Privacy Policy for PickleBallPaddleWorld.com
Effective date: 04/16/2024
Who We Are
Our website, PickleBallPaddleWorld.com, is the premier online destination for everything related to Pickleball, from playing techniques and gear reviews to community news and events. We are committed to fostering a welcoming and informative space for Pickleball enthusiasts of all levels.
For any questions or support, please contact us at
PickleBallPaddleWorld@gmail.com.
What Personal Data We Collect and Why
Comments
When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data displayed in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and the browser user agent string to aid in spam detection. This helps us manage and display visitor comments effectively while protecting our site from spam.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience, so you don’t have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies last for one year.
Logging into the site will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, while screen option cookies last for a year. If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will note the post ID of the article you edited and expire after 1 day.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Such embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if the visitor has visited the other website, which may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content.
Analytics
Our website uses analytics services to collect and analyze browsing behavior. This includes but is not limited to pages viewed, time spent on pages, and the pathways taken through the site. This information helps us understand how visitors use our site and how we can improve their experience.
How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically rather than holding them in a moderation queue.
Where We Send Your Data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service to ensure the integrity of our site and the safety of our community.
Affiliate Disclosure
PickleBallPaddleWorld.com participates in affiliate marketing programs. This means we may earn commissions for products purchased through links on our site, at no additional cost to you. Our affiliate activities do not influence our content, but they do help support our mission to grow the Pickleball community.
Social Sharing
We may offer social sharing features or other integrated tools, which let you share actions you take on our website with other media, and vice versa. Your use of these features enables the sharing of information with your friends or the public, depending on the settings you establish with the entity that provides the social sharing feature.
Advertising and Analytics Services Provided by Others
We may allow third parties to serve advertisements and provide analytics services in connection with our site. These entities may use cookies, web beacons, and other technologies to collect information about your use of our website and other websites, including your IP address, web browser, pages viewed, time spent on pages, and conversion information.
Security
We take reasonable measures to protect the information you provide to us from loss, theft, misuse, and unauthorized access or disclosure.
Your Rights Over Your Data
If you have an account on our site, have left comments, or have subscribed to our services, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
For further information or to exercise your data protection rights, please contact us at PickleBallPaddleWorld.com@gmail.com