Privacy Policy

NSE Privacy and Cookie Policy

Last updated 17th September 2026

This privacy policy explains what happens to the personal data that you provide to us or that we collect from you when you use our website www.nse.gg, take part in our tournaments or communicate with us.

About us

We are, National Student Esports Limited, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 10907331 with a registered business address at The Place, Athenaeum Street, Sunderland, SR1 1QX. We run this website and we are committed to protecting your personal data. You can contact us using the email address at the bottom of this privacy and cookie policy.

We are a "controller" in respect of personal data. This means that we are responsible for deciding how we process the personal data we hold about you.

We use your personal data for the purposes of our business.  This includes managing your account, corresponding with you and organising tournaments.  When we organise tournaments, we work with third party tournament platforms and other partner organisations that will also have access to your personal data.  There is more detailed information about how we use your personal data below.

What personal data do we collect?

"Personal data" means information which identifies you as well as any information relating to you.

We receive the personal data which we process about you directly from you, for example, when you set up an account with us, complete your profile, interact with our tournaments, events and content or when you contact us.

Account set up information:

When you set up an account with us you will be asked to provide some (or all) of the following:

• your full name

• your student email address

• a secondary email address

• the university or higher education institution you attend

• the degree or course you are studying

• your expected year of graduation

You have to provide this information as a minimum in order to set up an account. 

We use this information to verify eligibility where appropriate, administer student competitions, understand the composition of the NSE community, tailor relevant services, and, where you have chosen to receive them, send relevant careers and opportunity information.

When you graduate and lose access to your university email address, we will transfer your account to alumni status using the secondary email address you give us.

Profile information: 

In addition to the information above, you have the option to add further information to your online profile on our website. This is entirely voluntary and can be changed at any point. This includes:

• a profile picture;

• an 'about me' biography;

• the subject you study;

• your nickname;

• links to your social media accounts (such as Discord or Instagram); 

If you choose to include this information in your profile, it will be publicly available via our website, along with your full name and the name of the university you attend.

We ask you to provide a secondary, alternative email address (which we will not make public) which we can use to contact you should there be a problem with your student email address and to use once you have left university.

If you want to enter tournaments we manage you should also add to your public profile:

• your game account ID; and

• team profiles.

We organise and manage esports tournaments for students in partnership with third party tournament platforms. If you want to take part in a tournament which we manage, you will need to ensure you've added to your public NSE profile details of your game account ID on the platform where the tournament is being managed.      

If you enter into an NSE managed tournament on one of our partner's platforms, we check that your game account details displayed our partner's platform match the game account details you have posted on your NSE profile. If you do not enter them, or they do not match (or if you do not have a valid student email address) you may not be eligible to take part in the tournament.

Additional marketing preferences:

If you opt in to receive additional information about job and careers opportunities, we may use your university, course and expected graduation year to select opportunities that are likely to be more relevant to you. For example, we may send internship information to students graduating in a later year and graduate-role information to final-year students. This is marketing segmentation and does not determine whether you are eligible for, shortlisted for or offered a role.

Information collected about your use of our website

We use cookies and other similar technologies to collect information about when you last logged in to our website and your use of our website.

We also use cookies to understand how our users navigate our website, and our user base's geo-location (but this information is collected in an anonymised form). Further information about the cookies we use is set out in the section below. 

We also hold information about the number of times you have logged in and the date you joined our site. 

Information collected from other sources

As well as information we receive directly from you, we also occasionally process information about you which we receive from other sources.  

We process information about you which is publicly displayed on our esports partners' platforms such as game account IDs, points tables and records of winners displayed on those platforms.

We also collect, use and share depersonalised aggregated data about the users of our site, such as statistical or demographic data to describe and analyse our user base. This data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity and so does not constitute your personal data.

Why we process your personal data

We will only use your personal data when permitted to do so in accordance with data protection laws, which means that we will only process your personal data where we have a lawful basis for doing so.

In respect of your personal data, these bases are as follows: (i) where the processing of your personal data is necessary to provide services to you under the performance of the contract we have with you; (ii) where the processing of your personal data is in our (or a third party's) legitimate interests and your freedoms and fundamental rights do not override those interests; or (iii) where you have given us your consent to do so for specific purposes which we have told you about.

The table below provides further details about the reasons we process your personal data and the lawful bases we rely on to do so. 

In addition, we will also use your personal data when we are required to do so by law. Where that is the case, our lawful basis is processing necessary for us to comply with a legal obligation that we are under.

Marketing communications

Where you have specifically signed up to receive newsletters or have selected to receive marketing emails, if at any time you no longer want to receive these communications you can withdraw your consent at any time by unsubscribing using the link at the bottom of the email or updating your preferences via your personal account on the NSE website.

