that some web sites transfer to the computer that is browsing that web site and are used for record-keeping purposes at many web sites. Use of cookies makes web-surfing easier by performing certain functions such as saving your passwords, your personal preferences regarding your use of the particular web site and to make sure you don't see the same ad repeatedly. Many consider the use of cookies to be an industry standard. Your browser is probably set to accept cookies. However, if you would prefer not to receive cookies, you can alter the configuration of your browser to refuse cookies. If you choose to have your browser refuse cookies, it is possible that some areas of our Site will not function properly when you view them. What About External or Third Party Web Sites? To the extent hyperlinks are utilized to access external or third party sites, you should be aware that these external or third party sites are not controlled by The Athlete's Foot and, therefore, are not subject to this Privacy Policy. The Athlete's Foot suggests that you check the privacy policies of these sites to determine how your personal information will be utilized by the proprietors of those third party sites. What About Security? This Site has industry standard security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under The Athlete's Foot's control. All information, once received, is stored behind our corporate firewall. However, although The Athlete's Foot has endeavored to create a secure and reliable Site, the confidentiality of any communication, information or material transmitted via the Internet cannot be guaranteed, we cannot guarantee that all personal information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described herein, and you agree to specifically release us from any liability related in any way to the information you provide to us. Accordingly, you should consider carefully if you want to submit sensitive information via the Internet. Pursuant to the terms of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen (13). The Site is not directed at children under the age of thirteen (13), and by using the Site, you represent that you are not under the age of thirteen (13). Should a child under the age of thirteen (13) wish to use the Site, the parent or guardian of the child must contact us by email at privacy@theathletesfoot.com or by telephone at [(770) 514-4500] prior to disclosing any personal information of such child. Notwithstanding the above, if a parent provides their child's information to us, such parent hereby consents to our use of such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, unless the parent has contacted us and made a written request to opt out of certain disclosures of their child's information, provided the receipt of such request has been specifically acknowledged by us in writing.
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