PGA OF AMERICA PRIVACY POLICY

PGA of America Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting an Official Web Site of The PGA of America. Your privacy is important to The PGA ("we", "us" or "our"). 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 by The PGA. Please be advised that the practices described in this Privacy Notice apply to all information gathered through and in connection with this web site and for other sites we operate.

The Information We Collect
At our site, you may now or in the future be able to order products, register for programs, enter contests, 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 information you provide through program registration is intended for the host facility's internal use. 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.

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), the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., America Online, Earthlink) and any links you may have used to arrive at our web site.

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 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 confirm when you have registered for a program/service, to obtain your opinion regarding your satisfaction with a program or level of interest/participation after participating in a program, 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.

Agents and contractors of an Official Web Site of The PGA of America 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 The PGA of America.

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 outside records to enhance our ability to market to you those products or services that may be of interest to you. If you prefer not to receive marketing information from this site, read our instructions on how to make your request to opt out.

Finally, The PGA will not use or transfer personally identifiable information provided to us in ways unrelated to the ones described above.

Collection of Information by Third-Party Sites 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 policy as we may not have control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.

We sometimes may offer content that is sponsored by or co-branded with identified third parties. By virtue of these relationships, the third parties may obtain personally identifiable information that visitors voluntarily submit to participate in the site activity. The PGA does not have ultimate control over these third parties' use of this information. The PGA will notify you at the time of requesting personally identifiable information if these third parties will obtain such information. We may use a reputable third party to present or serve the advertisements that you may see on its Web pages. Our privacy policy does not cover any use of information that a third-party ad server may have collected from you.

Cookies
To enhance your experience with our sites, many of our web pages use "cookies." Cookies are text files we place in your computer's browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e- mail address or other personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, registering at one of our sites. However, once you choose to furnish the site with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. We use cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content and offerings on our sites. For example, we may use cookies to personalize your experience at our web pages (e.g., to recognize you by name when you return to our site), save your password in password-protected areas, and enable you to use shopping carts on our sites. We also may use cookies to offer you products, programs, or services.

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.

Special Note for Parents
The site you are visiting is considered a general audience site. All PGA web site’s encourage parents and guardians to spend time on-line with their children and to participate in the interactive activities offered on the sites. No information should be submitted to or posted at any PGA web site by guests under 18 years of age without the consent of their parent or guardian. Unless otherwise disclosed during collection, The PGA does not provide any personally identifying information, regardless of its source, to any third party for any purpose whatsoever. All registrants receive e-mail confirming their registration. In addition, when a guest under 18 registers, his/her parent or guardian receives an e-mail alerting them to that registration and providing instructions on how the parent could delete the registration, if so desired.

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 privacy@pgahq.com.

Privacy of our e-mail lists
The PGA maintains e-mail lists to keep interested members of the general public informed about current events. Individuals must affirmatively request to join our mailing lists by signing up through a form on one of our web sites. We do not sell, rent, loan, trade, or lease the addresses on our list to anyone. In addition, we configure our list server software to refuse to divulge the e-mail addresses of our list subscribers to anyone but authorized PGA staff, including other list subscribers. We do, as part of a joint promotional effort, offer our mailing lists to licensed partners and sponsors for a limited number, provided they agree the list will not be kept.

Unsubscribing from e-mail lists
If you have signed up to receive our e-mails and prefer not to receive marketing information from this site, follow the "unsubscribe" instructions provided on any marketing e-mail you receive from this site.

Access to personal information
If you created a password-protected account within any of our sites 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.