Privacy Policy

1. Introduction and Who We Are

Welcome to Players for Life! This Privacy Policy details how Players for Life (“we,” “us,” or “our”), a US-based entity, collects, uses, and protects your information when you visit our website, https://www.playersforlife.com (the “Site”).

At Players for Life, we are deeply committed to protecting the privacy of your personal information while striving to provide the very best user experience. We want our website to be a safe and enjoyable place for everyone who shares our passion for video games.

As a US-based website with an international audience, Players for Life is committed to complying with all applicable privacy laws and regulations. This includes relevant US federal and state privacy laws, and international data protection regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for our visitors in the European Union, and the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) for visitors in the United Kingdom. Our legal duty is to protect the personal information we collect from you.

For the purposes of this policy, including under the GDPR and UK GDPR, ‘personal data’ is any information relating to a living individual who can be identified, either directly or indirectly, from that information. This can include your name, email address, or information collected online and used to identify you.

For the purposes of these regulations, Players for Life serves as the Data Controller. This means we are responsible for, and control, the processing of your personal data related to our website.

By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this policy, please do not access or use the Site.

2. Contact and Company Details

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, our privacy practices, or wish to exercise your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Data Controller: Players for Life

Email: You can reach us directly via email for privacy-related inquiries at social@playersforlife.com

Contact Form: Alternatively, you may use the general contact form available on our website at https://www.playersforlife.com/contact-us.

Mailing Address:
For official correspondence, a mailing address can be provided upon specific request. We primarily handle privacy inquiries via email for efficiency.

3. Information We Collect

We collect various types of information to operate, maintain, and improve our website, provide content, and support our monetization efforts.

3.1. Information You Provide Directly

When you interact with our Site, you may directly provide us with personal information. This includes:

• Comments: When you leave comments on our blog posts (powered by Disqus), we collect the data shown in the comments form (such as your name/username and the comment content), your IP address, and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
• Contact Form: When you use our contact form, we collect your name, email address, and the content of your message to respond to your inquiry.
• Direct Communications: If you communicate with us directly via email or other means, we may retain copies of that correspondence.

3.2. Information Collected Automatically

When you visit or interact with our Site, certain information is automatically collected from your device or browser. This data helps us understand how our site is used, analyze trends, administer the site, and support our advertising and affiliate activities. This information may include:

• Log Data: Your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, operating system, referrer URL, pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other diagnostic data.
• Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies, web beacons, pixels, and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Site and store certain information.
  • Cookies are small data files placed on your device. They are used for various purposes, including remembering your preferences, enabling certain site functionalities, and supporting our analytics and advertising efforts.
  • Web Beacons/Pixels are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of web users or to access cookies.
• Device Information: Information about the device you use to access the Site, such as hardware model, operating system version, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information.
• Location Information: We may infer your general location (e.g., country, city) from your IP address for purposes like ad targeting or content localization, but we do not collect precise GPS location.

3.3. Information from Third-Party Services

We engage with various third-party services that also collect information from you when you interact with our Site. This is primarily for analytics, advertising, and monetization purposes. While we choose our partners carefully, their data collection practices are governed by their own privacy policies. These services include:

• Advertising Services (e.g., Google AdSense and similar ad networks): These services use cookies and tracking technologies to collect data about your visits to this and other websites to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. This data may include your IP address, browser type, device information, and interactions with ads.
• Affiliate Programs (e.g., Amazon Associates, Shopify Affiliate Program): When you click on affiliate links on our Site, cookies are placed by these third-party platforms (e.g., Amazon, Shopify) to track your referral and subsequent purchases for commission purposes. While we do not directly collect personal purchase information from these transactions, the affiliate platforms do.
• Analytics Provider (Google Analytics): We use Google Analytics to collect data about how users interact with our Site, such as pages visited, time spent, and navigation paths. This helps us understand site performance and user behavior. Google Analytics may collect your IP address and other information. You can review how Google uses information from sites or apps that use their services by visiting their policy at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
• Comment System (Disqus): When you use the Disqus comment system, Disqus collects personal identifiers and usage data related to your comments and interactions within their platform. For more details, please refer to the Disqus Privacy Policy.
• Embedded Content (e.g., YouTube videos): Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
• Social Media Sharing Buttons: When you use social media sharing buttons on our site, the respective social media platforms (e.g., Facebook, X/Twitter) may collect your IP address, your browser user agent, and record that you visited our site.

