Twitch is an Amazon subsidiary and may share and combine personal information with Amazon
Twitch Interactive Inc. and its affiliates are subsidiaries of Amazon.com, Inc. The disclosure section carries the practical consequence: Twitch may share personal information with, and receive it from, its affiliates, including Amazon.com, Inc. and its subsidiaries, and information Twitch collects may be combined with information about Amazon customers and used by both companies to operate, provide, develop and improve their products and services. Those Amazon entities must either be subject to this Privacy Notice or follow practices at least as protective.
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Twitch Interactive Inc. and its affiliates are subsidiaries of Amazon.com, Inc. (“Amazon”).
Twitch may share personal information with, and receive personal information from, our affiliates (meaning entities controlled by, controlling, or under common control with Twitch), including Amazon.com, Inc. and its subsidiaries that are either subject to this Privacy Notice or follow practices at least as protective as those described in this Privacy Notice.
Personal information collected by Twitch may be combined with personal information about Amazon customers, and that combined information may be used by both Twitch and Amazon to operate, provide, develop, and improve Amazon’s and Twitch’s products and services.
Qualifications & exceptions
Affiliates receiving the data are limited to those either subject to this Privacy Notice or following practices at least as protective as those described in it.
Sharing and combination are stated as things Twitch “may” do, not as a guaranteed practice.
Not stated here
Which Amazon subsidiaries receive Twitch data, and what “at least as protective” practices they follow, is not stated.
Public actions like broadcasting, chatting, following or subscribing share information others can collect and reuse
You may share personal information while using Twitch, for example during account creation or when you take actions that are public or intended to be public, such as broadcasting content, participating in a chat room, posting profile information, following a channel or subscribing to a channel. Because some Twitch Services are social, information shared this way may be collected, used or disclosed by the other people who are part of that interaction. Twitch encourages you to be mindful of this; the notice does not describe Twitch controlling what those other participants do with it.
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Another is when you take certain actions on the Twitch Services that are public or intended to be public in nature, such as when you broadcast content, participate in a chat room, post profile information, follow a channel, or subscribe to a channel.
Given the social nature of some of the Twitch Services, such information may be collected, used, or disclosed by others who are part of that social interaction.
We encourage you to be mindful of this when considering your activity on the Twitch Services.
Qualifications & exceptions
The examples (broadcasting, chat, profile information, following, subscribing) are illustrative, introduced with “such as”.
Collection or reuse by other participants is stated as possible (“may”), given the social nature of some services.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Some features are built to show others your activity, such as who made a Clip or who subscribes to a channel
Some features of the Twitch Services are designed to provide other people with information about user activity. The notice gives two examples: identifying the user who created a particular Clip, and showing the subscription status of users for a given channel. This is presented as a product design, not a choice you make case by case.
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In addition, some features of the Twitch Services are designed to provide others with information about user activity, such as identifying the user who created a particular Clip or the subscription status of users for a given channel.
Qualifications & exceptions
The two examples are introduced with “such as”; the notice does not list every feature that exposes activity.
Not stated here
Whether any of these activity displays can be turned off is not addressed in this text; the linked Privacy Choices page is not supplied.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Letting an exhibitor scan your badge transfers your information to them under their own privacy notice
Exhibitors at Twitch live events may offer to scan your badge when you visit their area or events. By allowing an exhibitor to scan your badge you acknowledge that Twitch may transfer your personal information to that exhibitor, that once transferred the information is subject to the exhibitor’s privacy notice rather than this one, and that the exhibitor may contact you directly afterwards.
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Exhibitors may offer to scan your badge when you visit their area or events. By allowing exhibitors to scan your badge, you acknowledge that Twitch may transfer your personal information to the exhibitor and that, once transferred, your personal information is subject to the exhibitor’s privacy notice, and the exhibitor may contact you directly afterwards.
Qualifications & exceptions
Triggered only when you allow an exhibitor to scan your badge.
After transfer, Twitch’s notice no longer governs that copy; the exhibitor’s privacy notice does.
Not stated here
Which personal information is transferred to an exhibitor is not specified.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company commitment
Twitch says it does not sell personal information and shares it only as described in the notice and with Amazon
Twitch states that information about its users is an important part of its business, that it is not in the business of selling users’ personal information to others, and that it shares personal data only as described in the disclosure section and with its parent company Amazon.com, Inc. and Amazon subsidiaries that are either subject to this notice or follow practices at least as protective. The disclosures that follow (service providers, affiliates, legal requests, protective disclosures) and the advertising section, which describes sharing cookie and mobile ad identifiers and hashed-match data such as email addresses with advertising partners, are the “as described” sharing; the notice does not define “selling”.
