This website, www.thesocialgolfer.com complies with the DPA (Data Protection Act 1998) and the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), effective from 25th May 2018.
Furthermore, The Social Golfer Limited is a fully paid-up member of the Information Commissioners Office – https://ico.org.uk
This website, www.thesocialgolfer.com collects private user data using the following form: Contact Form www.thesocialgolfer.com/contactus which generates emails sent to theteam@thesocialgolfer.com
The Social Golfer Limited will never photograph an individual as a means of unique identification or authentication unless consensually contracted to do so.
Guests at our TSG events appear in photos taken by The Social Golfer Limited as part of the visual recording of the event in photos/videos.
Guests captured in individual or in group photos do so as part of the event and their rights are protected by The Social Golfer Limited as detailed in this privacy policy.
In terms of explicit GDPR compliance, TSG event attendees and guests are photographed within the parameters of GDPR legislation on the basis of ‘legitimate interests’.
The taking of photographs of those attending our events, when viewed as a form of processing personal data, is necessary for the legitimate interests of The Social Golfer Limited as an event business unless there is a good reason to protect a given individual’s personal data which overrides those legitimate interests.
Operating within the parameters of legitimate interests as laid out in GDPR legislation, the disproportionate effort involved in providing privacy policy information to all golf event guests at the event and the degree to which it would distract us from performing our job, render it infeasible to do.
Event attendees are therefore requested to direct their guests to read this privacy policy in advance of the event and to advise them to contact us in advance with any concerns around the processing of their personal data, namely being photographed/videoed.
We adopt a safe and responsible Social Media Policy.
While we may have official profiles on social media platforms users are advised to verify the authenticity of such profiles before engaging with, or sharing information with such profiles. We will never ask for personal details on social media platforms.
Users are advised to conduct themselves appropriately when engaging with us on social media.
We may display any photographs & videos to promote The Social Golfer Limited.
On The Social Golfer website and blog, on social media, on golf blogs, on golf photography-related websites, in exhibitions, in advertising, brochures, magazine articles, and other such material, providing that the images used are used lawfully and without damage to The Social Golfer Limited members.
The rights of the people captured in these photographs and videos are protected by The Social Golfer Limited as detailed in this privacy policy.
We understand the importance of protecting children’s privacy. Our website is not designed for, or intentionally targeted at, children.
It is not our policy to intentionally collect or store information about children.
You are required to be 16 or over to be a member of The Social Golfer website.
We collect personal data about our prospective, current, and former employees (including freelance workers) as follows: basic identification information, such as your name, title, position, professional history, experience, and contact details.
At the time of writing, The Social Golfer Limited does not have any employees. (22nd May 2018)
We may, from time to time, e-mail you information to make you aware of our other similar products and services which may be of interest to you.
If you do not wish to receive emails or post from us for these purposes, or if you want to be removed from our newsletter mailing list you can either select “unsubscribe” from any of the emails that we send you from our email provider CampaignMonitor.
www.help.campaignmonitor.com/how-we-keep-your-data-private-and-secure
Alternatively, you can email us theteam@thesocialgolfer.com and we will remove ALL your data and any personal information from our files within 72 hours of receiving your request.
For more information – visit our FAQ’s page.
In the event of a Data Breach of any kind, we promise to follow the correct and ethical procedure in place to detect, report and investigate a personal data breach.
In order to collect the anonymous data described in the preceding paragraph, we may use temporary “cookies” that remain in the cookies file of your browser until the browser is closed.
Cookies by themselves cannot be used to discover the identity of the user.
A cookie is a small piece of information that is sent to your browser and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies do not damage your computer.
You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie. This enables you to decide if you want to accept it or not. We also use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website.
An IP address is a numeric code that identifies your computer on a network, or in this case, the internet.
Your IP address is also used to gather broad demographic information.
We may also perform IP lookups to determine which domain you are coming from (i.e.: aol.com, yourcompany.com) to more accurately gauge our users.
If you are unhappy with the way we handled your personal information or any privacy query or request you have raised with us, you also have a right to complain to a data protection authority in the place where you live or work.
Or in the place where you think an issue in relation to your data has arisen.
With any legislation, there are always loopholes but you can be assured that everyone at The Social Golfer Limited takes the use of your personal data very seriously and as such, all the appropriate steps have been taken in order to protect your personal information.
If you would like to discuss any of the issues stated above, please do not hesitate to contact us at theteam@thesocialgofler.com
Kind Regards
