Data protection at golffriends.com

Data protection and data security play an important role at golffriends.com. We respect the personal rights of those who use our platform and ensure that the personal information about the users of our platform is comprehensively guaranteed through technical, organizational and legal measures.

Please read through the following information carefully.

1. golffriends.com shall undertake to comply with all relevant terms and conditions of the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection dated 19 June 1992. The processing of personal data is always done appropriately and strictly according to good faith principles. Personal information shall only be processed for that purpose for which it was intended or for which the users of our platform gave their consent.

2. The information entered by a user of our platform is electronically recorded and processed by golffriends.com and is confidential. golffriends.com has taken technical and organizational measures to ensure the information against unauthorized processing.

3. In principle, golffriends.com shall not pass on personal data. In particular, golffriends.com shall not make this information accessible to outside parties; in particular, no information shall be sold. We reserve the right to provide information to the authorities subsequent to a legally binding order under our legal information obligations.

4. As long as the use of our platform serves a contractual purpose (e.g. booking a tee time), the data shall only be passed on in a scope that will serve the user of our platform in the achievement of the intended contractual purpose. For example, when signing up for a membership entailing costs, the necessary information shall be transmitted to the corresponding finance or credit institution. Passing on the information for other purposes shall not be done.

5. Please note that our strict data protection terms and conditions do not apply to third parties to whom we have passed on your data, i.e. to achieve a contractual purpose you intended. The treatment of such data is no longer within the realm of our influence.

6. If the use of our platform serves a contractual purpose involving offshore contact (for example, booking green fees abroad), the information passed on shall only be in a scope that will serve the user of our platform in the achievement of the intended contractual purpose. The user of our platform is aware that when passing on information abroad, this data transmission may be subject to data protection terms and conditions that do not correspond to the Swiss standard. You can find a list of these countries at www.edsb.ch.d.themen/ausland/liste_d.pdf.

7. Please be aware that other websites, including those that you visit because they are linked to this site through a hyperlink, for example, may be able to record information related to your person. Our data protection terms and conditions do not refer to these linked websites.

8. We reserve the right to delete personal data irrevocably at any time without notice of any kind.

9. Our website provides the possibility for you to delete your entry as a member, forum participant or interested party. Therefore, you are always able to suppress information, offers or benefits from us. Please use the customer area of our website for this. 

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