Privacy Policy

The Central Florida Open (“us,” “we,” or “our”) is committed to protecting your online privacy. This Privacy Statement explains our views and practices concerning privacy and how they may pertain to you as a user of our website, [Insert CFO Website Address Here] (the “Service”).

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.   

We use your data to provide and improve the Service, including the management and execution of The Central Florida Open golf tournament. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible from [Insert Link to CFO Terms and Conditions Here, or state “will be available on our website”].  

Service: The [Insert CFO Website Address Here] website operated by [Your Name/Organization Name].

Usage Data: Data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

Cookies: Small pieces of data stored on your device (computer or mobile device).

Data Controller: The natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information is, or is to be, processed. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are the Data Controller of your Personal Data.

Data Processors (or Service Providers): Any natural or legal person who processes data on behalf of the Data Controller. We may use the services of various Service Providers to process your data more effectively.

Data Subject (or User): Any living individual who uses our Service and is the subject of Personal Data.

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you, and to effectively manage The Central Florida Open.

Personal Data: While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

First name and last name

Email address

Phone number

Organization/Team name (if applicable)

Handicap information (if applicable for registration)

Mailing address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City

Any personal data you post on our website (e.g., in forums or comments, if available)

Data about how you use our website

Technical data such as your IP address, your login data, details about your browser, time zone settings, and other technology on the device you use to access our website

Any information that you directly provide to us, whether through registration forms, contact forms, over the phone, by email, or otherwise

Photographs and videos of you at the tournament and related events

We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, and other information that may be of interest to you regarding The Central Florida Open. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us.   

Usage Data: We may also collect information about how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.   

Tracking & Cookies Data: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Service and hold certain information.   

Cookies are files with a small amount of data that may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.   

Examples of Cookies we may use:

Preference Cookies: To remember your preferences and various settings.

Preference Cookies: To remember your preferences and various settings.

Use of Data

To provide and maintain our Service, including managing tournament registrations and information.

To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so (e.g., forums, leaderboards).

To provide customer support related to the tournament.

To monitor the usage of our Service.

To detect, prevent, and address technical issues.   

To provide you with news, special offers, and general information about The Central Florida Open and related events, unless you have opted not to receive such information.

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data (If applicable under GDPR or similar regulations)

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.   

The Central Florida Open may process your Personal Data because:

We need to perform a contract with you (e.g., tournament registration).

You have given us permission to do so.

The processing is in our legitimate interests (e.g., promoting the tournament, improving our services) and it’s not overridden by your rights.

For payment processing purposes.

To comply with the law.

Retention of Data

The Central Florida Open will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Central Florida Open will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.   

Transfer of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction.   

If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to the United States and process it there

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer. 

The Central Florida Open will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place, including the security of your data and other personal information.   

Disclosure of Data

Business Transaction: If The Central Florida Open is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.   

Disclosure for Law Enforcement: Under certain circumstances, The Central Florida Open may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).   

Legal Requirements: The Central Florida Open may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:To comply with a legal obligation.

To protect and defend the rights or property of The Central Florida Open.

To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service.

To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public.   

Security of Data

The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

“Do Not Track” Signals

We do not support Do Not Track (“DNT”). Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked.

You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser

Your Data Protection Rights (If applicable under GDPR or similar regulations)

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. The Central Florida Open aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.

If you wish to be informed what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

The right to access, update, or delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update, or request deletion of your Personal Data directly within your account settings section (if applicable). If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you

The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete

The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.

The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.

The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable, and commonly used format

The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where The Central Florida Open relied on your consent to process your personal information.

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).

Service Providers 

We may employ Outside entity companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services, or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.   

These Outside entity have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.   

Analytics

We may use Outside entity Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service. You should review the privacy policies of these providers as they may differ from ours. Examples may include:

Google Analytics: For more information on Google’s privacy practices, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page:

Behavioral Remarketing

The Central Florida Open may use remarketing services to advertise on Outside entity websites to you after you have visited our Service. We and our Outside entity vendors may use cookies to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on your past visits to our Service. You should review the privacy policies of these providers for information on their practices and how to opt-out. Examples may include:

Google AdWords: You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page:

. For Google’s privacy policy, visit:

Facebook: You can learn more about interest-based advertising from Facebook by visiting this page:

. To opt-out from Facebook’s interest-based ads, follow these instructions from Facebook: 

. For Facebook’s Data Policy, visit:

Payments

If we process payments through our Service (e.g., for tournament registration fees), we may use Outside entity services for payment processing.

We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our Outside entity payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council.

You should review the privacy policies of our payment processors for details on how they handle your information.

Links to Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a Outside entity link, you will be directed to that Outside entity site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.  

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any Outside entity sites or services.   

Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective, and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.   

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

If you would like to: access, correct, amend, or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information, please contact us at:

Contact Us

centralflopen@gmail.com

or by mail at:

The Central Florida Open [Insert CFO Mailing Address Here, if applicable]