Last Updated: March 15, 2022
Thank you for accessing the Masters Fantasy Leagues™ website located at www.mastersfantasyleagues.com (the “Site”). The Site is owned and operated by Masters Fantasy Leagues . Com, LLC (“Masters Fantasy Leagues™,” “we,” “our” or “us”).
This Masters Fantasy Leagues™ Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) covers our treatment of personal information and other information that we collect when end-users (“users,” “you” or “your”): (a) access or use the Site; (b) access links to Masters Fantasy Leagues’™ social media pages/accounts located on third party social media websites (“Social Media Websites”), such as Facebook®, Twitter® and YouTube® (collectively, “Social Media Pages”); (c) access and/or download the podcasts made available on the Site (“Podcasts”); and/or (d) register as a user (“User”) of the Site, which provides Users with access to: (i) the Site’s viewable Content (as defined below) and other material; (ii) certain message boards, comments sections and other interactive features of the Site (collectively, “Interactive Services”); and (iii) an array of season-long fantasy sports-based games, as well as games that last for the duration of the playoffs, involving players from professional football and baseball (collectively, “Contests,” and together with the Site, Social Media Pages, Podcasts, Interactive Services and Content, the “Site Offerings”). Please note, if you are a resident of a European Union Member State, you are not permitted to use the Site and/or Site Offerings.
Capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Masters Fantasy Leagues™ Website Terms and Conditions (“Terms”). IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY IN THEIR ENTIRETY, YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR OTHERWISE USE THE SITE OFFERINGS.
Facebook® is a registered trademark of Facebook, Inc. (“Facebook”). Twitter® is a registered trademark of Twitter, Inc. (“Twitter”). YouTube® is a registered trademark of Google, Inc. (“Google”). Please be advised that Masters Fantasy Leagues™ is not in any way affiliated with Facebook, Google or Twitter, and the Site Offerings are not endorsed, administered or sponsored by Facebook, Google or Twitter.
Your California Privacy Rights
If you are a resident of the State of California and would like to learn how your “personal information” (as defined in the Shine the Light Law, Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.83) is shared with third parties, what categories of personal information we have shared with third parties in the preceding year, as well as the names and addresses of those third parties, please e-mail us at: masters@mastersfantasyleagues.com; call us at: 330-316-5115; or send us U.S. Mail to: Attn: Masters Fantasy Leagues, 3465 Arlington Road, E#159, Akron, OH 44312.
Further, if you are a resident of the State of California and would like to opt-out from the disclosure of your personal information to any third-party for marketing purposes, please e-mail us at: masters@mastersfantasyleagues.com; call us at: 330-316-5115; or send us U.S. Mail to: Attn: Masters Fantasy Leagues, 3465 Arlington Road, E#159, Akron, OH 44312.
Your Nevada Privacy Rights
If you are a resident of the State of Nevada and would like to opt-out from the sale of your personal information to any third party data broker, please e-mail us at: masters@mastersfantasyleagues.com; call us at: 330-316-5115; or send us U.S. Mail to: Attn: Masters Fantasy Leagues, 3465 Arlington Road, E#159, Akron, OH 44312.
Personal Information Collected
For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “personal information” shall mean individually identifiable information from or about an individual. We collect personal information when you access certain of the Site Offerings and complete the required information request Form(s) and/or otherwise provide such information to us. The information that you must supply on the Form(s) may include, without limitation: (a) your full name; (b) e-mail address; (c) billing/mailing address; (d) date of birth; (e) credit card information; and/or (f) any other information requested on the applicable Form. Further, Prize winners may be required to provide: (i) their Social Security Numbers; and (ii) picture proof of identification, which may include a driver’s license, passport, voting card or similar government issued identification.
Please be advised that items (e), (i) and (ii) in the preceding paragraph shall be referred to as “Sensitive Information.”
Age Verification
Masters Fantasy Leagues™ uses third-party service providers, such as Electronic Verification Systems, LLC, for age and identity verification during the Account creation process. Masters Fantasy Leagues™ may share your personal information with its third-party age and identity verification service providers for the sole purpose of verifying that you are of a suitable age to use the Site Offerings, and are not attempting to open an Account under a false identity. We do not authorize these third-party service providers to use your personal information for any other purposes.
Geolocation Verification
Masters Fantasy Leagues™ uses third-party service providers to monitor the IP addresses of end-users to ensure that such end-users are not physically located within the borders of any state or territory in which users are not permitted to access and use the Site Offerings. These third-party service providers may have access to the IP address of your computer and/or mobile device, as well as certain personal information, for the sole purpose of verifying that you are not located in a restricted territory.
