Privacy Policy

NEBRASKA GOLF ASSOCIATION PRIVACY POLICY

 The Nebraska Golf Association (the “NebGolf” or “we” or “us” or “our”), recognizes the importance our members, donors, visitors to our web sites and users of our mobile applications place on the privacy of their information. We created this privacy policy statement (“Privacy Policy”) to demonstrate our commitment to protecting the privacy of your information as described below and to explain the privacy policies and procedures of the NebGolf.

This Privacy Policy describes how the NebGolf collects, uses, and shares: (1) information gathered from visitors to the web site nebgolf.org (the “Site” or the “NebGolf Web Site”) and mobile applications (the “Apps”) where this Privacy Policy appears (the Site and the Apps are collectively referred to herein as the “Services”), and (2) information collected offline from our members and donors.

Please review this Privacy Policy carefully, for it contains important information. If you do not want us to be able to gather and use information about you as set forth herein, please do not use this Site or the Apps or provide offline data or information. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to identify for you the nature of information that may be collected about or from you, the way in which such information may be used and disclosed, and to offer other helpful information. This Privacy Policy is part of our Terms of Service (the “User Agreement”), which governs your use of the Site and the Services, as defined therein. By using this Site and the Services, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy and agree to receive future revisions to our Privacy Policy through our Site. Unless otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, the defined terms used below have the same meaning set forth in our User Agreement.

TYPES OF INFORMATION COLLECTED

NebGolf collects two types of information from users of the Services: (1) information that can be used to specifically identify or contact an individual (“Personal Information”) and (2) non-personal information collected automatically, for example, as you interact with our Services that cannot, in itself, be used to specifically identify or contact an individual (“Non-Personal Information”).

Personal Information. We receive and store any personal information you provide to us through our Site or give us in any other way, such as when you register an Account through our Site, request information, products or services from us through the Site, complete a survey on the Site, or communicate with us via email through the Site or an email provider. This personal information that we gather from you may include, without limitation:

• Contact Information (e.g. your/third party name(s), address, telephone number, email);
• Password or other login credentials (selected by you) to create and access your accounts on the Services;
• Professional credentials;
• Username & password;
• Age, gender and other demographic information;
• Health information (for example, if you submit a request through the Services to use a golf cart at a NebGolf championship);
• Golf background, such as whether you are an amateur or a professional, the name and address of your golf club, and your USGA Handicap Index;
• Information about your interests in and use of various products, programs and services;
• Financial information such as credit card number
• Geo-location;

The above are only examples of the types of Personal Information we may collect. The actual types of Personal Information collected depend on the specific product or service you request, the types of transactions you conduct on the Services, and the various activities in which you participate.

Non-Personal Information. If you are using one of our Services, we will automatically capture certain Non-Personal Information about you and your use of the Service. For example, we automatically recognize and collect:

• Your Internet service provider and domain name;
• Usage and “clickstream” data, which includes the type of device and browsing software you are using and their settings (including language settings), your browser ID, general geographic information derived from your IP address, URL information, the address of the web site from which you linked to a Service, the pages, content or ads you see or click on during your visit and when and for how long you do so, items you download, any search terms you have entered on the Services or a referral site, and the time stamps of your visits to the Services;
• App data, including counts of the screens and features of the App that are used, the countries from which the App is used, time stamps of uses, device language settings, and the types of devices, operating systems, carriers, IP addresses and wireless connections our users are using to access the App;
• Unique numerical identifiers, including mobile device identification numbers;
• Information about your interactions with our email messages;
• Geolocation information, including precise information about the location of your mobile device, to the extent that such information is provided by your device.

The above are only examples of the types of Non-Personal Information we may collect. The actual types of Non-Personal Information collected depend on the specific product or service you request, the types of transactions you conduct on the Services, and the various activities in which you participate.

We use Personal Information and Non-Personal Information to enhance and customize services and features for you, to improve the Services we provide to you, and to communicate with you.

Registering a profile or participation in surveys or contests is completely voluntary, therefore you have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Where this information is required for participation, and you choose to participate you hereby give consent for the collection of any and all information.

