Updated on: November 2024
Welcome to Professional Angling Circuit . Your
privacy is important to us.
Professional Angling Circuit and its affiliates ("Professional Angling
Circuit", “us”, “our” or "we") are dedicated to protecting the
privacy rights of our users ("users" or "you"). This
Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) describes the ways we collect, store, use, and
manage the information, including personal information, that you provide or we
collect in connection with our websites, including www.proac.co.za (the “Sites”) or any Professional
Angling Circuit application provided on
a mobile platform (for example, iOS and Android)(collectively, the
"Service"). Please note that the scope of this Policy is
limited to information collected or received by Professional Angling Circuit
through your use of the Service. Professional Angling Circuit is not
responsible for the actions of third party people or
companies, the content of their sites, the use of information you provide to
them, or any products or services they may offer. Any link to those sites
does not constitute our sponsorship of, or affiliation with, those people or
companies.
By using the Service, you are expressing your agreement to this Policy and the
processing of your data, including your personal information, in the manner
provided in this Policy. If you do not agree to these terms, please do
not use the Service.
If you have questions or concerns about our privacy policy or practices, please
contact us at lmlouwies@gmail.com .
Information Collection and Use
Professional Angling Circuit collects information as described below. Professional
Angling Circuit’s primary goals in collecting and using information is to
create your account, provide Services to you, improve our Service, contact you,
conduct research and create statistical reports for general use. We store
information on servers located in the VSP Hosting and may store information on
servers and equipment in other countries.
In order to use your community forum, you must
register and provide a name, surname and alias name. This is deemed as private information and will not
be shared. All other information can and will be used for statistical
purposes.
Professional Angling Circuit’s Sites
While you are browsing Professional Angling Circuit's Sites, your computer’s
operating system, Internet Protocol (IP) address, access times, browser type
and language and referring Web site addresses may be logged
automatically. We may use this information to monitor, develop and analyze your use of the Service. In addition, we may
ask you to submit and we may process data that is
personal to you, including but not limited to your name, profile photo, gender,
age or birthday, links to your profiles on social networking websites and other
third party sites, user names and e-mail and mail addresses. We may use
this information to create a user profile and provide you services. We
may use your email address to contact you about your experience with Professional
Angling Circuit Sites and notify you about company news and promotions.
Your gender and birthday may be used to analyze user
trends and target certain promotions. Your mail address may be used if we
have merchandise or other physical promotional materials that we want to send
to you. If you no longer wish to receive these types of promotional
materials, you may opt-out from receiving them at any time by emailing us at privacy@
historicalmetaldetectives.co.za.
Forums/Private Messages
Our Web site offers publicly accessible blogs, private messages, or community
forums. You should be aware that any information you provide in these areas may
be read, collected, and used by others who access them. To request removal of
your personal information from our blog or community forum, contact us at lmlouwies@gmail.com . In some
cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we
will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.
If you choose to use Facebook connect to use our blog or community forums, the
information you provide is tied to your Facebook account. You will need to
contact Facebook directly in order to request removal of personal information
from our blog or community forum.
Social Media (Features) and Widgets
Our Web site may includes Social Media Features, such as the Facebook Like
button and Widgets, such as the Share this button or interactive mini-programs
that run on our site. These Features may collect your IP address, which page
you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to
function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a
third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these
Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
iOS and Android Platforms
When you use any of the Professional Angling Circuit games or applications on a
mobile platform, we may collect and record certain information such as your
unique device ID (persistent / non-persistent), hardware type, media access
control (“MAC”) address, international mobile equipment identity (“IMEI”), the
version of your operating system (“OS”), your device name, your email address
(if you have connected to Facebook or Google+), and your location (based on
your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address). This information is useful to us
for troubleshooting and helps us understand usage trends.
We may collect your location based information for the
purpose of providing you with the correct version of the application. We
will not share this information with any third party. If you no longer
wish to allow us to track or use this information, you may turn it off at the
device level. Please note, the application may not work properly if we
are unable to tell where you are coming from (Country specific).
In addition, we create a unique user ID to track your use of our Service.
This unique user ID is stored in connection with your profile information to
track the Professional Angling Circuit applications you are using.
