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Privacy Policy

Roy is proud to bring athletes and fans together through our NIL marketplace services. This Privacy Policy explains the types of information Roy collects through your access and use of our NIL marketplace platform on our website located at joinroy.com and application (including via a mobile device) (collectively, the “Services”).

Please read this Policy carefully to understand the types of personal information we collect about you, how we use and disclose this information, and certain rights you may have with respect such information.

By providing us with information or using the Services, you expressly consent to the information-handling practices described in this Policy. If you do not agree with this Policy, please do not use the Services or provide us with your information.

Important Information About This Policy

While we always aim to provide complete and transparent information about how we process your personal information, we reserve the right to amend or update this Policy from time to time, or to create additional policies, in order to accurately reflect changed circumstances or new legal requirements. As a result, it is important that you read this Policy closely so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your personal information.

To assist us in ensuring that we can provide the most accurate information possible, we ask that you check this Policy for updates. We also ask that, where we have an ongoing relationship with you and any of the data you have provided becomes no longer accurate, you keep us informed of this so we can amend our records accordingly.

Personal Information We May Collect or Receive About You

We collect information you provide directly to us, information from third parties, and information that we collect through automated means.

For the purposes of this Policy, “personal information” is any information that identifies, relates to, or can be used to contact a particular individual. We may collect the following categories of information about you or your use of the Services:

  1. CONTACT INFORMATION: First name, last name, email address, mailing address, billing address, telephone number,
  2. ACCOUNT INFORMATION: If you create an account with us, your username, account password, and account number, and other information that we may request or that you may provide relating to your account, including certain demographic information, such as gender or country of residence.
  3. CAMPAIGN INFORMATION: For athletes who use our Services, your college and university prospects and offer details, the content you create as part of your campaign, such as “behind the scenes” footage or photographs, personal insights videos or messages, and other materials you provide as part of your use of the Services.
  4. TRANSACTIONS INFORMATION: If you are a fan, the details of any transactions you’ve completed with us, including amounts contributed to a campaign, the athletes, colleges, and universities you support, and any special purchases you make or contests you participate in.
  5. FINANCIAL INFORMATION: Information you provide to our third-party payment processor to contribute or receive funds, such as your banking information, contact information such as your phone number, email address, mailing address, and other billing details
  6. COMPLIANCE INFORMATION: Information you provide to us that is used for compliance purposes in connection the transactions we facilitate, such as your government ID, information needed for tax forms, or other information required by our third-payment processor.
  7. MARKETING INFORMATION: Details regarding informational or promotional materials you have requested or received from us, and information on your marketing or communication preferences.
  8. COMMUNICATION INFORMATION: Details of any communications or inquiries you submit to us, including support requests, whether through email, calls, or other features available in our Services.
  9. USER CONTENT: Information you provide in public forums within our Services, or information sent directly to another user via a post or similar functionality, whether the content is a photograph, video, or comment. Note: you are solely responsible for the nature of the content you make available via any public forum features of our Services. We reserve the right to refuse to post or remove any content in our sole discretion.
  10. INTERNET, NETWORK or DEVICE INFORMATION: Information we obtain from a third party, such as a site or platform provider, about the use of our Services, your IP address and device identifier (including in some cases, location), activity information about your use of our Services, such as the content you view or post, how often you use our Services, and your preferences, and other viewing, technical, and device data when you visit our Services, or open emails we send, including your browser or device type.

You may decline to provide us with your information. However, this will limit your ability to register for an account or use our Services. In order to adjust your payment, save payment details for future payments, comment on a campaign, or take most other actions on our Services, you will need to create an account.

How we collect information

  1. We collect information you provide to us when you access and use our Services, (if you are an athlete) engage us to help you run a campaign, (if you are a fan) use our platform to support athletes, colleges, and universities, request information from us, register with us (including when you link your profile on a third-party site or platform with your registration account), participate in public forums or other activities on our sites and applications, respond to user surveys, or otherwise interact with us.
  2. We collect information automatically and instantaneously through a variety of technologies we deploy on our Services, such as cookies, Flash cookies, pixels, tags, gifs, software development kits, application program interfaces, and Web beacons, including when you visit our Services or use our Services, whether or not you are logged in or registered, and whether you access the Services from one or multiple devices or browsers. To learn more about the technologies we employ and the information they collect, please review our Cookie Policy located https://joinroy.com/cookies-policy/. Note: you can manage your cookie consent preferences by using the cookie management tool on the homepage of our website.
  3. We collect information using analytics tools, including when you visit our Services or use our Services. You can find more information about how data is collected and processed in connection with Google Analytics at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites You can also read Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.
  4. We acquire information from other trusted sources to update or supplement the information you provided or we collected automatically, such as when we validate postal address information using third-party services. Applicable law may require that you authorize the third party to share your information with us before we can acquire it.
  5. If you access our Services through a third-party connection or log-in (like a social network),we may collect certain information from your social network profile. For a description of how social networking sites handle your information, please refer to their privacy policies and terms of use.