Automatic Information Collection. We (and our service providers) may use management and analytic products and tools that we own or that are owned by a third-party to gather certain information about your use of the Site and Services. The products and tools may include cookies, beacons, JavaScript, and other technologies. From time to time, we (and our service providers) may also collect information such as the pages of the Site that you visit, your search keywords, your operating system version, IP address and type of browser you are using, or other such information. The information we collect enables us to run Site usage tools and create statistics about our Site. These statistics help us to better understand how our Site is being used and what we can do to make it more useful to visitors and users. We may also collect information about your computer or software to alert you of any technical or compatibility deficiencies that may disrupt your use of the Site or the Services offered through the Site.

Note that if you link from our Site for purposes of purchasing or using certain products or services, you will be traveling to other sites operated by other entities with different privacy policies, and the information you provide on those sites is not governed by this Privacy Policy.

INFORMATION COLLECTION TECHNIQUES

NebGolf uses passive tracking tools to automatically collect Information, such as browser cookies, web beacons, pixels or similar technologies. We collect information about users over time when you use the Services or view our emails. We may also have third parties collect information this way, such as ad networks, web analytics companies, and social networking platforms.

We may collect information from you when you purchase goods and services, make a donation, create an account, or contact us through the Services, or submit an application to play in a championship, or submit an entry to play in a golf outing, or submit a volunteer application, or submit other forms or information through the Services.

We may also receive information about you from third parties. For example, our business partners, service providers, and social media platforms may provide us with information about you.

We combine information. Information obtained through the Services (including both Personal Information and Non-Personal Information) may be combined and used in conjunction with information obtained through sources other than the Services or at different times, including both offline and online sources and from third parties.

USE OF INFORMATION

1. Marketing Purposes. We may use this information, such as your name, address, telephone number, and/or email address, to contact you and send you information about us, our affiliates, and third party goods, services, and promotions in which we believe you may be interested. We may disclose your information to our agents and service providers who help us contact you for these purposes. In addition, we may disclose your information to our affiliates for their use in contacting you about products, services and promotions in which we believe you might be interested.
2. To Comply With Your Requests and Deliver Orders. We may also use and disclose to others (such as our billing service providers, our fulfillment houses and shipping companies) your information, to the extent reasonably necessary, to provide you with the information, opportunities, goods or services you request, such as if you request information about a promotion, order goods or services, or request information from us, or to process your membership application or your registration on our Services if you submit such an application or registration.
   1. For example, if you choose to receive information regarding a promotion offered by a third party, we may share your information, such as your name and e-mail address with such third party offering the promotion. For another example, if you request information, or buy products or services through the Site, we may use and disclose this information to others so as to comply with your request (for example, to disclose your information, including your credit card information, to secure payment, by using your email or street address to send you the requested information, product or service, to disclose your email or street address to our mailing, fulfillment and shipping companies so that the requested information, product or service may be sent to you).
3. Data Aggregation. We may aggregate your information with the information of others so that you cannot reasonably be identified and we may use and disclose such statistical information for any purpose.
4. Site Analytics. We may use your information to help improve the operation of our Site, such as to diagnose problems with our server, to administer our Site, and to communicate with you with respect to your use of the Site, including, without limitation, to respond to e-mails from you.
5. Asset Sale. We may share your information with and transfer it and our rights in it to another entity acquiring all or substantially all of our assets, or the assets of our business units, or that merges with us, which entity would have the right to use and disclose your information as we did.
6. Your information may be shared with and used by the United States Golf Association (the “USGA”). You agree that the USGA’s use of your information will be governed by the USGA’s privacy policy, and we are not responsible for the privacy policy or activities of the USGA.
7. We may use your information to solicit or process donations.
8. Golf Events. We may use your information to process entries associated with golf championships or other golf outings.
9. We may use your information to communicate with you or update you about your account, membership or registration, your transactions and other activities on our Services, our relationship, or with regard to this Privacy Policy or the User Agreement.
10. Market Research. We may use your information to contact you for market research.
11. We may use your information for security purposes (for example, we may use your information to protect NebGolf, our users, employees, sponsors and business partners, donors, and players) and to protect our Site and Services.
12. Legal Compliance. We may use and disclose information that we have gathered from you or that you have provided to us if: (i) we believe that any law or regulation requires us to do so; (ii) to respond to a subpoena or governmental request; (iii) we deem it advisable or necessary to protect our safety, rights or property, or that of our employees, agents, affiliates, customers, other users of this Site, or others; (iv) to respond to a possible violation of this Privacy Policy, our User Agreement, any law or regulation; and/or (v) to enforce this Privacy Policy and/or our User Agreement.
13. Sharing with Third Parties. We may share your information with: (i) service providers, technical consultants, and vendors who assist us, where such sharing is reasonably necessary to providing you with a requested service or to operating and maintaining the Services (such as web site or database hosting companies, address list hosting companies, e-mail service providers, analytics companies, advertising companies, distribution companies, fulfillment companies, payment processing companies and other similar vendors and services providers); (ii) corporate partners and third-party advertisers; (iii) our affiliates; (iv) third-party auditors; (v) an acquirer or successor entity in the event we, or a substantial portion of our assets, undergo a business restructuring, transfer of ownership, or similar transaction.

