Your Privacy
What information do we collect?
We collect information from you when you register on our site, place an order, subscribe to our newsletter, respond to a survey or fill out a form.
Any data we request that is not required will be specified as voluntary or optional.
When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number or credit card information. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.
Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
What do we use your information for?
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:
• To personalize your experience
(your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs)
• To improve our website
(we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you)
• To improve customer service
(your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs)
• To process transactions
Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested by the customer.
• To send periodic emails
The email address you provide for order processing, may be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your order or request, in addition to receiving occasional company news, updates, promotions, related product or service information, etc.
Note: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.
• To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature
How do we protect your information?
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you submit a request, place an order or access your personal information.
These security measures include: password protected directories and databases to safeguard your information, SSL (Secure Sockets Layered) technology to ensure that your information is fully encrypted and sent across the Internet securely, PCI Scanning to actively protect our servers from hackers and other vulnerabilities or Encrypted database fields to protect our customers from hackers and other vulnerabilities.
We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our Database to be only accessed by those authorized with special access rights to our systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.
After a transaction, your private information (credit cards, social security numbers, financials, etc.) will not be stored on our servers.
Do we use cookies?
Yes (Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.
Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others' rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Third party links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
Because we value your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.
As part of the California Online Privacy Protection Act, all users of our site may make any changes to their information at anytime by logging into their "My Account" section of our website.
Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.
CAN-SPAM Compliance
We have taken the necessary steps to ensure that we are compliant with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 by never sending out misleading information.
Online Privacy Policy Only
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.
Your Consent
By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page, and/or update the Privacy Policy modification date below. Policy changes will apply only to information collected after the date of the change.
This policy was last modified on 09/03/2010
Contacting Us
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us using the information below.
www.bowlingball.com
771 Fentress Blvd, STE 14
Daytona Beach, Florida 32114
United States
support@bowlingball.com
386-274-3100
Privacy Policy Customer Pledge
We pledge to you, our customer, that we have made a dedicated effort to bring our privacy policy in line with the the following important privacy laws and initiatives:
Federal Trade Commision Fair
California Online Privacy Protection Act
Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act
Privacy Alliance
Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act
If at anytime you have a cause that needs to be disputed please fill out the Trust Guard Dispute Resolution form.
Respectfully,
John Congdon IT Director
bowlingball.com
Web Site Security
State of the Art Security
bowlingball.com uses the latest in security certificates. We use Extended Validation SSL Certificates issued by Network Solutions, one of the leading Certificate Authorities around today.
So you can be sure that when you buy from us that your transaction will be safe and secure.
Below we have Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about our security certificates. Feel free to read them at your leisure.
What is SSL?
SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer. Like TLS (which stands for Transport Layer Security), SSL is a security protocol that operates between a browser and a Web site. It provides confidentiality and data integrity by means of cryptographic techniques and, when used with a third party-issued certificate, it can report trustworthy information to one party about the other party. Typically, SSL is used to provide the browser and its user with trustworthy information about the Web site.
Cryptographic techniques provide confidentiality and data integrity protection for messages passing in either direction between the browser and the Web site. This prevents Internet Service Providers that handle the messages in transit from viewing or modifying the contents of the messages. It also mitigates attacks on the DNS, such as DNS cache poisoning and on the HTTP caching system, such as HTTP response splitting.
What is a certificate?
A certificate (more properly called a public-key certificate in this context) is an electronic document that is signed by a certification authority (CA) asserting the binding between identifying information and a public key that can be used to authenticate the entity to which the identifying information applies. As a minimum, the identifying information includes a domain name, and the browser verifies that the URL displayed in its address bar is in the domain identified by the certificate.
The CA's public key can be used to verify its signature on a certificate. If the certificate is valid and the domain it contains includes the URL displayed in the browser's address bar, then the browser will display a padlock icon, indicating that a secure connection has been established between browser and Web site.
What is a certification authority?
A certification authority (sometimes referred to as a certificate authority) is a trusted third party that issues digital certificates. On the Web, certification authorities (CAs) are typically separate business entities whose public keys are provisioned to the browser by the browser supplier. The CA accepts requests for certificates from Web site operators who provide the identifying information that they wish to have included in the certificate. The CA verifies the accuracy and applicability of the identifying information before including it in the certificate and returning it to the Web site operator.
