Privacy Policy

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This policy covers how SwingVine treats personal information that it collects and receives as you use the Website. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available. This policy applies solely to products and services provided by SwingVine and does not apply to the practices of companies that SwingVine does not own or control, or to people that SwingVine does not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use

SwingVine, in order to provide a full range of services, may collect the following types of information:

Account Information: When you sign up or subsequently edit a SwingVine Account, we ask you for personal information such as your email address and name. While signed in to our services, you are not anonymous to us. Furthermore, based on your account settings, as described below, other SwingVine users can view your public-facing profile, as you configure it, the opening date of your account, your contributions to the site, and other types of information you voluntarily disclose.

Log and Cookie Information: When you use the SwingVine website, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. Some of the information SwingVine logs includes your web request, IP address, browser type, browser language, SwingVine cookies that may uniquely identify your browser, software and hardware attributes, and the date and time of your request.

Submissions: When you submit content to SwingVine such as text, images, or embedded multimedia, SwingVine associates this content with your account information. We use this information to display your public name, which is fully editable by you as described below, for attribution of your submissions. We may also use this information to reward your account with non-monetary points, privileges, or titles for valuable contributions or penalize / terminate your account for contributions that violate our Terms of Use.

Interactions: SwingVine may present links and other user interface elements in a format that enables us to keep track of the pages, links, or user interface elements that users view, click, or hover over. We use this information to improve the quality of our service.

Communications: When you contact SwingVine via email or other channels of communication, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.

Voluntary Disclosures: Any other personal information or content that you voluntarily disclose on the SwingVine Website through your submissions, such as reviews or commentary, becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others.

SwingVine uses the above information to provide its full range of services, send you communications relating to its services, and to help improve the quality of its services. We may combine the above collected information with information from other SwingVine services or third parties in order to provide you with a better experience and to improve the quality of our services.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

SwingVine does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

Accessing and Editing Your Account Information and Public Profile

You can edit your SwingVine Account Information at any time including your email address, publicly viewable name, and other information that is made publicly available. Other SwingVine users can view this information along with your history of contributions and submissions to the site and any other information related to your public profile. It is your responsibility to monitor this public profile to ensure that only the information you want to share with other SwingVine users is disclosed.

You can deactivate your SwingVine account by visiting your account settings page. SwingVine reserves the right to keep your account information in our archives after you deactivate your account.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

SwingVine may update this policy from time to time. We will post any Privacy Policy changes on this page.