Please note that even if you have not signed up for marketing (or you choose to unsubscribe from our newsletter or marketing lists at a later date) you will still receive other important information, for example responses to communications you send to us, service information about events and tournaments you have signed up for and notification of any prizes you have won.

Who do we share your personal data with?

To enable us to organise tournaments we share your personal data with tournament providers and other partners. For example, where you use your NSE account to log into one of our partner websites, the partner will have access to your email address, name, and game IDs. Please check our partners' websites for details of how they will use your personal data.

We may disclose personal data to our service providers who may need to process personal data in order to provide those services to us. Currently, we use Mailchimp to help us gather statistics concerning email opening and clicks using Mailchimp's technology. You can find out more about Mailchimp's privacy practices here.

We may occasionally be required by law, court order or governmental authority to disclose certain types of personal data. Examples of the type of situation where this would occur would be:

• in the administration of justice; or

• where we have to defend ourselves legally.

Finally, in the event of a reorganisation, sale or takeover we may need to disclose personal information to new entities within the group or potential acquirers and their advisers.

Do we make your personal data available outside the EEA?

Some of our suppliers, such as Mailchimp, may process personal information outside the UK. Where this involves a restricted transfer, we use a transfer mechanism permitted by UK data-protection law. This may include UK adequacy regulations, including the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework where the recipient is appropriately certified, or approved contractual safeguards such as the UK International Data Transfer Agreement or UK Addendum. You may contact us for further information about the safeguards relevant to your information.

Please note we do not restrict access to our website by territory, so people browsing our website from around the world may view any personal data you include on your publicly available profile.

Links to other sites:

Our website may contain links to other websites (such as links to social media sites and to our esports partners' sites).

To enter an esports tournament which we manage you may also be required to register with the relevant third party tournaments platform where the tournament is taking place. Any personal data you provide as part of that registration process or in using a partner's tournament platform will be the responsibility of that esports partner.

We are not responsible for the content, security or privacy practices employed by our partners or other websites nor their use of your personal data. We encourage you to carefully review these websites’ privacy policies so that you know how they will collect, use, and share your information.

For how long do we hold your personal data?

We will retain your personal data for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this privacy and cookie policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Accordingly, we process personal data about you while you hold an account with us. You can remove personal information on your profile so that it is not longer publically visible via your account. If you would like us delete your profile data from our system entirely please email enquiries@nse.gg.

In determining how long we retain your personal data we will take into account the amount and nature of the information we hold about you and factors such as whether you are still eligible to take part in esports tournaments we manage (including alumni tournaments).

Your rights in respect of your personal data

You have the following rights in relation to your personal data:

• a right to access your personal data held by us;

• a right to receive certain personal data in an accessible, machine-readable format;

• a right to have inaccurate personal data rectified;

• a right to object to processing where our lawful basis is that it is in our legitimate interests, but please note that we may still process your personal data where there are other relevant lawful bases or where we have compelling grounds to continue processing your personal data in our interests which are not overridden by your rights, interests or freedoms;

• a right to have certain personal data erased where it is no longer necessary for us to process it, where you have withdrawn your consent pursuant to the paragraph immediately below, where you have objected pursuant to paragraph immediately above, where your personal data has been unlawfully processed, or where erasing your personal data is required in accordance with a legal obligation;

• where we have specifically requested your consent to process your personal data and we have no other lawful conditions to rely on you have the right to withdraw this consent;

• a right to request the restriction of processing of your personal data which enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal information about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it;

• a right to object to direct marketing, which can be done by opting-out of direct marketing via the communication itself. You also have a right to object to any profiling to the extent that it relates to direct marketing only; and

• a right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office. You do not have to contact us before doing this, however, we ask that if you have any concerns about the way we process your personal data, please do speak with us so we can try to resolve the issue.

Further information about your rights can be found on the Information Commissioner's Office website. 

How to make a data-protection complaint
If you are concerned about how we have used your personal information, you can submit a complaint by emailing enquiries@nse.gg or writing to NSE, The Place, Athenaeum Street, Sunderland, SR1 1QX. We will acknowledge your complaint within 30 days, investigate it without undue delay, keep you informed where appropriate, and tell you the outcome.

Please be aware that whilst we will try to accommodate any request you make in respect of your rights, they are not absolute rights.  This means that we may have to refuse your request or may only be able to comply with it in part. Where you make a request in respect of your rights we will require proof of identification.  We may also ask that you clarify your request.

Cookies and similar technologies

We use cookies and similar technologies on our website, www.nse.gg. These technologies may include cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, local storage and other technologies that store information on, or access information from, your computer, mobile phone or other device.

A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your device when you visit a website. Cookies can enable a website to recognise your device, remember your preferences, keep you signed in, improve security and help the website operator understand how the website is used.

Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, we must provide clear information about the technologies we use and, unless an applicable exception applies, obtain your consent before storing information on or accessing information from your device.