THIRD PARTY ADVERTISERS

Please note that at times, some of the advertisers on the Site and Services and their and our ad service providers (including affiliate network providers and third party ad servers) may set cookies or use related technologies or web beacons when you view and/or click their advertising banners, links or other ads. Information from cookies, tracking pixels, clear GIFs and other tracking technologies placed through third party ads and links may be collected directly by those advertisers and ad service providers and used to cause relevant ads to be displayed to you. For example, these companies may collect and use information about you and your visits to the Services and other web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. These advertisements may appear on the Services and on other web sites. The advertiser’s privacy policy and/or that of its service provider will govern the use of this information, and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such companies. We encourage you to read these businesses’ privacy policies to learn about how they treat your information.

SECURING YOUR INFORMATION

We will use reasonable precautions to keep the information about you that we have gathered protected from unauthorized use or access. For your safety and security on the Site, we may use security tools and functionality such as encryption, flash objects, firewalls, passwords, or other security features. However, your external email communications with us are not protected by any digital security, and you should assume that such communications are visible by third-parties. No transmission of data over the Internet or method of electronic storage is secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. Your use of the Services demonstrates your assumption of this risk.

USE CAUTION WHEN VISITING OTHER SITES

Our Site may from time to time include links to other sites operated by other entities. Each of those links takes you to a site operated by another entity. Those sites may have different privacy policies. When traveling to other sites, please take the time to check the applicable privacy policy of that site before you submit any personal information. Such policies are usually posted on the site or available through clearly posted links. We are not responsible for the privacy policies of or activities on other sites.

YOUR CHOICES

You can opt out of receiving promotional emails from NebGolf. To do so, email us at bvigil@nebgolf.org or follow the instructions in any promotional message you get from us. Please understand that if you opt out of receiving promotional correspondence from us, we may still contact you in connection with your relationship, activities, transactions and communications with us.

If you wish to stop receiving push notifications through the App, you may change the settings for the App and/or your device.

The precise geographic location of your device may be transmitted to our servers in real time any time that the App is running (even if you are not actively using the App or it is minimized on your device). You may stop allowing us to have access to your device’s location information by accessing the App’s location settings on your device and setting your device not to share its location with us.

Please note that the NebGolf is not responsible for removing your information from third party lists or databases. You can restrict the use of certain of your information by certain direct mail companies by contacting: Mail Preference Service c/o Direct Marketing Association, P.O. Box 9008, Farmingdale, New York 11735-9008.

LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES

Any of the Services may contain links, banners, or advertisements to other web sites. When you click on such links, banners, or advertisements, the privacy policies of the web sites to which you are linked and/or their service provider (as applicable) will govern the use of your information collected on such sites. NebGolf does not have access to or control over any technologies or practices that may be used by third parties.

This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by NebGolf via its Services or collected offline from our members and donors. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to read the privacy statements of each and every web site visited after leaving our Site through such a link, banner or advertisement, in order to learn how such third parties may treat your information.

COOKIES

Cookies are a technology that stores useful information about you and your computer that enables our Site to remember you when you return. We can only read cookies from our Site. You can change your privacy preferences regarding the use of cookies and similar technologies through your browser. You may set your browser to accept all cookies, block certain cookies, require your consent before a cookie is placed in your browser, or block all cookies. Blocking all cookies will affect your online experience and may prevent you from enjoying the full features offered on the Site and our Services may become unavailable or nonfunctional. Please consult the “Help” section of your browser for more information.

DO NOT TRACK

We do not respond to Do Not Track signals at this time. However, in respect of our users’ right to privacy, we provide the option to block cookies as outlined above.

