Privacy Policy

1. Scope

This policy explains how Mini Golf Spots handles information when you browse the directory, use location features, save courses, join the email list, submit a listing or review, contact us, or send an advertising inquiry. Mini Golf Spots does not currently offer user accounts.

2. Information You Provide

• Your email address when you join the email list.
• Your display name, rating, and review text when you submit a review. This information may be published with the course listing.
• Listing information such as a venue name, submitter email, phone number, address, website, description, services, prices, and hours. Business details may be published; submitter contact details are used to review the submission.
• Business and contact details, interests, and message content sent through the advertising inquiry form.
• Information included in an email or correction request.

3. Information Collected When You Use the Site

• Analytics information such as pages viewed, referring page, outbound-link activity, browser or device type, and approximate location derived from an IP address.
• Standard server and security logs, which may include an IP address, request time, requested URL, and browser information.
• Precise browser location only when you choose a nearby or distance-based feature and grant permission. If precise location is unavailable, the feature may contact an IP-location service to estimate your area.

4. Local Storage, Cookies, and Similar Technology

Saved-course choices and review-vote choices are stored in your browser's local storage. They remain on that device unless you clear them or clear your browser data, and they are not user accounts.

Google Analytics, Grow by Mediavine, and other service providers may use cookies, local storage, or similar technology according to their settings and policies. You can control cookies and clear local storage through your browser.

5. How Information Is Used

• Operate, maintain, secure, and improve the site.
• Return nearby results and other requested features.
• Review submissions, publish eligible content, and correct listings.
• Respond to messages and advertising inquiries.
• Send requested email updates and administer subscriptions.
• Measure traffic, content usefulness, and technical performance.
• Comply with law and protect the site, readers, and third parties.

6. When Information Is Shared

Information may be processed by vendors that provide hosting, databases, analytics, maps, email infrastructure, security, and other services needed to operate the site. Advertising inquiry details may also be sent to a private notification channel so the inquiry can be answered.

Public listing details and submitted review content may be visible to anyone. We may also disclose information when required by law, to investigate misuse, or to protect legal rights and safety.

We do not currently sell personal information. If display advertising is enabled in the future, this policy and the site's consent controls will be updated before the advertising service is activated.

7. Third-Party Services

The site uses Google Analytics 4 to measure visits and interactions. Google may process information such as pages viewed, device and browser details, referring pages, interactions, and approximate location under the Google Privacy Policy. We do not send names, email addresses, review text, form contents, or precise browser location to Google Analytics as custom event data.

The site uses Grow by Mediavine to measure traffic and audience engagement, support the site's Journey application, and enable Grow reader features that may be activated through the publisher portal. Grow may process device and browser details, page and referral information, identifiers, approximate location, and interactions under Mediavine's Legal and Privacy Center.

The site also uses other traffic analytics, OpenStreetMap map tiles, and may use browser-based IP-location services when you request nearby results. Links to venue websites, social sharing services, and other sites take you to services we do not control. Their privacy practices apply once you interact with them.

8. Retention and Your Choices

We retain information for as long as reasonably needed for the purpose it was collected, to maintain records, resolve disputes, secure the service, and meet legal obligations. Retention periods vary by record type.

You may ask to access, correct, or delete personal information you submitted, subject to applicable law and records we must retain. You may also ask to unsubscribe from email updates. Browser permissions control precise location, and browser settings control cookies and local storage.

9. Children and Security

The site is intended for a general audience and does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. A parent or guardian who believes a child submitted personal information may contact us to request its removal.

We use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards, but no internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure.

10. Changes and Contact

We may update this policy as the site or its service providers change. The date at the top shows the latest revision.

For a privacy request or question, email . You can also review the Terms of Service.