Last Updated: August 29, 2024
This website is operated by GolfLync Corp. (hereinafter, “GolfLync”, “We”, or “Us”). This Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy”) governs your access to the GolfLync website https://www.golflync.com/, the GolfLync mobile application, and any other services owned, controlled, or offered by GolfLync, now or in the future (all collectively referred to as, the "Services”. The term “You” or “User” shall refer to any individual that views, uses, accesses, browses or submits any content or material to the Services.
Since we may gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This Privacy Policy discloses what information we gather and how we use it.
BY VISITING, SIGNING UP, USING, BROWSING, OR ACCESSING THE SERVICES, YOU CONSENT TO THE DATA PRACTICES DESCRIBED IN THIS STATEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH OUR PRIVACY PRACTICES, DO NOT USE THE SERVICES.
Through the Services, we may collect Personal Information. “Personal Information” means information about you that specifically identifies you or, when combined with other information we have, can be used to identify you. Generally, we do not collect Personal Information about you when you visit and/or use the Services, unless you choose to provide such information to us. Submitting Personal Information through the Services is voluntary. By doing so, you are giving us your permission to use the information for the stated purpose.
We collect, process, and use your information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, based at least on one of the following legal grounds:
Through the Services, we may collect information that can identify you or your company when you voluntarily submit it to us. If requested, your Personal Information may include:
We will take reasonable precautions, as well as physical, technical, and organizational measures in accordance with industry standards, as described herein, to protect your Personal Information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Computer safeguards, such as firewalls and data encryption may be used to protect your information. However, the security of information on or transmitted via the Internet cannot be guaranteed. Unauthorized entry of use, hardware or software failures, and other factors may compromise the security of your Personal Information. All information you send to us electronically or through email is not secure. Any transmission is at your own risk as the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure.
We collect and temporarily store certain information about your usage of the Services. Non-Personal Information means information that alone cannot identify you, including data such as cookies, pixel tags, web beacons and device information. The information includes, without limitation:
If you do not want us to collect this information, you may either change your device’s privacy settings or do not access or use the Services.
The technologies we use for automatic information collection may include:
Please visit the Social Ad Platforms Privacy policy to find out how they use such information:
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us. You may need to adjust the settings on your computer and/or device to restrict the collection of information by the Services, but this may prevent you from accessing all the features of the Services.
You can decide whether to accept cookies through your internet browser’s settings. Most browsers have an option for turning off the cookie feature, which will prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, as well as (depending on your browser software) allow you to decide on acceptance of each new cookie in a variety of ways. You may also be able to reject mobile device identifiers by activating the appropriate setting on your mobile device. You can also delete all cookies that are already on your computer. Although you are not required to accept cookies, if you block, reject, or delete them, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some of the Services and functionalities may not work.
To explore what cookie settings are available to you, look in the “preferences” or “options” section of your browser’s menu. To find out more information about cookies, including information about how to manage and delete cookies, visit: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
When you use the Services or its contents, certain third parties may use automatic information collection technologies to collect information about you or your device. These third parties may include:
These third parties may use tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use the Services. The information they collect may be associated with your Personal Information or they may collect information about your online activities over time and across different platforms, mobile applications, and other online sites. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content. We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
We use information collected as described in this Privacy Policy for the following:
The Personal Information you provide to us whether voluntarily or automatically, may be used and disclosed without limitations, in the following instances:
We may also disclose Non-Personal Information:
If law applicable to you grants you such rights, you may ask to access, correct, or delete your Personal Information that is stored in our systems or that we otherwise control. You may also ask for our confirmation as to whether we process your Personal Information or ask to withdraw any consent you have previously provided to GolfLync in connection with our use and processing of your Personal Information. Subject to the limitations in law, you may request that we update, correct, or delete inaccurate or outdated information. You may also request that we suspend the use of any Personal Information the accuracy of which you contest while we verify the status of that data.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights or withdraw your consent, please contact us at support@hydrant.us. When handling these requests, we may ask for additional information to confirm your identity and your request. Please note, upon request to delete your Personal Information, we may retain such data in whole or in part to comply with any applicable rule or regulation and/or response or defend against legal proceedings versus us or our affiliates, or as we are otherwise permitted under such law applicable to you. While we strive to honor all reasonable requests, please be aware that we backup the data to prevent accidental or malicious destruction of your information. Information on backup servers may take some time to be completely deleted from the system. If you request that we remove you from our system and delete all your information, please note that you may still receive materials while your request is being processed.
