Privacy Policy

• Process membership applications, renewals and member benefits, and maintain your account.
• Process event registrations, ticket purchases, merchandise orders and donations, and send confirmations and receipts.
• Plan and run events, including check-in, seating and accessibility arrangements.
• Communicate with you about events, membership, chapter activities, news and announcements.
• Connect members with their local chapters.
• Respond to questions and provide support.
• Operate, secure and improve the Website and our Services, including detecting and preventing fraud and misuse.
• Understand how our community uses the Website through analytics and reporting.
• Comply with legal, tax and accounting obligations, and protect the rights, safety and security of Galatasaray USA, our members and others.

We use cookies and similar technologies to make the Website work (for example, keeping you signed in and processing checkout), to remember your preferences, to understand how visitors use the Website and to keep the Website secure. Where required by law, we will ask for your consent before setting non-essential cookies.

You can manage or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking certain cookies may prevent parts of the Website, such as login or checkout, from working properly. Where required by applicable law, we honor recognized opt-out preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control.

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. We share information only as described below:

• Service providers that perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, website hosting, email and text-message delivery, analytics, ticketing and customer support. They may use your information only to provide services to us.
• Chapters. If you join or select a chapter, its volunteer leaders may receive your name and contact details to coordinate local activities. Chapter leaders must use this information only for Galatasaray USA purposes.
• Event partners and venues, such as event production and ticketing partners or host venues, to the extent needed for registration, check-in, seating, security and accessibility.
• Sponsors and partners, only with your consent or in aggregated or de-identified form that does not identify you.
• Legal and safety purposes, when we believe disclosure is required by law, subpoena or legal process, or is necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of Galatasaray USA, our members or others.
• Organizational changes, such as a merger, reorganization or transfer of assets to another nonprofit organization, subject to this Privacy Policy.
• With your consent or at your direction.

We send transactional and service messages, such as receipts, ticket confirmations, membership notices and important event updates. If you subscribe to our newsletters or announcements, you can unsubscribe at any time using the link in any email. You will still receive transactional messages related to your account, membership or purchases.

If you opt in to receive text messages, we will send messages related to the program you joined. Message frequency varies, and message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to unsubscribe or HELP for help. Consent to receive text messages is not a condition of any purchase or membership. We do not sell, rent or share mobile phone numbers or text-messaging opt-in data with third parties for their own marketing purposes.

Our events may be photographed or recorded, and these images may appear on the Website, in our social media and in our communications. If you prefer not to be featured, please let our event staff know on site or contact us afterward, and we will make reasonable efforts to honor your request, including removing images in which you are clearly identifiable.

We use reasonable administrative, technical and organizational measures designed to protect personal information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access. No method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security. Please keep your account password confidential.

We keep personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, such as maintaining your membership, completing transactions, keeping legally required financial and donation records, resolving disputes and enforcing our agreements. When information is no longer needed, we delete it or de-identify it.

You can update much of your account and membership information by signing in to your account or contacting us. Subject to applicable law, you may also request to:

• Access the personal information we hold about you and receive a copy of it.
• Correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
• Delete your personal information.
• Opt out of marketing communications.

Residents of certain states, including California and New Jersey, may have additional rights under their state privacy laws where those laws apply to us. To make a request, email us at contact@galatasarayusa.org. We may need to verify your identity before completing your request, and you may use an authorized agent where permitted by law. If we decline your request, you may appeal by replying to our decision. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights.

Our Website is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13 without verifiable parental consent. Memberships, tickets and registrations for minors must be purchased or submitted by a parent or legal guardian. If you believe a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, please contact us and we will promptly delete it.

Galatasaray USA is based in the United States, and we process and store information in the United States. If you access our Services from outside the United States, your information will be transferred to and processed in the United States, where data protection laws may differ from those in your country.

Our Website may link to third-party websites and services, including social networks, sponsors, payment processors and ticketing platforms. Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies, not this Privacy Policy, and we encourage you to review them.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the updated version on this page with a new effective date and, if the changes are significant, we will provide additional notice, such as by email or a notice on the Website.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us:

Galatasaray USA
GS North America, Inc.
800 Cedar Lane
Teaneck, NJ 07666
Email: contact@galatasarayusa.org
Website: galatasarayusa.org