GDPR Privacy Notice to EU Residents

Effective Date: September 8, 2021

If you are a resident of the European Union (“EU”), United Kingdom, Lichtenstein, Norway, or Iceland, you may have additional rights under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) with respect to your Personal Data, as outlined below.

For this GDPR Privacy Notice, we use the terms “Personal Data” and “processing” as they are defined in the GDPR, but “Personal Data” generally means information that can be used to individually identify a person, and “processing” generally covers actions that can be performed in connection with data such as collection, use, storage and disclosure. Company will be the controller of your Personal Data processed in connection with the Services.

Where applicable, this GDPR Privacy Notice is intended to supplement, and not replace, the Company’s Privacy Policy at https://www.game.tv/privacy.html (the “Privacy Policy”). If there are any conflicts between this GDPR Privacy Notice and the Company’s Privacy Policy, the policy or portion that is more protective of Personal Data shall control to the extent of such conflict. If you have any questions about this notice or whether any of the following applies to you, please contact us at [email protected].

What Personal Data Do We Collect From You?

We collect Personal Data about you when you provide such information directly to us, when third parties such as our business partners or service providers provide us with Personal Data about you, or when Personal Data about you is automatically collected in connection with your use of our Services.

Information we collect directly from you:

We receive Personal Data directly from you when you provide us with such Personal Data, including without limitation the following:

  • Email address
  • User content, for example, comments, posts, or decks you submit publicly, photographs you upload (which can include Personal Data if you include Personal Data in such content)
  • Nick name and avatar

In the event you are selected as a winner of a tournament we run on the Services, we receive the following Personal Data directly from you when you provide us with such Personal Data:

  • First and last name
  • Mailing address
  • Telephone number
  • Your photograph

Information we receive from third party sources:

Some third parties such as our affiliate ad networks, business partners, and service providers provide us with Personal Data about you, such as the following:

  • Account information for third party services: If you interact with a third party service when using our Services, such as if you use a third party service to log-in to our Services (e.g., Discord, Line, Google, Facebook Connect, or Twiter), or if you share content from our Services through a third party social media service, the third party service may send us information about you, such as information from your public profile, if the third party service and your account settings allow such sharing. The information we receive will depend on the policies and your account settings with the third party service.

Information we automatically collect when you use our Services:

Some Personal Data is automatically collected when you use our Services, such as the following:

  • IP address
  • Unique device identifiers or synthetic anonymous IDs
  • Web browser information
  • Application activity such as app upload, app download, app installation, app uninstallation, app start, app play duration, app stop, app crashes, app network activity and app resource consumption
  • Transaction information (e.g. transaction amount, date and time such transaction occurred, Purchase transaction history)
  • Cookies and other tracking technologies (e.g. web beacons, pixel tags, SDKs, etc.) -- For more information, please review our Cookie Policy (here).
  • Location information (country-level only)
  • Log data (e.g. access times, hardware and software information)
  • Device event information such as crashes, system activity and hardware settings
  • System configuration information; metadata concerning your Android apps
  • Other interactions with the Services and third party advertisements

How Do We Use Your Personal Data?

We process Personal Data to operate, improve, understand and personalize our Services. For example, we use Personal Data to:

  • Create and manage user profiles
  • Communicate with you about the Services
  • Contact you about Service announcements, updates or offers
  • Provide support and assistance for the Services
  • Personalize website content and communications based on your preferences
  • Analyze how you use the Services and personalize, provide, and improve our services
  • Meet contract or legal obligations
  • Respond to user inquiries
  • Fulfill user requests
  • Comply with our legal or contractual obligations
  • Resolve disputes
  • Protect against or deter fraudulent, illegal or harmful actions
  • Enforce our Terms of Service
  • Provide aggregate usage information to our partners (or allow partners to collect that information from you), who may use such information to understand how often and in what ways people use our Services, so that they, as well as we, can provide you with an optimal online experience

We will only process your Personal Data if we have a lawful basis for doing so. Lawful bases for processing include consent, contractual necessity and our “legitimate interests” or the legitimate interest of others, as further described below.

