Golf Central Oregon's privacy policy
Privacy Policy
GolfCentralOregon.com is committed to protecting your online privacy while providing
you with the most useful and enjoyable Web experience possible. While you can
use many features of GolfCentralOregon.com anonymously, you are required to provide
personal information to gain access to some of our premium content and services.
How we collect and use personal information
Registering for membership on GolfCentralOregon.com gives you access to all the
site's information and features. The only information required is your name, e-mail
address, country, and ZIP/postal code. With your approval, we occasionally will
send e-mail to notify you about important changes to the site, new services, and
special offers from us. If you would rather not receive these e-mail notifications,
you can simply indicate that preference either when you register or at any time
you modify your account. In addition to receiving e-mail announcements, you can
also sign up for daily and weekly e-mail services that provide [description of
services]. If you enter a contest or respond to a promotion, we may ask for your
postal address so we can notify contest winners and deliver promotional goodies.
When you enter this information, we will save it in your member profile so that
you won't have to enter it again. We occasionally may also send you postal mail
to notify you about important changes to the site, new services, and special offers
from us and select GolfCentralOregon.com partners. If you would rather not receive
such information via postal mail, you can indicate this when you enter your address
or you can modify your account at any time to indicate your preference. Our Free
Product Info service lets you sign up to receive e-mail product announcements
and other news from third parties, including software publishers, hardware manufacturers,
and service providers. You can add or remove product information topics from your
personal list at any time on your Free Product Info page. GolfCentralOregon.com
works with Postmaster Direct, the world's leading e-mail announcement service,
to prevent unauthorized use of your e-mail address and make sure you receive information
only about the topics you specify.
How we protect your personal information
All personal data you enter on GolfCentralOregon.com is encrypted with secure
server software (SSL) that encodes the information before your Web browser software
sends it to us. The SSL software decodes the data only after it reaches our server,
meaning hackers can't snatch any of your personal information while it is in transit.
Once the data reaches our site, the same state-of-the-art security software we
use to guard all of our company's essential business data protects your personal
data as well. In addition to using the most secure technology available, we work
tirelessly to make sure that we use any information you provide us only in ways
you have approved. We send you only the e-mail you have approved in your account
information or on your e-mail subscription sign-up page. And when you sign up
for Free Product Info, Postmaster Direct distributes all the announcement e-mails
you request directly without ever releasing your e-mail address to a third party.
How we use "cookies"
As you probably know, "cookies" are small pieces of information that some Web
sites store on your computer's hard drive when you visit them. Like many other
Web sites, GolfCentralOregon.com uses cookies to identify members so they don't
have to enter a user ID and password upon each visit. Most Web browsers automatically
accept cookies but allow you to modify security settings so you can approve or
reject cookies on a case-by-case basis. Even if you do not use cookies, you can
still access all of the features on our site by logging in manually with each
visit.
What we provide to third parties
While GolfCentralOregon.com does not provide any third-party access to your personal
information except to facilitate your own attempts to register with our partners
or receive offers from select partners as mentioned elsewhere in this policy,
we may provide third parties with aggregate statistics about our customers, traffic
patterns, and related site information. This data reflects site usage patterns
gathered during millions of customer visits to our Web site each month, but it
does not contain behavioral or identifying information about any individual member
unless that member has given us permission to share that information. GolfCentralOregon.com
uses a third-party advertising company to serve ads when you visit our sites.
This company may use information (not including your name, address, e-mail address,
or telephone number) about your visits to our and other Web sites in order to
provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. In addition,
we share Web site usage information about visitors to our site with this company
for the purpose of managing and targeting advertisements on our sites. For this
purpose, we and our third-party advertising company note some of the pages you
visit on our sites through the use of pixel tags (also called "clear gifs"). If
you would like more information about the information collection practices of
this third-party advertising company or would like to know more about your option
to not have this information used by this company, click here.
Obtaining your consent
By using our Web site, you give GolfCentralOregon.com permission to collect information
about the pages served to you as an anonymous user for the purpose of calculating
aggregate site statistics. If you register at GolfCentralOregon.com, you authorize
GolfCentralOregon.com to use information you provide to personalize the information
we deliver to you and to use your demographic information when calculating aggregate
customer data. As a registered member, you give GolfCentralOregon.com and our
agents permission to send you e-mails related to the subscription e-mail services
to which you subscribe and the Free Product Info topics you select. If you are
under the age of 18, you must not provide your name, e-mail address, or any other
identifying information without the consent of your parent or guardian, or as
otherwise provided for by applicable law. Any changes to our privacy policy will
be posted on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect,
how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
Tell us what you think
GolfCentralOregon.com welcomes your questions and comments about our privacy policy.
Please send e-mail to info@GolfCentralOregon.com.
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