Terms of Use

1. Who we are and what these terms cover

The Fairway mobile app and the website at getfairwayapp.com (together, the “Service”) are provided by Otto Dämpfle (“we”, “us”). Our contact details are in the Imprint. How we handle your personal data is described in our Privacy Policy.

The Service is currently free of charge. If we ever introduce paid features, we will tell you in advance and they will only apply if you choose to buy them.

2. Your account

• You must be at least 16 years old to use Fairway.
• You sign in with your email address and a one-time code we send to it. Keep access to that email account secure: anyone who can read it can sign in as you.
• Use your real name or a name other players can recognise you by, and keep your handicap and home club reasonably accurate. Other players rely on this information when they decide to play with you.
• One person, one account. Accounts are personal and not transferable.

3. Rounds, tee times and matches

Fairway helps golfers find each other and arrange rounds. We are not a golf club and not a booking platform. In particular:

• Tee time bookings, green fees, club rules, dress codes and course access are a matter between you, the other players and the club.
• We do not check who you play with. Use common sense when meeting people you do not know.
• You play at your own risk and are responsible for your own conduct and safety on the course, including the club's rules and the etiquette of the game.
• The host of a round can accept or decline join requests, remove players and cancel the round. Please cancel or leave a round in good time if you cannot make it.

4. Scores, rankings and trust scores

Scores, match results, points, season rankings and trust scores in Fairway are for fun and friendly competition. They are not official handicap records (for example under the World Handicap System) or official competition results, and we do not submit them to any golf association or club.

Enter scores honestly and only for rounds that were actually played. We may correct or remove results, points or ratings that are clearly wrong or manipulated, for example rounds arranged between accounts only to collect points.

5. Community rules

After a round you can rate your playing partners from one to five stars and leave a short comment. Ratings and comments are visible to other Fairway players. When you use Fairway you agree not to:

• post ratings or comments that are false, insulting, discriminatory or threatening;
• harass, stalk or spam other players, or misuse their data;
• upload profile photos you have no right to use, or that are offensive or sexual;
• impersonate another person or create fake accounts;
• interfere with the Service, try to access data you are not meant to see, or scrape the Service with automated tools.

You can report content or behaviour to us at hello@hi.getfairwayapp.com. If someone breaks these rules we may remove the content concerned, issue a warning, or suspend or delete the account, depending on how serious the violation is. Where reasonable, we will tell you why and give you the chance to respond.

6. Your content

You keep all rights to the content you add, such as your name, profile photo and rating comments. You give us a non-exclusive, free licence to store, display and share this content within the Service, only as far as needed to run it (for example to show your profile photo to your playing partners). The licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for content that is part of other players' shared history as described in the Privacy Policy.

7. Availability and changes to the Service

Fairway is a young product and still evolving. We may add, change or remove features, and we cannot promise that the Service will always be available or free of errors. Scores you enter while offline are stored on your device and synced later; data that has not been synced yet can be lost if you uninstall the app.

8. Liability

We are liable without limitation for damage caused intentionally or by gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, and under the German Product Liability Act.

For slight negligence we are only liable if we breach an obligation that is essential for the proper performance of these terms and on which you may regularly rely (a “cardinal obligation”). In that case our liability is limited to the damage that is typical and foreseeable for this kind of service. Otherwise we are not liable for slight negligence.

We are not responsible for the conduct of other players, on or off the course, or for arrangements you make with them or with a golf club.

9. Ending your account

You can stop using Fairway at any time and delete your account directly in the app under Settings → Delete account. What happens to your data when you do is explained in the Privacy Policy.

We may end your use of the Service with four weeks' notice, or immediately for good cause, such as serious or repeated breaches of these terms.

10. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms, for example when we add features or the law changes. We will inform you about material changes in the app or by email at least four weeks before they take effect. If you do not agree, you can delete your account before then. If you keep using Fairway after the changes take effect, the new terms apply.

11. Governing law

These terms are governed by the law of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer living in another EU country, you also keep the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of that country.

If any provision of these terms is invalid, the rest of the terms remain in effect.

12. Contact

Questions about these terms? Write to us at hello@hi.getfairwayapp.com.