PRIVACY NOTICE

 

Last Updated: November 10, 2025

 

The Battle Tested Foundation (“Company,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this notice. We, therefore, provide this privacy notice (“Notice”) to inform you of our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information and data we receive from users of the websites we own and operate (individually and collectively, the “Website”), and the other services, features, content and applications offered by us on the Website. The Website and any other services (such as our mobile applications), features, content and applications offered by Company may each be referred to herein as a “Service” and collectively as the “Services.” This Notice applies only to information collected through the Services and in electronic communications, including e-mail, text, chat, and other electronic messages, between you and the Company. This Notice is hereby incorporated into the Terms of Use governing your use of the Services, which are available at [battletestedfoundation.org/terms-of-use].

 

We may provide additional or different privacy policies that are specific to certain features, services, or activities.

 

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we treat it. By interacting with our Services or providing us with your information, you agree to the collection, use, and sharing of your information as described in this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of the Services after we make changes as described here is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

 

IF YOU ARE USING OUR SERVICES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION, ASIA, OR ANY OTHER REGION WITH LAWS OR REGULATIONS GOVERNING PERSONAL DATA COLLECTION, USE, AND DISCLOSURE THAT DIFFER FROM UNITED STATES LAWS, PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT THROUGH YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THE WEBSITE AND SERVICES, WHICH ARE GOVERNED BY UNITED STATES LAW, THIS PRIVACY NOTICE, AND OUR TERMS OF USE, YOU MAY BE TRANSMITTING YOUR PERSONAL DATA TO THE UNITED STATES AND YOU CONSENT TO THAT TRANSMISSION. ADDITIONALLY, YOU UNDERSTAND THAT YOUR PERSONAL DATA MAY BE TRANSMITTED TO AND PROCESSED IN COUNTRIES (INCLUDING THE UNITED STATES) WHERE LAWS REGARDING PROCESSING PERSONAL DATA MAY BE LESS STRINGENT THAN THE LAWS REGARDING PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA IN YOUR COUNTRY.

 

1. The Information We Gather

 

“Personal data” is information that identifies, relates to, or describes, directly or indirectly, you as an individual, such as your name, e-mail address, telephone number, home address, or payment information (for example, account information such as name, postal address, and e-mail address, credit card number, or any other identifier we may use to contact you online or offline).

 

The types and categories of personal data we collect or process may include:

·       Account and contact information, including name, address, e-mail address, phone number, username, and other contact information you provide us.

·       Payment information, including credit card or debit card information and information about the payment methods and services (such as PayPal or Venmo) you use in connection with the Services.

·       Account history, including information about your donations, subscription, account, transactions, purchases, order history, or discounts.

·       Demographic information.

·       Location information.

·       Device information, including your IP address, device identifiers, operating system and version, preferred language, hardware identifiers, browser type and settings, and other device information.

·       Content and information you choose to provide us.

 

We also collect:

·       Statistics or aggregated information. Statistical or aggregated data does not directly identify a specific person, but we may derive non-personal statistical or aggregated data from personal data. For example, we may aggregate personal data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific Services feature.

·       Technical information. Technical information includes information about your internet connection and usage details about your interactions with the Services, such as clickstream information to, through, and from our Services (including date and time), products that you view or search for; page response times, download errors, length of your visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), or methods used to browse away from a page.

 

If we combine or connect non-personal statistical or technical data with personal data so that it directly or indirectly identifies an individual, we treat the combined information as personal information.

 

2. How We Collect Your Personal and Other Data

 

You Provide Information to Us. We collect information about you when you interact with our Services, such as when you place an order, subscribe, or make a donation, participate in surveys, sweepstakes, contests, or promotions, or create, upload, or post content to the Services.

 

Automatically Through Our Services. As you navigate through and interact with our Services, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect information that may include personal data. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, operating system, and browser type, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies. Using automatic collection technologies helps us to improve our Services and to deliver a better and more personalized experience.

 

To the extent any of these automated technologies are considered a personal data sale, targeted advertising, or profiling, under applicable laws, depending on where you live, you may opt out from use of these automated technologies for such uses by e-mail to [support@battletestedfoundation.org]. Please note that some Services features may be unavailable as a result.

 

When you interact with the Services, there are third parties that may use automatic collection technologies to collect information about your or your device. These third parties may use tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use the Services. The information they collect may be associated with your personal data or they may collect information, including personal data, about your online activities over time and across different websites, apps, platforms, and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content. We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

 

From Business Partners and Service Providers. We may receive personal data about you from other sources and combine that with information we collect directly from you. For example, we may obtain information about you from service providers that we engage to perform services on our behalf, such as e-mail platform providers, content delivery services, payment processors, and analytics, security and anti-fraud services.

 

3. How We Use Your Information

 

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal data, to:

·       Provide you with the Services and any contents, features, information, products, or services that we make available through the Services.

