Information you provide to us and information we receive about you from others

We may collect personal information when you create a registered user account, sign up for our tournaments, mailing list, purchase or otherwise communicate with us. The personal information we collect during registration could include: name, surname, phone number, email address, your location (country, city, town) and payment information. We may also collect such information when you contact us in person (for example, at, tournaments, expos, conferences, workshops, seminars and other events), via telephone, or email.

In addition, we collect the following types of information:

Data collected through the use of the Service: We collect information about how you use the Service, your actions on the Service, and any content you post to the Service (“User Content”), as well as information about a player or team record, for example, gameplay statistics, personal or team awards and highlights featuring the team or athlete.

Information we receive from third parties: We may receive personal information about you from third parties and combine that with the information we collect through the Service. For example, we receive information about your activities on third party games you access through the Service. We may also receive information from any third-party services that you link to the Service.

We use this information to operate, maintain, and provide the features and functionality of the Service, as well as to communicate directly with you, such as to send you email messages and push notifications, and permit you to communicate with others on the Service or invite others to join the Service. We may also send you Service-related emails or messages (e.g., account verification, change or updates to features of the Service, technical and security notices). For more information about your communication preferences, see “Your Data Rights and Choices” below.

Usage and Device Information

To provide a personalized and high-quality experience for our users, we may use various technologies that automatically record certain technical information from your browser or device when you visit our website, read our emails, use our Service or otherwise engage with us. This information is typically collected through a variety of tracking technologies, including cookies, web beacons, file information and similar technology (collectively, “tracking technologies”). These tracking technologies cookies collect information about how you use the Service (e.g., the pages you view, the links you click, emails you open, and other actions you take on the Service), information about your browser and online usage patterns (e.g., Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser language, referring / exit pages and URLs, pages viewed, whether you opened an email , links clicked), and information about the device(s) you use to access the Service (e.g., mobile device identifier, mobile carrier, device type, model and manufacturer, mobile device operating system brand and model, and whether you access the Service from multiple devices). We may be able to determine your approximate location by analyzing other information, like an IP address to associate a user with their location. We may also collect analytics data, or use third-party analytics tools such as Google Analytics to help us measure traffic and usage trends for the Service. You can learn more about Google’s practices at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites, and view its currently available opt-out options at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Although we do our best to honor the privacy preferences of our visitors, we are not able to respond to Do Not Track signals from your browser at this time.

We use or may use the data collected through tracking technologies to secure the Service, improve the Service, to save you time, to provide better technical support, and to track website usage. For example, tracking technologies help us to: (a) remember information so that a user will not have to re-enter it during subsequent visits; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) to identify you across multiple devices; (d) to provide and monitor the effectiveness of our Service; (e) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, and usage on our website and our Service; (f) diagnose or fix technology problems; (g) help users efficiently access information after signing in, and (h) otherwise to plan for and enhance our Service. If you would prefer not to accept cookies, most browsers will allow you to: (i) change your browser settings to notify you when you receive a cookie, which lets you choose whether or not to accept it; (ii) disable existing cookies; or (iii) set your browser to automatically reject cookies. Please note that doing so may negatively impact your experience using the Service, as some features and services on our Service may not work properly. Depending on your mobile device and operating system, you may not be able to delete or block all cookies. You may also set your email options to prevent the automatic downloading of images that may contain technologies that would allow us to know whether you have accessed our email and performed certain functions with it.

We and our third-party partners may also use cookies and tracking technologies for advertising purposes. For more information about tracking technologies, please see “Third-party tracking and online advertising” below.

Ekasi Esports takes great care to protect the information you provide us. We do not rent or sell personal information that we collect from users with third parties for marketing purposes without your consent.

Ekasi Esports will disclose your personal information when you post content which is visible to others on the Service, when you consent or instruct us to share your information with third parties, or when we have a legitimate business or legal need to share your information. For example, your information may be shared with:

The public (when Player Data contained in Competition Data is visible to others on the Service by default). Like any sports league, some information about players, team and competition results is posted on the Service and may be visible to other users, website visitors and the public (“Competition Data”). Competition Data includes certain personal information from the players Profile, including player name, full name, location (name, city, town), photo or avatar, as well as player statistics and gameplay highlights, which will be available publicly on the Service by default when you participate in the Service. Email addresses, phone, payment details, and birth date are not Competition Data and are not available to the general public.

Third Party Partners and Sponsors. From time to time, we may provide our corporate partners and official sponsors information about players, such as name, location and email address. Our sponsors may use this information to offer deals, discounts and other promotional content.

