Information Collection and Use

Registration
In order to use most functions of this Web site, you must first complete the registration form and create a user name and password. During registration you are required to give contact information, such as your name and email address. We use this information to contact you about the services on our site in which you have expressed interest.

You have the option to provide demographic information (such as income level and gender) to us; we encourage you to submit this information so we can provide you a more personalized experience on our site.

Paintball Report, Inc. is the sole owner of the information collected on Paintball Report, Inc.. Paintball Report, Inc. collects personally identifiable information from our users at several different points on our Web site.

Orders
If you choose to purchase a product or service from us, we request certain personally identifiable information from you on our order form. You must provide contact information (such as name, email, and shipping address) and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date).

We use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you.

Surveys and Contests
Occasionally we may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information, including contact name and shipping address.

We use this information to ensure that no duplication or fraudulent submissions to the contest are made to disadvantage other site users. Any surveys conducted on the site will be conducted anonymously unless otherwise noted.

We will not share the personally identifiable information you provide through a contest or survey with other third parties unless we give you prior notice and choice.

Tell-A-Friend
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. Paintball Report, Inc. stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email, and may be used to address the success of a service provided on the site.

Your friend may contact us at to request that we remove this information from our database.

Uses of Information

All information collected will be used exclusively to provide more specific user experienced and to provide special offers or contests given by Paintball Report, Inc. Information collected through surveys will be used to identify trends within our user base and will remain anonymous, unless otherwise noted.

Communications from the Site

Special Offers and Updates
We will occasionally send you information on new products, services, promotions, contests, or other information pertaining to the site services with the information provided.

Out of respect for your privacy, we present the option not to receive these types of communications. See the legal page at http://www.paintballreport.com/legal.php

Newsletters
If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter(s), we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe. See the legal page at http://www.paintballreport.com/legal.php

Service-related Announcements
We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email.

Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account. See the legal page at http://www.paintballreport.com/legal.php

Customer Service
Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your username and password. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email or telephone, in accordance with your wishes.

Profile
We store information that we collect through cookies, log files, clear gifs, [and/or third party sources] to create a “profile” of your preferences. We may tie your personally identifiable information, and/or your viewing history, to information in the profile, in order to provide tailored promotions and marketing offers and to improve the content of the site for you.

We may share your profile with other third parties, but only devoid of any direct personal information, such as name or address, though demographic and general location (i.e. zip code) may be used.

Supplementation of Information
In order to provide certain services to you, we may on occasion supplement the personal information you submitted to us with information from third party sources.

Identification Verification
We use a third party service to verify your identity and address in the event you are a winner in a contest provided within the site to prevent any fraudulent/supplementary registration.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)
We share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our partners and advertisers. This information does not identify individual users. We use this information to provide accurate statistics on our visitors and their demographics in order to receive accurate compensation from advertisers.

We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.