Privacy Policy

Fairway Founders operates a public-facing networking platform. We collect personal information from you and we share it publicly. If you do not want your information shared publicly, do not use the Service.

This Policy explains what we collect, why, with whom, and what limited controls you have. This Policy is part of our Terms of Service. Capitalized terms used without definition have the meanings given in the Terms.

• Members (signed-up users)
• Visitors to our website
• People who interact with our sponsors through links we provide

We collect information you submit when you sign up, complete your profile, RSVP for events, interact with other Members, post broadcasts, or contact us. This includes:

• Identity: name, email, phone number (if provided), photo.
• Profile:company, professional role, bio, handicap, “can help with” tags, links.
• Activity: RSVPs, attendance, scores, group history, messages, notifications, feedback you submit.
• Payment-related identifiers:name on card, billing email, transaction confirmations. We do not store full card numbers — see §4.
• Communications: anything you send to us at our contact email.

When you use the Service we automatically collect:

• Device and connection: IP address, browser type, operating system, device identifiers, time zone, language.
• Usage: pages viewed, links clicked, features used, session duration.
• Cookies and local storage (see §7).
• Sponsor link clicks (see §7c).

We do not collect or store full payment-card numbers. Card data is handled directly by our payment processor and is subject to their privacy policy.

We use it to:

• Operate, maintain, and improve the Service.
• Build foursomes, assign holes and carts, run the leaderboard.
• Display your profile and activity to other Members and the public.
• Communicate with you (operational notices, broadcasts, reminders, responses to inquiries).
• Process payments through our payment processor.
• Detect and respond to fraud, abuse, security incidents, and rule violations.
• Analyze Member, sponsor, and event engagement.
• Use, sublicense, publish, and distribute your content as described in Terms §5.
• Comply with legal obligations.

We share it broadly, by design. You acknowledge that we may share your information:

(a) With other Members. Profile information, RSVPs, scores, group history, and broadcasts you post are visible to other Members.

(b) Publicly. Profile information may be displayed on public pages of the Service, in marketing materials, on social media, and on sponsor materials. We may continue to use and display content you submitted even after your membership ends.

(c) With sponsors. We may share Member rosters, engagement reports, event attendance, and aggregated or individual click data with sponsors in connection with our sponsorship relationships.

(d) With sub-processors. We use third-party vendors that process data on our behalf. See §8 for the current list. We may add, change, or remove sub-processors at any time. Each operates under its own privacy policy.

(e) With our payment processor. When we add in-app payments we will share billing data with a payment processor under its privacy policy.

(f) With AI providers. As described in Terms §10, we use AI tools that may process your information.

(g) For legal reasons. We may disclose information when required by law, subpoena, court order, or regulatory request, or when we believe disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, your safety, or the safety of others.

(h) In a corporate transaction. If we are acquired, merged, or restructured, your information may be transferred to the new operator.

We do not sell your personal information for money. The disclosures above, including to sponsors, may constitute “sharing” or “selling” under certain state laws (such as the California Consumer Privacy Act). See §13 for state-specific rights.

(a) Cookies and local storage. We and our service providers use cookies, local storage, and similar technologies for sign-in, preferences, security, and analytics. You can disable cookies in your browser, but parts of the Service will stop working if you do.

(b) Analytics. We may use analytics tools to measure how the Service is used.

(c) Sponsor link clicks. When you click a link to a sponsor — whether from the public sponsor grid, a Member-facing page, or a notification — we record the click (sponsor, link type, your account if signed in, timestamp) and use that data to report engagement to sponsors and to prioritize future placements. Sponsors may receive your individual click data, or aggregated data, at our discretion.

The following vendors process personal information on our behalf:

• Clerk(clerk.com) — authentication, sign-in, account management.
• Supabase(supabase.com) — database storage and backend infrastructure.
• Vercel(vercel.com) — application hosting, serverless compute, log collection.

We may add other sub-processors at any time without prior notice. The list above will be updated periodically. Each sub-processor operates under its own terms and privacy practices.

If another Member shares information about you (for example, by tagging or mentioning you in a broadcast), we may receive and store that information.

As stated in Terms §10, we use AI to operate and improve the Service. This may include AI processing of your profile, messages, group history, and other Member data. AI service providers process data under their own terms.

We retain Member information for as long as we believe it is useful, including indefinitely. Public content you have submitted (profile, broadcasts, scores) may be retained, displayed, and used after your membership ends, consistent with the license you granted in Terms §5. Operational logs, sponsor click data, billing identifiers, and other records may be retained as long as we believe necessary for security, legal compliance, accounting, fraud prevention, or business records.

We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, and destruction. No system is perfectly secure. You use the Service at your own risk. If we become aware of a security incident that we believe affects your personal information, we will notify you as required by applicable law.

(a) Profile editing. You can edit most profile fields from your account settings.

(b) Account deletion. You can request deletion of your account by emailing the address in §17. Deletion of your account does not delete: (i) public content you submitted that we have already published, copied, or shared; (ii) records we are required to retain for legal, accounting, security, or audit purposes; (iii) anonymized or aggregated data; (iv) content other Members have screenshotted, copied, or re-shared.

(c) Marketing communications. You can opt out of non-essential marketing emails by following the unsubscribe link in any such email. Operational and transactional messages (account, billing, events, security) cannot be opted out of while your account is active.

(d) California residents. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) may give you the right to: know what personal information we have collected about you, request deletion, request correction, and limit certain uses of “sensitive personal information.” To exercise these rights, contact us at the address in §17. We will verify your identity before responding. You may also designate an authorized agent. We do not sell personal information for money. To the extent any of our sharing — including with sponsors — qualifies as “sharing” under the CCPA/CPRA, you may opt out by emailing us at the address in §17 with the subject line “Do Not Share.”

(e) Other states. Residents of Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and other states with comprehensive privacy laws may have similar rights. Contact us to exercise them.

(f) Right-of-publicity. You acknowledge in Terms §5 and §13 that we may use your name, voice, and likeness in marketing and sponsorship materials. You may withdraw consent prospectively by emailing the address in §17; previously distributed materials are not affected.

Fairway Founders is operated from and intended for users in the United States. We do not target the Service to residents of the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or any other jurisdiction with specific data-protection regimes. If you access the Service from outside the United States, you do so at your own risk, and you consent to your information being processed and stored in the United States.

The Service is not directed to anyone under 18. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18. If we discover such information, we will delete it.

We may update this Policy at any time. Material changes will be communicated through the Service or by email. The “Last updated” date at the top of this Policy reflects the most recent revision. Your continued use after a change constitutes acceptance.

Privacy questions, deletion requests, and opt-out requests:

hello@fairwayfounders.org

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