How we use this information

We (or the service providers acting on our behalf) use the personal information identified above for the following purposes:

  1. To enable us to provide you with our Services, and to improve and promote our Services.
  2. To communicate with you, including responding to inquiries about your account or payments on our Services and send you information or request feedback.
  3. To negotiate, enter into, and manage our relationships with athletes who use our Services.
  4. For our marketing and third-party marketing purposes: to send you targeted offers and promotions for our Services or third-party products and services we or our vendors think you may be interested in.
  5. To personalize the Services, content and experiences of our users.
  6. To operate, understand, optimize, develop, or improve the Services, our sites, applications, products, business and operations, including by performing user market research and using analytics tools.
  7. To manage bug detection and error reporting, troubleshoot issues with the Services and resolve technical issues.
  8. To enforce our agreements with you or our organizational partners, to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, or to defend or advance legal claims.
  9. To audit interactions with and usage of the Services including to measure the placement, frequency, efficacy and compliance of advertising and ad impressions.
  10. For security, fraud, and legal compliance purposes, including to detect, investigate and prevent activities that may violate our policies, harm others, result in a security incident, or be illegal.
  11. To perform other functions described to you at the time of collection or to which you otherwise consent.

We may aggregate and/or anonymize any information collected through the Service so that such information doesn’t directly identify you. (“Aggregate/Anonymous Information”). We may use Aggregate/Anonymous Information for any purpose and share such data with any third parties, including advertisers.

Disclosure of your information

We may disclose your information to the following types of persons for the purposes described above:

  1. Other Users: We provide a platform where fans can contribute to athlete campaigns and where athletes can share content with fans. Note, your participation in our marketplace necessarily requires that we may certain information you provide with other users of the platform. For example, when you contribute to a campaign, the campaign owner (the athlete) will receive information about your contribution so that the campaign owner can, for example, send you perks. Please note that once we share your personal information with a campaign owner, the information received by the campaign owner is controlled by that company and becomes subject to the campaign owner’s privacy practices.
  2. Our Service Providers: We disclose personal information to those service providers we use to facilitate our business operations and administer the Services. For example, our IT providers, website hosting providers, and vendors we use to facilitate and process payments.
  3. Financial Services Vendors: We disclose certain types of payment information to necessary third parties for compliance purposes, such as payment processing or identity verification. For those who create a campaign, we may disclose information to necessary third parties for financial compliance purposes, such as preparing for campaign disbursement or sending you tax forms.
  4. Our Affiliates and Partners: We may disclose your information to carefully selected companies so that they can send you offers and promotions about their products and services. We may also disclose your personal information with third-party sites or platforms, such as social networking sites. Please note that once we disclose your personal information to another company, the information received by the other company is controlled by that company and becomes subject to the other company’s privacy practices.
  5. Marketing and Analytics Vendors: We may disclose your personal information to marketing and advertising vendors that may assist with lead generation, hosting information relating to customers and business partners and potential customers or business partners, marketing automation, advertisement placement and targeting, and marketing campaigns and communications, or analytics vendors in order to understand our Services traffic and usage patterns, optimize our Services, and identify potential new users.
  6. Corporate Transaction: We may disclose your personal information to third parties in connection with the actual or proposed sale of a business prior to or in the event of a merger, acquisition, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as a part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, where the information is among the assets being transferred.
  7. Regulatory and Legal Processes: We may disclose your personal information to enforce our Terms of Service, Community Guidelines, or other rules, to ensure the safety and security of our users and third parties, to protect our rights and property and the rights and property of our users and third parties, to comply with legal process (including to comply with national security or law enforcement requirements), or in other cases if we believe in good faith that disclosure is required by law.
  8. With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information with your consent, such as when you post personal information on public forums or blogs accessible to third parties.

We may also disclose Aggregate/Anonymous Information to third parties for research, marketing, analytics and other purposes.

Your controls and choices

We respect your right to make choices about the ways we collect, use, and disclose your information, so we try to offer you meaningful choices regarding your personal information. Some choices you have regarding personal information include the following.

