Privacy Policy

"We protect your data better than we protect our wrestlers"

Last Updated: January 1, 2025 (GDPR made us do it)

🔒 YOUR PRIVACY MATTERS 🔒

The Lower Reedy Alligator Wrestling League (LRAWL) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, attend our events, or interact with our services. Unlike alligator wrestling, we take data security very seriously. Please read this policy carefully.

Table of Contents

1 Information We Collect

We collect information about you in various ways when you interact with LRAWL. Here's what we collect and why:

Personal Information You Provide

Information We Collect Automatically

Information from Events

Why So Much Information?

We're dealing with dangerous animals and even more dangerous human behavior. We need emergency contacts, medical info, and attendance records not because we're nosy, but because our insurance company insists on it. Your safety (and our legal protection) requires comprehensive records.

2 How We Use Your Information

We use your information for legitimate business purposes. Here's what we do with your data:

Purpose How We Use Your Data
Service Delivery Process registrations, ticket sales, and event participation
Safety & Emergency Contact emergency contacts, provide medical information to first responders
Communication Send event updates, safety briefings, schedule changes, and "are you sure?" emails
Payment Processing Process transactions, issue refunds (when applicable, which is rare)
Marketing Send promotional emails, newsletters, and event announcements (opt-out available)
Analytics Understand user behavior, improve services, figure out why people keep coming back
Legal Compliance Comply with laws, respond to legal requests, maintain liability records
Security Prevent fraud, protect our systems, identify suspicious activity

We Don't:

❌ Sell your personal information to third parties
❌ Share your medical data without authorization
❌ Use your info for purposes unrelated to LRAWL
❌ Send spam (we define this as more than 2 emails per week)
❌ Judge you for your life choices (okay, maybe a little)

3 Information Sharing & Disclosure

We share your information only when necessary and with appropriate safeguards:

When We Share Your Information

Public Information

Some information may be publicly displayed:

⚠️ IMPORTANT ⚠️

If you wrestle an alligator at our events, your participation may be photographed, filmed, and shared publicly. This is not a privacy violation—it's the nature of a public sporting event. If you don't want to appear in media, don't participate in or attend events. Seriously, we can't blur out every face in every video.

4 Cookies & Tracking Technologies

Like every website since 1995, we use cookies. Here's what you need to know:

Types of Cookies We Use

Other Tracking Technologies

Managing Cookies: You can control cookies through your browser settings. However, disabling cookies may limit your ability to use certain features of our website. It won't, however, limit your ability to wrestle alligators in person.

Cookie Reality:

Yes, we use cookies. No, they're not the delicious kind. We use them to make the site work better and to understand which pages people visit before closing their browser in disbelief. We promise we're not tracking you any more than every other website on the internet.

5 Data Security

We implement reasonable security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Our security practices include:

However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your information, we cannot guarantee absolute security.

⚠️ SECURITY REALITY ⚠️

We secure your data better than our wrestlers secure victory against the gators. Which is to say, we try very hard, we use the best tools available, and we take it seriously. But like alligator wrestling, there's always some inherent risk. If you're concerned about your data security, use strong passwords and don't share your account credentials.

6 Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information:

Your Rights Include:

How to Exercise Your Rights

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at privacy@lrawl.org. We will respond within 30 days. Please note that some requests may be subject to verification of your identity.

Important Limitations:

We cannot delete certain records required by law, such as liability waivers, incident reports, and transaction history. We also can't erase you from photos/videos of public events (unless legally required). Your participation in public alligator wrestling is, unfortunately, part of the historical record.

7 Children's Privacy

LRAWL does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years of age without parental consent. Our services are not directed to children under 13.

For Minors (Under 18):

If we discover we have collected information from a child under 13 without parental consent, we will delete that information promptly.

⚠️ PARENTS, PLEASE READ ⚠️

If your child is interested in alligator wrestling, we strongly encourage you to have a serious conversation about risk assessment, common sense, and alternative hobbies. If you still decide to let them participate, we need your explicit consent and will need to collect information about your child for safety purposes. Also, maybe consider therapy.

8 International Users

LRAWL is based in South Carolina, United States. If you are accessing our services from outside the U.S., please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States.

For European Users (GDPR):

For California Users (CCPA):

International Participation:

While we welcome international visitors (seriously, people travel for this?), please note that alligators are primarily a U.S. problem. If you're coming from abroad to wrestle our gators, we respect your dedication to questionable activities.

9 Third-Party Links

Our website may contain links to third-party websites, services, or resources. This Privacy Policy does not apply to those external sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of third parties.

Third parties we may link to include:

We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit.

10 Data Retention

We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

Retention Periods:

After the retention period, we securely delete or anonymize your personal information.

Why So Long?

Legal requirements for liability protection in dangerous activities require us to keep records for extended periods. If someone sues us five years after a match, we need documentation. It's not paranoia—it's legal necessity in the alligator wrestling business.

11 Updates to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements, or other factors. When we make changes, we will:

Your continued use of our services after changes indicates acceptance of the updated Privacy Policy. If you don't agree with changes, you should discontinue use of our services.

Typical Reasons for Updates:

New privacy laws (thanks, legislators), new services or features we offer, feedback from privacy advocates who question our entire existence, or our lawyers getting nervous about something new we're doing. We'll always notify you of material changes.

12 Contact Us

If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us:

Privacy Contact Information
Lower Reedy Alligator Wrestling League
Privacy Officer
Lower Reedy Swamp, Greenville County, SC 29607

Email: privacy@lrawl.org
Phone: 1-864-663-6664

Data Protection Officer (DPO): Sarah Jenkins, Esq.
Email: dpo@lrawl.org

We aim to respond to all privacy inquiries within 30 days. For urgent matters (like a data breach, not your regrets about wrestling a gator), call our main line and ask for immediate assistance.

If you are not satisfied with our response, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority or supervisory authority.

🔒 FINAL PRIVACY COMMITMENT 🔒

Your privacy is important to us. While we can't guarantee you won't regret wrestling an alligator, we CAN guarantee that we'll protect your personal information with the same seriousness we apply to safety protocols. We don't sell your data, we don't share it unnecessarily, and we secure it properly. Unlike our core business model, our privacy practices are actually reasonable and responsible.

If you have concerns about your privacy, please reach out to us. We're happy to answer questions, provide clarifications, or help you exercise your privacy rights. We take this seriously—even if we don't take much else seriously.

Thank you for trusting LRAWL with your information. Now please go read our Terms of Service and Liability Waiver before you do anything you'll regret.

✓ Your Acceptance

By using LRAWL services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy and agree to its terms. If you do not agree, please do not use our services.

Remember: we protect your data better than we protect our wrestlers. That's saying something.