Privacy Policy

1. What Elevate Play is

Elevate Play ("Elevate Play", "we", "us") is a competitive esports platform for organizing tournaments, tracking teams, and calculating a player skill rating ("Elevate Level" / "EP") from real competitive results. This policy explains what data we collect, why, and how it is used across the site, including for VALORANT account linking and match analytics.

2. Discord account data

Sign-in uses Discord OAuth. We request only the identify scope, which returns your Discord user ID, username, and avatar. We never receive your Discord password, and we do not request your email or message history from Discord. Your Discord ID is used only to identify your Elevate Play account internally and is never shown on public pages.

3. Riot ID, PUUID, and VALORANT account data

If you link a VALORANT account, Elevate Play resolves and stores your Riot ID (game name and tagline) and your PUUID — a Riot-issued opaque identifier for that account, not your Riot credentials. The PUUID is used only to look up publicly-visible competitive data (see §4) through Riot's official API and, where an official integration is not yet available for a given data point, through a third-party VALORANT data provider (see §7). Elevate Play never receives, requests, or stores your Riot account password.

Linking a Riot ID confirms the account exists and resolves its identity — it does not, on its own, prove you control it. Where Elevate Play offers a "Confirm Account Control" step, only a successfully completed check is shown as such, using the exact terms Control Not Confirmed, Control Check In Progress, or Control Confirmed. Elevate Play does not display "Riot Verified" or "Riot Authenticated" language for this check — those terms are reserved for a future official Riot Sign-On (RSO) integration, which is not implemented today.

4. Match, history, and stat data

For a linked VALORANT account, Elevate Play imports a bounded set of your recent Competitive match results (map, agent, result, and per-match combat statistics such as kills/deaths/assists, headshot percentage, and damage — computed only where the underlying official data supports an accurate formula) so you can view your own personal match history and aggregate stats on the authenticated "My VALORANT" page. This data is owner-only: it is never rendered for any user other than the account owner, and Elevate Play does not use it to look up or display another player's history to you (no opponent scouting).

Elevate Play does not import or store round-by-round positional data (player locations, kill positions, plant/defuse coordinates) even where Riot's API exposes it — only bounded aggregate counts are computed and retained.

5. Tournament, team, and competition data

Team rosters, tournament registrations, check-ins, map veto choices, submitted match results, and disputes you or your team generate by using the platform are stored to run tournaments and are visible to relevant participants and, once a tournament is live, publicly (consistent with how competitive results normally work).

6. Why we collect this data

Data described above is collected to: operate sign-in and account linking, run tournaments and match operations, calculate your Elevate Level/EP from real competitive results, show your personal VALORANT analytics to you, and maintain competitive integrity (detecting account-linking abuse, duplicate accounts, or manipulation of results). We do not use this data for advertising or sell it to third parties.

7. Third-party services

Elevate Play integrates with: Discord (sign-in, and optional server automation for teams that opt in); Riot Games' official API (VALORANT identity, match, and rank data); and, for data points not yet available through an official integration, HenrikDev's third-party VALORANT data API. Each provider has its own privacy practices for data it holds independently of Elevate Play. Elevate Play is not endorsed by, directly affiliated with, maintained, authorized, or sponsored by Riot Games, Inc.

8. Competitive integrity and abuse prevention

To keep ratings and tournament results fair, Elevate Play may log account-linking activity, control-confirmation attempts, and administrative actions taken on your account. This information is used only for integrity and security purposes (for example, detecting an account being linked to multiple Elevate Play profiles) and is not shared publicly.

9. Cookies and session data

Elevate Play uses a single session cookie to keep you signed in after Discord authentication. We do not use third-party advertising or tracking cookies.

10. Data retention

Account, competitive, and tournament data is retained while your account is active and as needed to preserve the integrity of historical tournament results, team history, and Elevate Level/EP history — this history is not deleted or rewritten merely because a linked game account's underlying identifier changes. Private-beta data may otherwise be reset as the platform evolves; we will make reasonable efforts to communicate any large-scale reset in advance.

11. Unlinking and account deletion

You can unlink a connected game account at any time from Settings → Connected Accounts. Unlinking stops future syncing but does not retroactively remove your prior competitive history, since that history reflects real results already used in tournaments and ratings. To request deletion of your Elevate Play account and associated personal data, contact us via the Support page.

12. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, or request deletion of your personal data. Contact us via the Support page to make a request. We have not obtained formal third-party compliance certifications (for example, GDPR or LGPD certification) — we handle requests in good faith on a best-effort basis during private beta.

13. Minors

Elevate Play is not directed at children under 13, and you must meet Discord's and Riot Games' own minimum age requirements to sign in through those services.

14. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the platform develops. Material changes will update the "Last updated" date above.

15. Contact

See the Support page for how to reach us.

16. Not affiliated with Riot Games

Elevate Play is not endorsed by, directly affiliated with, maintained, authorized, or sponsored by Riot Games, Inc. VALORANT and all associated properties are trademarks or registered trademarks of Riot Games, Inc.