Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Effective as of May the 25th, year 2018

 

Introduction

This Privacy Policy update shall reflect the obligations taken on by the Service under the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (further referred to as: General Data Protection Regulation or „GDPR“).

 

This Privacy Policy shall inform you on:

  1. The Website’s privacy practices when handling your personal data
  2. The Website’s sources on collecting of your personal data

References in the User Agreement and Privacy Policy to:

“You”, “Your” and “User” means a Data Subject in the context of the GDPR Directive. User is a natural person with ability to perform acts in law, conducting business activity or in other way holding the right, regulated by national provisions, to participate in the Service, if necessary. „Personal Data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“User”); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;

„Processing” means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;

 „Service“, „Website“, „Golfmatchplay.com“, „We“ or „Us“ mean a Data Controller in the context of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, thereinafter referred to as „GDPR“. The Service has all responsibilities of a Data Controler under the GDPR Directive regarding natural persons. The Service does not have a Data Protection Officer, nor is obliged to do so under the GDPR Regulations. The Service’s contact information are as follows:

Company name:

Score4Life Limited

Company registration number:

08974152

Company VAT number:

(insert)

Company Address of Residence:

8th floor, Westminster City Hall

64 Victoria Street

London, SW1E 6QP

United Kingdom

Privacy Policy Coordinatorl:

Golf@golfmatchplay.com

Company telephone number:

(insert, if applicable)

The Service does not have a Data Protection Officer, nor is obliged to do so under the GDPR Directive.

Your Usage of this Service indicates grounds for processing of some of your Personal information, for the purposes of displaying content on the Service’s Website etc. Your Usage of rendered services by the Service indicates your consent for some Personal Data to be processed in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

In alignment with anti-spam regulations and the European GDPR Regulation, we will not send you any unsolicited promotional e-mails, unless you give your explicit consent for us to do so. Consent may be given in written or electronic form.

Any processing of Personal Data requiring your consent may be opted out from, by means as stated in this Privacy Policy.

If you do not agree with the terms and conditions of this User Agreement and Privacy Policy, please stop using our Service.

The Policies on Privacy may change from time to time. Continued access of the Service by you will constitute your acceptance of any changes or revisions to the User Agreement and Privacy Policy.

The Service reserves full discretional rights in cases of breaches of this User Agreement and/or Privacy Policy, and reserves the right to terminate, discontinue, suspend, and/or restrict your account/profile, your ability to access, visit, and/or use the Service or any portion thereof, and/or the Agreement, including without limitation any of our purported obligations hereunder, with or without notice, in addition to our other remedies as envisioned under this User Agreement and/or Privacy Policy. Additionally, we may further restrict your access, visitation, and/or use of the Service in the future.

The Service cares about its Users’ privacy. This Privacy Policy shall regulate all means of collection and usage of your Personal Data that GolfMatchPlay.com collects and/or processes by any means. The Personal Data processed by the GolfMatchPlay.com will be processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to you; collected or specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy. The GolfMatchPlay.com will not process your Personal Data outside the scope of regulation in this Privacy Policy.

EULA

The Service hereby grants you a non-exclusive and non-transferrable license to use of this Website’s content and rendered Services. This license limited to personal use, and is further limited according to any Terms or Contract the Service may further stipulate with you. Applicable Licensing Terms may be displayed at an accessible place or visible to you.

For the purposes of visiting or browsing our Website, you may or may not have a registered account. Please note that some functionalities of the Service may be limited without having a registered account.

Collection of Data

The Service does not collect personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data that may uniquely identify you for any purpose whatsoever.

The Service does not collect personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences or related security measures for any purpose whatsoever.

The Service does not collect any Personal Data connected to You from any publicly-available sources.

Personal data may also be utilized to deliver you personalized advertisements. Advertisers however do not have access to your personal data. For the purposes of billing of certain items which were purchased on the Website, GolfMatchPlay.com will prompt you to a third-party secure server, for the purposes of handling the transaction process. Please note that the information provided by you is end-to-end encrypted, in order to ensure a maximal amount of security while handling your transaction. The Service may request the following information for the purposes of billing of sales of Product(s) or Service(s) on the Service: (a) Credit Card Number, or (b) Wire Transfer/Bank Account number, or (c) PayPal or other Billing Services number or identification, as appropriate.

Account Registration

You may register your account manually on the Website. The Service will collect Personal Data with your specific knowledge and consent. When you register for certain services, or register and/or set up an account/profile to access, visit and/or use certain portions of the Service, or the Service as a whole, you may be provided, or required to choose, a password and/or User ID, and you may provide a credit, debit, or charge card number, or other payment information, as well as your name, telephone number(s), email and/or street address, and other personally identifiable information. Other information such as your age, gender, an avatar, and the number for your mobile or other device may also be requested. In addition, you may be asked to confirm your account vide email.

