Privacy policy

Compare Golf Tours (“we”, “us”) helps golfers compare Australian golf tours. We collect as little personal information as we can, and we handle it in line with the Australian Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). This policy explains what we collect, why, and what you can do about it.

What we collect

Golfers: you can search, compare and use the tour matcher without giving us any personal information. We don't take bookings. When you're ready, we send you to the operator's own website, and anything you give them is covered by their privacy policy.

When an operator registers interest we collect the company name, website, contact name, email address and message.

Automatically: like most websites, our hosting provider records technical information such as your IP address, browser type and the pages requested, for security and to keep the site running. We don't use this to identify you.

Page views: we count which pages are viewed, on which date, and which website or campaign sent the visit (for example “google.com”). We don't use cookies for this, and we don't record your IP address or anything else that identifies you, so these counts can't be linked back to a person.

Links to operators: when you follow a link to an operator's website, we count the click (the date, which tour or operator, and where on our page the link was). We don't record your IP address or anything else that identifies you. The link also tells the operator's website that you came from us, using standard tags in the address (“utm_source=comparegolftours”); what the operator does from there is covered by their privacy policy.

We don't ask for payment details, and we don't collect sensitive information.

Cookies and browser storage

We don't use advertising or analytics cookies (our page-view counts don't need them). The “compare” feature remembers the tours you've picked using your browser's local storage. That stays on your device, isn't sent to us, and you can clear it at any time with the “Clear” button or your browser settings. If we add analytics in future, we'll update this policy first.

Why we collect it

• to respond to operators who want to list or correct their tours
• to show operators how many visitors we send them, and to understand demand (for example which regions are popular), using counts that don't identify anyone

We won't send you marketing emails unless you've asked us to, and we never sell your personal information.

Who we share it with

• Tour operators see combined click counts (for example “40 visitors in March”), which don't identify anyone.
• Service providers. The site is hosted by Netlify, Inc., which also stores form submissions for us. Netlify is based in the United States, so your information may be stored or processed overseas.
• If the law requires it, for example in response to a valid request from a court or regulator.

How long we keep it

We keep operator sign-up details for as long as we're in contact about a listing, and for up to 24 months afterwards. After that we delete them. You can ask us to delete them sooner. Anonymous click counts are kept indefinitely.

Security

The site is served over HTTPS and submissions are stored with our hosting provider, with access limited to the people running Compare Golf Tours. No system is perfectly secure, but we take reasonable steps to protect your information from misuse, loss and unauthorised access.

Your choices: access, correction and deletion

You can ask to see the personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Contact us using the form on our For operators page, starting your message with “Privacy request”. We'll reply within 30 days. You can use the site to browse and compare tours without giving us any personal information at all.

Complaints

If you're unhappy with how we've handled your information, please contact us first and we'll try to fix it. If you're still not satisfied, you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au.

Changes to this policy

We'll update this page when what we collect or how we use it changes, and change the date at the top. See also how we compare tours.