RIDEWORLD.COM
LEGAL INFORMATION AND PRIVACY
STATEMENT
Copyright
Information
International
and United States copyright and trademark laws protect all of the content
featured on the Rideworld.com and it’s sub domains, unless otherwise stated.
This document is subject to change without prior notice.
Trademarks
The brand name(s), title(s), Rideworld ™, Rideworld.com ™ Rideworld Premium
Portal ™, Thrillride’s Premium Portal ™, Ride Warrior’s Club and Ride Warrior ™
are trademarks of Godsey Consulting and/or Ridewarrior, Inc. and are pending
United States registered trademarks.
The title(s), phrase(s) Wild Rumors/Random Notes (SM), Rideworld Portal (SM),
“Thrilly” Awards (SM) are service marks used to identify services provided on
this Web site.
These recognized trademarks (TM) and service marks (SM), may not be reproduced
in any form or manner without the express written consent of the owner, Godsey
Consulting/Ridewarrior, Inc. Unofficial use may represent a violation of state,
federal and international law. We reserve the entitlement to seek damages for
unauthorized usage.
The
information, content, images and code on the Rideworld Web site is the
intellectual property of Godsey Consulting/Ridewarrior Inc. and is copyright ©
2002-2003, unless otherwise stated. This includes, but is not limited to, all
images, photographs, copy, written content, HTML and programming code. The
content contained herein (http://www.rideworld.com
and any other sub domains of Rideworld.com) may not be used, sold, reproduced,
mirrored, duplicated, distributed or copied in any form or manner, without the
preceding written permission of the owner, Godsey Consulting/Ridewarrior, Inc.
Electronic mail (e-mail) is not considered an acceptable form of written
consent.
Unless otherwise stated on the individual page, all photographs displayed on
the Rideworld.com domain are the property of Godsey Consulting and Ridewarrior,
Inc. copyright 2002-2003, all rights reserved. All pictorial data conveyed on
the domain, regardless of ownership, may not be sold, reproduced, mirrored,
duplicated or copied without the preceding written permission of the respective
owner. For all resources and subject matter used by Rideworld.com, but owned by
another, consent must be first acquired from the rightful owner before any part
may be copied, distributed, reproduced, sold, or used. The author of the work
retains all rights. In any case regardless of consent, content may not be
mirrored from the Web server hosting the Rideworld.com domain at http://www.rideworld.com and it’s sub
domains.
Information
Accuracy
Rideworld showcases information on, but not limited to theme parks, thrill
rides, roller coasters, amusement parks, and amusement ride manufacturers. The
owner(s), admin(s) contributor(s), content provider(s) and associate(s) of this
site reserve the right to modify the information at any time without notice.
Every effort is taken to insure the accuracy of the information presented on
this web site, but Rideworld the owner(s), webmaster(s), author(s), producer(s)
and affiliate(s) do not accept responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or
authenticity of any of the information contained herein on this web site. This
web site and the information presented is provided "as is" without
any warranties or guarantees of any kind.
This
document describes our policy regarding information collected or received
during your visit to our Rideworld.com. Please note that the amount and type of
information gathered will vary depending upon your usage.
Web
Hyperlinks
Rideworld features hyperlinks to other web sites that are independent of this
site. The privacy policy is limited to the content hosted under the
rideworld.com domain and does not apply to web sites that we
provide links to.
Rideworld, it's owner(s), webmaster(s), author(s), producer(s) and
affiliate(s), make no representation or warranty as to the accuracy,
completeness or authenticity of the information contained in any hyperlink or
web site that we link to. Please note that hyperlinks are not to be taken as an
endorsement by Rideworld. Use of any hyperlink is done so at your own risk and
you willingly accept all risks and liability of doing so.
Please note hyperlinks are not to be taken as an endorsement by Rideworld. Your
linking to any off-site pages or web sites is done at your own risk and you
willingly accept the risks and liability of doing so.
Limitations of Liability
Rideworld reserves the right to modify the Privacy Policy in any manner, at any
time, without notice of any kind. The latest copy of this agreement can be read
online at http://www.rideworld.com/legal/privacy.html
Rideworld can in no way guarantee your confidential use of this web site. The
owner(s), webmaster(s), author(s), producer(s) and affiliate(s), shall not be
held responsible for any harm that you or any person may suffer as a result of
any breach of confidentiality in respect to your use of this site or any
personal information you release to this site.
Collection of Personal Data
You can visit the Rideworld Web site without revealing any personal,
identifiable information. The only information collected during a normal visit
is your IP address, browser version, type of computer operating system,
referring URL (if any) and a record of the content you viewed, along with the
date and time of those requests. During normal browsing we do not collect or
store information such as your name, mailing address or email address.
We simply gather this general information to generate reports that measure site
usage activity. This information is used to improve the site experience and
observe the activity on our servers. We may also share this information with
advertisers and affiliates for information purposes. There are sections or
features on the site that will require you to submit personal, identifiable
information to obtain access or use these features. The gathering, treatment
and application of this information will be discussed below.
Cookie Usage
Cookies are bits of information that a web server assigns to your PC’s hard
drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies are safe and in most cases are used
to improve your online use by storing your user name, preferences, sessions and
other features while using a Web site.
We may also use cookies to help us track site activity, including page views,
return visits and feature usage. Many of the improvements to the site are based
on data that can be collected through the use of cookies.
Web browsers are generally set to accept cookies by default. If you'd prefer
not to accept cookies then you can change the preferences on your browser to
not accept cookies or to alert you prior to accepting one.