Use and Sharing of Personal Information
Masters Fantasy Leagues™ will never share, sell, rent, exchange or barter your personal information to or with any third party for financial gain or marketing purposes. By making that personal information available to Masters Fantasy Leagues™, you grant Masters Fantasy Leagues™ the right, subject to applicable law, to use that personal information to contact you regarding your use of the Site Offerings, Masters Fantasy Leagues™ products and/or services and/or third-party products and/or services that we think may be of interest to you. If you wish to stop receiving future communications from us, please follow the instructions at the end of each such e-mail message or see the “Opt-Out/Unsubscribe” section below.
We may also employ third parties and individuals to perform certain functions on our behalf, including helping us operate the Site Offerings and/or to administer related activities on our behalf. Examples include payment processing, sending direct and electronic mail, removing duplicate information from user lists, analyzing data and providing marketing analysis. The agents performing these limited functions on our behalf shall have access to our users’ personal information as needed to perform their functions for us, but we do not permit them to use user personal information for other purposes.
We will also use your personal information for customer service, to provide you with information that you may request, to customize your experience with the Site and/or to contact you when necessary in connection with transactions entered into by you through the Site Offerings. We may also use your personal information for internal business purposes, such as analyzing and managing our business. We may also combine the information we have gathered about you with information from other sources.
By registering via the Site, you agree that such act constitutes an inquiry and/or application for purposes of the Amended Telemarketing Sales Rule (16 CFR §310 et seq.), as amended from time to time (the “Rule”) and applicable state do-not-call regulations. As such, notwithstanding that your telephone number may be listed on the Federal Trade Commission’s Do-Not-Call List, and/or on applicable state do-not-call lists, we retain the right to contact you via telemarketing in accordance with the Rule and applicable state do-not-call regulations.
Where you provide “prior express consent” within the meaning of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (47 USC § 227), and its implementing regulations adopted by the Federal Communications Commission (47 CFR § 64.1200), as amended from time-to-time (“TCPA“), you consent to receive telephone calls from Masters Fantasy Leagues™, including artificial voice calls, pre-recorded messages and/or calls (including SMS text messages) delivered via automated technology, to the telephone number(s) that you provided. Please note that you are not required to provide this consent in order to obtain access to the Site Offerings, and your consent simply allows Masters Fantasy Leagues™ to contact you via these means. Please be advised that by agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you are obligated to immediately inform us if and when the telephone number that you have previously provided to us changes. Without limiting the foregoing, if you: (a) have your telephone number reassigned to another person or entity; (b) give up your telephone number so that it is no longer used by you; (c) port your telephone number to a landline or vice versa; or (d) otherwise stop using that telephone number for any reason (collectively “Phone Number Change”), you agree that you shall promptly notify Masters Fantasy Leagues™ of the Phone Number Change via e-Mail at: masters@mastersfantasyleagues.com, or by using one of the methods set forth in the “Contact Us” section below.
We also reserve the right to release current or past users’ information (including Sensitive Information) in the event that we believe that the user is using, or has used, the Site Offerings: (i) in violation of the Terms, this Privacy Policy or any other of our operating rules, policies, price schedules and other supplemental terms and conditions or documents that may be published by us from time to time; (ii) to commit unlawful acts; (iii) if such information is subpoenaed; provided, however, that, where permitted by applicable law, we shall provide you with e-mail notice, and opportunity to challenge the subpoena, prior to disclosure of any personal information pursuant to a subpoena; (iv) if we are sold, merge with a third-party or are acquired by a third-party (collectively, “M&A Transactions”) (including where we share your personal information in connection with the due diligence process associated with a potential M&A Transaction); (iv) if we are the subject of bankruptcy proceedings; provided, however, that if Masters Fantasy Leagues™ is involved in a bankruptcy proceeding and/or M&A Transaction, you will be notified via e-mail and/or a prominent notice on the Site of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices that you may have regarding your personal information; and/or (v) when we deem it necessary or appropriate including, without limitation, sharing your e-mail address with other third parties for suppression purposes in compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, as amended from time to time, and Federal Trade Commission implementing regulations.
Non-Personal Information Collection and Use
Computer IP Addresses/Browser Type We may collect certain non-personally identifiable information about you and your desktop computer when you visit many of the pages of the Site. This non-personally identifiable information includes, without limitation, the type of browser that you use (e.g., Safari, Chrome, Internet Explorer), your IP address, the type of operating system that you use (e.g., Windows or iOS) and the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., Verizon, AT&T). We use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of the Site Offerings and to enable us to personalize your Internet experience. We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze usage of the Site Offerings.
Cookies
When a user visits the Site, we send one (1) or more cookies and/or gif files (collectively, “Cookies”) to assign an anonymous, unique identifier to the applicable user’s computer and/or mobile device, as applicable. A Cookie is a piece of data stored on your hard drive containing non-personally identifiable information about you. Cookies have many benefits to enhance your experience on the Site, as applicable. To find out more about Cookies, please visit www.cookiecentral.com. We use Cookies to improve the quality of the Site Offerings, including for storing user preferences and tracking Site usage (such as pages opened and length of stay at the Site, as applicable).
