Privacy Policy

RickKosick.com is the official website of Rick Kosick. It is designed to provide updated information about Rick Kosick and things related to Rick Kosick. Our information-collection practices are described below. We are committed to complying with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, and we urge children under age 13 to check with their parents before entering personal information on any website. Also, we strongly recommend that parents discuss with their kids the risks of sharing personal information online.

What Information Is Collected?

At RickKosick.com, it's our policy to create a website that requires minimum collection of information from our visitors. From time to time, however, we may request limited personal information (e.g. a visitor's e-mail address and/or e-mail address of parent or third party), as explained below, in order to conduct online contests or sweepstakes or offer other online activities (such as e-mail announcements of upcoming Rick Kosick appearances). RickKosick.com does not require any visitor to provide personal information in order to visit the website; we gather such data only when it is reasonably necessary to participate in an activity.

Signing up for E-mail Announcements

All personal information collected for RickKosick.com is used only to send visitors e-mail announcements. If necessary, it may be transferred, disclosed, or shared with third parties engaged by us specifically to handle the preparation and delivery of such announcements. These third parties may not use it for other purposes and will be under strict orders to maintain the confidentiality of such information.

Use of Information

RickKosick.com uses or may use personally identifiable information that visitors provide for such purposes as sending e-mail announcements. RickKosick.com does not disclose to third parties personally identifiable information that visitors provide, except that we may occasionally transfer, disclose or share such information with third parties who may be engaged by us specifically to handle and deliver certain online activities (e.g. conducting contests and sweepstakes). Such third parties have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes. Finally, we may also disclose personally identifiable information to third parties in order to comply with law or requests by law enforcement agencies or to protect the rights, property or safety of our website, users of our website and others.

Cookies and Log Data

Cookies are information files that your web browser places on the hard drive of your computer when you visit a website. Cookies cannot damage user files, nor can they read information from a user's hard drive. Cookies allow websites to "remember" users activities on a website as well as their visits to a site. At RickKosick.com, cookies are used to determine the number of unique visitors to our website over a given period. We do not imbed any personal information into cookies nor do we link or combine information collected through cookies to any personal information that users submit online when participating in our activities. You can, of course, disable cookies on your computer by indicating this in the preferences or options menus in your browser.

Log data collected on the RickKosick.com web server is maintained on a confidential basis. RickKosick.com uses such aggregate information to improve access to our content based on our visitors' browsers and operating system types, to make our content available to as many visitors as possible. We do not link the log data collected to the personal information that visitors submit online when participating in our activities.