Additional State-Specific Privacy Disclosures
Last modified on June 30, 2023
This additional state-specific privacy disclosure page (“Disclosure”) supplements the Twitch Privacy Notice, which describes the personal information that we collect, the sources from which we collect it, the purposes for which we use it, the limited circumstances under which we share personal information, and with whom we share it. These additional disclosures, which serve as a Notice at Collection under the California Privacy Rights Act, are required by the California Privacy Rights Act, Colorado Privacy Act, Connecticut Data Privacy Act, Utah Consumer Privacy Act, and Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act.
1**. Categories of Personal Information Collected**
The personal information that Twitch collects, or has collected from consumers in the twelve months prior to the effective date of this Disclosure, falls into the following categories established by the California Privacy Rights Act, depending on which Twitch Service is used.
- identifiers such as your name, alias, email, address, phone numbers, IP address, your Twitch account log-in information, or a government-issued identifier (which may be required for tax purposes if you have registered to receive payments from Twitch);
- personal information, such as payment information;
- information that may reveal your age, gender, race, sexual orientation, or other protected classifications, for example if you voluntarily disclose this information as part of your activity on Twitch;
- commercial information, such as purchase and content streaming activity;
- internet or other electronic network activity information, including content interaction information such as viewing history, browsing history, search history, and the content of messages, such as those you can send with chat;
- generalized geolocation data based on your IP address, such as your general jurisdiction to determine language;
- audio or visual information, such as video and audio recordings if you upload user-generated content;
- professional information, for example data related to your channel if you stream on Twitch; and
- inference data, such as information about your purchase and viewing preferences.
2**. Categories of Personal Information Disclosed for a Business Purpose**
The personal information that Twitch disclosed about consumers for a business purpose in the twelve months prior to the effective date of this Disclosure falls into the following categories established by the California Privacy Rights Act, depending on which Twitch Service is used.
- identifiers such as your name, alias, email address, phone numbers, IP address, for example when you visit a channel with an Extension that requires your IP address (see “Extensions” in our Privacy Notice for more information), or a government-issued identifier, for example if we use a third-party service to verify your identity;
- personal information, such as payment information, for example if we use a payment processor;
- commercial information, such as purchase details if a third-party service provider is assisting to provide the Twitch Service with which you interact;
- internet or other electronic network activity information, such as if we use a service provider to help us gather crash reports for analyzing the health of our services;
- generalized location data based on your IP address, such as when a service provider must know your general location to apply the appropriate regional parameters for their service;
- audio or visual information, such as video and audio recordings of you when you stream on Twitch, for example when it is necessary for a service provider to deliver your video content to your viewers;
- professional information, such as data related to your channel if you stream on Twitch, for example if an affiliate or service provider assists in processing your payments; and
- inference data, such as information about your purchase and viewing preferences, for example if a service provider assists us in serving you relevant advertisements.
- If you choose to engage with surveys or feedback opportunities provided by Twitch or its partners, the information you disclose (such as information that may reveal age, gender, race, sexual orientation, disability, health data, or other protected classifications) may be revealed to the survey provider.
3. Advertising
As explained in the “Advertisers and Analytics Providers” section of our Privacy Notice,
Twitch shares limited information to help ensure you receive more useful and relevant ads and to measure their effectiveness. Any personal information Twitch may have shared for the purpose of cross-context behavioral advertising, as that term is defined by the California Privacy Rights Act, in the twelve months prior to the effective date of this Disclosure, falls into the following categories:
- identifiers such as a cookie ID, a device identifier, or an anonymous advertising ID;
- internet or other electronic network activity information, such as whether you downloaded our app or other measures of ad effectiveness.
The categories of third parties with whom Twitch may share personal information for the purpose of cross-context behavioral advertising are identified in the “Advertisers and Analytics Providers” section of the Twitch Privacy Notice.
Twitch also processes personal information for the purposes of targeted advertising as that term is defined under the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, Colorado Privacy Act, Connecticut Data Privacy Act, and Utah Consumer Privacy Act.
We show interest-based ads to display features, products, and services that might be of interest to you. In providing interest-based ads, we follow the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising developed by the Digital Advertising Alliance (a coalition of marketing, online advertising, and consumer advocacy organizations). To learn more, please see our Ad Choices page and our Privacy Choices page. To learn more about how Twitch uses Amazon (our parent company) to provide interest-based advertising, please visit Amazon’s Interest-Based Ads notice.
4**. Your Data Rights**
You may have certain data rights under state privacy laws, including to request information about the collection of your personal information by Twitch, to access your personal information in a portable format, and to correct or delete your personal information. If you wish to do any of these things, please contact us here under the ‘Privacy Questions’ category.
To ensure the safety of your Twitch account, we will generally ask you to verify your request using the contact information you have already provided. If you do not have an account, or if you are an authorized agent under applicable state law, email privacy@twitch.tv.
You may also have the right to appeal the denial of any of these rights through our existing support process if we deny a data request. Depending upon your data choices, certain services may be limited or unavailable.
Additionally, you may have the right to opt out of the processing of your personal data for targeted advertising, as defined by the Colorado Privacy Act, Connecticut Data Privacy Act, Utah Consumer Privacy Act, and Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, or the sharing of your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, as defined by the California Privacy Rights Act. To do so, please visit Manage Consent Preferences in the Security and Privacy tab of your user settings at the bottom of that page. To disable interest-based ads provided by Amazon, please visit the Amazon Advertising Preferences page. Customers under 16 years old must opt-in to receive cross-context behavioral advertising.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights.
5**. No Sale of Personal Information**
In the twelve months prior to the effective date of this Disclosure, Twitch has not sold any personal information of consumers, as those terms are defined under the California Privacy Rights Act.
6**. California Privacy Rights Act Sensitive Personal Information Disclosure**
The categories of data that Twitch collects and discloses for a business purpose include “sensitive personal information” as defined under the California Privacy Rights Act. Twitch does not use or disclose sensitive personal information for any purpose not expressly permitted by the California Privacy Rights Act.
7. California Privacy Rights Act Retention Disclosure
We keep your personal information to enable your continued use of the Twitch Services, for as long as it is required in order to fulfill the relevant purposes described in the Twitch Privacy Notice, as permitted or as may be required by law, or as otherwise communicated to you. For example, we retain your transaction history so that you can review past purchases (and repeat purchases if desired) and to improve the relevance of products and content we recommend.
8.California Privacy Rights Act, Colorado Privacy Act, Connecticut Data Privacy Act, Utah Consumer Privacy Act, and Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act De-identified Data Disclosure
Twitch may use de-identified data in some instances. Twitch either maintains such data without attempting to re-identify it or treats such data as personal data subject to applicable law.
9. Colorado Privacy Act Profiling Disclosure
Twitch does not engage in profiling of consumers in furtherance of automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects, as those terms are defined under the Colorado Privacy Act.