1. INTRODUCTION
Inside the Hall (“Inside the Hall,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is an independently operated website covering Indiana University athletics, with a primary focus on IU basketball and additional coverage of IU football.
This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, disclosed, and retained when you visit https://www.insidethehall.com/ (the “Website”). It covers information collected through Website content, advertising, analytics, comments, cookies, and similar technologies.
We use third-party services to support Website operation, audience measurement, commenting, advertising, and consent management. These services may collect information directly from your browser or device, depending on their configuration and your privacy choices.
Where applicable law requires notice, consent, or privacy choices for particular processing activities, we intend to provide and honor those requirements through the Website and the services used to operate it.
2. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
The information collected depends on how you use the Website and which technologies and services are active during your visit.
Information You Provide
You may provide information when you:
– Submit a comment through Disqus.
– Contact us by email.
– Send us a question, request, or other communication.
This information may include your name or display name, email address, comment content, and any other information you choose to include in your communication.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit the Website, we or our service providers may collect information such as:
– Internet Protocol (IP) address.
– Approximate location inferred from an IP address.
– Browser type, device type, operating system, and language settings.
– Pages viewed, links clicked, referring pages, and dates or times of visits.
– Information about interactions with Website content.
– Cookie identifiers, advertising identifiers, and other online identifiers.
– Information about advertisements displayed, viewed, or clicked.
– Technical information used to maintain security, troubleshoot problems, or prevent fraud.
The specific information collected depends on the services and technologies active during your visit, your browser settings, and your privacy choices. Not every provider collects every category listed above.
Information Collected by Third Parties
Advertising providers, analytics services, and Disqus may collect information directly from your browser or device when their technologies are used on the Website.
These technologies may include cookies, pixels, scripts, local storage, and similar tools. Third-party collection and use of information are also subject to the applicable providers’ own privacy policies and configurations.
3. HOW WE USE INFORMATION
Information may be used for the following purposes:
– Website operation: Delivering pages and content, maintaining functionality, and troubleshooting technical issues.
– Comments and communications: Displaying and moderating comments and responding to inquiries.
– Analytics: Understanding readership, traffic sources, and Website engagement.
– Advertising: Displaying advertisements, supporting advertising revenue, personalizing advertisements where enabled, and measuring advertising performance.
– Security and fraud prevention: Protecting the Website, detecting abuse, and addressing technical or security concerns.
– Privacy choices: Managing consent preferences and responding to applicable privacy requests.
– Legal and operational purposes: Complying with applicable legal obligations, resolving disputes, and protecting our rights where appropriate.
We do not currently operate a newsletter or use contact emails for a promotional email program.
4. ADVERTISING AND ADVERTISING PARTNERS
The Website earns revenue through advertising. We use advertising and monetization services to support the display, delivery, measurement, and management of advertisements.
Depending on the services active on the Website, advertising providers may use cookies, pixels, scripts, online identifiers, IP addresses, device or browser characteristics, and similar technologies to deliver advertisements, measure performance, prevent fraud, or support advertising personalization.
The providers involved and the information they process may change over time. Some providers may collect information directly from your browser or device and may make it available to other parties involved in advertising.
Personalized and Interest-Based Advertising
Some advertisements displayed on the Website may be personalized or interest-based. Depending on the advertising services and their configuration, this may involve using information about your activity on this Website or other websites and services to select, deliver, or measure advertisements.
Advertising-related information may include browsing activity, online identifiers, device or browser characteristics, approximate location, and interactions with advertisements.
You may still see advertisements if you opt out of certain advertising-related processing. For example, contextual advertisements may be displayed based on the page or content you are viewing rather than your activity across different websites.
Advertising-Related Sharing and Selling
Under some U.S. state privacy laws, certain disclosures of personal information for targeted advertising or cross-context behavioral advertising may be considered “selling,” “sharing,” or processing for targeted advertising. These legal terms may apply even when information is not exchanged for a direct monetary payment.
Where applicable law gives you the right to opt out of these activities, you can use the Website’s privacy or advertising opt-out link.
5. ANALYTICS
The Website uses Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the Website and to measure traffic and engagement.
Depending on its configuration, Google Analytics may collect information such as pages viewed, approximate location, device and browser information, referral sources, and interactions with the Website. Cookies or similar technologies may be used for these purposes.
Google processes information under its own terms and privacy policies. For more information, review Google’s Privacy Policy:
https://policies.google.com/privacy
Google Analytics Help:
https://support.google.com/analytics/
6. COOKIES, CONSENT, AND PRIVACY CHOICES
The Website and its service providers may use cookies and similar technologies for Website functionality, analytics, advertising, personalization, security, fraud prevention, and remembering preferences.
The Website uses Sourcepoint to support consent management and privacy preference choices. Depending on your location, applicable law, and the services active on the Website, a consent interface may allow you to accept, reject, or customize certain categories of cookies and similar technologies.
The choices available and their effects may vary depending on your location, the applicable requirements, and the configuration of the relevant services.
Advertising Opt-Out Link
You can use the privacy or advertising opt-out link in the Website footer to access available privacy choices. The opt-out mechanism functions in jurisdictions where it is legally required.
Depending on the law that applies to you, these choices may allow you to opt out of certain disclosures of personal information or processing for targeted advertising. Opting out of certain advertising activities does not necessarily prevent all information collection or eliminate advertisements.
Browser Settings and Privacy Signals
You can manage some cookies through your browser settings. Blocking or deleting cookies may affect Website functionality and may not control every type of technology used by third parties.
