Privacy Policy | Alpin Pickleball

A. Introduction

This privacy policy explains how we will handle your personal information.

In accordance with the terms of this policy, by consenting to the use of cookies upon your first visit to our website, you allow us to use these cookies each time you visit our website.

B. Collection of Personal Data

We may collect, store, and use personal data of the following types:

Information you provide to contact us through our website, such as your email address and phone number;
Information you provide to join the club, such as your name, place and date of birth, residential address, gender, clothing size, phone number, and email;
Information generated during the use of our website, such as the date and time, frequency, and circumstances of your usage;
Information you post on our website with the intent of publishing it on the Internet, including your username and the content of your posts;
Information related to any communication you send us via email or through our website, including the content and metadata of such communications;
Any other information or personal data you send us.

C. Use of Personal Data

The personal information submitted through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or in the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:

Managing our website and activities;
Customizing our website for the benefit of the user;
Enabling the user to use the services available on our website;
Sending communications without marketing purposes;
Sending email notifications requested by you;
Sending our newsletter via email, if requested by you (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive the newsletter);
Providing third parties with statistical data regarding our users (these third parties will not be able to trace the identity of individual users based on this information);
Providing user data to Sports Promotion Entities and other associations to ensure that our members receive the required insurance coverage and can participate in organized activities;
Maintaining the security of our website and preventing fraud;
Verifying compliance with the terms and conditions of use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our private messaging service);
Further uses.

If you provide personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use such information in accordance with the license you grant us.

Through the privacy settings available on the site, you can configure your privacy preferences to limit the publication of your data and information on our website.

Without your explicit consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing activities or for promotional activities by other third parties.

D. Disclosure of Personal Data

We may disclose your personal information to any of our site editors or administrators if reasonably necessary for the purposes specified in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

To the extent required by law;
In connection with ongoing or future legal proceedings;
To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).

Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal data to third parties.

E. International Data Transfers

The information we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate, allowing us to use it in accordance with this policy.

The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries that do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States of America.

The personal information you publish or submit for publication on our website may be available worldwide via the Internet. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

You expressly agree to the transfer of personal data described in this Section E of this policy.

F. Retention of Personal Data

This Section F defines our data retention policies and procedures, formulated to help ensure compliance with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal data and information.

The personal information we process will be retained for no longer than is necessary for the intended purposes.

Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section F, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

To the extent required by law;
If we believe that such documents may be relevant to any ongoing or future legal proceedings;
To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).

G. Security of Personal Data

We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.

We will store all personal information you provide on secure servers (adequately protected by passwords and firewalls) of professional providers.

You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the Internet is inherently insecure and that we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the Internet.

You are responsible for keeping the password you use to access our website confidential.

H. Changes

We may occasionally update this policy by publishing a new version on our website. We recommend that you check this page periodically to ensure you understand any changes made to the policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy via email or through the private messaging system on our website.

I. Your Rights

You may request that we provide you with any personal data and information we hold about you, provided that you supply us with adequate proof of your identity.

We may withhold personal data you request to the extent permitted by law.

You may request at any time that your personal data not be processed for marketing purposes. In practice, regarding the use of your personal data for marketing purposes, you will usually give explicit and prior consent, or you will be given the opportunity to opt out.

L. Third-Party Websites

Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third-party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of such third parties.

M. Cookies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) sent by a web server to a browser and stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests access to a page from that server. Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a browser and will remain valid until its scheduled expiration date unless deleted by the user beforehand; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session when the browser is closed. Generally, cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies a user.

Below are the types of cookies we use on our website and their purposes:

We use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to recognize a computer when a user visits the site, improve site usability, analyze site usage, prevent fraud, and enhance site security.
We use cookies if you register on the site, for example, to add comments to articles. At the launch of the site (February 2025), registration and commenting functionalities are not active, and there are no cookies related to registration.

Most browsers allow users to refuse cookies, for example:

In Firefox, you can block all cookies by clicking on the menu button in the upper right corner and selecting "Options."
In Chrome, you can block all cookies by accessing the upper right menu and clicking on "Settings."

Blocking all cookies will negatively impact the usability of many websites. By blocking cookies, you may not be able to use all the features of our website.