Last Updated: July 29, 2026
County Sligo Golf Club (“we”, “our”, “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website (https://countysligogolfclub.ie/), book tee times, apply for membership, subscribe to our newsletter, or otherwise interact with us.
We are committed to complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (Ireland).
1. Information We Collect
We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you, which we have grouped together as follows:
- Identity Data: Includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, date of birth, and gender (often required for golf handicaps and competition management).
- Contact Data: Includes billing address, delivery address, email address, and telephone numbers.
- Transaction Data: Includes details about payments to and from you and other details of tee times, green fees, event bookings, and merchandise purchases from our Pro Shop.
- Technical Data: Includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
- Usage Data: Includes information about how you use our website, services, and facilities.
- Marketing and Communications Data: Includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
- Golf/Membership Data: Includes golf handicap indexes, club affiliation, competition scores, and membership category details.
2. How We Collect Your Information
We collect data from and about you through:
- Direct Interactions: When you fill in forms on our site (e.g., booking a tee time, submitting a membership application, subscribing to our newsletter, filling out a feedback or contact form), register an account in the Members Area, or correspond with us by post, phone, email, or in person.
- Automated Technologies or Interactions: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns using cookies, server logs, and similar technologies.
3. How We Use Your Personal Data
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:
- To process and manage tee time bookings, green fees, and visitor visits.
- To process membership applications, renewals, and manage club administration.
- To manage golf competitions, handicaps, and pairings (including integration with Golf Ireland systems where applicable).
- To process payments, invoices, and financial transactions.
- To manage our relationship with you, including notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy.
- To send you newsletters, event updates, and promotional communications (where you have explicitly opted in).
- To administer and protect our business and website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, and support).
- To comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
4. Legal Basis for Processing
Under GDPR, we rely on the following legal grounds to process your personal data:
- Performance of a Contract: Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you (e.g., fulfilling a tee time booking or administering your club membership).
- Legitimate Interests: 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 (e.g., improving our website, ensuring network security, preventing fraud).
- Consent: Where you have explicitly given us consent to process your data for a specific purpose (e.g., subscribing to our newsletter or consenting to non-essential cookies). You have the right to withdraw consent at any time.
- Legal Obligation: Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory requirement (e.g., tax records, financial audits).
5. Disclosures of Your Personal Data
We may share your personal data with trusted third parties strictly required to deliver our services, including:
- Service providers who provide IT, cloud storage, and system administration services.
- Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers.
- Payment gateway providers and financial institutions.
- Golf management, handicap, and booking platform providers.
- Government bodies, regulators, or law enforcement agencies when required by Irish or EU law.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.
6. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate 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.
7. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements.
8. Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to:
- Request access to your personal data.
- Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you.
- Request erasure of your personal data.
- Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest.
- Request restriction of processing your personal data.
- Request transfer of your personal data to you or a third party.
- Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details below. You also have the right to lodge a complaint at any time with the Data Protection Commission (DPC) Ireland (www.dataprotection.ie).
9. Cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website, provide core functionality, analyze traffic, and assist with our marketing efforts. For detailed information on the cookies we use and how to manage your preferences, please refer to our Cookie Policy or use our Cookie Consent Manager banner.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us:
Phone: (071) 917 7134
Club Name: County Sligo Golf Club
Address: Rosses Point, Co. Sligo, F91 Y974, Ireland
Email: info@countysligogolfclub.ie