This website is a sports entertainment site operated by James "Jimmy Van" VanderLinden for the purpose of information and entertainment.

Most of the features at JimmyVan.com are offered without the collection of any Personal Information. Most of the site and its content can be viewed anonymously. For those areas of the site that do require the collection of Personal Information, this Privacy Policy will tell you what you need to know to make the right decisions.

By using this web site, you are agreeing to the terms of this Privacy Policy, as posted in this area of the site. If you do not agree with any terms or practices described in this Privacy Policy, please do not use this site.

As used in this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” means personally identifiable information, such as your name, address, and e-mail address. When such information is collected, you will know because you will have to fill out a form on the site. No Personal Information is knowingly collected, used or retained for any purpose other than that for which you supplied the information. Any and all information collected at this site will be kept strictly confidential and will not be sold, reused, rented, loaned, or otherwise disclosed.

JimmyVan.com collects Personal Information from visitors to the site in the following ways:

• Kingpin Membership subscription
• Participation in JV's Prize Contest
• Participation in interactive games such as Picture This!
• Participation in reader feedback questions.
• Registration to participate on the Open Forum message board
• Participation in the People's Page column (derived from submissions from site visitors).
• Registration to be included in the Links section of the site.
• E-mail transmitted via various links on the site.

The use of any of these services is entirely optional and voluntary; however, if you do not provide the Personal Information requested, we may elect to not make the related services available for your use. If you send us an e-mail in which you disclose Personal Information, we will use it to discuss the subject of your correspondence and, if appropriate, share it with other interested parties.

In order to track your use of the site, specifically the Open Forum message board, JimmyVan.com uses “cookies,” which are pieces of information that are sent by sites and stored in your computer’s hard drive. Cookies provide you a service by allowing us to recognize your computer so we can save you from having to re-enter the same data every time you visit the Open Forum. This user data is aggregated for tracking purposes primarily by tallying pages viewed throughout our web sites and logging Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses and browser types.

Aggregated usage data enables us to help our advertisers better understand the preferences of our audience. Providing such usage data to advertisers is essential to keeping as many of our services free to visitors as is reasonably possible. This information does not reveal your identity although, in some cases, we may have to combine this non-identifiable information with Personal Information to enforce compliance with our Terms of Service or to protect our service, web sites, visitors or others.

Please note that we will release your Personal Information if required to do so by law, or by search warrant, subpoena or court order. We will only use or retain your Personal Information for so long as is needed to fulfill your requests, support the services you have requested, or comply with the law.

Third Party Advertising
We use Gorilla Nation, UGO, DoubleClick and other third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please click here.

Third Party Cookies
In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party ad server, Gorilla Nation, UGO, Double Click or their affiliates, or individual advertisers may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your browser.

JimmyVan.com reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time.

Please write to us at jv@jimmyvan.com if you have any comments or questions about this Privacy Policy.