BWBL (“we,” “our,” or “us”) values your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy & Legal page explains how we collect, use, store, and protect your information when you visit our website, register for an event, subscribe to our newsletter, or otherwise interact with our services. By using this website, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy and agree to the practices described below.

Information We Collect
Depending on how you use our website, we may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide, including your name, email address, phone number, city, tournament registration details, and any information submitted through contact forms, registration forms, newsletter subscriptions, sponsorship inquiries, partnership requests, or media inquiries.

When participating in BWBL tournaments, we may also collect event-related information such as tournament division, scores, rankings, standings, participation history, city affiliation, player photographs, and other competition-related information necessary to administer events and publish tournament results.

Certain technical information is collected automatically whenever you visit our website. This may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring website, pages viewed, time spent on pages, device information, and general website usage statistics.

How We Use Your Information
The information we collect helps us operate and improve the BWBL platform. We use your information to manage tournament registrations, communicate important event updates, publish schedules and results, maintain participant profiles, respond to inquiries, improve website functionality, analyze website performance, provide customer support, and send newsletters or promotional communications where you have provided consent. We may also use anonymous or aggregated data for statistical analysis and to improve our tournaments, services, and user experience.

Tournament Registration
Tournament registrations are processed through our third-party ticketing provider, Ticket Tailor. Payment information is securely processed through their supported payment providers and is never stored on BWBL’s servers.

When you register for an event, registration information may be transferred between Ticket Tailor, Google Sheets, and our website to automate participant management, create player profiles, update tournament information, and display event participation where appropriate.

Participant Profiles & Public Information
As part of operating a competitive bowling league, certain participant information may be publicly displayed on our website. This may include your name, city, tournament participation, rankings, scores, standings, event history, profile photograph (where applicable), and other competition-related information.

This information is published to provide tournament transparency, recognize participant achievements, maintain historical records, and support community engagement. If you believe any publicly displayed information is inaccurate, please contact us for review.

Newsletter Communications
If you subscribe to our newsletter, we may send tournament announcements, registration reminders, league news, promotional updates, event schedules, sponsor announcements, and other information related to BWBL. You may unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link included in our emails.

Cookies
Our website uses cookies and similar technologies to improve functionality, remember user preferences, analyze visitor behavior, and enhance your browsing experience. Cookies may also be used for website analytics, performance monitoring, security, and marketing purposes. Most browsers allow you to disable or manage cookies through your browser settings. Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect website functionality.

Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with our website. Analytics data helps us improve website performance, identify popular content, monitor visitor trends, and optimize user experience.

Google Analytics may collect information such as device type, browser information, pages visited, approximate geographic location, and session duration. This information is generally aggregated and does not personally identify individual users.

Third-Party Services
Our website integrates with various third-party platforms that assist in providing our services. These may include Ticket Tailor for tournament registrations, payment processors for secure payments, Google Sheets for registration management, Google Analytics, Google Search Console, embedded maps, social media platforms, email marketing providers, hosting providers, and other business tools. Each third-party provider operates under its own privacy policy and terms of service. We encourage users to review those policies when interacting with third-party services.

Data Security
BWBL takes reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, misuse, alteration, or destruction. While we strive to maintain secure systems, no website, online platform, or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Users acknowledge that information transmitted online is done at their own risk.

Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as necessary to provide our services, comply with legal obligations, maintain tournament history, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and preserve legitimate business records. Tournament results, rankings, historical standings, and participant records may be retained indefinitely for archival and historical purposes.

Your Rights
Depending on your location and applicable laws, you may have the right to request access to your personal information, request corrections, request deletion of certain information, object to certain processing activities, or request copies of information we hold about you. Requests will be reviewed and processed in accordance with applicable laws and our legitimate operational requirements.

Children’s Privacy
Our website is not intentionally directed toward children under the age required by applicable law without parental or legal guardian involvement. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children in violation of applicable privacy regulations. If we become aware that information has been collected improperly, we will take appropriate steps to remove it.

Intellectual Property
Unless otherwise stated, all website content including text, graphics, logos, branding, tournament materials, layouts, photographs, graphics, videos, icons, downloadable resources, and original content is owned by BWBL or licensed to BWBL. No material from this website may be copied, reproduced, modified, distributed, republished, or commercially exploited without prior written permission.

Acceptable Website Use
Users agree to use this website lawfully and respectfully. You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to our systems, interfere with website operations, upload malicious software, scrape content, impersonate another individual, submit fraudulent registrations, distribute spam, violate intellectual property rights, or engage in any activity that disrupts the website or negatively impacts other users. Violation of these rules may result in restricted access and, where appropriate, legal action.

External Links
Our website may contain links to third-party websites for your convenience. BWBL has no control over external websites and is not responsible for their content, security practices, privacy policies, availability, or business practices. Accessing external websites is entirely at your own discretion.

Disclaimer
All information published on this website is provided for general informational purposes. Although we make reasonable efforts to maintain accurate and current information, BWBL makes no warranties regarding the completeness, reliability, availability, or accuracy of any information, schedules, rankings, tournament results, or website content. Tournament details, venues, dates, and event information may change without prior notice.

Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, BWBL, its officers, employees, volunteers, affiliates, partners, sponsors, and service providers shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages arising from your use of this website, participation in events, reliance on website information, or interactions with third-party services.

Legal Compliance
BWBL operates in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. Users are responsible for complying with all local, state, and federal laws applicable to their participation in tournaments and use of this website. Nothing contained on this website shall be interpreted as creating any contractual relationship beyond the applicable event registrations and published terms.

Changes to This Policy
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy & Legal page at any time without prior notice. Updated versions become effective immediately upon publication on this website. We encourage visitors to review this page periodically to remain informed of any changes.

Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy & Legal page, your personal information, or your rights, please contact us at Support@thebwbl.com. We will make reasonable efforts to respond to inquiries as promptly as possible.