Privacy Policy for The Gambit Show

**Effective Date:** July 29, 2025

At The Gambit Show, accessible from `thegambitshow.com` (and `scambait.thegambitshow.com`), your privacy and security are paramount. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your personal information when you use our website and ethical scambaiting tools. We are committed to safeguarding your data and ensuring transparency in our practices.

By accessing or using The Gambit Show's services, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

We collect information to provide and improve our services, process your subscriptions, and ensure the security of our platform.

1.1. Information You Provide Directly

• Account Registration Data: When you create an account, we collect your email address, chosen username, and password. This is essential for managing your access to our tools.
• Subscription & Payment Information: If you subscribe to a paid plan, we collect necessary billing details. Please note that payment processing is handled by secure third-party payment processors (e.g., Stripe, PayPal), and we do not directly store your full credit card details on our servers.
• Communications: When you contact us for support, send us feedback, or participate in our community forums, we collect the content of your communications and any contact information you provide.

1.2. Information Collected Automatically

• Usage Data: We collect information about how you interact with our website and tools, such as pages visited, features used, time spent on the site, and referral sources. This helps us understand user behavior and improve our services.
• Technical Data: We automatically collect certain technical information about your device and internet connection, including your IP address, browser type, operating system, and device identifiers. Please note: While we collect IP addresses for security and analytics, our ethical scambaiting tools are designed to help you maintain anonymity from scammers and we do not expose your real IP address to the targets of your scambaiting activities.
• Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to enhance your experience, analyze site usage, and remember your preferences. You can control cookie preferences through your browser settings.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the collected information for the following purposes:

• To Provide and Maintain Our Services: This includes managing your account, providing access to our ethical scambaiting tools, and ensuring the functionality of the fictional bank environments.
• To Process Transactions: To process your subscriptions and payments for our premium services.
• To Improve and Personalize Services: We use usage data and feedback to understand user needs, troubleshoot issues, develop new features, and enhance the overall user experience of our scambaiting platform.
• To Communicate with You: To send you important updates, security alerts, administrative messages, and respond to your inquiries.
• For Security and Fraud Prevention (Internal): To protect our website, users, and systems from unauthorized access, fraud, and other malicious activities. This is distinct from your use of our tools to prevent external fraud by scammers.
• For Analytics: To monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our services, helping us optimize our website's performance and SEO.
• To Comply with Legal Obligations: To meet legal and regulatory requirements, including responding to lawful requests from public authorities.

3. How We Share Your Information

We do not sell your personal information. We may share your information in the following circumstances:

• With Third-Party Service Providers: We engage trusted third-party companies and individuals to perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, website hosting, data analytics, and customer support. These providers have access to your information only to perform their tasks and are obligated not to disclose or use it for other purposes.
• For Legal Reasons: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court order or government agency).
• Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, your information may be transferred.
• With Your Consent: We may share your information with third parties when we have your explicit consent to do so.
• Aggregated or Anonymized Data: We may share aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you. For example, we may share statistics about the usage of our ethical scambaiting tools for research or reporting.

Important Note on Scambaiting: The Gambit Show's tools are designed to help you engage with scammers safely and anonymously. We want to be absolutely clear: we do not share your personal information (e.g., your real name, email, IP address) with the targets of your scambaiting activities. Our platform is built with safeguards to protect your identity during these engagements.

4. Data Security

We implement robust technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. These measures include encryption, firewalls, secure server environments, and regular security audits. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

5. Data Retention

We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide our services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. When your information is no longer required, we will securely delete or anonymize it.

6. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Right to Access: Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Right to Rectification: Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Right to Erasure ("Right to be Forgotten"): Request deletion of your personal data under certain conditions.
• Right to Restrict Processing: Request that we limit the way we use your data.
• Right to Data Portability: Request that we transfer your data to another organization.
• Right to Object: Object to our processing of your personal data.
• Right to Withdraw Consent: Withdraw your consent at any time where we rely on consent to process your personal data.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided below.

7. Third-Party Links

Our website may contain links to third-party websites or services that are not operated by us. This Privacy Policy does not apply to such third-party sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit.

8. Children's Privacy

Our services are not intended for individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If we become aware that we have collected data from a child without parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any significant changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Effective Date" at the top. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:

Email: `scams@thegambitshow.com`)