Sportvanta Legal & Compliance

Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 2026

1. Overview & Scope

Sportvanta ("we", "our", or "us") operates sportvanta.in, an Indian sports media, breaking news, match tracking, and community discussion platform. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, process, store, and protect user data when you visit our website, subscribe to our sports wire, or participate in interactive fan features.

2. Automated News Ingestion & Editorial Curation

Sportvanta utilizes automated news aggregation pipelines, verified RSS syndication feeds, and AI-assisted editorial agents to discover, summarize, and rank breaking sports stories in real time. These automated curation agents only process publicly available sports journalism feeds, official club communications, and tournament match statistics. Our ingestion agents do not access, scrape, or process any private reader data or personal communications.

3. Information We Collect Directly

We only collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us, including: • Newsletter & Reader Sign-Ups: Your email address and basic profile information provided through our subscription forms or Google Reader Revenue Manager (Subscribe with Google). • Interactive Fan Engagement: Anonymous vote identifiers, poll responses, and quiz scores when participating in Fan Battles and games. • User Inquiries: Name, email, and message details submitted through our contact and editorial support forms.

4. Information Collected Automatically

When you browse Sportvanta, our servers and analytics partners automatically record limited technical telemetry, including: • Device & Browser Data: Browser type, operating system, preferred language, and screen resolution. • Usage & Engagement Metrics: Visited pages, article reading time, referral URLs, and click patterns via Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and Vercel Analytics. • Security Telemetry: IP addresses and request timestamps used solely for rate limiting, bot protection, and DDoS prevention.

5. Cookies & Local Storage

Sportvanta uses cookies and browser local storage to provide a seamless reader experience: • Essential Cookies: Temporary session identifiers for authentication and ensuring one vote per user in interactive Fan Battles (e.g., sportvanta-voter, sportvanta-match-voter). • Analytics Cookies: Google Analytics cookies to measure audience growth and popular sports trends. • Preferences: Saving your selected favorite sports teams and visual display settings. You can configure your browser to reject cookies, though some interactive voting features may function with limited capabilities.

6. Third-Party Integrations & Advertising

We partner with trusted third-party service providers to power our platform: • Google Services: Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, and Google Reader Revenue Manager (Subscribe with Google) for reader registration. • Cloud Infrastructure: Vercel (hosting and edge routing), Neon (serverless encrypted database), and Sanity.io (headless content management). We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third-party data brokers.

7. Data Protection & Security

We implement rigorous technical and administrative security measures, including end-to-end HTTPS/TLS encryption, secure database access controls, and parameterized query handling to safeguard your information against unauthorized access, loss, or alteration.

8. Reader Rights (DPDP Act India & GDPR Compliance)

Under applicable data protection laws, including the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act of India and GDPR, you have the right to: • Access and request a copy of personal information we hold about you. • Request correction or deletion of your personal data. • Opt out or unsubscribe from newsletter communications at any time with a single click. • Withdraw consent previously granted for optional telemetry.

9. Updates to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect enhancements in our sports news technology or applicable regulations. Any updates will be posted on this page with a revised "Last updated" date.

Questions or Grievances?

For privacy requests, content attribution, or editorial feedback, please reach out to our team at Sportvanta Contact & Support.