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Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 30, 2026

This policy tells you which information Syndicate Sports (syndicatesn.com) collects about you as a reader, how we use it and which alternatives you have. This policy is applicable to this site. It is not applicable to the information about persons that we collect and publish when we write stories. It is not applicable to the pages that we have on YouTube, podcast apps and social networks. The Cookie Policy gives the name of each item that the pages of this site can put on your device.

In short

  • Syndicate Media & Sports LLC publishes Syndicate Sports in the United States.
  • To read all the pages of the site, it is not necessary to have an account or to give your name. We do not sell items. We do not sell subscriptions.
  • We will start a newsletter. If you type your email address in the sign-up box and click “Sign up”, we keep the address on this site. We send no email until the newsletter starts. Refer to Newsletter sign-up.
  • If you send an application for work on the Careers page, we keep your application and files on this site for 12 months. Only the persons who operate the site can see them. Refer to Applications for work.
  • The site gets money from ads. Google and the ad companies that work with Google use cookies. With the cookies, they use the pages that you read on this site and on other sites to select ads for you (how Google uses this information). You can stop personalized ads. The ads will continue to show. Refer to Your ad selections.
  • The site does not accept comments at this time. We erased from the site the comments that persons wrote before. Refer to Comments.
  • Videos and other items from other sites in the stories load from other companies. These companies see your IP address when they load, with the page or after you click a button. Refer to Items from other companies.
  • We count the reads of each story. We keep one number for each story and no data about you. We also use Google Analytics to count the times that readers come to the site. Refer to The count of reads and Google Analytics.
  • We do not sell or rent the names or email addresses of readers. For ad cookies, refer to Targeted advertising and selling.
  • For questions, requests or complaints about privacy, send an email to business@syndicatesports.io.

On this page

Who we are

The company that publishes Syndicate Sports is Syndicate Media & Sports LLC in Shelton, Connecticut, United States. The previous name of Syndicate Sports was Sun Belt Syndicate. Syndicate Sports is a college sports news site that operates independently. We are responsible for the data that this site collects. For all questions, requests and complaints about privacy, send an email to business@syndicatesports.io.

What we collect

The data that you give

  • Newsletter sign-up: your email address. Refer to Newsletter sign-up.
  • Applications for work: the data that you type on the Careers page and the files that you upload. Refer to Applications for work.
  • Messages: if you send an email, your address and the text that you write. We use them to answer you. We also use them to do the work that your email is about. Examples are a correction, a copyright notice or a request about your information. If your email gives information for a story, we can also use it when we collect information for stories and when we write them.

What is collected automatically

  • Server logs. The hosting company of the site, Hostinger (Hostinger’s privacy policy), keeps a log of the requests that your browser makes to the site. A log entry usually contains your IP address, the date and time and your browser type. It contains the address of the request. If you typed words in the search field of the site, it contains those words. It frequently contains the page that you came from. Your browser also makes some small requests to the site, different from the requests for the pages. You do not see these requests. One request is for new scores while a page that shows scores is on your screen, for example in the score strip (the row of scores at the top of the pages of the site). One request is for a short list of stories when you point at the search field at the top of the page or click in it. This request also occurs when you open the menu on a phone. One request is sent after a story is open for five seconds. One request is sent when you click “Sign up” in the sign-up box of the newsletter. This request contains the email address that you typed. The email address is in the request but not in the address of the request. An application for work shows in the log as a request to the Careers page. The data that you typed and your files are in the request but not in the address of the request.
  • A count of reads. One number for each story and no data about you. Refer to The count of reads and Google Analytics.
  • Cookies and other small items that your browser keeps. Google uses most of these items, and it uses them for ads. Refer to Advertising and Cookies and browser storage.
  • The data that other companies get when your browser gets parts of the pages from them. Refer to Items from other companies.

Advertising

We show ads with Google AdSense. The pages have ad areas. The pages identify the ad areas as ads. Google can also show one ad from Google in a strip at the bottom of the screen. You can close this ad. When a page with ads loads, Google and other ad companies can put cookies in your browser and read them. They can also use web beacons (small pictures that you cannot see), your IP address or other identifiers to collect information. They use this information about the pages that you read on this site and on other sites to select ads for you. Thus they can monitor how you use the Internet from site to site for a long time. Google’s code also gets the address of the page that you are on. If you use the search field, the address of the page with the results contains the words that you typed.

