Privacy Policy

The Global Sports Network is a top global sports media and entertainment network that offers audiences around the world premium content and experiences in sports like soccer/football, cricket, wrestling, live events, blogs, and more.
We know how important it is to protect your personal information. This privacy policy explains our practices — and your choices — on how we collect, use, and share your information when you interact with any of our services. These services include our streaming services, mobile and online applications or other products or services of our brands, websites, live events, content or advertisements, and customer service tools. Depending on the Global Sports Network offering or how you interact with us, there may be additional notices about our practices and your choices.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

We collect your information throughout the registration process for our services. We also collect data regarding how you utilize our services. Also, we may obtain information about you from third parties. This information can be used to identify or link you or your device.

INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE

Registration information

When you sign up for our services, enter or participate in our contests, giveaways or competitions, sweepstakes, and promotions, or attend one of our events, we may collect the information you provide, such as your name, email address, and phone number. For some of our services, we may collect certain demographic data, such as age and gender.

Billing and payment information

We may collect payment and identity verification information, such as your name, email address, physical address, and payment method, when you purchase a product, subscription, or event ticket from us.

Information and content you post

We may collect information such as your username, screen name, comments, likes, interests, status, and photos when you post or share comments or other content while using our services. We may also collect audio or visual content, such as images, videos, or recordings, that you choose to publish while using our services, or when you provide us access to your camera or microphone when utilising interactive elements of our services.

Market research

When we conduct or sponsor market research activities — such as surveys and product testing — we may collect the information you provide, such as your name, email address, and certain demographic data, such as your age, gender, race, and ethnicity.

Your messages and feedback

We may collect the information you provide when you contact us directly or provide feedback, comments, or suggestions on our services.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT AUTOMATICALLY

We may automatically collect or receive some information associated with you or your devices, such as your computer, mobile device, gaming system, smart Televisions, or other streaming devices, when you use our services, including on third-party platforms. We may automatically collect information regarding your usage of our services, your choices, and your interaction with our content. Also, it may contain device identifiers such as IP address (including approximate location information), advertising ID, cookie ID, media access control (MAC) address, and other unique identifiers. We may gather this information automatically using device-based tracking technologies such as cookies, pixels, tags, beacons, and scripts. Please visit “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies” for more information about tracking technologies.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION AND WHY

We may process your personal information to provide you with the “The Global Sports” services you request, as part of our agreement with you, or to maintain our relationship with you. We also may process your personal information for legitimate business purposes, or where the law requires or permits us to do so. We will ask for your consent beforehand if we need it to process your personal information.

LEGAL OBLIGATIONS AND PERMISSIONS

We may use your personal information to comply with our legal obligations, including performing accounting and tax-related obligations, and responding to government and judicial requests.

We also may process your personal information when the law otherwise permits.

YOUR CONSENT

We will ask for your consent beforehand if we need it to process your personal information.

WHO WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH AND WHY

We may disclose the categories of personal information we collect about you (as mentioned in the preceding section) with the categories of third parties listed in this section. Your information may be shared within the Paramount family of companies, with our service providers, and with our business partners (including providing advertising based on your interests). Your information may also be shared with sponsors and other partners for events, prizes, sweepstakes, and promotions.

We may disclose your personal information as part of a business transaction, to fulfil our legal requirements, or to protect ourselves.

If you request it, we will share your personal information with third parties.

We may disclose your information for purposes beyond those outlined in this policy. We will inform you beforehand.

SERVICE PROVIDERS

We may share your information with organisations and individuals who execute services on our behalf or provide us with specific services. Professional advisors, business support services, customer support providers, web hosting providers, information technology providers, payment processors, event service providers, direct mail and email distribution service providers, partners supporting our contests, sweepstakes, giveaways, and promotions, as well as analytics and market research services are among these providers. These service providers may only use your personal information to assist us in offering you our services and for no other reason.

BUSINESS PARTNERS

We may share your information with business partners engaged in marketing, audience measurement, co-branded services or events, and digital content distribution. These business partners utilise the information we provide according to their own privacy rules.

Also, we may share your information with sponsors, prize partners, and others who support our events, contests, giveaways, and promotions. To deliver prizes, for instance, we may share your information with prize partners.

ADVERTISERS

We may share your information with third parties in order to offer and measure interest-based advertising. Advertisers, ad agencies, advertising networks, identity partners, platforms, and publishers are examples of these third parties. We may occasionally share segmented or bespoke audience data with third parties for the purposes of marketing and data enrichment. Please check “Cookies and other tracking technologies” for more information about your advertising preferences.

LEGAL ADVISORS AND OTHERS

We may share your information with our legal and tax advisors, insurers, law enforcement, judicial and other government bodies, and others if we believe it is necessary to comply with the law, the legal process, to respond to legal claims, or to protect our rights, the property, or the personal safety of our users, employees, or the general public.

OTHER THIRD PARTIES

We will share your information with other third parties upon your request, such as when you participate in a third-party-operated interactive service.

