1. Overview and Commitment to Privacy
At TLP League (accessible via tlp-league.com), we take your privacy seriously. We are committed to protecting the personal information of our players, team managers, casters, and community members in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs).
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, hold, utilise, and disclose your personal information across our competitive gaming leagues, online tournaments, LAN events, and digital platforms.
2. Information We Collect
To run smooth, fair, and competitive eSports tournaments, we need to collect specific details from you. Depending on your engagement with TLP League, this may include:
- Identity and Contact Data: Your real name, date of birth, residential address, email address, phone number, and Discord handle.
- Gamer Identity Data: In-game names (IGN), gamer tags, platform identifiers (e.g., Steam ID, Riot ID, Epic Games ID, BattleTag, PlayStation Network ID, Xbox Gamertag), and team affiliations.
- Competitive and Match Data: In-game statistics, match history, match replays, tournament standings, disciplinary records, and communications within official match channels.
- Payment and Prize Payout Data: Australian Business Numbers (ABN, if applicable), bank account details, or PayID details strictly for disbursing prize money, compensation, or tournament entry fees.
- Integrity and Anti-Cheat Telemetry: Technical logs, hardware identifiers (HWID), IP addresses, and diagnostic data generated via our partner anti-cheat platforms to maintain competitive integrity.
- Media and Likeness: Photos, voice recordings, gameplay footage, and live-stream footage captured during broadcasted tournaments or in-person LAN events.
3. How We Collect Your Information
We collect personal information directly from you when you interact with our platform, including when you:
- Register an account on tlp-league.com or join our official Discord server.
- Enrol as an individual or register a team for a tournament, ladder, or scrimmage.
- Link third-party gaming accounts or authentication services (e.g., Steam, Discord, Battle.net) to our platform.
- Compete in broadcasted matches, community cups, or offline events.
- Submit support tickets, report rule infringements, or communicate with league administrators.
- Complete surveys, submit prize claim forms, or sign up for league newsletters.
4. Why We Collect and Use Your Information
We use your personal information to deliver a safe, professional, and competitive gaming environment. Specifically, we process your data to:
- Organise, schedule, manage, and officiate eSports leagues and tournaments.
- Validate player eligibility (e.g., age, rank, residency requirements, and regional eligibility within Australia and New Zealand).
- Detect, investigate, and penalise cheating, smurfing, match-fixing, toxicity, and code of conduct breaches.
- Distribute prize pools, trophies, and merchandise to verified winners.
- Produce live broadcast streams, highlight reels, leaderboards, and tournament brackets accessible to the public.
- Send operational notifications, such as bracket updates, dispute resolutions, and league announcements.
- Maintain the security, operational integrity, and performance of tlp-league.com.
5. Disclosure of Your Information
TLP League does not sell your personal data. However, in the course of running our eSports operations, we may disclose your information to:
- The Public and Community: Gamer tags, team names, match stats, rankings, and broadcast footage are made publicly available across our website, tournament ladders, and live streaming channels (e.g., Twitch, YouTube).
- Tournament Partners and Game Publishers: Game publishers, anti-cheat providers, and title owners to verify accounts or report integrity violations.
- Service Providers: Third-party vendors who provide IT hosting, server infrastructure, payment processing, email distribution, and analytics services.
- Event Sponsors: De-identified, aggregated demographic and engagement statistics (never direct, identifiable personal details without your explicit consent).
- Regulatory and Law Enforcement Authorities: Where required or authorised by Australian law or to prevent imminent harm.
6. Cross-Border Data Transfers
Because eSports operates on a global scale, some third-party services we use (such as cloud hosting servers, anti-cheat platforms, and game publisher APIs) may be hosted outside Australia, including in the United States, Singapore, and the European Union. When transferring data overseas, we take reasonable steps to ensure that the recipient handles your information in a manner consistent with the Australian Privacy Principles.
7. Data Security and Retention
We implement appropriate technical, administrative, and physical measures to protect your personal information against unauthorised access, alteration, loss, or misuse. Access to sensitive information—such as prize payment bank details—is strictly restricted to authorised finance and league operations personnel.
We retain your personal information for as long as your account remains active or as necessary to comply with our competitive record-keeping obligations, resolve disputes, enforce tournament rulings, and meet Australian tax and financial reporting requirements.
8. Minors and Junior Competitors
Certain TLP League tournaments are open to players under the age of 18. If you are under 18 years of age, you must have the permission of a parent or legal guardian to register on our platform and participate in our competitions. For junior competitors eligible for prize money, we require explicit parental or guardian consent before processing any financial payouts or collecting sensitive information.
9. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar digital identifiers on tlp-league.com to manage user sessions, remember login states, analyse site traffic, and track platform performance. You can manage or disable cookies through your web browser settings; however, disabling certain cookies may affect your ability to participate in automated tournament features.
10. Your Rights and Access to Information
Under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), you have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you and to ask for corrections if you believe that information is inaccurate, out of date, or incomplete. You may update most of your profile and gamer tag details directly via your account settings dashboard.
To request access, deletion, or correction of other records, please lodge a request with our Privacy Officer using the contact details below.
11. Complaints and Contact Information
If you have any questions, concerns, or complaints regarding how we have handled your personal information, please reach out to our team:
- Email: privacy@tlp-league.com
- Website: https://tlp-league.com
- Discord: Contact an Administrator via our official Discord server
We will review your complaint promptly and aim to provide a written response within 30 days. If you are not satisfied with our response, you have the right to refer the matter to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) by visiting www.oaic.gov.au or calling 1300 363 992.
12. Policy Updates
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our tournament rules, community features, or Australian legal requirements. Any updates will be published directly on this page with an updated revision date. Continued participation in our tournaments or use of tlp-league.com constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.