Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 2026

1. Privacy at a glance

Mallorca spielt Golf shows the golf courses of the island, ratings by other players and your own rounds. Without an account we process only the technically necessary access data; everything else only arises once you sign in:

• Without an account: course data and ratings are only read. Favourites and your own rounds are held exclusively on your device.
• With an account: email address, password as a hash value, your ratings and, from Premium or Premium Plus onwards, your profile and your scorecards on our server.

We do not use any analytics or tracking services, no social media plug-ins and no newsletter systems. No profiling and no automated decision-making take place. Data is not sold to third parties. In the Basic tier advertising is displayed (see section 11).

2. Controller

The controller is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.

Legal bases

We process personal data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (performance of the user contract, see Terms), Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in secure, trouble-free operation), Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR (statutory retention obligations for payments) and, where consent has been given, Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. Consent given can be withdrawn at any time with effect for the future.

SSL/TLS encryption

This site and all interfaces of the service are delivered exclusively over an encrypted connection (recognisable by https:// in the address bar). Data transmitted cannot therefore be read by third parties.

3. Hosting

Mallorca spielt Golf runs on a server in a data centre within the European Union. All application data (accounts, course data, ratings and scorecards) is held on that server. No content delivery network is used; fonts, icons and scripts are also delivered from our own server and not loaded from external hosts.

4. Website access data

When a page is requested, your browser transmits technically necessary information that the server records in log files:

• the address requested, date and time of the request
• the amount of data transferred and the HTTP status code
• browser type and version, operating system
• the referring page, where transmitted
• IP address

The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR; the legitimate interest lies in secure operation and the defence against attacks. This data is not merged with other data sources. Logs are deleted after 30 days at the latest, unless they are needed to investigate a specific case of abuse.

To fend off automated attacks we store the IP address of suspicious requests in a block list for a limited time.

Contacting us

If you write to us by e-mail, we process your details in order to handle the enquiry and in case of follow-up questions. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) or (f) GDPR. Messages remain with us until the purpose ceases to apply and no statutory retention periods stand in the way.

5. Account and sign-in

Viewing courses and reading ratings works without an account. An account is required for your own ratings, for syncing between several devices and for scorecards. In doing so we process:

• e-mail address and, if provided, name
• the password, solely as a non-reversible hash, never in plain text
• a session identifier by which the app recognises you on each request
• the tier booked and the confirmation status of the account
• timestamps of creation and last change
• time-limited identifiers for the confirmation e-mail and for resetting the password

The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. The account is valid for Mallorca spielt Golf only. Other applications of the provider maintain separate accounts with their own records, even for the same e-mail address; no comparison takes place between them.

6. Ratings

For a rating we store the course rated, the score from 1 to 10, the comment, the date and the identifier of your account. Ratings are visible to other users of the app: your email address is not shown. Please do not enter any details in a comment that you do not wish to publish.

The account identifier is stored in order to assign the rating to your account and to enforce the 30-day lock per course (see Terms & Conditions §7). The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR, and additionally Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR for the lock (protection against multiple ratings).

7. Scorecards and profile

A scorecard contains the date, course, par, the strokes per hole, the total and a note. Scorecards and the profile snapshot (display name, settings, optional profile picture) are stored on the server as one file each per account, in a separate directory assigned to that account. They cannot be retrieved freely over the web: the authorisation is checked on every single call using the account identifier and the session identifier.

This data is intended for you alone and is not shown to other users. The purpose of storing it is to sync between your devices and to back up your rounds; the legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR. Without an account, rounds and favourites do not leave your device.

8. E-mail

The service sends e-mail only in response to an event: confirming registration, resetting the password, a notice after a password change and notices about the account. Dispatch is handled by the provider's mail server. There is no advertising or newsletter mailing.

9. Purchases via the App Store

Paid tiers are processed via the Apple App Store. You enter your payment details with Apple; they do not reach our server. We only receive confirmation from Apple as to which tier is unlocked for your device or App Store account, and store this status against your account.

The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (performance of contract) as well as Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR for commercial and tax retention. Apple's privacy notices additionally apply.

10. Storage on the device

The app stores data in the local storage of the device (IndexedDB and localStorage). These details remain on your device and are not transmitted to us, except when syncing with your account:

• the course data including ratings, so that the app can be used without a network connection
• your favourites and your scorecards
• the session (account identifier, session identifier, display name) and, if set, the hash value of your PIN code
• the language selected and the System/Light/Dark setting
• the status of the last sync and the tier enabled

The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR; the storage is necessary for operation. Signing out, resetting the local data in the profile or removing the app deletes these entries. We do not set cookies for advertising or analytics purposes; the start page on the web only sets the technically necessary session cookie of the web server.

If you sign in on a device with a different account, favourites, your own ratings and scorecards on that device are reset.

If you are signed in, the app keeps a profile backup on the server in every tier, so that your profile is the same on all your devices. It contains your profile picture, the hash of your PIN code (if set up) and the unlocked tier. The app checks the PIN code itself only on the device; it is not transmitted.

11. Advertising in the app

If the app shows advertising in the Basic tier, it is delivered as a banner at the bottom of the iOS app via Google AdMob (Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland). Google processes device data such as the device's advertising identifier, IP address and coarse location data to select advertisements and enable billing and abuse detection.

If the app offers ad videos in return for a reward (rewarded ads), you only ever start such a video yourself; these videos are also delivered by Google AdMob.

The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (financing the Basic tier); where personalised advertising or access to the advertising identifier requires consent, it is obtained through the operating system's prompt and can be withdrawn there at any time (Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking). The advertising identifier can also be reset or disabled in system settings.

From the Premium tier onward there is no advertising banner. A connection to AdMob is then only made if you start an ad video yourself.

12. Retention and deletion

• Account data: until you delete the account.
• Ratings: they stay stored with the course and visible to everyone, even if you delete your account. They cannot be changed or deleted in the app.
• Scorecards: until you delete them one by one or delete your account.
• Profile: until you delete your account. We do not delete ratings, scorecards or your profile on our own initiative.
• Access logs: after 30 days at the latest.
• Payment records: for the statutory retention periods, as a rule six to ten years.

You delete your account yourself in the app. The account is then deactivated and the associated data on the server is removed. This cannot be reversed. Accounts with other applications of the provider are unaffected and have to be deleted there separately.

13. Your rights

You have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients and the purpose of the processing (Art. 15 GDPR), to rectification (Art. 16), erasure (Art. 17), restriction of processing (Art. 18), data portability (Art. 20) and to object to processing based on a legitimate interest (Art. 21). Consent given can be withdrawn at any time with effect for the future.

Please contact [email protected].

Without prejudice to other remedies, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, in particular in the member state of your residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.

14. Changes to this policy

We adapt this policy when the service or the legal situation changes. The version published here at the time applies. In the case of substantial changes we additionally inform account holders in the application or by e-mail.