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

[Patti McCallum]

I have no problem with my phone being added to any publication

On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 9:33 PM JC Chupack <jc.chupack at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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> Electronic Contact, & Publicity Chair
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