GET READY FOR MADDEN NFL 27 - August 13th

Madden NFL 27 is almost here, and this season is shaping up to be something special.

We’re rebuilding MaddenUniversity.com from the ground up so you’ll have a smarter, faster, more powerful home for strategy, community, and competition the moment the game drops. New tools, new breakdowns, new ways to connect — everything is being tuned for a better Madden experience. When August arrives and Madden 27 hits the field, we’ll be ready with a fresh playbook and a brand‑new campus built for players who want to win with intention. Get ready… the next era of Madden is coming, and we’re leveling up right alongside it.

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Strategies

Sharpen your game with a smarter, cleaner, fully rebuilt strategy experience. We’re reorganizing every concept, every breakdown, and every teaching tool to make it easier than ever to learn real football principles that translate directly into Madden NFL 27.

When the site returns, you’ll have a strategy hub built for players who want to outthink the competition on every snap.

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Communities

A stronger Madden season starts with a stronger Madden community. We’re upgrading profiles, discussions, member tools, and the entire social experience so you can connect, share, learn, and grow with players who love the game as much as you do.

When MaddenUniversity.com comes back online, you’ll step into a community built for support, improvement, and real football conversation..

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Competition

The new era of competitive Madden begins here.

We’re rebuilding our leagues, tournaments, commissioner tools, and match systems to deliver smoother gameplay organization and more exciting competitive opportunities. When Madden NFL 27 drops, the Competition Hub will be ready for kickoff — and ready for you.

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Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time. The respective latest version of the Privacy Policy at the point of time of the purchase or registration of a MaddenUniversity Software Product (whichever occurs later) shall apply. The data controllers are MaddenUniversity Los Angeles, CA, USA and the associated companies of MaddenUniversity.

MaddenUniversity and its associated companies act as joint data controllers, who are jointly responsible for compliance with data protection legislation. MaddenUniversity is primarily responsible for exercising the rights of data subjects and providing information about data processing.

Definitions

The following definitions are used throughout this Privacy Policy:

MaddenUniversity Software Product. Any software product owned or created by MaddenUniversity and provided under MaddenUniversity's Subscription Agreement or other MaddenUniversity Agreement EXCLUDING software that can be used by MaddenUniversity Software Products but is not created by MaddenUniversity. This may include, but not be limited to, code that extends the functionality of a MaddenUniversity Software Product (e.g., a "plugin"). Any such code is governed by its own terms and conditions and privacy policy.

MaddenUniversity Downloadable Software Product. Any MaddenUniversity Software Product that can be downloaded and installed on a device.

MaddenUniversity Software as a Service. Any MaddenUniversity Software Product that is offered as a hosted solution, where the software is installed and maintained by MaddenUniversity and provided to you as a service.

MaddenUniversity Website. Any website that is the property of MaddenUniversity, including but not limited to everything hosted under the domains listed at http://maddenuniversity.com/beta/legal/websites/.

MaddenUniversity Account. An account you create and which MaddenUniversity may use in communicating with you or providing MaddenUniversity Products to you, which contains your first name, last name, email address, username and if uploaded voluntarily, your photograph or another avatar. Your account is accessed via a username and password and can be used to manage your Personal Data.

MaddenUniversity Terms of Use means MaddenUniversity Subscription Agreement, MaddenUniversity Terms of Use for a product or a service, MaddenUniversity License Agreement, or other agreements you have in place with MaddenUniversity covering MaddenUniversity Products or services.

MaddenUniversity Software Products, MaddenUniversity Downloadable Software Products, MaddenUniversity Website, and MaddenUniversity Software as a Service may be collectively referred to as "MaddenUniversity Products".

Personal Data means any data relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

All other capitalized terms used in this Privacy Policy shall have the same meaning as defined in article 4 GDPR (such as personal data, controller, processor, data subject, and others), unless defined otherwise in this definition clause.