  • Contractual Necessity: We process the following categories of Personal Data as a matter of “contractual necessity”, meaning that we need to process the data to perform under our Terms of Service or other agreement with you, which enables us to provide you with the Services. When we process data due to contractual necessity, failure to provide such Personal Data will result in your inability to use some or all portions of the Services that require such data.
    • Your sign-up contract information, such as your email
    • Your account data, such as your nickname, and avatar
    • Your contact information you provided to us on the purchase orders, insertion orders, or other documents, such as name, address, email address, and telephone
  • Legitimate Interest: We process the following categories of Personal Data when we believe it furthers the legitimate interest of us or third parties.
    • End user analytics data, such as synthetic anonymous ID
    • Customer support data, such as Mac address, IP address, location data (country-level only), and email address
    • Game or application related data, such as name of app/game, package name, version, time at which application was installed / uninstalled, search string, application click information
    • Cost-Per-Install revenue, In-App-Purchase spend, conversion information
    • Tournament data, such as tournaments played, created and registered
    • Tournament winner data, such as first name, last name, mailing address, telephone, and photograph
    • Internal contractor records, such as first and last name, mailing address, email, telephone, date of birth, location, and banking information

    Examples of these legitimate interests include:

    • Operation and improvement of our business, products and services
    • Data analytics and personalization of web and services content
    • Marketing of our products and services
    • Provision of customer support
    • Detection and protection from fraud or security threats
    • Compliance with legal obligations
    • Completion of corporate transactions
    • Internal Administration
  • Consent: In some cases, we process Personal Data based on the consent you expressly grant to us at the time we collect such data. When we process Personal Data based on your consent, it will be expressly indicated to you at the point and time of collection.
  • Other Processing Grounds: From time to time we may also need to process Personal Data to comply with a legal obligation, if it is necessary to protect the vital interests of you or other data subjects, or if it is necessary for a task carried out in the public interest.

How and With Whom Do We Share Your Data?

We share Personal Data with vendors, third party service providers and agents who work on our behalf and provide us with services related to the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Service. These parties include:

  • Payment processors
  • Fraud prevention service providers
  • Ad networks
  • Analytics service providers
  • Staff augmentation and contract personnel
  • Hosting service providers
  • Co-location service providers
  • Telecommunications service providers

We also share Personal Data when necessary to complete a transaction initiated or authorized by you or provide you with a product or service you have requested. In addition to those set forth above, these parties also include:

  • Third party business partners who you access through the Services
  • Shipping and logistics companies
  • Other parties authorized by you

We also share information with third parties when you have given us consent to do so (as indicated at the point such information is collected).
We also share Personal Data when we believe it is necessary to:

  • Comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal process, including from law enforcement or other government agencies
  • Protect us, our business or our users, for example to enforce our terms of service, prevent spam or other unwanted communications and investigate or protect against fraud
  • Maintain the security of our products and services

Furthermore, if we choose to buy or sell assets, user information is typically one of the transferred business assets. Moreover, if we, or substantially all of our assets, were acquired, or if we go out of business or enter bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party, and we would share Personal Data with the party that is acquiring our assets. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of us or our assets may continue to use your Personal Information as set forth in this policy.

How Long Do We Retain Your Personal Data?

We retain Personal Data about you for as long as you have an open account with us and for 12 months after you close your account. If you are a contractor engaged by us, we retain Personal Data about you for 7 years after the termination of your association with us. In some cases we retain Personal Data for longer, if doing so is necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes or collect fees owed, or is otherwise permitted or required by applicable law, rule or regulation. Afterwards, we retain some information in a depersonalized or aggregated form but not in a way that would identify you personally.

What Security Measures Do We Use?

We seek to protect Personal Data using appropriate technical and organizational measures based on the type of Personal Data and applicable processing activity. For example, our Services use encryption for transmitting data, data analytics and reporting access is governed through identity access management.

