AJGA Website Privacy Policy

Last modified: July 1, 2024

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This policy should be read in conjunction with our Terms of Use and is incorporated therein and subject thereto.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website ajga.org and when you participate in our SMS program(s) (collectively, our "Website") and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

• On this Website.
• In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website, or via our SMS program(s).
• When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.

It does not apply to information collected by:

• Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
• Any third party application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy, below). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Our Website is not intended for children under the age of majority in their jurisdiction unless they are accompanied by a parent or guardian. Without verification of consent by a parent or guardian, no one under age 18 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18 if such information is not provided under the supervision and consent of a parent or guardian. If you are under 16 and are not doing so under the direct supervision and consent of a parent or guardian, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a user under 18 without verification of consent from a parent or guardian, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a user under 18 without such supervision or consent, please contact us at (770) 868-4200 or ajga@ajga.org .

Residents of certain states under 13, 16, or 18 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal information. Please see Your State Privacy Rights (below) for more information.

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

• By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, and/or telephone number ("personal information");
• That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as a list of the college(s) or university(ies) you are interested in attending, your GPA, your SAT/ACT scores; and/or
• About your Website usage details.

We collect this information:

• Directly from you when you provide it to us.
• Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include your page views and other similar usage data.
  

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

· Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of submitting an application to join the AJGA as a member or coach; building your on-line AJGA profile; submitting an on-line application to compete in an AJGA competition; entering a contest or promotion sponsored by us; and when you report a problem with our Website.

· Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.

· Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.

· Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information to our Processor before placing an order through our Website.

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your browsing actions and patterns, including details of your visits to our Website, such as traffic data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.

The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to estimate our audience size and usage patterns.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information .
• Web Beacons. Pages of our Website may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
  

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To present our Website and its contents to you.
• To permit coaches to see the profile that you upload about yourself.
• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
• To provide you with notices about your account, including expiration and renewal notices.
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
• To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
• For any other purpose with your consent.

We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties' goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please adjust your user preferences in your account profile. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information (below).

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

• To coaches that have logged-in on the Website to view our members’ profiles for recruiting purposes.
• To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties that we use to support our Website our business.
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of 's assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by American Junior Golf Association, Inc. about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
• To our third-party sponsors to market their products or services to you if you have not opted out of these disclosures. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information (below).
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
• With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
• To enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements with you.
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the AJGA, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection.

The categories of personal information we may disclose include:

• Name and email address.
  

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

• Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
• Promotional Offers from the Company or our Sponsors. If you do not wish to have your information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties' products or services, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data or by contacting AJGA Player Services at (770) 868-4200 / ajga@ajga.org . If we have sent you an SMS message, you can cease all SMS messaging form us by replaying “STOP” to any such message (see our SMS Terms and Conditions for details). If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future promotional email distributions.

Residents of certain states may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your State Privacy Rights (below) for more information.

You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page.

You may also call or send an email AJGA Player Services at (770) 868-4200 / ajga@ajga.org to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We may not be able to delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

Residents of certain states may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your State Privacy Rights (below) for more information.

State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia provide (now or in the future) their state residents with rights to:

• Confirm whether we process their personal information.
• Access and delete certain personal information.
• Correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information's nature processing purpose (excluding Iowa and Utah).
• Data portability.
• Opt-out of personal data processing for:
  
  • targeted advertising (excluding Iowa);
  • sales; or
  • profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (excluding Iowa and Utah).
• Either limit (opt-out of) or require consent to process sensitive personal data.

The exact scope of these rights may vary by state. To exercise any of these rights please contact AJGA Player Services at (770) 868-4200 / ajga@ajga.org . You may also have rights to appeal a decision regarding a consumer rights request.

Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt-out of certain personal information sales. Residents who wish to exercise this sale opt-out rights may do so by contacting AJGA Player Services at (770) 868-4200 / ajga@ajga.org . However, please know we do not currently sell data triggering that statute's opt-out requirements.

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. Any payment transactions will be encrypted by our third-party payment processor using SSL technology.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone other than your parent or guardian (as applicable).

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, or to register a complaint or concern, please contact us at:

AJGA Player Services: (770) 868-4200 / ajga@ajga.org

See also:

• AJGA Website Terms of Use
• AJGA SMS Terms & Conditions
• AJGA Copyright Policy
• AJGA Dispute Resolution Policy
• AJGA Legal