Privacy Policy

You should carefully read the following terms and conditions before using trackthisball.com. Your use of trackthisball.com indicates your acceptance of these terms. Do not use trackthisball.com if you do not agree with the terms. Trackthisball may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will notify all our members by email so that you are always aware of the information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.

Trackthisball respects and is committed to protecting the privacy of the individuals that use the trackthisball.com site. By registering and using our services, you share some of your personal information with us. Individually identifiable information about you is not willfully disclosed to any third party without first receiving your permission, as explained in this privacy policy.

User Profiles

User profiles on trackthisball.com are viewable by the public. If you register and set up a personal user profile, trackthisball will not be responsible for any information you specifically and knowingly provide on your public user profile

Golf Ball Location

The goal of Trackthisball is to connect golfers together via tracking lost golf balls. Thus, it is central to our service to share the location of found golf balls

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that a website can save on your device to identify you as a unique member and enable the site to remember your actions and preferences over a period of time. Trackthisball uses cookies for your convenience and to improve the quality of our service so that you don’t have to keep re-entering information such as login and other configuration preferences whenever you revisit the site. Trackthisball does not collect, sell or distribute any personally identifiable information with the cookie. Trackthisball does not disclose its cookies to third parties. If you refuse cookies, some parts of Trackthisball may not function properly.

Data

Trackthisball may use technologies like cookies, web beacons, or unique device identifiers to anonymously identify your computer or device so we can deliver a better experience. Our systems also log information like your browser, operating system and IP address.

Children under the age of 13

Under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, no web site operator can require, as a condition of participation in an activity, that a child under the age of 13 disclose more information than is reasonably necessary. Trackthisball does not knowingly contact or collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe we have inadvertently collected such information, please contact us so we can promptly obtain parental consent or remove the information.

Location

To customize our service for you, we may collect and store your geographic location as part of your user record. This data is not shared with others.

Data Sharing

Trackthisball respects your total and complete privacy. We do not share personally identifiable information (such as name, email, or location) with other companies.  We may share non-identifiable data to academic or non-profit entities in order to conduct research on human mobility.

Security

We take the security of personal information very seriously and do our best to safeguard it. Keeping in mind the industry best practices and the technical knowledge available, we use technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information, both during transmission and after it is received, against destruction, accidental or unlawful loss, accidental alteration, disclosure or unauthorized access, within a level of security appropriate to the nature of the information being protected. However, Trackthisball cannot guarantee the total security of the information of its users' accounts against all possible situations of unauthorized access, hardware or software failures and other factors that may compromise the security of the information.