Privacy Policy
LAST UPDATED: [June 4, 2021]
AFFL LLC (“American Flag Football League,” “AFFL,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) owns and operates https://www.affl.com and related applications, portals, and platforms (our “Sites”) and provide products and services to flag football players, coaches, and fans (together with our Site, the “Services”). PLEASE READ OUR TERMS OF SERVICE FOR DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT OUR SERVICES AND YOUR LEGAL OBLIGATIONS.
This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) is intended to provide information on how we collect, process, and share your personal data. Personal data – or personal information – is any information that relates to you – an identified or identifiable natural person. When we use the terms “you” or “your” in this Policy, we are referring to individuals who visit our Sites, sign up to join a team, register an account, or use our Services in any other way.
Specifically, this Policy outlines the types of information that we gather about you while you are using our Sites and the ways in which we use this information. This Policy applies primarily to information which we collect online via the Sites. Please read this Policy carefully. By visiting and using the Sites, you agree that your use of the Sites, and any dispute over privacy, is governed by this Policy. In an effort to comply with changes in technology, and the adoption of new regulations and laws, we may need to change our Policy at some point in the future, in which case, we will post the changes to this Policy on the Sites and update the effective date of the Policy to reflect the date of the changes. By continuing to use the Sites after we post any such changes, you accept the terms of the Policy as modified.
After reading this Policy, if you have additional questions or would like further information, please contact us at contact@affl.com.
The Information We Collect About You
We collect information about you directly from you and others, as well as automatically through your use of our Sites.
Information We Collect Directly From You. The type of personal information we collect depends on how you use our Services.
- If you register for or join a team, we collect and process your name, email, phone, city, state, country, age, athletic history (including, sports played and years of play), flag football history (including, teams on which you have played, awards you have received) football position and experience, various strength, speed, and agility metrics, past teams and schools, height, weight, date of birth, social security/national ID, health information (including mental health issues) current job, highlight video, photo, and social media handles.
- If you sign up for our mailing list, we collect your name and email address.
- If you make a purchase, we collect your name, address, contact information (such as email address and phone number), and your payment and shipping information. We process payments through a third-party payment processor, which as of the date of this Policy is Stripe. Stripe will only use your payment information to process payments on our behalf.
- If you choose to share content on the Sites, we will collect your name, email address, and the content you choose to share, such as pictures, videos, and comments. Please be aware that any information and content that you post to our Sites may be viewed by other users and the public at large. Be cautious about what you share on our Sites.
- We also will collect other information that you provide directly to us, such as when you contact us for customer service or other purposes.
- To provide our Services to you, to communicate with you about your use of our Services, to respond to your inquiries, to fulfill your orders, and for other customer service purposes.
- To customize our Services for you. Specifically, and without limitation:
- We may communicate with you regarding tournaments you have signed up for, or which may be of interest to you.
- We may analyze player data, such as location information, to determine the best locations for future tournaments.
- We may review your social media data, such as content and number of followers, to determine whether to feature you or to offer you the opportunity to promote our Services via your social media handles.
- To tailor the content and information that we may send or display to you, to offer location customization, and personalized help and instructions, and to otherwise personalize your experiences while using the Sites.
- For marketing and promotional purposes (which you may opt out of by following the instructions in the “Marketing Communications Choices” section). For example, we and third parties that we share your information with may use your information, such as your email address, to send you news and newsletters, special offers and promotions, or otherwise contact you about products, events, or information that we think may interest you. We also may use the information that we learn about you to assist us in advertising our Services and events on third party websites.
- To better understand how you access and use our Sites, both on an aggregated and individualized basis, in order to improve our Services, respond to your preferences, and for other research and analytical purposes.
- To administer surveys and questionnaires.
- To protect our own rights and interests, such as to resolve any disputes, enforce our Terms of Service, and to respond to legal process.
- So you can use our Site;
- To ensure that we do not communicate with you if you have asked us not to;
- To provide you with a refund, if entitled;
- To better understand the traffic to our Site so that we can provide all players and customers with the best possible experience;
- To detect and prevent abuse of our Site, illegal activities and breaches of our Terms of Service; and
- To comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements.
- This Site is not directed to children under the age of thirteen and we do NOT knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen as part of the Site. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personally identifiable information from a user under the age of thirteen as part of the Site, we will delete such information from our records. If we change our practices in the future, we will obtain prior, verifiable parental consent before collecting any personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen as part of the Site.
- Because we do not collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen as part of the Site, we also do NOT knowingly distribute such information to third parties.
- We do NOT knowingly allow children under the age of thirteen to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information through the Site.
- Because we do not collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen as part of the Site, we do NOT condition the participation of a child under thirteen in the Site’s online activities on providing personally identifiable information.
- We striclty abide by our obligations to comply with anti-SPAM laws.
- All emails that are sent to you by AFFL include an unsubscribe link in them.
- You can remove yourself at any time from our mailing list by clicking on the unsubscribe link that can be found in every communicaiton that we send you.
- We will remove you from our mailing list immediately.
- Additionally, all emails from us will have a clear “From” field that identifies us as the sender and will contain our address for contact purposes.
- You may request access to your personal data and obtain information about our processing of your personal data, with whom we share your personal data, and your rights.
- You may request that we restrict our processing of your personal data.
- You may object to our processing of your personal data.
- Where we process personal data based on your consent, you may withdraw your consent.
- You may correct personal data that is inaccurate and have incomplete personal data completed.
- You may request that we delete your personal data or return or provide a copy of it to you.
- You may request deletion of your information.
- If you request that your account be deleted, you will lose access to all of our programs or tournaments in which you are actively registered.
- You may opt out from the sale of your information to third parties.
- You may request disclosure of the personal information we have collected about you and the types of third parties with whom it has been shared.
- California residents may request a list of certain third parties to which we have disclosed personally identifiable information about you for their own direct marketing purposes. You may make one request per calendar year. In your request, please attest to the fact that you are a California resident and provide a current California address for your response. You may request this information in writing by contacting us at: contact@affl.com. Please allow up to thirty (30) days for a response.
- You may request the portability of your information.
- You may opt out from receiving marketing communications that we send you at any time. You can exercise this right by selecting the “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” link in the marketing emails we send you. Additionally, you may update your email preferences by changing the settings in your account.
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