Privacy Policy
1. Scope
This Privacy Policy ("Policy") describes how Ping Europe Limited ("PING," "we," or "us") treats personal data collected on our websites, mobile applications, and any other platforms potential consumers interact with (the “Platform”) as well as other information collected online or offline by us in the European Union (“EU”) and United Kingdom (“UK”).
2. Types of information we collect
PING collects information from you and about you. Here are some examples of the information we may collect:
Although the information above describes examples of purposes in collecting your information, in many situations we have more than one purpose. For example, if you order a product with us, we may collect your information to perform our contract with you, but also collect your information as we have a legitimate interest in maintaining your information after your transaction is complete so that we can quickly and easily respond to any questions about your order. As a result, our collection and processing of your information is based in different contexts based on your consent, our need to perform a contract, our obligations under law, and/or our legitimate interest in conducting our business.
If you refuse to give the consent, certain aspects of the Platform and/or services may not be available to you. To learn more about how we gather consent in different situations, please email us at: info@pingeurope.co.uk.
3. How we collect your information
PING collects your information in different ways, including through various technological means on the Platform such as through the website, electronic communications, mobile applications and others. Below are some examples of how we may collect your information on our Platform:
- Register for an account.
- Purchase products or services through our Platform.
- Sign up to receive promotional communications.
- Use our Webfit, iPing, or other online application(s).
- Submit a request, such as for club repairs or customer service.
- Participate in one of our promotional sweepstakes, contests, surveys, or focus groups.
- Post a product review.
- Interact with PING social media pages.
- Install and use PING mobile apps.
- Visit and navigate our Platform on any device.
- Enable location-based features on our Platform.
We may receive information about you from other sources. For example, this may include receiving information from:
- Our business partners, including company contacts, which may include Apple HealthKit and Health App, analytics vendors, providers of golf sensors or mobile applications, and companies that co-sponsor our promotions.
- Social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram.
- Third-party technology services providers or sites, including those that allow you to integrate your third-party account with your PING account.
- Companies that provide information to supplement what we already know about you.
4. How we use your information
Examples of how we may use your information that we collect through our Platform are in Section 2, but in general, include to:
- Identify you when you visit our websites.
- Provide products and services or to process returns.
- Improve our services and product offerings.
- Streamline the checkout process.
- Conduct analytics.
- Communicate with you, such as to respond to and/or follow-up on your requests, inquiries, issues, or feedback.
- Send marketing and promotional materials including information relating to our products, services, sales, or promotions, or those of our business partners.
- Detect and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, including violation of our policies and terms and conditions, security incidents, and harm to the rights, property, or safety of our company and our users, employees, or others.
- Debug, identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality of our website and services.
- Comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, to establish or exercise our rights, and to defend against a legal claim.
- Facilitate internal administrative purposes, as well as to manage our relationships.
- Facilitate such other purposes as you may consent.
5. How we share your information
We may share personal information collected (as discussed in Section 2) to help perform the services to you and as ways described in Section 4, “How we use your information.” The categories of third parties who may receive information from us include:
- Internal Partners. We may share your information within our corporate affiliates (e.g., subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under common control).
- On Our Platform. For example, we may display information you post on our product review features. We may also display information you submit in connection with a promotion, subject to the terms provided by that promotion.
- With Our Service Providers. We may share your information with third parties who perform services on our behalf. For example, this may include merchandise vendors and payment processors.
- With Our Business Partners. For example, this may include a third party that co-sponsors a contest or promotion. We may also share information with business partners including Apple HealthKit, Health App, or other analytics vendors.
- With Any Successors to All or Part of Our Business or One of Our Brands. For example, if we merge with, acquire, or are acquired, or sell a brand or part of its business to another business entity. This may include an asset sale, corporate reorganization, or other change of control. We may transfer our customer information as part of such a transaction or as stand-alone assets, including at the negotiation stage.
- To Comply With the Law or To Protect Ourselves. For example, this could include responding to a court order or subpoena. It could also include sharing information if a government agency or investigatory body requests. We might share information when we are investigating a potential fraud. This could include fraud we think has occurred during a sweepstakes or promotion. We may also share information if you are the winner of a sweepstakes or other contest with anyone who requests a winner’s list.
- For Other Reasons With Your Consent. We may disclose your information to other third parties when we have your consent or direction to do so.
6. Children
The Platform where this Policy is located are meant for adults. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable data from persons under the age of majority in your jurisdiction. If you are a parent or legal guardian and think your child has provided us with information, please contact us at info@pingeurope.co.uk. You can also write to us at the address listed at the end of this website Policy. Please mark your inquiries “Children Information Request.”