Any forms will notify you of the purpose for the collection of the Personal Data. For example, when purchasing certain items or services on the Service, you will be prompted to a secure server with the exact billing amount and reference to the order placed with us.

This Privacy Policy does not cover information collected elsewhere, including without limitation offline and on sites, applications, destinations, or services linked to from the Service. We will, however, inform you about the linked Websites, applications and analytics tools we use in this Privacy Policy.

Account Settings and Account Profile

If you have a registered Account on the Service, you will have the option to manually change your preferences on Privacy. If any of these settings are not available, please contact our Privacy Policy Manager at: Golf@golfmatchplay.com.

In order to provide you with the best services possible, please keep all your Personal Data updated, by using the Account Profile settings, or by contacting our Privacy Policy Manager at: Golf@golfmatchplay.com.

Automatic Information Collection while using the Service

Our servers may also automatically collect information about you, your online behavior and your computer, mobile or other device. The information collected may include, without limitation, the make, model, settings, specifications (e.g. connection speed, browser type, operating system, device identifier) and geographic location of you and/or your computer, mobile or other device, as well as date/time stamp, IP address, pages visited, time of visits, content viewed, ads viewed, the site(s), application(s), destination(s), and/or service(s) you arrived from, and other clickstream data.

If you choose to access, visit and/or use any third party social networking service(s) that may be integrated with the Service, we may receive personally identifiable information and other information about you and your computer, mobile or other device that you have made available to those services, including information about your contacts on those services. For example, some social networking services allow you to push content from our Service to your contacts or to pull information about your contacts so you can connect with them on or through our Service. Some social networking services also will facilitate your registration for our Service or enhance or personalize your experience on our Service. Your decision to use a social networking service in connection with our Service is voluntary. However, you should make sure you are comfortable with the information your third party social networking services may make available to our Service by visiting those services’ privacy policies and/or modifying your privacy settings directly with those services. We reserve the right to use, transfer, assign, sell, share, and provide access to all personally identifiable information and other information about you and your computer, mobile or other device that we receive through third-party social networking services in the same ways described in this Agreement as all of your other information.

Usage of Data

The Service uses the Personal Data provided by you to render the appropriate services requested by the Website itself. For example, if you subscribe to any of our events, you will be notified of such events by e-mail. We may notify you of some other activities to which Third Parties have invited you. For example, if you were challenged to for the golf round, we may use your Personal Data to notify you about it. We may further use your Personal Data to:

  • Inform you about new features, products or services that the Service offers
  • Ask your opinion on how do you like our products, features or services
  • Contact you in cases you need Customer Support or other assistance from us

Our Service will not share information about you or your computer, mobile or other device, including everything falling under the scope of Personal Data, without your previous explicit consent. We may use third-party Services to process your Personal Data in a safe and secure manner. If you do not wish to have your Personal Data shared, please contact our Privacy Policy Coordinator at Golf@golfmatchplay.com. You may further opt out of any consensus you have given us in order to proces your Personal Data. For more information, please see the Opt-Outs Section.

 

Advertisements and Maintenance. Analysis.

Pursuant to the GDPR regulation, your Personal Data may further be used for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Service or by a Third Party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the User which require protection of personal data, in particular where the User is a child. For example, the Service may, upon official request by a state authority (namely by means of a court order or subpoena), disclose required personal data of the User. This disclosure shall concern only the data requested by the Service in the court order or subpoena. The Service does not exercise any public authority, and thus does not process your personal data in such capacity.

The Service may further use the Data for the following legitimate interests:

The Service may allow access to its database by third parties that provide us with services, such as technical maintenance, market research and other classified ads functionality, but only for the purpose of and to the extent necessary to provide those services. And if you choose to purchase merchandise, products and/or services, including without limitation Content, on or through features on the Service, we may forward your information to third parties for services such as credit card or other payment processing, order fulfillment, credit pre-authorization, and address verification. We may also provide your information to our advertisers, so that they can serve ads to you that meet your needs or match your interests. While we may seek to require such third parties to follow appropriate privacy policies and will not authorize them to use this information except for the express purpose for which it is provided, we do not bear any responsibility for any actions or policies of third parties. You will be informed of these Services or Entities in this Privacy Policy.

We reserve the right to access, use, and share with others your personally identifiable information for purposes of health, safety and other matters in the public interest.

In addition, we reserve the right to use the information we collect about your computer, mobile or other device (including its geographic location), which may at times be able to identify you, for any lawful business purpose, including without limitation to help diagnose problems with our servers, to gather broad demographic information, analyze trends, track users’ movements around the Service, and to otherwise administer the Service. Geographic location information about you and/or your computer, mobile or other device may specifically be used to show you content and sponsored messaging based on geographic location. You will be informed of these Services or Entities in this Privacy Policy.

