Privacy Policy

Effective: December 15, 2023

Our Privacy Policy explains how Ringr collects, uses, and discloses information about you. The terms “Ringr,” “we,” “us,” and “our” include Ringr, Inc and our affiliates. We use the terms “member,” “you,” and “your” to mean any person using our Platform or attending related events, including any organization or person using the Platform on an organization’s behalf. This Privacy Policy applies to the processing of information about members and other individuals that we collect when you use our “Platform,” which means any website, application, or services we offer, or when you communicate with us. For information about choices you may have under this policy, please see “Your Choices” below. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the information that you may provide to third parties, such as members, and others with whom you may share information about yourself. For more information about the scope of our Privacy Policy, please see Section 4.5.

To make this Privacy Policy easier to understand, we have provided summaries below. These summaries are not part of the official policy. Even though we have provided summaries, it is important for you to read the entire policy carefully. If you wish to access any particular section of this Privacy Policy, use the list below to jump to that section.

Collection Of Information
Use Of Information
Sharing Of Information
Additional Details
Your Choices
Data Rights
Contact Us

1. Collection Of Information

Summary: We collect information about you when you:

Create an account;
Use the Platform;
Visit our website; and
Communicate with us.

We also collect information, such as usage statistics, by using cookies, server logs, and similar technologies.

1.1 Information You Provide to Us

We collect information that you provide directly to us. For example, we collect information that you provide when you create an account, choose to be interested in a Player Request, fill out a form, or communicate with us. The types of information that we may collect include identifiers, such as your name, username, password, email address; payment and commercial information, such as payment method data and purchases, if any; and any other personal information that you choose to provide, such as photos. See Section 2 to learn how we will use the information that you provide to personalize our recommendations and other content to you.

1.2 Information We Collect Automatically When You Use the Platform

When you use our Platform, we automatically collect internet and other electronic network activity information about you and other information, including:

Log Information: We collect log information about your use of the Platform, including the type of browser that you use; the time, duration, and frequency of your access; Platform pages viewed; your IP address; and the page you visited before visiting our Platform.
Device Information: We collect information about the computer or mobile device that you use to access our Platform, including the hardware model, operating system and version, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information.
Geolocation Information: We may collect information about the location of your device each time you use our Platform based on your consent to the collection of this information, such as when you enable location services. For further information see Section 5.2. We may also collect information, such as your IP address, that can sometimes be used to approximate your location based on your device settings.
Information Collected by Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies: We and our service providers collect information using various technologies, including cookies and pixel tags (which are also called clear GIFs, web beacons, or pixels). Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve our Platform and your experience, and track usage of our Platform. Pixel tags are electronic images that may be used in our Platform or emails, and track usage of our Platform and effectiveness of communications. You can learn more about the types of cookies we and our service providers use by reading our Cookie Policy.
Other Information: Based on your consent, we may collect other information from your device, such as photos from your camera roll or calendar information you want to manage via the Platform.

1.3 Information We Collect From Other Sources

We may collect information about you from other sources, such as through certain features on the Platform you elect to use. We rely on these third parties to either have your consent or ensure that they are otherwise legally permitted or required to disclose your information to us. Examples include:

Member Content. We may receive information about you when you upload photos or posts other content to the Platform. For further details about the rights over this information available to individuals, see Section 6.
Current or Future Corporate Affiliates. We may receive information about you from our current or future corporate parents, subsidiaries, or affiliates.
Information From Other Third-Party Sources. In order to provide you with more tailored recommendations, we may obtain information about you from publicly and commercially available sources, such as third-party publishers and other third parties as permitted by law. For more information about the data that we obtain from these providers, please contact us at theringronline@gmail.com.

We may analyze and make inferences from the information we collect.

2. Use Of Information

Summary: We use information about you to:

Operate, improve, promote, and protect Ringr and our Platform;
Communicate with you; and
Personalize content.

2.1 Operating our Platform

We may use information about you described above for various business purposes related to operating our Platform, including to:

Provide, maintain, and improve our Platform, including to process transactions, develop new products and services (for example, including you in tests or pilots of new or revised Platform functions, such as messaging or search functionality or using information about your usage of the Platform to develop new or revised messaging or search functionality), and manage the performance of our Platform;
Display information about you, for instance, your list of interested sports, which will be visible on your profile;
Personalize the Platform, for example, to suggest Player Requests in which we think you may be interested;
Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Platform;
Detect, investigate, and prevent fraudulent transactions, abuse, and other illegal activities; to protect the rights, property, or safety of Ringr and others; to enforce compliance with our policies; and to comply with applicable law and government requests; and
Perform accounting and administrative tasks, and enforce or manage legal claims.

2.2 Communicating With You

We may use information about you for various business purposes related to communicating with you, including to:

Respond to your comments, questions, and requests, and provide customer service;
Communicate with you, in accordance with your account settings, about products, services, and events offered by us and others, to provide news and information that we think will be of interest to you, to conduct online surveys, to contact you about events on our Platform that are being held near your location, and to otherwise communicate with you in accordance with Section 2.3;
Notify you about communications of other members, in accordance with the communication preferences that you indicate in your account; and
Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts and support, and administrative messages.

