SoCal Flying Club and its subsidiary and affiliate companies and/or identities (collectively, “SoCal Flying Club” “we,” “us” or “our”) recognize the importance of protecting the information collected from users in the operation of its services, and take reasonable steps to maintain the security, integrity and privacy of any information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. By submitting your information to SoCal Flying Club you consent to the practices described in this policy. If you are less than 18 years of age, then you must first seek the consent of your parent or guardian prior to submitting any personal information.
SoCal Flying Club will seek to ensure that any identifiable personal information it collects during the registration and purchasing processes will be adequate, relevant and not excessive for purposes of operating its websites or any of its services and it will be kept accurate and up-to-date based on the information provided.
How We Collect Information
SoCal Flying Club collects information from you in two ways: directly from your input and automatically through SoCal Flying Club’s website technologies.
Information You Provide
The types of personal information that SoCal Flying Club collects directly from you may include:
Contact details, such as your name, email address, postal address and telephone number;
IP addresses;
Demographic and background information;
Usernames and passwords;
Payment information, such as a credit or debit card number;
Assessment and survey responses
Comments, feedback, posts and other content you submit to a SoCal Flying Club service; and
Communication preferences.
In order to access certain content and to make use of additional functionality and features of SoCal Flying Club’s websites and services, we may ask you to register for an account by completing and submitting a registration form, which may request additional information.
Information We Receive From Other Sources
SoCal Flying Club may hold information about you if you use any of the other websites we operate or the other services we provide. We also work closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, content management agencies) and may receive information about you from them.
Use Of Your Information
SoCal Flying Club may use your personal information in the following ways:
To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with information about products and services that you request from us;
To provide you with information about other products, events and services we offer that are similar to those you have already purchased or inquired about or other communications containing information about new products and services or upcoming events of ours, our affiliates and non-affiliated third parties such as societies and sponsors, if you have consented to receive this information;
For internal business and research purposes and to help enhance, evaluate and develop our websites, products and services and to develop new products and services;
To notify you about changes or updates to our websites;
To notify you about changes or updates to our products and services if you have consented to receive this information;
To respond to your requests, inquiries, comments or concerns;
To administer our services and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, statistical and survey purposes;
To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so; and
As part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;
For any other purpose that we may notify you of from time to time, providing that we have sought your consent.
SoCal Flying Club may use your assessment responses to further our research and in some cases we make this available to third parties, but only in the form of anonymous, aggregated data that does not reveal your identity or personal information.
Disclosure Of Your Information
SoCal Flying Club will not disclose your personal information to any third party except as follows:
Where necessary in connection with services provided by intermediaries, who are required to comply with this policy. These service providers provide us with a wide range of office, administrative, information technology, production and business management services;
If you voluntarily provide information in response to an advertisement, with the third party serving the advertisement;
In order to comply with the law or requests by law enforcement agencies, to enforce our Terms and Conditions or to protect the rights, property or safety of our services, users or others; and
In the event that all or substantially all of the business or assets of SoCal Flying Club relating to this service are sold or otherwise assigned to another entity, personally identifiable information may be transferred to such entity; and
Where necessary in connection with providing services on behalf of third parties, such as your identified advisors, institutions, and societies, providing we have your consent.
SoCal Flying Club may disclose to carefully chosen third parties navigational and transactional information in the form of anonymous, aggregate usage statistics (including “page views” on this website and the products therein) and demographics but only in forms that do not reveal your identity or personal information.
Cross Border Transfers
SoCal Flying Club may transfer your personal information outside of your country of residence for the following reasons:
In order to process your transactions.
This may occur on servers in countries other than the country where you live. SoCal Flying Club has sub-contractor partners in several countries, Such processing may include, among other things, the fulfillment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services.
By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy and all applicable data protection laws.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to us; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use all commercially reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized access to such information.
Links
SoCal Flying Club’s websites or services may include links to third party websites. In using such links, please be aware that each third party website is subject to its own privacy and data protection policies and is not covered by our privacy policy.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
Please note that SoCal Flying Club’s Privacy Policy is reviewed periodically. SoCal Flying Club reserves the right to modify its Privacy Policy at any time without notice. Any changes to the policy will be posted on this page.
Your Rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will inform you (before collecting your data) and shall seek your consent to use your data for such marketing purposes or to disclose your information to any third party for such marketing purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the consent forms we use when collecting your personal data. If at any point you wish to access your personal information to (1) change your preferences, (2) review the accuracy, or (3) correct, supplement or modify your information, you may do so by using our online contact form.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our privacy policy please contact us.