Privacy Policy
Our Privacy Policy is designed to
assist you in understanding how we collect and use the personal information you
provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site
and our products and services.
What Information
Do We Collect?
When you visit the Challenge Golf
website you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you
knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and website
use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our website.
1.
Personal Information You Choose
to Provide
Registration Information.
You will provide information to us
about yourself, including your e-mail address, when you register to be a member
of Challenge Golf, register for certain services, or register for email newsletters
and alerts.
Email Information.
If you choose to correspond with
us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with
your email address and our responses.
2.
Website Use Information
Similar to other commercial websites,
our website utilizes a standard technology called "cookies" (see explanation
below, "What Are Cookies?") and web server logs to collect information
about how our website is used. Information gathered through cookies and web server
logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our
website, and the websites visited just before and just after our website.
We, our advertisers and ad serving companies may also use small technology or pieces
of code to determine which advertisements and promotions users have seen and how
users responded to them.
How Do We
Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking, we use personal
information for purposes of administering and expanding our business activities,
providing customer service and making available other products and services to our
customers and prospective customers. Occasionally, we may also use the information
we collect to notify you about important changes to our website, new services and
special offers we think you will find valuable. You may notify us at any time if
you do not wish to receive these offers by emailing us at
customerservice@challengegolf.com.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a very small text document,
which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, that
site's computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part
of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each website can send its
own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect
your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already
sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Some of our business
partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies that originate from their sites. We have
no access or control over those cookies.
How Do We Use Information We Collect
from Cookies?
As you use our website, the site
uses its cookies to differentiate you from other users. In some cases, we also use
cookies to prevent you from seeing unnecessary advertisements or requiring you to
log in more than is necessary for security. Cookies, in conjunction with our web
server's log files, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting
our website and which parts of the site are most popular. This helps us gather feedback
in order to constantly improve our website and better serve our customers. Cookies
do not allow us to gather any personal information about you and we do not generally
store any personal information that you provided to us in your cookies.
Sharing Information with Third
Parties
We may enter into alliances, partnerships
or other business arrangements with third parties who may be given access to personal
information including your name and email address for the purpose of providing you
with information regarding products and services that we think will be of interest
to you. In connection with alliances, partnerships or arrangements, we may also
provide certain information to third parties if we have determined that the information
will be used in a responsible manner by a responsible third party. For example,
some of our partners may offer discounts on their products or services, while others
power offerings developed by us for your use. We also use third parties to facilitate
our business, including, but not limited to, sending email and processing credit
card payments. In connection with these offerings and business operations, our partners
and other third parties may have access to your personal information for use in
connection with business activities. As we develop our business, we may buy or sell
assets or business offerings. Customer, email, and visitor information is generally
one of the transferred business assets in these types of transactions. We may also
transfer such information in the course of corporate divestitures, mergers, or any
dissolution.
Notice of New Services and Changes
Occasionally, we may also use the
information we collect to notify you about important changes to our website, new
services and special offers we think you will find valuable. As our customer, you
will be given the opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers
by sending us an email request at
customerservice@challengegolf.com.
How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
Email is not recognized as a secure
medium of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not send private
information to us by email. Some of the information you may enter on our website
may be transmitted securely via Secure Sockets Layer SSL, 128 bit encryption services.
Pages utilizing this technology will have URLs that start with HTTPS instead of
HTTP. Please contact
customerservice@challengegolf.comif you have any questions or concerns.
How Can You Access and Correct
Your Information?
You may request access to all your
personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our database
by emailing customerservice@challengegolf.com.
Certain Disclosures
We may disclose your personal information
if required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary
to (a) conform to the law or comply with legal process served on us or affiliated
parties; (b) protect and defend our rights and property, our site, the users of
our site, and/or our affiliated parties; (c) act under circumstances to protect
the safety of users of our site, us, or third parties.
What About Other Web Sites Linked
to Our Web Site?
We are not responsible for the practices
employed by websites linked to or from our website nor the information or content
contained therein. Often links to other websites are provided solely as pointers
to information on topics that may be useful to the users of our website.
Please remember that when you use
a link to go from our website to another website, our Privacy Policy is no longer
in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including Web sites
which have a link on our website, is subject to that website's own rules and
policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.
Your Consent
By using our website you consent
to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy
Policy. If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes
on our website to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and
under what circumstances we may disclose it.