Privacy policy

1. Controller

Email: info@livegolf.cloud

2. Data we process in the app

Account and profile data

• Account: email address and password (stored encrypted via Firebase Authentication).
• Profile: first and last name, optionally your address, handicap, height, handedness, profile photo and your golf bags with their clubs.

Location data

• In the foreground the app uses your precise location to show golf clubs nearby and distances.
• During an active round the app records your position even with the display off, to capture shot positions and distances. These positions are stored as part of your round. Outside a round there is no location tracking in the background.

Motion and fitness data

• The Apple Watch app uses motion sensors (acceleration and rotation) to detect golf shots automatically. Only the result is transferred (a detected shot with its time and position), never raw sensor data.
• Rounds can be saved as a workout in Apple Health. Health data such as your heart rate stays on your devices and is not transferred to our servers.

Your content

• Rounds played with scores and statistics, flight assignments, favourite clubs and uploaded photos.
• When you play in a flight with others, your name, profile photo and the scores of the round are visible to your fellow players. Clubs see the data of their members as part of their member management.

3. Purposes and legal bases

We process this data solely to provide the app’s functions (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, performance of a contract). The app accesses location, motion sensors and photos only after you have explicitly allowed it in the system (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, consent); you can withdraw these permissions at any time in the iOS settings. There is no processing for advertising, no tracking across apps and no automated decision-making.

4. Hosting and processors

The app uses Google Firebase (Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) for authentication, database and file storage. The data is stored in data centres in the European Union (region eur3 / europe-west). A data processing agreement under Art. 28 GDPR is in place with Google.

For the weather forecast the app sends the coordinates of the golf club (not your location) to the open interface of Open-Meteo (open-meteo.com); no personal data is transferred.

5. This website

To measure the reach of this website we use Plausible Analytics by Plausible Insights OÜ, Västriku tn 2, 50403 Tartu, Estonia: a cookieless, privacy-friendly analysis without personal profiles and without tracking across devices. No cookies are set, nothing is stored on your device and no IP addresses are stored permanently. The data is processed on servers in the EU; Plausible processes it on our behalf under a data processing agreement according to Art. 28 GDPR. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in understanding how this website is used (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). This also applies to visiting this page.

6. Storage period and deletion

Your data is kept as long as your account exists. You can delete your account at any time directly in the app (Settings → “Delete Account”). This deletes your profile and your personal data; anonymised round data of shared flights may remain for your fellow players.

7. Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right of access (Art. 15), rectification (Art. 16), erasure (Art. 17), restriction of processing (Art. 18), data portability (Art. 20) and objection (Art. 21), and the right to withdraw a consent you have given at any time. Simply write to the email address above. You can also lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority.

8. Beta notice

The app is currently in a test phase (TestFlight). Payment functions are fully simulated: no real payments are made and no payment data is collected. Test data may be reset during the beta.

9. Changes

We update this privacy policy when the app or the law changes. The current version is always available at this address.