TPCPASSPORT.COM PRIVACY POLICY
This privacy policy is applicable to the Website(s) located at the domain "TPCPASSPORT.COM",
and other sites within the TPC network which may link to this privacy policy (collectively,
the "Site") and are operated by Pier 1 Solutions pursuant to a strategic relationship
with GOLF COURSE PROPERIES, INC. (Pier 1 Solutions and GOLF COURSE PROPERIES, INC.
collectively "we", "our", or "us").
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this
notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make
about the way your information is collected and used at TPCPassport.com. Please
be advised that the practices described in this Privacy Notice apply only to information
gathered through and in connection with this web site and do not necessarily reflect
our practices for other sites which may be linked to from this web site such as
www.PGATOUR.com.
THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
At our site, you may now or in the future be able to order products, enter contests,
contribute to charity, vote in polls or otherwise express an opinion, subscribe
to one of our services such as our online newsletters, or participate in one of
our online forums or communities. The types of personally identifiable information
that may be asked to be submitted include: name, address, e-mail address, telephone
number, fax number, date of birth, gender, credit card information, and information
about your interests in and use of various products, programs, and services.
You may also be able to submit information about other people. For example, you
might submit a person's name and e-mail address to send an electronic greeting card
and, if you order a gift online and want it sent directly to the recipient, you
might submit the recipient's name and address. The types of personally identifiable
information that may be collected about other people at these pages include: recipient's
name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number.
Certain features of our site may only be available to persons who provide us with
the requested personally identifiable information such as persons ordering products,
programs, and services or otherwise participating in the site's activities and offerings.
We also may collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit
many of our web pages such as the type of browser you are using (e.g., Netscape,
Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using, (e.g., Windows '95
or Mac OS) and the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., America
Online, Earthlink).
Finally, we may receive and store certain types of information whenever you visit
the Site. For example, we may collect Automatic Information and your IP address.
As used herein, "Automatic Information" is information collected by our computers
when you request Web pages or ads from the Site. An IP address is a number that
is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet.
HOW INFORMATION MAY BE COLLECTED
We may collect information from you in several different areas on the Site, including
but not limited to those described below:
Cookies
As with many Websites, the Site uses standard technology called "cookies," which
are small data files that are transferred to your computer when you allow your browser
to accept cookies. Cookies automatically identify your Web browser to the Site whenever
you visit the Site, and make using the Site easier for you by saving your user ID,
preferences and other convenient Site usage information. By tracking how and when
you use the Site, cookies help us determine which areas are popular and which are
not. Many improvements and updates to the Site are based on data obtained from cookies.
Additionally, accepting cookies allows you, among other things, to personalize your
experience on the Site. Cookies may also allow the Site to present to you advertising
which may be of interest to you as well as limit how often you see certain ads that
may detract from your user experience on our Site. If you do not want to allow information
to be collected through the use of cookies, you can generally opt out of providing
this information by turning the cookies off in your browser. However, some areas
of the Site may not provide you with an acceptable user experience if you have disabled
the use of cookies.
IP Addresses and Automatic Information
We may collect IP addresses and/or Automatic Information for purposes of system
administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers and sponsors.
Our computers identify your computer by its IP address. When you request Web pages
from the Site, our computers log your IP address. Automatic Information we collect
may include, without limitation, such information as the page served, the time,
the source of the request, the type of browser making the request, the preceding
page view and other such information. When analyzed, this data helps us determine
how visitors arrive at the Site, what type of content is most popular, and what
type of visitors (in the aggregate) are interested in particular kinds of content
and advertising. We may also use Automatic Information to provide you with a more
personalized user experience.
Web Beacons
Consistent with standard practice within the web publishing industry, web pages
throughout the Site may contain electronic images (generally, single-pixel ".gif"
images) called "web beacons." These web beacons allow us to access certain cookies
that were set in a domain different from that which is displayed in the current
web page's address bar. Our use of web beacons, includes, without limitation, the
following:
- We may use web beacons within the Site in order to count unique users (actually,
unique web browsers), visits and page views. Unique browser recognition is possible
through the use of web beacons and associated cookies that may be managed by a third
party site analytics partner.
- We may use web beacons to monitor Site traffic and conversion patterns through our
various product and service offerings. For example, web beacons may be integrated
into a merchandise product page as well as the subsequent shopping cart, transaction
and verification pages. This allows us to determine the most appropriate methods
to serve our transaction-oriented customers.
- We may use web beacons to provide our web-serving applications with access to PGA
TOUR Partners cookies. This allows us to personalize your experience when you visit
the Site.
- We may include web beacons in HTML-formatted email messages (messages in which we
are able to include graphics). These beacons allow us to determine whether or not
email messages were opened, links were clicked and notifications/offers were acted
upon.
Registration
In order to take advantage of certain features the Site may choose to offer (including,
but not limited to, Site Customization, Newsletters, Contests, Forums or other subscription-based
services), you may be asked to complete a registration form which will provide us
with personally identifiable information. You may also be asked to choose a user
ID and password in order to identify yourself during future visits to the Site.
