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Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
At golfbistro.org,we strive to develop and present innovative
products and services to benefit our users and registered users ("Members"). We
recognize that privacy is an important issue, so we design and operate our products
and services with your privacy in mind. This golfbistro.org Privacy Policy
outlines the types of personal information we may collect when you use our service
("Service"), which is described in greater detail in the Terms of Service ("TOS"),
available at http://www.golfbistro.org/terms.html , as well as some of the steps
we take to secure it.
What this policy covers
Your privacy is very important to us. This page will show our firm commitment to your
privacy. This policy covers how we treat personal information that we may collect or
receive from you when you use our service. "Personal information" is information
about you that is personally identifiable, such as your social security number, name,
address, name, address, email address, or phone number.
golfbistro.org will not sell, loan, rent, lease, barter, or publish your
personal information to a third party. All data that we keep on you is kept strictly for
golfbistro.org business use, to assist you in your current or future
purchases or in analyzing sales trends. No customer data is stored on servers that are
accessible to the internet. All data is downloaded and deleted from our internet
server several times a day.
This policy does not apply to the practices of companies and/or other entities that
golfbistro.org does not own or control, to people that are not managed or employed by golfbistro.org,
and/or to operators of sites which are linked to or from golfbistro.org
Data and Information Collection and Use
General
golfbistro.org collects information from and about you when you register with golfbistro.org as a
member, and when you use golfbistro.org service.
Users who visit golfbistro.org site and do not register do not need to provide any personal
information. golfbistro.org does, however, collect limited, non-personally identifying
information from non-registered users that browsers make available whenever a user
visits a website. This information includes your internet protocol (IP) address, browser
type, browser language, cookies, and use patterns.
When you register as a Member, we ask for personal information from you, which
may include your name, email address, date of birth, gender, zip code, personal
interested, and a password. Your password will be maintained on our system in an
encrypted form and you will be able to create a unique username that will identify
you during login and when you are using the service. Please note that golfbistro.org owns your
username, grants you a license to use it while you are a Member, and reserves all
rights to your username once you either cease to be a Member or following an
extended period of inactivity, including but not limited to the right to revoke, reuse,
resell, or license your username.
Certain members may opt to particiapte in programs offered by golfbistro.org where a
member can earn golfbistro.orh Marketplace dollars. If you participate in such programs, golfbistro.org
may require you to provide additional information, including but not limited to your
social security number. All such information will be maintained in secure and
encrypted areas of our system.
Once you register with golfbistro.org and sign into our site, you are not anonymous to us.
golfbistro.org uses the information collected for the following purposes: to customize the
advertising and content that you see, to fulfill requests for products and service, to
improve our service, to contact you, to conduct research, and to provide
anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.
Publishing on golfbistro.org
Use care when posting personal information or personal content on our Service,
particularly sensitive information such as social security numbers, financial
information, home addresses, or phone numbers.
You should be aware that, when you post information on golfbistro.org, the information that
you post - including but not limited to the content of the post, header information,
username, and email address associated with the posting - may be read, copied,
used, and redistributed by people you do not know.
The contents of the postings that you submit to the service are stored and
maintained on our servers in order to publish the postings and provide the service. in
order to protect our Members from email harvesting software and bots, we attempt
to "mask" email addresses so that they are typically human readable but not
machine readable. In addition, we collect and maintain information about your
account activity, such as the contents of your posts, the links that you click on,
search inquiries, postings that you comment upon, and your preferred settings when
using the service.
Children
To comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, the service is only
available to users and Members who are at least 13 years old. If you are under 13,
you may NOT use golfbistro.org.
golfbistro.org needs to ask all users, including children under the age of 13, for certain personal
information that is reasonably necessary to determine the user's eligibility to
participate on and belong to the site.
Contests
golfbistro.org runs contests on our site in which we may ask visitors for contact information
(typically, the user's email address) and demographic information (i.e., zip code,
age, or income level). We will never disclose this information; it is only used to
provide contact information for the winners, and demographic data for our contest
sponsors.
