Terms and Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

For over sixty years our philosophy has been to earn and keep our customers’ trust and to provide the best service and customer satisfaction in the retail industry. Because of this philosophy, we treat the information you provide us in confidence. Sporty’s consistently works to improve Sporty’s security measures. However, no security system is foolproof and Sporty’s cannot guarantee the security of the user’s information.

When you visit Sporty’s Sites, our web server will recognize your Internet service provider. This collection of visitor information allows us to make our site work better for you. Your name and address are stored on our web server so it is available when you log in to your account with your username and password.

We use COOKIES, which are small files placed on your computer’s hard drive. By continuing to use Sporty’s Sites you agree for these files to be added. The cookies are used to personalize content and ads, provide social media features, and analyze traffic. Cookies can provide services for users by, for example:Enabling the functionality of some specific services like payment which will not work without those cookies.

Enabling a service to recognize your device so you don’t have to give the same information several times during one task.

Recognizing that you may already have given a username and password when logged in to Sporty’s Sites so you don’t need to do it for every web page requested.
Sporty’s, including all owned brands such as Sporty’s Pilot Shop, Sporty’s Aviation Gifts, Sporty’s Tool Shop, Pilot Workshops, and Sporty’s Preferred Living, uses cookies and web beacons, typically a one-pixel image, to collect information about abandoned shopping carts.

A cart may be considered abandoned after 30 minutes of inactivity/lack of purchase. Once the cart is considered abandoned, an SMS message may be sent as a reminder.
SMS messages will only be sent to users who have opted into the program. We will not share your choice to join our SMS campaign with anyone outside of what’s needed to provide the service. We may share your information, including whether you opted in to receive messages, with third parties that help us provide our messaging services, including but not limited to messaging platforms, phone carriers, or service providers who support our SMS delivery.

Measuring how many people are using our sites, so they can be made easier to use and ensuring sufficient capacity is available.
Analyzing data to help us understand how you use online services so we can improve them.
In addition to cookies and web beacons, we may also use device identifiers, web storage, and other technologies to collect information about your interactions with our content and services.

These technologies may be used to help us see which of our interactive experiences online users like most. Cookies and similar technologies also allow us to associate your online navigational information and purchases and interactions (both online and offline) with personal information you provide (such as name, address, phone number, survey responses, and email address). We and third-party advertising partners may use cookies, web beacons, pixels and similar technologies to collect information about the websites you visit and your device (e.g., your IP address, cookie identifiers, page(s) visited, location, time of day). We and our partners may use this information for our, and our partners’, business purposes, including to send online and offline communications about products and services that may be of interest to you. We or our partners may use the information we collected about your browser or device to associate it with a physical mailing address so that we can mail you advertisements and/or content we think you may be interested in and for other business purposes. For example, we may use this information to: deliver products and services to you; improve our business; transact business; and market our products and services through a variety of media like email, online advertising, and direct mail.

You can manage cookies through your browser settings. If you choose not to use cookies, you should be aware that certain functions and pages will not work as expected. As an example, you may not be able to use the wish list feature.

When ordering or requesting a catalog, customers provide Sporty’s with certain information such as name, physical and email address, telephone number, credit card number, etc. This information is necessary to process an order. A customer’s telephone number is used when we have a question about the order. It may also be used by a delivery service if there is a question about delivery. For its own use and for your future transactions Sporty’s retains information about its customers.

We send customers periodic catalog mailings and send emails announcing items we believe may be of interest to them. We also make our mailing list (name and address only, not our email list or telephone numbers) available to a few reputable, carefully screened companies whose products you may find of interest. You may opt-out of catalog mailings and/or our transfer of mailing lists to other companies. You may also access the information we have about you and make corrections or deletions it if it is inaccurate. We also receive mailing list information from other companies. We may also share personal information with third party marketing partners for commercial purposes.

When you place an order or contact our customer service team by phone, email or through electronic chat, we collect your personal information using recording technology, as permitted by applicable law.

This information is used to ensure accurate order processing, provide high-quality customer service, and support employee training and development.
We, and our third-party partners may record your keystroke activity and rhythms, mouse movements, scrolling and clicks when you use our websites or mobile applications for our internal business purposes, such as for website analytics, to improve our products and services, and to address functionality issues.

Personal information is released to law enforcement agencies if requested or if there is a court order.

You can always contact our customer service department at support@sportys.com to discuss our privacy policy, to change your account information, or to have your information removed from our Sites.

We expect to continue to earn your trust for at least another sixty years.

Cookies

Each time a subscriber logs into this site, we store a temporary ‘cookie’ in the browser files of that subscriber’s computer. This cookie is used during your online session to allow you free access to the Subscribers Area, without repeatedly requiring you to re-enter your user name and password. We may also use cookies for purposes of analysing traffic, but this data is not used for tracking individual behavior.

Copyright and Trademark Law

All editorial content and graphics on this site are protected by U.S. copyright and international treaties and may not be displayed in public, copied or re-used without the express written permission of PilotWorkshops.com LLC, which reserves all rights. PilotWorkshops® is a registered trademark.

Limitation of Liability

This site provides the information, services and products on this website “as is” without warranties of any kind. You also agree that this site shall not be responsible for any content found on this site forums and that your use of this site, forums and any downloading of materials found on or throughout this site is done at your own risk and that you will be solely responsible for any damages that result.

All express warranties and all implied warranties, including without limitation warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement of proprietary rights are hereby disclaimed to the full extent permitted by law. This site does not warrant that the performance of this website will be timely, uninterrupted or free of error, or that this website or its server will be free of viruses. In no event shall this site, its officers, directors, agents and employees be liable for any loss or injury, direct or indirect, incidental, consequential, special or exemplary damages, or any damages whatsoever arising from the use or performance of this website or from any information, services or products provided through this website, even if this site has been advised of the possibility of such damages. In the event that applicable law prevents the exclusion of liability for certain warranties, such exclusion does not apply to you to the extent limited by law.

External Links

In order to provide visitors with greater value, some of our pages may provide links to various third party websites. In no case is subscriber information or ‘cookies’ provided to the third party sites.

However, keep in mind that many sites do attempt to capture visitor information when you browse those sites. Once you leave our site, we are not able to alert you should another site attempt to gather information from your browser.

Private Forums

We may provide our subscribers with a multi-tiered Discussion Forum that makes sharing information with other subscribers easy. To protect your privacy when posting or replying to messages in the message board, your personal information and email is not revealed.

However, remember that any information you disclose in the message board areas can be read by all other subscribers, so exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Security

We use a variety of security measures including encryption and authentication to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of your personal information under our control.

Choice/Opt-In

Our site gives users the opportunity to opt-in to receive communications from us. You can be assured that we never reveal, sell, or make available your email address to anyone for any purpose. This site also gives users options for removing their information from our database in order to stop receiving our communications.