We strongly encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third-party services to understand their data practices and your choices regarding their collection of information.

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4. How We Use Your Information and Our Lawful Bases for Processing

In order to process your personal data, we must have a lawful reason for doing so under applicable data protection laws, including the GDPR and UK GDPR. We primarily rely on four of the lawful bases for processing the information collected through Players for Life:

4.1. Necessary for the Performance of a Contract

We process your personal data when it is necessary to fulfill our obligations arising from a “contract” with you, or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract. While you may not sign a formal contract to use our blog, an implied contract exists when you request a service from us.

This includes:

• Providing and Maintaining Our Website: To deliver the content of Players for Life to your device and ensure the core functionality of the Site.
• Responding to Your Inquiries: To process and respond to your messages submitted via our contact form or direct email, as this is a service you implicitly request.

4.2. Consent

In some instances, we rely on your specific consent to process your personal information. This is where you have actively agreed and ‘opted-in’ for certain data uses. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, where consent is the lawful basis for processing.

This includes:

• Non-Essential Cookies and Tracking: For the use of certain cookies and tracking technologies (e.g., those used for personalized advertising by Google AdSense, or detailed analytics beyond basic site function) that require your explicit consent, typically managed via a cookie consent banner.
• Marketing Communications (if applicable): If we were to introduce a newsletter or other direct marketing emails, we would obtain your specific consent for these communications.

4.3. Compliance with Legal Obligations

We may process and share your personal data when it is necessary for us to comply with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or to protect our rights or the rights of others.

This includes:

• Responding to Lawful Requests: To respond to legitimate requests from public authorities, courts, or law enforcement agencies.
• Protecting Legal Rights: To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights or the rights of our users or third parties.

4.4. Legitimate Interests

In many situations, we rely on our legitimate business interests to collect and use your personal data. When we do so, we conduct a balancing test to carefully consider the impact of the processing on your interests, rights, and freedoms. We only undertake the processing if we are satisfied there is no negative impact on you, and our legitimate interests do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms.

We rely on Legitimate Interests for the following activities:

• Providing, Maintaining, Improving, and Developing Our Website:
  • Operating and optimizing the Players for Life website, ensuring its technical stability, and improving the overall user experience.
  • Analyzing the use of our website using services like Google Analytics to understand traffic, popular content, and how users interact with our site, helping us to create more engaging content.
  • Using aggregated, non-personally identifiable statistical and analysis data to identify usage trends, such as your visits and activity on our site.
  • Identifying fraudulent behavior and ensuring our websites and systems are secure, protecting both our interests and our users.
• Facilitating User Interaction and Community:
  • Allowing you to comment on our articles via Disqus, provide feedback, and fostering community engagement.
  • Dealing with user queries and complaints that are not directly contractual, such as general support questions.
• Monetization and Business Operations:
  • Displaying general advertisements via services like Google AdSense (where explicit consent for personalized ads is not required or already obtained).
  • Facilitating Affiliate Programs (e.g., Amazon Associates, Shopify Affiliate Program) by including affiliate links on our site, which allows us to earn commissions on qualifying purchases, thereby supporting the free content we provide.
  • Publishing sponsored content that aligns with our editorial guidelines.
  • Understanding the effectiveness of our content and campaigns.
• Personalizing User Experience (Non-tracking): Personalizing your experience on our site, for example, by remembering simple display preferences, to enhance your engagement with our video game content.

If you object to our reliance on Legitimate Interests for any specific purpose, please contact us using the details provided in Section 2.

