Privacy Policy
Heavy Putter, LLC
Effective 3/15/06
Thank you for visiting the Privacy Policy page of Heavy Putter, LLC. Heavy Putter, LLC values your
right of privacy, and wants you to feel comfortable and secure using any of our websites at
www.heavyputter.com,
www.boccierigolf.com, and all other Heavy Putter websites. This page describes our policy with regard to online
privacy and explains how you can opt out of certain uses and disclosures of your personal information. As a
courtesy, this page also provides a number of useful links to third party information regarding privacy protection.
However, Heavy Putter does not assume any responsibility for the accuracy and/or completeness of such third party information.
Your Acceptance
By visiting, using, and/or registering on any of the Heavy Putter Websites, you signify your agreement
to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. If you do not so agree, you should not use the Heavy
Putter Websites. Should we make any substantial changes in the way we collect and/or use any personal
information we will amend this Privacy Policy, or we may email you if you have not opted out of email notifications.
Heavy Putter Websites
This Privacy Policy applies only to the Heavy Putter Websites. Links within these sites could direct you to
third party websites that are not owned or controlled by Heavy Putter. Heavy Putter has no control over, and
assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party websites,
which may employ cookies and/or collect personal information. In addition, Heavy Putter will not and cannot
censor or edit the content of any third party site. We encourage you to be aware when you leave the Heavy Putter
Websites, and to read the privacy policy of each website that you visit.
Heavy Putter affiliates may have their own privacy policy governing websites other than the above Heavy Putter Websites.
What Type of Personal Information Do We Collect and Use?
Whenever you register a Heavy Putter product, send us an email, purchase products from a Heavy Putter Website,
register on one of the Heavy Putter Websites, enter to win a contest, subscribe to one of our newsletters,
or otherwise transmit information via any of the Heavy Putter Websites, Heavy Putter may obtain and collect
personally identifiable contact information (expressed herein generally as "personal information") such as your name,
email address, payment information (i.e. credit card number/expiration date), and/or mailing address, subject to
your ability to "opt-out" of our future use or disclosure of such information.
Personal Information Maintenance & Opt-Out
If you wish to opt-out of our use and/or disclosure of your personal information, other than as expressly covered
in this Privacy Policy and/or to process any purchase orders, you will generally have the option to do so when you
first submit your personal information via the Heavy Putter Websites. Simply indicate your desire to opt-out by
checking or un-checking the appropriate box. If you wish to amend or delete any personal information you have
previously provided without opt-out, please send us a message at sales@heavyputter.com.
We will endeavor to provide a simple way to review, correct, update or remove personal information you have given us.
If you wish to stop receiving a Heavy Putter newsletter that you have previously subscribed for, please follow the
"unsubscribe" instructions contained at the bottom of each newsletter.
How Do We Use Personal Information?
Heavy Putter will never disclose your email address to third parties for use in connection with any email marketing
campaign of a third party or business partner (excluding Heavy Putter subsidiary companies).
Heavy Putter may always use personal information in the following ways:
- to enable us to respond to you generally, or to process, validate and verify requests and/or purchase orders
- to perform any services requested by you
- to compile and/or distribute aggregate - never individual - information about our website users and aggregate usage patterns
- to provide our own website designers with useful information for developing new features and services that meet your needs
- to tailor your experience on our websites, showing you content we think might interest you or altering the content
according to your personal preferences
- as part of an online employment application to evaluate your qualifications only
Heavy Putter will not disclose your email address for use in connection with a third party's marketing efforts.
If you have not "opted-out" of our use and disclosure of your personal information, Heavy Putter may also use
personal information for all marketing and survey purposes on behalf of itself and its affiliates and subsidiaries.
Heavy Putter may appoint third party agents in connection with such marketing and survey efforts. Heavy Putter may
disclose personal information to select business partners for use in connection with direct mail marketing efforts,
but that personal information will not include your email address.
If you have "opted-out", Heavy Putter will use or disclose your personal information only as stated above,
or: (1) when legally ordered to do so by a lawful subpoena or court order, (2) if you violate or breach an
agreement with Heavy Putter, (3) if we believe you will harm the property or rights of Heavy Putter or those
of Heavy Putter's other customers, (4) under exigent circumstances to protect the physical safety of Heavy Putter,
its employees, users or the general public, or (5) to validate credit card numbers for charging for fee services.
Aggregate Information
Heavy Putter may share aggregate statistical information with business partners, sponsors or other third parties,
but none of them receive individual identifying information about you. For example, we may tell an advertiser that
X number of visitors visited a certain area on a website, or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out
registration forms, but we would not disclose anything that uniquely identifies those individuals.
Unsolicited Emails Received by You
Heavy Putter does not send unsolicited bulk emails to anyone who has requested that we do not contact them. We
send our newsletters only to those who have taken affirmative steps to subscribe. If you have inadvertently received
one of our newsletters, or if you simply wish to stop receiving them, please follow the "unsubscribe" instructions
contained in each newsletter or send a request to be unsubscribed to sales@heavyputter.com.
