Welcome, this is the Privacy Policy and Personal Data Notice applicable for our online platform available at the URL aconcaguagames.com, along with its sub-domains and other operated websites. We also recommend you to read our Terms, along with any and all of our rules, guidelines and ancillary policies (if any), all included herein by reference.
This Policy applies to our controlled website and mobile that references this Policy, along with any of our operated platforms, as well as any data we may collect across partnered and unaffiliated websites. For clarity, this Policy also applies to PI collected through the mobile and desktop version of our website, independently of the mobile operative system, mobile device or browser you use to access it.
Capitalized terms that are not defined in this Policy have the meaning given to them in our Terms. By accessing or using our Platform, you affirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to this Policy and our Terms.
The following defined terms will be used in this Policy, whether they are used in the singular or plural form. Any capitalized terms not defined in this Policy shall have the meanings set forth in our Terms, guidelines, terms, or rules referenced therein, as applicable.
Privacy Policy shall be referred to as the | “Policy” |
Aconcagua Games shall be referred to as the | “American Golf” and “our”, “us” or “we”. |
The www.aconcaguagames.com website shall be referred to as the | “Site” |
A visitor or end user of our Site is referred to as | “you”, “your(s)” or “yourself”. |
Personally Identifiable Information shall be referred to as | “PI” |
Terms and Conditions of Service shall be referred to as the | “Terms” |
Our suite of rendered online services shall be the | “Services” |
PI, as described in various privacy laws and information security standards, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context.
In addition, the terms “collect”, “process”, “treat”, “use”, “share”, “disclose”, “divulge” and analogous words shall refer to your PI and other data collected from our visitors and end users.
As a user of our Site, you will be asked to agree to this Policy by clicking on the “I Agree” checkbox on the registration page, pop-up box, tab or other analogous means. Through that action, you thereby acknowledge and agree to the terms of this Policy, which is and constitutes a legal, binding agreement between you and American Golf.
Overall, this Policy is freely available for your review prior to registration, and if you do not agree to its terms, your remedy shall consist of not registering an account and exiting the web tab through which you visited our Site. Accordingly, by registering with us and/or otherwise using our products and services, you consent to the collection, transfer, processing, storage, and disclosure of your PI as described in this Policy.
American Golf does not knowingly provide its Services to persons: (i) under the age of eighteen (18); (ii) that are convicted criminals; (iii) that have had their account previously disabled for violations of our Terms or Policy; and/or (iv) that are otherwise prohibited from receiving our products, Services or software under applicable laws. Henceforth, if you are under the age of eighteen, you may not access American Golf and our Services even under the direct, express and unequivocal supervision of your parent or legal guardian.
Users are prohibited from providing American Golf with personally identifiable information of persons under the age of thirteen (13) without the consent of their parents or legal guardians. American Golf does not knowingly collect any kind of information from any person under the age of thirteen (13).
If we learn or have reason to suspect that any user or that any client, project or customer data appertains persons under the age of thirteen (13), we will freeze and/or delete any PI under that user’s account, without prior notice and without responsibility.
We reserve the right to request any and all applicable proof of identification and consent proof from our users, at any moment, without prior notice, and at our sole and final discretion. Upon the failure to provide such proof of age, we reserve the right to immediately freeze, block or cancel the account, with no liability.
Our platform will collect certain personally identifying information when using our Site, when registering for an account, when making an individual purchase, when subscribing to any recurring service, when providing any user generated content, when using third party advertising networks, when interacting with any users, and other means which may result applicable.
We may also collect PI from you when you subscribe to a newsletter or enter your email address, answer a survey, fill out a form, use live chat or enter information on our Site. Note that if you choose not to provide some PI, we may not be able to provide the Services or respond to user requests.