Personal Data of Children:

As noted in the Terms of Use here, we do not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Data from anyone under the age of 16. If you are under 16, please do not attempt to register for the Services or send any Personal Data about yourself to us. If we learn that we have collected Personal Data from a child under age 16, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that a child under 16 may have provided us Personal Data, please contact us at [email protected].

What Rights Do You Have Regarding Your Personal Data?

You have certain rights with respect to your Personal Data, including those set forth below. For more information about these rights, or to submit a request, please email [email protected]. Please note that in some circumstances, we may not be able to fully comply with your request, such as if it is frivolous or extremely impractical, if it jeopardizes the rights of others, or if it is not required by law, but in those circumstances, we will still respond to notify you of such a decision. In some cases, we may also need to you to provide us with additional information, which may include Personal Data, if necessary to verify your identity and the nature of your request.

  • Access: You can request more information about the Personal Data we hold about you and request a copy of such Personal Data. You can also access certain of your Personal Data by sending us an email at [email protected].
  • Rectification: If you believe that any Personal Data we are holding about you is incorrect or incomplete, you can request that we correct or supplement such data. You can correct some of this information directly by sending us an email at [email protected].
  • Erasure: You can request that we erase some or all of your Personal Data from our systems.
  • Withdrawal of Consent: If we are processing your Personal Data based on your consent (as indicated at the time of collection of such data), you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Please note, however, that if you exercise this right, you may have to then provide express consent on a case-by-case basis for the use or disclosure of certain of your Personal Data, if such use or disclosure is necessary to enable you to utilize some or all of our Services.
  • Portability: You can ask for a copy of your Personal Data in a machine-readable format. You can also request that we transmit the data to another controller where technically feasible.
  • Objection: You can contact us to let us know that you object to the further use or disclosure of your Personal Data for certain purposes, such as for direct marketing purposes.
  • Restriction of Processing: You can ask us to restrict further processing of your Personal Data.
  • Right to File Complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint about Company’s practices with respect to your Personal Data with the supervisory authority of your country or EU Member State.

Transfers of Personal Data:

The Services are hosted and operated in the United States (“U.S.”) through Company and its service providers, and if you do not reside in the U.S., laws in the U.S. may differ from the laws where you reside. By using the Services, you acknowledge that any Personal Data about you, regardless of whether provided by you or obtained from a third party, is being provided to Company in the U.S. and will be hosted on U.S. servers, and you authorize Company to transfer, store and process your information to and in the U.S., and possibly other countries. You hereby consent to the transfer of your data to the U.S. as set forth herein.

The U.S. is not deemed by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of protection for Personal Data, and is not covered by a suitable framework or certification recognized by the relevant independent public data protection authority as providing an adequate level of protection for Personal Data. If you do not wish for your Personal Data to be transferred to the U.S. or other jurisdictions, please do not submit your Personal Data to Company. We undertake that when we transfer EU or UK Personal Data to a jurisdiction outside the EU or UK (as applicable), such as the U.S., we will follow and adhere to the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses for the transfer of personal data to third countries, pursuant to Decision 2004/915/EC (the Standard Contractual Clauses, available at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32004D0915&from=EN). If, in the future, there are alternative means of giving you equivalent protection to the GDPR when we transfer EU Personal Data outside the EU, United Kingdom, Liechtenstein, Norway or Iceland, for example, statutory codes of practice approved for our use, then we may use those methods instead.

What If You Have Questions Regarding Your Personal Data?

If you have any questions about this GDPR Privacy Notice or our data practices generally, please contact us using the following information:

Name: Jay Vaishnav
Physical address: game.tv, Inc. 2105 South Bascom Avenue, Suite #380, Campbell, CA 95008, USA
Email address for contact: [email protected]
Designated representative and contact information:
EU: DP-Dock GmbH, Attn: Now.gg
Ballindamm 39 / Ecke Jungfernstieg
20095 Hamburg, Germany
UK: DP Data Protection Services UK Ltd., Attn: Now.gg,
16 Great Queen Street, Covent Garden,
London, WC2B 5AH, United Kingdom