Privacy Policy

Effective Date: August 9, 2026
Last Updated: August 9, 2026

Grapple News (“Grapple News,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information of visitors who use our website.

Grapple News operates the website indygrapplenews.com, which provides professional wrestling news, commentary, results, event coverage, entertainment content, and related media.

This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit our website, how that information may be used, and the choices available to you.

Information We Collect

We may collect information that you voluntarily provide to us when you:

Submit a contact form
Send us a news tip or correction
Contact us regarding advertising or partnerships
Subscribe to an email list or newsletter
Participate in surveys, promotions, contests, or other site features
Communicate with Grapple News by email or through social media

Information you provide may include your name, email address, company or organization name, and any information contained in your message.

You are not required to provide personal information simply to browse Grapple News.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit Grapple News, certain technical information may be collected automatically by our website platform, analytics providers, advertising partners, and other service providers.

This information may include:

IP address
Browser type
Device type
Operating system
Approximate geographic location
Pages viewed
Referring websites
Date and time of visits
Time spent on pages
Interactions with website features
Advertising and analytics identifiers

This information helps us understand how visitors use Grapple News, improve our website, analyze traffic, measure content performance, detect technical problems, prevent fraud, and support advertising.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Grapple News and our service providers may use cookies, pixels, local storage, and similar technologies.

Cookies are small files stored on your browser or device that may be used to remember preferences, understand website activity, measure performance, provide website functionality, and deliver or measure advertising.

Cookies used on Grapple News may include:

Essential Cookies: Necessary for basic website functionality and security.

Analytics Cookies: Help us understand how visitors interact with the website.

Functional Cookies: Remember certain preferences and improve website features.

Advertising Cookies: May be used to display, personalize, limit, and measure advertisements.

Where required, visitors may be provided with options to accept, reject, or customize the use of non-essential cookies.

Google Advertising and Google AdSense

Grapple News may participate in Google AdSense and other Google advertising services.

Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve advertisements based on a visitor's previous visits to Grapple News or other websites. Google's advertising cookies may allow Google and its advertising partners to provide advertisements based on visits to this website and other websites.

Visitors may manage how Google uses information for advertising through Google's advertising privacy and personalization controls. Even when personalized advertising is disabled, advertisements may still be selected using information such as general location, browser type, or the content being viewed.

Google provides additional information explaining how it uses information collected from websites and applications that use Google services.

Analytics

We may use website analytics and measurement services provided through Wix, Google, or other third-party services.

These services may collect information about how visitors access and interact with Grapple News. We use this information to analyze traffic, identify popular content, understand audience behavior, improve site performance, and make editorial and business decisions.

Wix

Grapple News is hosted using the Wix website platform.

Wix may process certain information necessary to provide hosting, security, analytics, website functionality, and other services used by Grapple News.

Some information collected through our website may therefore be stored or processed through Wix and its service providers.

Embedded Content and Social Media

Articles and pages on Grapple News may contain embedded content from third-party platforms, including video players, social media posts, images, advertisements, and other interactive content.

These may include services such as:

YouTube
Facebook
Instagram
X
TikTok
Threads
Other wrestling, video, ticketing, or social platforms

When interacting with embedded third-party content, those companies may collect information according to their own privacy policies and terms.

Grapple News does not control the privacy practices of third-party websites or platforms.

Advertising Partners

We may work with advertising networks, sponsors, promotional partners, and other third parties to display advertisements or sponsored content.

These partners may use cookies or similar technologies to measure advertising performance, prevent fraud, limit how frequently advertisements appear, or provide advertisements that may be relevant to visitors.

Grapple News does not directly control cookies placed by independent third-party advertising providers.

How We Use Information

Information collected through Grapple News may be used to:

Operate and maintain our website
Respond to messages, questions, news tips, or requests
Provide and improve wrestling news and other content
Analyze website traffic and audience engagement
Improve website performance and user experience
Measure advertising and content performance
Provide advertising and sponsored content
Communicate with advertisers or business partners
Protect the security and integrity of the website
Detect fraud, abuse, or malicious activity
Meet applicable legal or regulatory requirements

How We Share Information

Grapple News does not sell personal information directly to advertisers in exchange for money.

Information may, however, be processed or shared with service providers when necessary to operate the website, including hosting companies, analytics providers, advertising networks, email providers, security services, and other technology vendors.

Information may also be disclosed when reasonably necessary to:

Comply with applicable law or legal process
Respond to lawful government requests
Protect Grapple News, our visitors, or others
Investigate fraud, abuse, security issues, or violations of our policies
Enforce agreements or protect legal rights

Third-Party Links

Grapple News frequently covers professional wrestling companies, performers, events, merchandise, streaming services, and other organizations.

Our website may therefore contain links to websites operated by third parties.

Once you leave Grapple News, your activity is governed by the privacy practices and terms of the website or service you visit. We encourage visitors to review those policies before providing personal information.

Affiliate Links and Sponsored Content

From time to time, Grapple News may publish affiliate links, advertisements, promotional links, or sponsored content.

We may receive compensation when visitors interact with certain advertisements, purchase products through qualifying affiliate links, or participate in sponsored promotions.

Where appropriate, sponsored or affiliate relationships may be disclosed within the relevant content.

Children's Privacy

Grapple News is intended for a general audience and is not directed specifically toward children under 13.

We do not knowingly request personal information from children under 13 through our website. If we become aware that personal information from a child has been collected improperly, we may take reasonable steps to delete it.

Your Privacy Choices

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding personal information, including the ability to request access to, correction of, or deletion of certain information associated with you.

You may also be able to:

Adjust browser cookie settings
Reject certain non-essential cookies through our cookie controls
Manage Google advertising personalization
Unsubscribe from marketing emails
Request information about personal data we maintain about you

Privacy rights vary depending on jurisdiction and may be subject to legal exceptions.

European Visitors

Visitors located in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or Switzerland may have additional rights relating to the collection and processing of personal information and the use of cookies.

Where required, Grapple News and its advertising providers may request consent before using certain cookies or personal information for advertising purposes.

Google currently requires publishers using its advertising products in these regions to make required disclosures and use an appropriate consent-management process.

United States Privacy Rights

Residents of certain U.S. states may have additional privacy rights under applicable state law. Depending on the jurisdiction, those rights may include requests to access, correct, delete, or obtain information regarding certain uses of personal information.

Requests will be handled in accordance with applicable law.

Data Security

We take reasonable steps to protect information associated with Grapple News.

However, no website, internet transmission, or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Visitors provide information online at their own discretion.

Data Retention

We may retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to operate Grapple News, provide requested services, maintain business or security records, comply with legal requirements, and resolve disputes.

Information that is no longer reasonably necessary may be deleted or anonymized where appropriate.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes to Grapple News, our website technology, advertising services, business practices, or applicable requirements.

When significant changes are made, the Last Updated date at the top of this page will be revised.

Visitors are encouraged to review this page periodically.

Contact Grapple News

Questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or your personal information may be submitted through the Contact page on Grapple News.

Please include “Privacy Request” in your message when contacting us about a privacy-related matter.

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