PRIVACY POLICY
Effective Date: September, 2023
This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) is provided by Read the Line, Inc. (“Read the Line,” “we” or “our”) and applies to all users of our website, https://readtheline.com/ (“Website”), and our social media accounts.
We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this Policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are, how and why we access, collect, process, store, use and share your personal information, which is any information that may be associated with a particular individual (“Personal Information”).
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
This Policy may be changed, modified, supplemented, or updated at any time. While we will endeavor to notify you of any changes to our Policy through our Websites or direct communications as may be authorized by you, we encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
To alert you to changes to this Policy, we will provide a notice at the top of this Policy stating the effective date of such changes. By using our Website after changes to the Policy are made, you agree to the terms of the revised Policy.
INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT AND USE
We may collect, use, and/or share some or all of the following Personal Information categories:
- Identifiers, such as your name, preferred alias, email address, user ID, account name and similar identifies;
- Internet activity, such as browsing history, IP address, search history, cookies and similar technologies, information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.
- Financial information, such as partial debit or credit card information for the purposes of showing to you which payment methods you previously used to place orders with us. All financial transactions are processed by our payment processing vendor, STRIPE. To the extent that you place an order with us, STRIPE will collect your financial information for the payment, but we will not receive this information from you or STRIPE, except your name, email address and the last four digits of the card number that you used.
This Personal Information is required to provide services to you. If you do not provide the Personal Information we ask for, it may delay or prevent us from providing services to you.
TERRITORIALITY
Our computer systems are currently based in the United States and the content of our Website is directed to U.S. residents and is not directed to residents of other countries. As such, we do not intentionally collect or process personal information of non-U.S. residents and do not market our services to non-U.S. residents. However, if you visit our Website or subscribe to our services, we will collect and process your personal data in the United States, where data protection and privacy regulations may or may not be equal to the level of protection as in other parts of the world, such as in Canada and the European Union. BY VISITING OUR WEBSITE OR SUBSCRIBING TO OUR SERVICES, YOU UNEQUIVOCALLY AND UNAMBIGUOUSLY CONSENT TO THE COLLECTION AND PROCESSING IN THE UNITED STATES OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED OR OBTAINED BY US THROUGH YOUR VOLUNTARY SUBMISSIONS, AND THAT UNITED STATES LAW GOVERNS ANY SUCH COLLECTION AND PROCESSING.
HOW YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IS COLLECTED
We collect your Personal Information directly from you via our Website, by email, and in certain circumstances, via our third-party service providers, such as our payment processor STRIPE. For example, if you sign up for emails from Read the Line, we may collect your name and email address. In addition, if you make a purchase with us, we may collect your name, email address, and partial credit card information (with full financial transaction information collected by STRIPE, our payment processing vendor. We may also supplement the information collected through our Website with information from data analytics providers in order in understand how our readers engage with our content and to improve our content.
PURPOSES OF COLLECTION
Read the Line provides insights and information concerning the game of golf to players, sports fans and enthusiasts. We may collect Personal Information in furtherance of offering our products or services to you. Information is collected for the following purposes:
- To provide the products and services you purchase and request from us;
- To communicate with you and/or your authorized representatives about the requested products or services;
- To personalize, troubleshoot or improve our online content and experiences;
- To market and advertise our products or service offerings to you;
- To comply with our legal obligations and to enforce our rights;
- To combat fraud and prosecute bad actors;
- To evaluate or conduct a merger, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, or similar corporate transaction or proceeding, in which personal information held by us is among the assets transferred.
We will not collect additional categories of Personal Information or use the Personal Information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you with an advance notice, including by updating this Policy.
SHARING YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose your Personal Information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on us, (b) protect and defend our rights or property or our customers or users, or (c) under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of our users, customers, or the general public.
We may share your personal information with our payment processing providers, website hosting and email communication providers, IT and accessibility service providers to provide you the Services you request and for other legitimate business purposes set forth in this Policy. For example, if you place an order or make a purchase with us, we may share your information with our payment processor, STRIPE. We may also share your information with our IT providers, accessibility service providers and/or website hosting and email communication providers to conduct quality assurance testing; facilitate the creation of accounts; provide account authentication and user verification services; provide technical and customer support; improve your use and experience of the Services; send email; enable security support and technical maintenance; send you newsletters, surveys, messages, and promotional materials related to our services; prevent harmful or unlawful uses of our services, including fraud; request user feedback; send users links; monitor the health of our servers; manage search engine optimization; and improve and optimize the performance of our services.
COOKIES AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES
Cookies are small text files placed on your device to store data that can be recalled by a web server in the domain that placed the cookie. We may use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies (such as scripts and tags) on our online services. In some cases, we may link the information gathered by cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to a user’s Personal Information. We also use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to collect information about how users interact and use our online services.
