Privacy Policy

Who we are

CourtShuffleboard.com is a free resource site for the sport of court shuffleboard. The website address is https://courtshuffleboard.com/.

For privacy questions or requests about personal information held by the site, contact the site administrator.

Comments

When you leave a comment, WordPress collects the information shown in the comment form. The site also receives the visitor’s IP address and browser user-agent information for moderation, security, and spam detection. Commenters are currently required to provide a name and email address.

Comments are checked using Akismet Anti-spam. Information associated with a comment may be sent to Automattic’s Akismet service for spam analysis. The site currently displays Akismet’s privacy notice with the comment form.

Avatars are enabled. An anonymized value created from the email address you use for a comment may be sent to the Gravatar service to determine whether you have a Gravatar. If a comment is approved, the associated avatar may be shown publicly with the comment.

Comments and their metadata are normally retained indefinitely so later comments can be recognized and moderated appropriately.

Article submissions and other Forminator forms

The Become an Author page uses a moderated Article Submission form. Depending on what you provide, the form can collect your name, email address, public author name, optional author bio, submission type, working title, description of the submission, article text, uploaded supporting files, source and permission information, and required rights/editorial confirmations.

The Contact & Subscribe page uses a separate Forminator form. It collects first name, last name, and email address and requires a Yes or No subscription choice. You may also provide a phone number and questions/comments. If you choose Yes, the form also requires you to answer whether you are in the West Coast District (Pinellas County, FL, USA) and reveals Home Club, City, State/Province, and Country fields that you may also provide.

Forminator also records the IP address associated with a form submission. The current Forminator privacy settings preserve form submissions and their IP information until they are manually deleted or the retention settings are changed. WordPress account-erasure requests do not automatically remove these Forminator submissions under the site’s current settings.

The Article Submission form stores submissions for editorial review. Uploaded supporting files are stored with the submission and are not automatically placed in the public WordPress Media Library. Submitted information is also used to send an administrator notification and a confirmation email to the submitter.

The Contact/Subscribe form stores submissions for site administration, sends an administrator notification, and sends a confirmation email to the email address provided. A Yes subscription choice records your request to receive CourtShuffleboard.com news & events. When Sender.net integration is enabled, a Yes-subscription submission sends the information needed to create or update your email subscription with Sender.net, the site’s email service provider. That information includes your email address, first and last name, Home Club if provided, a CourtShuffleboard source value, and your WCD or Non-WCD classification. A Yes answer to the West Coast District question also sets the Sender subscriber District field to WCD. A No-subscription submission is not sent to Sender.net for a marketing subscription.

The Article Submission and Contact/Subscribe forms use Akismet for spam protection and Forminator’s native Cloudflare Turnstile integration for automated-abuse protection. A form submission is not automatically published as a WordPress Post or Page.

Shuffleboard Partner Connect

Shuffleboard Partner Connect (SPC) helps players find tournament partners and communicate about partner requests.

Information SPC can collect

When you submit or update a partner request, SPC can store information such as your name, nickname, email address, phone number, preferred contact method, gender, skill information, tournament or availability information, partner preferences, comments, consent choices, subscription choice, and administrator-managed request information. Public display is controlled by SPC’s display rules; email addresses and phone numbers are not intended for public display.

When you send an interest or contact message through SPC, the system can store the sender’s name, email address, phone number, preferred contact method, gender, skill information, message, consent choices, delivery results, IP address, and browser user-agent information. SPC also maintains administrative email-history and internal-note records related to partner requests.

Why SPC uses and shares information

SPC uses this information to operate partner requests, calculate and display potential matches, let interested players contact one another, let players securely update requests, send request and matching-related email, assist the Partner Coordinator, prevent abuse, and maintain operational records. Information authorized by a player may be shared privately with the Partner Coordinator and with another player for the purpose of finding or communicating with a potential tournament partner.

Cloudflare Turnstile in SPC

For protected Partner Connect forms, SPC sends the submitted Turnstile response token to Cloudflare for server-side verification and may include the connecting IP address with that verification request.

SPC retention

SPC removes stored IP addresses and browser user-agent information from interest/contact records after 30 days. Closed Partner Requests (Partner Found, Withdrawn, or Expired) and interest/contact records are retained for up to 30 months. Requests moved to SPC Trash are retained for up to 180 days. Expired update-request credentials retain only the minimum information needed to let an old secure link obtain a replacement link; obsolete browser-session and target-email data is removed after 30 days. Related operational records are removed when the associated request reaches its retention limit.

Accounts, login, registration, and password reset

If you have a WordPress user account, the site stores the profile information associated with that account. Logged-in users can generally view or edit their own profile information except for fields WordPress does not permit them to change, and site administrators can view or edit account information as needed to administer the site.

Standard WordPress cookies may be used to determine whether your browser accepts cookies and, when you log in, to remember your login state and screen/display preferences. If you request a password reset, technical information such as your IP address may be included or processed as part of the security and reset workflow.

