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Privacy &
Affiliate Disclaimers
We respect your privacy & will never share your data with
any person or organization. Keep reading to know the details of privacy policy.
Also, we are participant in the Amazon Services LLC
Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a
means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon
Last
Updated: 29 January, 2020
The operator of this
website, Bhugolf.com. (“Bhugolf,” “we” or “us”) cares about your privacy and
the security of your information. We want you to be familiar with how we
collect, use and disclose information. This Privacy Policy describes our
practices in connection with information that we collect through this website
(the “Site”), social media pages (“Social Media Pages”), HTML-formatted email
message that we send to you (“Emails”), our offline contacts and any other
services that display this Privacy Policy (“Other Services”) (collectively
referenced in this Privacy Policy as the “Services”).
TO
CONTACT US
https://bhugolf.com,
is the company responsible for collection, use and disclosure of your personal
information (as defined below) under this Privacy Policy
If you have any
questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us using our contact page.
MODIFICATION
OF THESE TERMS
From time to time, we
may change the Privacy Policy. When we do, the “Last Updated” line at the top
of this page will be revised. You are responsible for regularly reviewing this
Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes
to the Privacy Policy indicates your acceptance of those changes. Unless we
provide you with specific notice, no changes to our Privacy Policy will apply
retroactively.
PERSONAL
INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT
When you use our
Services by, among other actions, subscribing to our newsletter, browsing our
Site or otherwise interacting with our Services, we gather personal
information. This information is necessary for delivering you the Services or
enhancing your customer experience.
Personal information
is information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an
identifiable individual. Several types of personal information can be are
gathered when you interact with the Services. Examples of such personal
information include your name, email address, demographic data (such as age,
gender and zip code) and interests.
COLLECTION
OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We and our service
providers collect personal information in a variety of ways including when you:
Use
the Services
Sign up to receive
emails, newsletters or other communications;
Participate in
surveys, contests, sweepstakes or other promotions offered via the Services;
Request customer
service or other assistance;
Otherwise communicate
with us via the Services; or
Take a survey offline
or participate in an in-person reader interview.
If you disclose any
personal information relating to other people to us or to our service providers
in connection with the Services, you represent that you have the authority to
do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy
Policy.
USE
OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We collect, use or
otherwise process personal information as allowed under applicable law,
including where based on one or more of the following:
The performance of the
contract we have with you;
The legitimate interests
of Bhugolf, a third party or yourself. “Legitimate interest” is a technical
term under the regulation. It means that there are good reasons for the
processing of your personal information and measures are taken to minimize the
impact on your privacy rights and interests. “Legitimate interest” also
references our use of your data in ways you would reasonably expect and that
have a minimal privacy impact. We have a legitimate interest in collecting and
processing personal information, for example: (1) to ensure that our networks
and information are secure; (2) to administer and generally conduct business
within bhugolf; and (3) to prevent fraud;
The compliance of a
legal obligation to which we are subject; or The consent you provide to us at
the point of collection of your personal information.
We use personal
information to:
·
Provide you with
content and services that you request;
·
Communicate with you
about changes to our policies;
·
Send you newsletters
and emails;
·
Provide you with
advertising, including advertising based on your activity on our Services or
activity on third-party sites and applications;
·
Administer contests,
sweepstakes, promotions, and surveys;
·
Optimize or improve
our products, services and operations;
·
Detect, investigate,
and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be illegal;
·
Communicate with you
about your account, respond to your inquiries and send you information about
features and enhancements of the Services; and
·
Perform statistical,
demographic, and marketing analyses of users of the Services.
·
We may aggregate
and/or anonymize personal information so that it will no longer be considered
personal information. We do so to generate other data for our use, which we may
use and disclose for any purpose.
DISCLOSURE
OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We will only disclose
your personal information collected via the Services to other companies as
described in this Privacy Policy.
We may disclose
personal information collected from you to our parent companies, subsidiaries
and affiliates.
We provide personal
information collected from you to companies that provide support services to us
or perform functions on our behalf, such as marketing, analytics, and providing
customer service. These companies may need personal information in order to perform
their functions.
We may provide
personal information collected from you to companies that sponsor sweepstakes,
contests and similar promotion on our Services. We will let you know at the
point of collection of your personal information if we do.
We may disclose
personal information collected from you if required to do so by law or in the
good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to applicable
law or comply with legal process; (b) protect and defend the our rights or
property, the Services or our users, and (c) act under emergency circumstances
to protect the personal safety of any of our employees, agents or contractors,
or those of any of our parent companies, affiliates or subsidiaries, any users
of the Services or the public.
