Billiard Retailer magazine respects the privacy of the users of its website, billiardretailer.com. We want to make your online experience as safe and satisfying as possible while visiting us on the web.

Billiard Retailer will not collect information about you unless you choose to provide it to us.

Information that Billiard Retailer gathers and tracks:

1. Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions that are necessary to enter specific pages on the site, subscribe to the magazine, participate in voluntary surveys and enter competitions.

2. Information that Billiard Retailer gathers by tallying page views throughout our site. This information allows us to better tailor our content to readers’ needs and helps our advertisers understand the demographics of our audience. Because Billiard Retailer derives its revenue mainly from advertising, providing demographic data is essential to keeping our magazine and website free to users.

Billiard Retailer Magazine Gathers User Information in the Following Processes:

Optional Voluntary Submission
We currently offer or may offer the following services, which require some type of voluntary submission of personal information by users:

Site Registration
To enter specific pages on the Billiard Retailer website, you will be asked to fill out an online registration form. This form asks for basic contact information and more specific information such as job title and affiliation with the industry.

After initial registration, a "cookie" will be set in a user's browser. This enables the user to be "recognized" on future visits so that registration isn't required again.

If a user of our website has a subscription to the print copy of our magazine, a subscription number from the mailing label can be entered on the registration form. All other fields on this form will then be pre-filled with contact information that the user can either submit or edit.

Children
In accordance with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.

Usage Tracking
Billiard Retailer uses third-party software from Google Analytics to analyze user traffic patterns throughout our site. We do not correlate this information with data about individual users. With data supplied by Google Analytics, Billiard Retailer breaks down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser). We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well the page performs overall. This helps us to build a better service for you.

Cookies
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain personal information although it will help us to relate your use of the site to information you have voluntarily provided to us. But the only personal information that a cookie can contain is information that you supply yourself. A cookie cannot read data from your hard disk or cookie files created by other sites. Billiard Retailer uses these cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above).

You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you have set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each new cookie. You do not need to enable your browser to accept cookies to use this site. You will need to accept the cookies to view pages that require registration and to participate any forums.

Security
Billiard Retailer operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers.

Your Consent
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Billiard Retailer. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post these changes on this page of our site so that you may remain informed and aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it to third parties.