5. How We Share Your Information

We may share your personal data with third parties in certain circumstances as part of operating our website, providing our content, and fulfilling the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. We only share information necessary for the specific purpose and ensure that these third parties are committed to protecting your data.

We may share your information with:

• Service Providers (Our “Agents”): We engage trusted third-party companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. These services include website hosting, sending emails (e.g., for contact form responses), comment hosting (Disqus), website and data analysis (Google Analytics), and providing technical support. These service providers have access to your personal information only to perform their specific tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to use or disclose it for any other purpose unless you have specifically given them consent to do so.
• Advertising and Monetization Partners:
  • Ad Serving and Networks (e.g., Google AdSense): We work with third-party network advertisers who display advertisements on our website. These partners use cookies and similar technologies to collect data about your visits to this and other websites to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. This enables us to target advertisements and monetize our content. This may include sharing your IP address, browser type, and engagement metrics.
  • Affiliate Programs (e.g., Amazon Associates, Shopify Affiliate Program): When you click on affiliate links on our Site, you are directed to the third-party merchant’s website. Cookies are then placed by these platforms (e.g., Amazon, Shopify) to track your referral and any subsequent purchases for commission purposes. While we do not directly share your personal purchase information with them from our site, our action facilitates their direct collection for tracking.
  • De-identified and Aggregated Information: We may share aggregated, non-personally identifiable information, such as demographics and website usage statistics, with advertisers, sponsors, and other organizations. This helps them understand our audience generally without identifying you individually. This may also include sharing de-identified or “hashed” information (e.g., a privacy-protective identifier derived from an email address) with platforms like Google or Facebook, which they may use to help us deliver or exclude certain advertisements to you or similar audiences on their platforms.
  • Behavioral Remarketing Services: We may use remarketing services provided by companies like Google or Facebook to show you advertising on third-party websites after you have visited our site, based on your browsing patterns and interactions. This enables us to personalize advertising content relevant to your interests in video games.
• Social Media Platforms and Embedded Content:
  • Social Media Sharing: When you use social media sharing buttons on our site, information may be collected by the respective social media platforms (e.g., Facebook, X/Twitter) as part of that interaction.
  • Embedded Content (e.g., YouTube Videos): Articles on our site may include embedded content (e.g., videos from YouTube). When you view or interact with this embedded content, the external website (e.g., YouTube) may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, even if you have an account and are logged in to that website. By using embedded YouTube content, you are agreeing to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service. You can manage your YouTube-related privacy settings via the Google security settings page at https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions.
• Legal and Regulatory Authorities: We may disclose your personal data if required to do so by law, in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency), or when we believe such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, protect our rights or property, prevent fraud, or ensure the safety of our users or the public. This may include sharing data with our professional advisors and auditors where necessary to meet our legal and audit responsibilities.
• Changes in Ownership (Business Transfers): If Players for Life is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your personal data may be transferred as a business asset. In such cases, we will provide notice before your personal data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

No Sale of Personal Data: We do not sell your personal data to third parties for monetary compensation. However, some sharing of information for advertising purposes, as described above, may be considered “selling” or “sharing” under certain US state privacy laws (e.g., CCPA/CPRA) when it involves the disclosure of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. Your specific rights regarding this will be detailed in a later section.

Our Commitment: When we share information with third parties, we only permit them to process this data for specified purposes. We do not share more information with them than is necessary for the relevant purpose, and we require them to treat this information with at least the same protection as we do.

6. Data Security

We are deeply committed to protecting the personal data we hold and strive to keep your information secure by taking appropriate technical and organizational measures against its unauthorized or unlawful processing and against its accidental loss, destruction, or damage.

Our security measures include:

• Encryption: We use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to encrypt data transmitted between your browser and our website, ensuring secure communication (indicated by “https://” in your browser’s address bar).
• Access Control: We limit access to your personal information to only those individuals (employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties) who have a legitimate business need to access it. They will only process your personal information on our instructions and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
• Third-Party Data Protection: Where we use third-party service providers to process or store data (e.g., for analytics, advertising, comment hosting), we have appropriate agreements in place to ensure that your personal data is protected. We also require any third parties to whom we may transfer personal data to have appropriate security measures in place.
• Data Minimization: We collect only the personal data that is necessary for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy.
• Regular Security Reviews: We periodically review our security practices and update them as needed to respond to new threats and technologies.