We will disclose or
transfer personal information to a third party in the events of any
reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other
disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including
in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings). Such third parties
may include, for example, an acquiring entity and its advisors.
We may disclose
personal information to third parties to help us determine how people use parts
of the Services so we can improve our Services and develop new product
offerings. We may provide personal information about how our users collectively
use the Services in aggregated form to our service providers and other third
parties.
By using the Services,
you may elect to disclose personal information:
On comments sections,
contact forms and other services to which you are able to post information and
content (including, without limitation, our Social Media Pages).
Through your social
sharing activity. When you connect your Services account with your social media
account, you will share information with your friends associated with your
social media account, with other users, and with your social media account
provider. By doing so, you authorize us to facilitate this sharing of information,
and you understand that the use of shared information will be governed by the
social media provider’s privacy policy.
Please remember that
any information you share in public areas, such as comment sections or forums,
or that you otherwise post, display or disseminate in an area that is viewable
by other users of the Services, becomes public. Please be careful about what
you disclose and do not disclose any Personal Information that you expect to
keep private.
OTHER INFORMATION
Other information is
any information that does not specifically identify you and is collected
through technology includes tracking information collected by us as well as
third parties. Other information includes:
Information about your
computer, mobile device, or other device that you use to access the Services
such as your device type and brand, operating system, unique device
identifiers, browser type, browser client ID, browser language, Internet
Service Provider;
Usage information
about your use of our Services, such as a reading history of the pages you
view;
Additional “traffic
data” such as time of access, visitor ID, traffic channel, traffic source,
traffic medium, campaign name, date of access, software crash reports, session
identification number, access times, and referring website addresses;
Search terms and
search results;
Location data such as
your IP address, geolocation information (longitude and latitude);
Demographic
information and other information provided by you that does not reveal your
specific identity; and
Other information that
has been aggregated in a manner such that it no longer reveals your specific
identity.
COLLECTION
OF OTHER INFORMATION
We and our service
providers may collect other information in a variety of ways, including:
Through
your browser or device
Certain information is
collected by most browsers or automatically through your device, such as your
Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Mac), screen
resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model,
language, Internet browser type and the name and version of the Services you
are using. We use this information to ensure that the Services function
properly.
Using
cookies, pixel tags and other similar technologies
Like many websites,
our Services may use “cookies”, which are small text files that are stored on
your computer or equipment when you visit certain online pages and that record
your preferences and actions. We use cookies to track use of our Services. We
may also use cookies to monitor traffic, improve the Services and make it
easier and/or relevant for your use.
You have the ability
to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies,
but, if you prefer, you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies.
If you delete your cookies or if you set your web browser to decline cookies,
some features of the Services may not work or may not work as designed. For
more information on cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the
information provided by the Interactive Advertising Bureau at
www.allaboutcookies.org.
We use Google
Analytics, which uses cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyze
information about use of the Services and report on activities and
trends. This service may also collect information regarding the use of
other websites, apps and online resources. You can learn about Google’s
practices by going to www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/, and opt out
of them by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available
at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Pixel tags (also known
as web beacons and clear GIFs) are used to, among other things, track the
actions of users of the Services (including email recipients), measure the
success of our marketing campaigns, and compile statistics about usage of the
Services and response rates.
We may also use web
beacons. A web beacon (also known as an “action tag”, “tracer tag” or
“single-pixel gif”) is an invisible graphic on a web page that is programmed to
collect information about your use of a given website and deliver cookies.
IP
address
As noted above, we
collect and store your device’s source IP address. Your IP address is
automatically assigned to your computer by your internet service provider. An
IP address discloses the general location (i.e. city, state, country and
continent) of your device at the time you access the Services. We may use your
device’s IP address to:
·
Personalize offers and
promotions for our Services and special events;
·
Personalize the
advertising that you receive;
·
Optimize our products,
services and operations;
·
Detect, investigate,
and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be illegal
·
Identify the country
where you are located so that we can assess our legal obligations; and
·
Perform statistical,
demographic, and marketing analyses of users of the Site.
USES
AND DISCLOSURES OF OTHER INFORMATION
We may use and
disclose other information for any purpose, except where we are required to do
otherwise under applicable law. In some instances, we may combine other
information with personal information. If we do, we will treat the combined
information as personal information as long as it is combined.
SENSITIVE
INFORMATION
Unless we specifically
request it (for example, in connection with a particular survey), we ask that
you not send us, and you not disclose, any sensitive personal information
(e.g., social security numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin,
political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic
characteristics, criminal background or trade union membership) on or through
the Services or otherwise to us. Any requested information that includes
sensitive information about health, political opinions, ethnicity, race,
religion, sex life or sexual orientation can be left unanswered.
