Thank
you for visiting shop.GOLF.com, a website operated by Shop Golf, LLC
("hereinafter referred to as either "Shop Golf, LLC",
"We", or "Us"). Your privacy is of very high importance to us.
The purpose of this policy is to explain to you our information practices and
how we collect and use information to provide services to you.
We
may change this policy from time to time, and if we do so we will provide
notice that this policy has changed either (i) to the email address on record
with us or (ii) on this website regarding any changes to this policy.
1.
Information That We Collect
In
connection with a user’s (hereinafter, "you" or "User") use
of the shop.GOLF.com site ("Site"), you may registration to receive
future online newsletters, purchase products, enter contests, provide your
views on products or contact our staff to support your use of the Site. We will
collect information (including address and credit card information) regarding
such Users. We will maintain the confidentiality of information provided in
accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Our
registration format requests certain contact information from our Users. We
collect information that is personally identifiable to allow us to provide the
products and services that you request. The type of personally identifiable
information that may be collected includes but is not limited to the following:
- Contact
information (including name, home address, telephone and fax numbers,
email address)
- Unique
identifiers (including credit card numbers)
- Demographic
information (including zip code, telephone area code, gender, product and
services interests, etc.)
The
information we collect also may include information you submit about others,
including the name, e-mail address or physical address of a gift recipient. We
only use information you submit about other individuals to deliver information,
products, or services specifically requested by you.
2.
Use of Information
The
information we obtain from you may be used by Shop Golf, LLC, as well as by
providers of related services ("Providers"), to fulfill your requests
for our products and services, to offer you other products and services that we
believe may be of interest to you, and to contact you about your inquiries
regarding your account with us or our service and product offerings. We and our
Providers also use contact information from the registration format to send to Users
information about us and when otherwise necessary. Such information may also be
used by us and our Providers to assess your satisfaction with and to obtain
feedback regarding the Site and products and services we provide and to tailor
your experience while visiting our Site.
Shop
Golf, LLC may provide certain demographic information it collects to third
parties in connection with its provision of products and services to our Users.
The dissemination of this information is necessary to provide personalized
information and promotional offers. Except as disclosed in this Privacy Policy,
our current policy is to refrain from selling, leasing, or otherwise
transferring your personally identifiable information, however, this policy
does not apply in all cases and this policy may be changed in the future. We
describe below some of the situations in which such information may be
disclosed. Shop Golf, LLC will never provide our promotional affiliates with
personally identifiable information which would permit them to communicate with
our Users by email unless the User "opts-in" and has not
"opted-out", pursuant to our opt-out procedure, from receiving
communications.
We
may use the contact information we collect to provide, by means other than
email, information or offers which we believe will be of value to Users and we
may share contact information with other companies that may want to provide our
Users, by means other than email, information regarding additional products and
services. We may also use the contact information to send our Users information
or offers by email which we believe will be of value to them and we may share
email contact information with other companies that may want to provide our
Users information regarding additional products and services. Such contact
information may be shared based upon the demographic information we collect.
Users may opt-out of receiving future communications from us and the third
parties set forth in this Section 1 at any time; see Section 10 below regarding
our "Opt-out" procedures.
The information we collect will be maintained in a file that we may need to review in a variety of other circumstances, such as enforcing our Terms of Use for Users, analyzing and understanding our customers and their needs, and for the administration and provision of our goods and services.
Finally, we may share the information that we obtain from you with GOLF.com, Golf.com is part of Turner - SI Digital, part of the Turner Sports & Entertainment Digital Network, which may use such information in any manner authorized by this privacy policy or the GOLF.com privacy policy, which can be found at
https://subscription.timeinc.com/storefront/privacy/golfmag/generic_privacy_new.html?dnp-source=d.
As a User of the Service, you consent to the aforementioned uses of such information and the provision of information to third party service providers described above that facilitate the Service as well as to GOLF.com, all in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and, as applicable, the GOLF.com privacy policy.
3.
Aggregate Information
Subject
to the other terms of our Privacy Policy, we may aggregate (i.e. assemble on a
basis that does not enable one to personally identify you) the data that is
acquired under or in connection with this site and/or related to ordering our
products and services, including, without limitation, data about the products
and services requested and purchased by our Users. Aggregated data may be used
by us to improve our Site, products and services and for marketing purposes,
and may be shared with and used by advertisers and other third parties. We may
also use such data to determine the type of Site, products and services that are
best suited for our customers and the type of Site, products and services that
our customers desire. If we provide aggregated data to third parties, particular
personal information will not be individually identifiable in the aggregated
data.
Notwithstanding
anything in this privacy policy to the contrary, Shop Golf, LLC has contracted
with third parties to provide tracking and analysis of information and data
collected from visitors to our website. Shop Golf, LLC reserves the right to
provide that information and data to such third parties for those purposes.
Such information and data is provided on a basis that does not enable a third
party to identify you.
Your
use of the Site provided by Shop Golf, LLC constitutes your consent to the use
of such data on an aggregated basis.
4.
Policy on Children’s Use of the Site
This
Site is, generally, directed at persons over the age of 13 who purchase items
with credit cards. We do not knowingly collect personal information from or
about children under the age of 13, except as relating to a specific order for
products or services. If we, at any time, learn that information relating to a
child under the age of 13 that we have obtained is other than as set forth
above, we shall immediately purge such information from our records.
5.