7. Marketing Communications:
You can opt out of receiving our marketing communications by follow the instructions included with the communication or by emailing us info@pingeurope.co.uk. Note that you will still receive transactional messages from us, including information about your account and responses to your inquiries.
8. Cookies & Other Tracking Technologies:
As noted throughout this policy, we use cookies and other potential tracking technologies on our Platform. To toggle certain categories of cookies on or off and to learn more about the deployment of advertising technology on our Platform, please see “Manage Cookies” in bottom banner of the website. Options you select are browser and device specific.
9. Your privacy choices
Some jurisdictions give you a right to make the following choices regarding your personal data:
- Access To Your Personal Data. You may request access to your personal data (or confirmation that we have information about you) by contacting us at the address described below. If required by law, upon request, we will grant you access to the personal data that we have about you. In certain limited circumstances, you may also request to receive access to your data in a portable, machine-readable format.
- Changes To Your Personal Data. We rely on you to update and correct your personal data. Most of our websites allow you to modify or delete your account profile. If our website does not permit you to update or correct certain information, you can contact us at the address described below in order to request that your information be modified. Note that we may keep historical information in our backup files as permitted by law.
- Deletion of Your Personal Data. You may request that we delete your personal data. If required by law, we will grant a request to delete information, but you should note that in many situations we must keep your personal data to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, or for another business purpose.
- Revocation of Consent: Where we process your personal data based upon consent, you may revoke consent. Please note, if you revoke your consent for the processing of personal data, then we may no longer be able to provide you services.
- Object to or Restriction of Certain Processing. In certain circumstances, you may object to the processing of your personal data, or request that we restrict processing of your personal data.
- Promotional Emails. You may choose to provide us with your email address for the purpose of allowing us to send free newsletters and other promotional materials to you, as well as targeted offers from third parties. You can stop receiving promotional emails by following the unsubscribe instructions in emails that you receive. If you decide not to receive promotional emails, we may still send you service-related communications.
You may exercise the rights described above by contacting us at the address in the “How to contact us” section below or by emailing, info@pingeurope.co.uk.
Note that we may require you to prove your identity. We may conduct an identity verification by phone call or email. Depending on your request, we will ask for information such as your name, the last item you purchased from us, or the date of your last purchase from us. We may also ask you to provide a signed declaration confirming your identity.
If you are not satisfied with our response and you are located in a jurisdiction that allows, you may have a right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority.
10. Security
The Internet is not 100% secure. We cannot promise that your use of our Platform will be completely safe. We employ reasonable technical, physical, and administrative safeguards designed to protect your information that is under our control. We encourage you to use caution when using the Internet. If a username and a password is needed to access certain areas of the Platform, then it is your responsibility to protect your username and password. In the event that we are required by law to inform you of a breach to your personal data we may notify you electronically, in writing, or by telephone, if permitted to do so by law.
11. How long we retain information
We retain your personal data for only as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Policy, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the information, the purposes for which we obtained the information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, as well as applicable legal requirements.
12. Transmission of Information to Other Countries
As a multi-national company, we transmit information between and among our affiliates and other third parties as discussed in this policy. As a result, your information may be processed in a foreign country where privacy laws may be less stringent than laws in your country or jurisdiction. Nonetheless, where possible, we take steps to treat your personal data using the same privacy principles that apply in your country or jurisdiction. By submitting your personal data to us, you agree to the transfer, storage, and processing of your information in a country other than your country of residence including, but not limited to the United States. Please contact using the information below if you would like more information on how we transfer data to another jurisdiction, including copies of any Standard Contractual Clauses or UK IDTA used for the transfer of data outside of the EU or UK.
13. Links
Our Platform may contain links to other third-party sites that are not governed by this Policy. If you click on a link to a third-party site, you will be taken to a site we do not control. We are not responsible for the privacy practices used by third-party sites. We suggest that you read the privacy policies of those sites carefully. We are not responsible for these third-party sites.
14. How to contact us
If you have any questions, comments or concerns with respect to our privacy practices or this Policy, wish to exercise your privacy rights, or need to access this Policy in an alternative format due to having a disability, please feel free to contact us at info@pingeurope.co.uk. or call us at +44 (0) 1427 619228. You may also write to us at the following address:
Ping Europe Limited
Corringham Road
Gainsborough
Lincolnshire
United Kingdom
DN21 1XZ
15. Changes in Policy
From time to time, we may change our Policy. We will notify you of any material changes to our Policy as required by law. We will also post an updated copy on our Platform. Please check our Platform periodically for updates.