Thank you for visiting our privacy policy page, Fairlie Golf Club respects your privacy and your personal information. By using and interacting with our website, you confirm that you have agreed to our Terms & Conditions and have read and understood this privacy policy.

Introduction

Fairlie Golf Club complies with the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020 when dealing with personal information provided through this website. Personal information is defined as information about an identifiable person.

This policy sets out how we will use, disclose, and protect your personal information.

This policy will not exclude or limit any of your rights under the act. If you wish to seek further information on the act, see www.privacy.org.nz.

Policy Revisions

Fairlie Golf Club may make changes or revisions to this policy by updating a revised version onto this page. The changes will apply from the last date that we uploaded the revised policy. The following privacy policy was last updated on 21/06/2022.

Personal Information Collection

We collect your personal information from you when:

• You enter your contact information in order to subscribe to our newsletter database

• When you register your interest in one of our upcoming events, working bees, or other similar event.

• Buy a membership from us in our online shop

• Contact us using one of our submission forms through the contact us page, facilities, booking a SC van night, green fees booking, or similar pages. When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with for storage and with Zapier for data porting.

• This website also collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

• This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

  We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

We collect your personal information in order to

• Provide Fairlie Golf Club membership services and products online.

• To market products and services to you, including contacting you electronically or by phone (whichever preferred contact information you have provided to us).

• Where you have opted in or registered, to email our regular newsletters to you.

• To verify your identity as a member.

• Register you for events, working bees, social functions and any other event or function that requires registration.

• To respond to communications from you, including any questions, complaints, or information you require.

• This website collects personal data to power our website analytics including, information about your network, browser and device, webpages you visited prior to coming to this website, and your IP address. This helps us to collate analytical information (where the data is anonymized and is unidentifiable to any one person). This information may include details about your use of this website including clicks, timestamps, internal links, pages visited, scrolling, and searches.

• For any other purpose authorised by you or the act itself.

Purchasing an item or membership from our shop:

When you buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfill the order. We may collect information like your:

• Billing and shipping address

• Details relating to your purchase (for example, your shirt size)

• Email address

• Name

• Phone number

We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

Disclosing your information

Besides our Fairlie Golf Club staff we may also disclose this information to:

• Any business that may support our products or services, including our website host (Squarespace) or person(s) that maintain any underlying IT system or data centre that we use to provide the website. Squarespace is our website provider host.

• Squarespace (our website provider) for anonymised statistical data information. You can find the Privacy Policy for Squarespace at: https://www.squarespace.com/privacy if you would like to read further.

• A regulatory authority that can require us to supply your personal information

• Any other person that is authorised by the Act or Law

• Any person you authorise

• Because our website includes embedded Google Maps for location sharing purposes, your location information may be shared with Google as a third party.

Providing some information is optional, if you choose not to enter your personal information, we may be unable to register you as a member, add you to our database, respond to your queries and requests, register you for events, market our products and services to you, and any other purpose that requires that information.

Protecting your personal information

We will take reasonable steps to ensure that we protect your data and personal information from loss, unauthorised activity, or other misuse.

Accessing your personal information

You have the right to access your readily available personal information from us, and to request a correction to that personal information. Before you exercise this right, we will need evidence to confirm that you are the individual in to which the information relates.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses here: https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001264507#toc-check-your-cookies

These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you:

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Internet Use

If you provide us with personal information over the internet, the provision of that information is at your own risk. If you follow a link from our website to another website, the owner of that website will have it’s own privacy policy relating to your personal information.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions about this policy, our privacy practices, or you would like to request access to, or correction of, your personal information, you can contact us at fairliegolf@gmail.com