Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to Ballsity. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

Please read this privacy policy carefully so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. By using the Ballsity platform, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

2. The Data We Collect About You

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

• Identity Data: includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, and user avatars.
• Contact Data: includes email address and telephone numbers.
• Technical Data: includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
• Profile Data: includes your password (encrypted), your role (e.g., Director, Referee, Player), tournaments you manage, teams you are affiliated with, and match statistics associated with your profile.
• Usage Data: includes information about how you use our website, products, and services.

3. How Is Your Personal Data Collected?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

• Direct interactions: You may give us your Identity, Contact, and Profile Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us. This includes personal data you provide when you create an account, create a tournament, or update your profile.
• Automated technologies or interactions: As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
• Third parties or publicly available sources: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties, such as analytics providers (e.g., Google) or identity providers if you choose to sign in via third-party auth services.

4. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you (e.g., providing you access to tournament management tools).
• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
• Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.

Specifically, your data is used to render live leaderboards, track player statistics, send role invitations via email, and ensure the security and integrity of the platform.

5. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

6. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

7. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to:

• Request access to your personal data.
• Request correction of your personal data.
• Request erasure of your personal data (see our Data Deletion Policy for details).
• Object to processing of your personal data.
• Request restriction of processing your personal data.
• Request transfer of your personal data.
• Right to withdraw consent.