Most Internet browsers are initially set up to accept Cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. To disable and reject certain Cookies, follow the instructions associated with your Internet browser. To manage Flash Cookies, please click here: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html. Even in the case where a user rejects a Cookie, he or she may still use the Site Offerings; provided, however, that certain functions of the Site Offerings may be impaired or rendered inoperable if the use of Cookies is disabled. We reserve the right to retain Cookie data indefinitely.
Behavioral Tracking
Masters Fantasy Leagues™ and its third-party partners use Cookies, pixels and other tracking technology (collectively, “Tracking Technology”) to analyze trends, administer the Site, track users’ movements around the Site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. In addition, we partner with third-parties to use Tracking Technology in connection with the display of advertising on the Site and to manage the serving of our advertising on other websites. Our third-party partners may use Tracking Technology to gather information about your activities on the Site and other websites in order to provide you with advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests.
If you wish to opt-out of having this information used for the purpose of serving you interest-based ads, you may opt-out by emailing your request to: masters@mastersfantasyleagues.com. In addition, users may be able to disable some, but not all, of this tracking activity by utilizing the “Do Not Track” setting or similar options within most major Internet browsers. Further, users may be able to opt-out of this form of tracking utilizing the options made available by the Network Advertising Initiative or Digital Advertising Alliance. Please note that opting out of this tracking activity does not opt you out of being served advertising. Even where you opt out of this tracking activity, you will continue to receive generic ads.
Cross Device Tracking
Masters Fantasy Leagues™ tracks users’ use of the Site Offerings across various devices, including your personal computer and mobile device, in order to optimize and personalize your Site Offerings experience. Masters Fantasy Leagues™ may collect certain of your personal information across various devices. If you would like to opt-out of having your use of the Site Offerings tracked across multiple devices, please e-mail us at: masters@mastersfantasyleagues.com. Please be advised that where you opt-out of having your use of the Site Offerings tracked across devices, you may need to upload certain information multiple times and/or input your log-in information multiple times.
Aggregate Data
Masters Fantasy Leagues™ reserves the right to transfer and/or sell aggregate or group data about users of the Site Offerings for lawful purposes. Aggregate or group data is data that describes the demographics, usage and other characteristics of users as a group, without disclosing personally identifiable information.
Credit and/or Debit Card Transactions
Masters Fantasy Leagues™ utilizes third-party service providers to provide credit and debit card payment processing services. If you choose to purchase entry into a Contest, the credit or debit card information provided will be shared with our contracted third-party payment processing service provider(s). Masters Fantasy Leagues™ requires that its third-party payment processing service provider(s) has/have in place privacy policies and practices consistent with this Privacy Policy; provided, however, that we cannot guarantee the privacy practices of our third-party payment processing service provider(s).
Interactive Services and Social Media Websites
If you engage in any interaction with Masters Fantasy Leagues™, other Users or any third-party via the Interactive Services and/or by and through any Social Media Pages, you should be aware that: (a) the personal information that you submit by and through such Interactive Services and/or Social Media Pages can be read, collected and/or used by other users of these websites/services (depending on your privacy settings associated with your accounts with the applicable Social Media Websites), and could be used to send you unsolicited messages or otherwise to contact you without your consent or desire; and (b) where Masters Fantasy Leagues™ responds to any interaction on such Social Media Pages, your account name/handle may be viewable by any and all members/users of Masters Fantasy Leagues’™ social media accounts. We are not responsible for the personal information that you choose to submit via Interactive Services and/or any Social Media Websites.
The Social Media Websites operate independently from Masters Fantasy Leagues™, and we are not responsible for such Social Media Websites’ interfaces or privacy or security practices. Your interactions with the Social Media Pages are governed by the privacy policies of the applicable Social Media Websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies and settings of the Social Media Pages with which you interact to help you understand those Social Media Websites’ respective privacy practices. If you have questions about the security and privacy settings of any Social Media Pages that you use, please refer to the applicable Social Media Website’s privacy notices or policies.
Third-Party Websites
The Site may contain links to third-party owned and/or operated websites including, without limitation, Social Media Websites and Podcast download venues. Masters Fantasy Leagues™ is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. In some cases, you may be able to make a purchase through one of these third-party websites. In these instances, you may be required to provide certain information, such as a credit card number, to register or complete a transaction at such website. These third-party websites have separate privacy and data collection practices and Masters Fantasy Leagues™ has no responsibility or liability relating to them.
