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Norman Golf Marketing, Inc., the parent company of Digital Golfers, does 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 at one of the
affiliate sites/Emails of Norman Golf Marketing, Inc. from a contest or
sweepstakes registration, the registration process for subscription
sites/Emails or services such as Digital Golfers 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. The user will have the opportunity in every email 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 Norman
Golf Marketing, Inc. and/or any third parties. Further, notwithstanding any opt
out of promotional information by the user, Norman Golf Marketing, Inc.
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.
Norman Golf Marketing, Inc. 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. Norman Golf Marketing, Inc. will provide only aggregated
data from these analyses to third parties, which include Digital Golfers
advertisers and third-party syndication partners and their advertisers. Also,
users should be aware that Norman Golf Marketing, Inc. may sometimes permit
third parties to offer subscription and/or registration-based services through
a Norman Golf Marketing, Inc. site/Emails. Norman Golf Marketing, Inc. 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.
Users also should be aware that non-personal information and data may be
automatically collected through the standard operation of Norman Golf
Marketing, Inc.'s Internet servers or through the use of "cookies." "Cookies"
are small text files a web site can use to recognize repeat users, facilitate
the user's ongoing access to and 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 Norman Golf Marketing, Inc. cannot control the use of cookies or the
resulting information by advertisers or third parties hosting data for Norman
Golf Marketing, Inc.. If a user does not want information collected through the
use of 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 may be necessary to provide the user with certain features (e.g.,
customized delivery of information) available on the Norman Golf Marketing,
Inc. Sites.
Upon request, Norman Golf Marketing, Inc. will allow any user to "opt out" of
further promotional contacts. Additionally upon request, Norman Golf Marketing,
Inc. 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. Also,
upon a user's request, Norman Golf Marketing, Inc. 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. For any credit card transaction on one of the many affiliate sites
of Norman Golf Marketing, Inc., a secure server software encrypts your credit
card number, name and address so it can not be viewed as it is transmitted over
the Internet. Norman Golf Marketing, Inc. and its affiliate sites have
extensive security in place to protect all User information on the site. The
foregoing policies are effective as of February 3, 2003. Norman Golf Marketing,
Inc. 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.
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