Facebook Connect, Game Center and Google+
You can log in to our site using sign-in services (“SN Service”) such as
Facebook Connect, Apple’s Game Center, or an Open ID
provider. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you the
option to share certain personal information with us such as your name, email
address, and resume to pre-populate our sign up
form. Services like Facebook Connect give you the option to post
information about your activities on this Web site to your profile page to
share with others within your network.
We may collect and record information through the SN Service in accordance with
the policies and terms of that SN Service. The information we collect
when you connect your user account to an SN Service may include: (1) your name,
(2) your SN Service user identification number and/or user name, (3) locale,
city, state and country, (4) sex, (5) birth date, (6) email address, (7)
profile picture or its URL, and (8) the SN Service user identification numbers
for your friends that are also connected to Professional Angling Circuit’s app
If you want us to delete the data we receive from Facebook, Game Center or Google+ about you, please contact us at lmlouwies@gmail.com .
Invite a Friend
Professional Angling Circuit may offer you the opportunity to invite your
contacts from a SN Service (such as your Facebook friends) so that those
contacts can be located in Professional Angling Circuit applications and/or you
can invite them to join you in Professional Angling Circuit applications .
Such contact information will be used only for the purpose of sending
communications to the addressee. You or the third party may contact us at
lmlouwies@gmail.com to request the removal of this information from our
database to the extent Professional Angling Circuit stores any of this
information.
Customer Service
We may collect your email address when you contact our customer service group
and we may use that email address to contact you about your application
experience with Professional Angling Circuit applications and notify you about
company news and promotions. If you no longer wish to receive certain email
notifications you may opt-out at any time by following the unsubscribe link
located at the bottom of each communication or by emailing us at privacy@proac.co.za
.
Push Notifications
We may occasionally send you push notifications through our mobile applications
to send you Application
updates, ranking scores and other service related notifications that may be of
importance to you. You may at any time opt-out from receiving these types
of communications by turning them off at the device level through your
settings.
Application Data Collection
Whenever you use our application, we collect data about all
of your interactions with the application and with the other users(“friends”)
inside the application via server information collection. This
information may be associated with your user ID, IP address or device ID for
the purpose of providing you our Services and improving them. This data
is stored within Professional Angling Circuit server.
Other Collection
We may also acquire information from you through (1) your access and
participation in message boards on the Service, (2) your participation in
surveys regarding the Service or (3) your participation in a sweepstakes or challenges
through the Service.
We may provide you the opportunity to participate in a sweepstakes or challenges
through our Service. If you participate, we will request certain personal
information from you. Participation in these sweepstakes and challenges are
voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not
to disclose this information. The requested information typically
includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and
demographic information (such as zip code).
We use this information to notify winners and award prizes, to monitor traffic
or personalize the Service. We may use a third party service provider to
conduct these sweepstakes or challenges; that company is prohibited from using
your users’ personal information for any other purpose.
Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)
We employ or our third party tracking utility partner employs a software
technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), that help us better
manage content on our site by informing us what content is effective.
Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to
cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. In
contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear
gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages or e-mails and are about the size of
the period at the end of this sentence. We may associate this information with
your IP address or device identifier but do not tie the information gathered by
clear gifs to our customers’ personal information.
Mobile Analytics
We use mobile analytics software to allow us to better understand the
functionality of our Mobile Software on your device. This software may record
information such as how often you use the application, the events that occur
within the application, aggregated usage, performance data, and where the
application was downloaded from. We do not link the information we store within
the analytics software to any personal information you submit within the mobile
application.
Third Party Services
Our services may contain third party tracking tools from our service providers,
examples of which include Google Analytics and MobileAppTracking
by Tune. Such third parties may use cookies, APIs, and SDKs in our services to
enable them to collect and analyze user information
on our behalf. The third parties may have access to information such as your
device identifier, MAC address, IMEI, locale (specific location where a given
language is spoken), geo-location information, and IP address for the purpose
of providing their services under their respective privacy policies. Our
privacy policy does not cover the use of tracking tools from third
parties. We do not have access or control over these third parties.
Ad Networks
We may feature advertising within our Service. The advertisers may
collect and use information about you, such as your Service session activity,
device identifier, MAC address, IMEI, geo-location information and IP
address. They may use this information to provide advertisements of
interest to you.
In addition, you may see our applications advertised in other services.
After clicking on one of these advertisements and installing our application,
you will become a user of our Service. In order to
verify the installs, a device identifier may be shared with the advertiser.