In particular, we use Google Analytics to help collect data that allows us to understand how you interact with our Website. These insights allow us to both improve content and build better features that enhance your experience. The cookies placed on our Website by Google Analytics help us understand how our Website visitors engage with our services, by collecting information and reporting Website usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors to Google. Based on the information provided by Google, Google Analytics cookies it cannot be used to track a given user or browser across unrelated websites. Please refer to Google’s Cookie Policy for more information on how Google Analytics may use cookies, web beacons and other tracking technologies to collect information.
You have a variety of tools to control the data collected by cookies and similar technologies. For example, you can use controls in your internet browser to limit how the websites you visit are able to use cookies, alert you about the cookies and to withdraw your consent by clearing or blocking cookies.
We classify cookies in the following categories:
- Necessary/Functional cookies: These cookies are necessary for the functions of our Website and cannot be switched off as otherwise our Website will not work for you.
- Preferences cookies: These cookies are used to manage our mailing list, if you have subscribed to any of our newsletters; to save your currency preferences; and to determine the last time you visited our various subpages on our Website.
- Statistics cookies: These cookies are used to build a profile of how you use our Website, including time spent on the Website and its sub-pages, as well as to determine how many visitors frequent our Website.
- Targeting cookies: These cookies may be set through our Website by our advertising partners and may be used by them to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on other sites. They are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you disable or block these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our Website may contain links to other sites (“Third Party Websites”). These links are provided solely for the convenience of our customers. We do not necessarily endorse, sanction or verify the accuracy of the information contained on Third Party Websites. Once you access a Third-Party Website through a link on our Website, you are no longer covered by this Policy. Concerns regarding a Third-Party Website should be directed to the Third-Party Website itself. We bear no responsibility for any action associated with any Third-Party Website.
POLICIES FOR CONSUMERS UNDER THE LEGAL AGE OF MAJORITY
This Website is not intended for children or individuals under the legal age of majority in their place of residence, and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from or relating to such individuals. Specifically, the laws of certain jurisdictions have minimum age requirements for participation in betting and related activity. While Read the Line does not seek to encourage any of our readers, members or users to engage in sports betting or otherwise making wagers based on the information and insights provided by Read the Line, we do not knowingly provide such information to individuals under the legal age of majority. Please refer to our Terms of Use for further information regarding eligibility to use the Website and other Read the Line resources.
Policy for Children Under 13: In the event that we discover that a child under the age of 13 has provided Personal Information to us, we will delete the child’s Personal Information in accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998. Please see the Federal Trade Commission’s website for information on this Act.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, pursuant to 47 U.S.C. Section 230 (d), as amended, we hereby notify you that parental control protections are commercially available to assist you in limiting access to material that is harmful to minors. More information on the availability of such software can be found through publicly available sources. You may wish to contact your Internet Service Provider for more information.
STORING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We utilize the services of our vendor, Convert Kit, to store your Personal Information on servers located in the United States. We will store your personal information for as long as you maintain an active subscription with us. After you terminate your subscription, we will delete your personal information. Generally, deletions of inactive accounts occur after three-four months of inactivity. We may retain your information for a longer period of time when required or allowed by law, for example in order to enforce our rights or to comply with our legal obligations.
We will not retain your Personal Information for longer than necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy.
KEEPING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURE
Any personal information that we collect is stored on the platforms of our service providers, such as Convert Kit and STRIPE. Our service providers have implemented reasonable security measures to protect your Personal Information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way. These measures offer appropriate reasonable security level, taking into account the state of the technology, the implementation costs and also the nature, the scale, the context and the processing purposes. We and our service providers limit access to your Personal Information to those who have a genuine business need to access it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorized manner. The measures are also intended to prevent unnecessary collection and further processing of Personal Information. The Personal Information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.
PLEASE KEEP YOUR DEVICES AND PASSWORDS SECURE
You are also responsible for taking reasonable steps to protect your personal information against unauthorized disclosure or misuse. Please keep your devices secure and do not share devices, logins or passwords to such devices with others as there is a risk that they make access Personal Information that you stored on your device or that you request be transmitted to you from us to your device. If you receive login information, including passwords, to an encrypted account or application, please do not share this information with others. PLEASE SECURE YOUR INFORMATION AND DO NOT DISCLOSE YOUR PASSWORDS AND ANY SENSITIVE INFORMATION TO ANYONE ELSE. If you believe that your Personal Information was compromised while requesting or receiving services from us, or if your device or login and password have been stolen, please notify us immediately at moc.enilehtdaer@maet. We will not be responsible for anyone accessing your information if they use your device or login and password.
YOUR AGREEMENT TO THIS POLICY
By using our online services, you are agreeing to our practices described in this Policy, which includes the collection and use of your Personal Information. Your continued use of our online services following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes. Our Privacy Policy will contain the Effective Date, indicating the date it was last updated. Please review our Privacy Policy from time to time to check on whether there have been any updates since your last visit. If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or seek to make any changes, please contact us at the contact information below.
CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have any questions or comments about this Policy, the ways in which we collect and use your Personal Information, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
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