  • Account Management – You can correct or update the information relating to your account by accessing your account settings. You can also use features in our Services to request the removal of any content you publish on our platform.
  • Marketing Emails – As required by applicable laws, you can opt-out of receiving promotional emails from us by clicking the “opt out,” “unsubscribe,” or similar link in any such promotional emails and following the instructions provided.
  • Cookies – Depending on your browser or device, you may have the option to set the browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, notify you when a cookie is set, or delete cookies. Each browser and device are different, so we recommend you evaluate the tools and settings available in your browser or device, as well as any available instructions for the same. Please note that if you disable or delete cookies, you may not be able to access or use certain features of the Services. Please also note that disabling cookies may not affect how pixels, tags, and web beacons function. Those technologies may still collect your personal information. To learn more, review our Cookie Policy HERE.
  • Analytics – As discussed above, we use analytics tools in connection with the Services. If you would like to refrain from having your data collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed an opt-out browser that you can use at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-US. You can find more information on how Google uses information it collects at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
  • Interest-Based Advertising – To opt-out of personalized or interest-based advertisements, you may be able to adjust the settings on your device. Please go to your device settings and opt-out through the controls provided through Google/Android or iOS, as applicable. Each operating system, iOS for Apple phones, Android for Android devices and Windows for Microsoft devices, has its own instructions on how to prevent the delivery of interest-based advertisements. (We cannot guarantee that these instructions will not change, or that they will continue to be available; they are controlled by each mobile platform, not us.). For any other devices and/or operating systems, please visit the privacy settings for the applicable device or contact the applicable platform operator. Users can opt out of Google’s use of cookies for advertising, including DoubleClick cookies, by visiting Google’s Ads Settings page. Users can opt out of third-party advertising cookies from a wide range of advertising services, including Google, by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative’s Opt-Out page. You can also visit https://optout.aboutads.info for more information about how to opt out of interest-based advertisements.
  • Declining to Provide Information – You can choose not to provide us with information we may request through our Services, but that may result in you being unable to use certain features of our Services, request information about us, or initiate other transactions with us.
  • Do Not Track Mechanisms – Please note that our Services do not honor “Do Not Track” signals, and such signals will not impact the operation of the Services.

Please be aware that if you do not allow us to collect personal information from you, we may not be able to deliver certain experiences, products, and services to you, and some of our Services may not be able to take account of your interests and preferences. If you have questions about the specific personal information about you that we process or retain, and your rights regarding that personal information, please contact us at support@joinroy.com.

Third-party websites

You should be aware that when you provide information to us using a third-party site or platform (e.g., a social media platform), the information you provide may be separately collected by the third-party site or platform and is subject to the third-party site or platform’s privacy practices.

Please also keep in mind that our Services may contain links to other sites not owned or controlled by us and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our Services and to read the policies of other sites that may collect your personal information.

How we protect your information

We have implemented technical, administrative, and physical security measures that are designed to protect YOUR information from unauthorized access, disclosure, use, and modification. However, please be aware that despite our best efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. No data transmission over the internet is 100% secure; we cannot ensure or warranty the security of the information you provide to us and you do so at your own risk.

Nevada Residents

Under Nevada law, certain Nevada consumers may opt out of the sale of “covered information” for monetary consideration to a person for that person to license or sell such information to additional persons. “Covered information” includes first and last name, address, email address, phone number, Social Security Number, or an identifier that allows a specific person to be contacted either physically or online. We do not engage in such activity; however, if you are a Nevada resident who has purchased or leased goods or services from us, you may submit a request to opt out of any potential future sales under Nevada law by emailing us .

California Residents

California Civil Code § 1798.83 (California’s Shine the Light Act) permits California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. If you are a California resident, you may ask us to refrain from sharing your personal information with certain of our affiliates and other third parties for their direct marketing purposes. Please tell us your preference by contacting us at the contact information below.

Children’s privacy

People under 13 (or the legal age in your jurisdiction) are not permitted to use Roy on their own. Roy does not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 13 and children under 13 are not permitted to register for an account or use our Services. If you believe that a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us at support@joinroy.com. If we become aware that a child under age 13 has provided us with personally identifiable information, we will delete it.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

From time to time, we may change this privacy policy to accommodate new technologies, industry practices, regulatory requirements or for other purposes. If there are changes to our Policy, we will post them here and update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this document. Continued use of the Services after any changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes. Accordingly, we encourage you to check this Privacy Policy periodically for updates.

Contact us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of our Services, or your dealings with our Services, please contact us at support@joinroy.com.