Privacy Policy

Effective and last updated: February 24, 2025

This Online Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) explains how Old Chatham Golf Club (“us,” “our,” or “we”) collect, use, and disclose information that we collect from users of websites that we operate and that include a link to this Policy (the “Website”).

We encourage you to please read this Policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Websites. By accessing our Websites, you agree to this Policy. This Policy may change form time to time (see “Changes to this Policy” below). Your continued use of the Websites after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy periodically for updates.

Personal Information Collected

We may collect personal information directly from you and automatically when you use the Website, as further described below.

Information that you submit directly to us.

When you use or access our Website, we may collect personal information directly from you that you choose to provide, such as the following:

  • Personal information and contact information, such as when you request membership information.
  • Account information, including your username and password.
  • Financial Information, such as debit and credit card numbers when you submit a payment using our third-party payment processor.
  • Any other personal information you provide when you contact us through the Websites.

Information that we collect automatically.

We may also collect certain other information automatically when you visit our Website, such as the following:

  • Browser and Device Information: Certain information may be automatically collected by most browsers or devices, such as information about user devices (such as IP addresses and MAC addresses), operating system type and version, and browser type and version.
  • Search Engine and Other Referrals: When a third party refers you to our Websites, such as through your clicking on a link to our page from a Google search, we may receive some information about your device and your interaction with the referring site or content.
  • Information Collected through Cookies, Web Beacons, and Other Similar Technologies: We and other third parties with whom we work may also use available web-based technologies to collect information about your use of our Website, such as cookies or web beacons. A “cookie” is a unique numeric code that is transferred to your device to track your interests and preferences and to recognize you as a return visitor. A “web beacon” is a transparent graphic image placed on a website, email, or advertisement that enables the monitoring of things such as user activity and site traffic. We use these and other similar technologies to collect information such as browser type, transactions and interactions, time spent on the online services, pages visited, referring URL, and other traffic and usage data. We may use this information to determine what features interest our users, revise our site features or operations, and as further described below. We and other parties that provide these technologies may also use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services. For more information, see the “Your Choices” section below.
  • Information Collected in Connection with Analytics Technology: We may use various technologies to learn more about how visitors use our Website, such as Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyze how visitors use our Website. The information generated by the cookies about your use of our Website includes your IP address. If you so choose, you may be able to opt out by turning off cookies in the preferences settings in your browser. For more information on Google Analytics, including how Google Analytics collects, uses, and discloses information, refer to the following page: www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ . We may also use other technologies to monitor your activities on our Website.
  • Location Information: The information collected automatically through the Websites may include data that indicates your approximate geographic location, such as your IP address.

How We Use the Information We Collect

We may use, disclose, transmit, transfer, store, and otherwise process your personal information for various purposes, including:

  • Communicating with you, including by responding to your inquiries, fulfilling your requests, and promoting the Website and our other products, services, and offerings;
  • maintaining your account, including processing your payments;
  • operating, developing, and improving the Website;
  • performing our obligations under our agreements with clients, including billing and collections;
  • providing support for your use of the Website;
  • communicating with and providing information to contractors, service providers, vendors, and other third parties we used to support our organization and our Website;
  • analyzing usage trends and measure the effectiveness of the Website;
  • complying with legal or regulatory requirements, judicial process, and our company policies (including due diligence and contracting activities);
  • securing the Website, including protecting against and responding to fraud, illegal activity (such as incidents of hacking or misuse of the Website), and claims and other liabilities, including by enforcing our Terms of Use;
  • evaluating or conducting a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our business, assets or stock; and
  • for any other purpose that you may authorize or direct at the time we collect your information.

Parties to Which We May Disclose Personal Information

To accomplish the purposes set out in “Purposes for Processing Personal Information” above, we may disclose your information to third parties that may include:

  • our subsidiaries and affiliates;
  • contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our organization, including providers of technologies and services that we use to automatically collect or otherwise process device, usage, and other data from you;
  • an actual or potential investor, buyer, successor, or other person or organization in the event of an actual or potential merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our business, assets or stock, including as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding;
  • third parties when to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request, and to enforce or apply our policies and other agreements;
  • third parties to improve our Website, our operations, other products, services, and offerings, and our organization; and
  • any other parties disclosed by us or authorized or directed by you when you provide the information.

Your Choices

You may choose not to provide the personal information we request. However, not providing information we request may restrict your ability to use certain features on our Website. You may be able to restrict the collection of personal information or functionality through your device’s operating system or by disabling cookies but doing so may prevent you from using the functionality of our Website.

Some Internet browsers have a “do-not-track” feature that lets you tell websites that you do not want to have your online activities tracked. Currently, our website does not respond to browser “do-not-track” signals. Other parties may collect personal information about your online activities over time and across different websites, applications, and other online products or services when you use our Website.

Third Party Links

Our Website may include links to websites, applications, information, and services provided by third parties. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of those third parties. We encourage you to review the applicable privacy policies of such third parties if you elect to follow the links provided.

Changes to this Policy

We may update this Policy to reflect changes in our privacy practices at any time and without prior notice to you. When we do so, we will update the effective and last updated date above. We encourage you to periodically review this Policy for the latest information on our privacy practices.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions or comments about this Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at: [email protected]