Privacy Policy


Deer Creek Golf Clubs is pleased to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, by disclosing our information practices, ensuring visitors that the information collected and distributed within this Web site will be used for only the stated reason. Deer Creek Golf Clubs respects the privacy of the visitors to our Web site. Your personal information is collected for the purpose of fulfilling your requests and registrations from The Academy and our three golf courses (Deer Creek North, Deer Creek South and Glen Cedars).

This privacy policy applies to visitor information and the use of golfglencedars.com, golfdeercreek.com and deercreekgolfacademy.com only. Deer Creek Golf Clubs is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of the Web sites to which it links.

1. Information Collection
Deer Creek Golf Clubs is the sole owner of the information collected on this Web site. We will not sell, share or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. The Deer Creek Golf Clubs collects information from our users at three points on our Web site.

a) Golf News Subscribers
Deer Creek Golf Clubs email lists reside in a secure listserv. Therefore, email addresses are never copied into an email address line for other recipients to see. Only Deer Creek Golf Clubs and Golfer's Guide Marketing Solutions (our Web master) have access to view the email addresses of our subscribers.

Information Requested

1/ Email Address (Required/ Provides us with a means to communicate Web site features)

b) Deer Creek Golf Academy Express (further information below) and Printable Registration
We request information from the user on our registration form. Here a user must provide contact information (name and billing address) and financial information (credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill customer's orders. If we have trouble processing an order, this contact information is used to get in touch with the customer.

Information Requested - All is required unless otherwise noted

1/ Name (Personalizes our communication)
2/ Mailing Address
3/ Telephone Number
4/ Fax Number
5/ Email Address
6/ Information about the golfer and their skill level

c) General Inquiry
When making a general inquiry, Deer Creek Golf Clubs collects certain information in order to ensure the appropriate follow-up.

Information Requested - All is required unless otherwise noted

1/ Name
2/ Company Name (Discretionary)
3/ Mailing Address (Discretionary)
4/ Telephone Number
5/ Fax Number (Discretionary)
6/ Email Address

d) Wedding Inquiry
When making an inquiry regarding the scheduling of a wedding, The Deer Creek Golf Clubs collects certain information in order to ensure the appropriate follow-up.

Information Requested - All is required unless otherwise noted

1/ Name (Personalizes our communication)
2/ Mailing Address (Discretionary)
3/ Telephone Number (Provides primary means of communication)
4/ Fax Number (Discretionary)
5/ Email Address (Provides secondary means of communication)
6/ Information regarding the approximate time frame of wedding (Discretionary)
7/ Information regarding the approximate number of guests (Discretionary)

e) Banquet Inquiry
When making an inquiry regarding the scheduling of a banquet, The Deer Creek Golf Clubs collects certain information in order to ensure the appropriate follow-up.

Information Requested - All is required unless otherwise noted

1/ Name (Personalizes our communication)
2/ Company Name (Discretionary)
3/ Mailing Address (Discretionary)
4/ Telephone Number (Provides primary means of communication)
5/ Fax Number (Discretionary)
6/ Email Address (Provides secondary means of communication)
7/ Time frame of event - to ensure availability (Discretionary)
8/ Approximate number of guests - to ensure the proper facility is booked (Discretionary).

2. Making An Online Payment
For those making an online payment for one of our Golf Schools, you will be taken to a secure screen to enter the credit card holder's address, email address, credit card number and the card's expiry date.  This information is sent directly to Deer Creek Golf Academy for authorization and is not stored on our Web server. The Deer Creek Golf Clubs has sole access to this information.

3. Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our Web site. However, Deer Creek Golf Clubs does not use cookies in any part of the Web site.

4. Web Activity (Log) Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. On occasion, Deer Creek Golf Clubs log file data (such as the number of subscribers we serve) may be used for promotional purposes. Information that personally identifies you will be kept strictly confidential.

5. Sharing
We will share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.

6. Security
This Web site takes every precaution to protect our users' information.  When users submit sensitive information via our Web site, your information is protected both online and off-line.

When subscribing to Deer Creek Golf Clubs, all credit card information is collected on a secure server. Payment information is collected, processed and stored by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology providing optimum protection for Deer Creek Golf Clubs’s customers.

We also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users' information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Our employees must use password-protected screen-savers when they leave their desk. When they return, they must re-enter their password to regain access to your information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices.

If you have any questions about the security on our Web site, you can send an email to privacy@golfdeercreek.com.

7. Special Offers
We send all subscribers a welcoming email. Established subscribers will occasionally receive information on offers, announcements such as special events, opening and closing dates and specials. Out of respect for the privacy of our users, we present the option to not receive these types of communications. Please see our choice and opt-out below.

8. Choice/Opt-out
Users who no longer wish to receive our promotional materials may opt-out of receiving these communications by replying to unsubscribe in the subject line in the email or email us at unsubscribe@golfdeercreek.com, unsubscribe@golfglencedars.com or unsubscribe@deercreekgolfacademy.com.

9. Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Web site so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, how we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

Any questions or concerns regarding the privacy policy of Deer Creek Golf Clubs should be submitted in writing to:

Director of Golf
Deer Creek Golf Clubs
2700 Audley Road North
Ajax, Ontario
L1Z 1T7
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