Terms of Use

Effective Date: September 8, 2026

1. Who we are

SI BEL HOMMES (“Si Bel Hommes,” the “Club,” “we,” “us”) is a private Korean-American amateur golf club organized for social and recreational purposes, based in New York. We are not a golf course operator, a travel agency, a broker, or a retailer. This website, www.sibelhommes.com (the “Site”), is operated by the Club for its members and prospective members. Questions about anything on this page: info@sibelhommes.com.

2. These terms, and your agreement to them

By creating a member account, requesting a round, submitting a guest request, or otherwise using the member area of the Site, you agree to these Terms of Use, the Privacy Policy, and the Assumption of Risk below. If you do not agree, please do not use the member area.

We may update these terms. When we do, we will change the effective date above and, for changes that materially affect members, send notice by email. Continuing to use the member area after a change means you accept the updated terms.

3. Membership and conduct

  • Membership is by invitation or approval and is open to adults 18 years of age or older. The Club may decline, suspend, or end a membership at its discretion, including where a member’s conduct is inconsistent with the Club’s purpose.
  • The member area shows other members’ names, rounds, pairings, and contact information. Use it only for Club purposes. Do not copy, export, publish, or use the roster or any participant list for solicitation, advertising, political campaigning, recruiting for another organization, or any commercial purpose.
  • Do not share your login access with anyone, and do not attempt to access another member’s account, the administration console, or any part of the Site you have not been given access to.
  • Follow the rules, dress code, and pace-of-play policy of whatever course we play, and treat staff, caddies, and other players with courtesy.

4. Rounds, sign-ups, and guests

A sign-up is a request, not a confirmed spot. Spots are confirmed only when an administrator approves the request. Tee times, course, pairings, meeting time, and cost are set by the course and by availability, and can change or be cancelled — including for weather, course conditions, or a course’s own booking decisions — up to and including the day of play. Guest requests from non-members are subject to approval and to the same rules.

If you cannot attend a round you have been approved for, cancel as early as you can. Green fees already committed to a course may not be refundable, and the Club may ask you to cover a fee the course charges us for your no-show.

5. Money: dues, green fees, and the Club Ledger

  • No payment is processed on this Site. The Site does not accept cards, does not store card or bank account numbers, and does not transmit money. It only records who has paid what.
  • Green fees, cart fees, caddie fees, and similar amounts are collected from participants and passed through to the course or to the person who paid the course on the group’s behalf. They are a reimbursement among members, not a fee charged by the Club for the use of any facility.
  • Any payment you make by cash, Venmo, Zelle, or another method is between you and the person or business receiving it. Those services have their own terms and privacy policies, and the Club has no control over them.
  • Dues, if any, are used for Club operating costs. The Club is a social and recreational club and does not operate for profit or distribute money to members.

6. Assumption of risk, and limits on our responsibility

Please read this section carefully. Golf carries real risks that no organizer can eliminate.
  • You assume the inherent risks of golf. These include, without limitation: being struck by a golf ball or club; slips, trips, and falls on uneven terrain; golf cart accidents; lightning, heat, cold, and other weather; wildlife, insects, and plants; the condition of a course, its paths, and its facilities; and the conduct of other players, caddies, and course staff. You are responsible for deciding whether you are physically fit to play, and for your own health insurance.
  • The Club organizes; it does not operate. Golf courses, driving ranges, restaurants, hotels, airlines, tour operators, transport providers, and other third parties are independent of the Club. We do not control them and are not responsible for their acts, omissions, conditions, cancellations, pricing, or safety practices. This includes overseas and out-of-state trips organized for members.
  • Between members. The Club is not responsible for the conduct of one member toward another, on or off the course, or for any agreement, wager, loan, or transaction members make between themselves.
  • To the fullest extent permitted by New York and New Jersey law, you release the Club and its organizers, administrators, and volunteers from liability for ordinary negligence in connection with Club activities, and you agree that our total responsibility for any claim relating to the Site or to a Club activity is limited to the amount you paid the Club for that activity. Nothing in these terms releases anyone from liability for gross negligence, recklessness, or intentional or unlawful conduct, and nothing here waives any right that cannot be waived under applicable law.
  • The Site and its content are provided “as is.” We do not guarantee that the Site will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that information on it (including tee times, pairings, and amounts owed) is free of mistakes.

7. Photographs and video

The Club photographs and films rounds, gatherings, and trips, and publishes some of that material on this Site, on the Club’s YouTube channel, and on the Club’s social media accounts, in order to record Club activity and to introduce the Club to prospective members.

Under New York law, using a person’s name, picture, or voice for advertising or trade requires that person’s written consent. We therefore ask each member for a signed photo and video release, and we ask guests before publishing images in which they are identifiable. Consent is voluntary and you may withdraw it at any time by writing to info@sibelhommes.com; we will stop using your image in new material and will remove existing material from Club-controlled channels within a reasonable time. Material already downloaded, reshared, or copied by others may not be recoverable, and we cannot promise removal from third-party platforms or search engine caches.

