Why does PCHLotto collect personal information?
PCHLotto collects certain personal information from our visitors primarily to process and fulfill online entries for PCHLotto drawings. For example, we need your full name, postal and email address to enter you in the PCHLotto drawings, confirm your entry, contact you if you have won and notify you about any updates or changes to our site. We will also send you an email confirmation each day of the numbers you have chosen for entry. We may utilize the services of service providers and subcontractors to collect such information on our behalf for administrative and other purposes that we may deem necessary to maintain service and improve the user experience. We may also forward personally identifiable information to select vendors or third parties necessary for the fulfillment of any prize you may win.
We may also use the personal data we collect for systems administration and troubleshooting purposes, and to report aggregate information to our marketing partners and others.
To provide our users with a more personalized and relevant web experience, we may collect and use personal data to identify users' specific interests and needs. If given permission, we may notify our users by email of special contests, announcements and offers we feel may be of interest available from PCHLotto and/or our marketing partners. If you do not want to receive such offers you may follow the simple unsubscribe procedure located at the permission notice box appearing on the PCHLotto registration and entry page. Users may unsubscribe from such future offers by clicking to remove the check in the permission notice box before submitting the registration and entry form. You may also unsubscribe from such offers at any time by using the unsubscribe link in such emails, by clicking on the “ContactPCHLotto” link or writing directly to us care of: Consumer & Privacy Affairs, PCHLotto, 382 Channel Drive, Port Washington, New York, 11050.
How and what information does PCHLotto gather or track?
We collect personal data from our users mainly during the initial registration process for PCHLotto. Such information is collected to process and fulfill online entries for PCHLotto drawings. For example, we need your full name, postal and email address to enter you in the PCHLotto drawings, confirm your entry, contact you if you have won and notify you about any updates or changes to our site. We will also send you an email confirmation each day of the numbers you have chosen for entry.
We may also forward personally identifiable information to select vendors or third parties necessary for the fulfillment of any prize you may win. We may utilize the services of service providers and subcontractors to collect such information on our behalf for administrative and other purposes that we may deem necessary to maintain service and improve the user experience. We may also request additional information about the offers and services on PCHLotto. We gather this data in order to better understand our users' interests and provide them with relevant offers and information.
Through the use of "cookies" and "pixel tags" (both described below) and online and registration forms, we may collect personal data on, among other things, the following information:
- Demographic
- Technical
- Reference
- IP address
- domain name
- e-mail address
- site traffic
- name
- land address
- password
What are Cookies?
"Cookies" are small pieces of information that are stored by your web browser software on your computer's hard drive or temporarily in your computer's memory. The use of cookies is an industry standard, and users will find them on most major web sites. PCHLotto may place and store Internet cookies on a user's hard drive. Cookies can save any of the types of information noted above. Cookies enable us to recognize you and personalize your viewing experience on the PCHLotto site. For example, we use cookies to recognize user access privileges to PCHLotto, track site usage and traffic patterns, add advertisements for goods or services that we think may interest you, and estimate our audience size. We also use cookies to store user names and information that are supplied at registration. Although most web browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, if you prefer, you can decline the placement of a cookie on your hard drive by using the appropriate feature(s) of your web browser software (if available) to delete the cookie. Please note, however, that certain areas on the site will not function properly if your web browser does not accept cookies.
Does PCHLotto disclose user information to third parties?
PCHLotto may disclose user information in aggregate form to marketing partners. For example, we might tell a marketing partner how many users visited PCHLotto over a period of time, but we will never tell them who it was that saw or clicked on their offer, unless that user has given us permission to do so.
We may forward personally identifiable information to select vendors or third parties necessary for the fulfillment of any prize you may win.We may utilize the services of and disclose user information to our service providers and subcontractors for purposes of collecting information on our behalf and for administrative and other purposes that we may deem necessary to maintain service and improve the user experience. Unless otherwise noted in this Privacy Policy or at the point of collection we will not share personally identifiable information with marketing partners
Visitors who do not want to hear from PCHLotto or our select marketing partners may if you follow the simple unsubscribe procedure of removing the check mark located at the permission notice box appearing on the PCHLotto registration and entry page. If an opt out is not submitted, we may notify users by email of special contests, announcements and offers of interest from PCHLotto and our marketing partners. If you consent, we may also share your name, land address and e-mail address with marketing partners so that they can send you offers directly for products and services that may be of interest to you. The personal information our users provide to us may be combined with other personally identifiable information (such as demographic information and past purchase information) available from our records and other sources. This allows us and our marketing partners , with permission, to present our users with offers and information geared towards their interests. PCHLotto is not and cannot be responsible for the activities or privacy policies of third parties.
