Coursa Golf Privacy Policy

Last updated: 14 November 2026

Coursa Golf is made by deFacto Software New Zealand Ltd ("we"). This policy explains what the app does with your information. In short: your rounds stay on your phone, there is no account, and we don't collect, sell or share your personal information.

What stays on your phone

• Your rounds: holes, scores, putts, the club for each shot, where each shot started and finished, and the weather at the time.
• Your settings: distance unit, handicap and the clubs in your bag.
• Course maps, photos and heights the app has downloaded, kept so they load quickly next time.

We have no server that receives this. If you delete the app, it is deleted with it.

Your location

The app uses your phone's location only while you are using it, to find golf courses near you and to measure how far each shot went. It never tracks you in the background. Your location is not sent to us.

To show you the course, the app downloads maps and course information for the area around you, so the services below see roughly where you are, as any map app's providers do. None of them is sent your name or any account details.

Services the app downloads from

• OpenStreetMap (via public Overpass servers, and tile.openstreetmap.org): golf courses, hole layouts and the hole map. Nominatim (OpenStreetMap) if you search for a place.
• Open-Meteo: the weather and wind at the course.
• Toitū Te Whenua LINZ, through our own relay on Cloudflare: aerial photos and ground heights of New Zealand courses for the 3D hole preview and replay. The relay passes the request on and keeps nothing.

Each service receives what any website receives when it is visited, such as your phone's internet address, under its own privacy policy.

Microphone and speech (only if you turn them on)

Voice commands are off unless you turn them on in Settings. When they are on, what you say is turned into text by your phone's speech recognition, which may use Apple's or Google's speech service. Your voice is not sent to us or kept by the app.

Photos and sharing

If you save a hole replay video, the app adds it to your Photos. If you share one, it goes only where you choose to send it.

Apple Watch

If you use the Coursa Golf watch app, your phone sends the current hole to your watch, and the watch sends back your taps. This goes directly between your phone and watch.

Advertising and analytics

The app has no advertising, no analytics and no tracking. If that changes, we will update this policy before it does, and say so in the app.

Test versions

If you test the app through Apple TestFlight or Google Play testing, Apple or Google may pass on crash reports and feedback you choose to send, under their own privacy policies.

Children

Coursa Golf is not aimed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.

Your rights

Because we don't hold your information, there is nothing of yours on our systems to see, correct or delete. Your data on your phone is yours: delete a round in the app, or delete the app to remove it all. Under the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020 you can contact us with any privacy question.

Contact

deFacto Software New Zealand Ltd
Email: info@defacto.co.nz