If you request that your information be deleted, we may keep your information for a period of time. However, if you request to delete your information, your Personal Information will not be used by us or our third-party providers for any further purposes, nor sold or shared with third parties, except as necessary to prevent fraud and assist law enforcement, as required by law, or in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
The security of your Personal Information is important to us. We seek to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use and disclosure using appropriate physical, technical, organizational, and administrative security measures based on the type of Personal Information and how we are processing that data. We endeavor to follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the Personal Information submitted to us, both during transmission and in storage. For example, the Services use industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to allow for the encryption of Personal Information. We maintain what we consider industry standard backup and archival systems. Although we work to protect the security of the data that we hold in our records, for example, by making good faith efforts to store Personal Information in a secure operating environment that is not open to the public, please be aware that no method of transmitting data over the Internet or storing data is completely secure. We cannot and do not guarantee the complete security of any data you share with us, and except as expressly required by law, we are not responsible for the theft, destruction, loss or inadvertent disclosure of your information or content.
If at any time we believe that the security of your Personal Information may have been compromised, we may seek to notify you of that development. If a notification is appropriate, we will endeavor to notify you as promptly as possible under the circumstances. If we have your email address, we may notify you by email to the most recent email address you have provided us. If you receive a notice from us, you can print it to retain a copy of it. To receive these notices, you must check your email account. You consent to our use of email as a means of such notification. If you prefer for us to use the U.S. Postal Service to notify you in this situation, please email us at support@hydrant.us. Please include your address when you submit your request. You can make this election any time, and it will apply to notifications we make after a reasonable time thereafter for us to process your request. You may also use this email address to request a print copy, at no charge, of an electronic notice we have sent to you regarding a compromise of your Personal Information.
We may retain Personal Information about you consistent with all internal policies and procedures. We may retain Personal Information to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes or collect fees owed, or as is otherwise permitted or required by our data retention policies and procedures.
We represent and warrant that we will comply with all applicable laws, rules, regulations, directives, and guidelines regarding the collection, use and disclosure of data collected from or about Users or specific devices which apply to the services utilized hereunder. The term “Rules” shall include, without limitation, (i) United States Federal Trade Commission Laws regarding the collection, use and disclosure of data from or about users and/or specific devices; (ii) the Children’s Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (“COPPA”); (iii) any state data privacy laws, and (iv) the Rules of any other jurisdiction, including the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (“UK GDPR”) and the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (“EU GDPR”), rules, regulations and/or directives promulgated by a pertinent Data Protection Act, and all amendments and updates to them or regulations as replaced or superseded from time to time. Under GDPR, you have the following rights to your personal data:
You also have the right to lodge a complaint about our processing of your personal data with a data protection regulatory body.
We may work with Google, Facebook and other companies that use information collected from cookies and similar technologies to try to make the ads you see online more relevant to your interests. This is called interest-based advertising. Our use of these services may constitute a “sale” of Personal Information as defined under the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA). You can opt-out of the use of your information for interest-based advertising by:
Mobile settings. Using your mobile device settings to limit use of the advertising ID associated with your mobile device for interest-based advertising purposes. You will need to apply these opt-out settings on each device from which you wish to opt-out. Not all companies that serve interest-based ads participate in these opt-out programs, so even after opting-out, you may still receive some cookies and interest-based ads from other companies. If you opt-out of interest-based advertisements, you will still see advertisements online, but they may be less relevant to you.
If we share information with the data providers described above, it may also constitute “sales” as defined under the CCPA. Any information shared with third parties is controlled by each data provider and you may need to opt-out from each data provider individually.
The above describes our practices currently and during the 12-month period preceding the date on which this Privacy Policy was last updated.
Your CCPA rights. As a California resident, you have the following rights as of January 1, 2020:
You may submit a request to exercise your right to information, access, or deletion by emailing to support@hydrant.us with “Privacy” in the subject line. We reserve the right to confirm your California residency to process these requests and will need to confirm your identity. Government-issued identification may be required. We will only accept deletion requests through email designated in this subsection. You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf by providing a valid power of attorney or other proof of authority acceptable to us in our reasonable discretion, the requester’s valid government-issued identification, and the authorized agent’s valid government-issued identification. You can submit a request to opt-out of sales of your Personal Information as described above. We cannot process your request if you do not provide us with sufficient information to allow us to understand and respond to it. In certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law.
As a Colorado resident you have the following rights regarding your personal data under the Colorado Privacy Act (the “CPA”) effective as of July 1, 2023:
The CPA grants consumers, or the parents or guardians of children under 13, the right to:
The CPA defines personal data as any "information that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable individual." Based on this definition, personal data may include information such as individual's name, email address, phone number, credit card details, IP address, identification number.
Additionally, “sensitive data”, refers to a distinct category of personal data that is considered confidential. We would need your explicit consent to collect any of the following:
For Colorado residents who wish to exercise their rights under this section, you may contact us at support@hydrant.us.
