Sylvia Lake Country Club
Privacy Policy

This privacy policy sets out how the Sylvia Lake Country Club, Inc. (SLCC) uses and protects any information that you give SLCC when you use this website. SLCC is committed to our efforts to ensure that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. SLCC may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

Normal Website Usage

SLCC has a firm commitment to internet privacy. You can visit portions of our site without telling us who you are and without revealing any personal information.

Collection and Use of Personally Identifiable Information

SLCC may collect email addresses and other personally identifiable data about you when such data is voluntarily submitted to our site. There are a number of circumstances in which you may supply us with your personal information. The following lists the most common ways in which we may collect your personal information.

• When you apply to join the Sylvia Lake Country Club, Inc. (SLCC) as a Proprietary Member or Social Member
• Participation in special events and promotions
• Purchases on the site, including making a donation, submitting an initiation fee, or paying membership dues in SLCC
• Participation in committees, chat rooms and comment threads, forums, and other interactive services
• Submission of user generated content on any part of the site that permit it
• Any other place on the site where you knowingly volunteer personal information

For example, our site may require submission of personally identifiable data for visitors to become a member of SLCC or to join other SCLCC activities or programs. Such information is used to send information about SLCC to our visitors. Financial information is used to bill visitors in connection with their membership dues, fees, purchases and donations. Some volunteer opportunities on our site also may require registration of personal information. We use this information to make these functions more effective and provide participants with additional information. SLCC does not share membership information with other organizations except as listed in this policy.

Collection and Use of Non-Personally Identifiable Information

We may also collect certain information that does not identify you individually and our servers may automatically keep an activity log of your use of our Site (“Non-Personal Information”). We may collect and store any of the following categories of Non-Personal Information:

• Non-identifiable demographic data such as age, gender, and five-digit zip code as part of collecting personal information
• Device information about your computer, mobile device, or other device that you use to access the Site. This information may include IP address, geolocation information, unique device identifiers, device type, browser type, browser language, and other transactional information.
• Analytics and usage information about your use of the Site.
• Additional “traffic data” and log files such as time of access, date of access, software crash reports, session identification number, access times, and referring website addresses.
• Other information regarding your use of the Site.

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

• Internal record keeping.
• We may use the information to improve our products and services.
• We may use the information to customize the website according to your interests.
• We will never sell your information.
• We may provide your information to a collections agency we have contracted with and any government agencies as provided for by applicable laws.

Security

We are committed to our effort to ensure that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure we have put in place physical, electronic and managerial procedures to help safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

While we try our best to safeguard your personal information once we receive it, no transmission of data over the Internet or any other public network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.

How we use cookies

The SLCC website is powered by Wild Apricot Membership Software. When you visit a Wild Apricot site – as an administrator, member, or visitor – cookies may be placed on your computer by Wild Apricot or a third party. A complete list of cookies placed by Wild Apricot is available on their privacy policy, which must be accepted in order to login the first time.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a chunk of data – typically stored as a text file – that is placed on your computer or other device when you visit a particular website. The cookie is used to identify your device to the website when you visit again so the site can load your preferences, automatically accept your credentials, or otherwise personalize the experience. Cookies do not store personal information about you, just information identifying your device.

Accepting cookies

Within your browser settings, you can choose whether to accept cookies. To access our site as an administrator or a member, you need to enable cookies (which most browsers do by default). For instructions on enabling cookies in different browsers, click here. If you are using Safari as your browser, you also need to enable cross-site tracking by disabling the Prevent Cross-Site Tracking option.

Third-party cookies

You can also separately control whether to accept third-party cookies – cookies placed by third party services that are integrated into the website you are visiting. For example, third-party cookies are used by Google Analytics for tracking website traffic. By default, Safari blocks third-party cookies, while Firefox and Chrome accept them. Internet Explorer blocks third-party cookies by default but allows users to accept them from Wild Apricot and other sites. Some firewalls or browser plug-ins may affect your browser's cookies settings.

Cookies placed via Wild Apricot sites

Cookies placed by Wild Apricot on your computer or device to support the operation of your Wild Apricot site are listed on the Wild Apricot privacy policy, which must be accepted in order to login the first time.

Links to other websites

Our website contains links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide while visiting such site and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Retention of User Information

Following termination or deactivation of your account, SLCC, its affiliates, or its service providers may retain information (including your profile information) and any submitted for a commercially reasonable time for backup, archival, and/or audit purposes.

Your Obligations to Keep Your Access Rights Secure

You promise to: (a) provide true, accurate, current and complete information as prompted by a site registration form, order form or otherwise (such information being the "User Data") and (b) maintain and promptly update the User Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, SLCC has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, SLCC has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the site (or any portion thereof). You are entirely responsible for the security and confidentiality of your password(s) and account(s). Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account(s).

Governing Law

This site is published in the United States. We attempt to protect the Personal Information of all users of our Site and we attempt to comply with local data protection and consumer rights laws to the extent they may apply to SLCC services, but our site is located and targeted to United States citizens and our policies are directed at compliance with those laws. If you are uncertain whether this privacy policy conflicts with the applicable local privacy laws where you are located, you should not submit your Personal Information to SLCC.

Changes To This Policy

As our site continues to develop, we may add new services and features to our site. In the event that these additions affect our Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy will be updated appropriately. We will post those changes prominently so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information and whether we will disclose it to anyone. We do, however, recommend that you read this Privacy Policy each time you use our Site in case you missed our notice of changes to the Privacy Policy. We will not, however, materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of Personal Information we have previously collected from you without your express consent.

Complaint Procedure

If you suspect that we have handled your personal information in a manner that doesn't comply with the Privacy Policy, please contact us with an explanation to info@sylvialakecc.org

This policy effective from October 1, 2022

Sylvia Lake Country Club, Inc. (SLCC)

8602 71st ST NW, Gig Harbor WA 98335 | (509) 557-0323‬

Contributions or gifts to Sylvia Lake Country Club, Inc. are not deductible as charitable contributions for Federal income tax purposes.

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