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When Twitch Discloses Personal Information
Twitch is not in the business of selling our users’ personal information to others. Twitch shares personal data only as described below and with our parent company, Amazon.com, Inc., and the subsidiaries of Amazon.com, Inc., that are either subject to this Privacy Notice or follow practices at least as protective as those described in this Privacy Notice.
Information about Twitch users is an important part of our business and our work to provide the best experience across Twitch services.
Qualifications & exceptions
The commitment is “not in the business of selling”, not a statement that personal information is never disclosed.
Sharing with Amazon.com, Inc. and its qualifying subsidiaries sits outside the “as described below” list.
The advertising section separately describes sharing identifiers and email addresses with ad networks and advertising partners.
Not stated here
“Selling” is not defined, so how this statement relates to state-law definitions of sale or sharing is left to the unsupplied State-Specific Privacy Disclosures.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Service providers get data for hosting, security, orders, analysis and improvements, limited to this notice’s purposes
Twitch discloses information to service providers working on its behalf, for example to provide website hosting, maintenance and security services, fulfill orders, conduct data analysis and create reports, offer certain functionality, or help Twitch improve the Twitch Services and create new services and features. Twitch requires these parties to process the information in compliance with this notice, authorizes them to use it only for the purposes for which it was provided, and requires reasonable confidentiality measures.
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We disclose information to service providers working on our behalf, such as, to: provide website hosting, maintenance, and security services; fulfill orders; conduct data analysis and create reports; offer certain functionality; or assist Twitch in improving the Twitch Services and creating new services and features.
We require that these parties process such information in compliance with this Privacy Notice, we authorize them to use the information only for the purposes for which it is provided to them, and we require them to use reasonable confidentiality measures.
Qualifications & exceptions
Providers are limited to the purposes for which the information is provided and must use reasonable confidentiality measures.
The listed services are examples (“such as”).
Not stated here
Service providers are not named.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Twitch may exchange personal information with affiliates including Amazon and combine it with Amazon customer data
Twitch may share personal information with, and receive it from, its affiliates, meaning entities controlled by, controlling or under common control with Twitch, including Amazon.com, Inc. and its subsidiaries that are either subject to this notice or follow practices at least as protective. Information Twitch collects may be combined with information about Amazon customers, and the combined information may be used by both Twitch and Amazon to operate, provide, develop and improve both companies’ products and services.
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Twitch may share personal information with, and receive personal information from, our affiliates (meaning entities controlled by, controlling, or under common control with Twitch), including Amazon.com, Inc. and its subsidiaries that are either subject to this Privacy Notice or follow practices at least as protective as those described in this Privacy Notice.
Personal information collected by Twitch may be combined with personal information about Amazon customers, and that combined information may be used by both Twitch and Amazon to operate, provide, develop, and improve Amazon’s and Twitch’s products and services.
Qualifications & exceptions
Recipient affiliates must be subject to this notice or follow practices at least as protective.
Combination with Amazon customer data and joint use are stated as things that “may” happen.
Not stated here
Which Amazon subsidiaries exchange data with Twitch is not stated.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Twitch may disclose your information when it believes in good faith the law or a court or government order requires it
Twitch may disclose user information if it believes in good faith that the disclosure is necessary to comply with U.S. state and federal laws or other applicable laws around the world, for example in your country of residence, or to respond to a court order, judicial or other government request, subpoena or warrant in the manner legally required.
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Twitch may disclose user information if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to comply with U.S. state and federal laws or other applicable laws around the world (for example, in the country of your residence), or respond to a court order, judicial or other government request, subpoena, or warrant in the manner legally required.
Qualifications & exceptions
Conditioned on Twitch’s good-faith belief that disclosure is necessary.
Responses to orders, requests, subpoenas and warrants are “in the manner legally required”.
Not stated here
Whether Twitch notifies users of such requests is not stated.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Twitch reserves the right to disclose information to protect itself, its users or others and to investigate claims
Twitch reserves the right to disclose information that it believes in good faith is appropriate or necessary to protect Twitch from potential liability or from fraudulent, abusive or unlawful uses; to investigate and defend itself against third-party claims or allegations; to protect the security or integrity of the Twitch Services; or to protect the rights, property or safety of Twitch, its users or others. The threshold is Twitch’s good-faith belief that disclosure is “appropriate or necessary”.
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Twitch also reserves the right to disclose information that we believe, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to protect Twitch from potential liability or from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful uses; investigate and defend ourselves against third-party claims, or allegations; protect the security or integrity of the Twitch Services; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Twitch, our users, or others.
Qualifications & exceptions
Based on Twitch’s good-faith belief; “appropriate” as well as “necessary” disclosures are covered.
