IGNITE TOURNAMENTS, INC. – PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated: June 2026

Ignite Tournaments, Inc. (“Ignite,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, store, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website located at ignitetournaments.com (the “Site”), use our mobile application (the “App”), or interact with our community infrastructure tools, including our integrated Discord leaderboard bot systems (collectively, the “Services”).

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing or using our Services, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a specific consumer or device (“Personal Information”).

A. Information You Provide Directly to Us

• Account Registration Data: Name, email address, chosen username, password, and profile preferences.
• Subscription and Billing Information: When you purchase a recurring Fan Subscription, our third-party fiat payment orchestration gateways collect your credit card numbers, billing addresses, and associated transaction data. We do not store full credit card numbers on our servers.
• Creator Economy Content Submissions: We collect digital content inputs, text, images, media attachments, and engagement telemetry generated when you utilize our interactive community features, such as integrated Discord activities and subscription portal configurations.

B. Information Collected From Third-Party Platforms

• Discord Integration Telemetry: If you link your Discord account to our Services, we collect your unique Discord User ID, username, guild/server memberships, and activity metrics associated with our leaderboard tracking systems.
• Ignite Mobile App Telemetry: We collect game integration metrics, challenge completions, and account link tokens pushed through our mobile software framework to sync with your master user profile.

C. Information Automatically Collected

• Device identifiers, IP addresses, operating system types, browser types, browser cookie data, and platform access timestamps.

D. Legacy Exclusions (What We Do Not Collect)

• Our Services operate strictly on a fiat-only model. We do not collect, request, or log blockchain wallet addresses, public ledger transaction hashes, or digital asset keys.

E. Identity Verification (KYC/AML) Data: For users eligible for occasional B2B Sponsored Rewards, we (or our ACAMS-certified third-party identity verification partners) collect comprehensive identity data. This includes your full legal name, permanent physical residence address, telephone number, a photograph of a valid government-issued identification document (e.g., passport or driver’s license), and a photographic facial image (“selfie”) utilized strictly for identity matching and verification purposes. 

F. Geographic and Telemetry Data: To prevent credit card fraud, card-testing, and compliance evasions, we automatically collect precise geographic location data, IP addresses, proxy/VPN detection signals, and device telemetry data whenever you interact with our billing rails at IgniteTournaments.com/pay or participate in leaderboard systems.

G. Third-Party Integration Data (Discord Auth): Because premium community benefits are delivered through third-party platforms, we collect and store integration metadata, including your Discord User ID, account username, and OAuth authorization tokens necessary to automatically assign server roles, badges, and permissions.

H. Tax Compliance Documentation: For users whose aggregate promotional rewards equal or exceed $600.00 USD in a calendar year, we collect tax classification information, including Social Security Numbers (SSN) or Employer Identification Numbers (EIN) via IRS Form W-9, or foreign status declarations via IRS Form W-8BEN.

2. How We Use Your Information

We process your Personal Information for the following operational, legal, and business purposes:

• To Provide and Maintain the Services: To manage your recurring Fan Subscriptions, process transactional fiat payments, authenticate user access, and deliver exclusive qualitative community perks.
• To Calculate and Manage Leaderboard Standings: To calculate, validate, audit, and aggregate community engagement metrics (such as Discord slash command responses and mobile app milestone completions) into unified master leaderboards, ensuring competitive integrity and preventing automated or fraudulent system manipulation.
• To Deliver Sponsored Rewards: To process identity data if you qualify for periodic, milestone-driven skill-based rewards funded by B2B corporate sponsors, ensuring compliance with tax and regulatory obligations.
• To Communicate With You: To send transactional receipts, account alerts, system updates, and support communications regarding your membership status.
• Compliance and Security: To detect, investigate, and prevent multi-account cheating, botting exploits, financial fraud, or violations of our Terms of Service.
• Subscription Delivery and Synchronization: We process your transaction history and platform identifiers to instantly fulfill your paid digital perks, manage recurring billing cycles, and maintain continuity within your chosen creator’s Discord community.
• Fraud Prevention and Risk Mitigation: We utilize your location telemetry, device data, and payment metadata to analyze transaction integrity, prevent unauthorized credit card usage, mitigate chargeback volatility, and detect systematic cheating or botting on leaderboards.
• Regulatory Compliance and Payout Guardrails: Your verification and tax data are processed strictly to satisfy statutory Anti-Money Laundering (AML) mandates, execute identity screening against international sanction registries, and fulfill mandatory annual tax reporting obligations to relevant jurisdictional bodies (such as the United States Internal Revenue Service).

