Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

_This privacy policy was last updated on November 2, 2020_ The Defense Gaming platform ("Defense Gaming") is owned and operated by Rally Cry Inc. (hereafter "Rally Cry", "us", or "we) which also owns and operates the website rallycry.gg as well as Rally Cry social media channels on Twitter, Discord, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitch and YouTube (collectively "the Sites.") Rally Cry is dedicated to bringing people of all ages & skill levels together through organized social and competitive gaming experiences. We are also dedicated to treating you and your personal information with care and respect. This privacy policy is designed to give you insight into our privacy practices and principles. Please read this policy carefully to understand how we handle, store and use your personal information. By entering your personal information, you acknowledge that you have read and understand this privacy policy and that we will collect, use and share your personal information as described below. By visiting the Sites and using our services, you unequivocally and unambiguously consent to the collection and processing in the United States of any information collected or obtained by us through voluntary submissions, and that US law governs any such collection and processing. For purposes of data protection laws, Rally Cry is the "Data Controller" of your information collected in connection with this landing page. If at any time you have questions about our privacy policy or any of our privacy practices, or if you wish to directly contact our Data Protection Officer, please do not hesitate to email us at privacy@rallycry.gg or click here. **Table of Contents** - What type of information do we collect? - How do we use your personal information? - What type of personal information will be made publicly viewable on our Sites? - When do we share information with 3rd parties? - How do we collect this information? - How do you turn off cookies? - How do we store and protect this data? - Your Privacy Controls and Choices - Children and Users Under the Age of 18 - For California Residents - What if I am an international user outside North America and Europe? - Disclosure in the event of a merger, sale, or other asset transfer - How will you know when we update this policy? - What if I have a question or complaint? **What type of information do we collect?** The type of information we collect depends on what services you use and how you use them. The type of personal information we collect includes: - Your contact information, such as your name, your approximate location (city, state, postal code, country), phone number, email address, gamer name, avatar, and social media credentials. - Your profile and account information, such as your login name, password, other general information you may choose to place in your profile or account during registration such as your photo, hobbies or club affiliations - Your demographic information, such as your age or birthdate, postal code, or other information about you. - Information about your military affiliation, such as your base name, base location, base website, and your AFSC, as well as your base's social media channels (Discord, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) - Information about the games you play such as your game interests, your team name, scores, rankings, gameplay stats, awards, as well as photographic, video or audio recordings of you and your gameplay - Your account preference information, such as your contact, communication and marketing preferences, as well as any brand preferences you may have - Communication between you and our company: emails in response to your inquiries, or your comments in response to our online surveys. If you contact us by telephone, we will also retain your telephone number. - Your device and browsing information, including non-personally identifiable information about your phone, tablet, computer or device and online browsing activity, which may be automatically collected. This may include IP addresses, unique identifiers, cookie identifiers, browser language, device and browser settings and broad location-based information, and internet service provider information. It may also include information about when and how you accessed and used our Sites, how you navigated to our Sites (such as the date and time of your visit), the links you clicked, the websites you visited before and after our Sites, and what you searched for while on our Sites. - Payment information: When you purchase products through us, Rally Cry processes your payment transaction information via our payment provider Stripe or similar services. Stripe and similar services will share with us the following personal information: Billing information (name, email, billing address) type of product you purchased purchase amount you paid your user ID your purchase confirmation page URL - Other than the above data, Rally Cry does not itself collect, process or retain personal financial information that would allow us to identify your credit card (card number, CVV/CVC code, etc.), PayPal or bank account. Personal information retained by Stripe may include: - your name, email, billing address, business affiliation - credit or debit card number or bank account information, - purchase amount you paid, - date of purchase, - payment method, - government identifiers associated with you and your organization (such as your social security number, tax number, or Employer Identification Number). - Note: Different payment methods may require Stripe to collect different categories of information. For further information, please consult the Stripe Privacy Policy which can be found here. **How do we use your personal information?