Privacy Policy

Effective Date: August 2, 2025
Last Updated: August 2, 2025

Music-Performance Sports League, LLC (“MPSL,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information entrusted to us.

This Privacy Policy explains how we may collect, use, disclose, store, and otherwise process information when you access or use our websites, applications, digital platforms, competitions, leagues, events, registrations, and other products and services operated by or on behalf of Music-Performance Sports League, LLC (collectively, the “Services”).

This Privacy Policy may apply to services and brands operated by MPSL, including Music-Performance Sports™, Music-Sports™, Music-Sports League™, Song vs Song Sports League and related competitions, events, programs, and digital services.

By accessing or using our Services, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We May Collect

The information we collect depends on how you interact with our Services.

Information You Provide

We may collect information you voluntarily provide, including:

Name
Email address
Telephone number
Username or account information
Artist or professional name
City, state, region, or country
Artist biography and profile information
Profile photographs, artwork, logos, and promotional materials
Music and song information
Uploaded audio files, including eligible MP3 submissions
Links to music hosted on third-party platforms
Competition and league registrations
Team, division, ranking, and competition information
Voting, rating, and scoring activity
Communications sent to MPSL
Survey, contest, promotion, or event information
Sponsorship, partnership, franchise, vendor, or business inquiries
Other information you voluntarily submit through our Services

Account and Competition Information

Participants in MPSL competitions may provide additional information necessary to administer games, leagues, tournaments, rankings, qualifications, player profiles, eligibility, scoring, awards, and other competition-related activities.

Certain competition information may be displayed publicly as part of the sports and entertainment experience, including an artist's name, stage name, photograph, team, division, songs, scores, rankings, wins and losses, competition history, championships, awards, and other publicly designated player information.

Payment and Transaction Information

If you make a payment through our Services, such as a registration fee, submission fee, late submission fee, ticket purchase, merchandise purchase, franchise-related payment, or other transaction, payment information may be processed by a third-party payment processor.

MPSL may receive transaction-related information such as your name, transaction amount, payment status, date, order information, and a transaction or payment identifier.

We may not directly receive or store complete credit or debit card numbers when payments are processed through an independent payment processor.

Information Collected Automatically

When you use our website, application, or other digital Services, certain information may be collected automatically, including:

Internet Protocol (IP) address
Browser type
Device type
Operating system
Pages or screens visited
Date and time of access
Referring website or source
Approximate geographic information derived from an IP address
Device or advertising identifiers
Application activity
Log and diagnostic information
Cookie and similar technology information

2. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our Services may use cookies, pixels, local storage, analytics technologies, and similar tools to operate and improve our Services.

These technologies may be used to:

Maintain website and application functionality
Remember user preferences
Authenticate users
Analyze traffic and usage
Improve performance
Detect fraud or security threats
Understand how users interact with MPSL services
Measure marketing or promotional effectiveness

Where required by applicable law, we may provide additional choices concerning certain cookies or tracking technologies.

Your browser or device may also provide controls for managing cookies and similar technologies.

3. How We Use Information

We may use information we collect to:

Provide and operate our Services
Establish and manage accounts
Register players, artists, teams, participants, fans, and other users
Administer Music-Performance Sports competitions
Process song submissions
Conduct games, tournaments, leagues, and championships
Calculate and display scores and rankings
Administer public voting and rating systems
Verify eligibility
Communicate competition results
Process transactions
Provide customer and participant support
Respond to questions and inquiries
Communicate important account, competition, or service information
Send promotional communications where permitted
Improve our websites, applications, games, and services
Conduct analytics and research
Protect the integrity of competitions and scoring systems
Detect or prevent fraud, manipulation, abuse, unauthorized access, and other prohibited conduct
Enforce our rules, policies, agreements, and Terms of Use
Protect MPSL, participants, users, partners, and the public
Comply with applicable legal obligations

4. Music, Media, and Artist Submissions

Artists and other authorized users may submit music, recordings, images, artwork, biographies, promotional materials, links, and other content through our Services.

Information and content designated for competition or public display may be presented to judges, officials, administrators, fans, viewers, other participants, or the general public as necessary to operate Music-Performance Sports competitions.

Submitting content does not transfer ownership of that content to MPSL except to the extent expressly provided in the applicable competition rules, participant agreement, content license, Terms of Use, or other agreement.

Separate terms may govern intellectual property rights and licenses associated with competition submissions.

5. Voting, Ratings, Scores, and Rankings

Our Services may allow fans, judges, officials, administrators, or other authorized users to rate, vote on, evaluate, or score competing music.

