We collect your email address as a way to identify you on this website. This allows us the ability to personalize information and create website dynamics. This is a common practice on the internet. You will not receive any email from us, except for your passcode. However, in future updates, we may have newsletters or offer email notification of certain events such as new tournaments in your area etc... These items will require you to opt in on your My BowlSpot page. If you post tournaments, you may get inquiries from bowlers regarding your tournaments. However, your emaill address is not exposed until you reply to their message.

To reduce the risk of identity theft, we send you a randomized passcode in email. After you use that passcode to login, you can change your passcode to a password that easier to remember. Why do we do this? Since many internet users use the same password across web sites, we do not want to send a password you may use commonly exposed. It is always best practice to use a unique password for each website you visit, since many websites do not practice these security concerns. Also, your passwords are stored in our system encrypted. If you forgot your password/passcode, you can request a new one on the login page.

On your personal My BowlSpot pages, we use standard browser to server encryption. This protects your login and other senstive data during the transmission of data between out server and your computer.

We do use cookies to create a more dynamic experience while visiting the website. There are two primary cookies known as session cookies. One of these cookies is for the website in general. An example is while on the tournament page, we will keep track of the zipcode you enter. This allows us to populate the zipcode field again when you return to that page later during the same session. The other session cookie is a secure cookie that our secure server uses to keep track of the data on your personalized pages. This cookie is secure so its data will not be exposed on non encrypted pages.