Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 2026

Golf Practice Buddy (“we”, “us”, “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and share your information when you use our website, mobile app, and related services.

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1. Who We Are

Golf Practice Buddy is a golf practice tracking and improvement platform. If you have any questions about this policy, contact us at

2. Information We Collect

A. Required account information

• Email address
• Username
• Password

This information is required to create and manage your account.

B. Optional profile information (enhancers)

You may choose to provide optional profile fields, such as:

• First name and last name
• Date of birth (for future age-group features/ranking)
• Bio
• Profile picture
• Location, handicap, gender, and other profile fields (where available)

These are generally not required for core app usage and are used to improve personalisation and social/profile features.

C. Golf and practice data

This is core service data you create and control, including practice sessions, drills, scores, distances, outcomes, training plan progress, streaks, achievements, and stats history.

D. Community, coaching, and moderation data

If you use messaging/coaching/academy/public profile features, we may process messages, profile visibility data, report/block actions, and moderation records to maintain platform safety.

E. Notification and device data

If notifications are enabled, we may process push notification identifiers/tokens, notification preferences, and delivery/interaction metadata to send reminders and service updates.

F. Technical and diagnostic data

We may collect technical data such as app version, device/OS details, error logs, and reliability diagnostics to maintain and improve service quality.

3. How We Use Your Information

• Provide account access and core app functionality
• Store and display your golf/practice history
• Enable coaching, academy, messaging, and profile features
• Send reminders, activity notifications, and service messages
• Improve product performance, reliability, and safety
• Prevent abuse, spam, and fraud
• Comply with legal obligations

4. Optional vs Required Data

Required account data is limited to email, username, and password. Optional profile fields (such as real name, date of birth, bio, and profile photo) are enhancers. You can still use core app functionality without most optional profile fields.

5. Cookies and Local Storage

The website uses session cookies for authentication and to keep you logged in. The mobile app uses local on-device storage (SQLite) to support offline practice capture. We do not use advertising or tracking cookies. You can control cookie settings through your browser, though disabling session cookies will prevent login.

6. Notifications

If enabled, notifications may include training plan reminders, inactivity reminders, badges/achievement updates, direct activity alerts, and service announcements. You can control notifications in your device settings and, where available, in-app notification settings.

7. Sharing of Information

We do not sell your personal data. We may share data with:

• Service providers that help us run the platform (hosting, messaging, support, diagnostics)
• Payment providers (for subscription/billing operations where relevant)
• Legal authorities when required by law
• Other users only as required by app features you use (e.g., public profile, messaging, coaching/academy)

8. Data Retention

We retain information for as long as necessary to provide services, maintain account history and practice records, ensure security, handle disputes, and meet legal obligations.

9. Security

We apply reasonable technical and organisational safeguards to protect data. No system is 100% secure, so we encourage strong passwords and safe account practices.

10. Children

The service is not intended for children under 13 years of age. By creating an account, you confirm that you are at least 13 years old.

11. Your Rights

Under UK GDPR, you have the right to access, correct, delete, or restrict use of your personal data. Where we rely on consent as our lawful basis, you may withdraw it at any time without affecting the lawfulness of prior processing. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). To submit a personal data request, email .

12. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by updating the “Last updated” date and, where appropriate, by in-app or email notice.

13. Contact Us

Golf Practice Buddy
Email:
Website: https://golfpracticebuddy.com