Round photographs inside the clubhouse are visible only to members who played that round, and we do not publish them elsewhere without the separate consent described above. Members can, however, download what they can see. Once an image has been downloaded and passed on, the Club cannot control or retrieve it. If you would rather not be photographed on a given day, tell us before the round — that is far easier for everyone than removing a picture afterward.

If you appear in something we have published and you did not consent, tell us and we will take it down.

8. Content and intellectual property

  • The Club owns or licenses the SI BEL HOMMES name, logo, and the text, design, photographs, video, and software of the Site and of the member system. Please do not copy or reuse them without permission.
  • Course names, club names, and logos belonging to golf courses and other organizations are the property of their owners. We refer to them only to identify where we play; that reference does not imply sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement in either direction.
  • If you send us a photograph, video, or written content for use by the Club, you confirm that it is yours to give and does not infringe anyone’s rights, and you grant the Club permission to use it in Club material. You keep ownership of what you send.
  • Copyright complaints. If you believe material on the Site infringes your copyright, write to our designated agent — Steve Lee, SI BEL HOMMES, Bayside, New York, info@sibelhommes.com — identifying the work, the material, your contact information, and including the statements required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3). We remove infringing material and end access for repeat infringers.

9. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Queens County, New York, and you and the Club consent to that jurisdiction. If any part of these terms is held unenforceable, the rest remains in effect.

10. Accessibility

We want every member to be able to use this Site. We aim for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA as a practical standard and improve the Site as we find gaps. If something on the Site is difficult for you to use, please tell us at info@sibelhommes.com and we will help you directly and fix what we can.

Privacy Policy

Effective Date: September 8, 2026

This policy explains what the Club collects through this Site, why, who else can see it, and what you can ask us to do about it. It covers the public pages, the contact forms, and the member area (round sign-ups, My Page, the pairing screens, and the Club Ledger).

1. What we collect

You give usName, email address, phone number, gender, birth year, golf handicap, other clubs or groups you play with, and any note you or an administrator adds to your roster entry. Through the contact form: your name, contact information, and your message. Through a guest request: the name, contact information, and requested date of the person asking to play.
Created by using the SiteYour round requests and their outcome, your group pairings, your attendance record, and Club Ledger entries recording whether a green fee or membership payment was received from you and by what method (for example “cash,” “Venmo,” “Zelle”). We record the method and the amount, never a card, account, or routing number.
Collected automaticallySign-in events, page views within the member area, the date and time, your IP address, and basic browser and device information. One-time six-digit sign-in codes and the session identifier that keeps you signed in. When you agree to these policies, we record that you agreed, when, from which IP address, and which version you agreed to.
We do not collectPasswords (the Site does not use them), payment card or bank account numbers, government identification numbers, precise location, health information, or advertising-profile data.

Record of consent. When you accept these policies we record the time, the policy version you accepted, and the IP address and device type at that time, as evidence that consent was given.

Participation record. To run rounds fairly we record when a member cancels after signing up (how many days before the round), no-shows, and whether a substitute was arranged, and tally these as a score. This record is viewable by Club administrators only and is used solely as a reference for round assignment and approval. It is not shown to members automatically, but you may ask to see your own (see section 6).

2. Why we use it

  • To sign you in and keep you signed in, and to confirm you are who you say you are.
  • To run rounds: take and approve requests, build pairings, publish participant lists to the people in that round, and send you email about rounds you have joined — confirmations, changes, reminders, and pairing announcements.
  • To keep the Club’s records: attendance history, handicaps, the ledger of who has paid what, and the record of your agreement to these policies.
  • To keep the Site secure and to investigate misuse, suspicious sign-ins, or abuse of the roster.
  • To let members know about Club news, gatherings, and trips. You can opt out of this kind of message at any time (see section 6) while still receiving the operational messages about rounds you have signed up for.

Delivery-confirmation copies. Invitation and round-notification emails sent to members are blind-copied (BCC) to the Club's operations mailbox (info@sibelhommes.com) so that delivery can be verified. Sign-in code emails are never copied under any setting. Copies are deleted after 12 months.