Why We Collect Data and What We Collect

We collect data for various reasons, such as:

a) To provide you with software, services, or information. We may collect data, including your Personal Data, which are required to provide you with the software, support, and services, including checking for license validation and updates, provision of support, reporting of issues and bugs, and other processing connected with the use of MaddenUniversity software, services, or information. We may use collected data in our development and testing of products and services. You explicitly fill in the Personal Data required for you to receive the software, support, or services, whether you purchase or use MaddenUniversity Products, use our support forums, sign up for a MaddenUniversity Account, register for a webinar, participate in a survey, and/or subscribe to receive marketing and/or technical information and content, or this data is collected in the course of use of MaddenUniversity Products. We may use third-party service providers, acting as data processors, to assist us in providing MaddenUniversity Products to you or in our operations. For example, we may use third-party service providers to provide data storage and backup services. With your consent, your Personal Data may also be transferred to third-party service providers, acting as separate data controllers, who provide products and services complementary to MaddenUniversity Products (further data processing performed by these service providers is governed by their privacy policies). The legal basis for this data processing is the performance of a contract between you and us.

b) To protect us from piracy and unlawful use of our software or services. We may collect data which are required to protect us from any piracy, unlawful, or unauthorized use of our software or services, or which are necessary to ensure the security of our software or services, including both Personal Data provided by you (see above) and data collected in the course of use of MaddenUniversity Products. The legal basis for this data processing is MaddenUniversity's legitimate interest in protection from piracy and unlawful use of MaddenUniversity software and services.

c) To improve our offerings based on usage. We may collect data based on your use of MaddenUniversity Products and services, and we do not associate these data with your name. We use these data to better understand the usage patterns of our products and the behaviors of our collective audience. At times we may share this information in aggregated anonymous form with third parties. Collection of data based on your use of MaddenUniversity Downloadable Software Products is done only if you permit it. The legal basis for this data processing is our legitimate interest in improving our software and services.

d) For internal evidence of MaddenUniversity and to protect the rights and interests of MaddenUniversity and other users. We may collect data which are required to keep evidence of provision of software and services to you, of any communication between you and us, of your contact details, of your use of our software and services, of any payments or refunds, and of any issues or disputes between you and us. We may use and disclose these data where we believe, in our sole judgment, that it is legitimate and appropriate to do so to protect our rights and interests and the rights and interests of other users of MaddenUniversity Products or services, or where we believe there has been a violation of this Privacy Policy that could affect the interests of MaddenUniversity or its customers. The legal basis for this data processing is our legitimate interest in keeping internal evidence and protecting the rights and interests of us and other users.

e) To promote and market our products and services. We may use feedback that you provide voluntarily on our products or services. As permitted by applicable law, we may use this in the form of quotes or in other ways in accordance with the MaddenUniversity Terms of Use. We also may use data that we collect and aggregate to assist us in determining appropriate marketing and advertising for our products and services. In doing so, we may share anonymous aggregated data with third parties to assist us with these efforts. With your consent or if permitted by applicable law, we may also use your contact details to send you commercial communications about our products and services. We also may use third-party service providers to assist us with our email marketing; in that case, the third-party service provider will have access to your email address, your name, and other information necessary to engage in the marketing. Such third-party service provider will act as a data processor and will not use your Personal Data for any other purpose. The legal basis for this data processing is our legitimate interest in promoting and marketing our products and services.

f) To fulfill legal duties stipulated by accounting, taxation, and other laws. We may use and disclose your Personal Data where required by law, such as in keeping and disclosing our accounts, in keeping and disclosing our tax records, and in response to a court order, valid subpoena, or other legal process. The legal basis for this data processing is our compliance with our legal obligations.

You may object to the processing of your Personal Data for the purposes b) to e) at any time.

Categories of data involved in data processing include:

names,
email address,
phone number,
username,
password,
photograph (if voluntarily provided),
cookies,
IP address,
SSH public key,
physical address,
information about subscription and payments,
tax ID,
data about usage of MaddenUniversity Products and services,
comments, voluntarily provided feedback, and any data provided in survey responses,
data in issue reports pertaining to MaddenUniversity Products and services.
Where appropriate, we will prompt you to give us your consent to the collection and processing of your data as described above. This may happen within MaddenUniversity Products, on MaddenUniversity Website, or in another environment set up by MaddenUniversity, always in a clear and conspicuous manner. You can manage your Personal Data and opt-outs as described in the Transparency section below.

Children

Our products and services are not designed for and are not offered to children under the age of 13. If we discover that a person under the age of 13 has submitted information directly to us, we will endeavor to delete the information from our systems.

Transparency

To respect your privacy, before using your Personal Data, we will inform you about the categories of Personal Data we collect and the purposes we use them for. We will also inform you about the data management options that you may have. For this purpose, we use agreements, terms of use, and consent notices embedded in MaddenUniversity Products and services, which are available here. Should you wish to access and manage your data, you can do so here, you can update and manage your Personal Data and also provide us with an opt-out of certain Personal Data collection.

