USA Swimming (“USA Swimming,” “us,” “we,” or “our”) is committed to protecting the privacy of its website users, swimmers, and families. We have prepared this privacy policy to describe our practices regarding the collection, use, and sharing of personal information. USA Swimming operates a general audience website as well as the SWIMS platform, and the privacy practices of both are discussed below. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make revisions that change the way we collect, use, or share personal information, we will post those changes in this Privacy Policy and will abide by the terms of the previous policy until we have your consent for the new policy. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically to keep up to date on our most current policies and practices. We note the effective date of the latest version of our Privacy Policy at the end of this Privacy Policy.
The SWIMS member management platform performs logistical and organizational tasks for USA Swimming, Local Swimming Committees (“LSC”), clubs, and athlete and non-athlete members. Some data in SWIMS is entered by USA Swimming staff, while other data may be entered by third parties like an LSC, a local team, or a vendor or representative of a local team. In certain scenarios you may be able to enter information about yourself or others into the platform as well. Please review the SWIMS Terms of Use for more information
We collect information when you, your team, a representative or vendor of your team, an LSC, or another party submits information to us. To enable visitors to participate in some of our activities, we may ask them to provide personal information including name, e-mail address, telephone number and date of birth. Here are some of the ways we may collect personally identifying information from our visitors:
We do not link the information collected through cookies to personally identifiable information provided by users participating in our activities.
For additional information, please see USA Swimming’s Cookie Policy
We collect information for the SWIMS member management platform when you voluntarily submit it to us, but also when your information is submitted on your behalf by a third party. The SWIMS platform may collect information such as a name, birth date, address, email, ethnicity, disabilities, gender, club affiliation, results, awards, and honors. Some of the ways information is collected for the SWIMS platform include:
We collect information for the Deck Pass Plus application when you or others submit it through the application. The Deck Pass Plus application may collect information such as your name, results and rankings, certifications, digital patches, and images or video recordings of you. It will also collect any information which you choose to post publicly.
Information we collect may be used for record and score keeping, internal marketing purposes, to help us determine how to fix or improve our site, monitor usage, customize content, facilitate transactions, and contact you for verification purposes. We do not sell, distribute, trade or otherwise transfer personally identifiable information obtained from a user to any third party, either within our own organization or outside it, unless the user has provided his or her consent.
SWIMS
We, an LSC, or a club may share, without your prior permission, information contained on the SWIMS platform including an athlete’s name, age, affiliation, and results. When your information is being entered into SWIMS during registration, SWIMS may suggest information about you stored in SWIMS to the enterer in order to ensure the correct person is registered. Suggested information may include things like name, location, birth date, and USA Swimming member number.
Our site contains links to other sites whose information practices may be different from ours. Visitors should consult the other sites' privacy notices, which may differ from ours. We encourage you to read the privacy policy of any third party website or applications before transmitting information to such third party.
Questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy or any other privacy or security issue, please contact us. info@usaswimming.org