Google gives this information in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services and on Business Data Responsibility. Business Data Responsibility is a page of Google for the companies that use Google.

Google publishes a list of ad companies that can show and measure ads with Google in Europe, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. Most of the entries have a link to a page about how the company uses information. Google also publishes a page with links to its lists of companies approved for third-party ads. If one of these companies lets you stop personalized ads, you can do this on the site of that company.

This policy and the Cookie Policy have no ads and no ad code of Google. Thus you can read them before you make a selection.

Your ad selections

Personalized ads are ads that an ad company selects for you with data about the pages that you read on the Internet.

If you stop personalized ads, the ads continue to show. Google tells you that it will then not use your interests to select these ads. The pages of the Digital Advertising Alliance and of Your Online Choices are applicable only to the companies that agree to obey them. The ad companies can continue to use the page that you read and your general location to select ads. Google also continues to use cookies to limit how frequently you see an ad and to measure ads. Your browser keeps most of these selections. Make the selections again in each browser and on each device. Make them again after you erase cookies.

Google’s ad code can show two more controls. These controls show only in some locations. Each control shows as a link at the bottom of the pages that have ads. It shows only when Google’s code reports that it is applicable to you. The two links are “Privacy and cookie settings” for Europe, the United Kingdom and Switzerland and “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” for some US states.

If you read the site from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, the pages tell Google’s code that you did not agree. They tell it before the code operates. At the start, the code does not use cookies for ads or for statistics. At the start, it also does not use your information for personalized ads.

A consent message from Google gets your selection. When this message is activated for this site, it comes with the ad code of Google on pages that have ads. Until you agree in the message, the answer is “no”. If you do not see the message, you did not agree. When Google’s code reports that the message is applicable to you, the link “Privacy and cookie settings” shows. It shows at the bottom of the pages that have ads, for example a story page. The link shows the message again. Thus you can change your selection or remove it.

Your answer is applicable to Google’s ads and to Google Analytics only. The count of reads by the site operates if you agree and if you do not agree, and it keeps no data about you. Videos and other items from other sites have buttons that are not connected to this message. Refer to Items from other companies.

Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

Some browsers can send a “Do Not Track” or “Global Privacy Control” signal. This signal tells sites that you do not want a site to monitor you or to sell or share your information. This site does not change its operation when it gets one of these signals. Google tells you that in some US states, but not in all, Google uses a Global Privacy Control signal and shows only non-personalized ads. Do not use these signals as your only control on this site. Use Your ad selections, or the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link where it shows.

The count of reads and Google Analytics

The count of reads by the site

We count the number of reads of each story on this site. We use the numbers to show the stories that have the most reads. The stories show in story lists that are sorted by “Most popular”. They also show in the short list of stories below the search field and in the “Most popular” area on school, conference and front pages. The site counts a read when a story is open on your screen for five seconds. Then your browser tells the site which story it was. We keep one number for each story, while the site keeps the story, and the day on which the count started. We keep no data about you with the number. We keep no IP address, no cookie and no item in your browser. We do not keep the time or date when you read the story.

The site does not count search engines and other software if it can tell that they are not readers. The site also does not count the persons who write for this site while they are signed in. To tell the difference, the site examines the name that your browser gives. It examines the site that the request came from and how your browser sent the request. It also examines if you are signed in. The site keeps none of these. The log of the hosting company of the site records this request, the same as each request to the site. Refer to What we collect.

Google Analytics

We also use Google Analytics to count the times that readers come to the site and to find the pages that they read.

It uses cookies for this. Google tells you how it collects and uses the information. For readers in Europe, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, the pages tell it not to use its cookies, unless you agree in Google’s consent message. You can deactivate Google Analytics in your browser with Google’s opt-out add-on.

Items from other companies

Your browser loads some parts of the pages straight from other companies. Each company gets your IP address and browser data and can know that you were on the site. A post from a different site or a video player in a story does more. It works as if you were on the site of that company. Thus the company can put cookies in your browser and monitor what you do.

Loaded only in some conditions

  • YouTube (Google’s privacy policy): the small picture of the newest video of each show of the site. It loads on each page that has the shows of the site, which is most pages. The video player loads only in a story that contains a video.
  • X (previous name: Twitter) (X’s privacy policy): X posts that the code of X loads in stories. Many stories have them.
  • Instagram (Meta’s privacy policy): Instagram posts that the code of Instagram loads in stories. Some stories have them.
  • Buzzsprout (Buzzsprout’s privacy policy), the company that has the podcasts of the site: the audio loads when you click play. At some times the cover picture of the episode loads. Your phone or other device shows it with the controls of the device that start and stop the audio. Before you click play, no data from Buzzsprout loads. The podcast covers on the pages are copies that the site keeps. The audio of one show first goes through pdcn.co. There, Audacy’s Creator Lab (previous name: Podcorn) counts plays (Audacy’s privacy policy).

The site does not load the small pictures of videos, the videos and the posts when a page loads. They load without a click only in two conditions. In the first condition, the ad code of Google tells the page that you are not in Europe. In this section, Europe is the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. In the second condition, the code of Google does not give a location, and your device has a time zone that is not in Europe. Google’s code finds your location. We do not find it. If Google’s code does not give a location, the pages examine the time zone of your device, in your browser only. The site does not keep or send the time zone. In all other conditions, a video or a post waits behind a button, for example “Show this post from X” or “Play video”. Your browser does not contact the other company until you click the button. A small picture of a video shows as an empty area. This is the condition when Google’s code puts you in Europe. This is also the condition when Google’s code gives no location and your device has a time zone in Europe or no time zone. Google’s code gives no location when you use an ad blocker, on a page without ads, or when the code does not answer. After you click a button, other items from the same company load without a click until you close the tab. If Google’s code puts you in Europe only after the items load, the items stay on that page. No more items load without a click.

The same condition is applicable to posts from TikTok, Facebook, Threads, Bluesky and Reddit. It is also applicable to a video, or to a different item, that a different site shows in a frame. A post from a different site, with a name not given here, can load with the page. The fonts load from this site, not from a different company. The scores come from a public site that we do not operate. The server of the site reads the scores from that site. Your browser does not contact that site. Links to other sites send no data until you click them. These links include the share buttons and the links to the pages that we have on social networks. After you click a link, the policy of the other site is applicable.

Comments

The site does not accept comments at this time. We erased from the site the comments that persons wrote before. We also erased the data that we kept with each comment. This data was the name and email address that the person gave, the address of a site if the person gave one, the IP address, the browser type and the time. The comments and this data can stay in backup copies of the site while those copies are in storage. Refer to How long we keep data.

Newsletter sign-up

We have a plan for a newsletter, but we did not start it. If you type your email address in the sign-up box and click “Sign up”, we keep three items on this site. The items are the address, the day of your sign-up and the page of our site where you were. We keep no name, no IP address and no time of day with them, and the sign-up box keeps no data in your browser. The log of the company that keeps our site records each request to our site. This includes the request of your sign-up. Refer to What we collect.

Our site counts how many sign-ups come from one internet connection. This stops a program from filling the sign-up box with false addresses. For this count, the site keeps a coded version of your IP address, apart from the list. The count uses the coded version for one hour only. The site removes it in one day or less.

We use the address only to write to you when the newsletter starts. Until then we send you no email. Before we send a newsletter, we will send you one email. In this email, you can tell us that you want the newsletter. If you do not tell us that you want it, you get no newsletter.

The list stays on this site, on the servers of the company that keeps our site. The remaining data of the site is on the same servers. We give the list to no other person. When the newsletter starts, a company that sends newsletters will transmit it. We will write the name of that company here. We will do this before we give an address to that company.

At all times, you can tell us to remove your address from the list. To do this, send an email to us. Write the address in the email.

Applications for work

On our Careers page you can send an application for work with us as a writer, a social media operator or a podcast host. These are contractor positions. When you send an application, we keep this data on this site. The data is your name, email address, phone number, the text that you typed in “Current city” and “Favorite school”, and the position. It also includes the links that you gave us (X, Instagram, TikTok, a portfolio or a demo reel) and your answers to the questions of the form. Two of the questions are “Are you 18 or older?” and “Are you legally authorized to work in the United States?” It also includes your files: a cover letter, a resume and, for writers, three samples of stories. We also keep the date and time when we got it and our note about the status of your application. We keep no IP address with it, and the form keeps no data in your browser.