At times, golfbistro.org will run contests that will require a written entry, in the form of an
"article," i.e., a story for the funniest travel or golf stories contest. These written entry contests
will be judged anonymously by published authors, photographers, and/or staff,
and said prizes will be awarded to the winner(s).
At times, golfbistro.org will run contests for increasing membership. All members who
participate in such contests will have their results tallied by an independent
organization, and contact information used only to award prize(s) to the winner(s).
Information Sharing and Disclosure
golfbistro.org does not rent, sell, share, or otherwise disclose personal information about you
with other people or non-affiliated companies, except to provide products or
services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following
circumstances:
a. golfbistro.org may provide information to trusted partners who work on our behalf and who
have entered into confidentiality agreemens with us.
b. golfbistro.org responds to valid subpoenas, court orders, and other legal proceedings. We
also may disclose information if we deem it necessary to exercise our own legal rights
or to defend ourselves against legal claims.
c. golfbistro.org will share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding
illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical
safety of any person, violations of our TOS, or as otherwise required by state or federal
law.
d. golfbistro.org may transfer information about you if we are acquired or merged with another
company.
Financial Information Security
Financial information that is collected by golfbistro.org is only used to
bill the member for products and services ordered through the golfbistro.org Marketplace.
You can enter your credit card number on a secure (https) form and transmit the
form over the internet to a secure server without risk of an intermediary obtaining
your credit card information. The security features offered by your web browser
technology protects commercial transactions, as well as all other communications,
from misappropriation and fraud that could otherwise occur as information passes
through internet computers.
With SSL implemented on both the client and server, your internet communications
are transmitted in encrypted form. Information you send can be trusted to arrive
privately and unaltered to the server you specify (and no other).
SSL uses authentication and encryption technology. For example, your browsers
export implementation of SSL (U.S. government approved) uses a high-grade, 128-bit
key size. The encryption established between you and a server remains valid over
multiple connections, yet the effort expended to defeat the encryption of one
message cannot be leveraged to defeat the next message.
Your browser and secure servers deliver server authenticatin using signed digital
certificates issued by trusted third parties known as certificate authorities. A digital
certificate verifies the connectino between a server's public key and the server's
identification (as a driver's license verifies the connection between your photograph
and your personal identification). Cryptographic checks, using digital signatures,
ensure that information within a certificate can be trusted.
You know that you have a secure connection when you look at the location (URL)
field. If the URL begins with https:// (instead of http://), the document comes from a
secure server. To connect to an HTTP server that provides security using the SSL
protocol, insert the letter "s" so that the URL begins with https://. You need to use
https:?? for HTTP URLs with SSL and http:// for HTTP URLs without SSL.
You can also verify the security of a webpage by examining the security icon in the
bottom left corner of your browser window.
Only your computer and the server can encrypt and decrypt your information. In
transit, the information is an unreadable mess. An intermediary can route the data,
and even copy it, but the information cannot be de-encrypted, and thus remains
private and safely communicated.
Information Security
golfbistro.org takes appropriate physical and electronic measures to protect against
unauthorized access to, alteration of, and disclosure of personal information.
Access to personal information is limited to employees who need to know that
information in order to successfully provide our service. All our employees enter into
confidentiality agreements with golfbistro.org.
Cookies
golfbistro.org may set and access "cookies" on your computer. A "cookie" is a small file,
containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a
website. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service, target advertising,
and to better understand how our members interact with us. We do this by storing
user preferences in cookies and by tracking user trends and patterns of how you use
our service. Most browsers are set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser
to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent, but this will impact
the quality and speed of your user experience on the site.
Your Ability to Edit and Delete Account Information
You may edit your personal profice and related personal information at any time by
visiting your account at golfbistro.org
You may delete your member account by sending an email to
Changes to this Policy
golfbistro.org may update and change this Policy from time to time.
All updates and changes will be posted to this webpage.
We will notify you directly if we make significant changes to this Privacy Policy.
