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Privacy Policy

Effective Date: December 1, 2024

The Professional Disc Golf Association operates websites at https://www.pdga.com, https://www.discgolfscene.com,  https://www.statmando.com, and the PDGA Live app (the "Service").

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.

By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Information Collection and Use

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you ("Personal Data"). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • Email address
  • First name and last name
  • Gender
  • Birthdate
  • Phone number
  • Address, State, Province, Postal code, City
  • Cookies and Usage Data

Usage Data

We may also collect information about how the Service is accessed and used ("Usage Data"). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Location Data

We may use and store information about your location if you give us permission to do so (“Location Data”). We use this data to provide features of our Service and to improve and customize our Service.

You can enable or disable location services when you use our Service at any time through your device settings.

Tracking & Cookies Data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.

The cookies on this site allow us to deliver a better experience to you. By agreeing, you give us your consent to do so. If you have previously agreed to allow us to use cookies to deliver a better experience to you, you may withdraw consent at anytime.

Cookies are files with small amounts of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies like beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information are also used to improve and analyze our Service.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Examples of Cookies we might use:

  • Functional Cookies. We use Functional Cookies to operate our Service.
  • Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
  • Analytical Cookies. We use Analytic Cookies to measure and analyze usage.
  • Advertising Cookies. Advertising Cookies are used to serve you with advertisements that may be relevant to you and your interests.

For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.

Use of Data

The Professional Disc Golf Association uses the collected data for various purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our Service
  • To notify you about changes to our Service
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
  • To provide customer support
  • To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service
  • To monitor the usage of our Service
  • To detect, prevent, and address technical issues
  • To provide you with news, updates and general information about the products, services, and events that you have inquired about or purchased from us.

With your permission, we may use your Personal Data to contact you with product announcements, newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, member benefits, to solicit feedback about your experience using our Service, and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any or all of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us.

Processing Personal Data

The Professional Disc Golf Association may process your Personal Data because:

  • We need to fulfill a contract with you
  • You have given us permission to do so
  • The processing is in our legitimate interests and it's not overridden by your rights
  • For payment processing purposes
  • To comply with the law

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), the Professional Disc Golf Association’s legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it. Your member data is maintained by the Professional Disc Golf Association, headquartered in the United States.

Retention of Data

The Professional Disc Golf Association will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Professional Disc Golf Association will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to the United States and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy through use of our Service, followed by your submission of such information, represents your agreement to that transfer.

The Professional Disc Golf Association will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is handled securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and that no transfer of your Personal Data to an organization or a country will take place unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Sharing of Data

Your Personal Data will never be sold to any party for any reason, nor will it be shared with third-party Service Providers unless it is required to facilitate our Service. The Professional Disc Golf Association may also share your personal data with our partners and their service providers for the sole purpose of notifying you about, and providing you with access to, member benefits and services that you have purchased or are otherwise entitled to.

Disclosure of Data

Legal Requirements

The Professional Disc Golf Association may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary:

  • To comply with a legal obligation
  • To protect and defend the rights or property of the Professional Disc Golf Association
  • To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
  • To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
  • To protect against legal liability

Security of Data

The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Your Rights

The Professional Disc Golf Association aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.

Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data directly within My Account. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you.

If you wish to be informed what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have the right to raise concerns to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).

If you are a resident of California, you have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to correct errors in your Personal Data or delete it entirely. You have the right to a prompt response to such requests, which can be made by contacting [email protected].

Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service ("Service Providers"), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used. A non-exhaustive list of these Service Providers follows.

