Betsperts Media and Technology Group (“Betsperts”) provides sports data and media resources. This Privacy Notice applies to our corporate website, https://www.betspertsgroup.com, and the websites of the brands we operate ( each a “Website,” and collectively, our “Websites”), including:
- https://www.bleachernation.com/
- https://dynastyleaguefootball.com/
- https://www.4for4.com/
- https://www.betspertsgolf.com/
- https://www.betsperts.com/
This Privacy Notice also applies to subscription services (“Subscription Services”) that we provide through our Websites. Through our Subscription Services, you can access premium content, news, and articles, and tools.
This Privacy Notice is addressed to visitors of our Websites (“Visitors”), and individuals who establish accounts/memberships to utilize our Subscription Services (“Users”).
For all individuals who interact with our Websites and Subscription Services, we collect information you choose to give us and other information that may be collected from your interactions, including from your electronic devices. We use that information to operate our business and for the purposes set forth below. Below, we also describe the choices we offer with respect to your information.
This Privacy Notice does not apply to information which is not processed by Betsperts or to information that cannot be identified by any individual, household, or their devices, such as de-identified or anonymized information. To understand how affiliate or promotional partners may collect and use your information, you should refer to their notices or contact them directly.
The sections of this Privacy Notice are listed below for your convenience:
- Information We Collect
- Information Collection on our General Website
- Other Information Collection, Logging, and Automatically Collected Information
- Other Ways We Use Information We Collect
- How We Secure Information
- How We Share Information
- What Choices Do I Have?
- Updates to Our Privacy Notice
- Contact Information
Information We Collect
We collect information about individuals from a variety of sources, including:
- Directly from Visitors and Users, for instance when you provide information to establish an account, submit questions or requests directly to us or fill out a form or survey.
- Automatically as you utilize the Websites as detailed below regarding Usage Data.
- From third parties. We may collect information from advertisers, marketing service providers, affiliates, promotional partners, and application providers. These and other third parties may provide us information in connection with content, widgets, components, or other tools deployed on our Websites. We may use this information to provide you with interest-based advertising or other targeted content and for other purposes, such as to better understand our audiences.
We may collect and process personal data as detailed in the chart below:
Category of Individual | Personal Information Collected | Key Information Uses |
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Users | – Name – Contact information such as email – Account/login information including usernames and passwords – Information regarding your use of our Subscription Services – Comments on our Websites associated with your accounts – Subscriptions and purchase history – Information you provide in response to a form or survey. – Payment data – Usage Data, as defined below. | – Provide our Subscription Services through our Websites. – To support services of our promotional partners. For example, we may share your email address if you sign up for a third-party newsletter. – Develop analytics to understand use of our Websites and Subscription Services. – Provide information about new or related products or services we may offer. – For other general purposes noted below (e.g., to maintain records, enforce legal terms or comply with law) (see Other Ways We Use Information We Collect). |
Visitors | – Data you or your device communicate to us while using the Websites. – Information you provide in response to a form or survey. – Usage Data, as defined below. | – Provide our Websites. – Address your inquiries. – Collect information submitted through forms or surveys. – Provide information about new or related products or services we may offer. – Develop analytics to understand Website use. – Develop business strategies and marketing plans. – For other general purposes noted below (e.g., to maintain records, enforce legal terms or comply with law) (see Other Ways We Use Information We Collect). |
Other Information Collection, Logging, and Automatically Collected Information
If you are a Visitor to our Websites or a User of our Subscription Services, your browser or device will be subject to collection of logging and other automatically collected information. This may include information collection via cookies, web beacons, and other automatically collected information. The information we automatically collect may include your IP address, date and time you access our Websites or Subscription Services and the pages and content you access during your visit, language preferences, websites that you link to or from, whether you receive or open an email or other communication from us and the links you click on within those emails or other messages, information from your mobile device or your computer about how you interact with our Websites including unique device identifier, mobile network information, the type of device used and the operating system on that device, browser type, a list of files downloaded or pages viewed, and any errors encountered (collectively, “Usage Data”).
If you are a Visitor to our Websites or a User of our Subscription Services, please note that third parties may collect personal information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites and online services. These third parties may provide us information in connection with content, widgets, components, or other tools and may collect information from these sources. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based advertising or other targeted content, and for other purposes. We may not control personal information once collected by these parties.
We do not respond to “do not track” signals or other mechanisms that provide consumers the ability to exercise choice regarding the collection of personal information about an individual consumer’s online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services.
In all cases, we may collect and use other information you choose to provide or with your consent.
Other Ways We Use Information We Collect
In addition to the uses described above, we may use the information we collect in order to:
- Maintain, analyze, customize, and improve your experience on our Websites and Subscription Services.
- Support business development, research, marketing and promotional purposes, press inquiries or aggregate statistical analysis and site customization.
- Communicate with Visitors and Users about our Websites and Subscription Services, including technical notices, security alerts, and support and administrative messages. We may also provide customer and technical support, including notices about accounts and subscriptions and changes to our service.
- Send promotional and marketing materials, support contests and other promotions, and notify you about incentives and rewards.
- Provide you information that you request from us or otherwise respond to your communications and questions.
- Monitor and enforce our contracts, legal terms, acceptable use or other policies or similar terms.
- Comply with law and satisfy our regulatory and compliance obligations. Additionally, to support compliance efforts on behalf of others and ourselves that support our provision of services to you.
- Provide a personalized experience. Automatically collected and device information may also be used to help us estimate our audience size, usage patterns, and analyze trends and administer our services, and used for research and marketing purposes.
- Help detect and prevent fraudulent use of our Websites and Subscription Services and other prohibited, illicit, or illegal activity. We may use information to compare information for accuracy and to verify identity.