We may collect information associated with those activities to:

Calculate competition results
Generate ratings and scores
Maintain player rankings
Prevent duplicate, fraudulent, automated, or manipulated voting
Audit competition results
Maintain the integrity of Music-Performance Sports competitions

Competition results, player rankings, ratings, scores, records, and related statistics may be publicly displayed.

6. Third-Party Music and Technology Services

Our Services may interact with or provide links to third-party platforms and services.

These may include music streaming services, payment processors, hosting providers, analytics providers, email providers, social-media platforms, authentication services, cloud infrastructure providers, and other technology partners.

When you interact directly with a third-party service, that company's privacy policy and terms may govern its collection and processing of your information.

MPSL is not responsible for the independent privacy practices of third-party websites or services.

7. Spotify and Apple Music

Certain MPSL services may permit users to submit or access links or information associated with music available through Spotify, Apple Music, or other authorized music services.

Use of those third-party platforms remains subject to their respective terms, privacy policies, and developer requirements.

MPSL's integration with or reference to a third-party platform does not imply that the third party sponsors or endorses MPSL unless an official relationship has been expressly identified.

8. How We May Disclose Information

We may disclose information in appropriate circumstances to:

Technology and hosting providers
Payment processors
Analytics providers
Email and communication providers
Contractors and professional service providers
Authorized game administrators, officials, judges, and league personnel
Authorized franchises, divisions, or operational partners when necessary to administer MPSL activities
Business partners when appropriate and legally permitted
Government authorities or law enforcement when legally required
Other parties when necessary to protect legal rights, safety, security, or competition integrity

We may also disclose information as part of a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, sale of assets, or similar business transaction, subject to applicable law.

We may disclose aggregated or de-identified information that does not reasonably identify an individual.

9. Public Information

Music-Performance Sports is structured around public competition, rankings, statistics, and entertainment.

Accordingly, certain participant information may intentionally be public.

This may include:

Artist or player name
Stage name
Artist photograph
Biography
General geographic representation, such as city and state
Team or division
Competition songs
Matchups
Scores
Ratings
Rankings
Records
Competition history
Awards and championships
Interviews and authorized promotional content

Users should not submit information intended for public display that they do not want publicly available.

10. Data Security

MPSL seeks to use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards appropriate to the information we maintain.

However, no website, application, database, network, or Internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Users are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of their account credentials and should promptly notify MPSL if they believe their account or information has been compromised.

11. Data Retention

We may retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to:

Provide our Services
Maintain competition and historical records
Administer accounts
Complete transactions
Resolve disputes
Enforce agreements
Prevent fraud and abuse
Satisfy legitimate business needs
Meet legal, accounting, regulatory, or reporting obligations

Different categories of information may be retained for different periods.

Certain historical competition information, such as publicly reported scores, rankings, championships, and player records, may be retained as part of MPSL's historical sports records.

12. Children's Privacy

Our Services are not intended to collect personal information from children in violation of applicable children's privacy laws.

If a particular MPSL program permits participation by minors, additional eligibility requirements, parental or legal guardian permissions, releases, privacy notices, or consent procedures may apply.

Parents or legal guardians who believe a child has provided personal information to MPSL inappropriately should contact us so that we can review the matter and take appropriate action.

13. Communications and Marketing

We may use contact information to send operational communications relating to accounts, registrations, competitions, transactions, events, rules, schedules, results, or changes to our Services.

Where legally permitted, we may also send promotional or marketing communications.

Users may be able to unsubscribe from promotional emails through the unsubscribe mechanism contained in those communications.

Certain transactional, administrative, security, or competition-related communications may still be sent when necessary to provide the Services.

14. Privacy Rights and Choices

Depending on where you reside and applicable law, you may have certain rights concerning your personal information.

These may include rights to request:

Access to certain personal information
Correction of inaccurate information
Deletion of certain information
Information regarding how personal information is processed
A copy of certain personal information
Opt-out rights for certain types of processing where applicable

These rights are subject to applicable legal exceptions and verification requirements.

MPSL may need to verify your identity before processing certain privacy requests.

15. Third-Party Links

Our Services may contain links to websites, applications, streaming services, social-media platforms, sponsors, partners, vendors, or other third parties.

MPSL does not control the privacy practices of independent third parties.

Users should review the privacy policies of third-party services before providing information to them.

16. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our Services, technologies, business operations, legal requirements, or privacy practices.

When material changes are made, we may provide notice through our website, application, email, or another appropriate method.

The “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy identifies when this policy was most recently revised.

17. Contact Us

Questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or MPSL's privacy practices may be submitted to:

Music-Performance Sports League, LLC
Attn: Privacy
Virginia, United States

Email: info@songvssongsports.com

Website: www.songvssongsports.com