3. Who can see your information

  • Other members. The member area is visible to signed-in members. Depending on how a round is set, your name and pairing may be visible to everyone approved for that round, or to all members. Your email address and phone number are visible to Club administrators; other members see contact information only where the Club has made it available in the member roster.
  • Email. Before each round we email the approved players a notice that includes the date, time, course, meeting time, and the pairings, which contain the names of the other players in your group. Email leaves the Club’s systems when it is sent: it is stored by your mail provider, can be forwarded by anyone who receives it, and cannot be recalled — in the same way as a downloaded photograph. We do not include other members’ phone numbers or email addresses in these notices. Pairings are not published to the Club calendar feed; they appear only in this notice and in the member area.
  • Club administrators. A small number of members administer the Site and can see the full roster, requests, and ledger.
  • Service providers, who process information only to run the Site on our behalf: Bluehost (web hosting and database), Automattic / Jetpack (image delivery, site statistics, security), Google (reCAPTCHA on our forms to block automated abuse, and web fonts), and our outgoing email provider. Google reCAPTCHA collects device and usage signals under Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
  • Telegram Messenger Inc. (Dubai, UAE). When a member sends an inquiry through the Site, the member's name and the message text are relayed to the administrators' chat via a Telegram bot so they can respond promptly. Email addresses are not relayed. Administrators may turn off message-text relay, in which case only a "new inquiry received" notice is sent.
  • Google LLC (Google Calendar). Round schedules (date, tee time, course, headcount, and group composition) are synchronized to the administrators' Google Calendar. This sync does not include member names or email addresses.
  • Golf courses and trip providers, when we must give them a participant name to hold a tee time or a booking.
  • If the law requires it, or to protect the safety or rights of the Club or of any person.

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for advertising or for anyone else’s marketing.

4. Cookies and similar technology

We use a functional cookie that keeps you signed in and a security token that protects forms from being submitted from other sites. Both are necessary for the member area to work; signing out removes the sign-in cookie. Jetpack collects aggregate site statistics, and Google reCAPTCHA sets what it needs to tell people from bots. We do not use advertising cookies, retargeting pixels, session recording, or cross-site tracking. You can block or delete cookies in your browser, but the member area will not work without the sign-in cookie.

The sign-in cookie lasts up to 45 days (7 days for administrators); its expiry extends with use. We also set a visitor cookie (sbh_vid) that groups visits from the same browser so we can count how many members viewed a round notice. It holds only a random value, cannot identify you on its own, and is kept for up to 1 year.

5. How long we keep it

  • Roster entry (name, contact, handicap): while you are a member, and until you ask us to remove it.
  • Round and ledger history: kept as Club operating records. If your roster entry is deleted, we keep the round and payment history without your name attached, so the Club’s counts and totals stay correct.
  • Sign-in and activity logs (including IP addresses): up to 12 months.
  • Record of your agreement to these policies: for as long as you are a member and for three years afterwards, because it is the evidence that consent was given.
  • Sign-in codes: deleted as soon as they are used or expire, within minutes.
  • Contact form messages: up to 24 months.

What deletion removes. When your roster entry is deleted we also delete your inquiry conversations, interest-survey answers, participation record, email-change history, and sign-in sessions. Round requests, the ledger, activity logs, and visit records are kept only in anonymized form, with your identifiers removed.

6. Your choices

  • See and correct your information yourself on My Page, or ask us. A change to your sign-in email address takes effect only after an administrator approves it — this protects your account.
  • Ask us to delete your roster entry. Write to info@sibelhommes.com. We will respond within 30 days. Deleting your entry ends your access to the member area.
  • Stop non-essential email at any time with the unsubscribe link in the message or by writing to us. We will still send messages about a round you have signed up for, and about your account, as long as you are a member.
  • Sign out everywhere, on request, if you think someone else has access to your account.
  • Withdraw photo consent as described in section 7 of the Terms of Use.

You may ask to see everything we hold about you, including your participation record. Round notices, interest surveys, and sign-up emails can also be turned off under My Page → Notification settings; the same instruction appears at the bottom of those emails. Sign-in code emails cannot be turned off, as they are required to sign in.

7. Security, and what happens if something goes wrong

We protect the Site with encryption in transit (HTTPS), one-time sign-in codes rather than stored passwords, hashed session and code storage, per-account and per-IP limits on repeated sign-in attempts, signed and re-issuable calendar links, escaping of member-supplied text, restricted administrator access, and a member area that search engines are not permitted to index. No system is perfectly secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

If a security breach exposes New York residents’ private information, we will notify affected individuals and the authorities required by the New York SHIELD Act, without unreasonable delay and in any event within 30 days of discovery.

8. Children

The member area is for adults 18 and over. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13. If you believe a child has given us information, write to us and we will delete it. If a minor attends a Club event as a family guest, we ask a parent or guardian before publishing any image in which the minor is identifiable.

9. Where we operate

The Club is based in New York and the Site is operated in the United States for members in the New York and New Jersey area. Information is stored and processed in the United States. If you access the Site from another country, you understand that your information will be handled in the United States under United States law.

10. Changes and contact

If we change this policy we will post the new version here with a new effective date, and we will email members about changes that matter. For any question, correction, deletion request, or complaint:

SI BEL HOMMES
Steve Lee, Club administrator
Bayside, New York
info@sibelhommes.com