Chat Rooms and Forums
The Heavy Putter Websites may now or in the future include chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups. Any
information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information. You should exercise caution before disclosing
your personal information via these public venues, which you do at your own risk. If you do so, you may receive
unsolicited emails or "spam" from others. Heavy Putter cannot safeguard the privacy of personal information that is
disclosed online in this manner.
Our Cookies
Your browser software includes a feature called "cookies." If enabled, cookies may store small amounts of data on your
computer about your visit to any of the Heavy Putter Websites. However, cookies tell us nothing about you personally
unless you specifically give us additional information. Cookies assist us in tracking which of our features you like
best and what content you may have viewed during past visits. When you re-visit the Heavy Putter Websites, cookies can
enable us to customize our content according to your preferences. We may use cookies to:
- keep count of return visits to the Heavy Putter Websites
- accumulate and report anonymous, aggregate, statistical information
on website usage
- deliver content specific to your interests or past viewing history
- save your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our websites.
You can also disable cookies. By modifying your browser preferences, you can accept or reject all cookies, or request
a notification when a cookie is set.
IP Addresses
Heavy Putter does not store or record the Internet Protocol ("IP") addresses of visitors to the Website for marketing
purposes, although we may store IP addresses in server logs for system maintenance purposes or to store the source
location whenever someone provides Personal Information. An IP address is a number assigned to your computer whenever
you access the Internet. An Internet Service Providers ("ISP") typically assigns a random IP addresses at the time of
your dial-up. For local area network ("LAN"), DSL, or cable modem users, an IP address may be permanently assigned to
a particular computer. We cannot determine your identity solely based upon your IP address. Your IP address can, however,
reveal what geographic area you are connecting from, or which ISP you are using. Finally, other websites you visit have
IP addresses, and we may collect the IP addresses of those websites and their pages, but these IP addresses are never
associated with Internet users.
Web Beacons
The Heavy Putter Websites contain electronic images (called a "single-pixel gif" or "web beacon") that allow us to count
page views or to access cookies. In general, any electronic image viewed as part of a web page, including an ad banner,
can act as a web beacon. Web beacons are small in order not to use valuable space on the computer screen that is better
used to display helpful content. We may also include web beacons in HTML-formatted newsletters containing graphics that
we send to opt-in subscribers, so we may count the number of newsletters that have been opened and read. Our web beacons
do not collect, gather, monitor, or share any personal information about our anonymous website visitors. However, if you
have registered on one of the Heavy Putter Websites, we may use the web beacon and cookies to monitor your online behavior
and interests on the Heavy Putter Websites.
Computer Profiles
Heavy Putter may also collect and accumulate other anonymous data that helps us understand and analyze the Internet
experience of our visitors. For example, we may accumulate visitor data relating to referring domain names, the type
of browsers used, operating system software, screen resolutions, color capabilities, browser plug-ins, language settings,
cookie preferences, search engine keywords and JavaScript enablement. If you do not register on one of the Heavy Putter
Websites, none of this information is personally identifiable.
Security
The Heavy Putter Websites use physical, electronic and managerial security measures to protect the loss, misuse and
alteration of information under our control.
- We use Secure Socket Layer ("SSL") connections with 256-bit encryption for certain transactions and confidential data.
When you use a secure browser, all information you submit comes to us over the Internet in an encrypted form. Every secure
page uses a digital certificate issued by a third-party certification authority. A "site certificate" sits on all secure
pages. To view this certificate, click on the image of the closed lock or the solid key on the bottom bar of your browser window.
- We monitor system and application activity logs to identify any unusual activity from authorized and/or unauthorized
individuals accessing our systems and/or making changes to stored information. We regularly perform preventative system
maintenance and monitoring to ensure the security of our data systems.
- We maintain our servers in locked facilities with secure access. Backup tapes are retrieved daily and stored by an
independent company in a secure, off-site location.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a
result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information
you transmit, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its
security on our systems. You can report network abuse and any risk of security violations to us by emailing
sales@heavyputter.com.
Children's Online Privacy Protection
The Heavy Putter Websites comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, which protects the privacy
of children using the Internet. Heavy Putter does not knowingly collect contact or personal information from children under
13. The Heavy Putter Websites are not intended to solicit information of any kind from children under 13, and are designed
to block our knowing acceptance of any such information. It is possible that by fraud or deception we may receive information
pertaining to children under 13. If we are notified of this, as soon as we verify the information, we will immediately obtain
parental consent or otherwise delete the information from our servers. If you want to notify us of our receipt of information
by children under 13, please do so by emailing us at sales@heavyputter.com.
Contact Information
If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at
sales@heavyputter.com, or at the following address:
Heavy Putter, LLC
Attn: Customer Service Department
679 Danbury Road, Ridgefield, CT 06877 USA
888-PUTTER-4 in the USA and Canada
+1 203-403-4100 outside the USA and Canada
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