Privacy Policy

App: Golf Battle Studio · Developer: Golf Battle Studio · Package: com.ines.golbang · Effective: 13 September 2026

Golf Battle Studio ("the Service") handles your personal data with care and complies with the Korean Personal Information Protection Act and other applicable law. This policy explains what we collect, what we use it for, and when we delete it.

1. Data we collect

At sign-up (required)

  • Login ID, email address, name
  • Password (not collected if you sign up with a social account)
  • For social sign-in, the account identifier and email supplied by the provider (Google or Apple)

At sign-up (optional)

  • Phone number, address, date of birth, student ID, profile photo, handicap

Created while you use the Service

  • Club and event participation records, and hole-by-hole scores
  • Chat messages and read status
  • Community posts, comments and polls, and photos and videos you add to Moments and albums
  • Swing videos you upload for analysis, and their results
  • Push notification token (FCM), language preference, access logs
Your device location is used only to find nearby golf courses. If you allow it, those coordinates are sent with that one search and are not stored afterwards. If you decline, you can still search courses by name. We do not collect contacts or payment details.

2. Why we use it

  • Providing the Service — scheduling, group assignment, scoring, rankings, AI broadcast, swing analysis
  • Account management — sign-up and verification, account status, abuse prevention
  • Notifications — event schedules and club news by push and email
  • Improving the Service — statistical analysis for feature development and quality
  • Legal obligations — records required by applicable law

3. Retention periods

CategoryPeriod
Account dataUntil you delete your account, then anonymized immediately.
Swing analysis videos365 days after upload. You can delete them sooner yourself. The analysis record is kept for usage accounting.
Club participation records and scoresKept while you are in the club, and deleted together with your membership when you delete your account.
Server access logsKept in server logs for troubleshooting and security. They contain no name or email address.
Contract or withdrawal records5 years (E-Commerce Act), where such records exist.

4. Deleting your account

You can delete your account at any time from ⚙ Settings (top right) → Delete account. The steps and the full list of what is deleted or kept are on the account deletion page.

On deletion we immediately delete or anonymize your name, email, login ID, password, phone number, address, date of birth and profile photo, and permanently deactivate the account. No account recovery is offered.

5. Sharing with third parties

We do not share your personal data with third parties, except in response to a lawful request from authorities under applicable law.

6. Processors and cross-border transfer

We use the processors below only as needed to run the Service. They may not use the data for any other purpose.

ProcessorPurposeData transferred · Country
Amazon Web ServicesData storage and server hostingAll data the Service handles (account details, profile photos, album photos and videos, swing videos) · Australia
Google (Gemini API)Swing video analysisSwing videos you upload · United States
OpenAIAI broadcast commentary and speech, event creation assistantLive round state, participant display names, some chat lines during a broadcast, and what you type into the assistant · United States
Google (Firebase)Push notification deliveryPush notification token, notification title and body (chat notifications include the sender's display name and the start of the message) · United States
Google (Gmail SMTP)Sending emails such as password resetsRecipient email address and message body · United States
Google (Fonts, Maps)Web fonts and map displayYour device's IP address, including the moment you open this page · United States
DiscordServer error alertsThe path of the failing request and the client IP address · United States

You may refuse cross-border transfer. These transfers are required to deliver the features listed, so refusing means you cannot use those features (swing analysis, AI broadcast, push notifications). To refuse, contact us at the address below.

7. Your rights

You may access, correct or delete your personal data, or ask us to stop processing it, at any time. Access and correction are available on the profile screen in the app, deletion through account deletion, and any other request can be sent to the contact below. We act on requests without undue delay.

8. How we protect your data

  • Encryption — passwords are stored in a form that cannot be reversed, and all traffic is protected with HTTPS.
  • Access control — access to personal data is limited to the smallest number of people needed.
  • Private storage — swing videos are stored outside any public path and are served through links that expire after five minutes.
  • Security review — we check for vulnerabilities on a regular basis.

9. Contact

Data Protection Officer: Hyuncheol Kim
Email: iamgolbang@gmail.com

In Korea you may also report privacy concerns to the Personal Information Infringement Report Centre (118), the Supreme Prosecutors' Office Cybercrime Division (1301), or the National Police Agency Cyber Bureau (182).

10. Changes to this policy

We announce any change, and its effective date, on this page beforehand. Changes that disadvantage users are announced 30 days in advance.