Third parties with your consent or according to your instructions. You may provide consent or authorization to share your personal information with third party applications or services in several ways, depending on the functionality available now and in the future through the Ekasi Esports Service. Please note that these third parties are not governed by Ekasi Esports or the terms of this Privacy Policy. We recommend you review the privacy policy of any third party application or service before authorizing access to your Ekasi Esports account information. For example, you may authorize Ekasi Esports to share your information with:

• Special tournaments you participate in. If you participate in special tournaments where Ekasi Esports partners with third parties, Ekasi Esports may share data collected from or about you with its third party partners to facilitate the tournament or services being offered.
• Others with your consent. In some instances, you may be able to grant us permission to share your information with third-party partners, recruiters, not-for-profit organizations, and other entities that are not affiliated with Ekasi Esports. In these cases, we will only provide to these third parties the information you have authorized or asked us to share to these third parties. You may also choose to share content with others by email, or by posting Ekasi Esports content to social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. These third parties may use your information as described in their own privacy policies. To control the information that you share, you can adjust your social network settings or disconnect your social network account from your Ekasi Esports account.

We may also share information for the following business purposes:

• Third-party vendors and other service providers that perform services on our behalf, as needed to carry out their work for us, which may include providing mailing services, providing payment or accounting services, web hosting, or providing analytic services.
• Other parties in connection with a company transaction, such as a merger, sale of company assets or shares, reorganization, financing, change of control or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company or third party, or in the event of a bankruptcy or related or similar proceedings. If we sell, divest or transfer our business, we will require the new owner to continue to honor the terms provided in this Privacy Policy or we will provide the user with notice and an opportunity to opt-out of the transfer of user Data by deleting the user Data before the transfer occurs.
• Third parties as required by law or subpoena or if we reasonably believe that such action is necessary to comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement.
• We may also share information with others in an aggregated or otherwise anonymized form that does not reasonably identify you directly as an individual. For example, we may use and share aggregate or anonymized data to study and improve our Service, user functionality and product offerings.

Ekasi Esports may participate in interest-based advertising and use third party advertising partners to collect information from visitors to the Service for the purpose of displaying interest-based advertisements on other websites, apps or services, social networks, or on other devices you may use. Typically, though not always, these third party ad networks use cookies and tracking technologies to recognize your browser or device and to collect information about your visit to our Service to provide you customized content, advertising and commercial messages which may be more relevant to your interests, as well as to provide advertising-related services such as reporting, attribution, analytics and market research.

Please note that we will do our best efforts and take multiple steps to avoid the use of User Data for targeted advertising purposes, for example, by inhibiting these third party advertising networks from collecting information for targeted advertising purposes when a user logs into the Service.

Storage and processing: Your information collected through our Service may be stored and processed in South Africa or any other country in which Ekasi Esports or its affiliates or service providers maintain facilities. If you are located in countries with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from South African Laws, please note that we may transfer information, including personal information, to a country and jurisdiction that does not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction.

Keeping information safe: We care about the security of your information and employ physical, administrative, and technological safeguards designed to preserve the integrity and security of all information collected and maintained by our Service. Access to information is limited to those employees who require it to perform their job functions. We use industry-standard Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology to safeguard the account registration process and sign-up information. Other security safeguards include but are not limited to data encryption, firewalls, and physical access controls to building and files. However, no security system is impenetrable and we cannot guarantee the security of our systems 100%. In the event that any information under our control is compromised as a result of a breach of security, we will take reasonable steps to investigate the situation and, where appropriate, notify those individuals whose information may have been compromised and take other steps, in accordance with any applicable laws and regulations.

Account information and settings: You may update your account information by editing your profile or signing into the account settings.

Control email communications: You can opt-out of receiving promotional emails from us by clicking the “unsubscribe” feature at the bottom of each email. Unfortunately, you cannot unsubscribe from Service-related messaging.

Modifying or deleting your information: If you have any questions about reviewing, modifying, or deleting your information, or if you want to remove your name or comments from our website or publicly displayed content, you can contact us directly at www.ekasiesports.africa. We may not be able to modify or delete your information in all circumstances. For instance, we may not be able to delete Competition Data but we may be able to anonymize certain Competition Data upon request.

If you have any questions or requests about your account information, contact us directly at privacy@ekasiesports.africa

The Service may contain links to and from third party websites of our business partners (such as gaming providers), advertisers, social media sites and other services. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies or content. We strongly recommend that you read their privacy policies and terms and conditions of use to understand how they collect, use, and share information.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the Service, please contact us at privacy@ekasiesports.africa

Ekasi Esports may modify or update this Privacy Policy from time to time so you should review this page periodically. If we change the policy in a material manner, for example if we seek to use personal information in a materially different way than we had previously, we will let you know and update the ‘last modified’ date at the bottom of this page. If you object to any changes, you may close your account. Continuing to use our Service after we publish changes to this Privacy Policy means that you are consenting to the changes.

This privacy policy was last modified on March 31st, 2021.