Sharing

Collected Personal Data are shared based on the Subscription Agreement, License Agreement, Terms of Use of a product or service in use, and this Privacy Policy. Additionally, we share collected Personal Data within the MaddenUniversity group of companies described above, which act as joint data controllers and process Personal Data for the purposes described above.

According to MaddenUniversity Terms of Use covering a particular product or service, as part of the product or service functionality, collected Personal Data may be shared with other representatives of your company.

We may share your Personal Data with certain third parties which help us provide you with MaddenUniversity Products or services, or to run our business, for example to providers of data storage and backup services. We may also share your Personal Data with individual representatives of your company.


1. Google LLC
Why: You’re using Google Analytics via gtag.js (googletagmanager.com)
Data Access: Tracks visitor behavior, device info, location, referral sources
Disclosure: Mention Google Analytics and link to Google’s Privacy Policy
2. jQuery Foundation / OpenJS Foundation
Why: You’re loading jQuery UI from code.jquery.com
Data Access: May log IP addresses or usage for CDN performance
Disclosure: Mention use of jQuery CDN hosted by OpenJS Foundation
3. Bootstrap (via CDN or vendor)
Why: You’re loading Bootstrap JS modules
Data Access: If served via CDN, may log visitor IPs or usage
Disclosure: Mention use of Bootstrap libraries; if served locally, no external disclosure needed
Joomla Extensions
CJLib / Treeview / Finder / Awesomplete
These appear to be locally hosted, but if any extension connects to external APIs (e.g., for search suggestions, ratings, or forums), you’ll want to check their documentation for data handling.
Fonts & Icons
Font Awesome
Joomla FontAwesome. 

Your Personal Data may also be shared with other organizations or individuals if we have obtained your consent to do so.

We may also share your Personal Data with certain third parties if we are obliged to do so under applicable legislation (especially with tax authorities or with other government bodies exercising their statutory powers) or if such sharing is necessary to achieve the purposes defined above (especially with government bodies or with parties harmed as a result of violations of applicable laws).

To adhere to the requirements of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), we hereby notify you that MaddenUniversity will not a) retain, use, sell, or otherwise disclose any Personal Data for any purpose other than to provide the Products and services specified in the Subscription Agreement; or b) retain, use, sell, or disclose such Personal Data outside of the direct relationship between Customer and MaddenUniversity; or c) use Personal Data other than as described within (i) the MaddenUniversity Privacy Policy available at http://maddenuniversity.com/beta/privacy-policy.html; (ii) the MaddenUniversity User Terms and Conditions available at http://maddenuniversity.com/beta/terms-and-conditions.html; (iii) or any other specific agreement you may have entered into with MaddenUniversity.

Security

To secure your Personal Data, our products and services are designed with security and privacy in mind.

We encrypt your data in transfer and at rest where it is technically feasible. External web resources are protected by SSL encryption.

We review the processes of Personal Data usage before implementing them. This is done to minimize data usage and to make sure that you as the data owner is informed about the processing. When the reason for data storage expires, we remove your Personal Data from our servers or anonymize it for further usage. By the nature of the activity within which your data is collected, it may appear in datasets used for research. Before using the datasets for research or other purposes you are not informed of, we remove or anonymize your Personal Data in the datasets.

We use partners to host our services and websites and to process your data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. While choosing the partners, we ascertain their compliance with legal regulations and security standards to make sure your data are stored in a secure location with appropriate security measures in place.

Location of Your Information

Any servers or services that contain Personal Data are located within the US. For Software as a Service products, we provide the option for our customers to choose between hosting their instance in the US or in other regions. At times, MaddenUniversity may process or transfer some of your Personal Data (such as name and email address) to our affiliate companies outside of the US. Any such transfer will be made in accordance with the applicable laws on data protection and this Privacy Policy and will be based on a relevant adequacy decision of the European Commission, especially on standard data protection clauses.

Third-Party Links

MaddenUniversity Websites may contain links to other websites provided by third parties not under MaddenUniversity control. When following a link and providing information to a third-party website, please be aware that MaddenUniversity is not responsible for the data provided to that third party. This Privacy Policy only applies to MaddenUniversity Websites, so when you visit other websites, even when you click on a link posted on MaddenUniversity Websites, you should read their own privacy policies.

