Legal Disclaimer

The American Mahjong Ranking Authority ("AMR Authority," "we," "us," or "our") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our official ranking platform, website, mobile application, and services (collectively, the "Services").

By accessing or using our Services, you signify that you have read, understood, and agree to our collection, storage, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.

AMRA Privacy Policy

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1) Information We Collect

We may collect information that you provide directly to us, as well as information about your use of our Services.

A. Personal Information You Provide:

• Account Information: Name, email address, username, password, date of birth (to verify eligibility for certain tournaments or age brackets).

• Profile Information: Player alias, home club affiliation, biography, photograph.

• Tournament Data: Results, scores, ranks, and history of games played in sanctioned tournaments.

• Communication: Records of correspondence when you contact us for support or inquiries.

• Payment Information: If you pay for membership or services, our third-party payment processors (e.g., Stripe, PayPal) handle your card details. We only receive information necessary to confirm payment (e.g., last four digits of card, billing address).

B. Information Collected Automatically:

• Usage Data: IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, time spent on pages, and other diagnostic data.

• Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar technologies to track activity on our Services, hold certain information, and enhance user experience. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.​

2) How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

• To create, maintain, and manage your player account and profile.

• To calculate, maintain, and publicly display player rankings and tournament results.

• To operate, provide, and improve our Services.

• To communicate with you about your account, service updates, rule changes, and promotional offers (you may opt-out of marketing communications at any time).

• To respond to your comments, questions, and requests and provide customer support.

• To detect, prevent, and address technical issues, fraud, or abuse of our systems.

• To comply with legal obligations and enforce our terms and conditions.​

3) How We Share Your Information
We may share your information in the following situations:

• Publicly, as Part of the Ranking System: Your player name, alias, ranking, and tournament results are inherently public and will be displayed on our leaderboards and ranking lists. This is the core function of our Service.

• With Tournament Organizers: We share necessary player information with sanctioned tournament directors for event registration, verification, and result reporting.

• With Service Providers: We employ third-party companies to facilitate our Services (e.g., cloud hosting, data analysis, customer support, payment processing). These third parties have access to your information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

• For Legal Reasons: If required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).

• Business Transfers: In connection with a merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.​

4)  Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location, you may have rights regarding your personal information, such as:

• Access and Portability: The right to request copies of your personal data.

• Rectification: The right to have us correct any inaccurate or incomplete data we hold about you.

• Erasure ("Right to be Forgotten"): The right to request that we delete your personal data. Please note: Due to the historical nature of competitive rankings, a complete deletion of all tournament results may not be possible without compromising the integrity of the ranking system. We may anonymize your data instead by removing all personal identifiers from your game history.

• Restriction and Objection: The right to request that we restrict or stop the processing of your personal data.

• Opt-out of Marketing: You can unsubscribe from our marketing emails at any time using the link provided in them.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@amrauthority.com

5) Data Retention
We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, including to provide you with Services and to maintain the historical record of rankings. We will also retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.

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6) Data Security
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the data you provide to us, please be aware that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.

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7) Children's Privacy
Our Services are not intended for individuals under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13, we will take steps to delete such information.

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8) Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

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9) Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
American Mahjong Ranking Authority
Email:info@amrauthority.com
Last Updated: 08.14.2025