Privacy Policy: How We Protect Your Information

Last Updated: 13 May 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal data when you visit golfwithdiscs.com, use our tools, contact us, or sign up to receive emails from Golf With Discs. We are based in the UK and process personal data in line with the UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), and other relevant privacy laws.

Table of Contents

1. Who We Are

GolfWithDiscs.com is a website providing disc golf content, tools, rankings, reviews, and related resources. This policy applies to visitors, subscribers, and people who contact us through the website.

Golf With Discs is the data controller and is responsible for the personal data described in this policy.

You can contact us about privacy matters through our contact form.

2. What Data We Collect

2.1 Contact Form Submissions

When you contact us through the website, we may collect:

Name
Email address
Message content
Any other information you choose to include in your message

2.2 Email Sign-Up Forms

When you sign up to receive emails from Golf With Discs, we may collect:

Email address
Name, if provided
Language preference
Sign-up source, such as Golf With Discs, BagIQ, DiscFinder, or The DiscList
Email interest, such as general disc golf updates, disc tips, BagIQ, DiscFinder, or DiscList trends
Consent date
Technical information needed to manage your subscription, unsubscribe requests, and email delivery

2.3 Website Analytics and Security

When you visit the website, we may collect technical and usage information, including:

IP address
Browser type and version
Operating system
Pages visited
Referrer URL
Timestamp of visit
Device and usage information

This may be collected through:

Google Analytics
Website hosting, security, and anti-spam tools
Cookie consent and website performance tools

3. How We Use Your Data

We use your information for:

Responding to messages sent through our contact form
Sending email updates where you have signed up to receive them
Sending disc golf tips, DiscList trends, BagIQ updates, DiscFinder updates, new article links, and related Golf With Discs content
Managing your email preferences, language preference, consent records, and unsubscribe requests
Improving our website, tools, content, and user experience
Understanding which pages, tools, and content are useful to visitors
Preventing spam, fraud, abuse, or unauthorized access
Maintaining the security and reliability of the website

We do not sell your personal information. We only share personal data with service providers where needed to run the website, send emails, measure performance, protect the site, or comply with legal requirements.

4. Cookies

We use cookies and similar technologies to:

Maintain site functionality
Remember preferences
Understand how visitors use the website
Improve website performance and content
Help protect the website from spam, fraud, and abuse

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the site. This may involve cookies or similar technologies, depending on your cookie choices. See our Cookie Policy for full details.

5. Legal Basis

We process personal data based on the following legal bases:

Purpose	Type of data	Lawful basis
To reply to enquiries	Name, email address, message content	Legitimate interests or steps taken at your request
To send email updates	Email address, name if provided, language preference, sign-up source, email interest, consent date	Consent
To manage unsubscribes and email preferences	Email address, subscription status, preference data, suppression records	Legal obligation and legitimate interests
To run and protect the website	Technical and usage data	Legitimate interests
To understand website performance	Technical and usage data	Consent where required by cookie rules, otherwise legitimate interests where applicable

Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw it at any time. You can withdraw consent for marketing emails by using the unsubscribe link included in our emails or by contacting us through the website.

Where we rely on legitimate interests, we only do so where we consider that our interests are not overridden by your rights and freedoms.

6. Your Rights

Under the UK GDPR, you have the right to:

Access your personal data
Correct inaccurate personal data
Request deletion of your personal data
Object to certain types of processing
Request restriction of processing
Request a copy of your data in a portable format, where applicable
Withdraw consent at any time where we rely on consent
Complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office if you are unhappy with how we handle your data

You have an absolute right to object to direct marketing. You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time using the unsubscribe link included in every email.

To exercise any of your rights, send us a message through the contact form.

You can also contact the Information Commissioner’s Office through ico.org.uk.

7. Data Retention

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary for the purpose collected.

Contact form messages are retained only as long as needed to respond to your enquiry and manage any related follow-up.
Email subscription data is retained while you remain subscribed.
If you unsubscribe, we may keep a suppression record to make sure we do not email you again by mistake.
Analytics data is anonymized or aggregated where possible and retained according to the settings used in Google Analytics.
Security logs may be retained for a limited period where needed to protect the website and investigate abuse or technical issues.

8. Third-Party Services and International Data Transfers

We use third-party service providers to operate the website, send emails, measure website performance, and protect the site. These may include:

Brevo, for email sign-up forms, subscriber management, and email delivery
Google Analytics, for website analytics
Hostinger, for website hosting and related infrastructure
Cloudflare and QUIC.cloud, for website security, performance optimization, and content delivery
Cookie consent, anti-spam, and website performance providers

Some providers may process data outside the UK or European Economic Area. Where this happens, we rely on appropriate safeguards, such as adequacy regulations, International Data Transfer Agreements, Standard Contractual Clauses, or equivalent data protection measures.

If you sign up to receive emails, your sign-up information may be transferred to and processed by Brevo so that we can manage your subscription and send emails.

9. Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your data, including HTTPS, access controls, security tools, and regular monitoring. No method of transmission online is completely secure, but we take reasonable steps to reduce the risk of unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or disclosure.

We limit access to personal data to people and service providers who need it for legitimate operational, technical, security, or legal reasons.

10. Third-Party Links

This website may include links to third-party websites, retailers, tools, plugins, applications, or other services. Clicking those links or using those services may allow third parties to collect or process data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy notices, policies, or practices.

We encourage you to read the privacy notices of any third-party websites you visit.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The latest version will always be posted on this page with the effective date shown at the top.

12. Questions

If you have any privacy concerns or questions about how we handle your data, send us a message through the contact form.