[SBU Board] FYI to Tournament Chairs - ACBL contact info policy for chairs

[JC Chupack]

In the rush at our meeting, I forgot to mention this, and I wanted to make
all our 2019 tournament chairs aware of this, as chairs have been caught
off-guard by this in the past.

*If you are listed as the primary tournament chair, the ACBL will publish
your phone number and email address on the ACBL website and in the Bulletin*
if they have it on record, regardless of what is on the sanction or the
flyer and regardless of your communication preferences. Worse yet, the
phone number they choose to publish is your mobile number (if available),
then primary number, then secondary number. So, if you are getting text
messages from ACBL Live, for example, your mobile number will be what gets
published.

Several of us have voiced objections to this. Nonetheless, as far as I
know, this remains their policy. The only way you can protect your contact
info, if so desired, is to remove it from your MyACBL Account info
entirely, which unfortunately means you won't get ACBL Live texts (if you
remove mobile) or email announcements (if you remove email).

I can set up a bridgeinseattle.org email address for you if you wish to
obscure your email. The address will auto-forward to your preferred email.
Unfortunately, there's nothing I can do about mobile number. :(

Secondary chairs don't get published (to the best of my knowledge), so if
you object but your co-chair doesn't, just make sure the one of you that is
ok being published is listed first on the flyer.  Right now, our primary
tournament chairs are *Ray, Eric, Patti, Mike, Ann, and John*.

Thanks,
JC

-- 
JC Chupack
* Seattle ACBL Unit 446 <http://www.bridgeinseattle.org> Secretary,
Electronic Contact, & Publicity Chair
* Product Management, Amazon Advertising <http://advertising.amazon.com>
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