Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 24/12/23

In Brief

What is this Privacy Policy for?

This privacy policy is for this website [games.chartmygolf.com] and subsidiary programs such as Google Play and Windows Store applications derived from this website including [Chuffa Steam Train], [Chuffa Steam Train Deluxe], [Penguin Slide], [Penguin Slide Deluxe], [Bouncing Bunnies], [Bouncing Bunnies Deluxe], and served by [J A Ashman] and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it.

The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.

Contact

Contact: J A Ashman at contactus@chartmygolf.com

If you have any concerns about your data collection on this website or in the apps listed above, please contact J A Ashman at the email address contactus@chartmygolf.com

In summary, we have a minimum data collection approach. J A Ashman does not collect any data about you except purchase information required by UK law for accounting purposes.

If you contact us, your email is only kept for a maximum of 90 days or until the query is resolved.

Paypal and Google Play will also collect necessary information for purchases and app-install purposes. Users can contact Paypal or Google Play regarding information stored by them.

The only other third party data collection is done by AdMob or AdSense. This only occurs in apps that have advertising or on this website. Users can opt-in to that data collection with the consent form within the app or on the website. Users can have their information deleted using Admob and Adsense deletion policies by contacting them.

If you are unsure about any data collection issues on this website or in the apps above please contact J A Ashman using the email contactus@chartmygolf.com.

Accounts or Membership

There are no membership-accounts or memberships in the apps mentioned above or on this website. No membership data is stored by us as a result. As a consequence there is no membership-data to be deleted when requested.

If you are unsure about any data collection issues or membership-accounts on this website or in the apps above please contact J A Ashman using the email contactus@chartmygolf.com.

Android Id Data handling

Android ad ID collection is optional. The ad ID can be reset or deleted by users using ad ID controls in the Android settings menu.

Game Saves

This website and subsidiary programs such as Google Play applications and Windows Store applications mentioned above and based on this website do not store your game or golfing data on this website or in any database owned by J A Ashman or any third parties.

Users save their data on their own hardrive or other data storage devices and do so at their own discretion and own risk. Users accept all responsibility for the protection of that data. Users do not hold this website, its owners, creators, administrators or programmers responsible or liable in any way for the protection of that saved data.

If you are unsure about any data collection issues for saved games or saved golfing data on this website or in the apps above please contact J A Ashman using the email contactus@chartmygolf.com.

Deletion of Saved Games or Saved Golfing Data

We do not store your saved games or saved golfing data on any equipment owned by J A Ashman or any third parties. We or third parties do not see or process your saved game or golfing data. Your saved data is only stored on your devices. Keep this safe and delete it at your discretion using your operating system's normal file deletion systems. You can delete the game saves or saved golfing data on Android phones by the following:

The Website

This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website and derived applications comply with all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy.

Use of Cookies

This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. Where applicable this website uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer / device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user's computer / device.

Cookies are small files saved to the user's computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the user's interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.
Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.

This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google's privacy policy here for further information [ http://www.google.com/privacy.html ].

Other cookies may be stored to your computers hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.

Purchase Data

The website checks your geo-location on our purchase page to ensure you are purchasing the product from a country and location we are legally allowed to sell to. Purchase buttons are removed from that page at runtime when necessary based on that geo-location data. This information is not stored or retained.

Purchases are done through Paypal, whether you are using a credit card or are using your Paypal account. Paypal comply with all data protection laws for this purchase. The website owners can access Paypal to confirm purchases have taken place. The website owners do not personally store or retain any data about the purchase except the amount and date which is required for accounting purposes.

Contact & Communication

Users contacting this website and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the GDPR 2018, General Data Protection Regulation 2018, and Data Protection Act 1998. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to email submission process but advise users using such form to email processes that they do so at their own risk.

This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products / services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter program the website operates but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting any form to email process. Or whereby you the consumer have previously purchased from or enquired about purchasing from the company a product or service that the email newsletter relates to. This is by no means an entire list of your user rights in regard to receiving email marketing material. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.

External Links

Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text / banner / image links to other websites, similar to; Wikipedia

The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Adverts and Sponsored Links

This website may contain sponsored links and adverts. These will typically be served through our advertising partners, to whom may have detailed privacy policies relating directly to the adverts they serve.

Clicking on any such adverts will send you to the advertisers website through a referral program which may use cookies and will track the number of referrals sent from this website. This may include the use of cookies which may in turn be saved on your computers hard drive. Users should therefore note they click on sponsored external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Social Media Platforms

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

Shortened Links in Social Media

This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy urls [web addresses] (this is an example: http://bit.ly/zyVUBo).

Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened urls published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine urls are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.

Detailed

Privacy Policy

J A Ashman built the this website, [Chart My Golf], [Chart My Golf Deluxe] [Chuffa Steam Train], [Chuffa Steam Train Deluxe], [Penguin Slide], [Penguin Slide Deluxe], [Bouncing Bunnies], [Bouncing Bunnies Deluxe], apps as Commercial Apps, Reward Adverts Apps or Free Apps. This SERVICE is provided by J A Ashman and is intended for use as is.

This page is used to inform visitors regarding my policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use my Service.

If you choose to use my Service, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation to this policy. The Personal Information that I collect is used for providing and improving the Service. I will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

The terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, which are accessible at this website unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy.

Information Collection and Use

For a better experience, while using our Service, I may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information. The information that I request will be retained on your device and is not collected by me in any way.

The app does use third-party services that may collect information used to identify you.

Link to the privacy policy of third-party service providers used by the app

Log Data

I want to inform you that whenever you use my Service, in a case of an error in the app I collect data and information (through third-party products) on your phone called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your device Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, device name, operating system version, the configuration of the app when utilizing my Service, the time and date of your use of the Service, and other statistics.

Cookies

Cookies are files with a small amount of data that are commonly used as anonymous unique identifiers. These are sent to your browser from the websites that you visit and are stored on your device's internal memory.

This Service does not use these “cookies” explicitly. However, the app may use third-party code and libraries that use “cookies” to collect information and improve their services. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies and know when a cookie is being sent to your device. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of this Service.

Service Providers

I may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:

I want to inform users of this Service that these third parties have access to their Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.

Security

I value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and I cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links to Other Sites

This Service may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by me. Therefore, I strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. I have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Children’s Privacy

These Services do not address anyone under the age of 13. I do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13 years of age. In the case I discover that a child under 13 has provided me with personal information, I immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact me so that I will be able to do the necessary actions.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

I may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, you are advised to review this page periodically for any changes. I will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

This policy is effective as of 2023-12-24

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about my Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact me at contactus@chartmygolf.com.

Resources & Further Information

v.2.0 April 2013 Edited & customised by: Ashman