The Web site provisions the certificate to the browser within the SSL protocol.
What standards do certification authorities have to comply with?
Generally, in order to be accepted by a browser supplier, a certification authority (CA) must meet standards set by either the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants/Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (AICPA/CICA) or the (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) ETSI. The AICPA/CICA standard is called "WebTrust for CAs" and the ETSI standard is called "ETSI TS 101456 Policy requirements for certification authorities issuing qualified certificates."
These audit schemes impose requirements on the CA's systems, personnel and procedures. But, they do not currently prescribe the specific methods used by the CA to validate the identifying information that is to be included in the certificate.
With the introduction of extended validation certificates (EV SSL Certificates), WebTrust will be augmented to audit the CA's conformance with the extended validation guidelines.
What is a domain-validated certificate?
A domain-validated certificate is an SSL certificate in which the validated identifying information contained in the certificate is limited to the domain on which the Web site is located. If a secure connection is established between browser and a Web site secured with a domain-validated certificate Web site, the browser displays the padlock icon.
What is an extended validation certificate?
An extended validation certificate (EV SSL Certificate) is a certificate issued in conformance with the extended validation guidelines defined by the CA/Browser Forum. The organizational identifying information and the name of the issuing CA receive prominent display in some browsers.
What are the extended validation guidelines?
The extended validation guidelines contain a set of requirements for the operations of certification authorities (CAs) that issue extended validation certificates (EV SSL Certificates). These requirements mostly govern the process of validating the identifying information that is to appear in an EV SSL Certificate. However, the guidelines also establish requirements for several other aspects of a CA's operations, including: insurance coverage, revocation services, cryptographic key parameters, personnel qualification, etc.
Why is there a need for extended validation certificates?
Because there are no generally-accepted standards for verifying the organizational information that is contained in some certificates, uncertainty has arisen in users' minds over the significance of the padlock icon. This confusion has been compounded by the growing practice of Web site operators to display padlock icons within the site contents. Furthermore, the URLs that commonly appear in browser address bars have become obscure and users can no longer use these to assure themselves that they are transacting with the Web site operator that they expect. Therefore, there arose a need to display trusted identifying information about the operator of the Web site, and to do it in a way that clearly indicated to users the identity of the business entity with whom they were doing business. This had to be done in a way that established minimum standards for the trustworthiness of that identifying information. Hence, the major browser suppliers and a group of certification authorities (CAs) came together to develop these minimum standards. At the same time, some browser suppliers developed user interface standards for displaying that information to emphasize its trustworthiness.
With these combined developments, it is expected that the Web users who engage in sensitive transactions with their governments, financial service providers, health care providers, etc. will look for these new cues as part of their personal Web use routine.
Extended Validation Certificates (EV SSL Certificate)
About EV SSL Certificates
The Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificate standard is intended to provide an improved level of authentication of entities that request digital certificates for securing transactions on their Web sites. The next generation of Internet browsers will display EV SSL-secured Web sites in a way that allows visitors to instantly ascertain that a given site is indeed secure and can be trusted. A new vetting format, which all issuing Certification Authorities (CAs) must comply with, ensures a uniform standard for certificate issuance. This means that all CAs must adhere to the same high security standards when processing certificate requests. Consequently, visitors to EV SSL-secured Web sites can trust that the organization that operates the site has undergone and passed the rigorous EV SSL authentication process as defined by the CA/Browser Forum. Internet users thus will be able to trust that particular Web sites are what they claim to be, rather than fraudulent mirror sites operated by perpetrators of phishing schemes.
Allowing Internet users to instantly distinguish EV SSL-secured Web sites, new versions of the Internet's leading browsers will display EV SSL certificates differently than the standard "padlock" method used for existing types of SSL certificates. See below for examples of how the Internet Explorer 7 and Opera 8 browsers will be displaying EV SSL Certificates.
EV SSL certificates will prove particularly useful for companies whose Internet domains are considered at a high risk of being targeted by phishing schemes and other types of Internet fraud. High-risk domains include domains owned by high-profile online financial services, banking sites, auction sites, popular retailers and other sites that conduct Internet transactions likely to be targeted by Internet fraud.
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