- Monitor information security, manage and protect our technical infrastructure (servers, networks, etc.), and to protect the rights and vital interests of you, others, and ourselves.
- Address existing or anticipated disputes and to protect our legal interests.
- Otherwise operate our business, including support for transactions impacting our company as a whole (such as mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, underwriting or asset purchases).
- Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide your information to us and for other purposes disclosed to you in connection with our services.
- Other purposes permitted by law or to which you consent.
We may also retain and use your information in an anonymized or de-identified format where your identity is not recognizable. Such information is not subject to the same usage restrictions as personal information and can be used to improve our products and services, conduct research, or for our other business purposes.
As permitted by law, we may combine the information we gather about you in identifiable form, including information from third parties. We may use this information, for example, to improve and personalize our services, content, and advertising.
How We Secure Information
We are committed to maintaining measures to protect the security of your personal information maintained in our systems. However, no network or system is ever entirely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of networks and systems that we operate or that are operated on our behalf. If we face a security breach, we may notify you as required by law via email or conspicuous posting on this site.
The safety and security of your personal information also depends you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our services, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. You should not share your password with anyone.
How We Share Information
We may share your information with third parties as reasonable to operate our business (including for the purposes described above), to provide our Websites and Subscription Services as permitted or required by law, or as directed or authorized by you. For example:
Promotional Partners. We may share information with marketing and promotional partners. For example:
- When you sign up for a third-party newsletter or content (such as Fantasy Life Newsletter), we share your email address with that third party.
- We provide links to advertisers and affiliates. Some information may be shared with these advertisers and affiliates when you click these links, or they may be able to identify that you clicked a link from our Website.
- We allow advertisements on our Website. In some cases, these advertisers (or related advertising or analytic networks) may use cookies or other trackers that reveal information about your device or visit to our Website. See Other Information Collection, Logging, and Automatically Collected Information for more information about some of these technologies.
- In some cases, features or functionalities on our Websites or Subscription Services may be powered by third parties. When you interact with these features, your information is shared directly with these third parties. Such features include partner links and ads.
Affiliated Organizations. We may share your information with our parent organizations, subsidiaries, affiliates, joint ventures, or other organizations or entities under common control with us.
Third Party Sharing. We work with third parties to help us provide our Websites and Subscription Services and to support internal operations. In some cases, they may use your information subject to their own privacy policies and to comply with their own legal and regulatory obligations. We work with different types of third parties, presently including:
- Payment processors
- Data hosting, storage, and cloud service providers.
- Website and/or application security service providers.
- Technical and customer support providers;
- Marketing and analytics providers;
- Ad partners like Freestar; and
- Other third parties.
Professional Advisors, Law Enforcement and Regulators. We share information with our professional advisors who provide legal, compliance, auditing, accounting, banking, consulting, or other professional services, and with regulators, law enforcement, or government agencies to:
- Comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, including those compliance obligations of federal, state or local regulators;
- Protect our interests, property or legal rights, or those of our Users or third parties;
- Respond to a subpoena, court order, or similar law enforcement request, or when we believe in good faith that the disclosure of personal information is necessary to prevent physical harm or financial loss, to report suspected illegal activity, or to investigate violations of this Privacy Notice or other applicable terms; and
- For other legal purposes, such as to enforce our terms and conditions, or to exercise or defend legal claims.
Transaction Impacting the Organization as a Whole. In the event of a transaction or reorganization impacting us as an entity or organization, we may share your personal information. We may share your information in connection with, or during the negotiation of, any merger, sale of company stock or assets, financing, acquisition, restructuring, divestiture, or dissolution of all or a portion of our business, or other similar event.
Other Disclosures. In addition to the above disclosures, we may disclose personal information in the event that we believe such disclosure is (i) necessary to provide our services or operate our business; (ii) in accordance with purposes we describe when you share it with us; (iii) permitted by law; or (iv) with your consent or at your direction.
We may disclose aggregated or deidentified information that does not identify any individual without restriction.
Freestar Affiliation. This Site is affiliated with Freestar for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Freestar will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Freestar’s data usage, click here.
What Choices Do I Have?
Update personal information. If you are a User of our Subscription Services, you may request changes to your information by emailing us at [email protected]. As permitted by law, we may deny a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement, cause the information to be incorrect, or prevent the provision of our services.
Marketing communications. You may receive marketing communications from Betsperts or our brands/sites, including if you sign up for marketing or other communications. You may opt out of receiving marketing emails by following the unsubscribe link in each email, or by contacting us at [email protected]. Please note that you may continue to receive non-marketing emails from us after you opt out. Please note that we do not control communications from others. If you have received marketing communications from third parties, you should contact those third parties directly to understand the communication choices they may provide you. Third parties include those who may be interacting with us on your behalf in connection with group activities.
Cookies. You have choices regarding certain cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you may modify your browser’s settings to notify you of cookie placement or decline cookies. If you choose to decline cookies, certain features of our Websites or Subscription Services may not function properly or at all as a result.
Betsperts is not responsible for any practices employed by websites linked to or from our Websites, nor their information or content. Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Websites to another website, this Privacy Notice is no longer in effect.
Updates to Our Privacy Notice
We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time in order to provide clarification or notice of changes to our practices. If we make changes, we will revise the Effective Date at the top of this Privacy Notice. Changes to this Privacy Notice will be effective once they are posted unless otherwise indicated. We may choose to notify you by email to the email address in our records. We encourage you to periodically review our Privacy Notice to be sure you are familiar with the most current version.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or concern about this Privacy Notice or the privacy practices at Betsperts, please contact us at [email protected].