Rideworld uses cookies to store preferences, monitor site activity and store session
information to enhance your online use of this web site and to enable features
such as our message boards, chat rooms, member registration, member selected
themes, and polls to function properly. Some sections and site features will
not work or operate properly without the use of cookies.
Rideworld does not use cookies to retrieve personal information from your
computer that was not originally sent to you from our web servers. We do not
use cookies internally for site marketing or promotion, nor is the information
we store in our cookies shared with third parties. Again, NONE of our Cookie
information gathered from you is shown to anyone other than Rideworld.com Staff
members.
Some of our cookies sent and stored on your local computer may contain personal
identifiable information such as your name, user name or ID and other
information that possibly could be tracked to you.
You should NOT receive cookies from our advertisers that Rideworld hasn’t
checked specifically for security breaches. We do NOT use outside advertising
on this web site and we have complete control over the use of these cookies
that are subject to our Privacy Policy. The use of cookies by our advertisers
is NOT common practice but they could be used at their discretion as long as
they are Approved by Rideworld. Also, Rideworld.com does NOT use ads that
appear on your screen while browsing, otherwise known as “Pop Up, “Pop Down”,
“Pop Over”, and “Pop Under” advertisements. These ads sometimes have cookies
that are copied to your PC as well.
IP
Addresses
During your visit to Rideworld we will record your activity by collecting and
storing your IP address along with the requests for content from our servers
for the purposes of statistics reporting, system administration, and security.
An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer
whenever you're on the Internet. Servers use the assigned IP address to
identify your computer.
When you request content from our web servers your IP address is automatically
logged. For general use you may remain anonymous to us since our web logs do
not contain personal, identifiable information connected and/or linked to your
IP address.
There are exceptions to linking personal identifiable information to your IP
address. When using our message boards, chat rooms, user profiles, member
registration, polls, features that require you to sign in or contacting us by
email, then your IP address may be noted and logged along with any personal
information you voluntarily or are required to submit. This information may
contain but is not restricted to your name, home address and email address.
Gathering
of Individual Information
There are occasions or circumstances on this Web site that may require you to
submit personal information to our Web servers. This information such as your
name, mailing address, or email address is received, gathered and stored on our
web servers. Rideworld is concerned about your privacy and therefore we take
measures to ensure that the information we collect is secure from outside
sources.
In certain sections, the personal information you submit may be accessible to
other visitors of Rideworld. If it is your desire to remain completely
unidentified then you should not join or use features of the site that require
you to submit personal information.
Please be aware that whenever you give out personal information online - for
example, via chat rooms, discussion forums, message boards or user profiles --
information can be collected and used by people and/or third parties you don't
know. While it is our goal to guard our users' privacy, we cannot guarantee the
security of any information you disclose for public display, and therefore you
do so at your own risk.
Information Distribution
Rideworld follows strict guidelines to protect your personal information. In
general it is our policy not to share personal information with outside sources
and third parties, unless our purpose to do so is acknowledged in this
document.
Rideworld policy will NOT sell, trade, rent or otherwise disclose your
personal information to third parties, unless permission is granted or the
proposed use is acknowledged at the time of gathering, apart from for the
following situations:
To guard the security and reliability
of Rideworld.com and its affiliates; To preserve the rights, property, and
security of Rideworld, our creator(s), users, or others; To impose or apply our
Terms of Service agreement; To take safety measures against legal
responsibilities; To act in response to judicial procedures; or To the degree
allowable under other requirements of law, to supply information to law
enforcement or for an inquiry on matter
connected to public protection.
In these situations, we preserve the right to discharge any and all of your
personal information if we trust that such release is plausibly required.
All
users should be aware that personal, identifiable information may be gathered
by third parties without our knowledge in our chat rooms, discussion forums,
message boards, user profiles and anywhere else where this information is
displayed for public utilization. The information in these areas of the site is
on public display, as a result we cannot defend or stop the gathering of this
information.
Rideworld and its affiliates may use information gathered from this web site to
create demographic statistics, which may be shared with third parties such as
advertisers. The data shared does NOT contain private, identifiable information
unless permission was given at the time of compilation for such a use.
Should immunity to our information distribution policy exist, full discovery
will be made at the instance of gathering.
Electronic Mail (E-mail)
In some circumstances we may gather and/or store your email address. Rideworld
is concerned about unsolicited email, otherwise known as “SPAM”. As a result,
it is our policy not to vend or distribute any email address with third
parties, unless approval is given or the proposed use is plainly acknowledged
at the time of gathering. Conversely, we do reserve the entitlement to use your
email address for in-house use.
On occasion you may receive email from Rideworld for enlightening or
endorsement purposes. If at any time you desire to be removed from our mailing
lists please send a request through email to info@rideworld.com.
Please include the email address to be removed and if appropriate a copy of the
message you received prompting your call to be removed. We guarantee to respect
your request and eliminate your email address from any future mailings.
Advertising
As stated above, Rideworld does NOT use third parties for the serving and/or
targeting of ads, promotions and other marketing-messages on the site. All of our
advertising on the site is controlled and ran by Rideworld.com and its staff.
Also, Rideworld.com does NOT use ads that appear on your screen while browsing,
otherwise known as “Pop Up, “Pop Down”, “Pop Over”, and “Pop Under”
advertisements. Rideworld.com has made a commitment to staying free of these
types of ads and our membership fees allow us to do so. As long as our
operating costs continue to come in, we will stay free from these style of ads.
Questions or Comments regarding this document
Please Contact Us with any
questions you may have regarding this Privacy Policy.