Newsletters and Site Emails
We may offer newsletters and other email communications to share information with
you about sports news and information available on the Site, about certain features
the Site may choose to offer or about our affiliates, subsidiaries, business partners,
advertisers and sponsors. You may receive newsletters and other email communications
by either registering for a particular newsletter or in conjunction with a special
feature or membership offering for which you have registered on the Site. You may
cancel your email subscription by following the instructions provided on the Site
or, in some instances, in the designated area of certain newsletters or emails.
Contests or Sweepstakes
We may operate contests and sweepstakes through the Site which may require registration.
Your personally identifiable information may be used to contact you for winner notification,
prize delivery confirmation or other related purposes. In the event you win a contest
or sweepstakes, we may ask your permission to allow us to post publicly some of
your information on the Site, such as on a winners page. Except as required by applicable
law, we will not post your information without your permission. In some instances,
a third party advertiser or sponsor may operate or host a contest or sweepstakes
that is promoted on the Site and, as part of the contest or sweepstakes, may collect
your information. In those cases (where we are not the operator or host of the contest
or sweepstakes), we have no control over the information collected. Thus, before
participating, we urge you to review the advertiser's or sponsor's privacy policy
as applicable to the contest or sweepstakes.
Surveys or Voting
From time to time we may request personally identifiable information from you via
surveys or voting polls. Participation is voluntary and you will have the opportunity
to decide whether or not to disclose information. At times, you may have to register
to vote or to take part in a survey.
Transaction Information
If you purchase a product from us or subscribe to any of the services offered on
our Site, we will ask you to complete an order form that will require certain information
from you, including credit card number and expiration date, billing address and
shipping information, if applicable. We will use this information to complete the
transaction that you have requested, i.e., to deliver the products or other services
that you ordered, and, if necessary, to invoice you.
HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION
We may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for
our products, programs, and services, to fulfill a donation, to respond to your
inquiries about our offerings, and to offer you other products, advertisements,
programs or services that we believe may be of interest to you.
We sometimes use this information to communicate with you, such as to notify you
when you have won one of our contests or when we make changes to our subscriber
agreements, to fulfill a request by you for an online newsletter, or to contact
you about your account with us.
We use the information that you provide about others to enable us to send them your
gifts or cards. From time to time, we also may use this information to offer our
products, programs, or services to them. The information we collect in connection
with our online forums and communities is used to provide an interactive experience.
We use this information to facilitate participation in these online forums and communities
and, from time to time, to offer you products, programs, or services.
If you choose to submit content for publication (e.g., questions for an online chat
guest), we may publish your screen name and other information you have provided
to us (e.g. transcript of the chat, including your question).
We sometimes use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to
improve the design and content of our site and to enable us to personalize your
Internet experience. We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze
site usage, as well as to offer you products, programs, or services. We may disclose
personally identifiable information in response to legal process, for example, in
response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in
response to a law enforcement agency's request, or where we believe it is necessary
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 terms of use, or as otherwise required by law. In addition, we
may transfer information about you if we are acquired by or merged with another
company. Agents and contractors of TPCPassport.com who have access to personally
identifiable information are required to protect this information in a manner that
is consistent with this Privacy Notice by, for example, not using the information
for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for TPCPassport.com.
Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures
of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that
is collected will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this
Privacy Notice.
We may also disclose personally identifiable information to companies whose practices
are not covered by this privacy notice (e.g., other marketers, magazine publishers,
retailers, participatory databases, and non- profit organizations) that want to
market products or services to you. If our site shares personally identifiable information,
it will provide you with an opportunity to opt out or block such uses. You can opt
out from such disclosures. We may on occasion combine information we receive online
with other information and ouUSDMde records to enhance our ability to market to
you those products or services that may be of interest to you. If you have signed
up to receive our emails and prefer not to continue to receive marketing information
from this site, follow the "unsubscribe" instructions provided on any marketing
e-mail you receive from this site.
Finally, TPCPassport.com will not use or transfer personally identifiable information
provided to us in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing
you with an opportunity to opt out of these unrelated uses.
WITH WHOM THE INFORMATION MAY BE SHARED
At times, we may share your personally identifiable information with others for
various purposes. The following outlines the ways in which your information may
be shared with others:
Agents
We employ other businesses, certain services and individuals to perform functions
on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, sending e-mail, removing repetitive
information from customer lists, Site analysis, data analysis, marketing assistance,
credit card payment processing, and customer service. These agents may have access
to personally identifiable information needed to perform their functions, but may
not use it for other purposes.
Promotional Offers
We may send offers to you on behalf of other partners. When we do this, we do not
give that partner your name and address. If you do not want to receive such offers,
you may opt out in the email or change your preferences.
Aggregate Information
We may share aggregate information such as demographics and Site usage statistics
to advertisers, sponsors or other organizations. When this type of information is
shared, the other parties do not have access to your personally identifiable information.
