Gocial Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to Gocial. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you use our mobile application.

2. Information We Collect

We collect information to provide a better experience for our users. This includes:

• Account Information: When you sign up and create an account, we collect your name, username, email address (or phone number), and profile photo.
• Activity and Performance Data: We collect and store your scorecard data and shot data that you input or record while using the app to track your games, history, and statistics.
• User-Generated Content: We store the posts, comments, messages, photos, and other content you share or upload to the platform.
• Device and Usage Data: We automatically collect data about your device type, operating system, and how you interact with our app (e.g., features used, time spent) to improve performance.
• Optional Data: If you grant permission, we may access your device's camera, photo library, or location services solely to enable specific app features (like posting photos or tagging locations). We do not access your contacts without your explicit consent.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use your data to:

• Create and maintain your account.
• Display your history, analyze your scorecard and shot performance, and provide tracking metrics over time.
• Facilitate social connections and display your content (including shared scores or shots) to other users as intended by the app's functionality.
• Monitor, review, and prevent fraudulent, abusive, or illegal activity.
• Improve, troubleshoot, and optimize our app's performance.

4. Prohibited and Explicit Content Moderation

Gocial maintains a zero-tolerance policy for objectionable, explicit, or abusive content. To ensure a safe platform environment, we reserve the right to use both automated systems and human moderation to review user-generated content (including posts, comments, and reports) that may violate our community standards. Content found to be explicit, harmful, or abusive will be removed immediately, and the offending user's account may be restricted or permanently terminated.

5. Data Sharing and Third Parties

We do not sell your personal data. We only share data with third-party service providers (such as cloud hosting or database services) necessary to run the app. These providers are bound by strict confidentiality agreements to protect your data.

6. Data Deletion and Retention

You have total control over your data. You can delete your account and all associated data (including your game history, scorecards, and shot metrics) directly within the app settings at any time. Once deleted, your personal data will be completely purged from our active backend servers within 30 days.

7. Children's Privacy

Our services are not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 13. If we discover we have inadvertently collected such data, we will delete it immediately. Depending on the final UK launch timeline, this section may be updated to reflect local age restrictions as they pass into law.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page, and the "Last Updated" date will be revised accordingly.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: gocial2026@gmail.com.