Generally, through the provision of the Services, American Golf may collect the following types of PI:
Personal Information. | Includes information that can be used to personally identify an individual person, such as: (e.g. name (first and last) and email address). Accordingly, you hereby represent and warrant to American Golf that you have the necessary rights and authorizations required for the disclosure of any and all PI. For more information on copyright and intellectual property rights, please visit our Terms. Thus, Personal Information collected will include, but will not be limited to:
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Non-Personal Information. | Includes information that cannot be used to personally identify an individual person, such as anonymous usage data, general demographic information that we may collect, such as number of clicks, platform types, preferences you submit and preferences that are generated based on the data you submit. |
User Generated Content. | Includes information and content that you post, upload, use, exploit, sell, subscribe to or otherwise exploit when using American Golf. |
Platform Providers. | We host our platform and the back-end of the Site using third parties, such as Digital Ocean, Cloudflare and/or Amazon Web Services. Your PI will be transferred and hosted from their data centers throughout the United States and other jurisdictions. |
Technical Information Collected via the Site. | Local storage refers generally to other places on a browser or device where information can be stored by websites, ads, or third-parties (such as HTML5 local storage and browser cache).As you navigate through the Site, a desktop or a mobile browser, certain information can be passively collected (that is, gathered without you actively providing the information) using various technologies and means, such as Internet Protocol addresses, cookies, Internet tags, and navigational data. |
Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. | An IP Address is a number assigned to your computer by your Internet service provider so you can access the Internet and is generally considered to be non-personally identifiable information, because in most cases an IP address is dynamic (changing each time you connect to the Internet), rather than static (unique to a particular user’s computer). We use your IP address to diagnose problems with our server, report aggregate information, determine the fastest route for your computer to use in connecting to our Site, and administer and improve services to our consumers. |
Cookies. | A “cookie” is a bit of information that a website sends to your web browser that helps the site remember information about you and your preferences. Fields used by our cookies include, but will not be limited to:• session of anonymous customer;• recently viewed products of anonymous customer;• logged in customer session;• logged in customer ID. |
Internet tags. | Our Site and websites use Internet tags, also known as single-pixel GIFs, clear GIFs, invisible GIFs, and 1-by-1 GIFs, they are smaller than cookies and tell the Site’s server information such as the IP address and browser type related to the visitor’s computer. |
Navigational data. | Also known as “log files”, “server logs”, “clickstream” data and “Internet Tags”, they are used for system management, to improve the content of the site, market research purposes, and to communicate information to visitors. |
Analytics. | We may collect analytics data or use third-party analytics tools such as Google Analytics GA4 and Facebook Pixel to help us measure traffic and usage trends for the Service and to understand more about the demographics of our users. Please visit www.facebook.com/business/m/privacy-and-data for more about Facebook’s analytics and practices. Please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners for more about Google’s analytics and practices. We may also employ third-party partners and technologies, including the application of statistical modeling tools, which attempt to recognize you across multiple devices. |
Aggregated Statistics. | We may share PI with our advertisers or publishers, along with aggregate statistics, metrics, and other reports about the performance of their ads or content in our platform, such as the number of unique user views, demographics about the users who saw their ads or content, conversion rates, and date and time information. Certain features may allow you to share your personal information with advertisers on our platform if you opt-out.We may share aggregated anonymized or de-identified information with third parties for research, marketing, analytics, and other purposes. |
We will store PI for the purposes of managing collaboration with other users, improve your user experience, send newsletters and contact you about inquiries for our Services. Overall, we use the collected PI in order to:
If you do not wish to disclose any or part of your PI to us, you may still be able to use some of the functionalities of our Site and Services, though we will not be able to guarantee that you will be able to enjoy them at their fullest if you elect not to disclose it to us.