Co-Registration Programs
Throughout the Site you may be presented with an opportunity to receive special
offers from third parties. Opt-in or opt-out messages will ask you if you would
like your information to be shared. If you do choose to have your information shared,
your information will be subject to the privacy policy of such third parties. We
are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other companies and, therefore,
you should review the privacy practices of such companies prior to providing your
personally identifiable information.
Third-Party Ad Serving & Audience and Traffic Measurement Services
The Site may use third party network advertisers to serve the advertisements on
the Site and may use a traffic measurement service to analyze the traffic on the
Site. Network advertisers are third parties that display advertisements based on
your visits to this Site and other Web sites you have visited. Third-party ad serving
enables us to target advertisements to you for products and services you might be
interested in. Although advertisers and other companies do not have access to your
cookies as provided by the Site, the Site's third party network advertisers, the
advertisers, the sponsors, and/or traffic measurement services may themselves set
and access their own cookies on your computer if you choose to have cookies enabled
in your browser. These third party cookies are set for purposes including but not
limited to targeting advertisements to you that you might be interested in, to prevent
you from seeing the same advertisements too many times and to conduct research regarding
how useful certain advertisements are to you. Note that any images (or any other
parts of a web page) served by third parties in association with third party cookies
may serve as web beacons, which enable third parties to carry out the previously
described activities. Third party cookies are governed by each third party's specific
privacy policy, not this one. Please visit: http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp
in order to learn more about the information collection practices and "opt-out"
procedures of third party ad servers we may use.
Our Subsidiaries and Affiliates
We may share your information (including, without limitation, personally identifiable
information) with our subsidiaries and affiliates.
Business Transfers
PGA TOUR Partners or any of it assets, including the Site, may be sold, or other
transactions may occur in which your personally identifiable information is one
of the key business assets. In such a case, your personally identifiable information,
which we have gathered, may be one of the business assets we transfer.
Charities and Merchant Partners
We will never sell, trade, share, or rent your personal information to any donee
charity, merchant partner, or any other company or individual without your prior
consent. We work with a third-party credit card processing company, as do many e-commerce
web sites. This partner securely manages all customers data in accordance with consumer
data protection laws enacted worldwide, including data handling, storage, and security.
When you make a donation on the site, you need to provide your name, email address,
credit card, and billing information. This information allows us to process and
fulfill your donation. You should always consult your tax professional with respect
to the treatment of any donation, however, you should be aware that you may not
be entitled to a tax deduction with respect to charitable contributions of $250
or more unless you print the appropriate acknowledgement/confirmation page.
Legal Process
In the event we are required to respond to subpoenas, court orders or other legal
process, your personally identifiable information may be disclosed pursuant to such
subpoena, court order or legal process, which may be without notice to you.
COLLECTION OF INFORMATION BY THIRD-PARTY SITES, ADVERTISERS AND SPONSORS
Our site may contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different
than ours. Visitors should consult the other sites' privacy notices as we may not
have control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third
parties. TPCPassport.com does not have ultimate control over these third parties'
use of this information. TPCPassport.com will notify you at the time of requesting
personally identifiable information if these third parties will obtain such information.
OUR COMMITMENT TO SECURITY
We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures
to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly
use the information we collect online.
HOW YOU CAN ACCESS OR CORRECT INFORMATION
Read our instructions on how you can access the personally identifiable information
that this site has collected about you online, or how to correct factual errors
in such information. To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable
steps to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.
CHAT ROOMS, FORUMS, AND MESSAGE BOARDS
The Site may make chat rooms, forums and message boards available to its users.
You are not required to provide any personal information when using these areas
but you may choose to do so. If you post personal information online, it will be
publicly available and you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties.
We cannot ensure the security of any information you choose to make public in a
chat room, forum, or message board. Also, we cannot ensure that parties who have
access to such publicly available information will respect your privacy. Please
exercise caution when deciding to disclose personal information in these areas.
HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any questions or concerns about the online policy for this site or its
implementation you may contact us at Support@pier1solutions.com.
ACCESS TO PERSONAL INFORMATION
If you created a password-protected account within our site go back to that portion
of the site to review the information you provided. You may send an e-mail to request
access to or correction of your personally identifiable information. For verification
purposes please include your first name, last name, e-mail address and the password
you use for said service, if any. If you have any questions or concerns regarding
TPCPassport.com's Privacy Policy, you should contact TPCPassport.com at TPC@pier1solutions.com.
UPDATES & EFFECTIVE DATE
From time to time, we may update this privacy notice. We will notify you about material
changes in the way we treat personally identifiable information by placing a notice
on our site. We encourage you to periodically check back and review this policy
so that you always will know what information we collect, how we use it, and to
whom we disclose it.
By using this Site, you signify your agreement to the terms of this privacy policy.
We may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way
we treat personal information by sending a notice to the email address associated
with your account or by placing a prominent notice on the Site. Your continued use
of the Site shall constitute your acceptance of such revised privacy policy.
The Privacy Notice posted on this site was updated on or about December 15, 2006.
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