Privacy Policy

Grassroots Premier League ("GPL", "we", "us", or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information of users of the Grassroots Premier League application ("App") and related services.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, protect, and disclose information when you use our App. By accessing or using the App, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

Depending on how you use the App, we may collect the following information:

Account Information

When you create an account, we may collect information such as your name, email address, phone number, profile information, password credentials, and account preferences.

Player and Team Information

If you participate in GPL competitions, we may collect information associated with your participation, including player name, team information, jersey number, position, player statistics, match appearances, goals, assists, disciplinary records, and other competition-related information.

Competition Information

We may collect and display information relating to matches, fixtures, results, standings, team performance, and other league-related activities.

Device and Technical Information

We may automatically collect certain technical information, including device type, operating system, application version, IP address, language preferences, and diagnostic information.

Usage Information

We may collect information about how you use the App, including pages or features accessed, interactions, session information, and other usage data.

2. How We Use Your Information

We may use collected information to:

• Create and manage user accounts.
• Provide and maintain the App.
• Manage player and team participation.
• Display competition-related information.
• Publish match results, standings, statistics, and league information.
• Communicate important information about your account or competitions.
• Improve the performance, security, and functionality of the App.
• Detect, prevent, and investigate fraud, abuse, unauthorized access, or other security incidents.
• Comply with applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
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3. Publicly Displayed Information

Certain information related to GPL competitions may be publicly displayed within the App or other official GPL platforms.

Depending on the competition and account configuration, this may include player names, team names, jersey numbers, match statistics, results, standings, and other competition-related information.

Please do not submit information that you do not want to be associated publicly with your participation in the competition, subject to applicable competition rules and privacy requirements.

4. Sharing of Information

We do not sell your personal information.

We may share information with trusted service providers who help us operate the App, such as hosting providers, analytics providers, authentication services, payment providers, communication services, or other technical service providers.

We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, respond to lawful requests, protect our rights, prevent fraud or abuse, or protect the safety of users and the public.

5. Data Security

We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

However, no internet transmission or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

6. Data Retention

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide our services, maintain competition records, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and maintain legitimate business records.

Competition records may be retained after an account is closed when they are necessary for historical league records, statistics, rankings, or other legitimate purposes.

7. Your Rights

Depending on applicable law, you may have the right to request access to, correction of, deletion of, or restriction of certain personal information.

You may also have the right to object to certain processing activities or request a copy of information associated with your account.

Requests can be submitted using the contact information provided below.

8. Children's Privacy

The App may involve football competitions that include younger players.

Where applicable, accounts or participation involving minors should be managed with the involvement or consent of a parent, guardian, team official, or other authorized adult, in accordance with applicable laws and competition requirements.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children in circumstances where such collection is prohibited by applicable law.

9. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our App or related services may use cookies, local storage, SDKs, or similar technologies to maintain sessions, remember preferences, improve performance, analyze usage, and support essential functionality.

10. Third-Party Services

The App may contain links to or integrations with third-party services.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or security of third-party services. We encourage users to review the privacy policies of those services before providing information to them.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

When changes are made, we may update the Effective Date and, where appropriate, provide additional notice through the App or other communication channels.