Privacy Policy
Last updated: 12/23/24
Battleground Events recognizes that your privacy is very important and we take it seriously.
This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes our policies and procedures on the collection,
use, disclosure, and sharing of your personal information or personal data when you use the
Battleground Events Platform. This Privacy Policy applies to activities by the Battleground
Events, LLC. and its affiliates and subsidiaries (collectively “Battleground Events,” “we” or
“us”). Capitalized terms that are not defined in this Privacy Policy have the meaning given to
them in our Terms & Conditions.
The Information We Collect
We collect information directly from individuals, from third parties, and automatically
through the Battleground Events Platform.
Account and Profile Information: When you create an account and profile on
Battleground Events Platform, we collect your name, contact information, and other
information you provide. Your name, photo, and any other information that you choose to
add to your public-facing profile will be available for viewing to users of the Battleground
Platform. Once you create a profile, other users will be able to see in your profile certain
information about your activity on the Battleground Events Platform.
Your Content: We collect and store the information and content that you post to the
Battleground Events Platform, including your questions, answers, photos, and comments.
Unless you have posted certain content anonymously, Your Content, date and time stamps,
and all associated comments are viewable on the Battleground Events Platform, along with
your name. This also may be indexed by search engines and be republished elsewhere on the
Internet in accordance with our Terms & Conditions. For more information about what you
can change, see the below section on Your Choices.
Communications. When you communicate with us (via email, phone, through the
Battleground Events Platform, or otherwise), we may maintain a record of your
communication.
Integrated Service Provider and Linked Networks. You can elect to sign in or sign up to
the Battleground Events Platform through a linked network (i.e.Facebook or Google), and you
can connect your existing Granite Games account with certain third party networks like
Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn (each a “Linked Network”). If you elect to sign up through or
connect a Linked Network, we receive certain profile and account information about you
from the Linked Network. These Linked Networks may also appear in your profile, so that
people can find you on these Linked Networks. The specific information provided to us by
Linked Networks is determined by these third parties and may vary by network. In all cases,
the permissions page for the Linked Network will describe the information being shared. You
should consult their respective privacy policies for information about their practices. You may
elect to use information from the Linked Network to populate your profile on the
Battleground Events Platform and help you find and follow your contacts on the
Battleground Events Platform. For information on your choices, including how to disconnect
a Linked Network from your Battleground Events profile, see the “Your Choices” section
below. You may also elect to connect and make and receive payments to and from use
through third party networks (“Integrated Service Provider”); if you do so, you will be
allowing us to pass to and receive from the Integrated Service Provider your login information
and other user data for payment purposes.
Automatically Collected Information About Your Activity. We use cookies, log files,
pixel tags, local storage objects, and other tracking technologies to automatically collect
information about your activities, such as your searches, page views, date and time of your
visit, and other information about your use of the Battleground Events Platform. We also
collect and may store information that your computer or mobile device provides to us in
connection with your use of the Battleground Events Platform such as your browser type,
type of computer or mobile device, browser language, IP address, mobile carrier, unique
device identifier, location, and requested and referring URLs. We also receive information
when you view content on or otherwise interact with the Battleground Events Platform, even
if you have not created an account. For more information, see the “Cookies, Pixels and
Tracking” section below and our Cookie Policy.
Engagement. We collect browsing information – such as IP address and location, date and
time stamp, user agent, Battleground Events cookie ID (if applicable), URL, unique advertising
or content identifiers (if applicable) and time zone, and other information about user
activities on the Battleground Events Platform, as well as on third party sites and services that
have embedded our Battleground Events pixels (“Pixels”), widgets, plug-ins, buttons, or
related services. See the section below about Battleground Events Ads and Personalization
for more detailed information about how our Pixels may be used by publishers or users of our
advertising services (“Ad Services”) on the Granite Games Platform to enable personalization,
as well as your choices related to advertising and personalization. We may also receive
information about you from third parties, such as other users, partners (including ad
partners), or our affiliated companies.
How We Use Your Information
We do not sell your personal data – such as your name and contact information – to third
parties to use for their own marketing purposes. Battleground Events uses the information
we collect for the following purposes:
Provide our Services. To provide you the services we offer on the Battleground
Events Platform, communicate with you about your use of the Battleground
Events Platform, respond to your inquiries, provide troubleshooting, and for other
customer service purposes.
Personalization. To tailor the content and information that we may send or
display to you in the Battleground Events Platform, to suggest followers and
content, to offer location customization, and personalized help and instructions,
and to otherwise personalize your experiences while using the Battleground
Events.
Advertising. To display interest-based advertising to you in the Battleground
Events, to improve our advertising and measurement systems so we can show
you relevant ads, and to measure the effectiveness and reach of ads and services.
For more information, see the Ad Services section below about Battleground
Events Ads and Personalization.
Marketing and Promotions. For marketing and promotional purposes, such as to
send you news and newsletters, special offers, and promotions, or to otherwise
contact you about products or information we think may interest you, including
information about third party products and services.
Analytics. To gather metrics to better understand how users access and use the
Battleground Events Platform; to evaluate and improve the Battleground Events
Platform, including the Ad Services and personalization, and to develop new
products and services.
