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Jake is a member of the Media Bloggers Association, has taken numerous journalism classes at The Poynter Institute, and has a dual degree background in Criminal Justice with an emphasis on statistics and Political Science.
Disclaimer
All information is provided “AS IS” with no warranties and confers no rights.
The opinions expressed herein represent my own and may change from time to time… I consider that a necessary consequence of having an open mind. This weblog is intended to provide a semi-permanent point in time snapshot and manifestation of the various memes running around my brain, and as such any thoughts and opinions expressed within out-of-date posts may not the same, nor even similar, to those I may hold today. If I post something here that you find helpful as you build or manage your web presence, that’s wonderful.
Neither Jake, Bucco Blog, or New Bucs are associated with the Pittsburgh Pirates in any form.
FTC Disclosure
The Federal Trade Commission has issued new guidelines for bloggers which require us to disclose any “material connection” to products which we openly endorse.
The only products that may stand to qualify over the years at Bucco Blog has been Major League Baseball and the Pittsburgh Pirates and their affiliates so I need to reveal any compensation I have received from those companies.
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Right, I have received nothing myself. I have received numerous gifts in the mail over the years including tickets, books, DVDs, golf passes, airline tickets, hotel accommodations, cash, and a bunch of other trinkets from numerous vendors around/within the game, but in each case I sent the item back on advice of counsel.
However because there has been some indirect connections, I’ve been advised that I should disclose them just to be sure I stay within the guidelines. The Pittsburgh Pirates provided tickets to one game in 2009 to a friend of mine who is a retired professional baseball player and who was interested in speaking to them about becoming an associate scout, and in 2008 another club, which I’m told can remain anonymous since I never write about them anyway, provided two tickets to a friend of mine who has a future interest in ownership.
It’s always been my intent to remain neutral in my coverage of this team and it will remain that way.
Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
New Bucs knows that you care about how your personal information is used and shared, and we take your privacy very seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy. By visiting our website, you are accepting the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy covers New Bucs’s treatment of personal information that New Bucs gathers when you are on the New Bucs website and when you use New Bucs services. This policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that New Bucs does not own or control, or to individuals that New Bucs does not employ or manage.
Information Collected by New Bucs
We only collect personal information that is relevant to the purpose of our website. This information allows us to provide you with a customized and efficient experience. We do not process this information in a way that is incompatible with this objective. We collect the following types of information from our New Bucs users:
1. Information You Provide to Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our website or provide to us in any other way. You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of many of our special features.
2. Automatic Information:
– We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. New Bucs and its authorized agents automatically receive and record certain “traffic data” on their server logs from your browser including your IP address, New Bucs cookie information, and the page you requested. New Bucs uses this traffic data to help diagnose problems with its servers, analyze trends and administer the website.
- New Bucs may collect and, on any page, display the total counts that page has been viewed.
- Many companies offer programs that help you to visit websites anonymously. While New Bucs will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these programs are available.
E-mail Communications
New Bucs is very concerned about your privacy and we will never provide your email address to a third party without your explicit permission, as detailed in the “Sharing Your Information” section below. New Bucs may send out e-mails with New Bucs-related news, products, offers, surveys or promotions.
Cookies
Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in our website are visited and by how many people. New Bucs cookies do not collect personal information, and we do not combine information collected through cookies with other personal information to tell us who you are or what your screen name or e-mail address is.
The “help” portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. We recommend that you leave the cookies activated because cookies allow you to use some of New Bucs’s coolest features. New Bucs’s advertising partners may place a cookie on your browser that makes it possible to collect anonymous non-personally identifiable information that ad delivery systems use to present more relevant ads. If you would prefer to opt-out of this standard practice, please visit our advertising partner Platform-A’s privacy policy and opt-out page.
Sharing Your Information
Rest assured that we neither rent nor sell your personal information to anyone and that we will share your personal information only as described below.
New Bucs Personnel: New Bucs personnel and authorized consultants and/or contractors may have access to user information if necessary in the normal course of New Bucs business.
Business Transfers: In some cases, we may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, user information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred. Moreover, if New Bucs, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred.
Protection of New Bucs and Others: We may release personal information when we believe in good faith that release is necessary to comply with a law; to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other policies; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of New Bucs, our employees, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Syndication: New Bucs allows for the RSS syndication of all of its public content within the New Bucs website.
With Your Consent: Except as noted above, we will contact you when your personal information is shared with third parties or used for a purpose incompatible with the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected, and you will be able to opt out to prevent the sharing of this information.
Children Under 18 Years of Age
You must be 13 years and older to register to use the New Bucs website. As a result, New Bucs does not specifically collect information about children. If we learn that New Bucs has collected information from a child under the age of 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. We recommend that minors between the ages of 13 and 18 ask and receive their parents’ permission before using New Bucs or sending information about themselves or anyone else over the Internet.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
New Bucs may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, at its sole discretion. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make changes to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting an announcement on the New Bucs website so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances if any, it is disclosed.
Conditions of Use
If you decide to visit New Bucs website, your visit and any possible dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of California state law.
Effective Date of this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of 12/29/2009 and last updated 12/29/2009.
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