3. HOW AND WITH WHOM WE SHARE INFORMATION

We do not rent, sell, or share your Personal Information with third parties except as explicitly outlined in this Privacy Policy. We may disclose your information to the following categories of recipients:

• Third-Party Service Providers: Corporations and contractors who provide infrastructure services such as website and database hosting, data analysis, customer support ticketing, automated email delivery, security auditing, and system troubleshooting.
• Payment Orchestration Gateways: Our designated fiat payment gateways (such as Citcon) strictly to process recurring Fan Subscriptions, manage transaction routing, and mitigate chargeback risk.
• Identity and Anti-Fraud Vendors: Trusted third parties who provide Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) verification services to audit eligibility for B2B-sponsored milestone rewards.
• Corporate Restructuring and M&A: Potential or actual acquirers, successors, or assignees as part of any corporate reorganization, merger, sale of assets, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets, or stock (including in connection with bankruptcy or similar protective proceedings).
• Legal Compliance and Government Authorities: If required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) comply with applicable legal processes and regulatory mandates; (b) respond to lawful requests from public and government authorities, including law enforcement outside your country of residence; (c) enforce our Terms of Service; (d) protect our corporate operations; (e) safeguard our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and that of you or the public; and (f) allow us to pursue available legal remedies or limit operational damages.
• Third-Party Analytics Vendors: We utilize third-party analytics utilities, including Google Analytics, to evaluate system performance and track aggregate user interactions. While we do not share direct account identities with these vendors, they may deploy and access their own cookies, pixel tags, and tracking technologies across the Services over time. You can review Google’s specific privacy processing mechanics at [google.com/policies/privacy/partners](https://google.com/policies/privacy/partners).
• De-Identified Aggregate Data: We reserve the right to use and disclose anonymized, aggregated user data metrics that do not identify any individual user for platform optimization, marketing analysis, or industry reporting, unless explicitly prohibited by applicable law.
• Payment Processing Networks: Financial transaction metadata is securely transmitted to fiat payment gateways (e.g., Citcon) to execute recurring SaaS billing operations.
• Identity Verification Partners: Government IDs, biometric validation selfies, and physical address details are passed directly to ACAMS-certified compliance vendors via secure API handshakes. This data is never exposed to standard community managers or content creators.
• Payout Settlement Institutions: For promotional distribution events, verified payout data is shared with independent corporate payout processors (e.g., MassPay) via secure, pre-established corporate wire networks.
• Financial Risk Registries and Law Enforcement: In cases of confirmed credit card fraud, systematic card testing, or bad-faith friendly fraud chargebacks, Ignite Tournaments reserves the right to share historical user telemetry, IP tracking, and payment metadata with international financial risk registries, banking compliance networks, and law enforcement agencies to recover past-due subscription balances.

4. Data Security and Retention

• Security Safeguards: We implement robust administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to prevent unauthorized access, loss, alteration, or disclosure of your Personal Information. Your information is stored on secure cloud servers protected by commercial firewalls and industry-standard encryption protocols.
• Access Control: We restrict internal access to your Personal Information strictly to those employees, contractors, or integration partners who require that data to execute, update, or troubleshoot our creator infrastructure services.
• Retention Period: We retain your Personal Information only for as long as your account is active, as needed to fulfill the community tracking functions detailed in this policy, or as necessary to satisfy our corporate legal, tax, or accounting compliance standards.
• KYC/AML Retention Exceptions: While you may request account deletion or cancel your Fan Subscription at any time, any data collected in connection with our institutional identity verification protocol (Section 5.4 of the ToS) or tax compliance systems must be legally retained by Ignite Tournaments for the minimum duration prescribed by applicable financial tracking and anti-money laundering laws (typically five to seven years post-transaction). This data remains securely encrypted and isolated from daily platform operations during the retention period.

5. Your Rights and Consumer Choices

Depending on your geographic residency (including the EEA, UK, and various US states), you may possess specific legal rights regarding your Personal Information:

• Right of Access/Portability: The right to request copies of the specific data we have collected and stored regarding your account.
• Right to Rectification: The right to demand the correction of inaccurate or outdated personal data.
• Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”): The right to request that we delete your personal profiles and erase your historical activity records, subject to certain legal or fraud-prevention data-retention exceptions.
• Subscription Cancellation: You may opt-out of recurring billing cycles at any time by cancelling your subscription within your Member Portal, which will signal our billing gateways to halt future payment captures.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact our data compliance team at [email protected].

6. THIRD-PARTY SERVICES AND PLATFORM INTEGRATIONS

Our Services interface deeply with external software ecosystems—most notably the Discord communication platform, mobile application marketplaces (Apple App Store and Google Play), and various mobile video game architectures.

This Privacy Policy addresses solely the collection, use, and disclosure of information by Ignite Tournaments, Inc. We do not control, and are not responsible for, the independent privacy practices, information gathering routines, cookie policies, or data security implementations maintained by third-party platforms, application stores, digital creators, or external game publishers.

The inclusion of an API integration link or a community interaction pipeline (such as a Discord slash command framework) does not imply endorsement of that platform’s data security policies by Ignite. We strongly encourage you to review the privacy terms of any third-party software environment before connecting your profiles or inputting personal data.

7. No use of services by minors

The Services is not directed to individuals under the age of eighteen (18), and we request that you do not provide personal information through the Services if you are under 18.

8. Cross-border data transfer

Please note that we may be transferring your information outside of your region for storage and processing and around the globe. By using the Services you consent to the transfer of information to countries outside of your country of residence, which may have data protection rules that are different from those of your country.

9. Policy Updates

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. When updates are published, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the very top of this page. Your continued use of our App, Site, or integrated infrastructure tools after a revision constitutes your formal acceptance of the modified Privacy Policy.