Privacy Policy

Information you give us

• Newsletter signups: your email address and the page or brand you signed up from. Signups are stored by Cheer Media and by HubSpot, the service we use to send email.
• Contact, advertising and news tip forms: your name, email address and the message you send.
• Submissions such as college program profiles, job listings, directory listings and event results, including any contact details you include.
• Purchases such as event photos and advertising invoices. Payments are processed by Stripe; we do not see or store full card numbers.
• Accounts for staff, contributors and partner portal users, which are created by invitation.

Information collected automatically

• Usage data through Google Analytics, such as pages viewed, approximate location, device and the site that referred you.
• Ad views and clicks, counted per ad so we can give advertisers totals. These reports show totals only, not individual readers.
• A cookie when you vote in an article poll, so each browser votes once. Individual votes are never published.
• Push notification subscriptions, only if you choose to turn on breaking news alerts in your browser.
• Standard server and security logs, including IP addresses, used to keep the sites running and to prevent abuse.

How we use information

• To publish news, results and other content, and to run the features you use.
• To send newsletters and alerts you asked for.
• To answer messages, process purchases and manage advertising campaigns.
• To understand which content readers find useful and to improve the sites.
• To protect the sites, our readers and our partners from fraud and abuse.

Sharing

We do not sell your personal information. We share it only with service providers that help us run the sites (such as hosting, email, payments and analytics providers), when the law requires it, or as part of a business transfer.

Some pages include videos, livestreams and social posts from other companies, such as YouTube, FloCheer, BoxCast, Instagram, X and TikTok. Those companies may set their own cookies and follow their own privacy policies. Some links to streaming services are affiliate links that let the partner know a visit came from us.

Your choices

• Unsubscribe from any newsletter using the link at the bottom of each email.
• Turn off push notifications at any time in your browser settings.
• Block or delete cookies in your browser. Some features, such as poll voting, may not work without them.
• Ask us to access, correct or delete your personal information by contacting us through the form below.

Children

Our sites cover athletes of all ages, but they are intended for a general audience and are not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has given us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.

Retention and security

We keep personal information only as long as we need it for the purposes above or as the law requires. We use reasonable safeguards to protect it, but no website can guarantee complete security.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as our sites change. The date at the top of this page shows when it was last updated.