Privacy & Cookie Policy
Last Updated: October 2024
The Mauritius Golf Federation ("MGF", "we", "us", or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy & Cookie Policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from), tell you about your privacy rights, and explain how we use cookies and similar technologies.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:
- Identity Data: includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth, and gender.
- Contact Data: includes billing address, delivery address, email address, and telephone numbers.
- Technical Data: includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location.
- Profile Data: includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your golfing handicap, interests, preferences, feedback, and survey responses.
2. How We Use Your Information
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you (e.g., federation membership and licensing operations).
- Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
- Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
- To manage the World Handicap System (WHS) and calculate accurate golfer performance rankings across Mauritius.
3. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate technical and organizational security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.
4. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure.
5. Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to:
- Request access to your personal data.
- Request correction of your personal data.
- Request erasure of your personal data.
- Object to processing of your personal data.
- Request restriction of processing your personal data.
- Request transfer of your personal data.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.
7. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the Data Protection Officer using the details set out below:
Email address: info@mgf.mu
Postal address: Mauritius Golf Federation HQ