Through the provision of its Services, American Golf may need to disclose and/or collect the following PI:
Disclosure to Affiliates and Partners. | We will need to share your PI with authorized third-party vendors, service providers, contractors or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. We may allow selected third parties to use tracking technology on the Site, which will enable them to collect data on our behalf about how you interact with our Site over time. This information may be used to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, pages or features, and better understand online activity. |
Disclosure to Business Successors. | If our business is sold or merges in whole or in part with another business that would become responsible for providing our Services to you, we retain the right to transfer your PI to the new business. The new business would retain the right to use your PI according to the terms of this Policy as well as to any changes to this privacy notice as instituted by the new business. We will also retain the right to transfer your PI if our company files for bankruptcy and some or all of our assets are sold to another individual or business. |
Lawful Disclosure. | We, or our affiliates, clients, contractors, licensors, officers, agents and/or representatives, reserve the right to allow access to any of your PI when we think it is reasonably important or when you violate the terms mentioned in this policy. Hereafter, we will have the right to disclose any or all gathered PI and/or data, when the following circumstances arise: (i) if necessary under an applicable law; (ii) in reply to a legal demand, warrant or subpoena from an agency of the law; (iii) to protect ourselves and our affiliates from any legal third party claims and procedures that may be brought to us (inclusive of takedown notices); and/or (iv) to prevent or cause cessation of any undertakings that may be construed by us as having the ability to be or cause a predicament or hazard to us. |
Vital Interests. | We may disclose your PI where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved. |
Disclosure of PI to Third Party PI Processors.
In order to provide our Services, we use third-party platforms and tools that are governed by their own terms, policies and personal data collection practices and policies. Accordingly, by acknowledging your consent to this Policy, you are also acknowledging being subject to the applicable terms and conditions of such third party platforms, which provide functionalities that include aggregated statistics. Upon the case of any discrepancy or conflict among this Policy and the terms of them, the terms of the latter entities will govern.
Our Site may also present our commercial partner’s hyperlinks as well as those of other third parties. Once you have used these links to leave our Site or websites, you should note that we do not have any control over other websites. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information that you provide whilst visiting such platforms and that such platforms are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Occasionally, we will ask you for express permission and approval to receive electronic messages in electronic format which are then sent to an electronic address and that contains a message asking recipients to participate in commercial activities such as newsletters, purchase of products, services and invitations to participate in surveys.
We will send you service-related announcements on occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our Service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, or a new enhancement is released, which will affect the way you use our services, we might send you an email. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are neither commercial nor promotional in nature.
Generally, you have the right to object to the processing of your PI if grounds for said objection are to direct marketing. You also have the right to opt out of receiving promotional communications at any time by: (i) contacting us; (ii) when we may ask you to confirm or update your marketing preferences if you instruct us to provide further the features and functionality of the Site in the future; (iii) if there are changes in the law, regulation, or the structure of our business.
Periodically, we may place what are known as ‘cookies’ inside your computer device for the purpose of tracking and collecting data in regard to your utilization of our Site, our websites and our Services. These files are small texts that our site transfers to your device, and which allow us to recognize you and obtain certain data. By agreeing to accept our use of cookies, you are giving us, and the third parties we partner with, permission to place, store, and access some or all the cookies described below on your computer:
We may also collect and use the data contained in log files, which may include your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our platform, the time you visited our platform and which sections you visited.
When you access our platform via a mobile device, we may use your mobile device ID (i.e. the unique identifier assigned to a mobile device by the manufacturer) and/or Advertising ID (for Apple iOS) instead of cookies in order to recognize you and track displayed web pages, along with their performance. For the latest versions of Apple iOS, your device would request you one or more times for your express consent for advertising tracking.
To help control or block certain ads in mobile applications, you may choose to download and utilize the DAA mobile app.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. If you wish so, you can easily disable cookies on your web browsing software by following the step-by-step guides located at www.youradchoices.com and www.youronlinechoices.eu for EU visitors.
For mobile users, you have controls in your device’s mobile OS that enables you to choose whether to allow cookies, or share your advertising ID with companies like American Golf or our advertising service providers. For information on controlling your mobile choices, you can visit www.networkadvertising.org.
