First Tee — Upstate South Carolina Privacy Policy  

Last updated September 2026  

This is the Privacy Policy of Upstate Youth Development Foundation dba First Tee – Upstate  South Carolina, a South Carolina 501 (c) 3 not for profit corporation (collectively, with PGA  TOUR First Tee Foundation, Inc. (“First Tee Headquarters”), “First Tee,” “we,” “us,” or  “our”) governing the collection and use of information (i) provided by you through this  website located at https://firstteeupstate.org, FirstTee.org and any other websites, mobile  applications, and other online and mobile services that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Site”); (ii) gathered by First Tee through your use of the Site; (iii) collected  from you manually or in hard copy format (“Manual Services”), or (iv) provided to First Tee  by a third party pursuant to your express consent for such information to be shared with  First Tee, all of which you agree may be shared with and used by First Tee Headquarters,  which is a Florida not for profit corporation. When we refer to “your information” in this  Privacy Policy, it refers to your personal information as well as your dependent’s personal  information.  

Please review this Privacy Policy carefully. If you do not want us to be able to gather and use  information about you as set forth herein, please do not use this Site or Manual Services.  This Privacy Policy identifies the nature of information that may be collected about or from  you and the way in which such information may be used and disclosed. This Privacy Policy  is part of our Terms of Use Agreement https://firstteeupstate.org/terms-of-use/, which  governs your use of the Site and the Manual Services. By using this Site and the Manual  Services, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. Unless otherwise  stated in this Privacy Policy, the defined terms used below have the same meaning set forth  in our Terms of Use Agreement. which governs your use of the Site and the Manual  Services. By using this Site and the Manual Services, you are accepting the practices  described in this Privacy Policy. Unless otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, the defined  terms used below have the same meaning set forth in our Terms of Use Agreement.  

Types of Information Collected. 

The information collected through the Site and Manual Services may include, without  limitation:  

 Personal Information You Give Us: We receive and store any personal information  you provide to us through our Site, through the Manual Services, or that you give us  in any other way, such as when you register an Account through our Site, request  information, products or services from us through the Site, sign up for a newsletter  through the Site, enroll to receive messages on your wireless device via short 

message services (“SMS Service”), complete a survey on the Site, participate in one  of our online forums or communities, or communicate with us via email through the  Site. We also acquire your personal information from our use of “cookies” and other  technology as you use the Site (see Cookies section below). This personal  

information that we gather from you may include:  

 Contact Information (e.g. your/third party name(s), address, telephone  number, email)  

 Call and SMS Service Data  

 Professional credentials  

 Username & password  

 Age, birthdate, gender and other demographic information  

 Dependent’s allergies, disabilities and dietary restrictions  

 Information about your interests in and use of various products, programs  and services  

 Geo-location  

 Financial information such as credit card number  

We use this information to enhance and customize services and features for you, to  improve the services we provide to you, and to communicate with you. Registering a profile  or participation in surveys or contests is completely voluntary, therefore you have a choice  whether or not to disclose this information. Where this information is required for  participation, and you choose to participate, you hereby give consent for the collection of  personal information.  

 Biometric Data. If you attend an event and elect to allow us to use your photo for  collection, storage, categorization and marketing, we, or our service provider(s) may  perform a scan or collect imagery of your physical characteristics to create a unique  identifier associated with you based on biometric identifiers (“Facial Recognition”)  for storage purposes and to identify photos of program participants. Use of Facial  Recognition for these purposes requires the consent of a parent or guardian for  users under eighteen (18) years old.  

 Participants in Facial Recognition must provide clear and informed consent for the  collection and use of their data. Participants may revoke their consent at any time  by notifying First Tee here. 