2.3 Legal Basis for Processing

If you are in a jurisdiction that requires a specific legal basis for processing personal data, our legal basis for collecting and using the information described above will depend on the type of information and the specific context in which we collect it.

We process information about you in order to provide our services in accordance with our Terms of Service, for example, to allow you display your profile to other members; to allow us to send you important service updates; and to perform a contract.
We also process information about you where it is in our legitimate interests to do so and not overridden by your rights (for example, in some cases for direct marketing, fraud prevention, network and information systems security, responding to your communications, and improving our Platform).
Sometimes you provide us with sensitive information about you; for instance, when you publish a bio on your profile. Posting a bio on your profile is entirely voluntary and, depending on the settings of your profile, our legal basis for processing any sensitive information is either that you manifestly make it public or your explicit consent.
In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to process information about you, or may otherwise need the information to protect your vital interests or those of another person. For example, we may process information, if we believe doing so is required by, or in accordance with, applicable law, regulation, legal process, or audits.

3. Sharing Of Information

Summary: We do not share information about you except as described in this Privacy Policy. We may disclose personal information about you, including:

to members, depending on how you engage with the Platform. Information that is public on our platform is accessible to others both on and off the Platform;
to our third-party service providers who help us to operate or improve our Platform;
when we work with third parties for analytics on and off the Platform. For more information, please see our Cookie Policy;
to authorities to comply with legal obligations or requests and to protect and defend our rights and property;
to an affiliate or successor entity or otherwise as part of a corporate transaction;
among our businesses and affiliated companies; and
when you direct us to share your information.

We may also share information in a manner that does not identify you, such as de-identified or aggregated information. Such information is not subject to this Privacy Policy.

3.1 Through Our Platform

We share some of the information that we collect by displaying it on our Platform according to your member profile and account settings. Some information, such as user handle, interested sports, your name, your location (not based on current location but rather location you wish to communicate where you are willing to travel for a Player Request's sporting event) is always public.

Information that is public on our Platform is visible to others on and off the Platform.

3.2 With Our Service Providers

We may use service providers in connection with operating and improving the Platform to assist with certain business purposes, such as payment processing, email transmission, conducting surveys or contests, data hosting, managing our ads, and some aspects of our technical and customer support. These service providers, which include data analytics providers (as discussed further in Section 3.4 below), may access, process, and store information about you on our behalf for the purposes we authorize, subject to confidentiality obligations.

3.3 With our Analytics Partners

We may share information we have collected about you with others or allow others to use technologies (like cookies, web beacons, and device identifiers) that collect information about your use of the Platform and other websites and online services, to provide analytic services for Ringr. See our Cookie Policy for details about these technologies and the information that they collect, use, or share, including how you may be able to control or disable these services.

3.4 Following The Law And Protecting Ringr

We may access, preserve, and disclose information about you to government entities and other third parties, including the content of messages, if we believe disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, applicable law, regulation, legal process, or audits. We may also disclose information about you if we believe that your actions are inconsistent with our Terms of Service or related guidelines and policies, or if necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of, or prevent fraud or abuse of, Ringr or others.

3.5 Affiliate Sharing And Merger, Sale, Or Other Asset Transfers

If Ringr is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, bankruptcy, or sale of our assets, information about you may be shared, sold, or transferred as part of that transaction. We may also share information about you with current or future corporate parents, subsidiaries, or affiliates.

3.6 Other Situations

We may de-identify or aggregate information about you and share it freely, so that you can no longer be identified. Such information is not subject to this Privacy Policy.

We may also share information about you with your consent or at your direction or where we are legally entitled to do so.

4. Additional Details

Summary:

Ringr is based in and governed by U.S. law and we will be processing, transferring, and storing information in and to the U.S. and other countries.
We have implemented technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information. We cannot guarantee these controls will provide absolute security.
This Privacy Policy is periodically updated, and does not apply to third parties.

4.1 Transfer Of Information To The U.S. And Other Countries

Ringr is based in the United States. Information about you will be transferred to, and processed in, the U.S. and countries other than the country in which you are resident. These countries may have data protection laws that are different to the laws of your country and, in some cases, may not be as protective. We have taken appropriate safeguards, such as standard contractual clauses, to require that your information will remain protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

4.2 Security

We employ technical and organizational measures designed to protect your information that is under our control and that we process on your behalf from unauthorized access, collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification, or disposal, both during transmission and once we receive it. For example, we store all information that you provide to us on servers on which security controls are used. We train employees regarding our data privacy policies and procedures, and authorize employees to access personal information as required for their role. We use firewalls designed to protect against intruders and test for network vulnerabilities. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure.

Where you have a password, which enables you to use our services, you are responsible for keeping this password complex, secure, and confidential. If you would like to update or change your password, you may select the “Forgot your password?” link on the login page. You will be sent an email that allows you to reset your password.

