Additional State-Specific Privacy Disclosures
This additional state-specific privacy disclosure page (“Disclosure”) supplements the Twitch Privacy Notice, where you can read more about Twitch and your Privacy, and 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 are required by certain state privacy laws, and provide a Notice at Collection under the California Privacy Rights 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 and other state privacy laws, 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);
- payment information such as credit card information to process your purchases;
- information that may reveal your age, gender or gender identity, 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, or information used to prevent or detect fraud or other unauthorized activity;
- 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 may have 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 and other state privacy laws, 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. You can learn more about Specific Extension(s) operating on a given channel by clicking on the attribution links or icons that Twitch will make available on the channel page;
- 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, or information relating to our prevention and detection of unauthorized activity, such as attempted fraud, which in some cases may require disclosing certain information about potentially affected customers to law enforcement;
- 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 or gender identity, race, sexual orientation, disability, health data, or other protected classifications) may be revealed to the survey provider.
3. Advertising
The Twitch “Advertisers and Analytics Providers” section of our Privacy Notice outlines how 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. This includes work with third-party ad networks, advertisers, and advertising analytics providers to target ads to you both on and off the Twitch Services.
Twitch also processes personal information for the purposes of targeted advertising as that term is defined under certain state privacy laws.
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). Twitch uses Amazon (our parent company) to provide interest-based advertising. The Amazon Interest Based Ads page provides you with details on the information used for Interest Based Ads, how Amazon works with third parties, and how to change your Interest Based ad preferences.
4. Children and Teens
Twitch prohibits children under 13 from using its service. Twitch allows teens to use its service with parental involvement or permission. The service may collect data from teens who use it, and their data may be disclosed in a limited set of circumstances, such as if we use a service provider to help us gather crash reports for analyzing the health of our service. We do not serve cross-context behavioral ads to teens under 18 years old unless they opt in.
5. 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 exercise any of these rights, you can contact us using the “contact us” form. Please use the “Privacy Question” category on the “contact us” form when reaching out to us.
Additionally, you may have the right to opt out of the processing of your personal data for targeted advertising, as defined under certain state privacy laws, or the sharing of your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, as defined by the California Privacy Rights Act. P lease 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, where you can opt-out of interest-based advertising. You can also enable the Global Privacy Control (GPC) to opt out of cross-context behavioral ads.
You may also have the right to appeal the denial of any of these rights by using our “contact us” form. Please use the “Privacy Question” category on the “contact us” form when reaching out to us if we deny a data request. Depending upon your data choices, certain services may be limited or unavailable.
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.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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
9. California Privacy Rights Act and Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy 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.
10. California Privacy Rights Act Non-discrimination Statement
Twitch will not discriminate against any consumer for exercising their rights under the California Privacy Rights Act.
11. Colorado Privacy Act and Oregon Consumer 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 or the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act
12. Oregon Consumer Privacy Act Controller Entity Disclosure
The controller entity subject to the Twitch Privacy Notice and this Disclosure is Twitch Interactive, Inc.
13. New Jersey Notice of Material Change Disclosure.
If Twitch makes material changes to the Twitch Privacy Notice, we will provide affected customers with advance notice of any changes, either via email or via their account.
14. New York Child Data Protection Act Disclaimer
Pursuant to the New York Child Data Protection Act, Article 39-FF, individuals under the age of 18 may have additional privacy rights. Users who continue to use Twitch after turning 18 years of age are no longer entitled to all of this protection. For such users, Twitch will continue processing any prior personal information in accordance with the New York Child Data Protection Act.