This policy explains what personal information YHC Putting Academy collects when you use this website, why we hold it, and what you can do about it. It covers this website and the coaching records kept through it.
Last updated 15 September 2026.
YHC Putting Academy is the trading name of Young Ho Cho, a sole trader based in Auckland, New Zealand. He is the person legally responsible for the information described on this page, and the person a request or complaint reaches.
To identify your account and put a name to a booking. Signing in with Google shares only your name and email address with us — nothing else from your Google account.
Only if you give it. Used to reach you about a lesson at short notice.
Times, the programme booked, any notes you add, and the reason if a lesson is cancelled.
Your coach's written plans and any documents or video attached to them. These are held in private storage and are readable by you and your coach only.
What you have bought, what has been used, and when — so a balance can be shown and disputed.
Your name, email address, optional phone number and your message.
We ask for nothing beyond this. You cannot upload files to us, and the only places you can volunteer more are the notes on a booking and the contact form — both free text, so please don’t put anything there you would rather we did not hold.
You can read every public page of this site without telling us anything at all. Information is only needed when you want something from us.
Required to book
Optional
Optional
Name, email and message required
This site has no analytics, no advertising and no third-party tracking scripts. Nothing here follows you to another website, and we do not sell or rent personal information to anyone.
The only cookies set are the ones that keep you signed in. They are essential to the site working and cannot be switched off while you are using an account.
Running the academy means a small number of providers handle some of your information on our behalf. Each one is listed here with what it does and where it holds data.
Database, sign-in and file storage — where your account, bookings and coaching notes are held.
Sydney, Australia
Hosts and serves the website itself.
Sydney, Australia
Sign-in. Google tells us your name and email address when you choose to sign in with it.
United States
Sends booking confirmations, reminders and cancellation notices.
United States
Domain name service — directs your browser to the site.
Global network
Your account, bookings and coaching records are stored in Sydney, Australia. Email delivery and sign-in involve providers in the United States.
Sending personal information overseas is a disclosure under the Privacy Act 2020. We use these providers because they hold information to standards comparable to New Zealand law, and we share only what each one needs to do its job.
Your account, bookings, passes and payment records are kept for seven years. That is how long Inland Revenue requires business records to be held, so this part is not really our choice.
Coaching notes and any files attached to them are deleted twelve months after your last lesson. They are the most personal thing we hold and there is no reason to keep them once you have stopped training.
You can ask us to delete your records sooner and we will, except where the seven-year rule above means we have to keep a record of a transaction.
Under the Privacy Act 2020 you can ask to see the personal information we hold about you, and ask us to correct it if it is wrong. There is no charge, and we will respond within 20 working days.
You can also ask us to delete your account. Some records tied to payments may need to be kept, and we will tell you if that applies.
We coach junior students. A student under 16 is enrolled by a parent or guardian, who holds the account used to book so that the contact details and the consent come from an adult.
A parent or guardian can ask for their child's coaching notes at any time and we will provide them. This is a request you make to us rather than something you can see by signing in: the site shows a student's notes only to the account they belong to, and only once the coach has shared them. That restriction is deliberate, and it applies to us as much as to anyone else.
For anything about your personal information — a copy of it, a correction, or a deletion — email privacy@yhcputtingacademy.com. We will reply within 20 working days, which is the time the Privacy Act allows.
If you are not satisfied with how we have handled your information, you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner at privacy.org.nz or on 0800 803 909.
If this policy changes in substance we will update the date at the top of the page. Continuing to use the site after a change means the updated policy applies.