Privacy Policy

The Golf Club at Briar�s Creek Website Privacy Policy

Last Updated: September 10, 2024

Introduction

Welcome to the website of the Golf Club at Briar's Creek (�Golf Club� �we,� �us� and/or �our�). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy explains our online privacy practices regarding the collection, use, protection and disclosure of your personal information. We encourage you to read this entire Privacy Policy before using or submitting any personal information through the Golf Club�s website or mobile application.

This policy applies to personal information collected:

On the Golf Club�s website, www.briarscreek.com.
Through the Golf Club�s mobile application.
In email, text message, and other electronic messages between you and the Golf Club.

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 the Golf Club offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by the Golf Club or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries).

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your personal information. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you should not use or access our website or mobile application. By accessing or using the Golf Club�s website and/or mobile application, you agree to this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Please check the Privacy Periodically for Updates. Your continued use of the Golf Club�s website or mobile application after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes.

Links to Other Sites

This website may contain links to other websites that may offer information of interest to you. Please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to the privacy practices of those linked websites. Any personal information you choose to provide on those linked websites will be governed by the privacy policies of those websites. Before using the linked websites, please review their privacy policies to understand how they collect, use and protect your personal information.

Use by Minors

The Golf Club�s website and mobile application are not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on the website. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this website or through any of its features, register on the website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this website, or provide any information about yourself to us, without the Primary Member (who is a parent) first providing express consent through the Golf Club Membership Agreement. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of Primary Member/parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13 without such consent, please contact Membership Services.

Information We Collect and How We Use It

Summary

The Golf Club�s website and mobile application may collect personal information, which is information that either directly identifies you or could reasonably be used in combination with other information to identify you. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, personal information also includes personal information as defined by federal, state, and international law. Examples of personal information that directly identifies you includes your name, mailing address, phone number, email address, date of birth, and other information in combination with such identifiers. This website may also collect personal information that does not directly identify you by name or contact information, but which may be used to identify that a specific computer or device has accessed our website.

Personal Information You Provide Us

The Golf Club�s website may allow you to submit personal information for various reasons, such as to access content or features, register for events, or to contact us with your questions or requests. We may ask you to provide certain personal information depending on the type of activity or communication in which you are engaged. Such personal information may include:

Your Contact Information. We collect this information to be able to communicate with you. This information may include your name, mailing address, telephone number, email address, age, and other information you provide on our website. Where we solicit this information, we will explain how the information you provide is to be used and ask for your consent to such uses.
Your Interests and Preferences. This information helps us understand your interest in the Golf Club�s activities and services so that we can best serve you. This information may include your contact preferences, interests, marketing preferences and demographic data. In some cases, we collect this information pursuant to your consent. In other cases, we collect this information automatically, for our legitimate business interests.
Your Transaction History. This information helps us fulfill services you request and respond to your inquiries. It also helps us to understand your interests and preferences. This information includes how you interact with us and use our website, purchase and correspondence history, and member account information. Where you have purchased a product or service from us, we use this information to perform our agreement with you. In other cases, we collect this information automatically, for our legitimate business interests.

Please do not send or disclose to us any sensitive personal information through or using our website, social media, email, physical mail, telephone conversations or any other form of communication with us unless we specifically ask for it. Examples of sensitive personal information include Social Security numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or philosophical beliefs, health, sex life or sexual orientation, criminal background, or trade union membership, or biometric or genetic data for the purpose of uniquely identifying an individual.

Automatically Collected Information

When you use or interact with the Golf Club�s website, the following information is automatically collected in our systems. We use this information to ensure the security and operation of our website, and for internal analytics and reporting purposes.

Log Data: This includes information automatically collected when you sign into your Golf Club account or access our website using your personal credentials for your Golf Club account. This also includes information that your browser automatically sends whenever you visit the Golf Club�s website. Log data includes your Internet Protocol (IP) address (so we understand which country you are connecting from when you visit the website), domain and host from which you accessed the internet, browser type, operating system, and settings, the date and time of your access, and how you interacted with the website.
Cookies: Information from cookies stored on your device. Please see the �Cookies� section below to learn more about how we use cookies and other technologies.
Device Information: Includes type of device you are using, operating system, settings, unique device identifiers, network information and other device-specific information. Information collected may depend on the type of device you use and its settings.
Usage Information: Information about how you use the Golf Club�s website, such as the types of content that you view or engage with, the features you use, the actions you take, the other users you interact with and the time, frequency and duration of your activities.
Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Golf Club, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

In order to collect this information, the Golf Club�s website uses various collection and analytics tools. Below is a list of the tools used currently or may be potentially used in the future by purpose.

Advertising, Direct Marketing, and Lead Generation. HubSpot CRM and HubSpot Lead Management.
Website Tracking � Web and Mobile Analytics. Google Analytics, Google Analytics for Firebase, Hubspot Analytics, Facebook Analytics, and Google Ads.
Tracking Technologies. Cookies, Beacons, and Google Maps APIs.
Content Optimization. Fonts.com, Adobe Web Fonts, Google Fonts, Font Awesome, MyFonts, Typekit, Gravatar, Google Calendar widget, YouTube Video embed, Vimeo Video, Facebook embed, Twitter (X) embed, Instagram embed, Pinterest embed, and Wufoo Form embed.
Functionality and Infrastructure Optimization. Firebase.
Remarketing Platforms. Google Ads Remarketing and Facebook Remarketing.
Social Media Sharing and Advertising. Facebook advertising, Facebook social plugins, Twitter social plugins, Shareaholic, Instagram advertising.

