Thank you for visiting World Golf Tour’s ("World Golf Tour") Internet web site ("Site") located at the URL http://wgt.com. This Privacy Policy details certain policies implemented throughout World Golf Tour governing World Golf Tour's use of personally identifiable information about users of our Site and our services provided via this Site and through your use of World Golf Tour’s services.

Privacy Policy Updates

Due to the Internet's rapidly evolving nature, World Golf Tour may need to update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If so, World Golf Tour will post its updated Privacy Policy on our Site located at http://wgt.com so you are always aware of what personally identifiable information we may collect and how we may use this information. World Golf Tour encourages you to review this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes. Your continued use of this Site and/or continued provision of personally identifiable information to us will be subject to the terms of the then-current Privacy Policy.

Information Collection and Use

You can generally visit our Site without revealing any personally identifiable information about yourself. However, in certain sections of this Site, we may invite you to register to use our services and enter a contest, contact us with questions or comments and request information. Due to the nature of some of these activities, we may collect personally identifiable information including your contact information such as your email address, username, password, player name, zip code, country, age and gender. We may use your personally identifiable information to contact you to provide you with the services for which you have registered, enter you in contests for which you have registered, for internal marketing purposes and to improve our products and services. If you use World Golf Tour’s “tell a friend” or “send replay” features, we may ask you to submit your friend’s email address and we will only use such email address to send the requested information or replay.

When you register with World Golf Tour, you create a public profile. The information you place into your public profile, such as your nickname and avatar, are displayed publicly on the Site to enable you to connect with people on World Golf Tour. Your public profile information is used by World Golf Tour to help make the functionality of the Site available to you. Your profile information will be available in search results across the Site-. This is primarily so your friends can find you and send a friend request through the Site. In some cases (e.g., posting to your wall), other World Golf Tour users may be able to supplement your profile. World Golf Tour does not disclose your birth date or email address.

When you use World Golf Tour, you may also disclose your personally identifiable information when you form relationships, send messages, perform searches and queries, form teams, set up events, and otherwise transmit information through various channels. This information is generally retained by us so that you can connote to have the use of the information when you use the functionality of the Site, for instance, you can return to view prior messages you have sent or easily see your friend list.

You post User Content (as defined in the World Golf Tour Terms & Conditions) on the Site at your own risk. We cannot control the actions of other users, and we are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other users have copied or stored your Content. If you have won a contest, we will collect your first and last name, address, shipping address, tax identification number, date of birth, and identity verification. We will use such information to complete the prize fulfillment and comply with tax regulations.

Children's Privacy

World Golf Tour recognizes the privacy interests of children and we encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children's online activities and interests. This Site is not intended for children under the age of 18. World Golf Tour does not target its services or this Site to children under 18. World Golf Tour does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 18.

Aggregate Information

The Site may track the total number of visitors to our Site, the number of visitors to each page of our Site, pages visited per use, browser type, IP addresses, exit page, duration of use, operating system type, and we may analyze this data for trends and statistics in the aggregate, but such information will be maintained, used and disclosed in aggregate form only and it will not contain personally identifiable information.  We may use such aggregate information to analyze trends, administer the Site, track users' movement, and gather broad demographic information for use and disclosure in aggregate form.

Cookies

We may use small text files called cookies to improve overall Site experience. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. Cookies generally do not permit us to personally identify you.

Disclosure and Opt-In

If you are a contest winner, we may provide your name to other users of our Site if they request a list of winners of a contest. We may disclose your personally identifiable information to our third party service providers that assist us in providing services to you (such as our third party co-location provider, contest administrator, or payment processor). The service providers will be obligated to use your personally identifiable information only to provide the services to us. When legally required or at World Golf Tour’s discretion, World Golf Tour will cooperate with law enforcement agencies in any investigation of suspicious or alleged illegal activity on this Site or on the Internet. We will not sell your personally identifiable information to any company or organization except we may transfer your personally identifiable information to a successor entity upon a merger, consolidation or other corporate reorganization in which World Golf Tour participates or to a purchaser of all or substantially all of World Golf Tour's assets to which this Site relates.

We may offer contests or provide services jointly with other companies on World Golf Tour. You can tell when another company is involved in any contest or service provided on World Golf Tour, and only if you have expressly agreed to allow us to provide your personally identifiable information to our contest sponsors by clicking on the "Opt-In" button and opting-in, we may share customer info for their marketing use. If you do not want your information shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer of information to such third party contest sponsors by not opting-in and not providing any information. Their use of your personally identifiable information will be subject to their privacy policies and terms of use and they may contact you with marketing messages. Please be aware that we cannot control the activities of third parties to whom we provide your personally identifiable information and as such, as cannot guarantee that they adhere to the same privacy and security procedures as World Golf Tour. If you sign up to participate in a challenge or tournament that is a benefit for a charity and you pay an entry fee in the form of a donation to that charity, we will provide your personal contact information to the charity so that they may communicate with you regarding the tax deductibility of the donation and generally about the activities of the charity. Those communications will be subject to the privacy policy of the relevant charity.

World Golf Tour may display targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click targeted ads meet the targeting criteria-for example, people aged 30-50 from a particular geographic area. World Golf Tour does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted advertisement. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the advertisement.

Security

We may employ procedural and technological security measures that are reasonably designed to help protect your personally identifiable information from loss, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. World Golf Tour may use password protection, encryption and other security measures to help prevent unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information.

Questions

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy please contact us via email at: members@worldgolftour.com.

Our computer systems are currently based in the United States, so your personal data will be processed by us in the U.S. where data protection and privacy regulations may not offer the same level of protection as in other parts of the world, such as the European Union. If you create a user account with the Site as a visitor from outside the United States, by using the Site you agree to this Privacy Policy and you consent to the transfer of all such information to the United States, which may not offer an equivalent level of protection of that required in the European Union or certain other countries, and to the processing of that information as described in this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy was last updated: May 20, 2008

This Privacy Policy is effective as of: May 20, 2008