Data Retention, Withdrawal of Approval, Access to Data and Your Rights

If at any time you choose to cease using MaddenUniversity Products, you may ask for your Personal Data to be removed from our servers by sending a request to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or via your MaddenUniversity Account. After the Personal Data removal, we may keep pseudonyms of your Personal Data solely for a record about the data removal. Generally, we retain your Personal Data as long as we need to in order to achieve the purpose for which it was collected. We may retain your information if it is required to comply with legal obligations and/or defense in case of violation of MaddenUniversity Terms of Use and/or Privacy Policies. We may also have copies of your information in application logs, weblogs, and/or backups made for security and support purposes if this is mentioned in a MaddenUniversity Terms of Use or consent text accepted before the Personal Data collection. These backups will not be accessible as separately delineated information. We may store Personal Data pertaining to a customer or user for as long as they are entitled to a license or usage of MaddenUniversity Products. Further, we may keep the data to protect ourselves from damage in case of litigation in accordance with the current legislation. Please note, however, that you must retain a copy of all data that you have placed on our servers in the case of any loss; further, if you cease using our software and/or services, we will not be responsible for the retention of any of your data.

You may manage your Personal Data in your MaddenUniversity Account, including opting out of certain kinds of data collection. You are responsible for the correctness of the Personal Data you provide to us. We expect you to check the Personal Data you provide to us and if any inconsistency takes place, update your Personal Data or report the inconsistency to MaddenUniversity.

As permitted by applicable law, US residents may request a copy of the information that we hold about them. To do so, please go to your MaddenUniversity Account and ask for a copy through the means available there, or contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. We may charge a fee in accordance with applicable law for this service.

Moreover, as set out in locally applicable Personal Data protection law, you may have the right to: (i) request access to your Personal Data; (ii) request rectification of your Personal Data; (iii) request erasure of your Personal Data; (iv) request a restriction on the processing of your Personal Data; (v) request Personal Data portability; or (vi) object to the processing of your Personal Data.

Right of Access. You may have the right to obtain from us a confirmation as to whether or not Personal Data concerning you are being processed, and, where that is the case, to request access to your Personal Data. The information about Personal Data processing includes the purposes of the processing, the categories of Personal Data concerned, and the recipients or categories of recipients to whom your Personal Data have been or will be disclosed, etc. However, this is not an absolute right and the interests of other individuals may restrict your right of access. Further, you may have the right to obtain a copy of your Personal Data undergoing processing. For additional copies requested, we may charge a reasonable fee based on administrative costs. Right to Rectification. You may have the right to obtain from us the rectification of inaccurate Personal Data. Depending on the purposes of the processing, you may have the right to have incomplete Personal Data made complete, in particular by providing a supplementary statement. Right to Erasure (Right to Be Forgotten). Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to require us to delete your Personal Data. Right to a Restriction of Processing. Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to require us to restrict the processing of your Personal Data. In this case, the respective Personal Data will be marked and may only be processed by us for certain purposes. Right to Personal Data portability. Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to receive the Personal Data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and to transmit these Personal Data to another entity. Right to Object. Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to object, on grounds relating to their particular situation, at any time to the processing of your Personal Data by us and we can be required to no longer process your Personal Data.

These rights can be exercised via the email address This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

You may also contact MaddenUniversity to get up-to-date information about your Personal Data processing and any Personal Data recipients.

Changes to this Policy

This Privacy Policy is current as of the Effective Date set forth above. We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time, so please be sure to check back periodically. We will post any changes to this Privacy Policy on MaddenUniversity Website. If we make any changes to this Privacy Policy that materially affect our practices with regard to the Personal Data we have previously collected from you, we will endeavor to provide you with an advance notice of such change by highlighting the change on MaddenUniversity Website.

Reaching out

If you have any questions or concerns, or you feel that this Privacy Policy has been violated in any way, please let us know immediately by contacting This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Terms of Use

IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN THESE TERMS OF USE, PLEASE DO NOT USE THE SITE IN ANY WAY. THE TERMS OF USE ARE A BINDING AGREEMENT BETWEEN MADDENUNIVERSITY.COM AND YOU. IF YOU USE THE SITE ON BEHALF OF ANOTHER PARTY, YOU REPRESENT THAT YOU ARE AUTHORIZED TO ACCEPT THESE TERMS OF USE ON BEHALF OF THAT PARTY.

"MaddenUniversity.com Website" or "Website" means any website that is the property of MaddenUniversity.com, with offices in Hollywood, CA, or its Affiliates ("maddenuniversity.com" or "we"), including but not limited to everything hosted under the domains listed at http://maddenuniversity.com/beta. “Affiliates” are companies controlling, controlled by, or under common control with MaddenUniversity.com "Site" means collectively our Website and our products or services.

