Privacy Policy

Information we collect

We collect information you provide directly, including your display name, email address, password, optional avatar, contact-form messages, and the posts, replies, reactions, and other content you choose to share.

We also collect limited technical information generated by normal site use, such as IP address, browser and device information, pages or features used, timestamps, referral information, security logs, and cookies or similar technologies used to operate, secure, measure, and improve the site.

How we use information

• Provide, maintain, secure, and improve Vol Hoops and its community features.
• Create and secure accounts, remember sessions and preferences, and prevent spam, abuse, fraud, and unauthorized access.
• Publish and organize community content, badges, ranks, activity, and other requested features.
• Measure site performance and understand how visitors use Vol Hoops.
• Display, measure, and manage advertising when advertising services are enabled.
• Respond to questions, feedback, privacy requests, and support requests.
• Enforce our Terms of Use and Board Guidelines, protect the community, and comply with legal obligations.

Advertising, Google, and third-party technologies

Vol Hoops may use Google AdSense and other advertising or measurement services. Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, or other identifiers to serve, personalize, limit, and measure ads and to help prevent fraud and abuse.

Google and its partners may use advertising cookies to serve ads based on a visitor's prior visits to Vol Hoops or other websites. Visitors can learn about and manage Google ad personalization through Google Ads Settings. You can also learn how Google uses information from sites and apps that use its services at Google's partner-sites information page.

Where required by law, Vol Hoops may display a consent or privacy-choice message before non-essential advertising or measurement technologies are used. Choices offered through that message may vary by region.

What is public

Your display name, avatar, posts, replies, reactions, earned community recognition, and other activity you intentionally publish may be visible to other visitors and may be indexed, copied, quoted, or shared by others. Please do not post private, sensitive, or confidential information in public areas.

When we share information

We do not sell personal information. We may share information with service providers that help us host, secure, deliver email, measure, advertise, support, or operate Vol Hoops; with advertising and measurement partners as described above; when you direct us to share it; when content is public by design; or when disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with law, protect rights and safety, or investigate abuse.

Cookies and similar technologies

Vol Hoops uses cookies and similar technologies for essential functions such as sign-in, preferences, session continuity, and security. We may also use these technologies for analytics, advertising, frequency capping, fraud prevention, and measurement. You can usually control cookies through your browser and, where available, through on-site privacy controls. Disabling essential cookies may limit site features.

Data retention and security

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the site, maintain account and community records, meet legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent abuse, and enforce our agreements. Retention periods vary by the type of information and why it is kept. We use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards, but no internet service can promise absolute security.

Your choices and requests

You can update certain profile information through your account and may edit or remove content where those tools are available. To request account or personal-information assistance, contact us through the Contact page. Depending on where you live, applicable law may provide additional rights to access, correct, delete, opt out of certain processing, or limit use of personal information.

Children and changes

Vol Hoops is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. We do not knowingly use personalized advertising based on activity by users known to be under 13. We may update this Policy as the site evolves. If we make a material change, we will update the effective date and provide additional notice when appropriate.