Privacy Policy

The Soccer Wire and all related “Soccer Wire” website properties herein are owned and operated 100% by HummerSport, LLC of the Commonwealth of Virginia. HummerSport, LLC offers multiple internet software solutions and electronic publications focused on news, communications, and services for the “grass-roots” sports participant market in the United States.

We do not, and will never sell your information to others or share your personal information for any reason other than specifically, exclusively, and privately with a 3rd party email processing company for the purpose of emailing you the publications to which you may subscribe.

The ONLY information we require of you in order to receive our email newsletters is a valid email address. Your providing of personal information other than an email address is completely voluntary, and would only ever be used to help us better understand our subscribers for the purpose of improving our offerings.

If anyone suspects the misuse of their information, they should contact us immediately by calling 703-433-1887, or by emailing [email protected]

Here Are Some Other Facts About Information and Policies

• We do not run pop up/under advertising of any kind.
• We do not share your personal information with third parties for marketing purposes.
• We do not employ tracking devices for marketing purposes (“cookies”, “web beacons,” single-pixel gifs)*
• We do not send you unsolicited communications for marketing purposes.
• We do not display email addresses you provide unless you do so with with knowledge in advance, such as including your information when submitting news information or comments in a public space.
• Emails you receive from us – although identical to those received by our other subscribers – are sent individually to each subscriber, with no other subscribers’ address hidden within the email headers.
• We do not knowingly collect any information from persons under the age of 13. A parent or guardian of a player under 13 may subscribe to one or more newsletters on their behalf. If we learn that a person under the age of 13 has directly subscribed without permission from a parent or legal guardian, we will remove that subscription immediately.
• Within our website content or newsletters there are links to third party web sites, which may have different privacy practices. We are not responsible for, nor have any control over, the privacy policies of those third party websites, and encourage all users to read the privacy policies of each and every website visited.

*Cookies
A cookie is a small data file that certain Web sites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you’ve visited and to allow easy access to restricted areas of the Web site. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can’t read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. We may use cookies from time to time on our web site to simplify access to restricted areas and to track user traffic in aggregate. If you’ve set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser, although this may decrease the usefulness of our web site. You do not need to have cookies turned on to access our web site. Some 3rd party tools employed in the operation of our website such as Google and our story sharing features employ cookies as well, but also only for the purposes of gathering general web usage trends and statistics without personally identifying you.