Via the Website, MaddenUniversity.com makes a number of resources available to you, including information, software, products, downloads, documents, communications, files, text, graphics, publications, content, tools, and services such as technical support.

MaddenUniversity.com reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, add, or remove any part of these Terms of Use at any time without prior notice to you. We may, at our discretion, choose to notify those subscribed to our newsletters and RSS feeds of such changes. However, it is up to you to check these Terms of Use for changes. Continuing to use the Site after the changes to the Terms of Use have been posted will constitute your acceptance of those changes.

Visitor Conduct

In using the Website, including all software, services, and resources available through it, you agree that:

a) You will not use the Website in any way that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair any MaddenUniversity.com server, or the network(s) connected to any MaddenUniversity.com server (including linked sites), or interfere with any other visitors’ use and enjoyment of the Website.

b) You will not upload, email, or otherwise transmit via the Website any potentially destructive, disruptive, or otherwise harmful programs, files, or code, including viruses, Trojan horses, worms, cancelbots, time bombs, or any other form or designation of files or programs that may damage, impair, or alter the operation of a computer or network that is the property of MaddenUniversity.com or any third party.

c) You will not attempt to disrupt or interfere with the security, integrity, or availability of, or otherwise cause harm to, the Website and/or its content and its content delivery, any resources provided for Website visitors, user or administrator accounts, passwords, servers, or any networks connected to the Website or accessible through it. The same applies to any linked websites.

d) You will not attempt to gain unauthorized access to services, materials, visitor information, visitors’ accounts, computer systems, or networks connected to any MaddenUniversity.com server or to the Website, through hacking, password mining, or any other means. You will not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available via the Website.

e) You will not use false identity information when registering for subscriptions, downloads, or product licenses.

f) You will not remotely harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including email addresses, nor will you use email addresses published on the Website for the purpose of sending any type of unsolicited email communication with disguised or falsified origins.

g) If you choose to post a comment, your username, city, and any other information that you choose to post will be visible to the public. MaddenUniversity.com is neither responsible nor liable for the privacy of any information that you choose to post to its websites, including in its blogs, or for the accuracy of any information contained in those postings. Any information that you disclose publicly becomes public information. MaddenUniversity.com cannot prevent such information from being used in a manner that may violate these terms, the law, or your personal privacy. This personal data will be stored and processed until the deletion, in each instance, of posted information.

International Access

The Website can be accessed from most countries around the world. Website content may contain references to MaddenUniversity.com products, services, documents, promotions, or other resources that are not available in your country. These references do not imply that MaddenUniversity.com intends to make such resources available in your country.

MaddenUniversity.com makes no claim or representation that the Website or any resources available through it are appropriate to or made available for locations outside the United States. If the Website or any of the resources it makes available are illegal in your locality, DO NOT USE THE WEBSITE. In the event of a conflict between these Terms of Use and a mandatory provision of an applicable law, the mandatory provision shall prevail.

Use of Website Content

Unless specifically indicated elsewhere on the Website, you may view, download, and print Website content subject to the following conditions:

a) The rights granted to you for the use of Website content constitute a license and not a transfer of title.

b) You may use Website content only for non-commercial purposes or in order to purchase our products, and in accordance with our principles set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

c) You may not remove any copyright or other proprietary notices displayed or contained in Website content.

d) You may not modify or alter Website content in any way.

e) You may not distribute, sell, lease, rent, or relicense Website content to others.

f) MaddenUniversity.com reserves the exclusive right to revoke authorization to view, download, print, or otherwise use Website content at any time, and you shall discontinue such use immediately upon notice from MaddenUniversity.com.

Uploading Content

As part of the Website’s functionality and within MaddenUniversity.com products or services, MaddenUniversity.com may provide you with the option to upload data to the Website for further use by MaddenUniversity.com, including in the provision of support to you for MaddenUniversity.com products and services.

Without MaddenUniversity.com’s written permission, you may not:

a) Upload other data than as requested or required by MaddenUniversity.com.

b) Upload data containing computer viruses, worms, malware, data restricted by legislation, or data otherwise containing anything of a malicious nature.

c) Upload any files which could cause harm to MaddenUniversity.com or the Website, customers, facilities, or any equipment that MaddenUniversity.com uses.

d) Post comments, post in forums, participate in community discussions, or use the Website other than in accordance with our Acceptable Use Policy.