As a Connecticut resident you have the following rights regarding your personal data under the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (“CTDPA”) effective as of July 1, 2023. The CTDPA provides Connecticut residents with the following rights regarding the personal data:
Connecticut residents may exercise any of their rights under this section by sending an email to support@hydrant.us. We will promptly respond to a consumer's request within 45 days after receiving the request. If reasonably necessary to comply with your request, we may extend this deadline by an additional 45 days upon notice to you stating the reason we need such extension. Note that we may charge a reasonable fee if you make more than one request within a 12-month period or if the request is "manifestly unfounded, excessive, or repetitive."
This section outlines certain rights for Nevada residents. We comply with the requirements as defined under Nevada’s Privacy Law, which provides Nevada residents with choices regarding how we share and collect personal information from you in the course of providing requested services. If you are a Nevada resident, you have the right to submit a verified request to us, directing us not to make any sale of certain Personal Information that we have or will collect about you. The Services does not currently engage in the “sale” (as defined by Nevada law) of personal information.
“Nevada Personal Information” includes personally identifiable information about a Nevada consumer collected online, such as an identifier that allows the specific individual to be contacted. Nevada Personal Information also includes any other information about a Nevada consumer collected online that can be combined with an identifier to identify the specific individual. Unless otherwise stated, the Services does not sell any “Covered Information”, as defined under Chapter 603A of the Nevada Revised Statutes.
For Nevada residents who wish to exercise their rights under this section and/or for information regarding the categories of Nevada Personal Information that we collect, please contact support@hydrant.us. Please indicate that you are a Nevada resident making a “Nevada Opt-Out” request, and include your name, telephone number and the email address used to access our site. We will respond to requests within 60 days and no more than 90 days after a request is submitted.
This section applies solely to Utah residents. It applies to Personal Data we collect as a business; it does not apply to Personal Data we collect or otherwise process as a service provider.
If you are a Utah consumer, as that term is defined under the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (“UCPA”), you may have certain rights. Utah law may permit you to request that we:
Certain information may be exempt from such requests under applicable law. We need certain types of information so that we can provide the Services to you. If you ask us to delete it, you may no longer be able to access or use the Services.
You may also exercise your Utah consumer rights by emailing us at support@hydrant.us. You will be required to verify your identity before we fulfill your request. To do so, you will need to demonstrate that you have access to the email address used to create your account or provide us with certain account information, such as the full name and email address you used to create your account. You can also designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. To do so, you must provide us with written authorization for the agent to act on your behalf, however, you will still need to verify your identity directly with us. We may use your Personal Data to send you targeted advertising. (as that term is defined in the UCPA). To opt out of targeted advertising, email us at support@hydrant.us.
As a Virginia resident you have the following rights regarding your personal data under the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (the “VCDPA”) effective as of January 1, 2023:
We may collect, use, and disclose your personal data for business purposes. A summary of the categories of personal data collected and the purposes for which it is used can be found below. To exercise any of your rights under VCDPA, please submit an email to support@hydrant.us.
The VCDPA applies to individuals who are Virginia residents, acting in an “individual or household” context, but does not apply to individuals acting in a commercial context (i.e., as a representative of a business) or employment context.
Depending on the specific service or product you use, the categories of Personal Data collected may include:
Additionally, "sensitive data”, a category of personal data, would include the following:
Depending on the specific service or product you use, we may use your personal data for various business purposes, including (a) to provide, manage, support and improve our products and services, (b) to maintain and service your account, (c) to verify you, your account activity and your information, (d) to detect, investigate and report fraud, abuse or illegal use of our products and services or customer accounts, (e) to provide customer service, (f) to provide advertising and marketing to our customers, and (g) to measure our marketing campaigns and to audit consumer interactions.
The Services are not directed to or intended for use by children under 13 years of age. If you are a child under the age of 13, please do not attempt to register for or otherwise use the Services or send us any Personal Information. By accessing, using and/or submitting information to or through the Services, you represent that you are not under the age of 13. If we learn that we have received any Personal Information directly from a child under age 13 without first receiving his or her parent’s verified consent, we will use that Personal Information only to respond directly to that child (or his or her parent or legal guardian) to inform the child that he or she cannot use the Services. We will then subsequently delete that child’s Personal Information. If you believe that a child under 13 may have provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at to support@hydrant.us.
We reserve the right to change, modify, update, add, or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes or updates will be effective immediately upon posting to this page. When we do update it, for your convenience, we will make the updated policy available on this page. If you opt out of receiving communications, you may not receive certain notifications, however, they will still govern your use of the Services, and you are responsible for proactively checking for any changes. We encourage you to check this Privacy Policy frequently to stay up to date on any changes. You can determine if changes have been made by checking the effective date on the Privacy Policy. Continued use of the Services after the effective date of any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute acceptance of such changes and it will signify that you agree to abide by and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.
If you have questions, comments, or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us and we will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe. Please include the following information in your request (a) Your name; (b) Your contact information, including phone number, mailing address, and email address; and (c) the precise nature of your request, inquiry, or complaint.