 Automatic Information Collection: We (and our service providers) may use  management and analytic products and tools that we own or that are owned by a  third party to gather certain information about your use of the Site and Manual  Services. The products and tools may include cookies, beacons, JavaScript, and  other technologies. From time to time, we (and our service providers) may also  collect information such as the pages of the Site that you visit, your search  keywords, your operating system version, IP address and type of browser you are  using, or other such information. The information we collect enables us to run Site  usage tools and create statistics about our Site. These statistics help us to better  understand how our Site is being used and what we can do to make it more useful to  visitors and users. We may also collect information about your computer or  software to alert you of any technical or compatibility deficiencies that may disrupt  your use of the Site or any services oƯered through the Site.  

Note that if you link from our Site for purposes of purchasing or using certain products or  services, you will be traveling to other sites operated by other entities with diƯerent privacy  policies, and the information you provide on those sites is not governed by this Privacy  Policy. Please see the paragraph below entitled “Use Caution When Visiting Other Sites” for  more information.  

Use of Information Provided. 

1. Marketing Purposes. We may use this information, such as your name, address,  telephone number, and/or email address, to contact you and send you information  about us, our aƯiliates, and third party goods, services, and promotions in which we  believe you may be interested. We may disclose your information to our agents and  service providers who help us contact you for these purposes. In addition, we may  disclose your information (except your mobile information collected for SMS  programs) to our aƯiliates for their use in contacting you about products, services  and promotions in which we believe you might be interested. All of the foregoing  uses are referred to below as “Marketing Purposes.” You have the opportunity to opt  out of allowing us to use your information for these Marketing Purposes as explained  below in the paragraph entitled “Opt Out”. Mobile information will not be shared  with third parties or aƯiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. All the above  categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this  information will not be shared with any third parties or aƯiliates, both internal and  external.  

2. Targeted Advertising. We, our third party service providers, advertisers or our  partners may also use “web beacons” or clear gifs, tags and scripts, or similar 

technologies, which are small pieces of code placed on a web page, to monitor the  behavior and collect data about the visitors viewing a web page. For example, web  beacons may be used to count the users who visit a web page or to deliver a cookie  

to the browser of a visitor viewing that page. We, our third party service providers,  and our partners, with our permission based on the consent you have provided, may  share this data with third parties for purposes of third parties oƯering targeted  advertisements and other marketing to you. Furthermore, when you use our website  and enter your email address on our website or at one of our events (either to log in,  or to sign up for a newsletter, or similar), we may share with a third party vendor,  information that we collect from you, such as your email (in hashed, pseudonymous  form). Our third party vendor uses this information to create an online identification  code that we may store in our first-party cookie for our use in online, in-app, and  cross-channel advertising. This may be shared with advertising companies to  enable interest-based and targeted advertising. Our third party vendor uses this  information to create an online identification code for the purpose of recognizing  you on your devices. This code does not contain any of your directly identifiable  personal data and will not be used by our third party vendor to re-identify you. To opt  out of this use of your information, click here.  

3. To Comply With Your Requests and Orders. We may also use and disclose to  others (such as our billing service providers, our fulfillment houses and shipping  companies) your information, to the extent reasonably necessary, to provide you  with the information, opportunities, goods or services you request, such as if you  request information about a promotion, choose to enter a sweepstakes, order goods  or services, or request information from us. For example, if you choose to receive  information regarding a promotion oƯered by a third party, we may share your  information, such as your name and e-mail address with such third party oƯering  the promotion. For another example, if you request information, or buy products or  services through the Site or Manual Services, we may use and disclose this  information to others so as to comply with your request (for example, to disclose  your information, including your credit card information, to secure payment, by  using your email or street address to send you the requested information, product or  service, to disclose your email or street address to our mailing, fulfillment and  shipping companies so that the requested information, product or service may be  sent to you).  

