Your privacy
This document was last updated July 6, 2009.
ilovesports.ca (a subsidiary of Intelligent Business Solutions) is committed to protecting your personal information and respecting your privacy. The following privacy statement describes our practice with respect to the collection and use of your personally identifiable information (personal information) on this Web site. By using this Web site, you consent to the terms of our privacy statement and to ilovesports.ca processing of personal information for the purposes stated below.

Collection of Your Personal Information

There are activities on our website that we request your personal information in order to participate in them. We have limited our requests to only personal information that is mandatory such as email addresses, first and last name, and sometimes telephone number and address. These requirements are outlined below for clarity:

Member registration

Registration on ilovesports.ca allows the user to post ads freely without having to activate each ad inpidually. We require contact information, including address and telephone number in order ensure identity integrity of the user. An email address is also required in order to validate the membership (one time only)

Posting Ads (excluding Buy & Sell)

An email address is required to validate the ad if the poster is not a registered member as well as providing a contact mechanism for users that want to respond to the posted ad

Buy & Sell

Posting ads in the Buy & Sell area require that posters are registered members of ilovesports.ca in order to ensure identity integrity of the user

Businesses

Posting an business free advertising ad requires that posters are registered members of ilovesports.ca in order to ensure identity integrity of the user and the company being posted

Team & League creation of web sites

In order to create Team & League websites, users must be a registered member of ilovesports.ca in order to ensure identity integrity of the user

Use of Personal Information Collected

ilovesports.ca uses your personal information collected on this Web site primarily for the following purposes:
  • To deliver services, such as customer support , newsletters, and surveys, website improvements
  • To allow users to respond to your posts by contacting you through the email address you entered
  • To alert you to product updates, special offers, updated information and other new services from ilovesports.ca or to forward promotional materials, if you so request.
  • To ensure our Web site is relevant to your needs.
  • To help us create and publish content most relevant to you.
  • To allow you access to limited-entry areas of our Web site as appropriate (such as the Buy & Sell area, and the creation of league and team websites)
  • To contact you in response to sign up forms such as Contact Us or Career Opportunities.

ilovesports.ca may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the requirements of law or comply with legal process served on this Web site, protect and defend the rights or property of ilovesports.ca and its family of Web sites or act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of ilovesports.ca employees, users of ilovesports.ca products or services, or members of the public.
ilovesports.ca reserves the right to transfer personal information to third parties as part of any corporate reorganization process including, but not limited, mergers, acquisitions, and sales of all or substantially all of our assets.
ilovesports.ca does not otherwise use, sell, rent, share or otherwise disclose your personal information to any third parties.

Access to Your Personal Information

ilovesports.ca provides you with an opportunity to access your personal information to ensure it is correct, accurate and current.
ilovesports.ca provides you the opportunity to exercise an opt-out choice if you do not want to receive emails from us or updates regarding new services and products offered on this Web. The opt-out choice may be exercised at the points where personal information is collected by un-ticking the appropriate box.

Use of Non-Personal Information Collected

ilovesports.ca uses non-personal information such as demographic data to analyze and develop marketing strategy and to determine how you found about us, your interests regarding our products and services and how to further improve this Web site based upon user data. We may share such non-personal data with third parties.

IP Addresses

Your computer uses IP addresses every time you connect to the Internet. Computers on the network use your IP address to identify your computer so that data, such as the Web pages you request, can be sent to you. Our Web server automatically gathers them and uses this information for site statistical analysis – we will not use your IP address to attempt to identify your personal information.

System Information

System information includes time, type of Web browser being used, the operating system or platform, and CPU speed. Your Web browser sends this information automatically when you are connected to a Web site. This information is used to identify broad demographic statistics and may be used to provide information appropriate for your computer system.

Security

ilovesports.ca endeavors to take reasonable and appropriate steps to protect your personal information from unauthorized access or disclosure. However, we do not warrant or represent that your personal information is completely safe from hackers and other security threats. If you have any questions about the security on this site, you can send an email to our webmaster.

Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

ilovesports.ca does not use cookies. ilovesports.ca uses an email delivery to send emails that you have agreed to receive. Pixel tags are used in those email messages and at this Web site to help us measure the effectiveness of our advertising and how visitors use our Web site. If you have agreed to receive emails from us, those emails may contain advertising about goods and services that we think might be of interest to you. In order to understand how our readers interact with the emails and the content that we send, we use pixels in the text in order to understand who has opened the emails that they have been sent. In order to provide our content in the most interesting way, we also use pixels to learn whether you can receive emails in text or html form. Our use of tracking technologies allows us to improve our Web site and your Web experience. We may also analyze information that does not contain personal information for trends and statistics.

Third Party Links (our sponsors)

This Web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we have no control or influence over the privacy practices of such other Web sites. We encourage you to read such other Web sites' privacy statement in order to understand whether and how they process data about your visit to their site.

Changes to This Privacy Statement

With effect for the future, ilovesports.ca reserves the right to change this privacy statement from time to time. When we do, we will also revise the "last update" date at the top of this privacy statement. For material changes to this privacy statement, we will notify you be placing a notice on this Web site.

Enforcement of This Privacy Statement

If you have comments or questions with respect to this statement, please contact us.