In order to facilitate the most relevant ads possible, American Golf works with various service providers who assist us in delivering similar ads to end users across devices and platforms. For example, we work with social media advertising services to provide you with relevant ads based on your American Golf activity through their media channels. This is also called remarketing, and we may also use service providers to provide you with a similar ad on a mobile website or mobile application as with a traditional website.
For information about and to opt out of interest-based ads from many ad networks, you can visit:
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage, no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized.
As such, to the best of our knowledge, we currently do not respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy notice.
You can decline to submit certain information and PI to American Golf, in which case we may not be able to provide certain of our Services to you. You can also control the types of notifications and communications we send, limit the information shared within our platform about you, and otherwise modify certain privacy settings on your browser and device.
You can update or modify your account information at any time by logging in to your account. You may also make a number of other adjustments to settings or the display of information about you.
Any deleted content will not be able to be removed from third party sites from which it has been shared via American Golf’ standard sharing features. Please keep in mind that we have no control over deletions or changes to your content if it has been shared manually by others once it becomes public domain.
Security of Collected Information.
The security of your PI is important to us, but please remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or another method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow all requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards.
For the purposes of the GDPR, in the European Union, American Golf is a “data controller” of the PI you provide to us for the primary purposes of providing you with our services.
For our European Union customers and users, by clicking the “I Accept” button or otherwise accepting the terms and conditions of our services through a clickable action or similar action, you hereby acknowledge, agree and unequivocally consent to the collection, process, management, treatment, transfer and authorized of your PI by American Golf, its affiliates and authorized third parties.
If you are resident in Switzerland, the contact details for the data protection authorities are available here: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home.html.
The section below covers the certain situations that you, as data subject, and we, as data controller, are most likely to see, but you should also carefully review the full list of data subject rights here: https://gdpr-info.eu/chapter-3/. You retain the right to access, amend, correct or delete your PI where it is inaccurate at any time.
Your privacy request must include, at the least, the following information: (i) your complete name, address and/or e-mail address in order for us to notify you the response to your request; (ii) attached documents establishing your identity; and (iii) a clear and concise description of the PI with regard to which you seek to enforce any of your privacy rights. If you request rectification, please indicate amendments to be made and attach documentation to back up your request.
Upon receipt of your privacy request, and after due review, we may then edit, deactivate and/or delete your PI from our services within thirty (30) days. In case of secure databases under our control where deletion is impossible, we will make such information permanently inaccessible.
American Golf’ business operations are located within Singapore. In compliance with the latest amendments to the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), our users in Singapore are able to enjoy the following rights and requirements of the PDPA that are followed by the American Golf team:
Periodically, and at the final discretion of ourselves, we may update, change, suspend and/modify our Site, our Services, this Policy and/or our Terms, in whole or in part, at any moment and without prior notice. We hereby reserve such rights in order to operate our business and protect ourselves. Your use after any changes indicate your acceptance thereof and we will post a notice regarding such changes on our Site, and may also write an email to you or otherwise notify you.
If a situation warrants that we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will try to post those changes on our platform, indicating the date where the changes will become effective, and thus we encourage you to review our web pages periodically. If we make any changes to this Policy that materially change how we treat your personal information, we will endeavor to provide you with prompt notice of such changes, such as through a prominent notice on the Site, through a push notification or to your email address of record. Where required by law, we will obtain your consent or give you the opportunity to opt-out of such.
From time to time, this Policy may be translated into other languages for your convenience. The English language version of each of these documents shall be the version that prevails and governs your use of the Site and our products and services. Upon the case of any conflict between the English language version and any translated version, the English language version will prevail.
If you have any questions or comments about us, our Site, our Terms and/or this Policy, please contact us via email to info@aconcaguagames.com. Note that communications made by email or the “Contact Us” page does not constitute legal notice to the American Golf legal entity.
Date of the last effective update is February 8, 2022.