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Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy for Daily Holes (daily-holes.com) — how we collect, use, and protect your personal information.

Last updated: 2026-10-01

Introduction

Welcome to Daily Holes (accessible at daily-holes.com). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting the personal information you share with us.

This Privacy Policy describes what information we collect when you visit our website, play our daily golf challenges, create an account, or make purchases, and how that information is used, maintained, and protected.

Information We Collect

To provide our daily golf simulation and leaderboard services, we collect the following categories of information:

  1. Account & Profile Data — If you create an account or sign in (via email, social login, or Google One Tap), we collect your name, email address, avatar, and authentication identifiers.
  2. Gameplay & Performance Records — Information regarding your game sessions, including strokes per hole, putts, smash percentages, green in regulation stats, daily completion streaks, round completion times, and leaderboard scores.
  3. Local Storage & Device Preferences — For guest players, your progress, audio volume, and today's scorecard are stored locally on your device via HTML5 LocalStorage and Cookies.
  4. Technical & Usage Analytics — Device type, operating system, browser type, screen resolution (for canvas scaling), approximate geographical region, and interactions with page elements.
  5. Billing & Payment Details — If you purchase supporter passes or premium features, transactions are handled directly by PCI-DSS compliant third-party payment gateways (such as Stripe or Creem). We never store your full payment card number on our servers.

How We Use Your Information

We process player information for the following legitimate purposes:

  • Game Operations & Leaderboards — Powering daily 9-hole seeded rounds, verifying fair play, displaying global and friend leaderboards, and maintaining player statistics.
  • Fair Play & Anti-Cheat Verification — Auditing score submissions against deterministic seed telemetry to prevent automated bot play or score manipulation.
  • Account Maintenance — Managing authentication, recovering accounts, and syncing progress across your devices.
  • Customer Support & Communications — Responding to player inquiries, bug reports, and sending transaction receipts.
  • Platform Optimization — Measuring latency, frame rates, and device compatibility to deliver smooth arcade gameplay.

Cookies and Local Storage

Daily Holes uses cookies and browser local storage to enhance your gaming experience:

  • Essential Cookies & Storage — Necessary to maintain your active game state, save unsubmitted scorecards, remember dark/light theme choices, and keep you authenticated.
  • Analytics Cookies — Optional anonymous analytics to understand general player traffic patterns and improve hole design difficulty.

You can manage or clear cookies and local storage through your browser settings, though doing so may reset your locally saved guest progress and streak.

Data Sharing and Third-Party Services

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information. We may share limited data with trusted service providers strictly to operate our platform:

  • Infrastructure & Hosting — Cloud hosting, database, and CDN providers under strict confidentiality and data protection agreements.
  • Payment Processors — Secure processing of digital purchases.
  • Legal Compliance — When required by applicable law, subpoena, or lawful requests by public authorities to protect player safety and platform integrity.

Data Security and Retention

We implement modern, industry-standard security safeguards, including TLS/HTTPS encryption in transit, hashed credentials, and restricted database access.

We retain gameplay and account data only for as long as necessary to maintain active player records, leaderboards, and legal compliance. You may request account deletion at any time.

Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your jurisdiction (including under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA)), you have the right to:

  • Request access to the personal data we hold about you.
  • Request correction of inaccurate information or deletion of your account.
  • Object to or restrict certain types of data processing.
  • Export your player data in a portable format.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact our privacy team using the contact details below.

Children's Privacy

Daily Holes is a general-audience web game and does not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under the age of 13 (or under 16 in the European Economic Area). If you believe a minor has provided us with personal information without parental consent, please contact us immediately so we can remove the data.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect new game features, legal requirements, or operational changes. Any material revisions will be indicated by the updated date at the top of this document.

Contact Us

If you have any questions, feedback, or data privacy requests regarding Daily Holes, please contact us: