Privacy Policy

Welcome to Sports Buddy. By visiting our website and App (Android & iOS) you are agreeing to be bound by the following terms and conditions. Please read these terms and conditions before using, or submitting content in any form or medium for publication on, sportsbuddy.me and App. We may change these terms and conditions at any time. Your continued use implies that you accept any new or modified terms and conditions that we come up with. Please re-visit the 'Terms of Use' link at our site from time to time to stay updated with any changes that we may introduce.

Sports Buddy is strongly committed to your right to privacy and to keeping your personal information secure. To earn your trust and confidence in our commitment, we are fully disclosing our privacy practices. We encourage you to read our privacy statement to understand what types of personally identifiable information we collect and how we use this information. Sports Buddy has the right to amend its privacy policy to suit the needs of the website and we will inform you about the updated regulations at the earliest possible time.

How we collect and use information

Sports Buddy only collects the necessary personally identifiable information in order to respond to your requests for our customized products and services. Personally identifiable information includes, but is not limited to, first and last name, physical address, e-mail address, phone number, interests, birth date, and any other information that itself identifies or when tied to the above information, may identify you as a specific individual.

This website does not collect personally identifiable information about you except when you specifically and knowingly provide it. Sports Buddy uses your personally identifiable information to operate the site and services and to inform you of new features, services, and products from sportsbuddy.me.

When you visit sportsbuddy.me, we may send one or more cookies — a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters — to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser and lets Sports Buddy help you log in faster and enhance your navigation through the site. A cookie may also convey information to us about how you use the website (e.g., the pages you view, the links you click and other actions you take on the site), and allow us to track your usage of sportsbuddy.me over time. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive after you close your browser. Persistent cookies may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the site. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your web browser’s directions. A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your browser. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features of sportsbuddy.me may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.

Sports Buddy may also carefully select other companies to send you information about their products or services which are related to the site’s service but are not necessary to its operation (an "Extended Service"). If Sports Buddy intends to use personally identifiable information for an Extended Service, the sportsbuddy.me site will provide you with the ability and requisite instructions to decline this service. You may also stop the delivery of informational or promotional mail from sportsbuddy.me by following the instructions on the mail.

Sports Buddy may disclose personally identifiable information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (i) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on the site or its owners; (ii) protect and defend the rights or property of the site owners, the site or the users of sportsbuddy.me, and (iii) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of sportsbuddy.me, the site, its owners, or the public.

User/member interaction features

sportsbuddy.me has many features that provide for users/members to disclose their identities and communicate with other users/members. Your use of such features and disclosure of any personal details (e.g. e-mail address) by you through these features are at your sole risk and Sports Buddy accepts no responsibility for the same. However, if your privacy has been intruded as a result of participating in such features, you could notify us by e-mail at contact@sportsbuddy.me.

Other Websites

The SportsBuddy.me site contains links to other websites. Sports Buddy is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.

Notify Us

If at any time you believe that SportsBuddy.me or its users/members have not adhered to these principles, please notify Sports Buddy by e-mail at contact@sportsbuddy.me and we will use all commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and correct the problem.

Your Content

The freedom to write articles of your choice (sports) allows you to present your views to the visitors through this platform. However, the bloggers, writers and authors are advised not to violate the copyright laws meant to promote original work. The website will not be responsible for any content posted by its users. However, we will take appropriate action against copied content, if any, reported by a visitor.

The content on this website is published merely to enable sharing of ideas among people and to bring awareness about sports to the masses. The views expressed by the bloggers, authors or writers are their opinions and do not stand to be used as legal evidence.

All users except (Europe and UK):

When you use our website we share information that we collect from you, such as your email (in hashed form), IP address or information about your browser or operating system, with our identity partners/service providers, including LiveRamp Inc. LiveRamp returns an online identification code that we may store in our first-party cookie for our use in online, in-app, and cross-channel advertising and it may be shared with advertising companies to enable interest-based and targeted advertising. To opt out of this use, please click here (https://optout.liveramp.com/opt_out) or send us a request here (contact@sportsbuddy.me).

Request Data Deletion

You may request the publishers of this platform to delete all your personal data permanently. To request for account data deletion, send us a request here contact@sportsbuddy.me.

