Policies
Privacy Policy
How Link Golf UK collects, uses, shares and protects your personal data.
In short. We collect what we need to take your booking, run your Annual Pass and answer your questions, and nothing more. We never sell your data, and we only send offers if you ask for them.
Who we are
Link Golf UK is the trading name of Link Golf UK Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 13128401), with its central office at Marland Golf Course, Springfield Park, Rochdale, OL11 4RE. We run seven pay-and-play courses and are the data controller for personal data collected through this site, the Annual Pass and venue enquiries.
One group
Link Golf UK and Link Club are one group. Both are run by Link Golf UK Ltd from one website, linkgolfuk.com (Link Club is at linkgolfuk.com/link-club), using the same providers for bookings, enquiries and email. Whichever you contact, your details sit with Link Golf UK Ltd as a single data controller and are used only as this policy describes.
What we collect
Your name and contact details; your bookings and payments; your Annual Pass account and the rounds you play; what you tell us in an enquiry, such as a society or corporate day; your marketing choices; and analytics about how the site is used and, if you accept advertising cookies, which of our adverts brought you here.
How we use it
To take and manage bookings and passes (contract), to answer enquiries (steps you ask us to take), to keep the site secure and improve our courses and services (legitimate interests), to meet tax and accounting rules (legal obligation), and to send offers and news (consent only, withdrawn at any time with one click).
Who we share it with
Only the providers who help us run the business: our online booking and tee sheet provider (Golfmanager), our card payment provider, our customer database and email service (GoHighLevel) and our website host (Vercel). Each acts only on our instructions and keeps your data in the UK or under equivalent UK safeguards. If you accept analytics and advertising cookies, Google, Microsoft and Meta also receive information about your visit (see below). We never sell your data.
Measuring our adverts
If you arrive from one of our adverts or links, we attach its campaign details (the tags in the link and the advert’s click id) to your enquiry, and, if you accept cookies, to your online booking, so we know which adverts work. When you send an enquiry and tick the box to hear from us, we may tell Meta, from our own server, that an enquiry was made: we send a scrambled (hashed) copy of your email address and phone number, the course and the kind of enquiry, so Meta can match it to the advert. If you accept cookies and then book online, we may do the same for the booking. We never send your message, and we never send anything for service requests such as help with an existing booking. Google, Microsoft and Meta use what they receive under their own terms as well as ours. See our cookie policy for the cookies involved and how to switch them off.
How long we keep it
Enquiries that do not lead to a booking are deleted after 12 months. Booking, pass and payment records are kept for six years for accounting purposes.
Your rights
Under UK GDPR you can ask to see, correct or delete your data, restrict or object to how we use it, and take a copy to another provider. Email privacy@linkgolfuk.com and we will reply within one month.
Contact
Data protection enquiries: privacy@linkgolfuk.com, or write to us at Marland Golf Course, Springfield Park, Rochdale, OL11 4RE. You may also raise a concern with the Information Commissioner's Office.