How We Use Information
We use information collected through our Service for purposes described in this
Policy or disclosed to you in connection with our Service. For example, we may
use your information to:
create application accounts and allow users to use our applications;
identify and suggest connections with other Professional Angling Circuit users;
operate and improve our Service;
understand you and your preferences to enhance your experience and enjoyment
using our Service;
respond to your comments and questions and provide customer service;
provide and deliver products and services you request;
send you related information, including confirmations, invoices, technical
notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
communicate with you about promotions, rewards, upcoming events, and other news
about products and services offered by Professional Angling Circuit and our
selected partners;
enable you to communicate with other users; and
link or combine it with other information we get from third parties, to help
understand your preferences and provide you with better services.
Disclosure of Your information
Professional Angling Circuit does not share your personal information except as
approved by you or as described below:
With your consent, for example, when you agree to our sharing your information
with other third parties for their own marketing purposes subject to their
separate privacy policies. If you no longer wish to allow us to share
your information with third parties, please contact us at lmlouwies@gmail.com . If you no
longer wish to receive such communications from third parties, please contact
that third party directly.
Professional Angling Circuit may engage other companies and individuals to
perform services on our behalf. Example of these services include analyzing data and providing customer support. These
agents and service providers may have access to your personal information in
connection with the performance of services for Professional Angling Circuit
We may release your information as permitted by law, such as to comply with a
subpoena, or when we believe that release is appropriate to comply with the
law; investigate fraud, respond to a government request, enforce or apply our
rights; or protect the rights, property, or safety of us or our users, or
others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and
organizations for fraud protection.
Professional Angling Circuit may share your information in connection with any
merger, sale of our assets, or a financing or acquisition of all or a portion
of our business to another company. You will be notified via email and/or
notice on our site of any change in ownership or users of your personal
information.
We may share aggregate or anonymous information about you with advertisers,
publishers, business partners, sponsors, and other third parties.
Changes to the Policy
We may update this privacy policy to reflect changes to our information
practices. If we make any material changes we will
notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account) or
by means of a notice on this Site prior to the change becoming effective. We
encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on
our privacy practices.
Security
Professional Angling Circuit takes reasonable measures to protect your
information from unauthorized access or against loss, misuse or alteration by
third parties.
Although we make good faith efforts to store the information collected on the
Service in a secure operating environment that is not available to the public,
we cannot guarantee the absolute security of that information during its
transmission or its storage on our systems. Further, while we attempt to
ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot
guarantee that our security measures will prevent third-party “hackers"
from illegally obtaining access to this information. We do not warrant or
represent that your information will be protected against, loss, misuse, or
alteration by third parties. No method of transmission over the Internet, or
method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we
cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Access to Personal Information
If your personal information changes, or if you no longer desire our service,
you may correct, update, or delete inaccuracies by making the change within
your account settings or by contacting us at lmlouwies@gmail.com . We will
respond to your access request within 30 days.
Data Retention
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as
needed to provide you services. If you wish to cancel your account or
request that we no longer use your information to provide you services, contact
us at lmlouwies@gmail.com . We
will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal
obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Our Policy Regarding Children
We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under
the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to use our Service. If you
are under 13, please do not send any information about yourself to us,
including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one
under the age of 13 may provide any personal information. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal
information from a child under age 13, we will delete that information as
quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information
from or about a child under the age of 13, please contact us at lmlouwies@gmail.com .
Opting Out of Marketing
You may opt-out of receiving promotional emails from us by following the
instructions in those emails by emailing us at lmlouwies@gmail.com . If you
opt-out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as emails about
your accounts or our ongoing business relations.
You may also opt-out of receiving SMS notifications from us, either via SMS or
by emailing us at lmlouwies@gmail.com .
International Transfer
We may transfer information that we collect about you to affiliated entities,
or to other third parties across borders and from your country or jurisdiction
to other countries or jurisdictions around the world. Please note that these
countries and jurisdictions may not have the same data protection laws as your
own jurisdiction, and you consent to the transfer of information to South
Africa and the use and disclosure of information about you, including personal
information, as described in this Policy.
Contact Information
Professional Angling Circuit ,
[Address]
If you have any questions about this
Policy, please contact us at lmlouwies@gmail.com
.