Privacy Policy

1. Information We Collect

We may collect information you voluntarily submit through forms on the website, including contact forms, update requests, gym submissions, email signups, login flows, account-related features, and other communications. This may include your name, email address, phone number, gym or business details, and any message or supporting information you provide.

2. How We Use Information

We use submitted information to operate the directory, review and process gym submissions and update requests, communicate with users, maintain listing quality, support event pages and related content, provide account-related functionality, improve the website, respond to inquiries, and support blog, educational, and shop-related site features.

3. Cookies and Similar Technologies

MMA Gyms NJ uses a small set of cookies and browser-storage technologies. Strictly necessary Supabase authentication cookies may maintain a signed-in account or protected workflow. The site stores your privacy choices in local storage under mmaConsentPreferences; this preference record is not used for advertising or cross-site tracking.

Google Analytics 4 may set the first-party cookies _ga and _ga_<container-id>, normally for up to two years, when analytics is enabled. Advertising storage, advertising user data, ad personalization, Google Signals, and personalized advertising remain disabled. Revoking analytics through Cookie Preferences sends a denied consent update and removes accessible GA cookies from this site.

Vercel hosts and protects the website, but Vercel Web Analytics is not installed, and neither is Speed Insights. When direct merchandise ordering is enabled, the site creates Stripe Checkout Sessions on the server and redirects the buyer to Stripe's hosted checkout; no Stripe payment script is embedded in MMA Gyms NJ pages. Printify supplies product imagery and made-to-order fulfillment, but no Printify tracking script runs in the browser. Those providers apply their own policies when they process checkout or fulfillment data.

4. Analytics and Website Usage Data

When allowed, Google Analytics 4 collects limited technical and usage information such as browser and device type, approximate location, referring page, pages visited, and bounded interaction events. MMA Gyms NJ uses this information to understand aggregate traffic, verify important journeys, improve usability, and maintain performance. Analytics events do not include form contents, email addresses, precise location, raw search queries, authentication data, or internal administration activity.

Visitors in jurisdictions requiring prior consent are asked before optional analytics or external media loads. Visitors elsewhere are not interrupted; analytics and external media use the regional default unless the visitor changes Cookie Preferences or enables a supported browser privacy signal. Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track signals keep analytics disabled. Vercel geolocation headers are used on the server only to select the consent mode; the response contains only “prior consent” or “standard,” not the visitor's country.

5. Account and Authentication Data

If you create an account, sign in, or request access to manage a listing, we may process the information needed to authenticate your account, review ownership or management update requests, and maintain secure access to account features.

6. Email Signups and Platform Updates

If you sign up for email updates, MMA Gyms NJ sends your email address and limited signup-source attribution to Kit, our email subscription and delivery provider. We use it to send New Jersey combat-sports events, fighter stories, gym discoveries, practical guides, and official platform updates. The main signup flow uses Kit's confirmation-email process when enabled on the selected form. You may unsubscribe at any time using the link included in every marketing email.

7. Affiliate Links and Third-Party Websites

Some product links on MMA Gyms NJ direct to third-party merchants or affiliate partners. MMA Gyms NJ may earn commissions from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. We may record limited affiliate click event data, such as the provider, product category, page context, and click timing, to understand which links are useful and maintain the site. Official MMA Gyms NJ merchandise follows its own purchase flow. Third-party websites may collect information according to their own privacy policies and practices, and we are not responsible for those practices.

8. Third-Party Service Providers

We may use third-party services and infrastructure providers to host the website, store data, manage authentication, process form submissions, analyze traffic, provide security protections, manage email subscriptions, and deliver website functionality. Kit processes newsletter subscriptions, consent status, unsubscribe state, and email delivery and engagement data on our behalf. These providers may process information as needed to support operation of the website.

Gym listings may use Google Maps Platform and Google Places content. Your use of those features is also subject to the Google Maps/Google Earth Additional Terms of Service and Google's Privacy Policy.

Fighter media may use YouTube's privacy-enhanced embed mode. In prior-consent regions, Google Maps and YouTube frames stay paused until external media is allowed. Loading an embed connects the browser to that provider, which may process device, network, and interaction information under its own terms.

9. Merchandise Checkout and Order Data

For direct official-merchandise orders, Stripe collects payment, customer contact, and shipping information in its hosted checkout. MMA Gyms NJ does not receive or store a customer's complete card number. MMA Gyms NJ stores a limited server-only order record containing a public order reference, selected product and variant, quantity, environment, payment and fulfillment status, and provider reconciliation identifiers. Full shipping addresses and Stripe webhook payloads are not stored in the application order table. A verified paid order supplies the delivery details to Printify only when needed for fulfillment.

Order confirmations, production updates, shipping notices, delivery notices, refund confirmations, and support messages are transactional communications. A purchase does not subscribe the customer to marketing email unless the customer separately chooses to subscribe.

10. Sharing of Information

We do not sell your personal information. We may share information only as reasonably necessary to operate the website, comply with legal obligations, protect the website and its users, investigate misuse, or work with service providers that support site functionality.

11. Data Retention

We may retain submitted information for as long as reasonably necessary to operate the directory, review update requests and submissions, maintain records, resolve disputes, comply with legal obligations, and protect the integrity of the platform. Newsletter subscriber records and suppression status may be retained in Kit so that unsubscribe, bounce, and complaint choices remain enforceable.

12. Data Security

We take reasonable steps to protect information submitted through the website. However, no website, database, or transmission method can be guaranteed to be completely secure, and users submit information at their own risk.

13. Third-Party Links

MMA Gyms NJ may link to third-party websites, including gym websites, map services, social media pages, event pages, ticketing platforms, brand websites, retailer pages, and product pages. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or policies of third-party websites.

14. Your Choices

Cookie Preferences remains available in the footer so you can allow or refuse analytics and external media at any time. Essential security and authentication functions cannot be disabled through that control. Newsletter signup does not depend on optional analytics consent. You may choose not to submit information, unsubscribe from email through any newsletter footer, or contact us to request access, correction, or deletion of information you submitted. A deletion request may retain the minimum suppression record needed to honor an unsubscribe or complaint.

15. Children’s Privacy

MMA Gyms NJ is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through the website.

16. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any updated version becomes effective when posted on this page.

17. Contact

For privacy questions or requests concerning information you submitted, email mmagymsnj@gmail.com or use the Contact page.