Use of Software

The software and accompanying documentation that is available for download from the Website is the copyrighted and/or patented work of MaddenUniversity.com and/or its suppliers. Use of the software is governed by the terms of the subscription or other respective agreement included with such downloaded or cloud software. You will not be able to install or access any software that is accompanied by or subject to a subscription or other respective agreement unless you agree to the terms of the subscription or other respective agreement.

If no subscription agreement accompanies the software, and no other license governs the use of the software, then use of the software will be governed by these Terms of Use. You agree that you will not decompile, reverse-engineer, or otherwise attempt to discover the source code of the software available on the Website, unless a license or applicable law specifically authorizes you to do so.

Intellectual Property Rights and Licenses

Website content, including software and related documentation, as well as the structure of the Website, is protected by copyright, trademark, patent, and/or other intellectual property laws. Unauthorized use of Website content may violate such laws and these Terms of Use.

Except as expressly stated in this document, MaddenUniversity.com and its suppliers do not grant any express or implied rights to use Website content. You agree not to copy, republish, embed, download, transmit, modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, assign, distribute, license, sublicense, reverse engineer, or create derivative works based on the Website, and/or its content (including downloaded software or other products), except as expressly authorized in these Terms of Use. Also, you agree (a) not to use any data mining, robots, or similar data harvesting and extraction methods in connection with the Website, and (b) not to impose an unreasonable load on our infrastructure, using an unreasonable amount of MaddenUniversity.com resources, or using MaddenUniversity.com-related automated systems in an unreasonable way. This includes spoofing emails from our servers, mining cryptocurrency, and other automated processes relating to cryptocurrencies.

Use of Trademarks

The names, trademarks, logos, icons, websites, screenshots, and other distinctive features ("Marks") displayed on the Site are the property of MaddenUniversity.com or third parties (for example, the third-party Marks listed here). You may not use the Marks without the prior written consent of MaddenUniversity.com or (as applicable) the third-party owner of the Marks.

You may use MaddenUniversity.com Marks and logo images ("Logos") under the following conditions:

a) You may not alter the Logos in any way except for pixel dimensions, which must always be in the same proportions as the original image provided via the Website. All the Marks in reduced-size Logos must remain clearly identifiable and legible.

b) You may not create links on any other site connecting directly to the Logo image files on the Site.

c) You may not use the Logos in any manner that represents or implies any affiliation with or endorsement by MaddenUniversity.com when no such affiliation or endorsement has been formally established in writing with MaddenUniversity.com.

d) You must comply with the further requirements specified in the MaddenUniversity.com Brand Guidelines.

MaddenUniversity.com reserves the right to determine what constitutes improper or inappropriate use of MaddenUniversity.com Marks and Logos, and you agree to correct improper or inappropriate use of MaddenUniversity.com Marks and Logos, or to cease use of the same, upon notification from MaddenUniversity.com.

Liability of Limitation, Disclaimer

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c) OUR TOTAL LIABILITY IN ANY MATTER ARISING OUT OF OR IN RELATION TO THESE TERMS IS LIMITED TO FIVE (5) US DOLLARS. THIS LIMITATION WILL APPLY EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF LIABILITY EXCEEDING SUCH AMOUNT AND NOTWITHSTANDING ANY FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY LIMITED REMEDY.

Personal Data

In connection with your use of the Website, MaddenUniversity.com and its associated companies may process your personal data for the following purposes:

a) To provide you with software, services, or information. For this purpose, (i) your username, contact details, and information from your posts, (ii) IP address and user environment data, and (iii) data collected by cookies or other tracking technologies (including clear GIFs, pixel tags, and other technologies) will be used.

b) To protect MaddenUniversity.com from piracy and unlawful use of MaddenUniversity.com software or services. For this purpose, mainly (i) IP address and environment data and (ii) data collected by cookies or other tracking technologies will be used.

c) To improve MaddenUniversity.com offerings based on usage. For this purpose, mainly (i) your username, contact details, and information from your posts, (ii) IP address and environment data, and (iii) data collected by cookies or other tracking technologies will be used.

d) For MaddenUniversity.com’s internal evidence and to protect the rights and interests of MaddenUniversity.com and other users. For this purpose, mainly (i) data collected by cookies or other tracking technologies and (ii) audit records, application logs, weblogs, and/or backups will be used.

e) To promote and market MaddenUniversity.com software and services. For this purpose, mainly (i) your username, contact details, and information from your posts, (ii) IP address and environment data, and (iii) data collected by cookies or other tracking technologies will be used.

f) To provide third parties with information about your use of the Website. For this purpose, mainly data collected by cookies or other tracking technologies will be used.

g) To fulfill legal duties stipulated by accounting, taxation, and other laws.

