Privacy Policy

ROCK CREEK BARBECUE CLUB WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY
(July 2014)

This privacy policy governs Rock Creek Barbecue Club’s official website, www.rcbbq.org. Any other websites that may bare the same or similar name for Rock Creek Barbecue Club, are NOT covered under this Privacy Policy, and should be used with caution to guard against your personal loss of privacy.

This Policy explains how we collect your personal information on our Website, how we protect such information, and the choices you have concerning the use of such information. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. Except as we disclose in this Privacy Policy, we will not sell, share, license, trade, or rent your personally identifiable information to others. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “we”, “us”, and “our” means Rock Creek Barbecue Club. This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected by our Website. It does not apply to the offline activities of Rock Creek Barbecue Club or any third party websites that we link to.

At Rock Creek Barbecue Club we are committed to honoring the privacy of our customers and visitors to our Website. We recognize the importance to you of maintaining an appropriate level of privacy and security for the personal information we collect from you over the Internet. This Privacy Policy represents our current (as of July1, 2014) data collection and usage practices. Rock Creek Barbecue Club will from time to time review and revise these practices. We will post any changes to this Privacy Policy here. Please refer back to this Privacy Policy on a regular basis. By accessing or using our Website or any of the products, offerings, features, tools or resources that we provide on our Website, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
We are not responsible for the privacy of any information you reveal or post in any public forum (e.g., message board or chat room), or for the content, products or services offered or the privacy and security practices employed by websites that are operated or owned by third parties.

RCBBQ.ORG PRIVACY POLICY

The RCBBQ.ORG Privacy Policy and Terms of Use apply to your access and use of the rcbbq.org website.

What Kind of Information Does Rock Creek Barbecue Club Collect and Use?

Personal Data

Personally identifiable information is information that identifies you or can be used to identify or contact you, e.g., your name, email address, address, or phone number (“Personal Data”). We only collect Personal Data from you on our Website with your consent. In general, you can visit and use our Website without telling us who you are or revealing any Personal Data. However, some portions of our Website may be accessible only to users who have registered with us and who may be asked to provide certain information, including Personal Data, as part of the registration or login process. In all cases, we will collect Personal Data from you only if you voluntarily submit such information to us.

Nonpersonal Data

In addition to Personal Data, Rock Creek Barbecue Club may collect and/or track information that by itself cannot be used to identify or contact you, e.g., demographic information (like age, profession or gender), domain names, computer type, browser types, and other anonymous statistical data involving the use of our Website (“Nonpersonal Data”). We use Nonpersonal Data to help us understand who uses our Website and to improve and market our Website.

Cookies

Our Website may make use of cookies (or a similar technology, such as action tags, web bugs, .gif tags, and JavaScript) to better manage our Website and to assist us in providing you with tailored information and services. These tracking tools are files or tools that are placed on your computer in order to identify your Web browser and the activities of your computer on our Websites. This information may be aggregated to measure such things as the number of visits, average time spent on the site, number of pages viewed, and methods by which our Website was found. Rock Creek Barbecue Club uses such information to evaluate the use of our site and to continuously improve the content and services being provided. For example, a cookie is a tiny element of data that a Website can send to your browser, which is stored on your hard drive so that we can do things such as better serve you as you navigate through our site or when you return. You may set your browser to notify you or decline the receipt of a cookie; however, certain features of our Website may not function properly or be available if your browser is configured to disable cookies. We believe these tracking tool technologies add value to the user experience.

Use of Personal Data Collected

Rock Creek Barbecue Club may use Personal Data it collects for its internal use and for its own business purposes, including marketing and promotion and to manage the internal operations and security of our Website consistent with the Terms of Use and policies established from time to time governing this Website (CLICK HERE for Terms of Use). When you supply Personal Data for a specific purpose, we use the Personal Data for that purpose which may involve the disclosure of such information to unaffiliated third party companies and vendors where necessary to and for the limited purpose of processing your request, processing a transaction authorized by you or providing you with requested products or services. Other than for such specific purposes, Rock Creek Barbecue Club will not disclose to third parties any of your Personal Data, except to the extent necessary to comply with applicable laws, rules, or regulations, with your express permission, or to preserve Rock Creek Barbecue Club’s legal rights in the Website content.

