LEGAL

Privacy Policy

Effective Date: July 13, 2026
Welcome to the Gritty Soldier Challenge Unit. The Gritty Soldier Challenge Unit ("Challenge Unit") is owned and operated by Gritty Soldier LLC. Throughout this website, the terms "Challenge Unit," "we," "our," and "us" refer to Gritty Soldier LLC and its Challenge Unit program. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information.
This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and the choices you have regarding your information when you use our website, register for challenges, create an account, or interact with our services. By using our website, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Information You Provide

We may collect information you voluntarily provide, including:
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Name
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Email address
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Mailing address
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Phone number (if provided)
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Username
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Account credentials
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Date of birth (if required for specific challenges)
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Emergency contact information (when applicable)
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Challenge registration information
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Challenge result submissions
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GPS activity files
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Screenshots
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Photos submitted for verification
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Messages sent through contact forms
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Customer support communications

Payment Information

Payments are securely processed through trusted third-party payment processors. We do not store your credit card numbers or full payment information on our servers.

Automatically Collected Information

When you visit our website, we may automatically collect information such as:
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IP address
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Browser type
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Device type
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Operating system
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Pages viewed
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Time spent on the website
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Referring website
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Click behavior
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Cookies and similar technologies

How We Use Your Information

We use your information to:
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Create and manage your account
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Register you for challenges
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Verify challenge results
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Process payments
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Ship Challenge Coins and rewards
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Maintain leaderboards
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Award digital achievements
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Respond to customer support requests
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Improve our website and services
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Send important challenge updates
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Prevent fraud and maintain the integrity of the Challenge Unit
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Comply with legal obligations

Challenge Verification

To maintain the integrity of the Challenge Unit, participants may be required to submit evidence of challenge completion. Depending on the challenge, verification may include GPS tracking data, activity files, fitness tracker screenshots, photos, or required documentation. Verification submissions are used solely to determine whether the published challenge standards have been met.

Leaderboards & Public Results

By participating in a challenge, you acknowledge that certain information may be displayed publicly, including your name or chosen display name, challenge completed, completion date, completion time (when applicable), rankings, and earned achievements. This information becomes part of the permanent historical record of the Challenge Unit. If you wish to use a display name instead of your legal name, you may do so within your account settings where available.

Challenge Coins & Shipping

If you successfully complete a challenge, we use your shipping information to deliver Challenge Coins, rewards, and other physical items. Shipping information is only shared with fulfillment providers as necessary to complete delivery.

Email Communications

We may send emails related to challenge registrations, verification updates, order confirmations, shipping notifications, important account information, new challenge announcements, community updates, and promotional offers. You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time using the unsubscribe link included in those emails. You will continue to receive transactional emails necessary to manage your account or challenge participation.

Cookies

We use cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, and similar technologies to improve website functionality, personalize your experience, analyze traffic, maintain account sessions, and support marketing and advertising efforts. These technologies may be provided by us or by trusted third-party service providers. You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings; however, doing so may affect the functionality of certain features of the website.

Analytics

We may use various analytics, performance monitoring, and advertising technologies to better understand how visitors use our website, improve user experience, measure marketing effectiveness, and enhance the functionality of our services. These technologies may collect information such as pages visited, time spent on the website, device information, browser type, approximate geographic location, referral sources, and interactions with our content.

Advertising

We may use advertising platforms that use cookies or tracking technologies to deliver relevant advertisements and measure campaign performance. These services may include social media platforms and advertising networks. You can manage advertising preferences through your browser or the applicable advertising platform.

Third-Party Services

To operate and improve the Gritty Soldier Challenge Unit, we may use trusted third-party service providers to perform functions on our behalf. These services may support website hosting, payment processing, user authentication, challenge registration, result verification, data storage, analytics, marketing, email communications, customer support, shipping, fraud prevention, security, and other business operations. These providers receive only the information necessary to perform their services and are expected to safeguard your information in accordance with applicable privacy and security standards. As our services evolve, we may add, replace, or discontinue third-party providers without prior notice.

Data Security

We take reasonable administrative, technical, and physical measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no method of transmitting information over the Internet or storing electronic data is completely secure.

Data Retention

We retain personal information only as long as necessary to operate the Challenge Unit, maintain historical leaderboards, verify challenge results, meet legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies. Challenge results, leaderboard records, and earned achievements may be retained indefinitely as part of the permanent history of the Challenge Unit.

Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the right to access your personal information, correct inaccurate information, delete certain personal information, restrict processing, object to certain uses, and request a copy of your information. To exercise these rights, please contact us using the information below.

Children’s Privacy

The Challenge Unit is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that information has been collected from a child without appropriate consent, we will promptly delete it.

International Participants

The Challenge Unit welcomes participants from around the world. By using our website, you understand that your information may be processed and stored in the United States, where privacy laws may differ from those in your country.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When changes are made, we will update the Effective Date at the top of this page. Continued use of the website after changes become effective constitutes acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how your information is handled, please contact us. Gritty Soldier LLC · Gritty Soldier Challenge Unit · Email: challengestaff@grittysoldier.com · Website: https://challenges.grittysoldier.com