However, it’s important to acknowledge that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. We encourage you to also take steps to protect your personal information online, such as using strong, unique passwords for your online accounts (including any third-party services you use in conjunction with our site, like Disqus or Google) and being cautious about the information you share in public comment sections.

7. Data Retention

We hold your personal data for a variety of different purposes, and the length of time we keep your data will vary depending on the specific service or interaction we are providing. We will only keep your data for a reasonable period of time, which is based on the purpose for which we are using your data.

Once that purpose has been fulfilled, we will securely delete that data or anonymize your information (so that we, or anyone else, can no longer tell that data relates to you) unless we are required to retain the data longer for legal, tax, or accounting reasons.

Generally, this means:

• Information You Provide Directly:
  • Comments: Your comments and associated data (e.g., username, IP address) are retained for as long as the comment remains published on our website. We will delete this data upon your request, unless a longer retention period is legally required.
  • Contact Form Inquiries: Correspondence from contact form submissions or direct emails will be retained for a period sufficient to address your inquiry and for our record-keeping purposes, typically for up to 3 years from the last interaction, unless longer retention is required by law.
• Automatically Collected Information:
  • Analytics Data (Google Analytics): Data collected by Google Analytics is retained according to Google’s data retention policies, which can be configured within your Google Analytics property settings. We typically configure this data for statistical analysis of website performance for as long as it is useful for our legitimate business purposes, usually up to 14 months.
  • Cookies: Most cookies have an expiry date set by their provider, and they are typically removed from your device after a certain period or when you clear your browser’s cookies.
• Third-Party Services: For data collected directly by third-party services like Google AdSense, Amazon, Shopify, or Disqus, their respective data retention policies apply. We encourage you to review their privacy policies for details on their retention practices.
• Legal Compliance and Fraud Prevention: We may retain your personal data for a longer period if required to do so by law, in connection with any legal claim or ongoing legal process, or to prevent fraud or other harmful activities.

8. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location and the applicable data protection laws, you may have certain rights regarding your personal data. We are committed to facilitating these rights. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided in Section 2 (Contact and Company Details).

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally, it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. If this is the case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

You will not usually have to pay a fee to access your personal data or to exercise any of the rights. However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is unfounded, repetitive, or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances. If we choose not to action your request, we will explain to you the reasons for our refusal.

8.1. Your European and UK Privacy Rights (GDPR & UK GDPR)

If you are a resident of the European Union or the United Kingdom, you have the following rights concerning your personal data:

• The Right to Be Informed: You have the right to be informed about the collection and use of your personal data. This Privacy Policy serves to fulfill that right.
• The Right of Access (Data Subject Access Request): You have the right to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• The Right to Rectification: You have the right to request the correction of your personal data when it is incorrect, out of date, or incomplete.
• The Right to Erasure (“Right to Be Forgotten”): You have the right to request the deletion of your personal data in certain circumstances, for example, if there is no compelling reason for its continued processing. This includes data in comments you’ve posted on our site.
• The Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to ‘block’ or suppress the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances, such as if you contest the accuracy of the data or object to its processing.
• The Right to Object to Processing: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data where we are relying on legitimate interests as our lawful basis (as explained in Section 4). We must then do so unless we believe we have a legitimate overriding reason to continue processing your personal data.
• The Right to Data Portability: In certain circumstances, you have the right to obtain your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit that data to another service provider.
• The Right to Withdraw Consent: Whenever we are relying on your consent to use your personal data, you have the right to change your mind at any time and withdraw that consent. This will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent.

If you object to our use of your personal data for direct marketing activity through all channels, or selected channels, we must always comply with your request. Remember, you can often stop direct marketing messages by clicking on an unsubscribe link in any email you receive from us (if applicable) or by contacting us.

