Privacy Policy

Effective date: July 28, 2026

Strategic Computer Solutions, Inc. provides Bad Beat Billiards as one of its brands. This Privacy Policy explains how Strategic Computer Solutions, Inc. (collectively, “Bad Beat Billiards,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, discloses, and protects personal information when you visit badbeatbilliards.com, subscribe to communications, contact us, or participate in a promotion.

By using the website or submitting information, you acknowledge the practices described in this Policy. If you do not agree, please do not submit personal information through the website.

1. Information We Collect

Information You Provide

We collect information that you choose to provide. Depending on how you use the website, this may include:

  • Contact information, such as your name and email address.
  • Promotion-entry information, such as your trivia answer, pool league or APA information, qualifying-match details, and a scoresheet or other verification material.
  • Eligibility and prize-fulfillment information requested from a potential winner, such as age, state of residence, identity confirmation, and information reasonably needed to deliver a prize or satisfy tax and legal requirements.
  • Newsletter subscription preferences.
  • Questions, feedback, attachments, or other information you include when you contact us.

Information Collected Automatically

When you use the website, we and the service providers that support it may automatically receive technical and usage information, such as your Internet Protocol address, browser and device type, operating system, pages viewed, referring page, approximate location derived from an IP address, dates and times of visits, and website interactions. This information may be collected through cookies, logs, pixels, local storage, and similar technologies.

Information From Service Providers

We may receive information from providers that host the website, operate entry or contact forms, deliver email, prevent fraud or spam, analyze website performance, or otherwise help us provide the website and promotions.

2. How We Use Information

We may use personal information to:

  • Operate, maintain, secure, troubleshoot, and improve the website.
  • Accept, administer, verify, and audit promotion entries.
  • Conduct random drawings; contact potential winners; verify eligibility and qualifying matches; award prizes; and maintain legally required promotion records.
  • Respond to questions, requests, and customer-service messages.
  • Send newsletters or other communications you requested and manage your subscription preferences.
  • Detect and prevent duplicate, automated, fraudulent, or otherwise noncompliant entries and protect the rights, safety, and integrity of entrants, the public, Bad Beat Billiards, and our service providers.
  • Comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal process, tax requirements, and our Official Rules.
  • Create aggregated or de-identified information that does not reasonably identify an individual.

3. How We Disclose Information

We may disclose personal information in the following circumstances:

  • Service providers. We may provide information to vendors that perform services for us, including website hosting, form processing, email delivery, security, fraud prevention, data storage, analytics, and prize fulfillment. They may use information only as permitted by their agreements with us and applicable law.
  • Legal and safety purposes. We may disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is required by law, subpoena, court order, or other legal process, or is necessary to protect rights, safety, property, or the integrity of a promotion.
  • Business transactions. Information may be disclosed in connection with a merger, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, acquisition, bankruptcy, or similar transaction, subject to applicable law.
  • With your direction or consent. We may disclose information when you ask us to or otherwise consent.

We do not sell personal information for money. We also do not knowingly disclose personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

4. Promotions and Verification

Promotion entries are governed by the applicable Official Rules. We may compare an entry with league records, scoresheets, form records, and other information reasonably necessary to confirm eligibility and a qualifying result. If you are selected as a potential winner, we may request additional information before awarding a prize. Failure to provide required information within the stated response period may result in disqualification.

5. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies and similar technologies help the website function, remember preferences, protect forms, understand website performance, and improve the user experience. Your browser may allow you to block or delete cookies. Blocking some technologies may cause parts of the website or an entry form not to work correctly.

Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” signal. Because there is no universally accepted standard for responding to these signals, the website may not respond to them. We will honor legally recognized browser-based preference signals where required by applicable law.

6. Email Communications

If you subscribe to our newsletter or other marketing email, you may unsubscribe at any time by using the unsubscribe link in the message. We may still send non-marketing messages that are necessary to administer an entry, respond to a request, verify a potential winner, deliver a prize, or comply with law.

7. Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, including to administer promotions, maintain required records, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, prevent fraud, and comply with legal, accounting, or reporting obligations. Retention periods vary based on the type of information and the reason it was collected. We may retain aggregated or de-identified information for longer periods.

8. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information. No website, transmission, or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure, however, and we cannot promise absolute security.

9. Children’s Privacy

The website and promotions are intended for adults. Our promotions are not open to anyone under eighteen, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under thirteen. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, contact us so we can review and, when appropriate, delete it.

10. Your Choices and Privacy Rights

You may ask to access, correct, or delete personal information that you have provided to us, or to withdraw consent where consent is the basis for processing. Depending on where you live, applicable law may provide additional rights and appeal procedures. We may need to verify your identity before acting on a request, and some information may be retained when permitted or required by law.

To make a privacy request, email keith@badbeatbilliards.com with “Privacy Request” in the subject line. We will not discriminate against you for exercising a privacy right provided by applicable law.

11. Third-Party Services and Links

The website may use or link to services operated by others, such as form, email, hosting, social-media, video, or payment and prize providers. Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies, not this Policy. A link or embedded feature does not mean that Bad Beat Billiards controls that third party.

12. United States Processing

Bad Beat Billiards is based in the United States, and information may be processed and stored in the United States or other locations where our service providers operate. By using the website from outside the United States, you understand that privacy laws may differ from those in your location. Current promotions are limited to eligible residents of the fifty United States and the District of Columbia.

13. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the revised version on this page and change the effective date above. Material changes will be communicated in another reasonable manner when required by law.

14. Contact Us

Questions or requests about this Privacy Policy may be sent to keith@badbeatbilliards.com.