We reserve the right to use, transfer, sell, and share aggregated, anonymized data about our users as a group for any lawful business purpose, such as analyzing usage trends and seeking compatible advertisers, sponsors, clients and customers. You will be informed of these Services or Entities in this Privacy Policy.

In addition, as our business changes, we may buy or sell various assets. In the event all or a portion of the assets owned or controlled by us, our parent or any subsidiary or affiliated entity are sold, assigned, transferred or acquired by another company, the information from and/or about our Service users may be among the transferred assets. You will be informed by such transfers in a timely manner prior to their realization.

Information Security and Notification:

GolfMatchPlay.com follows accepted industry standards during the process of submission, transmission and acceptation of personal data. No method so far is 100% accurate, but we are committed in caring for the information you share with us in the best way possible. This Service, as a legal person bound by ethics and etiquette, will disclose any security breaches which might occur on this Website within 72 hours after having become aware of it to the appropriate supervisory authority as designated under the GDPR.  If such security breaches pose a threat to rights and freedoms of our Users, we shall disclose such a data breach without undue delay, via e-mail.

Children and Parents:

This Service is not intended for use by Children under the age of 13. You may enter and use this Service if you are at least 16 years of age, or are allowed to provide us with an informed consent about our privacy practices. If such informed consent cannot be given, please

Parents should be aware that the Internet is a place available to all persons with a connection to it. Sharing or Posting any data on any public forum, bulletin board, gallery, chat, blog or other places on the Service may disclose your Child’s identity. Please advise your children to not share information about themselves. If you’re worried about your children’s activities or their privacy on the Service, we encourage you to contact our Privacy Policy Coordinator at: Golf@golfmatchplay.com.

Opt-Outs

In certain aspect of usage, Users are given the opportunity to opt-out of having their personal data used for certain purposes. You therefore have the choice of denying us access or not providing us this information. Secondly, you may manually change the preferences of the range of use of personal data manually either directly on the Website or by means of request via the e-mail provided above, or by using our Privacy Policy Manager at: Golf@golfmatchplay.com.

 

Miscallenous Clauses

Nothing in these documents  are constructed in order to limit Consumer Protection rights as per the laws of your respective jurisdiction. For the purposes of this document, the User agrees that a consumer should be a “a natural person, who is acting outside the scope of an economic activity (trade, business, craft, liberal profession)”.

 

Every older version of these documents is superseded with the issuing of a renewed version. In case of change of Privacy Policy, we may notify you on our Website and via e-mail. The Service reserves the right to not issue an explanation in the case of modification of these Documents.

 

To the extent as prohibited by applicable law in certain jurisdictions in your respective residence, the Service may not render Services as described within this Agreement. The Service shall not be held liable for suspension of Services or termination of contract in the case this Agreement is rendered null and void under applicable law.

 

Providing feedback may be possible by any given means within the Service. Please refrain from using any obscenity or profanity, as the Service reserves all discretional rights as per the Terms of Service. The Service does not have a Data Protection Officer, nor is obliged to designate such Data Protection Officer under Article 37 of the GDPR.

APPENDIX I TO THE PRIVACY POLICY

  1. The Service may utilize certain data concerning the User, which may not be gathered from the User directly. Such data are listed in the table below:

 

#:

Name of Service and Website:

Company Name and Place of Establishment:

Company‘ Documents concerning User Privacy:

Purpose in accordance to this Privacy Policy:

1.

Twitter

Twitter, Inc.

U.S.

Privacy Policy

Registration/Authentication

2.

Facebook

Facebook, Inc.

U.S.

Privacy Policy

Registration/Authentication

3.

Google

Google, Inc.

U.S.

Privacy Policy – Opt Out

Registration/Authentication

4.

Instagram

Instagram, Inc.

U.S.

Privacy Policy

 

Registration/Authentication

5.

Youtube

Google, Inc.

U.S.

Privacy Policy – Opt Out

Other

 

  1. The Service may utilize Third Party services in order to gather certain data on you. For more information, please see the table below:

 

#:

Name of Service and Website:

Company Name and Place of Establishment:

Company‘ Documents concerning User Privacy:

Purpose of this Service in connection to this Website:

1.

Twitter

Twitter, Inc.

U.S.

Privacy Policy

Access, Social Widget, Registration/Authentication

2.

Facebook

Facebook, Inc.

U.S.

Privacy Policy

 

Access, Content Commmenting, Content Displaying, Social Widget, Registration/Authentication

3.

Google

Google, Inc.

U.S.

Privacy Policy – Opt Out

Analytics, Content Displaying, Infrastructure Monitoring, Social Widget, Registration/Authentication, Content Commenting

4.

Instagram

Instagram, Inc

U.S.

Privacy Policy

 

Access, Social Widget, Registration/Authentication

5.

Youtube

Google, Inc.

U.S.

Privacy Policy – Opt Out

Other