Types of Information Collected and Uses of Collected Information
Personally Identifiable Information. Personally identifiable information is information that identifies a specific user of the Website. When you register ticket entries for the Promotion via the Website, we may ask you to provide certain information about yourself, such as your first and last name, mailing address (including zip code), email address, telephone number, date of birth, and your social security number. It is optional for you to provide your personally identifiable information. However, if you elect not to provide the requested personally identifiable information, you will not be able to register for the Promotion and other services offered through the Website.
We or the Lottery may use your personally identifiable information to conduct the Promotion, notify you of prizes you have won, distribute prizes to you, and send you periodic emails that you have asked to receive. We may also use personally identifiable information to troubleshoot, resolve disputes, accomplish administrative tasks, contact you, enforce our agreements with you, including our Website Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy, comply with applicable law, and cooperate with law enforcement activities.
If you wish to update your personally identifiable information or change your preferences relative to receiving communications from us or the Lottery, you may do so by logging into the Website and updating your profile information.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information. Non-personally identifiable information is information that does not identify a specific user of the Website. This type of information may include things like the date and time of your visit, page views, the Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) of the website you visited before coming to the Website, the URL of the website you visit after leaving the Website, the type of browser you are using and your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address. We and/or our authorized third party service providers may automatically collect this information when you visit the Website through the use of electronic tools like cookies and web beacons.
We may use non-personally identifiable information to troubleshoot, administer the Website, analyze trends, gather demographic information, comply with applicable law, and cooperate with law enforcement activities. We may also share this information with the Lottery and our authorized third party service providers to measure the overall effectiveness of our online content and programming.
Irrespective of anything set forth herein, visitors should be aware that, subject to certain statutory exceptions, documents and records maintained by the Lottery, including but not limited to electronic data, are public record under Pennsylvania law. Therefore, information submitted may be subject to disclosure pursuant to a public records request. Records required to be maintained pursuant to the laws of Pennsylvania will be retained and disposed of in accordance with applicable record retention schedules.