Last modified on July 31, 2024
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 are required by certain state privacy laws, and provide a Notice at Collection under the California Privacy Rights Act.
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:
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.
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:
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 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). 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.
Twitch prohibits children under 13 from using its service. As stated in the Twitch Privacy Notice, Twitch allows teens to use its service with parental involvement or permission. These products and services may collect data from teens who use them, 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 devices and services. We do not serve cross-context behavioral ads to teens under 18 years old unless they opt in.
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.
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. 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. 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 through our existing support process 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
The controller entity subject to the Twitch Privacy Notice and this Disclosure is Twitch Interactive, Inc.