Cookies
Like
most other websites, the Shop Golf, LLC servers may automatically track certain
information about activity on our Site. This information allows us to keep our Site
running efficiently. This information may include: the browser being used (such
as Netscape, Internet Explorer, etc.); your operating system (such as
Macintosh, Windows, etc.); your IP address; and the referring URL and all
company URLs you visit. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with
our server, and to administer our Site, but your IP address is not connected to
information that is personally identifiable.
In
addition, Shop Golf, LLC may use "cookies" on certain pages of our Site
to automatically collect information from a visitor to our Site and transfer
this information to the visitor's hard drive. Cookies help us recognize repeat
visitors, allowing communication of a personalized welcome message and
tailoring of content to match particular interests.
We
also may use outside advertising companies to display advertisements on our
site. These advertisements may also contain cookies. Some customer data may be
shared with the advertising affiliates on an aggregated basis in accordance
with the other terms of this Privacy Policy. Because cookies are stored on your
hard drive, not on our Site, you are always free to set your browser to decline
cookies and you can delete them from your computer. If you decline
"cookies" or delete them from your computer, you will still be able
to access our Site, but you may find that some areas do not work as smoothly as
when cookies are enabled on your system.
6.
Other Use
It
is possible that Shop Golf, LLC, its business and/or assets, its present or
future subsidiaries, joint ventures or any combination of such, could merge
with or be acquired in one or more types of transactions by another business
entity or entities. Should such transaction(s) occur, Shop Golf, LLC has your
permission to share some or all of your information in order, among other
things, to continue the provision of one or more services similar to all or a
portion of the services that Shop Golf, LLC currently provides. Notice of such
an event (to the extent that it takes place) will be posted on this Site and we
will require that the new combined entity adhere to the practices disclosed in
this Privacy Policy.
7.
Disclosure for Legal Purposes
Given
the government’s current interest in internet regulation, you hereby authorize
us and the third parties permitted to receive information hereunder, to
disclose all information collected in connection with this Site and the
products and services, pursuant to judicial and administrative proceedings, and
in connection with law enforcement activities and as otherwise may be permitted
by law, to law enforcement or government agencies if we believe the disclosure
is necessary or appropriate. You also authorize us to disclose such information
if we believe the disclosure is necessary or appropriate in the event of an
investigation of improper or illegal conduct in connection with our Site, such
as fraud, misrepresentation, intellectual-property infringement, or other
activity that may put us at risk for liability. We will, whenever we believe
reasonably possible, use our reasonable efforts to inform a User whose
information may be so revealed.
8.
Other Parties and Your Information
This
policy only relates to our collection and use of your information, except as
otherwise provided. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and
practices of promotional affiliates, advertisers or other third parties to
which we may provide links. Shop Golf, LLC does not have control over the
privacy policies applied by any other party to whom you may disclose
information when linked from our Site. If you would like information on any
other party's privacy policy, you should contact that party directly, and we
encourage you to do so. Once your information is provided to a third party as
described in this Privacy Policy, Shop Golf, LLC cannot guarantee that such
information will be maintained or used in a manner consistent with this Privacy
Policy.
9.
Security
Shop
Golf, LLC employs standard industry measures to protect and ensure the confidentiality
of your personally identifiable information, including the use of firewalls and
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption, as well as other physical and managerial
procedures. We take these precautions to ensure that your information is not
accessible to others and to make it very difficult for others to intercept or
misuse. Despite these efforts, we cannot guarantee the security of your
information given the current state of the internet. Unless required by law, we
have no obligation to maintain information about you, although we reserve the
right to do so. Shop Golf, LLC has implemented industry standard security
measures to protect the loss, misuse and integrity of the information under our
control. Although Shop Golf, LLC makes good faith efforts to store the
information collected by it in a secure operating environment that is not
available to the public, Shop Golf, LLC cannot guarantee complete security.
10.
How You Can Modify Information, Opt Out, or Contact Us
You
can review and modify (or remove) the information you provide us in the order
or registration process, if this information changes. The information that you
may change (or remove) includes any information provided on our order or
registration format. To make any of these changes, you may log on to this site
and make the changes directly after you have received an identification and
password for the transaction or for the individual order.
After
either completing your first purchase at Shop Golf, LLC or otherwise using our
registration module, your registration on our Site will be confirmed by an
email correspondence to your email address. If you do not object to such email
within three days, it will constitute your consent to receive email notices and
other email communications from Shop Golf, LLC and its advertisers and
promotional affiliates. In the event you no longer wish to receive such email
notices or other email communications from us, you may opt-out by removing
yourself through our opt-out procedures. In the event you no longer wish to
receive communications from a third party you must contact such third party.
You acknowledge that Shop Golf, LLC has no control over whether such third
party will stop such communications. You also may contact us at
CustomerService@shop.GOLF.com if you no longer wish to be enrolled as a User.
To contact us with questions about this policy or other inquiries send us an email
at customerservice@shop.GOLF.com and write "Privacy Policy" in the
subject line.
Still
Need Help? You may contact us by writing or calling at the following:
Shop
Golf, LLC
PO
Box 90402
Raleigh, NC 27675
Customer
Service: 866-835-1593 / U.S.
001-919-719-7953 / International
Fax: 919-719-7958 / U.S.
001-919-719-7958 / International
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E-Mail: customerservice@shop.GOLF.com
Customer Service Center Hours
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Saturday 10AM - 5PM EST