THIS SITE IS NOT FOR CHILDREN UNDER 13 YEARS OLD

This Site is not directed to children under the age of 13 and children under the age of 13 should not provide their information through this Site. We will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under 13. Additionally, children 13 years old or older should not provide their information to us through this Site except under the supervision and with the permission of their parent or guardian. In the event NebGolf learns that we have collected Personal Information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete such information as quickly as possible. When we refer to “your information” in this Privacy Policy, it refers to your Personal Information and Non-Personal Information as well as your child’s/minor dependent’s Personal Information and Non-Personal Information.

UNITED STATES ONLY

The Services are intended only for users in the United States of America. By using the Services, you agree and acknowledge that the Services are hosted in the United States and that information collected through the Services (including Personal Information) will be stored and processed in the United States. By using the Services, you consent to such transfer and the application of the laws of the United States, which may not be as protective or comprehensive as those that exist in your home jurisdiction.

ACCESS TO AND CORRECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION MAINTAINED ABOUT YOU/ABILITY TO OPT OUT OF FURTHER CONTACTS.

1. In the event you wish to determine the nature of the information we have collected from or about you, please contact us by sending an email to: bvigil@nebgolf.org. Please include your full name, your address, email address, telephone number, and explain the nature of your request. Your request can be as simple as “Please provide me with a summary of the information you have collected from or about me.”
2. Updates and Corrections. In addition, if you have corrections or updates to the information we are maintaining about you (your address for example), please help us keep your information accurate by contacting us via email at bvigil@nebgolf.org and provide us with the corrected information. Please include the information that you are updating or correcting (both old and new) so that we can more easily locate your record and update or correct it properly. Also include a telephone number and email address where we can reach you if we have further questions.
3. Opt Out, Deletion or Transfer. In the event that you do not wish us to use and/or disclose your information for Marketing Purposes (as described above), please send us an email at bvigil@nebgolf.org and notify us of your request. You can state “Please do not use my information for Marketing Purposes.” Please include in your request your name, address, telephone number and the email address or addresses to which you want your Opt Out request to apply. We will use reasonable efforts to promptly comply with your request. In addition, if you opt out to receive certain information, you may not be able to utilize certain portions of the Site. Additionally, you may request that we delete your information altogether or that we transfer or not transfer it to a third party. Again, we will need your name, address, telephone number, the email address or addresses and the nature of the request. We will endeavor to respond to any of the foregoing within 30 days.
4. If you have questions about the operation of this Site or other matters, please direct them to our attention at bvigil@nebgolf.org.

CHANGE INFORMATION

To the extent available, you can access, view and change your preferences, profile, and other information by visiting www.nebgolf.org or emailing bvigil@nebgolf.org, calling us at (402) 505-4653, or writing us at the Nebraska Golf Association, 6618 South 118^th Street, Omaha, NE 68137. You may also inform us of changes by following the procedures described in the Contact Us section of this Privacy Policy, and NebGolf will take reasonable steps to correct any information about you that is incorrect.

CONTACT US

NebGolf welcomes your questions and comments about privacy. Please feel free to contact us by:

Email: bvigil@nebgolf.org,
Phone: (402) 505-4653
Postal Address:
Nebraska Golf Association
6618 South 118^th Street
Omaha, NE 68137

UPDATES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time in our discretion. Changes will apply to information about you that we have already gathered from you under this Privacy Policy and to information we thereafter gather from you. With respect to changes in our Privacy Policy which affect information we have already gathered from you, we will never materially change our Privacy Policy to make it less protective of your information collected in the past, without sending you a notice to your last known email address (or if we do not have an email address, by sending you a notice to your last known mailing address) notifying you of the changes and providing you with the opportunity to opt out of such changes within thirty (30) days from issuance of the notice. We will post here any material changes, including any changes that give us broader rights to use or disclose your information for marketing purposes that we make in the Privacy Policy and the date of such change.

POLICY CHANGES

We suggest that you review this Privacy Policy periodically, as we may modify it from time to time as our Services evolve. We will notify you of material changes or updates to our Privacy Policy as required by law.

ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS

By using this Site or any of the Apps, you signify your agreement to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, please do not use the Site or any of the Apps. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of this policy at any time. Please check this page periodically for any changes. Your continued use of nebgolf.org following the posting of any changes to these terms shall mean that you have accepted those changes.

This Privacy Policy was last updated on March 21, 2023.