Security of Your Personal Information
We endeavor to safeguard and protect our users’ personal information. When users make personal information available to us, their personal information is protected both online and offline (to the extent that we maintain any personal information offline). Where our registration/application process prompts users to enter Sensitive Information, and when we store and transmit such Sensitive Information, that information is encrypted with advanced TLS (Transport Layer Security).
Access to your personal information is strictly limited, and we take reasonable security measures to ensure that your personal information is not accessible to the public. All of our users’ personal information is restricted in our offices, as well as the offices of our third-party service providers. Only employees or third-party agents who need user personal information to perform a specific job are granted access to user personal information. Our employees are dedicated to ensuring the security and privacy of all users personal information. Employees not adhering to our firm policies are subject to disciplinary action. The servers that we store user personal information on are kept in a secure physical environment. We also have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of personal information under our control.
Please be advised, however, that while we take every reasonable precaution available to protect your data, no storage facility, technology, software, security protocols or data transmission over the Internet or via wireless networks can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Computer hackers that circumvent our security measures may gain access to certain portions of your personal information, and technological bugs, errors and glitches may cause inadvertent disclosures of your personal information; provided, however, that any attempt to breach the security of the network, our servers, databases or other hardware or software may constitute a crime punishable by law. For the reasons mentioned above, we cannot warrant that your personal information will be absolutely secure. Any transmission of data by and/or through the Site, other Site Offerings or otherwise via the Internet or wireless networks, is done at your own risk.
In compliance with applicable federal and state laws, we shall notify you and any applicable regulatory agencies in the event that we learn of an information security breach with respect to your personal information. You will be notified via e-mail in the event of such a breach. Please be advised that notice may be delayed in order to address the needs of law enforcement, determine the scope of network damage, and to engage in remedial measures.
Children’s Privacy
The Site is not intended for individuals under eighteen (18) years of age, nineteen (19) years of age for residents of Alabama and Nebraska, or twenty-one (21) years of age for residents of Massachusetts (collectively, the “Permissible Age”). No one under the Permissible Age may provide any information to or on the Site. We do not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under the Permissible Age. If you are under the Permissible Age, do not use or provide any information on the Site or through any of its features, register on the Site, make any purchases or solicitations through the Site, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user-name you may use. If we learn that we have collected or received personal information from an individual under the Permissible Age, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about an individual under the Permissible Age, please contact us at the email address listed at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.
Opt-Out/Unsubscribe
To opt-out of receiving e-mail and other forms of communication from us, you can: (a) follow the instructions included in the applicable e-mail message or other communication; or (b) e-mail us at: masters@mastersfantasyleagues.com.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, we may continue to contact you for the purpose of communicating information relating to your use of Site Offerings, as well as to respond to any inquiry or request made by you. To opt-out of receiving Site Offerings-related and/or inquiry response-related messages from Masters Fantasy Leagues™, you must cease requesting and/or utilizing the Site Offerings and/or cease submitting inquiries to Masters Fantasy Leagues™, as applicable.
Deleting, Modifying and Updating Your Information
At your request, we will: (a) inform you of what personal information we have on file for you; (b) amend the personal information that we have on file for you; and/or (c) remove personal information that you have provided to us, or that we have otherwise collected. You may do so by e-mailing us at: masters@mastersfantasyleagues.com. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes).
Please be advised that deleting your personal information may terminate your access to certain of the Site Offerings. If you wish to continue using the full complement of Site Offerings, you may not be able to delete all of the personal information that we have on file for you.
Please be further advised that, after you delete your personal information, residual copies may take a period of time before they are deleted from our active servers and may remain in our backup systems.
Transfer of Personal Information Internationally
If you are visiting the Site from a country other than the country in which our servers are located, your communications with us may result in the transfer of information across international boundaries. By visiting the Site and/or otherwise communicating electronically with us, as applicable, you consent to such transfers. Even if your jurisdiction does not have the same privacy laws as the jurisdiction where our servers are located, we will treat your information as subject to the protections described in this Privacy Policy.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Masters Fantasy Leagues™ reserves the right to change or update this Privacy Policy at any time by posting a notice on the Site that we are changing our Privacy Policy or by changing the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy. If the manner in which we use personal information changes, Masters Fantasy Leagues™ will notify users by: (a) sending the modified Privacy Policy to our users via e-mail; and/or (b) any other reasonable means acceptable under applicable state and federal law. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner, and we will only use your information in this different manner where you opt-in to such use.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices in general, you may: e-mail us at: masters@mastersfantasyleagues.com; call us at: 330-316-5115; or send us U.S. Mail to: Attn: Masters Fantasy Leagues, 3465 Arlington Road, E#159, Akron, OH 44312. Filing a Complaint with the Federal Trade Commission To file a complaint regarding our privacy practices, please Click Here.
