This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.
We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Interpretation and Definitions
Interpretation
The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
- Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.
- Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where "control" means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.
- Company (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to FNCompRankings.
- Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
- Country refers to: Canada
- Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
- Epic Account Data means information received from Epic Games, Inc. via Epic Account Services when a user authenticates using their Epic Games account, including but not limited to their Epic account ID and display name.
- Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
- Service refers to the Website.
- Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
- Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
- Website refers to Greatest Fortnite Players, accessible from fncomprankings.com
- You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.
Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- Email address
- Username and display name
- Account credentials (passwords are stored in a hashed form and are not stored in plain text)
- Support requests and communications you send to us
- Usage Data
Epic Account Data
Our Service integrates with Epic Account Services provided by Epic Games, Inc. If You choose to log in or authenticate using Your Epic Games account, we may receive the following information from Epic Games:
- Epic account ID (a unique identifier assigned by Epic Games)
- Epic display name
- Online presence status (if consented to)
We receive this data only with your explicit consent at the time of authentication, as required by Epic Games' consent management process. Epic Account Data is used solely to authenticate your session and provide features of the Service such as displaying rankings associated with your account. We do not use Epic Account Data for advertising, profiling, or any purpose not directly related to operating this Service.
Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.
Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including but not limited to the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include:
- Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
- Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).
Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser. You can learn more about cookies on the TermsFeed website.
We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:
Necessary / Essential CookiesSession Cookies
Type: Session Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.
Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance CookiesPersistent Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
Functionality CookiesPersistent Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.
Expiry: These cookies remain on your device for 6 months unless manually deleted by the user.
Use of Your Personal Data
The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
- To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
- To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service.
- For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased.
- To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication.
- To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events.
- To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
- For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer.
- For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns.
Use of Epic Account Data
Epic Account Data received via Epic Account Services is used only for the specific purposes you consented to at the time of authentication and as permitted under Epic Games' developer agreements. Specifically, Epic Account Data is used to:
- Authenticate your identity and maintain your session on the Service
- Display your Epic display name in connection with your rankings and profile on the Service
- Associate your competitive results and rankings with your account
We do not use Epic Account Data for advertising, marketing profiling, sale to third parties, or any purpose beyond directly operating this Service. We process Epic Account Data in accordance with applicable privacy laws and Epic Games' requirements.
How We Capture Data
We capture data in the following ways:
- Information you provide directly: When you create an account, sign in, contact support, or submit information through forms.
- Information collected automatically: When you browse or use the Service, we automatically receive Usage Data as described above and may store certain preferences using cookies.
- Information received from Epic Games: When you authenticate using your Epic Games account, we receive Epic Account Data as described in the Epic Account Data section above. This data is provided by Epic Games only with your explicit consent.
- Security and anti abuse signals: We may process signals used to help prevent fraud, spam, or abuse (for example, reCAPTCHA tokens and related risk signals where enabled).
Disclosure of Your Personal Data (How We Share Data)
We do not sell your personal information. We may share your information in the following circumstances:
- With Service Providers: We may share information with vendors that help us operate the Service (for example, hosting, databases, email delivery, security, and customer support tooling). These providers are authorized to use your information only as necessary to provide services to us.
- Advertising partners: The Service may display ads. Ad providers may use cookies or similar technologies to personalize or measure ads and may collect Usage Data in connection with ad serving. Your browser may allow you to control or delete cookies as described in the Cookies section above.
- For legal reasons: We may disclose information if we believe it is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, protect and defend our rights or property, prevent wrongdoing, protect the safety of users or the public, or protect against legal liability.
- Business transfers: If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
- With your consent: We may share information for other purposes when you explicitly consent.
Epic Account Data: We do not share Epic Account Data with any third parties except as strictly necessary to operate the Service (for example, our hosting infrastructure). We do not sell, license, or otherwise transfer Epic Account Data to advertisers or unrelated third parties.
Retention of Your Personal Data
We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to provide the Service, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
- Account information: We retain your account information for as long as your account remains active. If you request deletion, we will delete or anonymize account data unless we are required to retain certain information for legal or security purposes.
- Epic Account Data: We retain Epic Account Data only for as long as your account remains active on the Service. Upon your request for deletion, or upon notification from Epic Games that you have requested deletion of your data, we will promptly delete or anonymize all Epic Account Data associated with your account.
- Operational logs and Usage Data: We retain operational logs and similar technical data for a limited period (generally up to 30 days) for security, troubleshooting, and performance monitoring, unless a longer retention period is required to investigate abuse or comply with law.
- Security and anti abuse records: Where applicable, we may retain security related records for longer periods (generally up to 12 months) to detect and prevent fraud and abuse.
- Backups: Deleted data may persist in backups for a limited time until those backups are rotated.
Security of Your Personal Data
The security of your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, but We cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Your Privacy Choices and Rights
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. These include the right to access, correct, delete, or receive a copy of your information. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at support@fncomprankings.com.
- Right to Access: You may request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- Right to Correction: You may request that we correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data we hold about you.
- Right to Deletion: You may request that we delete your personal data. We will comply unless we are required to retain it for legal or security purposes. For Epic Account Data specifically, deletion requests will be processed promptly, including upon notification from Epic Games.
- Right to Data Portability: Where applicable, you may request a machine readable copy of your personal data.
- Cookies: You can control cookies through your browser settings. Note that disabling cookies may affect certain features.
- Marketing communications: If we send marketing emails, you can opt out by following the unsubscribe instructions in those emails where provided.
We will respond to all requests within a reasonable timeframe and in accordance with applicable law. We may need to verify your identity before processing certain requests.
Legal Basis for Processing
We process your personal data on the following legal bases:
- Contractual necessity: Processing required to provide the Service you have requested, including account management and authentication via Epic Account Services.
- Legitimate interests: Processing for purposes such as security, fraud prevention, service improvement, and analytics, where these interests are not overridden by your privacy rights.
- Consent: Where we have obtained your explicit consent, such as when you authorize sharing of Epic Account Data during the Epic Games authentication flow.
- Legal obligation: Processing required to comply with applicable laws and regulations.
Children's Privacy
Our Service is not directed to anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top.