4.3 Data Retention

We may temporarily de-activate your account if you have not logged in for eighteen months or more. You may contact us if you wish to reactivate your account.

We retain certain information that we collect from you while you visit or are a member of the Platform, and in certain cases where you have deleted your account, for the following business purposes:

So you can use our Platform;
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 Platform so that we can provide all members with the best possible experience;
To detect and prevent abuse of our Platform, illegal activities and breaches of our Terms of Service; and
To comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your information, we will either delete it or take steps to de-identify or anonymize it in accordance with applicable law.

4.4 Policy Scope

This Privacy Policy does not apply to information that you have provided or made accessible to third parties, such as other members, and others with whom you may share information about yourself. Our Platform may direct you to a third-party service. Disclosure of information to these third parties is subject to the relevant third party’s privacy policy. We are not responsible for the third-party privacy policy or content, even if we link to those services from our Platform or if we share information with these third parties.

Members are directly responsible for complying with all requirements of applicable privacy laws in connection with the information that they obtain from other members on our Platform.

4.5 Revisions To This Policy

We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will provide notice to you by publishing the most current version and revising the date at the top of this page. Depending on the circumstances, we may provide additional notice to you of changes to this Privacy Policy, such as by sending you an email or by displaying a prominent notice on our Platform.

5. Your Choices

Summary:

You can review and change information about you or deactivate your account in your account settings, but we may retain certain information.
You can remove photo tags if you wish.
Consult your device settings for information about how to deactivate location-based features at any time.
You have the right to opt out of receiving Ringr’s promotional messages, but you may still receive other non-promotional communications.

5.1 Your Choices: Account Information

You may update or correct your account information by editing your account settings or by sending a request to theringronline@gmail.com as described in Section 6 and Section 7. You may deactivate your account by editing your account settings. You may also request deletion of your information as described in Section 6 and Section 7. You will also be able to choose what information others see about you and who may contact you by using the Privacy Settings section in your Account.

5.2 Your Choices: Location Information

When you first access the Platform, depending on your device settings, we will collect information about your location, which we use to make better recommendations of Player Requests in your area, and to improve our Platform. If you do not want us to collect information about your location, then you can prevent this by taking the following steps:

If using a mobile app, by changing the settings on your device.
If using our website, your approximate location information will be obtained via a cookie. Please refer to our Cookie Policy for additional information on how to manage our use of cookies.

Note that our Platform or its features may no longer function properly if you change your settings.

Your mobile device settings may also give you the option to choose whether to allow us to view your geolocation on a continuous basis, only when using the app, or never. Allowing us to view your geolocation when you are not using the app allows us to provide you with recommendations on a regular basis. Please refer to your device’s guide for additional information on how to adjust location services.

5.3 Your Choices: Cookies

We may use and allow others to use cookies, web beacons, device identifiers, and other technologies to collect information about your use of the Platform and other websites and online services. See our Cookie Policy for details about these technologies and the information that they collect, use, or share, including how you may be able to control or disable these services.

5.4 Your Choices: Promotional Communications

You can control some of the messages that you receive from Ringr and other members by selecting the unsubscribe link in the message that you receive, or by adjusting the communication preferences in your account settings. We will also send you a link to these settings when you first sign up and in subsequent messages. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional messages, such as those about your account or our ongoing business relations. In addition, please consult the privacy policies of other members for information about how to control or opt out of promotional messages from them off the Platform.

6. Data Rights

Summary:

You may have the right to exercise data protection rights, including to request that Ringr deletes, amends, or provides you access to your information.
You have the right to opt out of receiving Ringr’s promotional messages, but you may still receive other communications.
You can complain to your local data protection authority about the use of your information.

We respond to all requests that we receive from individuals who wish to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws. You can contact us with your request by sending an email to theringronline@gmail.com. You can also request deletion of your account and personal information by:

Filling out the form available in your settings: "Delete Your Account". You must be logged in to your Ringr account to access the form.
emailing us at: theringeronline@gmail.com with subjectline "Delete My Account" using the email associated with your account.

Rights that you may have, depending on the jurisdiction in which you live, may include:

Accessing, correcting, or requesting deletion of your information.
Appealing a decision Ringr has made about an access, correction, or deletion request.
Objecting to processing of your information, asking us to restrict processing of your information, or requesting the portability of your information.
Opting 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.
Withdrawing your consent at any time if we have collected and processed your information with your consent. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing that we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
Complaining to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority. Contact details for data protection authorities in the European Union are available here.

Note that Ringr is a controller of your information.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights and choices, although some of the functionality and features available on the Platform may change or no longer be available to you.

7. Contact Us

Summary: If you have any questions, you can contact us at theringronline@gmail.com.

Under European data protection law, the controller of your information is Ringr, Inc.

If you have any questions or complaints about this Privacy Policy or how we use your information, please contact us at: theringronline@gmail.com.