Terms of use

About these terms

Golf Jots is provided by the publisher identified in the relevant app-store listing. In these terms, “Golf Jots”, “we”, “us”, and “our” refer to that publisher.

These terms apply when you access or use the Golf Jots website, web app, or mobile app. By using Golf Jots, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use Golf Jots.

Personal golf records, not an official service

Golf Jots is a personal scorecard, round journal, and performance-tracking tool. Its personal playing benchmark is unofficial and cannot establish or update an official handicap. Golf Jots is not endorsed by, affiliated with, or a replacement for a golf club, competition authority, handicap authority, course operator, or official scorecard.

Course details, distances, ratings, slopes, maps, imagery, and playing information may be incomplete, approximate, or out of date. Check the course’s official information, local rules, safety directions, and competition requirements before relying on Golf Jots.

Your responsibilities

You must use Golf Jots lawfully, honestly, and safely. Do not interfere with the app or website, attempt to gain unauthorised access, use automated requests that disrupt the service, or use Golf Jots to infringe another person’s rights.

Do not interact with Golf Jots when doing so would be unsafe, including while driving a vehicle. You are responsible for the scores, notes, photos, backup files, and other information you enter, import, export, or share.

Local data, accounts, and backups

Golf Jots remains local-first. Where account backup is available, you may create an optional account to protect completed rounds and preferences and restore them on another device. Account backup is not a substitute for reviewing sync status or keeping a JSON export you control. Active-round scoring remains local and available without an account.

Golf Jots takes reasonable care when storing, importing, and recovering local data, but cannot promise that locally stored data will always remain available. Nothing in this section limits rights or remedies that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Privacy, permissions, and third parties

Our privacy policy explains how Golf Jots handles local data, optional analytics, diagnostics, device permissions, and third-party services. Your device platform, app store, and any service you choose for sharing or storing backups may apply their own terms and privacy practices.

Intellectual property and course content

Golf Jots’s software, design, branding, and original content are protected by applicable intellectual-property laws. These terms do not transfer ownership of Golf Jots or give you permission to use its branding outside ordinary use of the service.

Course names, source material, maps, imagery, and other third-party content remain the property of their respective owners. Golf Jots’s inclusion of course information does not imply sponsorship or endorsement by a course operator.

Apple App Store licence

If you obtain Golf Jots through Apple’s App Store, Apple’s Standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement applies to your licence to that copy of the app. These terms also apply to your use of Golf Jots’s website, web app, and related services. Nothing here is intended to replace terms that Apple requires to apply.

Availability and changes to Golf Jots

We may fix, update, add, remove, or discontinue features to improve Golf Jots, respond to security or legal requirements, or keep the service maintainable. We will give reasonable notice of material changes where practical. Availability may be interrupted by maintenance, faults, platform changes, or circumstances outside our reasonable control.

Consumer rights and liability

Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts, or modifies any consumer guarantee, right, or remedy that cannot lawfully be excluded, including rights that may apply under the Australian Consumer Law.

Subject to those rights, Golf Jots is provided for personal information and record-keeping. To the extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for loss caused by your failure to keep a backup, unsafe or unlawful use, inaccurate information you supplied, a third-party service or device, or circumstances outside our reasonable control. We do not exclude liability where doing so would be unlawful.

Ending your use

You may stop using Golf Jots at any time. You can clear local golf data in Settings and uninstall the app. We may restrict access to the public web service where reasonably necessary to address a serious or repeated breach of these terms, a security risk, or a legal requirement.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Victoria, Australia. Courts with jurisdiction in Victoria may hear disputes, but this does not deprive you of any mandatory protections or rights available where you live.

Changes and contact

We may update these terms when Golf Jots or applicable requirements change. The effective date above shows when the current version begins to apply. Material changes will be explained or highlighted where practical. Questions can be sent to simondarcy7@outlook.com.

For questions about these terms, use the Golf Jots support page.