Eric - I’ve updated your email address that is on file with us. Please note that this will be the email address used to contact you regarding IFPA things like SCS qualifying and IFPA WC qualifying going forward.
Looking back at my records, out of the 23 Premier level sponsors, the email list has been sent to 4 of them. PAPA only requests the email addresses from Circuit events so they can send out their surveys, which we do share. The other 18 have not requested it at all.
I’ve updated the player profile update page with the following verbiage:
"Players that choose to update their player profile grant IFPA the right to share their email address with select IFPA sponsors. The IFPA requires that we have your email address on file to be eligible to compete in the IFPA World Championship and the various IFPA Championship Series that are hosted.
If you want your email address removed from your profile please email us at ifpapinball@gmail.com to make that request. Please note that removing your email address from your profile will result in not being eligible for IFPA Championship events."
Hopefully that makes it more clear going forward that updating your player profile with us is the “opt-in” feature of our website. Many of the players in our database (roughly 90%) don’t update their player profile at all.
For those that want to opt-out just shoot an email to ifpapinball@gmail.com and remove your email address from the database.
Like Joe mentioned and Eric has done, feel free to create a unique email address specifically for IFPA use. At this time we would like to continue to keep the site a ‘free’ site for all players.