** We use personal information to operate, maintain, and provide the features and functionality of our services and Sites, including: - To provide you with customer support or information about products, programs, applications, events, press releases or features you may find of interest; - To run competitions and contests; - To track your or your team's progress, score and ranking in online game tournaments you enter; - To make recommendations and offer other products, applications, programs or services that we believe may be of interest to you; - To notify you of updates to features of our Sites or services; - To remember who you are after you log in so that you do not need to re-authenticate while browsing our Sites; - To help you recover your passwords, username and regain your account access; - To notify you when we make changes to our agreements or services; - To provide you with technical and security notices; - To protect our users and business; - To build business-to-business relationships; - To monitor if our services and Sites are running optimally in order to offer you the best user experience; - To diagnose or fix technical problems; - To improve the effectiveness of our services and make your experience seamless across platforms; - To know whether you have accessed our email and performed certain functions with it; - To comply with legal obligations, including requests by law enforcement - For any other purposes disclosed at the time we collect the information or pursuant to your consent - Additionally, but only with your consent, Rally Cry may send you text messages and push notifications in conjunction with the above services. Rally Cry may also contact you by telephone if you ask us to provide you with support. You may update your contact preferences by emailing us at privacy@rallycry.gg at any time. **What type of personal information will be made publicly viewable on our Sites?** Your Rally Cry player profile and team profile pages are publicly published, and any personal information and content you make available on those pages will be publicly viewable. If you participate in one of our corporate esports competitions, we may also publish some of your personal profile information on our brackets and tournament standings pages which are publicly viewable. For example, we may include your game, team name, gamer name, real name, company name, city, state, country, photo, ranking or other gameplay stats on our tournament webpages. We will never publicly publish your personal contact information or financial information. **When do we share information with 3rd parties?** Rally Cry will not rent, sell or share your personal information to third parties for their marketing or advertising purposes without first obtaining your consent. We will only pass your personal information on to third parties to the extent described below. We may share your information with third parties in an aggregated or otherwise anonymized form that does not reasonably identify you directly as an individual. For example, we may use and share aggregated or anonymized data to describe the users of our services in press releases or marketing materials. We may also share aggregated and anonymized information about our user base with sponsors or advertisers in order to provide you and other users with relevant promotions or discounts on products and services that may be of interest to you. Third party service providers. From time to time, Rally Cry may need to transmit your personal data to vendors or service providers that enable us to market, sell, and deliver our services. These service providers may require certain personal information in order to perform specific services on our behalf, such as chat, customer support, social login, fulfillment and shipping, email delivery, payment processing, tournament hosting and bracketing, identity verification, web hosting or web analytics. We authorize such service providers to use or disclose your personal information only as necessary to perform the relevant services on our behalf or to comply with legal obligations. We require our service providers to contractually commit to protecting the security and confidentiality of the personal information they process on our behalf. **Links to other websites**. Our Sites may contain links to other websites that are not owned or controlled by Rally Cry. These links are provided for your convenience but do not imply any Rally Cry endorsement of such websites or their content. We have no control over, do not review, and are not responsible for the privacy policies of or content displayed on any such linked websites. Please review the privacy policies of any third party website you are directed to for their data collection and use practices. **How do we collect this information?** We collect information that you provide us directly. We may also receive information from third parties such as Google and Facebook, when you use such third parties to log into our systems. In addition, we may gather certain information automatically using tracking technologies like cookies, beacons, tags, and scripts. **Cookies (Cookie Policy)** To enhance your user experience on our Sites, many of our web pages use "cookies." Cookies are small text files which are placed in your computer's browser and which store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not reveal your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information by, for example, registering on our Sites. However, once you choose to furnish our Sites with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. Rally Cry uses cookies to understand site usage, improve its security, save your user login details, provide better tech support, and to improve your user experience and offerings on our Sites. Rally Cry may use tracking technologies to collect information about your use of our Sites or services including: - Javascript - Cookies - Web beacons - File information - Local shared objects, and other similar tools (sometimes also referred to as "Adobe Flash cookies") which are downloaded to a computer or mobile device by the Adobe Flash media player. Rally Cry may also use reputable third party analytics services such as Google Analytics which place and read their own cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to collect information through our Sites, including to help us with traffic measurement, research, and analytics. You can learn more about Google's privacy policies [here](http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners), and view its opt-out options [here](https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout). **How do you turn off cookies?** You can change your preferences and refuse to allow certain types of cookies to be stored on your computer while browsing our Sites. You can also remove any cookies already stored on your computer, but keep in mind that deleting cookies may prevent you from using parts of our Sites or services. Please note that we are not able to respond to Do Not Track signals from your browser at this time. If you have further questions or concerns about our cookie use, please contact us at privacy@rallycry.gg. **How do we store and protect your data?