Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 1 August 2026

Welcome to 9thImpact.com. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of any personal information you may share with us. This Privacy Policy explains our practices concerning the collection, use, and protection of your information when you visit our gaming site.

1. Information We Collect

• Analytics data: IP address, device type, browser, approximate location, pages viewed, referral source, and on-site behavior, collected via analytics tools
• Security/anti-spam data: behavioral and device signals collected to help prevent spam and abuse when you submit a form
• Contact/form data: name, email address, and message content submitted through our contact form
• Comments: name, email address, comment text, and an optional “remember me” cookie if you comment on a post
• Newsletter subscription: your email address, if you subscribe to updates
• Technical/infrastructure data: your IP address may be processed by our hosting provider for content delivery, security, and bot mitigation

We do not intentionally collect sensitive personal data (health, biometric, precise geolocation, racial/ethnic origin, sexual orientation, immigration status, or similar categories) and do not knowingly collect data from children under 13.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the data above to:

• Operate, maintain, and secure the Site
• Understand traffic and content performance through analytics
• Respond to messages submitted through our contact form
• Display approved comments on the Site
• Send our newsletter to subscribers who opt in
• Prevent spam, abuse, and fraudulent form submissions

We do not use your personal data for cross-site behavioral advertising, and we do not sell your personal data.

3. Cookies

Security cookies: Our spam-prevention tools may set cookies and use device or behavioral signals to help distinguish human visitors from bots.

Your cookie choices: When you first visit the Site, a cookie banner asks you to accept or reject non-essential cookies. Your choice is remembered and can be changed at any time through the banner or your browser settings.

4. How We Share Your Information

We share or make personal data available to service providers and website technologies that help us operate, maintain, secure, and provide functionality on the Site. The data processed depends on how each service or feature is configured.

Do We Sell Your Personal Data?

We do not sell personal data in exchange for money. However, certain disclosures or uses of personal data may be treated as a “sale,” “sharing,” or targeted advertising under some U.S. state privacy laws even when no money is exchanged.

Whether any technology, analytics service, or other data disclosure used on the Site falls within these definitions depends on how the relevant services are configured and used.

We do not knowingly sell personal data to data brokers or disclose personal data to third parties for their own unrelated direct marketing purposes.

5. Data Retention

We retain personal data only for as long as it’s needed:

• Newsletter data: up to 12 months after your last activity (unsubscribe or no engagement)
• Contact form submissions: up to 12 months
• Comments: kept indefinitely unless you request removal
• Analytics data: anonymized and stored for 12 months

You may request deletion of your data at any time by contacting Danny@9thimpact.com.

6. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal data, including CDN-level security and bot mitigation through our hosting provider. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

7. Children’s Privacy

This Site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 13. If we learn we have collected such data, we will delete it.

8. Your U.S. Privacy Rights

Roughly twenty U.S. states now have their own comprehensive privacy laws, each with its own applicability threshold based on revenue, traffic volume, or data-sale activity.

We extend the rights below to all U.S. residents as a matter of company policy, regardless of which state’s law technically reaches us. Where a specific state imposes a stricter or additional requirement, we’ve called it out separately below so the baseline doesn’t quietly fall short of the strictest applicable standard.

Rights we provide to all U.S. residents:

• Access: Confirm whether we process your personal data and access it.
• Correction: Request correction of inaccurate personal data.
• Deletion: Request deletion of personal data we’ve collected.
• Portability: Request a copy of your personal data in a portable format.
• Opt-out: Opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal data, targeted advertising, and profiling used for decisions with legal or similarly significant effects.
• Non-discrimination: We will not deny service, charge different prices, or provide a different quality of service because you exercised any of these rights.

Sensitive data:

We will not process sensitive personal data without your opt-in consent, and matching Maryland’s stricter standard, we do not sell sensitive personal data under any circumstances, opt-in or not.

How to Exercise Your Rights:

Submit a request via Danny@9thimpact.com. We will verify your identity before fulfilling a request. We will respond within 45 days of receipt, with one 45-day extension where reasonably necessary. If we decline your request, you may appeal by replying to our decision and explaining why you’d like us to reconsider it, and we will respond to your appeal within 60 days.

9. Additional Rights for California Residents

The California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the CPRA (the “CCPA”), gives California residents rights beyond the nationwide baseline described in Section 8, including:

• Right to Know: the specific pieces and categories of personal information we’ve collected about you, the sources it came from, the business purpose for collecting it, and the categories of third parties we’ve shared it with
• Right to Correct: request correction of inaccurate personal information we maintain about you
• Right to Delete: request deletion of personal information we’ve collected from you, subject to certain legal exceptions
• Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing: not currently applicable, as we do not sell or share personal information as defined under the CCPA
• Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information: not currently applicable, as we do not collect sensitive personal information
• Right to Non-Discrimination: we will not deny goods or services, charge different prices, or provide a different level of service because you exercised a right under the CCPA
• Right to Designate an Authorized Agent: you may name an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf

To submit a request, email Danny@9thimpact.com. See Section 8 for our identity verification process and response timeline.

10. Multi-State Privacy Rights

Residents of certain U.S. states may have additional rights regarding their personal data under applicable state consumer privacy laws, including:

• Right to Opt Out of Targeted Advertising and Profiling: already extended to all U.S. residents as part of the baseline rights in Section 8
• Right to Appeal: if we decline your rights request, several of these states guarantee a right to appeal that decision. We honor this as described in Section 8: you may appeal, and we will respond within 60 days
• Universal Opt-Out Recognition: where required by law, we will treat a recognized universal opt-out preference signal (such as Global Privacy Control) sent by your browser as a valid request to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal data. As noted elsewhere in this Policy, we do not currently sell or share personal data

This section applies, where and when the relevant law applies to us, to residents of Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia (collectively, the “Covered States”).

To submit a request, email Danny@9thimpact.com. See Section 8 for our identity verification process and response timeline.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by an updated “Last Updated” date at the top of this page.

12. Contact Us

Questions about this Policy or requests to exercise the rights described above can be sent to: Danny@9thimpact.com.