How we use cookies

We may use the following categories of cookies and similar technologies:

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are required for the operation, security and essential functionality of our website and services. For example, they may be used to:

• enable you to log in to and remain logged in to your NSE account;

• authenticate users and protect user accounts;

• maintain website and network security;

• prevent fraud, abuse and malicious activity;

• remember choices you make about cookies; and

• provide a feature or service that you have expressly requested.

Where these technologies are strictly necessary to provide our website or a service you have requested, we do not ask for your consent. You may be able to block them using your browser settings, but doing so may cause parts of the website or your NSE account not to function correctly. The strictly necessary exception is limited to technologies genuinely required to provide a service requested by the user.

Functional cookies

Functional cookies allow the website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced or more personalised features. These may include preferences such as your language, display settings, region or other website customisations.

Where consent is required, functional cookies will not be used unless you choose to allow them through our cookie consent tool.

Analytics and performance cookies

Analytics and performance cookies help us understand how visitors use our website. For example, they may tell us which pages are visited, how visitors navigate between pages, whether error messages are encountered, how long visitors spend on the website and which external links they select.

We use this information to measure and improve the performance, usability and content of our website. Analytics information may include an online identifier, partial or complete IP address, browser and device information, approximate location, referring website and information about your interactions with our website.

Where required by law, analytics and performance technologies, including technologies provided by third parties such as Google Analytics, will not be activated until you have given your consent. You may withdraw that consent at any time through our cookie settings.

Advertising and social media cookies

We may use advertising, embedded-content or social media technologies to measure campaigns, provide content from third-party platforms, understand interactions with that content or show content and advertising that may be more relevant to visitors.

These technologies may allow the relevant provider to recognise your device across different websites or services. They may also involve profiling or the sharing of identifiers and website activity with third parties.

We will not activate advertising or similar tracking technologies unless you have given your consent. If NSE does not currently use these technologies, this category should be removed from the policy.

First-party and third-party cookies

Some cookies are set directly by us and are known as first-party cookies. Other cookies are set by third-party service providers whose technology or content is used on our website and are known as third-party cookies.

Third parties may process information collected through their technologies for their own purposes, as described in their privacy notices.

Your cookie choices

When you first visit our website, we will provide you with a cookie consent tool that allows you to:

• accept non-essential cookies;

• reject non-essential cookies; or

• choose which categories of non-essential cookies you wish to allow.

Non-essential cookies will not be activated before you make an affirmative choice, unless their use is otherwise permitted by applicable law. Not selecting an option, continuing to browse or scrolling through the website will not be treated as consent. Valid consent needs to be freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous, and indicated through a clear affirmative action.

Rejecting non-essential cookies will not prevent you from accessing the main content of our website. However, some optional features, third-party content or personalised functionality may not operate as intended.

You can also control cookies through your browser settings. Browser controls may allow you to delete existing cookies, block future cookies or receive a warning before a cookie is placed. Your browser provider’s help pages should explain how to use these controls. Blocking all cookies, including strictly necessary cookies, may prevent parts of the website from working correctly.

Consent records

Where we rely on consent, we may record information about your cookie choices, including the date and time of your choice, the consent options presented to you and an identifier associated with your browser or device. We use this information to respect your choices and demonstrate that consent has been obtained where required.

Personal data collected through cookies

Some information collected through cookies and similar technologies may constitute personal data. Where it does, we process that information in accordance with this privacy policy and applicable data protection law.

The relevant information may include:

• online and cookie identifiers;

• IP address and approximate location;

• browser, operating system and device details;

• referring pages or websites;

• pages viewed and links selected;

• dates, times and duration of visits;

• account or session information; and

• information about your cookie choices.

For information about the purposes for which we process personal data, our lawful bases, the recipients of personal data, international transfers, retention periods and your data protection rights, please see the other relevant sections of this privacy policy.

International transfers

Some third-party cookie and technology providers may process information outside the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area. Where personal data is transferred internationally, we will use an applicable legal transfer mechanism and safeguards as required by data protection law.

Changes to our use of cookies

We may change the cookies and similar technologies we use from time to time. We will update the information in this section or in our cookie settings tool when appropriate.

If we introduce a new use that requires consent, we will request consent before activating it. We may also ask you to renew your choices periodically or where there is a material change to the purposes for which relevant technologies are used.

Changes to this privacy and cookie policy

We may update this privacy and cookie policy from time to time to make sure it is up to date. When we do, we will revise the “last updated” date at the top of the privacy and cookie policy. We'll endeavour to make you are aware of material changes but we suggest you also check this page from time to time to ensure you are up to date with our latest privacy practices.

How to contact us

If you have any queries in relation to your personal data or how it is processed by us, please email us at enquiries@nse.gg or in writing at National Student Esports Ltd, The Place, Athenaeum Street, Sunderland, UK, SR1 1QX.