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications on the Golf Club�s website are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. 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.

Third Party Sources

We may collect personal information about you from third party sources with which you interact to add to the information that you provide, or which is automatically collected by the website, as explained above. This supplemental information allows us to enhance our ability to provide you with content that better meets your interests.

How We Use Your Personal Information

We may use your Personal Data as necessary for certain legitimate business interests, including our analysis of past membership experience and utilization to inform future Golf Club requirements.

Disclosure of Your Information

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 our subsidiaries and affiliates.
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
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 and conditions and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Golf Club, our members, or others.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. 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 our website may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Golf Club�s website and visiting your account profile page.

You may also send an email to Membership Services to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We may not be able to delete all of your personal information without deleting your online membership 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.

Your State Privacy Rights

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 send an email to Membership Services and include details about your request including your name, email address on file, your state of residence, and which rights you are exercising. To appeal a decision regarding a Member rights request, please reply to our email communication regarding the request you wish to appeal and explain the reasons for your appeal.

Data Retention

We will keep your personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to (1) pursue legitimate business purposes, (2) while we have a contractual or business relationship with you, (3) to resolve disputes or establish legal defenses, (4) conduct audits, (5) enforce our agreements, and (6) as required by law (e.g. for regulatory reporting, legal, tax, accounting or other purposes), whichever period is the longer. To determine the appropriate retention period for your personal information, we will consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information collected, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we collected or use your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and applicable legal requirements.

Security

It is Golf Club�s objective to maintain reasonable organizational, technical, and administrative measures designed to protect personal information under our control. However, no data transmission over the Internet or data storage system can be guaranteed to be totally secure. If you have concerns about the security of your personal information, please contact Membership Services.

Cookies

The Golf Club�s website uses cookies to operate and administer our website and to make it easier for you to use the website during future visits.

What are Cookies?

A �cookie� is a small data file sent to your browser by a website you visit and subsequently stored on your browser. Cookies help to make your experience on our website easier. For example, if you register or log in, cookies will remember your username to make future log in easier. They can also remember your customized user preferences so that you receive information on our website in ways that you like. Cookies also help us better understand how many visitors use our website and what pages they are visiting (known as �traffic data�), to help us improve our website.

Some cookies expire after a certain amount of time or upon logging out (session cookies); others remain on your computer or terminal device for a longer period (persistent cookies). Our website uses first party cookies (cookies set directly by the Golf Club) as well as third party cookies (set by others), as described below.

By choosing to use our website after having been notified of our use of cookies in the ways described in this Privacy Policy, and, in applicable jurisdictions, through notice and acknowledgement of your consent, you agree to such use.

The website uses the technologies described below.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

We use cookies that are strictly necessary to provide users with access to the website and to use some of their features, such as the ability to log-in and access to secure areas. Without these cookies, basic functions of our website would not work. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, users cannot opt out of their deposit.

We also use a cookie to record when a user has agreed to the cookie consent banner.

Optional Cookies

We use �analytics� cookies that allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example by making sure users are finding what they need easily. These cookies provide us only with anonymous traffic data (like number of page views, number of visitors, and time spent on each page). These cookies may also allow us to track how often posts on third party websites, such as social media sites, are clicked on.

Your Choices

On most web browsers, you will find a �help� section on the toolbar. Please refer to this section for information on how to receive a notification when you are receiving a new cookie and how to turn cookies off. Please see the links below for guidance on how to modify your web browser�s settings on the most popular browsers:

Please note that if you limit the ability of websites to set cookies, you may be unable to access certain parts of the website and you may not be able to benefit from the full functionality of the website.

If you access the website on your mobile device, you may not be able to control tracking technologies through the settings.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

The website and our business may change from time to time. As a result, we may change this Privacy Policy at any time and when we do, we will post an updated version on this page and change the �Effective Date� date above, unless another type of notice is required by the applicable law. You should consult this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes. By continuing to use the website or providing us with information after we have posted an updated Privacy Policy, or notified you if applicable, you consent to the revised Privacy Policy and practices described in it.

Transfer of Personal Data � International Users

The Golf Club at Briar�s Creek is based in the United States. If you are accessing our website from the European Union, United Kingdom, Switzerland or other regions with laws governing data collection and use, please note that your personal information will be transmitted to our servers and/or those of our service providers located in the United States as necessary to provide you with the information that you requested, administer our agreement with you, or to respond to your requests as described in this Privacy Policy. The United States may have data protection laws that are different than the laws in effect in the country in which you are located. Where we transfer your personal information out of the EU, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, we will take steps to ensure that your personal information receives an adequate level of protection and your rights continue to be protected.

Contact Us

Please feel free to contact Membership Services if you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or the information practices on our website.