** Rally Cry is committed to protecting the personal information of its users. Rally Cry stores the personal information we collect in the United States on our secure servers, for as long as is necessary for the purpose(s) for which we originally collected it. We may also retain personal information as required by law. Although no data protection system is infallible, Rally Cry has adopted reasonable technical, administrative, and physical procedures to help protect this information from loss, misuse, and alteration, including encryption as appropriate. **Your Privacy Controls and Choices** As a registered user, you can manage many of your individual account and profile settings within your Rally Cry account. We will provide you with the opportunity to "opt-out" of having your personal information used for certain purposes whenever we ask for this information. You always have the right to direct us to update or delete/deactivate certain information pertaining to you. You may also request removal of your personal information from our blog, community forums or other public areas of the Sites that are under our control. Some personal information, such as competitive scores and rankings, may not be able to be deleted because doing so would undermine our tournament operations. If we cannot remove your personal information, we will give you a reason why we cannot. If you have questions, comments about our privacy policy or would like to make a request regarding your data, you may contact us through the following methods: By emailing us at privacy@rallycry.gg By calling us at 949-229-1142 By writing to us at: 5270 California Ave., Suite 100, Office 300, Irvine, CA 92617 You may stop the delivery of marketing emails and newsletters from Rally Cry by following the unsubscribe instructions contained in the email you have received or by emailing us at privacy@rallycry.gg. We will respond to your request to review the information we have on file for you within 30 days from receiving your request. **Children and Users Under the Age of 18** Defense Gaming is not a service directed at children or young people under the age of 18 and does not knowingly collect any information from users under the age of 18. If you believe that the Defense Gaming might have any information from or about an individual under 18, please contact us at privacy@rallycry.gg. **For California Residents** "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" (California Residents only). California residents may opt out of the "sale" of their personal information. California law broadly defines "sale" in a way that may include allowing third parties to receive certain information such as cookies, IP address and/or browsing behavior to add to a profile about your device, browser, or you. We do not share, sell (as the term is defined under applicable privacy laws, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act), or disclose your personal information, other than with the third party service providers specified above. "**Shine the Light" Law. (California Residents only)** California residents have the right to request a list of all third parties to which we have disclosed certain personal information (as defined by California's Shine the Light law) during the preceding year for those third parties' direct marketing purposes. Other than as specified elsewhere in this privacy policy, Rally Cry does not sell, rent or share your personal information with third parties. California residents who have specific questions regarding this may contact us at privacy@rallycry.gg . In the body of your request, you must include: "California Shine the Light Request", your name, a current California address including, street address, city, state, and zip code, as well as sufficient information for us to determine if the law applies to you. **Your Rights as an International User outside North America and Europe** Rally Cry services are designed for users in North America, the UK and the European Union, and are governed by and operated in accordance with the laws of those jurisdictions. Rally Cry makes no representation that its services are operated in accordance with the laws or regulations of any other nations. By using Rally Cry services and voluntarily providing us with information directly or indirectly, you consent to the collection and processing in the United States of any information collected or obtained by us through voluntary submissions, and that U.S. law governs any such collection and processing. You also consent to the transfer of information, including personal information, to the U.S. or to any other country in which our service providers maintain facilities for processing by us in accordance with this privacy policy. If you are located in a country with laws governing data collection and use that differ from the above countries, please note that we may transfer information, including personal information, to a country and jurisdiction that does not have the same data protection laws as your own jurisdiction. **Disclosure in the event of a merger, sale, or other asset transfer.** Rally Cry may sell or transfer all or part of our business or assets in the event we are involved in a merger, acquisition, transfer of control, bankruptcy, reorganization or sale of assets, or diligence associated with such matters. In such a case, you will be notified in advance via email and/or via a notice on our Sites of the change in ownership or a change in the use of your personal data, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal data. **How will you know when we update this policy?** Rally Cry may revise this privacy policy to reflect changes in the law, our practices, our Sites or our service features. When we do so, we will notify you by changing the date at the top of the policy. We will also notify you by email before we make any material changes to the policy, give you the opportunity to review the revised policy and opt out of our services. If you object to any of these changes, you may opt out by closing your Rally Cry account. To do this, please notify us at privacy@rallycry.gg. You may also opt back in at any time by emailing us at the same address. Non-material changes will be effective immediately upon posting, however Rally Cry will always update the effective date of such changes at the top of this privacy policy. Please periodically review this privacy policy so that you are abreast of our most current policies and practices. **What if I have a question or complaint?** If at any time you have questions about our privacy policy or any of our privacy practices, or if you wish to directly contact our Data Protection Officer, please do not hesitate to email us at privacy@rallycry.gg or [click here](https://about.rallycry.gg/contact).