4. Short Message Services (SMS): We may make available a service through which  you can receive messages on your wireless device via short message service (“SMS  Service”). We will use the information we obtain in connection with our SMS Service 

for the purpose of sending the SMS messages. You understand that your wireless  carrier’s standard rates apply to these messages. Your wireless carrier and other  service providers may also collect data about your wireless device usage, and their  practices are governed by their own policies. SMS Service consent and phone  numbers will not be shared with third parties or aƯiliates for marketing purposes.  You can opt-out of receiving SMS messages from us at any time by replying “Stop,”  “Quit,” “End,” Revoke,” “Opt out,” “Cancel,” or “Unsubscribe” to any message you  receive. You may also opt-out by submitting a request described in the section  “Access to and Correction or Deletion of Personal Information Maintained About  You/Ability to Opt Out of Further Contacts.” For more information on SMS, please  refer to the Telephone/Messaging Terms of Use.  

5. Data Aggregation. We may aggregate your information with the information of  others so that you cannot reasonably be identified and we may use and disclose  such statistical information for any purpose.  

6. Site Analytics. We may use your information to help improve the operation of our  Site, such as to diagnose problems with our server, to administer our Site, and to  communicate with you with respect to your use of the Site, including, without  limitation, to respond to e-mails from you.  

7. Asset Sale. We may share your information with and transfer it and our rights in it to  another entity acquiring all or substantially all of our assets, or the assets of our  business units, or that merges with us, which entity would have the right to use and  disclose your information as we did.  

8. Legal Compliance. We may use and disclose information that we have gathered  from you or that you have provided to us if: (i) we believe that any law or regulation  requires us to do so, (ii) to respond to a subpoena or governmental request; (iii) we  deem it advisable or necessary to protect our safety, rights or property, or that of our  employees, agents, aƯiliates, customers, other users of this Site, or others; (iv) to  respond to a possible violation of this Privacy Policy, our Terms of Use, any law or  regulation; and/or (v) to enforce this Privacy Policy and/or our Terms of Use.  

Securing Your Information. 

We will use reasonable precautions to keep the information about you that we have  gathered protected from unauthorized use or access. For your safety and security on the  Site, we may use security tools and functionality such as encryption, flash objects,  firewalls, passwords, or other security features. However, your external email  communications with us are not protected by any digital security, and you should assume 

that such communications are visible by third-parties. No transmission of data over the  Internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure. If you have any questions  about security on the Site, you can contact us here.  

Children’s Privacy 

Keeping your children’s personal information safe is of the utmost importance at the First  Tee. Accordingly, we have developed a standalone Children’s Privacy Policy which can be  accessed here. Under this policy, we will only collect the personal information from a child  under the age of 13 if we have parental/guardian consent.  

Use Caution When Visiting Other Websites. 

Our Site may from time to time include links to other websites operated by other entities.  Each of those links takes you to a website operated by another entity and those websites  will have diƯerent privacy policies. When traveling to other websites, please take the time  

to check the applicable privacy policy of that website before you submit any personal  information. We are not responsible for the privacy policies of or activities on such other  websites.  

Cookies. 

We use browser session cookies, which are temporary cookies that are erased from your  device’s memory when you close your internet browser or turn oƯ your computer, and  persistent cookies, which are stored on your device until they expire, unless you delete  them before such expiration. The Site utilizes two groups of browser cookies:  

 Required cookies: These cookies are necessary to enable the functionality of the  Site’s basic features, such as allowing images to load or allowing you to select your  cookie preferences.  

 Functional cookies: These cookies allow us to analyze your use of the Site to review  and improve how the Site operates. They may also be used to provide a better  customer experience on the Site. For example, remembering your log-in details or  providing us information about how you have previously used the Site.  

 The Site does not use advertising cookies and does not share data with advertisers.  

Our Sites may employ locally stored objects (sometimes referred to as “Flash cookies”) in  certain situations where we use Flash to provide special content such as video on demand,  video clips or animation. Flash (and similar applications) uses this technology to  remember settings, preferences and usage similar to browser cookies but Flash cookies 

are not managed through your web browser. You can access your Flash management tools  from Adobe’s website directly.  

Do Not Track.  

