Soulful Golf's
policy is to respect and protect the privacy of our users.
Soulful Golf and its
Internet partner, Absolute Presence , (hereafter collectively
referred to as "SG" or "Soulfulgolf.com")
do not collect personally identifiable information about
individuals except when such individuals specifically provide
such information on a voluntary basis. For example, such
personally identifiable information may be gathered from
a contest or sweepstakes registration, the registration
process for subscription sites or services and in connection
with content submissions, community postings (e.g., chat
and bulletin boards), suggestions, voting/polling activities
and transactional areas.
Personally identifiable information on
individual users will not be sold or otherwise transferred
to unaffiliated third parties without the approval of the
user at the time of collection. At such points of collection,
the user will have the opportunity to indicate whether he
or she would like to "opt out" of receiving promotional
and/or marketing information about other products, services
and offerings from SG and/or any third parties. Further,
notwithstanding any opt out of promotional information by
the user, SG reserves the right to contact a subscriber
regarding account status, changes to the subscriber agreement
and other matters relevant to the underlying service and/or
the information collected.
SG may disclose user information in
special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing
this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring
legal action against someone who may be causing injury to
or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally)
SG's rights or property, other SG users, or anyone else
that could be harmed by such activities. SG may disclose
user information when we believe in good faith that the
law requires it.
SG reserves the right to perform statistical
analyses of user behavior and characteristics in order to
measure interest in and use of the various areas of the
site and to inform advertisers of such information as well
as the number of users that have been exposed to or clicked
on their advertising banners. SG will provide only aggregated
data from these analyses to third parties. Also, users should
be aware that SG might sometimes permit third parties to
offer subscription and/or registration-based services through
SG's site. SG is not responsible for any actions or policies
of such third parties and users should check the applicable
privacy policy of such party when providing personally identifiable
information.
Additionally, users should be aware that
when they voluntarily disclose personally identifiable information
(e.g., user name, e-mail address) on the bulletin boards
or in the chat areas of SG's sites, that information, along
with any substantive information disclosed in the user's
communication, can be collected and correlated and used
by third parties and may result in unsolicited messages
from other posters or third parties. Such activities are
beyond the control of SG.
Users also should be aware that non-personal
information and data might be automatically collected through
the standard operation of SG's internet servers or using
"cookies." Cookies are small text files a web
site can use to recognize repeat users, facilitate the user's
ongoing access to, use of the site, and allow a site to
track usage behavior and compile aggregate data that will
allow content improvements and targeted advertising. Cookies
are not programs that come onto a user's system and damage
files. Generally, cookies work by assigning a unique number
to the user that has no meaning outside the assigning site.
Users should be aware that SG cannot or does not control
the use of cookies or the resulting information by advertisers
or third parties hosting data for SG. If a user does not
want information collected using cookies, there is a simple
procedure in most browsers that allows the user to deny
or accept the cookie feature; however, users should note
that cookies might be necessary to provide the user with
certain features (e.g., customized delivery of information)
available on SG's site.
Upon request, SG will allow any user
to "opt out" of further promotional contacts at
any time. Additionally upon request, SG will use reasonable
efforts to allow users to update/correct personal information
previously submitted which the user states is erroneous
to the extent such activities will not compromise privacy
or security interests. In addition, upon a user's request,
SG will use commercially reasonable efforts to functionally
delete the user and his or her personal information from
its database; however, it may be impossible to delete a
user's entry without some residual information because of
backups and records of deletions.
The foregoing policies are effective
as of April 2003. SG reserves the right to change this
policy at any time by notifying users of the existence of
a new privacy statement. This statement and the policies
outlined herein are not intended to and do not create any
contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any
party.
By using this site, you signify your
assent to SG ’s Privacy Policy. If you do not agree
to this policy, please do not use our sites. Your continued
use of SG’s sites following the posting of changes
to these terms will mean you accept those changes.
If you have questions or concerns regarding
this Web site's privacy statement, you should first contact
the company at info@soulfulgolf.com