Rock Creek Barbecue Club reserves the right to transfer such information among its own affiliated companies, to successors to the relevant portion of any of Rock Creek Barbecue Club’s businesses, or to independent contractors it engages to assist with or perform on Rock Creek Barbecue Club’s behalf any of the activities described above. For example, we may disclose Personal Data we collect, as described above, to companies and vendors that perform marketing or other services on our behalf or with whom we have joint marketing agreements so that we may provide a full range of products and services to you. In addition, Rock Creek Barbecue Club reserves the right to use Personal Data to contact you regarding your account status and changes to the Terms of Use, this Privacy Policy, or any other policies, agreements or transactions relevant to your use of the Websites. Rock Creek Barbecue Club will take reasonable steps to maintain the integrity of the collected data so that it is reliable and appropriate for the foregoing uses.

Sweepstakes and Contests

We may also offer contests or sweepstakes on our Websites including contests or sweepstakes that are co-sponsored with third parties. Either we or the co-sponsors may collect Personal Data that you provide to enter the contest or sweepstakes to select winners, and to forward such information to third party fulfillment companies so that such companies may process and deliver prizes to winners. In addition, we or the co-sponsors may retain your Personal Data for record retention purposes. We will not use any information you provide to enter a contest or sweepstakes other than as set forth in this Privacy Policy. However, we will not have control over the use of information that is collected by a co-sponsor and you should therefore review each co-sponsor’s privacy policy to understand how your Personal Data may be used.

Your Choices Regarding Personal Data Collection and Use

You may “opt-out” of having your Personal Data used by Rock Creek Barbecue Club to send promotional correspondence to you by contacting Rock Creek Barbecue Club via postal mail, e-mail, or telephone at the address listed in our “Terms and Conditions” statement.

Upon request via postal mail, e-mail, or telephone, Rock Creek Barbecue Club will provide to you a summary of any Personal Data retained by Rock Creek Barbecue Club regarding you. You may modify, correct, change or update Personal Data that Rock Creek Barbecue Club has collected via any Website or you may request that your Personal Data be removed from Rock Creek Barbecue Club database by contacting Rock Creek Barbecue Club via postal mail, e-mail, or the telephone number indicated below, provided, however, that such removal may require you to register again with Rock Creek Barbecue Club in the event you later wish to access Rock Creek Barbecue Club’s Website. You should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove or verify each and every record of information you have provided to us from our systems. The need to back-up our systems to protect information from inadvertent loss means that a copy of your Personal Data may exist in non-erasable form that will be difficult or impossible for us to locate. However, promptly after receiving your request, all Personal Data stored in databases we actively use and other readily searchable media will be updated, corrected, changed, deleted or confirmed to you, as appropriate, as soon as reasonably practicable.

Security Measures

Rock Creek Barbecue Club has established reasonable precautions to protect collected Personal Data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction, which include contractual, administrative, physical, and technical steps. Please note that while Rock Creek Barbecue Club has endeavored to create a secure and reliable site for users, the confidentiality of any communication or material transmitted to/from Rock Creek Barbecue Club via the Website or e-mail cannot be guaranteed.

Jurisdiction

This policy shall be governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to conflicts of law rules, and the exclusive jurisdiction and venue for any dispute shall be in any federal or state court of competent jurisdiction located in the Northern District of Texas.

European Economic Area Users

When you provide us with your Personal Data, you acknowledge that this information may be stored and processed on servers located outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) and you consent to your Personal Data being exported outside the EEA and being stored and processed at our discretion on any of our servers wherever located.

Revisions

Because of the evolving nature of the technologies that we use and the way that we conduct business, we may amend this policy from time to time. We will post any revisions on this site.

BY USING OUR WEBSITE, YOU SIGNIFY YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND OF US PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL DATA IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU SHOULD NOT USE OUR WEBSITE. YOUR CONTINUED USE OF OUR WEBSITE FOLLOWING THE POSTING OF CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY WILL MEAN THAT YOU ACCEPT THOSE CHANGES.