We do not respond to Do Not Track signals at this time.  

This Site is Not for Children Under 13 Years Old. 

This Site is not directed to children under the age of 13 and children under the age of 13  should not provide their information through this Site. We will not knowingly collect  personally identifiable information from anyone under 13. Parents or guardians shall be the  only individuals permitted to submit personally identifiable information about their  children under 13 through the Site. Additionally, children 13 years old or older should not  provide their information to us through this Site except under the supervision and with the  permission of their parent or guardian.  

Access to and Correction or Deletion of Personal Information Maintained About  You/Ability to Opt Out of Further Contacts. 

1. Access. Access to personal information that is collected from our Sites and that we  maintain may be available to you. In the event you wish to determine the nature of  the information we have collected from or about you, please contact us here. Please  include your full name and email address and select the checkbox next to “Access  My Information – Get a copy of the personal information we have about you.”  

2. Updates and Corrections. In addition, if you have corrections or updates to the  information we are maintaining about you (your address for example), please help  us keep your information accurate by submitting the corrected information here.  Please include the information that you are updating or correcting (both old and  new) so that we can more easily locate your record and update or correct it properly.  Also include an email address where we can reach you if we have further questions.  

3. Opt Out, Deletion or Transfer. In the event that you do not wish us to use and/or  disclose your information for Marketing Purposes (as described above), contact  us here to notify us of your request. Please include in your request your name, and  the email address or addresses to which you want your opt out request to apply. We  will use reasonable eƯorts to promptly comply with your request. In addition, if you  opt out, you may not be able to utilize certain portions of the Site. You may also  request that we delete your information altogether or that we transfer or not transfer  it to a third party. 

4. Request Fulfillment and Questions. Please note under certain circumstances we  will not be able to fulfill your request, such as if it interferes with our regulatory  obligations, aƯects legal matters, we cannot verify your identity, or it involves  disproportionate cost or eƯort. If you have questions about the operation of this  Site, the Manual Services or other matters, please direct them to our  attention here or First Tee Headquarters, 1 PGA TOUR Blvd, Ponte Vedra Beach,  FL, 32082.  

5. Global Privacy Control. Some browsers and browser extensions support  the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) that can send a signal to the websites you visit  indicating your choice to opt-out from certain types of data processing, including  data sales. In certain territories, when we detect such a signal, we will make  reasonable eƯorts to respect your choices indicated by a GPC setting as required by  applicable law.  

Interest-Based Ads & Marketing. 

If you would prefer to not receive personalized ads based on your browser or device usage,  you may generally express your opt-out preference to no longer receive tailored  advertisements. Please note that you will continue to see advertisements, but they will no  longer be tailored to your interests. To opt-out of interest-based advertising by participating  companies in the following consumer choice mechanisms, please visit:  

 Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA)s self-regulatory opt-out page  

(http://optout.aboutads.info/)  

 Mobile application-based “AppChoices” download page  

(https://youradchoices.com/appchoices)  

 Network Advertising Initiative (NAI)’s self-regulatory opt-out page  (http://optout.networkadvertising.org/)  

International Transfer. 

The Site operates globally so it is necessary to transfer your information internationally. In  particular, your information will likely be transferred to and processed in the United States  where many of our central databases operate. The data protection and other laws of other  

countries may not be as comprehensive as those in your country. Please be assured that  we take reasonable steps to ensure that your privacy is protected. By using this Site, you  consent to your information being collected, used and transferred as set forth in this  Privacy Policy.  

Updates to our Privacy Policy.

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at our discretion. We may make changes  to this Policy based on changes to applicable laws and regulations or other requirements  applicable to us, changes in technology, or changes to our business. Any changes we make  to the Policy in the future will be posted on this page, and where we make material changes  to this Policy that also aƯect how we process personal information about you, where  appropriate, we will notify you directly via email or other direct contact with you, and we  also will post a notice on our home page that this Policy has changed.