About this site
pilamferio.net is a members’ website created and maintained for the Pilam Ferio golfing society (PF). It is not intended for public use, although certain information displayed on the site is in the public domain. This Privacy and Cookie Policy is for bona fide members of Pilam Ferio (PFers) unless otherwise stated.
Privacy Policy
Data Protection
When you visit this website, non-personally identifiable data about you is automatically detected and logged by our server. Typically this will include your domain name and country, the page(s) visited, search terms and search engines employed and the web browser used. This applies to all visitors to the website. This information is used by us solely to monitor usage of our website and to find ways of improving it. It is never passed or sold to any third party.
Registration
PFers are required to provide contact details (name and email address) and golf credentials at registration. Further personal details may subsequently be provided at the PFers discretion. All PFers can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time. Website administrators can also see and edit that information. Registered PFers are expected to keep these details up-to-date. All personal information is kept securely by Pilam Ferio. Passwords are encrypted and cannot be seen by users or administrators.
Selected personal data is available to other registered PFers and is used for ease of communication, running meetings and events and for posting on the website including scores, results, meeting data, etc..
Should a non-PFer attempt registration it will be declined, and any personal information submitted will be deleted from our database.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Information on how to contact Pilam Ferio, and to request a copy of your personal data, is available in the Members’ Area.
Comments
When you leave comments, vote or post topics or replies on the site we collect the data shown in the applicable form, and also your IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymised string created from your e-mail address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Comments may also be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included, unless material to the context. Visitors to the website who can see those images can download and extract any location data contained therein.
Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them. You should read this policy to understand what cookies are, how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used and how to control the cookie preferences.
What are cookies ?
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. The cookies are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make the website more secure, provide a better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyse what works and where it needs improvement.
How do we use cookies ?
As most of the online services, our website uses first-party cookies and third-party cookies for a number of purposes. The first-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our websites are used mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
What types of cookies do we use ?
Essential: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information. For example, these cookies allow you to log-in to your account.
Statistics: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit etc. These data help us understand and analyse how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.
Marketing: We do not display advertisements and do not use marketing cookies.
Embedded content from other websites: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in exactly the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos.
Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.
How can I control the cookie preferences ?
To use pilamferio.net you must have cookies enabled. By continuing to use this website we assume you are happy with that. If you do not wish to accept cookies you must leave the website immediately.
Different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete cookies but the site may not function correctly if you do so.
Copyright
All material on this website is protected by copyright under worldwide copyright laws.
Updates to this Privacy and Cookie Policy
On occasion we may be required to update this Privacy and Cookie Policy. Dates of updates are shown below.
2nd March, 2023 Included use of personal data for running meetings and events