8.2. Your US State Privacy Rights (e.g., California, Virginia, Colorado, etc.)

If you are a resident of certain US states, such as California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, or Nevada, you may have additional specific rights regarding your personal information under their respective privacy laws (e.g., CCPA/CPRA, VCDPA, CPA, CTDPA, UCPA, Nevada Privacy Law). These rights are not absolute, and in certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law.

For purposes of this section, “Personal Information” generally means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household. It does not include de-identified or aggregated data, or information excluded from the scope of these laws.

Your US privacy rights may include:

• The Right to Know/Access: You have the right to request that we disclose certain information about how we have collected, used, and shared your Personal Information. This can include:
  • The categories of Personal Information collected about you.
  • The categories of sources from which Personal Information is collected.
  • The business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing Personal Information.
  • The categories of third parties with whom Personal Information is disclosed, sold, or shared.
  • Specific pieces of Personal Information collected about you.
• The Right to Delete: You have the right to request the deletion of Personal Information that we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.
• The Right to Correct Inaccurate Personal Information: You have the right to request the correction of inaccurate Personal Information we maintain about you, taking into account the nature of the information and the purposes for which it is processed.
• The Right to Opt-Out of the Sale or Sharing of Personal Information: You have the right to opt-out of the “sale” or “sharing” of your Personal Information (as defined by relevant state laws) for cross-context behavioral advertising.
  • While Players for Life does not sell your Personal Information for monetary compensation, some sharing of information with advertising partners (e.g., Google AdSense) or for remarketing services (as described in Section 5) may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” under certain US state privacy laws because it involves allowing third parties to collect information (like online identifiers and browsing activity) to help serve more relevant ads.
  • To exercise this right for internet and mobile users, you may typically find a “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link in the footer of our website, or you may be able to opt-out via our cookie preference center (if applicable) or by enabling Global Privacy Control (GPC) on your browser. If you use different devices or browsers, or clear your cookies, you may need to indicate your preferences again.
• The Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information: (Generally not applicable for a blog like Players for Life as we do not typically collect sensitive personal information).
• The Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your privacy rights. This means we will not penalize you for exercising your rights by taking actions such as denying you services; increasing the price/rate of services; decreasing service quality; or suggesting that we may penalize you.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at social@playersforlife.com. When contacting us, it would be very helpful if you could include your full name, your relevant US state of residence, and details of the service you are using (e.g., “website visitor,” “commenter”). We will need to confirm your identity and residency to process your request.

9. Children’s Privacy

Players for Life recognizes the need to provide privacy protections with respect to personal information that may be collected from children. Our website is not directed to children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13.

We have designed our site with a general audience in mind, and do not offer features or services specifically tailored for children that would knowingly collect their personal information.

If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data without your consent, please contact us at social@playersforlife.com. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from children under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will take immediate steps to remove that information from our servers.

Additionally, we do not knowingly “sell” or “share” the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age (as defined by certain US state privacy laws) without affirmative authorization.

10. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Players for Life, like most websites, uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your browsing experience, analyze site traffic, deliver content, and support our advertising and monetization efforts. This section provides more detail on how we use these technologies and your choices.

10.1 What are Cookies and Tracking Technologies?

• Cookies: Small text files placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
• Web Beacons / Pixels: Tiny graphic images (often called “pixel tags” or “clear GIFs”) that may be included on our Site or in our emails. They are typically used in conjunction with cookies to track user activity, such as counting unique visitors, measuring email open rates, and determining the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
• Other Similar Technologies: These can include local storage (like HTML5 local storage), session storage, and device identifiers, all of which serve similar purposes to cookies in storing information on your device.