Our site counts how many applications come from one internet connection. This stops too many automatic applications to the form. For this count, the site keeps a coded version of your IP address, apart from your application. The count uses the coded version for one hour only. The site removes it in one day or less.

Only the persons who run this site can see applications. We use them to select the persons to contact about a position and to contact you. We read your samples of stories only to think about your application. We do not publish them. We do not sell applications. We do not use them for ads. We give them to a different person only in two conditions. The company that keeps our site holds them with the remaining data of the site. Also, we give them to a different person where the law makes it necessary. When we get an application, our site sends an email to our staff. This short notice gives only the name of the position. The data and files of your application stay on the site.

We erase an application and its files from this site 12 months after we get it, or in less time if you tell us to. Copies of it can stay in backup copies of the site while those copies are in storage. Refer to How long we keep data. You can tell us to show, correct or erase your application. To do this, send an email to business@syndicatesports.io from the address that you gave in the application.

Persons on our pages

Our staff page shows the name, title, bio, picture and X account link of each person on the staff, as typed on this site. Pages for schools and conferences show the writers who write about them, as the staff page does. The bio card below each story shows its writer. The page of Syndicate 25 voters shows each voter. If you are on one of these pages and you want us to change or remove the data, send an email to us.

Cookies and browser storage

These are the primary cookies and items of browser storage. The full list, with the name of each, and the procedure to stop them are in our Cookie Policy.

  • synSport (this site, in the storage of your browser, not a cookie): keeps the sport that you selected in the score strip. Your browser does not send it to us. It stays until you erase the site data that your browser keeps.
  • synTeams (this site, in the storage of your browser, not a cookie): keeps the schools that you follow, up to five. It stays until you erase the site data that your browser keeps. When you open the My teams page, your browser asks this site for the card of each school by the school’s number. The server log keeps these requests, the same as each request to the site.
  • synEmbeds (this site, in the browser storage of the open tab, not a cookie): keeps the names of the companies of the videos or posts that you selected to show. Your browser does not send it to us. The browser erases it when you close the tab.
  • __gads, __gpi, IDE (examples, from Google): show ads, show personalized ads if your settings let Google do this, limit how frequently you see an ad, and measure ads. They stay for 13 months. IDE can stay for 24 months in areas other than the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom.
  • FCCDCF, FCNEC (Google’s consent message, when it runs): the message uses them, for example to keep your selection. They stay for a maximum of 13 months.
  • _ga (example, from Google Analytics): keeps a number that is different for each browser. It stays for 2 years.

The Google lines are examples. They give the numbers that Google gives. Google keeps the list that is correct at this time in its cookie information for ad products. X, YouTube and other services that we show in stories set their cookies.

How we use and share information

We use the data that we collect to show you the site and to answer messages. We use it to think about applications for work. We use it to make sure that the site operates correctly and is safe. We use it to find which stories readers read. We use it to write to you when our newsletter starts, if you gave your address in the sign-up box. We also use it to show the ads that supply the money for the site.

We share information with the companies in this policy. Each company gets the information for the tasks that this policy gives. These companies are Hostinger, Google and the companies in Items from other companies. Hostinger keeps our site and our mailbox, and we keep your messages to us in the mailbox. We also give information where the law makes it necessary. We can show a copyright notice to the writer who published the material. Our copyright page tells more about this. We can give a correction request to the writer of the story. This helps us to examine the request. If the site goes to a different person or company by sale or merger, that person or company gets the data that we hold.

We do not sell or rent the names or email addresses of readers. We do not sell or rent a list of them. For advertising cookies, refer to Targeted advertising and selling.

How long we keep data

  • Emails that you send us: until we erase them. We set no time limit.
  • Backup copies: we and the company that keeps our site make copies of the full site. With these copies we can put the site back if necessary. The company that keeps our site keeps its copies for a maximum of six weeks. We keep the copies that we make until we erase them. If we erase an item from the site, for example a comment, it can stay in those copies while those copies are in storage.
  • The count of reads: one number for each story, while the story stays on the site.
  • Newsletter sign-ups: until you tell us to remove you from the list, or until we stop the plan for a newsletter and erase the list.
  • Applications for work and their files: 12 months after we get them, unless we erase them in less time. The coded IP address that limits applications: one hour, and we remove it in one day or less.
  • Server logs: Hostinger keeps them for a period that it sets; its control panel shows the last seven days.
  • Cookies: as shown in our Cookie Policy. Other companies keep the data that they collect for the time that their policies give.

Your selections and rights

All persons

  • Deactivate personalized ads and block cookies. Refer to Your ad selections.
  • Tell us to show the data that we hold about you. Usually, this data is the emails and the application for work that you sent us, if you sent them. If you gave your address in the sign-up box, it also includes your email address on that list. You can also tell us to correct or erase this data. For these requests, send an email to business@syndicatesports.io. Before we do what you tell us, we make sure that the request comes from you. We usually do this by an email to the address that the message or application came from.
  • We cannot see or erase the data that Google, X and the other companies in this policy hold about your browser. Send your requests to those companies. The sections Your ad selections and Items from other companies have links to their privacy pages and tools.

Targeted advertising and selling

Ads on this site are targeted advertising. Google and the advertising companies that work with Google use cookies to show you ads. They use your interests for this. To opt out of targeted advertising, use Your ad selections. All readers can do this, in all countries and in all US states.

For some US states, the advertising code of Google has an opt-out. Where Google reports that this opt-out is applicable to you at this time, a link is at the bottom of our pages that have ads. The link is “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information”. When you use it, it shows “Opt-out request honored”. If you do not see the link, Google does not give you the opt-out at this time. Use Your ad selections. The opt-out behind the link is the opt-out of Google. We have no tool that stops advertising cookies for one reader.

Some US state privacy laws count it as “selling” or “sharing” personal information when a site lets advertising companies collect information through cookies. They do this also where no names or email addresses go to those companies. Thus the link has these words.

We do not sell the names or email addresses of readers. If you want to tell us not to sell information about you, send an email to business@syndicatesports.io.

Your rights in Europe, the United Kingdom and Switzerland

  • Most frequently, our basis to use your information is our “legitimate interests”. This is the term of the law in Europe and the United Kingdom. Our legitimate interests are the usual work that is necessary to run the site and to keep it safe. They also include the work to find which stories readers read, to answer your messages and to show content from other companies. For advertising cookies, personalized ads and all other items for which the consent message of Google gives you a selection, the basis is your consent. For the newsletter sign-up, the basis is also your consent. You give it when you do the sign-up. You can withdraw it at all times. To do this, send an email to us. For an application for work, the basis is the steps that you tell us to do before we possibly start work together. The basis is also our legitimate interest to select our contributors. Where a law makes it necessary for us to give information, the basis is that law.
  • We are in the United States. Its privacy law is different from your privacy law. The company that keeps our site keeps it on servers in the United States. The other companies in this policy work in the United States and in other countries. Google tells in its privacy policy how it keeps information safe when the information goes out of Europe.
  • You can tell us to give you a copy of your information. You can tell us to correct or erase it. You can tell us not to use it until a question about it has an answer. You can tell us to give it to you as a file that you can give to a different company. You can withdraw each consent that you gave, at all times.
  • At all times, you have the right to object when we use your information.
  • You can complain to us at business@syndicatesports.io and to your data protection authority. In the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, find your authority in the European Data Protection Board’s list. In the United Kingdom it is the Information Commissioner’s Office. In Switzerland it is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner.
  • We make no decision with only a computer when the decision has an effect on your rights in law. This is also applicable to a decision with an almost equivalent effect on you. But Google selects ads automatically.

Children

Syndicate Sports is for a general audience. It is not directed to children who are less than 13 years of age. We do not collect personal information from a child when we know that the child is less than 13 years of age. If you think that your child sent us information, for example in an email or an application for work, send an email to us. Then we will erase it from the site.

Safety of your data

The site uses an encrypted (HTTPS) connection. Readers have no accounts here, and only our staff can sign in. No site can promise full safety, and we do not promise it.

Changes to this policy

When we change this policy, we put the new version here with a new date. We also write a note about the change in the list that follows. The date at the top of this page is the day from which the version on this page is applicable. If we change how we use the information that we hold, we will tell you here before we make the change.

  • October 30, 2026: first version.

Contact

Syndicate Media & Sports LLC, Shelton, Connecticut, United States. Email: business@syndicatesports.io. Start the subject line with “Privacy”. Then your message goes to the correct person.

For copyright complaints, refer to Copyright and takedown requests.