The above privacy policy applies to all of Sports Buddy's platforms, including the mobile apps for Android, Windows and iOS.

Ethics Policy

Factual accuracy

Every word in every Sports Buddy article must be 100% factually correct. Care must be taken to ensure that no part of any story is miss-stated, misconstrued or otherwise misrepresented in such a way that it affects the interpretation of the content.

Names, numerical figures, dates and other similar information must always be reproduced to the letter, with no room for manipulation of any kind.

News sources

For news obtained exclusively by a Sports Buddy writer, the same must be clearly disclosed with a phrase such as ‘as revealed to Sports Buddy’ or ‘in an exclusive interview with Sports Buddy’.

For news obtained from a secondary source, the website that originally reported the story must necessarily be hyperlinked over the relevant text. In case of news sourced from a publication that doesn’t have an online presence, the name of the publication needs to be mentioned as the source.

An anonymous source can be used only with prior approval from the Managing Editor or the Content Head. In such cases, care must be taken that the source is fully reliable and capable of being summoned upon inquiry or investigation.

Editorial review

An article can be published on Sports Buddy only after a thorough editorial review process. The review needs to be carried out by the dedicated editorial team, checking for factual accuracy, language, visual aids, external embeds and any other relevant aspect.

Plagiarism

Sports Buddy has a zero tolerance policy towards plagiarism. Any story that is found to contain any part of it plagiarized, will be taken down immediately. The guilty writer in all such cases will face immediate and permanent expulsion.

Quotes

Any quote used in any Sports Buddy article needs to be correctly attributed to the primary source. A quote must be reproduced in its exact form, with no change of any kind other than punctuation or spelling corrections if required.

Corrections

Sports Buddy looks to ensure that all errors in its content are corrected quickly and with full disclosure. Sports Buddy also invites its readers to notify the editorial team for any errors they spot in any of the articles.

Any article that has a typo, spelling or grammatical error, shall be updated by a member of the staff. There is no requirement to add a correction note in such cases; the article would contain a line at the top saying it was modified at the particular date and time.

If an article has a material error with respect to any of the facts, numbers or quotes mentioned therein, the correction shall be done by a member of the staff followed by the addition of a correction note at the end of the article. The correction note should read thus: “An earlier version of the article erroneously stated that ___. The same has been corrected on <date, time>.”

Equality

Sports Buddy believes in the principle of equality, and seeks to ensure that that is reflected in all of its content. No part of any Sports Buddy article shall discriminate against anyone on the basis of race, religion, sex, caste, nationality, orientation, political leaning or any other individualistic quality.

Any Sports Buddy article that is found to promote inequality or hatred of any kind will be taken down, with appropriate sanctions for the writer.

Inappropriate language or visuals

Sports Buddy seeks to ensure that its content is consumable by people of all ages and backgrounds. Inappropriate or disturbing language, images or videos are to be avoided unless absolutely necessary for the depiction of the story. If at all such language or visuals are used, a suitable warning must be given to the reader in advance.

Sponsored or promotional content

No Sports Buddy article shall promote any external agency, organization or website (by way of links, mentions or any other manner) unless specifically authorized by the sales team in conjunction with the Managing Editor. All such cases of promotional or sponsored content must be explicitly labeled as such.

All of Sports Buddy’s social media handles (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat) must necessarily adhere to the company’s policies and content guidelines. No social media post by Sports Buddy shall contain information or visuals that are in any way inaccurate, inappropriate or otherwise objectionable.

Sports Buddy is against click-bait of any kind. Any published post deemed as such will be taken down immediately, with appropriate sanctions for the post-maker.

Editorial staff responsibility

Sports Buddy’s editorial staff is expected to uphold the highest journalistic standards at all times, both in a professional and a personal capacity.

All content published on the website or the social media handles must be fair and just, with all sides of the story being given due consideration. The responsibility of ensuring that Sports Buddy’s content is error-free and bias-free lies with its editorial staff.

The members of the editorial team are also expected to adhere to the values of the organization in their unofficial dealings, including but not limited to their business interests, social media presence and public appearances.