Comply with Law. To comply with legal obligations, as part of our general
business operations, and for other business administration purposes.
Prevent Misuse. Where we believe necessary to investigate, prevent or take action
regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats
to the safety of any person or violations of our Terms of Service or this Privacy
Policy.
How We Share Your Information
We share information as set forth below, and where individuals have otherwise consented:
Service Providers. We may share your information with third party service providers who
use this information to perform services for us, such as payment processors, hosting
providers, auditors, advisors, consultants, customer service and support providers, as well as
those who assist us in providing the Ad Services.
Affiliates. The information collected about you may be accessed by or shared with
subsidiaries and affiliates of Battleground Events, LLC., whose use and disclosure of your
personal information is subject to this Privacy Policy.
Business Transfers. We may disclose or transfer information, including personal
information, as part of any merger, sale, and transfer of our assets, acquisition or
restructuring of all or part of our business, bankruptcy, or similar event.
Legally Required. We may disclose your information if we are required to do so by law.
Protection of Rights. We may disclose information where we believe it necessary to
respond to claims asserted against us or, comply with legal process (e.g., subpoenas or
warrants), enforce or administer our agreements and terms, for fraud prevention, risk
assessment, investigation, and protect the rights, property or safety of Battleground Events,
its users, or others.
Your Content and Activity. Your Content, including your name, profile picture, profile
information, and certain associated activity information is available to other users of the
Battleground Events Platform and may be viewed publicly. Public viewing includes
availability to non-registered visitors and can occur when users share Your Content across
other sites or services. In addition, Your Content may be indexed by search engines. See the
section below about Your Choices for information about how you may change how certain
information is shared or viewed by others.
Metrics. We may share with users of our advertisers or publishers aggregate statistics,
metrics and other reports about the performance of their ads or content in the Battleground
Events Platform such as the number of unique user views, demographics about the users who
saw their ads or content, conversion rates, and date and time information. We do not share IP
addresses or personal information. We may also allow our advertisers or publishers to use
Pixels on the Battleground Events Platform in order to collect information about the
performance of their ads or content.
Anonymized and Aggregated Data. We may share aggregated or de-identified
information with third parties for research, marketing, analytics and other purposes,
provided such information does not identify a particular individual.
Cookies, Pixels and Tracking
We and our third party providers use cookies, clear GIFs/pixel tags, JavaScript, local storage,
log files, and other mechanisms to automatically collect and record information about your
usage and browsing activities on the Battleground Events Platform and across third party
sites or online services. We may combine this information with other information we collect
about users. Below, we provide a brief summary these activities:
Cookies. These are small files with a unique identifier that are transferred to your
browser through our websites. They allow us to remember users who are logged
in, to understand how users navigate through and use the Battleground Events
Platform, and to display personalized content and targeted ads (including on
third party sites and applications).
Pixels, web beacons, clear GIFs. These are tiny graphics with a unique
identifier, similar in function to cookies, which we use to track the online
movements of users of the Battleground Events Platform and the web pages of
users of our Ad Services, and to personalize content. We also use these in our
emails to let us know when they have been opened or forwarded, so we can
gauge the effectiveness of our communications.
Analytics Tools. We may use internal and third party analytics tools, including
Google Analytics. The third party analytics companies we work with may combine
the information collected with other information they have independently
collected from other websites and/or other online products and services. Their
collection and use of information is subject to their own privacy policies.
Do-Not-Track Signals. Please note we do not change system behavior within the
Battleground Events Platform in response to browser requests not to be tracked. You may,
however, disable certain tracking by third-parties as discussed in the Battleground Events Ads
and Personalization section below. You may also opt out of tracking by Battleground Events
Pixels, as described below in Battleground Events Ads and Personalization.
Battleground Events Ads and Personalization
We may display personalized content (including from third party publishers) and
personalized ads (including sponsored content), based on information that we have collected
via the Battleground Events Platform, and through our Pixels, widgets, and buttons
embedded on third party sites. We also may report aggregated or de-identified information
about the number of users that saw a particular ad or content and related audience
engagement information to users of our Ad Services and to publishers of content on the
Battleground Events Platform.
Users of our Ad Services may also provide us with information as part of their ad campaigns,
including customer list information (e.g., email addresses and demographic or interest data)
with us in order to create customized audiences for their ad campaigns; we only use this
information to facilitate the particular user’s campaign (including ad metrics and reporting to
that user) or for fraud detection and security purposes; and we do not disclose this
information to third parties (other than our service providers) unless required by law. We also
do not disclose to the users of our Ad Services the names or identities of their customers that
were successfully reached as part of such campaigns.
As described in our Cookie Policy, we may also work with third parties such as network
advertisers to serve ads on the Battleground Events Platform and on third-party websites or
other media (e.g., social networking platforms), such as Google AdSense (more info here) and
Facebook Audience Network (more info here). These third parties may use cookies,
JavaScript, web beacons (including clear GIFs), Flash LSOs and other tracking technologies to
measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content to you.
