The Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to The Southeastern Sports Officials ‘Association website and governs data collection and usage. By using the Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association Website, you prescribe to the data practices described in this statement.

COLLECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION - The Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address and a username when you register for our online message board. Other information, such as information about your computer hardware and software is automatically collected by the Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association website. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by the Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association website.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through the Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association' Website public message boards, the information may be collected and used by others. NOTE: The Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association will not disclose your personal information to any third party. The Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association does not take any responsibility for your private, on-line communications through our message board.

The Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from the Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association website so you can understand how those Web sites collect, use, and share your information. The Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association website.

USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION - The Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association collects and uses your personal information to operate the Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association message board on our website to deliver the services you have requested. The Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association also uses your information to inform you of other information available from the Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association

The Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association does not sell, rent or lease any information to third parties. The Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association keeps track of the websites and pages our viewers access within the Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association website.  We do this to determine what Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association services are most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content within the Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association Web site to viewers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

The Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association website will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on the Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights and property of the Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association website, or the public.

USE OF COOKIES - The Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association Web site uses Cookies to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a website server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server on the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary reasons of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize The Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association Web site pages, or register with Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association Web site or message board.  A cookie helps the Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association website to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as username and passwords for the message board and so on. When you return to the Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association website features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association website, or other websites that you may visit.

SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION - The Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. The Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected by a trusted third party through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL).

CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT - The Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and member feedback. The Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how The Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association is protecting your information.

CONTACT INFORMATION – The Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that the Southeastern Sports Officials’ Association has not adhered to this Statement, please contact us. We will use reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.

Last Revision: December 20, 2023