In the event of a merger, acquisition, or change of control of PCHLotto, customer data would be considered a business asset and may be transferred. We will disclose information we maintain when required to do so by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We may also disclose personal information as required by law or to protect the safety and security of our users.
Can I opt-out of PCHLotto's data collection and/or distribution?
Receiving email messages from PCHLotto is optional. As noted earlier, the collection, use, and distribution of personal data helps us create a more personalized, relevant, and intelligent web service for our users. PCHLotto will not contact you with email offers and announcements from us or select marketing parterns if you follow the simple opt-out procedure of removing the check mark located at the permission notice box appearing on the PCHLotto registration and entry page. If you are already receiving PCHLotto emails and no longer wish to receive such communications, simply follow the "unsubscribe" instructions that appear in PCHLotto e-mail, or click on the "Contact PCHLotto" link or write directly to us care of: at Consumer & Privacy Affairs, PCHLotto, 382 Channel Drive, Port Washington, New York, 11050. Please note that we will confirm each entry into PCHLotto with an email summary of the numbers you have selected.
If you have provided personal information directly to our third party marketing partners and are receiving email communications directly from these third parties PCHLotto cannot, in most instances, unsubscribe users from these third parties. If you wish to unsubscribe from one of our marketing partner's e-mail programs, please follow their unsubscribe procedures which will be found within their e-mails or in their privacy policy.
What about external web sites?
To the extent hyperlinks or banner advertisements incorporating hyperlinks are utilized on this Site to access third party sites, users should be aware that these third party web sites are not controlled by PCHLotto and, therefore, are not subject to this privacy policy. We recommend that users check the privacy policies of these individual sites to see how their personal information will be utilized.
What does PCHLotto do to keep their site secure?
We have implemented a number of security features throughout the PCHLotto site that are intended to prevent the unauthorized release of or access to the user information we collect online. For example, database information is firewall protected. Also, only authorized PCHLotto personnel and approved service providers have access to any stored personal information we collect from our users. While we strive to create a secure and reliable site for our users, the confidentiality of any communication or material transmitted over the Internet cannot be 100% guaranteed. Users should keep in mind that any information submitted through an Internet transaction is potentially accessible to the public, and consequently, can be collected and used by others without their consent. PCHLotto is not responsible or liable for illegal interception of personal data via any Internet transaction.
Does PCHLotto collect information from users outside of the United States?
The PCHLotto site is not directed to visitors residing outside of the United States and such users are not eligible to submit online sweepstakes entries. If PCHLotto becomes aware that a user who does not reside in the United States has registered with the PCHLotto site, PCHLotto will use reasonable efforts to remove such information from its files.
Your California Privacy Rights:
As stated in this Privacy Policy we do not share information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes unless you affirmatively agree to such disclosure. Please note that if you opt in to receive future communications from a third party, your information will be subject to the third party's privacy policy. If you later decide that you do not want that third party to use your information, you will need to contact the third party directly, as we have no control over how third parties use information. You should always review the privacy policy of any party that collects your information to determine how that entity will handle your information. If you do not want your name passed on to other companies for the purpose of receiving marketing offers do not complete the consent found on the offer page. You can also contact us at any time with questions or your request to unsubscribe by clicking on the "Contact PCHLotto" link or writing directly to us care of: Consumer & Privacy Affairs, PCHLotto, 382 Channel Drive, Port Washington, New York, 11050 and we will be pleased to respect your wishes.
Further Questions?
We welcome any questions or comments you may have regarding this privacy policy and our information sharing practices. To contact us, please click on the “Contact PCHLotto" link or write directly to us at Consumer & Privacy Affairs, PCHLotto, 382 Channel Drive, Port Washington, New York, 11050.
