Privacy Policy

Golf – The Card Game (“the app”) and this website are run by Michael Lewis, who is responsible for your data under UK data protection law. Questions or requests: golfthecardgameapp@gmail.com.

You don’t need an account to play. Games against the computer and games kept with real cards are saved only on your device, and the scores you type for a game with real cards never leave it.

If you finish games against the computer before you have an account, they wait on your device. When you choose a name for the League on that device, they’re sent to your new account and count there.

An account is needed only for the League. You can make one with just a name, or with Sign in with Apple. We then keep:

• An account ID. With Sign in with Apple, also the email address Apple shares with us, which can be Apple’s private relay address. We don’t send you email.
• Your League name. Other players see it, with your rating, how many games you’ve played and won, and which of the Regulars’ tables you’ve come first at.
• Your finished games against the computer: who played at which level, every hole’s scores, the game’s length and table, and when it was played. Your rating and History come from these, and only you can see them.
• The cards of those games: every card dealt and every move, with no names. We use them to study how people play and make the computer players better.

Apple may share your first name when you first sign in. We use it only to offer it as your League name, which you can change any time.

Golf Pro is bought through Apple. We never see your payment details: Apple tells the app only whether your Apple ID owns it.

The app asks to add to your photos only when you save a scorecard picture. It never reads your photos.

There are no ads in the app at the moment. If we add them to the free version, this page will say how they work and what they collect before they appear. With Golf Pro you never see ads.

No notifications, no tracking across other apps or websites and no analytics services, and we never sell your data. It’s used only to run the League and to make the computer players better.

We use your data to give you what you’ve asked for: your account, the League and your History. Keeping the cards of your games to make the computer players better is in our legitimate interests, and you can object by emailing us.

Account and League data is stored with Supabase, in the UK (London). A backup copy is made once a week and kept for 12 weeks, on a computer of ours. Sign in with Apple and purchases are handled by Apple.

This website is hosted by Cloudflare. Like any web host, it sees the address of the device asking for a page, to send it there; the website itself keeps nothing about you.

These services handle your data only to provide them to us, under data protection terms that protect it at least as well as this policy does.

Your data is kept until you delete your account. In the app, tap your name at the top of the home screen, then Delete Account. That deletes your account and its sign-in, your League name and rating, your games’ results and History in the League, and the cards kept from your games. Copies in our backups are gone within 12 weeks, as old backups are deleted.

Games saved on your device stay there until you delete them or the app. You can also email us to ask for a copy of your data, a correction or deletion.

You can ask to see, correct, delete or move your data, or object to how it’s used. If you’re unhappy with how we handle it, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk).

The app is not aimed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect their data.

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date.