Recognized browser-based opt-out signals, such as Global Privacy Control (GPC), may also be relevant to your privacy choices. Where applicable law requires such signals to be honored, their handling depends on the Website’s consent-management and advertising configuration and the requirements that apply.
7. DISQUS COMMENTS
The Website uses Disqus to provide commenting functionality. Depending on the options available, you may be able to comment using a Disqus account or as a guest.
When you use Disqus, the service may collect information such as your comment, display name, email address, IP address, device or browser information, and other information associated with its commenting functionality. Disqus may also use cookies and similar technologies.
Information submitted through Disqus is processed by that service under its own terms, settings, and privacy practices.
For more information, review the Disqus Privacy Policy:
https://disqus.com/privacy-policy/
8. HOW INFORMATION MAY BE DISCLOSED
Information may be disclosed to the following categories of recipients, as appropriate to operate the Website:
– Advertising and monetization providers: To deliver advertisements, support advertising technology, personalize advertisements where enabled, and measure advertising performance.
– Analytics providers: To measure traffic and understand Website usage.
– Commenting providers: To host and manage comments.
– Website hosting and technical providers: To deliver, maintain, secure, and troubleshoot the Website.
– Security and fraud-prevention providers: To identify abuse and protect systems.
– Professional advisers and authorities: Where reasonably necessary for legal compliance, lawful requests, dispute resolution, or protection of rights.
– Transaction-related parties: In connection with a sale, transfer, restructuring, or similar transaction involving the Website, subject to applicable law.
Some providers collect information directly from your browser or device rather than receiving it from us.
We do not currently sell email lists or operate a newsletter. However, certain advertising-related disclosures may qualify as selling, sharing, or processing for targeted advertising under applicable law.
The legal classification of a disclosure depends on the information involved, the purpose of processing, the provider’s role, and the law that applies.
9. U.S. STATE PRIVACY RIGHTS
Depending on where you reside, the nature of the information involved, and whether the relevant law applies to the Website, you may have rights regarding your personal information. These rights may include:
– Access or know: Request information about certain personal information collected about you and how it is used or disclosed.
– Correction: Request correction of inaccurate personal information.
– Deletion: Request deletion of certain personal information, subject to applicable exceptions.
– Portability: Request a copy of certain personal information in a portable format.
– Opt-out: Opt out of certain sales, sharing, targeted advertising, or profiling where covered by applicable law.
– Sensitive information: Exercise rights concerning certain uses of sensitive personal information, where applicable.
– Appeal: Appeal the denial of a privacy request where the applicable law provides that right.
– Equal treatment: Exercise applicable privacy rights without unlawful discrimination.
Not every right is available to every visitor, and exceptions may apply. The rights available to you depend on the law applicable to your circumstances.
How to Exercise Your Rights
For privacy questions or requests, contact [email protected]. This email address is monitored for privacy-related communications.
Please describe your request and identify the Website. Depending on the request and applicable law, we may take reasonable steps to verify your identity or confirm your authority to act on another person’s behalf.
We will review and respond to requests in accordance with applicable law, including applicable deadlines, exceptions, and appeal procedures. Where required, we will explain how to appeal a decision or submit a complaint.
You can also use the Website’s footer privacy or advertising opt-out link to exercise available advertising opt-out choices.
Where applicable law requires a particular request method, verification process, or response procedure, we will follow the requirements that apply.
10. DATA RETENTION
We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, subject to applicable law.
Retention depends on the type of information and the purpose for which it is used. Relevant considerations may include:
– Email communications: The time reasonably needed to respond, maintain relevant records, resolve disputes, or meet legal obligations.
– Comments: The time comments remain published or are needed for moderation, Website operation, security, or dispute resolution.
– Technical and server logs: The time reasonably needed for security, troubleshooting, operational, and fraud-prevention purposes.
– Analytics information: The retention settings and practices of the analytics service.
– Advertising and consent information: The retention practices and settings of the relevant advertising, consent-management, and technology providers.
Third-party providers may retain information under their own policies, settings, and legal obligations.
Retention periods may vary, and we do not use one fixed retention period for every category of information.
11. INFORMATION SECURITY
We use reasonable measures intended to protect information processed through the Website. These measures include HTTPS, access controls, and maintaining and updating Website software.
No website, transmission, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.
12. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
The Website is intended for a general audience and is not specifically directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly seek to collect personal information directly from children under 13 through the Website.
If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child in circumstances requiring action under applicable law, we will take appropriate steps, which may include deleting the information or obtaining legally required parental consent.
If you believe a child has provided personal information through the Website, contact [email protected] so we can review the situation.
13. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES AND SERVICES
The Website may contain links to third-party websites or use third-party services. We do not control the independent privacy practices of those third parties.
When you visit a third-party website or use a third-party service, its own privacy policy, terms, and settings govern its practices. We encourage you to review the policies of services you use, including advertising providers, analytics services, and Disqus.
14. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may update this Privacy Policy when the Website, its technologies, service providers, or applicable legal requirements change.
When we make changes, we will revise the “Last Updated” date above. Where required by law, we will provide additional notice or obtain consent for material changes.
We encourage visitors to review this policy periodically.
15. CONTACT US
For questions about this Privacy Policy or privacy-related requests, contact:
Inside the Hall
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://www.insidethehall.com/
Effective Date: May 24, 2018
Last Updated: October 20, 2026