Recipients are not limited in the text.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company commitment
For sharing not already set out in the notice, you get advance notice and a chance to decline
Other than as set out in this Privacy Notice, Twitch says you will receive notice when personal information about you might be shared with third parties and will have an opportunity to choose not to share it. This commitment applies only to sharing that the notice does not already describe; the service-provider, affiliate, legal, protective, third-party-connection, extension, advertising and merger disclosures elsewhere in the notice are “set out” and so fall outside it.
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Other than as set out in this Privacy Notice, you will receive notice when personal information about you might be shared with third parties and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies only to sharing “other than as set out in this Privacy Notice”.
The form and timing of the notice and the choice mechanism are not described.
Sharing & Disclosure · Permission or license
Connecting Discord, Riot, Xbox or similar accounts authorizes Twitch to share your username and activity with them
If you connect to a third-party service such as Discord, Riot Games or Xbox through the Twitch Services, or otherwise link your Twitch account with a third-party service, you are treated as requesting and authorizing Twitch to share or grant access to information on your behalf, such as your username, the fact that your connection came from Twitch, and other relevant usage and diagnostic information. Twitch may also send those third parties information about the content you watch or your activities on Twitch; for example, it may make information available to app developers, game developers and game publishers to facilitate purchases and awards of digital goods such as games and in-game items.
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If you connect to a third-party service (such as Discord, Riot Games, or Xbox) through the Twitch Services or otherwise link your Twitch account with a third-party service, you are requesting and authorizing Twitch to share or grant access to information on your behalf (such as your username, the fact that your connection originated from the Twitch Services, and other relevant usage and diagnostic information) with such third party.
We may also send information about the content you watch or your activities on the Twitch Services to such third parties. For example, we may make information available to app developers, game developers, and game publishers to facilitate purchases and awards of digital goods, such as games and in-game items.
Qualifications & exceptions
Triggered by connecting to or linking a third-party service through Twitch.
The listed data items are examples (“such as”); the watch-and-activity sharing is stated as something Twitch “may” do.
Not stated here
What a specific linked service receives, and whether unlinking stops the sharing, is not stated.
Sharing & Disclosure · Context
Creators can embed third-party Extensions on their channels; attribution links identify which ones are running
The Twitch Extensions program lets creators embed interactive, custom, third-party content and applications on their channel pages. You can learn which Extensions are operating on a channel by clicking the attribution links or icons Twitch makes available on the channel page, for example on the video player or at the bottom of an Extension’s panel.
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Extensions and Applications
program allows creators to embed interactive, custom, third-party content and applications on their channel pages. You can find out more about the 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, for example, on the Twitch video player or at the bottom of an Extension’s panel.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Interacting with an Extension gives its developer automatic-type data; username or ID only if you grant access
When a viewer interacts with an Extension, or with the channel on which it is activated, the developer operating the Extension receives viewer information of the kind described under Automatically Collected Information (for example IP address, device and browser identifiers, interaction data). Twitch does not give third-party Extension developers access to your username or ID under the Extensions program unless you click “Grant Access” within the Extension or you install an Extension on your own channel. You are responsible for information you give a developer independently, for example through a web form in the Extension or by visiting the developer’s website.
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Interaction by a viewer with an Extension or with the channel on which the Extension is activated will provide the developer that operates the Extension with viewer information of the nature described above in “Automatically Collected Information.”
Twitch does not provide access to your username or ID to third-party Extension developers as part of the Twitch Extensions program unless you click “Grant Access” within the Extension or you install an Extension on your channel. You are responsible for any information you provide to the developer independently, for example, through a web form on the Extension or visiting that developer’s website.
Qualifications & exceptions
Interaction with the channel where an Extension is active, not only with the Extension itself, triggers the data flow.
Username or ID access requires your “Grant Access” click or installing the Extension on your channel.
Not stated here
Exactly which automatically collected items a developer receives is not listed.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Extension and Application developers may process your data only for Developer Services Agreement purposes
Developers may also create Applications that are not on channel pages or on Twitch. Twitch requires Extension and Application developers to process data about you only for the purposes set out in its Developer Services Agreement, a separate document that is linked but not supplied. Twitch encourages you to review any privacy policy the developer posts on the Application’s website or the Extension’s detail page.
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Developers may also create Applications that are not located on channel pages or on Twitch. We require Extension and Application developers to process data about you only for the purposes set forth in our
We encourage you to visit the respective Application’s website or Extension’s detail page to review any privacy policy posted by the developer, which may include additional information on their privacy practices.
Qualifications & exceptions
The purpose limit is imposed through the Developer Services Agreement, whose purposes are not stated in this notice.
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The Developer Services Agreement is not supplied, so the permitted developer purposes are unknown here.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Third-party analytics services may receive or directly collect your automatically collected data to evaluate your use
Twitch may use third-party web analytics services in connection with the Twitch Services. These providers use tracking technologies such as cookies to analyze how users use the services. The information collected, of the kind described under Automatically Collected Information, may be shared with or collected directly by these services and processed to evaluate your use of the Twitch Services.