In addition to opting out of tracking across sites by our Pixels (see “Your Choices” section
below), you also may opt out of much interest-based advertising on third party sites and
through third party ad networks (including Facebook Audience Network and Google
AdSense). See “Your Choices” section below for more information about opting out of third-
party ad networks.
How We Protect Your Information
The security of your information is important to us. The Battleground Events has
implemented safeguards to protect the information we collect. However, no website or
Internet transmission is completely secure. We urge you to take steps to keep your personal
information safe, such as choosing a strong password and keeping it private, as well as
logging out of your user account, and closing your web browser when finished using the
Battleground Events Platform on a shared or unsecured device.
Access and Amend Your Information
You may update or correct your account information at any time by logging in to your
account. You may also make a number of other adjustments to settings or the display of
information about you as described in more detail in the following section about Your
Choices.
Your Choices
You may, of course, decline to submit information through the Battleground Events Platform,
in which case we may not be able to provide certain services to you. You may also control the
types of notifications and communications we send, limit the information shared within the
Battleground Events Platform about you, and otherwise amend certain privacy settings. Here
is some further information about some of your choices:
Anonymous Posts. You may post certain content anonymously, including questions and
answers. In such event, your name is not displayed along with the content, and Battleground
Events does not associate such content with your user ID and other profile data.
Your Content. You may edit or delete the answers that you post at any time. Any questions
you have posted may remain on the Battleground Events Platform and be edited by other
users. Any deleted content will be removed from third party sites from which it has been
shared via Battleground Events ’s standard sharing features; however we have no control
over deletions or changes to Your Content if it has been shared manually by others. When you
make edits to Your Content, other users will be able to see the history of those edits in your
profile activity and on content edit logs.
Emails and Communications. When you join the Battleground Events Platform by signing
up for an account or creating a profile, as part of the service, you will receive the Battleground
Events digest containing content that we believe may match your interests. You can manage
your email and notice preferences in your account profile settings, under your Emails and
Notifications settings. If you opt out of receiving emails about recommendations or other
information we think may interest you, we may still send you transactional e-mails about
your account or any services you have requested or received from us.
Third parties may comment on your postings within the Battleground Events Platform. In
your profile, under your Privacy Settings, you can adjust whether to allow people to comment
on your answers and posts. You can also adjust permissions about who you allow to send you
messages on the Battleground Events Platform.
Indexed Search. In your privacy settings, you can control whether your profile and name is
indexed by search engines. Changes to privacy settings may only apply on a going-forward
basis; for example, your name (e.g., answers and profile) that has already been indexed by
search engines may remain indexed for a period of time even after you have turned off
indexing, as implementing this change is outside of our control.
Deleted or Deactivated Account. If you choose Delete Your Account in your privacy
settings, then all of Your Content will be removed from public visibility on the Battleground
Events Platform, and it may not be restored by us, even if you change your mind. If you
choose Deactivate Your Account, then you will no longer receive any communications from
us, and users will not be able to interact with you; however Your Content will remain on the
Battleground Events Platform. Once you deactivate your account, you can reactivate it any
time by choosing to log in.
Third Party Ad Networks
For information about and to opt out of interest-based ads from many ad networks, go to:
U.S.: www.aboutads.info Internet Advertising Bureau
Canada: www.youradchoices.ca
European Union: www.youronlinechoices.eu/
Linked Networks. You may connect or disconnect your Linked Networks, such as Facebook,
through the Account Settings tab in your profile settings, and you may access, amend and
delete much of your profile information through your profile settings. Once you disconnect a
Linked Network, we will not receive information from that Linked Network going forward;
unless you choose to reconnect it. You may also control whether the Linked Network is visible
in your profile.
Transferring Your Data
Battleground Events is headquartered in the United States, and has operations, entities and
service providers in the United States and throughout the world. As such, we and our service
providers may transfer your personal information to, or access it in, jurisdictions (including
the United States) that may not provide equivalent levels of data protection as your home
jurisdiction. We will take steps to ensure that your personal information receives an adequate
level of protection in the jurisdictions in which we process it.
Children’s Privacy
We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13
or knowingly allow such persons to register. If we become aware that we have collected
personal information from a child under the relevant age without parental consent, we take
steps to delete that information.
Links to Other Websites
The Battleground Events Platform may contain links to third party sites or online services. We
are not responsible for the practices of such third parties, whose information practices are
subject to their own policies and procedures, not to this Privacy Policy.
Your California Privacy Rights
California law permits users who are California residents to request and obtain from us once a
year, free of charge, a list of the third parties to whom we have disclosed their personal
information (if any) for their direct marketing purposes in the prior calendar year, as well as
the types of personal information disclosed to those parties. If you are a California resident
and would like to request this information, please submit your request in an email
to [email protected].
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our practices or this Privacy Policy, please contact us
at [email protected], or send mail to:
Battleground Events , LLC.
Attn: Privacy
330 E. Albertoni St. #200-415
Carson CA 90746
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on this page. If
we make any changes to this Privacy Policy that materially change how we treat your
personal information, we will endeavor to provide you with reasonable notice of such
changes, such as via prominent notice in the Battleground Events Platform or to your email
address of record, and where required by law, we will obtain your consent or give you the
opportunity to opt out of such changes.
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