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Privacy Policy

This page says what information Golf Simulator Videos (golfsimulatorvideos.com) collects, what it is used for, how long it is kept and what a visitor can ask for. Golf Simulator Videos is run by Jay Lasco. Questions go through the contact page.

What is collected, by what you do on the site

Reading pages and watching videos

The site uses Google Analytics to count visits: which pages are opened, from what kind of device and from roughly where. Google sets cookies for this. The videos are YouTube videos shown inside the page. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if you had visited that website: YouTube may set cookies and record that the video was played, and if you are signed in to YouTube it may connect that to your account.

Clicking a shop link or copying a discount code

Most shop links on this site are affiliate links, and the discount codes are affiliate codes. The link tells the shop that the visit came from Golf Simulator Videos, and Golf Simulator Videos earns a commission on a purchase, at no extra cost to you. The site keeps a count of these clicks: the day, the link or code, and the page it was on. The count holds no IP address, no cookie and nothing else about the visitor, and it is deleted after 400 days. The same click is reported to Google Analytics. The shop you arrive at has its own privacy policy.

Asking for a discount code by email

Where a code is sent by email, the site keeps the email address you type, the shop the code is for, the page you asked on and the time. The address is used to send you the code, and the site owner receives a copy of the request.

Asking for a free consultation

The consultation form keeps what you type: your name, your email address or phone number (or both), your message, the page you sent it from and the time. It is emailed to the site owner, and when you give an email address you are sent a note that it arrived. To answer your request, the site owner may pass it to one of GSV’s partner builders, who may call, text or email you about it.

Using the GSV Sim Builder

Building a room stores nothing about you. Sharing a build stores the build itself (the room and the gear) and a picture of it, so the link can show it; the picture is kept for 30 days. Sending a build for a free review stores what you type in the form (your email address, and anything you add, such as your name and a note) with the build, and emails it to the site owner, who replies to the address you gave.

Leaving a comment

When a visitor leaves a comment, the site collects the name, email address and text shown in the comment form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from the email address (a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar privacy policy is at automattic.com/privacy. After a comment is approved, your name and profile picture are visible to the public beside it. If you tick the box to save your details for next time, your name and email address are saved in a cookie that lasts one year.

Sending an email

An email sent to Golf Simulator Videos is kept in its mailbox like any other email, with your address and what you wrote.

What it is used for, and who sees it

The information is used to answer you, to send what you asked for, to keep spam off the site and to see which pages and videos are useful. Golf Simulator Videos does not sell, trade or rent personal information. It is seen by the companies whose services run the site, each for its own part: the web host, Google (analytics, and the service that sends the site’s email) and YouTube. A consultation request is also seen by the partner builder it is passed to.

How long it is kept

  • Click counts: 400 days. They hold nothing about the visitor.
  • Pictures of shared builds: 30 days.
  • Requests for a code by email, consultation requests and builds sent for review: until the site owner deletes them.
  • Comments, with the details given in the form: for as long as the comment is on the site.

What you can ask for

You can ask what personal information the site holds about you, ask for a copy of it, ask for it to be corrected, and ask for it to be deleted. This does not include information that has to be kept for administrative, legal or security purposes. Write through the contact page.

Cookies

Cookies are set by Google Analytics, by YouTube when a video plays, and by the comment form if you ask it to remember you. Cookies can be switched off in your browser; the site still works.

Security and changes to this page

Reasonable measures are taken to protect this information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction. When what the site collects changes, this page is changed to say so.