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Advertisers and Analytics Providers
Twitch may use third-party Web analytics services in connection with the Twitch Services. These service providers use a variety of tracking technologies such as cookies to analyze how users use the Twitch Services. The information collected (described above in “Automatically Collected Information”) may be shared with or collected directly by these services and processed to evaluate your use of the Twitch Services.
Qualifications & exceptions
Stated as something Twitch “may” do; providers are not named.
The data may be collected directly by the analytics service rather than passed on by Twitch.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Twitch may share cookie and mobile ad IDs with ad networks, and your email or device ID to match you for off-Twitch ads
Twitch may work with third-party ad networks, advertisers and advertising analytics providers to target ads to you, and measure their performance, both on and off the Twitch Services. It may share with them, or they may directly collect, data such as cookie and mobile ad identifiers, to engage in advertising activity including understanding how you respond to ads and serving relevant ones. When Twitch works with third parties to serve ads off Twitch, it may share information such as your email address or resettable device identifier with a specific advertising partner to “match” against information that partner already holds about you. The notice elsewhere says Twitch is not in the business of selling personal information; this card describes what is shared for advertising.
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Twitch may also work with third-party ad networks, advertisers, and advertising analytics providers to target (and measure the performance of) ads to you both on and off the Twitch Services. We may share with these third parties (or they may directly collect) data such as cookie and mobile ad identifiers in order to engage in advertising activity (including to understand how you respond to advertisements and to serve relevant ads).
Twitch also works with third parties to serve ads to you off Twitch Services. When we do so, we may share information such as your email address or resettable device identifier for a specific advertising partner to “match” the information that they may have about you.
Qualifications & exceptions
Targeting and measurement cover ads both on and off the Twitch Services.
Matching uses your email address or resettable device identifier with “a specific advertising partner”.
Opt-outs for third-party advertising practices are placed on the unsupplied Privacy Choices page.
Not stated here
Whether the email address is shared hashed or in plain form, and which partners receive it, is not stated.
Cross-references
contrast (model-proposed): Twitch says it does not sell personal information and shares it only as described in the notice and with Amazon — contrast: Reviewed tension: the disclosure section says Twitch is not in the business of selling personal information, while the advertising section describes sharing cookie and mobile ad identifiers with ad networks and sharing email addresses or resettable device identifiers with advertising partners to match users. The notice does not define selling, so whether this sharing is a sale under any law is not resolved here.
Advertisers’ own ad technology receives your IP address and sets cookies; this notice does not cover or control it
Advertisers on Twitch, or representatives and service providers acting for them (“Twitch Advertisers”), sometimes use technology to serve ads that appear on Twitch directly to your device. When that happens they automatically receive certain data such as your IP address, and they may use cookies or similar technologies to measure ad effectiveness and personalize ad content. The notice states that it does not apply to, and Twitch cannot control, Twitch Advertisers’ tracking technologies and activities; you are directed to their privacy policies and to Twitch’s Privacy Choices page to learn more and opt out of their advertising practices.
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Advertisers on Twitch, or representatives or service providers working on their behalf (“Twitch Advertisers”), sometimes use technology to serve ads that appear on our services directly to your device. They automatically receive certain data, such as your IP address, when this happens. They may also use cookies (or similar technologies) to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize ad content.
This Privacy Notice does not apply to, and we cannot control, the tracking technologies and activities of Twitch Advertisers, and you should consult their respective privacy policies. For more information about Twitch Advertisers and similar entities that use these technologies, and to opt-out of their advertising practices, please visit our Privacy Choices page.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies when Twitch Advertisers serve ads directly to your device, which the notice says happens “sometimes”.
Opt-out of their practices is routed through the Privacy Choices page, which is not supplied.
Not stated here
Which advertisers serve ads directly, and what their policies allow, is outside this notice.
In a merger, acquisition, sale or change of control, Twitch may transfer your information, including in diligence
If Twitch, or some or all assets related to the Twitch Services, is acquired by or merged with a third party, or in connection with a contemplated change-of-ownership transaction, Twitch reserves the right to transfer or assign the information it has collected from users as part of that merger, acquisition, sale or other change-of-control event, including in the course of diligence. Transfer can therefore happen before a deal closes.
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Merger or Sale
In the event that Twitch, or some or all assets related to the Twitch Services, are acquired by or merged with a third-party entity or in connection with a contemplated change-of-ownership transaction, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information that we have collected from users as part of that merger, acquisition, sale, or other change-of-control event, including in the course of diligence.
Qualifications & exceptions
Covers contemplated transactions and diligence, not only completed deals.
Stated as a reserved right (“we reserve the right”).
Not stated here
Whether the acquirer is bound by this notice is not stated.