Site search

The site’s internal search uses Relevanssi. Search logging is currently enabled. Logged search information can include the search terms, number of results found, user ID for a logged-in user, date and time, and the visitor’s IP address. IP logging is currently enabled for security, auditing, and search-quality purposes.

Relevanssi search logs are currently retained for 99 days before automatic removal under the site’s configured logging settings.

Security and anti-abuse services

Cloudflare Turnstile

Cloudflare Turnstile is used to help distinguish legitimate visitors from automated abuse. Turnstile protection is enabled on the site’s WordPress login, registration, password-reset, and comment forms, and the Article Submission form uses Forminator’s native Turnstile integration. Certain Partner Connect forms may also use Turnstile protection.

When Turnstile runs, the visitor’s browser communicates with Cloudflare. Cloudflare describes Turnstile as processing security signals such as IP address, TLS/browser characteristics, user-agent information, and site/origin information for bot detection. Cloudflare states that Turnstile does not transmit the contents of form entries as part of that security check. See the Cloudflare Turnstile Privacy Addendum.

Wordfence

The site uses Wordfence Security to protect the website, accounts, and administrative systems. Wordfence may process security-related information such as visitor IP addresses, requested URLs, request headers, user/account information where applicable, and other request or threat data needed for firewall, login-security, malware-detection, and auditing functions. Some security-related data may be processed through Wordfence/Defiant services. See the Wordfence Privacy Policy.

Akismet and Gravatar

Akismet and Gravatar are Automattic services. Akismet may process commenter or form-submission information for spam protection, and Gravatar may process an anonymized email-derived value to provide an avatar. See Automattic’s Privacy Policy.

Cookies and similar technologies

If you leave a comment, you may be offered the option to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. WordPress normally keeps those comment-preference cookies for one year.

When you visit or use a WordPress login page, WordPress may set temporary and login-related cookies. Login cookies normally last for two days, screen/display-option cookies for one year, and a “Remember Me” login can persist for two weeks. Logging out removes the login cookies.

Security services such as Cloudflare Turnstile may use strictly necessary browser signals or cookies as part of bot detection and abuse prevention. Third-party embedded content may set its own cookies as described below.

Embedded content and external websites

Pages and articles may include embedded content or links from other websites, such as videos, images, documents, maps, or articles. Embedded content can behave as though you visited the third-party website directly. Those third parties may collect information, use cookies, or monitor interaction with their content according to their own privacy policies. CourtShuffleboard.com does not control those third-party practices.

Amazon Associates and affiliate links

CourtShuffleboard.com participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program. Some links to Amazon on this site are affiliate links. If you follow one of those links and make a qualifying purchase, CourtShuffleboard.com may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

When you click an Amazon affiliate link, you leave CourtShuffleboard.com and interact with Amazon. Amazon may use cookies or other technologies and process information about your visit or purchase according to Amazon’s own privacy notices and policies. CourtShuffleboard.com does not ask you for Amazon login credentials or payment information in connection with these affiliate links.

Affiliate links on CourtShuffleboard.com are identified near the relevant links or recommendations. The use of an affiliate link does not increase the price charged to you.

Caching and performance

The site uses LiteSpeed Cache to improve response time and performance. Temporary cached copies of pages may be stored and expire or be purged according to site configuration. If QUIC.cloud services are enabled for a particular performance feature, data may be processed or cached temporarily by QUIC.cloud. See the QUIC.cloud Privacy Policy.

How long we retain information

• Comments: normally retained indefinitely with their metadata.
• Article Submission form: submissions and IP information are currently configured to be preserved until manually deleted or the site’s Forminator retention settings are changed.
• Site-search logs: currently retained for 99 days.
• Shuffleboard Partner Connect: retained according to the specific periods described in the SPC section above.
• WordPress accounts: account/profile information is retained while the account exists, subject to administrative, security, and legal needs.
• Security information: retained according to the site’s security configuration and as reasonably needed to investigate abuse, protect the site, and maintain security records.
• Cache files: temporary and subject to the site’s cache-expiration and purge settings.

Who may receive information

Information is available to site administrators and may be processed by the site’s hosting, email-delivery, security, anti-spam, and performance providers as needed to operate the site. Information may also be disclosed when reasonably necessary to comply with legal obligations, protect the site or its users, investigate abuse, or enforce site rules.

Partner Connect information may also be shared with the Partner Coordinator and potential partners as described in the SPC section. Information you choose to publish in a comment, author profile, article, or other public area can be visible to anyone who visits the site and may be indexed or copied by third parties.

Your privacy choices and requests

You may ask what personal information CourtShuffleboard.com holds about you and request correction or deletion where appropriate. Some information may need to be retained for security, administrative, operational, dispute-resolution, backup, or legal reasons, and information already made public or provided to another participant may not be fully recoverable from third parties.

To make a privacy request, contact the site administrator. Please provide enough information to identify the relevant account, comment, form submission, Partner Connect request, or other record. Additional verification may be requested before information is released, changed, or deleted.

Changes to this policy

This policy may be updated when site features, plugins, providers, or data practices change. The “Last updated” date near the top of this page identifies the current published version.