Pageant Center™ - Privacy Statement

PAGEANT CENTER™ PRIVACY POLICY and STATEMENT

PAGEANT CENTER™, located at pageantcenter.com, is committed to your privacy. We demonstrate this commitment by posting this Privacy Policy to inform you of:

1. the personally identifiable information we collect from you through our website;
2. how we use the information;
3. with whom we share the information and why;
4. your choices regarding collection, use, and distribution of the information;
5. the security procedures in place to protect the information under our control; and,
6. how you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

INFORMATION

PAGEANT CENTER™ will not sell or rent information collected on this website others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. We collect information from our users at several different points on our website.

PAGEANT CENTER™ does not target registration to, or knowingly collect information directly from, anyone under 18 years of age. This website's content is intended for adults and we will not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years of age. If you are a parent or legal guardian of a child under age 18 who you believe has submitted personal information to this site, please contact us immediately.

Remember, however, the very best protection involves counseling your children regarding providing information online, and supervising their online activities.

If you have any questions regarding any aspect of our Privacy Policy or would like to remove any information you believe was inadvertently collected directly from a child under thirteen years of age, please email pageants@usa.com. 

If PAGEANT CENTER should ever be sold, it is expected that the information collected from visitors for emailing and e-newsletters, will be included in that sale.
 

INFORMATION REQUEST FORMS

When you choose to use this website’s information request forms on, you are asked to give your contact information (such as name and email address). Your information is collected by the third-party pageant or pageant-related business which is clearly indentified in the title area of the information request form. You have the option of providing demographic information (such as address, age level, type of pageant information desired, etc.).

The information you provide on any information request form on our website is provided only to that specific pageant or business in order that they can contact you about the pageant or services on for which you have expressed interest. We have no control over how third-party organizations handle your personally identifiable information and are not responsible for their actions, in accordance with the Terms of Use of this website. If you would like to know more about how each of these parties protect your information, please contact them directly.

These pageants and businesses are NOT affiliated with PAGEANT CENTER, and your communication with them is governed by our website’s Terms of Use.

COOKIES

PageantCenter.com collects information about your use of our Websites from cookies.

Types of Cookies we Use:

• Session cookies which last for the duration of your visit and are destroyed when you close the browser or navigate away from PageantCenter.com.
• Session tracking cookies which are set on your first visit to PageantCenter.com and which remain after your visit to our website and are used to help us determine which parts of our site are visited regularly.
• Visit tracking cookies which track visitors who regularly return to our website. This allows us to gain an understanding of how our visitors use PageantCenter.com and how we can create content that will encourage our visitors to return.

Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics for website analysis and performance evaluation. Google Analytics helps us to understand how many users visited our site, how they found our website, which the pages were visited most frequently, how long visitors enjoyed those pages, how often visitors come back, whether visitors are using a PC or mobile device, etc.  This helps us improve our site's performance and to focus on developing content visitors will enjoy in the future. Google uses cookies to see how the website is used, but this information is completely anonymous. The following cookies are used by Google: __utma | __utmb  | __utmc  | __utmz.

Google DoubleClick:  DoubleClick measures the effectiveness of web-based advertising campaigns on PageantCenter.com and is used to offer interest-based advertising to our visitors. Data which is gathered is anonymous. For those visitors who prefer not to be tracked by Google programs, options for opting out are included later in this section.

AddThis: AddThis is a social sharing widget which we use for our social sharing buttons on PageantCenter.com. This program counts the number of unique users that choose to share our content. You can learn more about AddThis here www.addthis.com

Private Advertisers: On occasion PageantCenter.com accepts advertising from private organisations. These advertising partners may track how many visitors click through on their banner ads on PageantCenter.com to visit their websites. In order to do this, our advertising partner may need to place a cookie on your computer.

Opting out of Accepting Cookies

You do not have to accept cookies. You have the option to use your computer's settings to either accept all cookies, to notify you when a cookie is issued by a website, or not to receive cookies at any time from any website.

Google offers a add-on program for your browser which can be used to opt out of being tracked by Google cookies on all website browsing. You can find the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on information page here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

If you would like more information about cookies and how you may choose to disable them, please refer to this website: www.aboutcookies.org

Any changes made to our Cookie Statement in the future will be posted on this page.
 

NEWSLETTER

If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter, we will ask you for contact information such as name and email address. Subscribers will occasionally receive information on upcoming pageants, notices of updates to the Pageant Calendar, alerts to upcoming telecasts of major pageants, pageant tips, and special offers.

In addition, you may opt out of our emailers by using our Contact Us form. Please see our choice and opt-out below.

CHANGING PERSONAL INFORMATION

If your personally identifiable information changes (such as your zip code), or if you no longer desire to receive our emailers or newsletters, we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or remove your personal data from our files. This can be done by emailing us at pageants@usa.com or by using our Contact Us form.
 

OPT-IN / OPT-OUT

You have the option to 'opt-out' of our emailers. If you no longer wish to receive our emailers or e-newsletters, you may opt-out of receiving these communications by replying to "unsubscribe" in the subject line in the email, email us at pageants@usa.com, or by using our Contact Us form.

POLICY CHANGES

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page, in order to inform you on what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.