Privacy Policy

What We Collect

We only collect what you choose to send us, plus the basic technical data any website host sees.

• Tip form. When you submit a tip, we store the course, what’s being aerated (greens, fairways, tees, overseed), the date(s), your source/note, and your email address only if you choose to give it. We also save the time of the submission and the country your request came from (supplied automatically by our host, Cloudflare). We don’t store your IP address with the tip. Tips are kept in Cloudflare’s KV storage and read by a human to verify dates.
• Weekly email. If you sign up for the weekly aeration email, your email address goes directly to Beehiiv, the newsletter service we use. Beehiiv’s signup form and attribution script load on our pages and may set their own cookies or collect signup-related data under the Beehiiv Privacy Policy. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in any email.
• No accounts. There are no user accounts, logins or passwords on AerationWatch.

Hosting, Logs and Analytics

• Cloudflare. The site is hosted on Cloudflare, which processes your IP address and standard request data (browser type, page requested, time) to serve pages, block abuse and provide basic, aggregated traffic statistics. See the Cloudflare Privacy Policy.
• No tracking scripts of our own. We don’t run Google Analytics, ad trackers or advertising pixels, and AerationWatch itself doesn’t set cookies.
• Google. We use Google Search Console to see how the site appears in Google search results; it reports aggregate search data and doesn’t add any tracking to our pages. Our fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, which means your browser requests them from Google’s servers (Google Privacy Policy).

Affiliate and Partner Links

Some links on the site, now or in the future, may be affiliate links to tee-time booking sites such as GolfNow or TeeOff. If you click one, that partner site may set its own cookies to track the referral so we can earn a commission. Those cookies are controlled by the partner under its own privacy policy, not by us. See our Affiliate Disclosure.

How We Use Information

• To verify and publish aeration dates (tips may be published as dates, never with your email).
• To follow up on a tip, only if you gave us an email.
• To send the weekly email, if you subscribed.
• To keep the site running and protect it from spam and abuse.

What We Don’t Do

We don’t sell or rent personal information, we don’t share it for advertising, and we don’t use it for anything beyond what’s described here. We may disclose information if required by law.

Keeping and Deleting Your Information

We keep tips as long as they’re useful for maintaining the aeration calendar. If you’d like a tip or your email removed, or want to know what we have about you, email us at info@aerationwatch.com. California residents and everyone else get the same treatment: just ask.

Children

AerationWatch isn’t directed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect information from them.

Changes and Contact

If we change this policy, we’ll update it here and change the effective date at the top. For questions, email us at info@aerationwatch.com.