·       Fulfill and manage donations, subscriptions, purchases, orders, deliveries, payments, and returns.

·       Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.

·       Improve our Services, including by analyzing your information and creating aggregated data derived from your information) to develop, maintain, analyze, improve, optimize, measure, and report on our Services and their features and how users interact with them.

·       Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.

·       Notify you when Services updates are available and about changes to any products or services we offer or provide though them.

·       In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.

·       For any other purpose with your consent.

 

The usage information we collect, whether connected to your personal data or not, helps us improve our Services and deliver a better and more personalized experience by enabling us to:

·       Estimate our audience sizes and usage patterns.

·       Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize the Services according to your individual needs and interests.

·       Recognize you when you return to our Services.

 

4. Who We Disclose Your Information To

 

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

 

We may also disclose personal data that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

·       To our subsidiaries and affiliates.

·       To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our organization.

·       To a successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal data held by Company is among the assets transferred.

·       To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.

·       For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.

·       With your consent.

 

We may also disclose your personal data:

·       To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.

·       To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing purposes.

·       If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of our organization or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection.

 

The categories of personal data we may disclose include:

·       Account and contact information.

·       Payment information.

·       Account history, including information about your donations, subscription, account, transactions, purchases, order history, or discounts.

·       Demographic information

·       Location information.

·       Device information.

·       Content and information you elect to provide to us.

 

5. Your Rights and Choices About Your Information

 

This section describes mechanisms you can use to control certain uses and disclosures of your information and rights you may have under state law, depending on where you live.

 

Advertising, marketing, cookies, and other tracking technologies choices:

·       Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or other tracking technology files, or to alert you when these files are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies or similar tracking files, some Services features may be inaccessible or not function properly. Some browsers include a “Do Not Track” (DNT) setting that can send a signal to the online services you visit indicating you do not wish to be tracked.

·       Promotions by the Company. If you do not wish us to use your information to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt out by sending us an e-mail stating your request to [support@battletestedfoundation.org].

 

6. Your State Privacy Rights

 

Depending on your state of residency, you may have certain rights related to your personal data, including:

·       Access and Data Portability. You may confirm whether we process your personal data and access a copy of the personal data we process. To the extent feasible and required by state law, depending on your state, data will be provided in a portable format. Depending on your state, you may have the right to receive additional information and it will be included in the response to your access request.

·       Correction. You may request that we correct inaccuracies in your personal data that we maintain, taking into account the information’s nature and processing purpose.

·       Deletion. You may request that we delete personal data about you that we maintain, subject to certain exception under applicable law.

·       Opt Out of Using Personal Data for Targeted Advertising, Profiling, and Sales. You may request that we do not use your personal data for these purposes.

 

Important: The exact scope of these rights vary by state. There are also several exceptions where we may not have an obligation to fulfill your request.

 

To exercise any of these rights, please sending us an e-mail stating your request to [support@battletestedfoundation.org]. To appeal a decision regarding a consumer rights request e-mail stating your request and grounds for your appeals to [support@battletestedfoundation.org].

 

Some browsers and browser extensions support the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) that can send a signal to process your request to opt out from certain types of data processing, including data “sales” as defined under certain laws. When we detect such a signal, we will make reasonable efforts to respect your choices indicated by a GPC setting as required by applicable law.

 

7. How We Protect Your Personal Data

 

We use commercially reasonable administrative, physical, and technical measures designed to protect your personal data from accidental loss or destruction and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no website, mobile application, system, electronic storage, or online service is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to, through, using, or in connection with the Services. In particular, e-mail, texts, and chats sent to or from the Services may not be secure, and you should carefully decide what information you send to us via such communications channels. Any transmission of personal data is at your own risk.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. You are responsible for taking steps to protect your personal data against unauthorized use, disclosure, and access.

 

8. How We Retain Your Personal Data

 

We keep the categories of personal data described in this policy for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described or for as otherwise legally permitted or required, such as maintaining the Services, operating our organization, complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes, and for safety, security, and fraud prevention. This means that we consider our legal and business obligations, potential risks of harm, and nature of the information when deciding how long to retain personal data. At the end of the retention period, personal data will be deleted, destroyed, or deidentified.

 

9. Children’s and Minors’ Data

 

Our Services are not intended for, and we do not knowingly collect any personal data from, children under the age of eighteen (18). If we learn we have collected or received personal data from a child under eighteen (18) years old without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.

 

10. Changes to Our Privacy Policy

 

We may update this policy from time to time, and we will provide notice of any such changes to the policy as required by law. The date the privacy policy was last updated is identified at the top of the page. We will notify you of changes to this policy by updating the “last updated” date and posting the updated policy on the Services. We may e-mail or otherwise communicate reminders about this policy, but you should check our Services periodically to see the current policy and any changes we have made to it.

 

11. Contact Information

 

To exercise your rights or ask questions or comment about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, contact us at:

[support@battletestedfoundation.org]