YOUR CHOICES, RIGHTS, AND CONTROLS

You may have certain rights and choices regarding your personal information, such as the ability to ask us for a copy of the information we possess about you. These rights are not available everywhere and may be limited by local legislation. For example, these rights may not be available to you if granting your request might reveal personal information about another person, or if you ask us to erase information which we are obligated by law to maintain.

Your privacy rights

Your rights and how to exercise them

Depending on your location, the following rights may apply to your personal information:

  1. The right to confirm whether and how your personal information is processed.
  2. The right to request access to and a copy of the information we hold about you, as well as information on how your personal information is processed.
  3. The right to object to or limit our use of your personal data.
  4. The right to request that your personal information be erased or removed.
  5. The right to correct, modify, or update your personal data.
  6. The right to request that we transfer your personal information to a different organisation or third party.
  7. The right to withdraw consent for the processing of personal data.

You may also have rights if you have interacted with us in a commercial capacity (such as as a vendor, partner, or client).

OPT OUT OF RECEIVING MARKETING MESSAGES

o stop receiving our promotional messages, follow the instructions in any marketing message you get from us. In some cases, such as if you have a registered account, you can also change your preferences in your account. Even if you opt out of getting marketing messages, we may still send you important non-marketing messages about your account, the services you requested, or any purchases you make.

When you use any of our services that send push notifications or offers to your mobile device, you can change your preferences through the settings on your mobile device and/or in the applicable mobile service.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

In general, children are not meant to use the services covered by this privacy policy. Our child-centric services are instead covered by our Children’s Privacy Policy. If channels are accessible through our general audience services or in portions of these services that are geared towards children, we gather only the minimum amount of personal information permitted by law. We may collect IP addresses, device identifiers, unique ID numbers, and limited viewing data. We do not use (or permit our partners to use) this information for any purpose other than to support our internal operations, such as providing children with access to features and activities on our services, customizing content and enhancing our services, serving contextual advertising, or limiting the frequency with which a particular advertisement is displayed. We do not permit interest-based advertising on areas of our services aimed to children or where we know the user is a kid or teen.

COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

Using the browser- or device-based tracking technologies described below, we may automatically receive certain information about you and your device. These technologies enable us to ensure the proper operation of our services, enhance our services, provide and measure adverts, and present you with personalised information.

You can manage the use of these tracking technologies by altering the settings on your device or browser, and in certain countries, by selecting your preferences in a consent management solution. In certain instances, you can opt out of tracking by our analytics partners by directly accessing their opt-out pages.

TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES AND PURPOSES
  • Cookies: Cookies are small data files stored on your browser or device. They may be served by the entity that operates the website you are visiting (“first-party cookies”) or by other companies (“third-party cookies”).
  • Local Storage: Local storage allows data about your browser or device to be stored locally on your browser or device and includes HTML5 local storage and browser cache.
  • Pixels: Pixels are small images on a web page or in an email. Pixels collect information about your browser or device and can set cookies on your browser.
  • SDKs: SDKs (also known as “software development kits”) are blocks of code, typically provided by our partners, that may be installed in our applications. SDKs may help us understand how you interact with our applications and may collect information about the device and network you use to access our applications, such as the advertising ID associated with your device or information about how you interact with our applications.

The purposes for which we and our partners use cookies and similar technologies generally fall into the following categories:

  • Strictly Necessary:Examples include carrying out or facilitating the transmission of communications over a network, and technologies that are strictly necessary to provide an online service (e.g., our website or a service on our website).
  • Functional:Examples include helping ensure our services function correctly, remembering your settings and preferences (such as your language preferences), helping to identify and prevent security risks, or helping us understand and improve our services.
  • Performance:Examples include collecting information about how you interact with our services and personalizing content for you.
  • Targeting:Examples include making advertising more relevant and meaningful to you. These may also include “social cookies,” which enable you to share content with your friends on social media platforms, such as Facebook or Twitter.

Providing children with access to features and activities on those services.

Customizing content and improve those services.

Serve contextual advertising and limiting how often you or your child see a particular advertisement on those services.

MANAGING COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

Consent management solution

Depending on where you live, you can manage your preferences via our consent management solution on the relevant mobile or online application. Please note that when you use these tools, you need to renew your choices each time you clear your cookies, use a new browser or device, or visit a different Paramount service.

Browser controls

Although most browsers and devices accept cookies by default, their settings usually allow you to clear and decline cookies. Web browsers often store your preferences in a cookie. Blocking cookies may prevent the services from operating as expected and may also prevent storing your preferences and choices.

Below are links to the cookie opt-out pages of common web browsers. If your web browser is not listed here, you should review your web browser terms to learn more about your cookie choices.

Analytics provider opt-outs

To opt out of certain tracking by our analytics providers, you may visit the links below:

PROTECTING YOUR INFORMATION

We have established commercially reasonable technical, administrative, and physical security measures meant to protect your personal information against loss, misuse, unauthorized access, and alteration.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

We may update this privacy policy based on new technologies, industry practices, regulatory requirements, or for other purposes. We will let you know if these changes are material and, where required by applicable law, we will obtain your consent. When updating you about any material changes, we may email you at the last email address you provided, post a notice on our websites or applications, or by any other means permitted by applicable law.

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