Privacy policy

The short version

• Other golfers see how you play (your handicap or typical score, walk or ride, and the habits you choose to share), not your name, email, or phone.
• Your gender and age range are private. Nobody sees them, and they're never used for matching.
• The course you book with gets your name on its tee sheet, like any booking.
• We don't sell your information or show ads.
• You can delete your account from your profile at any time.

What we collect

Your account. Your email address and name. If you sign in with Google, Google tells us your name and email address, and whether the email is verified.

Your golfer profile. Your display name, your game (a handicap, a typical score, or "not sure"), whether you walk or ride, and whether you usually play 9 or 18. Everything else is optional: pace, round type, how you like to play, tees, what you do at the turn, whether you drink or smoke on the course, and your match preferences. Gender and age range are optional too, and private.

What you do on MatchPlay. The tee times you book or release, the names of guests you add, tee time watches, league signups and the teammates you add by name, and post-round feedback (how the group was, ratings of the course, and about when you finished).

If you contact us as a course. The details you put in the course form: your name, course, role, email, phone, and tee sheet.

Automatically. Cookies that keep you signed in. An anonymous search session cookie that expires after 30 idle minutes, which lets us count searches without knowing who made them. To stop abuse of sign-in, we briefly keep a one-way scrambled form of your email address and network address. Our hosting provider keeps standard server logs.

How we use it

• To show tee times and rank groups by how well they fit you.
• To book and release your spots on the course's own tee sheet.
• To email you about your bookings and the things you asked for: sign-in codes, round reminders, "How was your round?", closures and delays at a course where you're booked, tee time watch alerts, and league messages.
• To suggest league teammates whose games fit yours.
• To understand and improve matching, using searches and feedback in aggregate. Search records hold what was searched and the area, never your account, your network address, or what you typed.

Who sees what

Other golfers see the playing style on your listing: your game as you gave it, walk or ride, 9 or 18, and the optional habits you answered. Names are hidden on listings. Contact details, gender, and age range are never shown.

Courses get your name on their tee sheet for each booking, as with any reservation. They see post-round feedback and pace of play only as totals and averages across several golfers, never your own answers, finish time, or comments. A course running a league you join sees your name on its roster.

League teammates see your name. They see your email only if you share it: by confirming a suggested match, or by pressing "Share my email with my team".

Service providers process information for us so MatchPlay can run: Vercel (hosting), Neon (our database), Resend (sending email), and Google (if you sign in with Google). They may use it only to provide their service to us.

We may also disclose information if the law requires it, or to protect golfers and courses from fraud or abuse.

Emails and your choices

Round reminders, post-round emails, and league emails each have an unsubscribe link, and you can turn each off separately. Sign-in codes, and notices about a booking you hold (like a closure or delay), don't: they're about your own booking. You can change your profile and match preferences any time on your profile.

How long we keep it

• Your account, profile, and feedback: until you delete your account.
• Anonymous search records: about 13 months.
• Tee time watches: deleted 30 days after they end.
• Rounds already played stay on the course's tee sheet, as the course's own record. When you delete your account, MatchPlay unlinks them from you.

Deleting your account

Delete your account from your profile. We delete your account, profile, preferences, feedback, watches, and league signups, and sign you out everywhere. If you have upcoming bookings, release them first (or wait until after the round), so nobody is left holding a spot in your name.

Who MatchPlay is for

MatchPlay accounts are for golfers 18 and older. We don't knowingly collect information from children.

Changes

If we change this policy in a way that matters, we'll update the date at the top and tell you by email or on the site.