Further, third parties listed in the Privacy Policy will process your personal data, in particular data about your usage of the Website, to promote and market MaddenUniversity.com software and services.

You may object to the processing of your personal data for purposes b) to e) at any time, by emailing us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

You may also withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data at any time when the processing is done based on consent. The withdrawal of your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing done before such withdrawal.

More detailed information about personal data processing for the aforementioned purposes, and about your rights, can be found in the remainder of these Terms of Use and in the Privacy Policy.

IP address and user environment data

Web logs that may be generated during your use of the Website may include information about IP addresses used to access website services, the browser, operating environment, Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) used to access website services, and/or other information. No personal data is kept in web logs for more than 30 days.

Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

When you use our Site, we and our third-party service providers read and store small files of letters and numbers called “cookies” on your browser or on the hard drive of your computer for various purposes further described below. We also use certain other, similar technologies (e.g. local or URL storage) for the same purposes, but we will refer to cookies and all such related technologies as “Cookies” for the sake of simplicity. See below for more information about these technologies.

Unless you have adjusted your browser’s settings so that it will refuse Cookies, our Site will issue (i) strictly necessary Cookies as soon as you visit our Site and (ii) non-necessary Cookies (Statistics, Personalization, and Marketing Cookies) as soon as you give us your consent while visiting our Site (see below for more information).

What Cookies we use and for what purposes

The Cookies we use on our Site are categorized as follows:

a) Strictly necessary

b) Statistics

c) Marketing

d) Personalization

'Strictly Necessary' Cookies – These Cookies let you move around the Site and use essential features like secure areas. Without these Cookies, we cannot provide the requested services. We use strictly necessary Cookies:

a) To identify you as being logged in to our Site and to authenticate you.

b) To make sure you connect to the right service on our Site when we make any changes to the way the Site works.

c) For security purposes.

Accepting these Cookies is a condition of the proper operation of our Site, so if you block these Cookies, the Site may not work correctly and we may not be able to provide our services and products to you.

'Statistics' Cookies – These Cookies collect information about how you use our Site, for example, which pages you visit and whether you experience any errors. Statistics Cookies do not collect any information that could identify you. They are only used to help us improve how our Site works, understand what interests of our users, and measure the effectiveness of our advertising. We use Statistics Cookies to:

a) Carry out web analytics and provide statistics on how our Site is used.

b) Obtain data on the number of Site users that have viewed a product.

c) Help us improve the Site by registering any errors that occur.

d) Test different designs for the Site.

Some of our Statistics Cookies may be managed for us by third parties. We do not allow such third parties to use these Cookies for any purposes other than those listed above.

'Personalization' Cookies – These are used to provide products or services or to remember settings to improve your visit. We use Personalization Cookies for such purposes as:

a) Remembering settings you've applied, such as layout, text size, language, preferences, and colors.

b) Remembering whether we've already asked you whether you want to take a survey.

c) Remembering whether you have engaged with a particular component or product list on the Site so that it isn’t shown again unnecessarily.

d) Showing you when you're logged in to the Site.

Some of these Cookies may be managed for us by third parties. We do not allow such third parties to use these Cookies for any purposes other than those listed above.

'Marketing' Cookies – Marketing Cookies are used to track your visit to our Site and other websites, including the pages you have visited and the links you have followed, which allows third parties to display targeted ads to you on the websites you visit.

We and our third-party service providers use Marketing Cookies to:

a) Link to social networks, such as Facebook, that may subsequently use information about your visit to our Site in order to provide advertising or other offers that may be of interest to you when you visit other websites.

b) Provide third parties with information on your visit so that they can present you with advertisements or other offers that may be of interest to you.

YOUR CONSENT / WITHDRAWING CONSENT

You acknowledge that the Site will use Cookies strictly necessary for the functionality of the Site (including security, network management, and accessibility) without your consent.

If you provide us with your consent, the Site will use Cookies for any other purposes in accordance with your preferences, including Statistics, Marketing, and Personalization. You can withdraw your consent at any time by visiting www.maddenuniversity.com/opt-out.html or by adjusting the settings on the Cookie banner.

For how long we store the Cookies and related personal data

Cookies can be stored on the user’s device for various amounts of time. Some Cookies are activated only for a session, meaning they are activated when a user opens the browser window and deleted when they close the browser window. Other, so-called “persistent” Cookies remain stored on the user’s device for an extended period of time.

