OPENYARDAGE
OPENYARDAGE
OpenYardage is a free community project. We do not sell any data, we run no advertising and we use no tools for measuring reach or usage. This policy nevertheless states in full which data arises and where it goes.
Mikail Ege
Karlsruher Straße 2a, 10711 Berlin
Email: oy@ege.gg
A data protection officer has not been appointed, because the statutory conditions for that are not met here.
The site can be viewed without an account. In doing so, our hosting provider processes technically necessary connection data, in particular the IP address, the time, the address requested and details about the browser. Without this transmission a web page cannot technically be delivered.
Legal basis: legitimate interest in the secure and stable operation of the service, Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.
An account only comes into being if you actively sign in with Google. In doing so we receive from Google a user identifier, the display name you have stored there and your email address. We do not receive a password.
Legal basis: performance of the user relationship, Article 6(1)(b) GDPR.
| Data | Purpose | Visibility |
|---|---|---|
| Yardage books Title, description, notes per hole, clubs, drawings, optionally your handicap |
Core of the application | You decide per book: private or public. Public books are visible to everyone, including the display name and handicap. |
| Shot distances (“bag”) | Range rings in the diagram | Stay private and are never shared with others. |
| Error reports Category, free text, course concerned |
Finding and fixing data errors | Visible to the controller only. |
Operation, sign-in and data storage run through Google Firebase. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. A data processing agreement is in place. The database is fixed to European servers (region eur3). Access from the United States by Google LLC cannot be ruled out technically; the transfer is based on the standard contractual clauses and the adequacy decision on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.
With each of these requests your IP address is transmitted to the respective provider. That cannot be avoided technically, but it can be limited: the services marked “only when needed” are not contacted until you actually use the function in question.
| Service | What for | Location | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google gstatic.com, googleapis.com, firebaseapp.com | Program libraries, sign-in, database, map tiles | USA / IRELAND | always |
| Open-Meteo api.open-meteo.com | Weather and elevation at the course | EU | on course pages |
| OpenStreetMap nominatim.openstreetmap.org | Search for courses outside our catalogue | EU | only when needed |
| State surveying twelve official services of the German federal states | official aerial imagery | GERMANY | only when needed |
| Esri server.arcgisonline.com | Aerial imagery outside the official coverage | USA | only when needed |
| FairwayMapper, OpenStreetMap | Link for mapping the course | EU | only on clicking |
We transmit to these services no details about your person, no identifiers and no contents of your books. Transmitted are only the technical details necessary for the request as well as the respective map section or your search term.
We use no cookies for advertising or measurement purposes. Stored are exclusively technically necessary details: the sign-in session, so that you stay signed in, as well as settings such as language, unit of measurement and the map view last chosen. These details remain on your device and can be deleted through the browser settings.
On the first visit no language is stored yet. The page then reads the language setting of your browser in order to show the interface straight away in a language that you can presumably read. Your browser sends this detail along to every server with every page request anyway; with us it is neither stored nor passed on and serves only as the default setting. A language is stored only once you select one yourself. You can change the selection at any time at the top of the page.
You have the right of access, to rectification, to erasure, to restriction of processing, to data portability and to object to processing that is based on a legitimate interest. A request to the email address given above is sufficient.
In addition you can lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. The competent authority is the Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit (Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information), Alt-Moabit 59 to 61, 10555 Berlin.
No automated decision-making and no profiling takes place. The handicap entry serves solely for other users to classify books and is not evaluated.
The service is not directed at children under 16 years of age. For younger users the consent of the holders of parental responsibility is required.
If we add functions that bring new processing of data with them, we adapt this policy. Authoritative is the version retrievable here at the time.