System

We use third-party Service Providers to facilitate and monitor the performance of our Service. These third parties have access to Usage Data and/or Personal Data only to perform specific tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

We use AWS to store and process user data for our Service. AWS adheres to industry-standard security measures to protect your Personal Data. For compliance information and to view their Privacy Policy, please visit https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/

Bugsnag

Bugsnag is an analytics platform that we use to capture errors and measure stability in our Service. For compliance information and to view their Privacy Policy, please visit https://smartbear.com/privacy/

Cloudflare

Cloudflare is a content delivery network that secures and ensures the reliability of our Service. They only receive Usage Data, not Personal Data. For compliance information and to view their Privacy Policy, please visit https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/

Datadog

Datadog is a cloud monitoring service that we use to identify and resolve issues and improve the reliability, performance, and security of our Service. For compliance information and to view their Privacy Policy, please visit https://www.datadoghq.com/privacy/

New Relic

New Relic is a cloud monitoring service that we use to identify and resolve issues and improve the reliability, performance, and security of our Service. For compliance information and to view their Privacy Policy, please visit https://newrelic.com/termsandconditions/privacy

Microsoft

We use various Microsoft services to store and process user data for analysis and customer service. Microsoft adheres to industry-standard security measures to protect your Personal Data. For compliance information and to view their Privacy Policy, please visit https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy/privacystatement

Snowflake

Snowflake is a data warehousing service that we use to store and manage user data securely. Snowflake helps us analyze and understand user interactions with our Service, enabling us to improve our offerings and user experience. Snowflake adheres to industry-standard security measures to protect your Personal Data. For compliance information and to view their Privacy Policy, please visit https://www.snowflake.com/en/legal/privacy-policy/

Analytics

We may use third-party Service Providers to analyze the use of our Service. These third parties have access to your Usage Data only to perform specific tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For compliance information and to view their Privacy Policy, please visit https://policies.google.com/privacy

Fathom Analytics

We also use Fathom Analytics for website analytics, which doesn't use cookies and complies with the GDPR, ePrivacy (including PECR), COPPA and CCPA. Your IP address is only briefly processed, and Fathom Analytics has no way of identifying you. As per the CCPA, your personal information is de-identified. You can read more about this on Fathom Analytics' website.

The purpose of us using this software is to understand our website traffic in the most privacy-friendly way possible so that we can continually improve our website and business. The lawful basis as per the GDPR is "Article 6(1)(f); where our legitimate interests are to improve our website and business continually." As per the explanation, no personal data is stored over time.

Advertising

We may use third-party Service Providers to show advertisements to you to help support and maintain our Service. These third parties have access to your Usage Data only to perform specific tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose

Google AdSense and DoubleClick

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our Service. Google's use of cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visits to our Service or other websites on the Internet.

You can customize the ads and control the info used to personalize them by visiting Google's "My Ad Center": https://myadcenter.google.com/

Payments

We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors). These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform specific tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

The payment processors we work with are:

PayPal

For compliance information and to view their Privacy Policy, please visit https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

Communication

We may use third-party Service Providers to facilitate communication regarding our Service with you via email.

MailChimp

MailChimp is an email marketing application that we use for our weekly email newsletter deployment, member benefits announcements, and for any general notifications to our membership or subset of our membership. For compliance information and to view their Privacy Policy, please visit https://mailchimp.com/legal/

Mailgun

Mailgun is used to send and deliver email from our Service during or after any transaction that requires confirmation and to provide you with a receipt of that transaction. We also use Mailgun for account recovery and password reset operations as well as regularly scheduled notifications and reminders. For compliance information and to view their Privacy Policy, please visit https://www.mailgun.com/legal/privacy-policy/

Rmail

Rmail is a registered email application that we use to send communications to members where we need to confirm receipt and opening of the email. For compliance information and to view their Privacy Policy, please visit https://rmail.com/legal-notices/privacy-notice

SurveyMonkey

SurveyMonkey is a survey platform that we use to gather feedback from our members. Based on your preferences we may use your email address to invite you to participate in surveys. SurveyMonkey ensures the confidentiality and security of your survey responses, helping us to better understand and serve our members and develop our Service. For more information on the privacy practices of SurveyMonkey, please visit the SurveyMonkey Privacy Policy web page: https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/legal/privacy/

Links to Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of changes in advance via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service prior to the change becoming effective and update the "effective date" at the top of this Privacy Policy. 

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page. 

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us: