How do you get your information removed from FargoRate, including removing my information from their app?
Sent email to their
support@FargoRate.com.
I have not given anyone my permission (except the APA), to track my games. And the APA tracks my innings, break and runs, eight on the break and so on. But they only use it for APA events.
I am willing to go to court if necessary to get my information removed.
Thoughts?
We are working on a backlog of support tickets with the release of our APP. We apologize for the delay. We will respond through that mechanism.
I'll make a few general comments about privacy issues here. People's privacy is important. We respect it, take it seriously, and we do not publish anybody's private information. We stand on solid legal ground under a variety of legal bases presenting the ratings the way we do -- including fair use and other protections under the first amendment.
FargoRate has a global footprint, and the field of data protection/privacy is changing rapidly. European Union has the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and California has a soon-to-be-implemented copycat version of that. A general business attorney could not possibly keep up, so we actually work with a privacy group at a major firm.
There are a few phrases we tend to hear that are misleading. People sometimes talk about "Fargo Rated Events." Other times people talk about "submitting results to FargoRate." TDs don't actually "submit" to FargoRate.
The choice for someone running an event, whether it is a weekly tournament at the local bar/pool hall or a major tournament, is whether it is public or private. A public event is one in which results are published publicly for the whole world to see. The choice for the player is whether to play in a public event. We don't publish your results. We work with already published publicly available results.
Sports scores for any public event are newsworthy. We are merely analyzing the public information like anyone else would analyze public sports scores. Given the analysis we conduct to provide the ratings, our presentation is transformative -- in other words we are presenting our own take on a newsworthy event.
We do not imply you as a player endorse Fargo Ratings. Nor do we use your name in advertisements or to sell a product.
We believe Fargo Ratings--a vibrant, live, global pool rating system--comprise a major step forward for pool, one that can and we believe will advance pool in ways we haven't even thought of yet. And we believe it is possible to do this based only on published public information.
