Private Club Links

About Private Club Links and the Information We Collect

Private Club Links (“PCL”) is an online service designed to provide a secure and easy way for private club members to meet each other on the Web. To accomplish this, our members create their own unique profiles and our matching technology provides them matches upon their request. In order to do this, we must ask for certain personal information. None of the information we gather can be used by the public (visitors, other members, or anyone not employed by PCL or the financial institutions used to process membership charges) to identify specific individuals. We are a membership-based service. We collect credit card, address, or bank information only from those who choose to join. All visitors to our site may browse the site, search the ads and view any articles or features our site has to offer without entering any personal information.

Information Collected/Tracked by Private Club Links
To accomplish our goal of bringing private club members together, we must gather personal information which may include: name, gender, age, occupation, private club affiliations and geographic location plus details specific to the member’s club and interests, such as golf handicap, tennis rating, etc. This information is meant to be seen by members with whom another member has requested an exchange. Additionally, PCL gathers other information, which includes, but is not limited to: email address, first name, last name, birthdates, credit card number or checking account information for payment, a user-specified password, mailing address, zip code and telephone number.

Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, and age).

Private Club Links Strategic Alliances and Corporate Partners
The Strategic Alliance program is a vehicle for other appropriate business services or product manufacturers to link to the PCL site. No personal member information is exchanged with the Strategic Allies or Partners.

Information not Directly Submitted by Members of Private Club Links Aggregate
This is information we collect that is not personally identifiable, such as browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all users to the site.

Use of Information Obtained by Private Club Links Information users submit to PCL
We primarily use documented private club information to verify membership eligibility. Also, member profiles are shared with other members when exchange requests are sent. We may also use a user’s email address to send news regarding our site, but the user may choose not to receive email of this type by contacting us. Email addresses may also be used in private correspondence with the user for customer service issues. Financial information that is collected is used to invoice the user for products and services. All other private information submitted by the user is confidential and will not be disclosed except as agreed in member profiles, as required by law or to protect members of PCL. All private information can be updated or deleted by the user at any time.
Surveys & Contests: Contact and other information collected for contests will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information collected will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.
PCL’s Strategic Alliances: Information submitted by Strategic Allies is used for establishing and maintaining a business relationship. No personal or business information is shared outside the relationship between PCL and the Strategic Allies. Strategic Allies may not view or access information on PCL subscribers.

Information that users do not submit to us.
Aggregate: We use your server, IP address, and browser-type related information in the general administration of our website.
Sharing of the Information this Site Gathers/Tracks: Except where you are expressly informed otherwise or as described immediately below, we do not sell, rent, share, trade or give away any of your personal information except to the financial institution that processes your credit card or check transaction unless required by law or for the protection of your membership.

Links
This site contains links to other websites. Please be aware that PCL is not responsible for the privacy practices of other Web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.

Use of Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply terminates. For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If a user rejects a cookie, they may still use our site. The only drawback to this is that the user will be limited in some areas on our site. We occasionally use cookies to anonymously track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site or for advertising tracking purposes. In addition, cookies may be used on our site to allow enhanced capabilities such as chat. We do not and will not use cookies to collect private information from any user!

Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.

Correcting/Updating or Removing Information
PCL gives users several options for modifying or removing their information from our database please visit the My Profile page or contact us.

Changes in Our Privacy Policy
If we change our privacy policy, we will prominently post a link to those changes on our Homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner, and we will then use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

Security
PCL takes every precaution to protect our users’ information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line.

When our registration/order process asks users to enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user information off-line. All of our users’ information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example a billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information.
If you have any questions about the security at our website, please contact us.

Email Choice/Opt-out
Our users are given the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having information used for purposes not directly related to our site at the point where we ask for the information.

Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, please contact us at privacy@pclmail.com.