10.2. How We Use Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use these technologies for various purposes, including:

• Essential / Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are vital for the proper functioning of our website, enabling basic features like page navigation and access to secure areas of the site. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
• Analytics Cookies: Used to collect information about how visitors use our Site, for example, which pages they visit most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. We use Google Analytics for this purpose. These cookies help us understand and improve how our website performs.
• Functionality Cookies: These allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your username or language preferences) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, the Disqus comment system may use cookies to remember your login status or preferences.
• Advertising / Targeting Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. Our advertising partners, such as Google AdSense, use these cookies. They may track your visits to our Site and other websites to build a profile of your interests.
• Affiliate Tracking Cookies: When you click on affiliate links (e.g., to Amazon or Shopify), these cookies are placed by the respective affiliate platforms to track your referral and any subsequent purchases for commission purposes.

10.3. Your Choices Regarding Cookies

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. You can manage your cookie preferences through the following methods:

• Browser Settings: Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. Be aware that disabling cookies may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website or impact the functionality of certain services (e.g., commenting systems).
  • For Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
  • For Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
  • For Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/delete-cookies-in-microsoft-edge-63947406-40ac-c3b8-5791-d2c232ca6d4f
  • For Safari: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
• Cookie Consent Banner/Tool: For visitors from regions where explicit consent for non-essential cookies is required (like the EU/UK), we plan to implement a cookie consent management platform (CMP) on our Site. This tool will allow you to specify your preferences for various cookie categories.
• Opt-Out Programs:
  • Many advertising networks are members of the NAI (Network Advertising Initiative) and/or the DAA (Digital Advertising Alliance). You may opt-out of targeted advertising served by NAI or DAA members by visiting their opt-out pages:
    • NAI Opt-Out: https://optout.networkadvertising.org/
    • DAA Opt-Out: https://optout.aboutads.info/
  • For Google Analytics, you can install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
  • As mentioned in Section 8, for US residents, you may also be able to opt-out of the “sale” or “sharing” of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising via a “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link or Global Privacy Control (GPC).

By continuing to use our Site without changing your cookie settings, you agree to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies as described in this policy.

11. Social Media Accounts and Interaction

Players for Life operates accounts on various social media platforms (e.g., Facebook, X/Twitter, Instagram, YouTube) to connect with our audience and share our content. When you visit or interact with our social media accounts, specific data practices come into play:

• Information We Can See: When you are logged into your social media profile and visit our social media account, we can typically only see information that is part of your public profile on that platform. However, we may process data that you provide directly to us when you contact us (for example, if you create a post or send us a private message via the social media platform).
• Data Processed by the Social Media Platform: The operator of the social media platform processes your data regardless of whether you yourself have a profile on the platform or are logged in. The social media platform also provides us with anonymous usage statistics (e.g., page views, engagement metrics), which we use to understand our audience and improve our content strategy. We do not have access to the detailed usage data that the social media operator collects to create these statistics.
• Platform’s Use of Cookies and Tracking: Social media platforms, such as Facebook, often use cookies and other tracking technologies that are stored on your device when you visit our social media account, even if you do not have your own profile or are not logged in. These cookies enable the social media platform to create user profiles based on your preferences and interests and to show you tailored advertising.
• Direct Interaction: If you directly post comments, reviews, or messages on our social media pages, that information becomes visible to us and potentially to other users, depending on the platform’s settings and your own privacy settings.

Important Note: We do not offer a “single-sign-on” service for our website using social media accounts (e.g., “Login with Facebook”). Our website operates independently from direct social media account logins.

The data collection and processing practices of social media platforms are primarily governed by their own privacy policies. We strongly encourage you to review the privacy policies of the social media platforms you use to understand their data practices and manage your privacy settings:

• Facebook Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
• X (formerly Twitter) Privacy Policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy
• Instagram Privacy Policy: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107815
• YouTube Privacy Policy: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms (also links to Google’s Privacy Policy)

12. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last updated” date at the top of this policy.

We will inform you via email and/or a prominent notice on our Site prior to the change becoming effective, and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

13. Effective Date and Contact Information

Effective Date:
This Privacy Policy is effective as of June 29, 2025.

Contact Us:
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your privacy rights, or our data practices, please contact us at:

Email: social@playersforlife.com
Website Contact Form: https://www.playersforlife.com/contact-us