“Personal Information” means information associated with or used to identify a specific person. Your Personal Information includes: (1) contact data (such as your name, e-mail address and membership number); (2) demographic data (such as your gender, your date of birth and your zip code); (3) certain Usage Data, (such as the IP address from which you access the Services (as further discussed in Section 3.b. below)); and (4) transaction data you provide when you request information or purchase a golf product or service from us through our Services (such as postal address, telephone number and payment information). If you communicate with us by, for example, e-mail or letter, any information provided in such communication may be collected as Personal Information.

“General Information” is information about an individual’s online activity that, by itself, cannot be used to identify him or her, such as browser type, operating system and the dates/times of Services access.

Personal Information and General Information may be linked together. Different types of General Information also may be linked together and, once linked, may identify an individual person.

We collect information that you provide to us and from your use of the Services. The information that we collect and how we process it depends on how you use and access the Services. Some information is collected through use of cookies and similar data collection tools 

We use the information that we collect or that you provide to us to operate, maintain and enhance CDGA and CDGA Foundation Services, including:

• To present the Services to you and to customize, improve and develop golf related content and functionality that helps us better serve your member or customer needs;

• To operate our business and provide golf related services and products requested by you;

• To send emails and other communications that display content that we think will interest you, such as news about our golf products, services and promotions

• We may share your General Information with our business partners to allow them to market products that may be of interest to you

We and our business partners also may combine different types of information collected from or about you through various sources, including Personal Information, and use the combined information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

We may share and disclose information in order for us to mail publications, such as the Chicago District Golfer magazine and the Rays of Hope newsletter.

Cookies & Other Data Collection Tools. “Data Collection Tools” means technology that collects information about your use of the Services, such as cookies and web beacons.

Online Advertising. The Services use Data Collection Tools to help manage our online advertising program. These Data Collection Technologies are provided by us as well as our ad management partners and other third parties.

In addition, we and our ad management partners may use these Data Collection Tools to track the actions of users of the Services, to measure statistics of our marketing efforts, to deliver advertisements on the Services that may be more relevant to individual consumers and that will improve the consumer experience on the Services, and to deliver advertisements to users of the Services when they visit other third-party sites.

The CDGA and CDGA Foundation have implemented safeguards intended to protect your information from unauthorized access and use. We also require that our agents, contractors and business partners that have access to information in connection with providing services for CDGA and CDGA Foundation protect your information. But, while we do work hard to protect your information, we cannot guarantee the privacy or security of your information. Disclosure of information to the CDGA and the CDGA Foundation is at your own risk.  We urge you to take every precaution to protect your information when you use the Internet or store information on your computer, tablet or mobile device.

This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by or through the Services. As noted, the Services may contain links to third-party websites and services, including social media (collectively, “Linked Services”). Linked Services are not under the control of CDGA and CDGA Foundation, and the CDGA and CDGA Foundation are not responsible for Linked Services. The inclusion of a link does not imply endorsement by CDGA and/or CDGA Foundation of the Linked Services or any association with the operators of the Linked Services. CDGA and CDGA Foundation does not investigate, verify or monitor the Linked Services. We provide links to Linked Sites for your convenience only. You access Linked Services at your own risk. We encourage you to read about the privacy practices of any Linked Service that you access.

Parental involvement in a child’s activities is very important to us. We only collect personal information from children as it pertains to participating in our online activities or programs that the youth have registered for (specifically Youth on Course and/or the Illinois Junior Golf Association). If we learn that a child under 13 who is not participating in our on-line activities or programs that youth have registered for has submitted Personal Information to us, we delete it as soon as possible. If you believe that we have collected Personal Information under such circumstances from a child under 13, please contact us at info@cdga.org.

If you wish to opt-out of the sharing, use, and disclosure of your information, as described in section 3 above, you may do so by emailing us at info@cdga.org or indicating your preference in My CDGA Caddie at CDGA.org. If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or to request corrections, amendments or deletions to any Personal Information that you have provided through the Services, please contact us at info@cdga.org or call us at (630) 257-2005. The CDGA and CDGA Foundation will use reasonable efforts to supply you with requested Personal Information and correct any factual inaccuracy or delete your Personal Information from our databases. To honor your request, we will need the exact information you wish to correct, amend or delete.  Please note that deletion of some personal information may impact your ability to access and/or utilize the Services provided by the CDGA and CDGA Foundation.

By using the Services, 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 Services. 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 the Services following the posting of any changes to these terms shall mean that you have accepted those changes.