Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo provide IDs, friend lists and other account details when you create or link an EA Account
When you use EA online Services on or through third-party gaming platforms, EA may receive information from your accounts on those platforms. The policy says this is provided as part of establishing or linking an EA Account, which is necessary to access EA's online services. Examples it gives for recently released titles: Sony provides your PlayStation Network Online ID, email address, country, language, friend list, date of birth and certain preferences; Microsoft provides your Xbox Gamertag, email address, country, language, friend list, date of birth and certain preferences; Nintendo provides, as applicable to your device, your Mii character, nickname, Nintendo Network ID, Nintendo Account, country, language, friend list and certain preferences. EA says it never receives your credit card number or other financial information from these platforms as part of establishing or linking an EA Account. The section summary also names Google and third-party sign-in authenticators as sources.
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We may receive information about you from third parties, such as Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Google, mobile platforms, or third-party authenticators that you use to sign in to our Services.
We may receive information about you contained in third-party user accounts when you use EA online Services on or through third-party gaming platforms, such as those listed below.
This information is provided to EA as part of establishing or linking an EA Account, which is necessary to access EA’s online services.
Examples of information we receive when creating EA Accounts for our recently released titles are provided below.
We never receive your credit card number or other financial information from these third parties as part of establishing or linking an EA Account.
Sony provides information from your account for PlayStation™Network such as your Online ID, email address, country, language, friend list, date of birth, and certain preferences.
Microsoft provides information such as your Gamertag, email address, country, language, friend list, date of birth, and certain preferences.
Nintendo provides (as applicable to the device you have) information such as your Mii character, nickname, Nintendo Network ID, Nintendo Account, country, language, friend list, and certain preferences.
Qualifications & exceptions
An EA Account is described as necessary to access EA online services.
The platform lists are examples for recently released titles, not a complete list.
The no-financial-information statement is limited to establishing or linking an EA Account.
Not stated here
The certain preferences each platform provides are not specified.
Linking & Identification · Company practice
EA may receive information from gaming platforms to deliver and measure its marketing
EA may also receive information from the third-party gaming platforms you use for the purpose of delivering or analyzing the performance of EA marketing. The policy states that your use of EA online Services through these third parties indicates your agreement to the transfer of this information.
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We may also receive information from the third-party gaming platforms that you use for the purpose of delivering or analyzing the performance of EA marketing.
Your use of EA online Services through these third parties indicates your agreement for the transfer of this information.
Qualifications & exceptions
The policy treats using EA online Services through a platform as agreement to the transfer; it does not describe a separate consent step here.
Not stated here
The policy does not say what information platforms provide for marketing purposes.
Linking & Identification · Company practice
Linking Discord, Twitch or similar accounts may give EA information from those accounts
When you use third-party social gaming platforms such as Discord or Twitch and link your EA Account, EA may receive information associated with your account on those platforms. The policy points you to the notices shown when you link the accounts for details of what EA receives.
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When you use third-party social gaming platforms (such as Discord or Twitch) and link your EA Account, we may receive information associated with your account on those platforms.
Please review the notices presented to you when linking your accounts for details on the information EA receives.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies when you link your EA Account to such a platform.
Not stated here
The linking notices that describe the information received are not part of this document.
Linking & Identification · Company practice
EA collects your login credentials and, for connected accounts you authorize, an access token to receive their data
In its California notice, EA lists account login data: it collects and processes the credentials necessary for you to access your EA Account, and for any third-party connected accounts, after you authorize it, EA collects an access token that lets it receive information from that third party specific to your account there.
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Account login data; we collect and process the credentials necessary for you to access your EA Account; for any third-party connected accounts, following your authorization, we collect an access token that allows us to receive information from that third-party specific to your account with them;
Qualifications & exceptions
Access tokens are collected following your authorization of the connected account.