Golfing Elite is a division of The Executive Club International, incorporated in 1979, and one the Collinson Group of companies. You can contact us By post: Golfing Elite, 520 Fulham Road, London, SW6 5NJ, United Kingdom By telephone: UK (44) London (20) 8256 0333 By fax: UK (44) London (20) 8253 5111 By email: info@golfingelite.com Hours of Operation 08.00 - 20.00 hrs Mon - Fri 09.00 - 17.00 hrs Sat Golfing Elite understand and respect our members' desire for privacy and we extend that courtesy to all visitors to our website. To that end, we are disclosing here any issues relating to privacy in the collection by Golfing Elite of personally identifiable information from visitors to our website. We have adopted a set of guidelines that have been developed to comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003. We review our guidelines regularly to respond to advice by the Information Commissioner. If our information practices change we will amend our policy accordingly and new guidelines will be posted on this website without notification. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our web site periodically. For information on the Data Protection Act 1998, the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 or the Information Commissioner, please visit . Summary Our web server does not automatically recognize any information regarding the domain or e-mail address of visitors to our website. Our web server logs IP addresses (the location of your computer on the Internet) for system's administration and troubleshooting purposes. Where we use an IP address to track a user's session we do not link the IP address to any personally identifiable information. What personally identifiable information do we collect about you through golfingelite.com? Visitors to our website who wish to join Golfing Elite may do so by registering online. For this purpose we require and collect a user's name, email address, country of residence, postal address, telephone number, date of birth, golf handicap, name of home club, credit card details and billing address. Other than during the application to join process, we may collect email address information when a user communicates with us via email or when the user volunteers this information, such as in a request for more information. What do we do with the information we collect? We mail the membership kit to the address that was submitted as part of the application to join. We also mail membership information and special offers to this address during the course of membership. We may email Golfing Elite information and special offers from other companies within the Collinson Group to the email address supplied. Users who do not wish to receive emails from us can choose to opt-out by emailing us at info@golfingelite.com. The user will be required to provide us with full details and we will ensure they do not receive further emails from us at that email address. With whom do we share the information we collect? We do not sell, trade or rent a user's personal information to others unless we have received a user's permission, such as on the application to join. We will only share a user's personal information with carefully chosen, reputable and trustworthy companies and organisations. A user can choose to be placed on our "do not share" list at any time by emailing us, telephoning us or writing to us at the address above. The user will be required to provide us with full details and we will be sure their name is removed from the list we share with other organisations. Our policy is never to disclose a user's email address outside the Collinson Group. How does golfingelite.com use cookies? A cookie is a small text file that is stored by the Internet browser on the computer's hard drive. We use cookies to track users as they travel through and return to the site - for instance a user who has been referred to golfingelite.com by an affiliate website will be identified as having first arrived via this source site. Cookies also make it possible to identify members returning to golfingelite.com and ensure that it is more convenient to login to the members-only section of the website. Certain firewalls may prohibit the use of cookies and this may affect a user's enjoyment of golfingelite.com. For more information about cookies please visit . With respect to security We use industry-standard encryption technologies to transfer and receive sensitive information. These pages, including the application form are held on a server, secured by a VeriSign SSL certificate. We also have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site. Accessing your data Upon request we provide site visitors with access to all information that we hold about them, including financial information (e.g. payment card information) unique identifier information (e.g. membership number or password) transaction information (e.g. dates on which customers made purchases, amounts and types of purchases) communications that the consumer/visitor has directed to our site (e.g. emails, customer inquiries, etc.) and contact information (e.g. name, address, phone number, etc.). To make such a request, a user must first contact us by email, telephone or post (at the address above). Third party websites We are not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of websites that link to or are linked from golfingelite.com |