Albany County Pistol Club - Privacy Policy

Last Revised: 9/20/2022

Albany County Pistol Club (ACPC) cares about your privacy. For this reason, we collect and use personal information only as needed to deliver our website and mobile applications, and to communicate with you about the same, or as you have requested (collectively, our “Services”). Your personal information may include some or all of the following information such as:

• Name
• Address
• Telephone number
• Date of birth
• Email address
• Billing and payment information
• Applicant information
• Other data collected that could directly or indirectly identify you.

Our Privacy Policy not only explains how and why we use your personal information that we collect, but also how you can access, update or otherwise take control of your personal information. You can also access your Account Settings to modify or delete most information at will.

What information we collect, how we collect it, and why

Much of what you likely consider personal information is collected directly from you when you:

1. create an account or purchase any of our Services (ex: billing information, including name, address, credit card number, government identification);
2. request assistance
3. complete contact forms or request newsletters or other information from us
4. participate in surveys, or otherwise participate in activities we promote that might require information about you.

However, we also collect additional information when delivering our Services to you to ensure necessary and optimal performance. These methods of collection may not be as obvious to you, so we thought we’d highlight and explain a bit more about what these might be (as they vary from time to time):

Cookies and similar technologies on our websites and mobile applications allow us to track your browsing behavior, such as links clicked, pages viewed, and items purchased. Specifically, the data collected relates to your interactions with our site features or third-party features, such as social media plugins, contained within the Services; Internet Protocol (IP) address (for example, to determine your language preference; browser type and settings; the date and time the Services were used; device type and settings; operating system used; application IDs, unique device identifiers; and error data). These technologies also automatically collect data to measure website performance and improve our systems, including metadata, log files, page load time, server response time to optimize DNS resolution, network routing and server configurations.

How we utilize information.

We strongly believe in both minimizing the data we collect and limiting its use and purpose to only that (1) for which we have been given permission, (2) as necessary to deliver the Services you purchase or web sites you interact with, or (3) as we might be required or permitted for legal compliance or other lawful purposes:

Delivering, improving, updating and enhancing our Services. We collect various information relating to your purchase, use and/or interactions with our Services. We utilize this information to:

• Improve and optimize the operation and performance of our Services (again, including our websites and mobile applications)
• Diagnose problems with and identify any security and compliance risks, errors, or needed enhancements to the Services
• Detect and prevent fraud and abuse of our Services and systems

Much of the data collected is aggregated or statistical data about how individuals use our Services, and is not linked to any personal information.

Sharing with third parties. We do NOT share your personal information with any companies or entities outside our organization other than those integral to the functioning of our web site and your use of it.as necessary for them to perform services on our behalf, such as:

• Processing credit card payments
• Conducting contests or surveys
• Performing analysis of our Services, customer demographics, and sentiment
• Communicating with you, such as by way of email or survey delivery
• Security, risk management and compliance

These required third parties (and any subcontractors they may be permitted to use) have agreed not to share, use or retain your personal information for any purpose other than as necessary for the provision of Services.

Communicating with you. We may contact you directly or through a third-party service provider regarding events or services you have signed up for from us, such as necessary to deliver transactional or service-related communications. We may also contact you with newsletter and operational updates about the ACPC itself.

Compliance with legal, regulatory and law enforcement requests.We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We may disclose any information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims and legal process (such as subpoena requests), to protect our property and rights or the property and rights of a third party, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or to prevent or stop activity we consider to be illegal or unethical.

To the extent we are legally permitted to do so, we may take reasonable steps to notify you if we are required to provide your personal information to third parties as part of legal process. We will also share your information to the extent necessary to comply with any ICANN, registry or ccTLD rules, regulations and policies when you register a domain name with us. For reasons critical to maintaining the security, stability and resiliency of the Internet, this includes the transfer of domain name registration information to the underlying domain registry operator and escrow provider, and publication of that information as required by ICANN in the public WHOIS database or with other third parties that demonstrate a legitimate legal interest to such information.

How we secure, store and retain your data.

We follow generally accepted standards to store and protect the personal information we collect, both during transmission and once received and stored, including utilization of encryption where appropriate. We retain personal information for as long as required to engage in the uses described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required by applicable law.

The criteria used to determine our retention periods include the following:

• The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide Services to you (for example, for as long as you have an account with us or keep using our Services);
• Whether account owners modify or their users delete information through their accounts;
• Whether we have a legal obligation to keep the data (for example, certain laws require us to maintain records of your transactions for a certain period of time before we can delete them); or
• Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to the enforcement of our agreements, the resolution of disputes, and applicable statutes of limitations, litigation, or regulatory investigation).

If you have any questions about the security or retention of your personal information, you can contact us at membership@acpistolclub.com.

How you can access, update or delete your data.

To easily access, view, update, delete or port your personal information, or to update your subscription preferences, please login into your Account and visit “My Profile.”

If you make a request to delete your personal information and that data is necessary for the products or services you have purchased, the request will be honored only to the extent it is no longer necessary for any Services purchased or required for our legitimate business purposes or legal or contractual record keeping requirements.

If you are unable for any reason to access your “My Profile” Settings, you may also contact us by one of the methods described in the “Contact Us” section below.

‘Do Not Track’ notifications.

Some browsers allow you to automatically notify websites you visit not to track you using a “Do Not Track” signal. There is no consensus among industry participants as to what “Do Not Track” means in this context. Like many websites and online services, we currently do not alter our practices when we receive a “Do Not Track” signal from a visitor’s browser. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” you may visit www.allaboutdnt.com.

Age restrictions.

Membership and services are available only for those of the legal age to possess and own a hand gun in New York State – that is 21 years of age as of September 2022. If you know of or have reason to believe anyone under the age of 21 has provided us with any personal information, please contact us per the instructions below.

Non-Discrimination.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your privacy rights. Unless permitted under applicable laws, we will not:

• Deny you goods or services.
• Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
• Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
• Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

Changes to this policy.

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes to this Privacy Policy and any other places we deem appropriate, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page, at least thirty (30) days prior to the implementation of the changes.

Contact us.

If you have any questions, concerns, or complaints about our Privacy Policy, or how we handle your personal data, you may contact our Officers by email at membership@acpistolclub.com or via any means as listed on our ‘Contact Us’ web page: https://www.acpistolclub.com/Contact.  

We will respond to all requests, inquiries or concerns within thirty (30) days. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may direct privacy complaints to your local data protection authority.