In any event, any Cookies and personal data collected using Cookies will be stored and processed for no longer than 2 years.

Processing of personal data through Cookies

Some (but not all) Cookies make you identifiable, in which case operations with data obtained from the usage of such Cookies qualifies as the processing of personal data. To the extent this is the case, we may process the personal data because:

a) It is necessary to operate the Site (i.e., perform our contract with you) (strictly necessary Cookies).

b) You have given us consent (other Cookies).

The purposes of such processing correspond to the purposes of various types of Cookies as explained above.

You can withdraw your consent at any time by visiting www.maddenuniversity.com/opt-out/ or by adjusting the settings on the Cookie banner.

How to delete and block our Cookies

You can block Cookies by activating the setting in your browser that allows you to refuse some or all Cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all Cookies (including Cookies that are strictly necessary for the Site to work), you may not be able to access all or parts of our Site.

For further information about deleting or blocking Cookies, please visit: http://www.aboutcookies.org/how-to-delete-cookies/.

More about the Cookies we use

Cookies. There are two types of cookies:

Persistent cookies: These cookies remain on a user’s device for the period of time specified in the cookie. They are activated each time the user visits the website that created that particular cookie.

Session cookies: These cookies allow website operators to link the actions of a user during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window and finishes when they close the browser window. Session cookies are created temporarily. Once you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted.

Cookies can be either first-party or third-party cookies. Whether a cookie is first-party or third-party depends on which domain placed the cookie.

First-party cookies are those placed by a website being visited by the user at the time (for example, cookies placed by us). Cookies placed by MaddenUniversity.com are used when you create an account, identify yourself using a MaddenUniversity.com Account, purchase products using our e-store, or use any of our services, including (but not limited to) our issue tracker, blogs and discussions forums, signing up for our newsletter, and so on. At times we may also use Cookies to test out new features of our Website and/or web-based services with a subset of our audience.

Third-party cookies are cookies that are set by a domain other than that of the website being visited by the user. If a user visits a website and another entity sets a cookie through that website, this would be a third-party cookie.

Clear GIFs, pixel tags, and other similar technologies. Clear GIFs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on your computer's hard drive, clear GIFs are embedded invisibly on web pages. We may use clear GIFs (also known as web beacons, web bugs, or pixel tags), in connection with our Website to, among other things, track the activities of Website visitors, help us manage content, and compile statistics about Website usage. We and our third-party service providers also use clear GIFs in HTML emails to our customers, to help us track email response rates, identify when our emails are viewed, and track whether our emails are forwarded.

If you are in the EU, you may opt in and at any time opt out of certain third-party Cookies that we and other websites may use for targeting, via http://www.youronlinechoices.eu or www.aboutads.info. Opting out of one or more ad networks only means that members of those particular ad networks will no longer deliver targeted content or ads to you. It does not mean you will no longer receive any targeted content or ads on our Site or other third-party websites. If your browser is configured to reject Cookies when you visit one of the aforementioned opt-out pages, and you later erase your Cookies, use a different computer, or change web browsers, your preference may no longer be active. Since all of these Cookies are managed by third parties, you should refer to the third parties' own website privacy notifications and policies for further information (see above for more information about the particular Marketing Cookies used on our Site).

Users in the United States may opt out of many third-party ad networks. For example, you may go to the Digital Advertising Alliance ("DAA") Consumer Choice Page for information on opting out of interest-based advertising, and available choices regarding having your information used by DAA companies. You may also go to the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") Consumer Opt-Out Page for information on opting out of interest-based advertising, and available choices regarding having your information used by NAI members.

Opting out of one or more of the companies listed on the DAA Consumer Choice Page or the NAI Consumer Opt-Out Page will opt you out from those companies’ delivery of interest-based content or ads to you, but it does not mean you will no longer receive any advertising through our Site or on other websites. You may continue to receive advertisements, for example, based on the particular website that you are viewing (i.e., context-based ads). Also, note that if your browsers are configured to reject Cookies when you opt out on the DAA or NAI websites, your opt-out may not be effective. Additional information is available on the DAA's website at www.aboutads.info and on the NAI's website at www.networkadvertising.org.

DO NOT TRACK

Currently, our systems do not recognize browser "do-not-track" requests. You may, however, disable certain tracking by disabling cookies in your browser, but if you do so, we cannot guarantee the correct behavior of the services we provide to you.

LINKS

At times, MaddenUniversity.com websites and/or MaddenUniversity.com software products may contain links to other external sites. MaddenUniversity.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such linked websites.