Privacy Policy

Effective Date: July 11, 2018. Last Updated: July 25, 2018
This Privacy Policy describes the Digital Golf Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation d/b/a Swing King (“Swing King”), 954 W. Washington Blvd., Suite 505, Chicago, IL 60607 online privacy practices on the platforms where this policy is located. These may include websites and sites designed for mobile devices. The policy may also apply to the mobile and smart phone applications to which it might link.
We Collect Information From and About You
Contact information. For example, we may collect your name and email address. We may also collect your street address or phone number. We may collect other I.D. numbers like user names.
Your likeness. We record video at holes at participating golf courses where our skill contest is played. If you play the applicable hole, whether or not you enter the skill contest, your likeness may be captured.
Demographic information. For example, this includes your zip code. We may also collect your age and gender. We may collect this information if you contact us or enter our skill contest.
Usage, behavioral, and device information. We may collect information about the website browser you are using, the pages you visit, or the third-party websites from which or to which you go from our platform. We may also collect information about your equipment or device like an IP address or a device or advertising identifier. We might look at how often you use the app and where you downloaded it. We collect this information using the tracking technologies described here.
Location information. We may collect information about your location, including your precise location. We may collect this information using different types of technologies, including GPS and Wi-Fi.
Golf play. We may collect aggregate information about golfers’ play on our contest hole(s), including shot information.
We Collect Information in Different Ways
We collect information directly from you. For example, if you register on our platform, enter a skill contest, or submit information as a potential winner of a skill contest.
We may collect information from you passively. For example, we may use tracking tools like cookies and web beacons to track user behavior. We may collect information about users over time and across different platforms and devices when you use this platform. We may have third parties collect personal information this way.
We get information about you from third parties. We may get information about you or your preferences from our business partners. Social media platforms may also give us information about you.
We Combine Information We May Get from Various Sources
For example, if you enter one of our skill contests, and register on this platform, we may combine the information we already have about you. We may also combine information about you that we learn from third parties with information we already have, like participating golf courses. We may combine information that we collect across devices or platforms.
We Use Information as Disclosed and Described Here
We use information for various purposes. These include:
To process your requests and for related purposes. For example, to verify your eligibility to win a prize.
To promote Swing King and our related companies and products. For example, we might send you updates about our platforms or new services/products. We may also send you other information which we think you might find interesting. We may contact you using the contact information we have about you.
To tell you about third-party products or services we think you will like. For example, we might send you information about a deal that we are able to offer to our registered users.
To operate our platforms and serve our advertisements. For example we use information we collect to analyze trends and improve platform layout. We also monitor traffic patterns at our platforms to personalize our platform. We sometimes work with third parties to help us with our platform monitoring activities. Our monitoring may include tracking your online activities, either ourselves or with the help of our vendors or other third parties. Monitoring may be across our platforms and be used to serve you with content in which we think you would be interested.
To protect our platforms and services. We may use information to protect our company, our customers, and our services.
To administer our skill contest. We use the personal information you provide us and participating golf courses as well as recorded video to administer our skill contests, including winner verification. We may share the personal information video with third parties associated with the skill contest, including our insurance company and participating golf courses.
We use information as otherwise permitted by law or as we may notify you.
We May Share Information with Third Parties
We will share information within the Swing King family of companies.
We will share information with third parties who perform services on our behalf. For example, we share information with vendors, or will authorize them to collect information on our behalf. We also share information with companies that help us operate our platforms or fulfill customer requests, such as participating golf courses.
We will share information with any successor to all or part of our business. For example, if part of our business was sold we may sell our customer list as part of that transaction.
We may share information with third party business partners. For example, we might share your information when we conduct a joint promotion with another company.
We may share this information if we think we have to in order to comply with the law or to protect ourselves. For example, we will disclose information in response to subpoenas or investigative requests. We may share information with a government agency or investigatory body requests it. We might share information if we are investigating potential fraud. This might include fraud we think has happened during a skill contest. If you are the winner of a skill contest, we may also share your information with anyone who requests a winner’s list.
We may share information for other reasons as may be described to you.
Your Choices
You can opt out of marketing emails by following the instructions in any marketing emails you receive. You can also opt-out by sending an email message to info@swingking.com with the word “unsubscribe” in the subject line. Even if you opt out of getting marketing messages, we may still send you transactional messages.
Security
We use industry standard security measures to protect our platforms. However, we cannot guarantee that the Internet or your use of our platforms will be completely secure. We encourage you to take steps to protect yourself online. For example, do not share your password with other people including ensuring that any online account information you have remains secure.
About Children
Our platforms are not created for children. We do not believe children are interested in our platforms, and do not knowingly collect information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and think we have information about your child who is under 13, please contact us at info@swingking.com. To learn more about how to protect your child online, visit the FTC’s website and read the helpful information provided by the FTC.
Links
Our platforms contain links to third party sites. If you click on one of those links, you will be taken to sites we do not control. This policy does not apply to the information practices of those sites. You should read the privacy policy of other sites carefully. We are not responsible for such third party's sites.
Non-US Users
Our platforms are operated in the United States and are subject to United States laws. If you are located outside of the United States, please be aware that any information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States. Please also be aware that by using our platforms and giving us your information, you consent to such transfer, and understand that the U.S. may not provide the same level of protections as the laws of your country.
Policy Updates
From time to time we may change our privacy practices. The latest version of this policy will be posted here. If there is a material change to this policy that we plan to apply retroactively, we will notify you as required by law. Please check our platforms periodically for updates.
How to Contact Us
If users have any questions, comments, or concerns about our privacy practices, you can email us at eric.hoersten@swingking.com . You can call us at 773-301-5113. If you would like to write to us, our address is Swing King, 954 W. Washington Blvd, Suite 505, Chicago, IL 60607.