Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy details policies implemented throughout http://www.BelmontStakes.org (the “Website” or “BelmontStakes.org”) governing our use of personally identifiable information about users of our Website and users of services available through the Website (the “Services”).

By visiting this Website and using the Services you accept the terms of this Privacy Policy as amended from time to time.

1.       Privacy Policy Updates

BelmontStakes.org may need to update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If so, BelmontStakes.org will post its updated Privacy Policy on our Website so you are aware of what personally identifiable information we may collect and how we may use this information. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you either on this page or by means of a notice on our home page. Please visit our Privacy Policy to remain up to date on our policies.

2.       Information Collection and Use

You can visit our Website without revealing any personally identifiable information about yourself by setting your browser settings to a private mode. See your browser privacy setting for more information. Currently, BelmontStakes.org does not collect any personal information from visitors visiting the Website; we do not ask for or collect any personally identifiable information from you.

We may track the total number of visitors to the Website, the number of visitors to each Website page, visitor’s browser type, and IP addresses. We may analyze this data for trends and statistics in the aggregate, but such information will be maintained, used and disclosed in aggregate form only and it will not contain personally identifiable information. We may use such aggregate information to analyze trends, administer the Website, track users’ movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.

Personally identifiable information will never be shared with third parties unless you have expressly agreed that we forward your personally identifiable information to provide you with a service you requested.

BelmontStakes.org contains links to third party websites. If you click on a banner or other link to a third party website these third parties may ask you for additional information. Please be aware that any additional information third party websites may ask for is not covered by this Privacy Policy. For more information about third party websites linked to from this Website, please visit our Terms of Use here.

3.       Sending you E-Mail

If you send BelmontStakes.org an email we will not keep your email address on file. We will only email you in reply to an express inquiry you make to us.

4.       Children’s Privacy

This Website is not intended for people under the age of 18. BelmontStakes.org does not target its Services or this Website to people under the age of 18. BelmontStakes.org does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from people under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18 you are kindly asked to leave this website. For more information about age restrictions for this Website please see our Term of Use here.

5.       Cookies and GIFs

5.1          Cookies

Cookies are a small text file used to tailor a visitors Website experience by making content served to the visitor more relevant. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the Website user’s hard drive containing information about the user. Cookies generally would not permit us to personally identify you.

When you visit the Website, BelmontStakes.org will not place or drop cookies on your hard drive.

However, third party website featured on this Website may place cookies on your computer upon your visiting those third party websites. Third party websites may use information gleaned from cookies placed on your hard drive in order to recognize you as a returning visitor and affect the content you see on those sites. In addition, third party website may use web beacons to collect information about the user and session ID cookies to make it easier for you to navigate their sites. Such third parties may collect, use and commercially exploit any information provided by users as they wish, subject to applicable law and regulation.

The use of third party cookies is not covered by this Privacy Policy.  We do not have access or control over these cookies.

You can obtain more information about managing cookie settings on your browser by inquiring directly with the internet browser software provider. Depending on the internet browser used you may adjust internet browser settings to turn cookies off or preclude BelmontStakes.org or a third party from placing or reading cookies on a your browser.

5.2          Clear Gifs

Third party websites featured on the Website may use a software on the Website called clear gifs (also known as 1×1 Gifs, Web Beacons, Web Bugs, Pixels or Pixel Tags), that help us better manage content on the Website by allowing us to see what content is relevant to our visitors.  Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Website users.  While cookies are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded on Website pages. Gifs are usually about the size of a period. Information gathered by clear gifs cannot be tied to Website visitors’ personally identifiable information.

6.       Disclosure

BelmontStakes.org does not share, sell, rent or trade your personal information with third parties other than as disclosed within this Privacy Policy.

We may provide aggregate information to vendors; service agencies, advertiser and other third parties that we may engage to assist us in providing our Services to you.

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information and your communications on this Website as required to do so by applicable law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Website, or when we deem it appropriate or necessary, acting reasonably, to provide such information to law enforcement authorities.

We may transfer information to a successor entity upon a merger, consolidation or other corporate reorganization in which BelmontStakes.org participates or to a purchaser of all or substantially all of BelmontStakes.org’s assets to which this Website relates.

7.       Security

Currently we do not collect any personally identifiable information. In the event that we do, we intend to employ procedural and technological security measures that are reasonably designed to help protect your personally identifiable information from loss, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction or unauthorized access.

8.       Location of Data

Currently we do not collect any personally identifiable information. Some of our computer systems are currently based outside the European Union, so if we commenced collecting personally identifiable information your personal data would be processed by us where data protection and privacy regulations may not offer the same level of protection as in other parts of the world, such as the European Union. By using the Website you agree to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use and you consent to the transfer of all such information to the jurisdiction in which our servers are located, which may not offer an equivalent level of protection of that required in the European Union or certain other countries, and to the processing of that information as described in this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy was last updated: June 1,  2013