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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.

6. Cookie Policy

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. We use first and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Website to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Website.

  • Essential website cookies: Strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Website (e.g., Player Login).
  • Performance and functionality cookies: Used to enhance the performance and functionality of our Website but are non-essential to their use.
  • Analytics and customization cookies: Collect information used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Website is being used or to help us customize our Website for you.

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in our Cookie Consent popup. You can also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies.

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