1. Who is responsible for your data?
Golf Journey is developed and operated by Hampus Andersson in Sweden. For applicable data-protection law, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Hampus Andersson is the controller of personal data processed directly for Golf Journey.
Privacy questions can be sent to hampusandersson.dev@gmail.com.
Short version: Golf Journey uses account data to provide your account, stores the golf activity you choose to save, can use device location to find nearby courses, supports optional friend features, and lets signed-in users send product feedback such as ideas or bug reports. Accepted friends can view the shared golf-journey information described below and can leave a reaction or short feedback message. Golf Journey does not currently include advertising or an advertising SDK.
2. What data does Golf Journey process?
Email address, authentication identifiers, display name, preferred language and, where you choose or an identity provider supplies it, profile/avatar information.
Courses marked as played, played dates, course ratings and optional rating notes or similar information you submit in the app.
Friend requests, friendship status, the account identifiers involved in those relationships, and timestamps needed to provide the Friends feature.
Reactions you choose to leave on a friend's golf journey and any optional short feedback message you submit. The recipient can see this content together with your display name.
If you use the in-app feedback form, Golf Journey stores the category, title and message you submit together with your account identifier. App version, platform, language/locale and the source screen may also be attached automatically to help diagnose problems. The product-feedback form does not attach your GPS location.
Coarse or precise device location when you grant location permission and use location-based course discovery. Location is used to identify courses near you; it is not used by Golf Journey for advertising.
If you choose Google Sign-In, Google and the authentication service exchange the information needed to authenticate you, such as provider identifiers and basic account information permitted by the sign-in flow.
Infrastructure providers may process ordinary technical information such as IP addresses, timestamps, request metadata and security logs as necessary to host, secure and deliver the app backend or website.
3. Why is this data used?
Golf Journey processes data to:
- create, authenticate and maintain your Golf Journey account;
- store and retrieve your profile and personal golf-course history;
- save ratings and notes you choose to create;
- show nearby courses when you request location-based discovery;
- let signed-in users find other Golf Journey users, send and manage friend requests, and maintain accepted friendships;
- let accepted friends view each other's shared golf-journey information;
- let accepted friends send reactions and optional short feedback messages;
- receive, triage and act on product ideas, bug reports, course-data corrections and other feedback you choose to submit;
- maintain course-rating aggregates and core app functionality;
- prevent abuse, troubleshoot problems and keep the service secure; and
- respond to support, privacy, safety and account-deletion requests.
Depending on the processing involved, the legal basis may be the performance of the service you request, legitimate interests in operating and securing Golf Journey, compliance with legal obligations, or your consent where consent is required. Device location is only accessed after the relevant device permission is granted.
4. Finding other users and email search
Signed-in users can search for other Golf Journey accounts by display name. Display names and profile avatars may therefore be visible in user-search results.
An email address can also be used to find an account, but Golf Journey is designed so that an email address is matched only when the search contains the complete email address. Normal name searches do not expose other users' email addresses.
5. What is visible to friends and other users?
The golf-course catalogue and aggregate course statistics are intended to be broadly available. Your display name and avatar may be visible to other signed-in users in people search and friend-request screens.
After two users become accepted friends, each friend can view a read-only version of the other's golf journey. This may include:
- courses marked as played;
- course names, locations and other catalogue information;
- played dates where a date has been recorded; and
- the user's personal course rating and whether it is a detailed or legacy rating.
Private rating notes are not included in the friend journey view. Device location is also not shared with friends through the Friends feature.
Accepted friends may leave a reaction and optional short feedback message on your golf journey. Feedback received on your journey is associated with the sender's profile identity.
Product feedback and bug reports sent through the Profile feedback form are not shown to friends or other users; they are submitted to the Golf Journey operator for review.
6. Community safety and user-generated content
Feedback messages and other user-created social content must follow the Golf Journey Community Guidelines. Do not use Golf Journey to harass others, share unlawful or harmful material, impersonate people, expose another person's private information, or send abusive or unwanted content.
If you encounter inappropriate social content or behaviour, use any reporting or blocking controls available in your app version and/or contact Golf Journey Support.
7. Service providers and data sharing
Golf Journey does not sell your personal data. Personal data may be processed by service providers needed to run the app:
- Supabase — authentication, database and backend infrastructure used by Golf Journey.
- Google — only where you choose Google Sign-In or otherwise interact with a Google service used for authentication.
- Cloudflare — hosting, delivery and security for this public Golf Journey website.
When you deliberately use the Friends feature, certain information is also disclosed to the other Golf Journey user as part of providing the social feature, as described above. This is user-directed sharing inside Golf Journey and is not a sale of personal data.
Data may also be disclosed where required by law, to protect users or the service, or as part of a legitimate business reorganisation where the recipient remains bound by applicable data-protection obligations.
8. International processing
Some service providers may process data outside Sweden or the European Economic Area. Where applicable, Golf Journey relies on the safeguards made available by those providers and required by applicable data-protection law.
9. Data retention
Account-linked data is generally retained while your Golf Journey account remains active and for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the service, resolve security or support issues, and meet legal obligations.
Friend requests, friendship records and journey feedback are retained as needed to provide the social features. A user can remove a friendship and can remove feedback they authored where the app provides that control.
Product feedback and bug reports are retained as needed to review, diagnose, prioritise and resolve the submitted issue. Because these records are linked to the submitting account, account deletion removes them through the account-linked deletion process, subject to limited retention required by law or necessary security records.
Account deletion removes or schedules deletion of account-linked social records associated with the deleted account, subject to limited retention required by law or necessary security records.
Residual copies may remain temporarily in protected backups according to infrastructure-provider backup cycles.
10. Account and data deletion
You can request deletion of your Golf Journey account and its associated user data through the account deletion page. Where an in-app deletion control is available, you can also initiate deletion there.
Deleting your Golf Journey account is intended to remove account-linked profile information, played-course history, ratings and notes, friend relationships, journey feedback, and product feedback or bug reports connected to the account, subject to the retention limits described above.
Deleting your Golf Journey account does not delete an external Google account or other third-party identity-provider account.
11. Your rights
If GDPR or similar law applies to you, you may have rights to access, correct, delete or restrict processing of your personal data, object to certain processing, receive certain data in a portable format, and withdraw consent where processing relies on consent.
To exercise a privacy right, contact hampusandersson.dev@gmail.com. We may need to verify that the request relates to your account before acting on it. You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY) or another competent supervisory authority.
12. Children
Golf Journey is a general golf utility and is not designed specifically for children. Social features allow users to find and interact with other accounts, so users should not share sensitive personal information in display names or feedback messages. If you believe a child has provided personal data in circumstances where consent or another legal basis is required, contact us so the matter can be reviewed.
13. Website privacy
This website does not intentionally use advertising cookies or a first-party analytics system. Its hosting and security infrastructure may still process standard request information needed to deliver and protect the site.
14. Security
Golf Journey uses reasonable technical and organisational measures intended to protect personal data, including authenticated access controls and backend row-level access policies for user-linked records. Friend journey access is restricted to accepted friendship relationships through authenticated backend operations. No system can guarantee absolute security.
15. Changes to this policy
This policy may be updated when Golf Journey features, service providers or legal requirements change. The current version will remain available at this URL and the “Last updated” date will be revised when material changes are made.
16. Contact
Golf Journey / Hampus Andersson
Sweden
Email: hampusandersson.dev@gmail.com