INFORMATION
SECURITY
We use reasonable
efforts to safeguard personal information. However, no data storage system or
transmission method can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, we cannot
guarantee the security of any information (including personal information) that
we obtain. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no
longer secure, please immediately notify us in accordance with the “Contacting
Us” section above.
OPT-OUT
INSTRUCTIONS
If you do not want to
receive promotional emails from us, you can opt out at any time by sending a
request using our contact page.
We will comply with
your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that if you opt
out of receiving marketing-related emails from us, we can still send you important
administrative messages, from which you cannot opt out.
HOW
YOU CAN ACCESS, CHANGE OR DELETE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
If you would like to
request to review, correct, restrict or delete personal information that you
have previously provided to us, object to the processing of personal
information, or request to receive an electronic copy of your personal
information for purposes of transmitting it to another company (to the extent
this right to data portability is provided to you by applicable law), you may
contact us by completing this form.
In your request,
please state what personal information you would like to have changed, whether
you would like to have your personal information suppressed from our database
or otherwise let us know what limitations you would like to put on our use of
your Personal Information. For your protection, we may only implement requests
with respect to the Personal Information associated with the particular email
address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your
identity before implementing your request.
We will respond to
your request consistent with applicable law.
Please note that we
may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes and/or to
complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting a change or
deletion (e.g., when you enter a promotion, you may not be able to change or
delete the personal information provided until after the completion of such
purchase or promotion).
If you are a resident
of California, under 18 and a registered user of the Services, you may ask us
to remove content or information that you have posted to the Services by
contacting us at the information listed above.
Please note that your
request does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the content or
information, as, for example, some of your content may have been reposted by
another user.
RETENTION
PERIOD
We retain personal
information for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purpose(s) for
which it was obtained and consistent with applicable law.
The criteria used to
determine our retention periods include:
The length of time we
have an ongoing relationship with you and provide the Services to you (for
example, for as long as you participate to a promotion with us or keep using
the Services);
Whether there is a
legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us
to keep records of your transactions for a certain period of time before we can
delete them); or
Whether retention is
advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable
statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations).
THIRD
PARTY ADVERTISING
We may work with
third-party advertising companies that may utilize web beacons, cookies, pixel
tags, or other similar technologies to better provide advertisements about
goods and services that may be of interest to you when you access and use the
Services and other websites or online services. These companies do not have
access to your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number or other
Personal Information from us. They may, however, anonymously track your
internet usage across other websites in their networks beyond the Services. To
learn more about the use of this information or to choose not to have this
information used by our third-party advertising partners by opting out please
visit the Network Advertising Initiative by clicking
http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
THIRD
PARTY SERVICES
This Privacy Policy
does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or
other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any
website or service to which the Services link. The inclusion of a link on the
Services does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us or by
our affiliates.
In addition, we are
not responsible for the information collection, use, disclosure or security
policies or practices of other organizations, such as Disqus, Facebook, Twitter,
Apple, Google, Microsoft, RIM or any other app developer, app provider, social
media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider
or device manufacturer, including with respect to any personal information you
disclose to other organizations through or in connection with our Social Media
Pages.
USE
OF SERVICES BY CHILDREN
The Services is not
directed to children and we do not knowingly collect or store any personal
information from children except as permitted by applicable law.
If you are a resident
of California, USA, under 18 years old and a registered user of the NYT
Services, please see above “How do I access, change or update my personal
information?”
YOUR
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
Under the California
“Shine The Light” law, California residents may opt out of our disclosure of
personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. As
detailed above, you may choose to opt out of the sharing of your personal
information with third parties for marketing purposes at any time by submitting
a request in writing using out contact page.
INTERNATIONAL
TRANSFERS
The information you
provide to us or that we obtain as a result of your use of the Services is
collected in your country and subsequently transferred to the United States or
to another country where we have facilities or our affiliates operate or in
which we engage service providers.
Some countries that
are not located in the European Economic Area (EEA) are recognized by the
European Commission as providing an adequate level of data protection according
to EEA standards (the full list of these countries is available here). For
transfers from the EEA to countries not considered adequate by the European
Commission, we have put in place adequate measures, including by ensuring that
the recipient is bound by EU Standard Contractual Clauses, to protect your
personal data. To obtain a copy of these measures click here.
In certain circumstances, courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies or security authorities in those other countries may be entitled to access your personal information.