PlayStation Terms of Service (US)

PlayStation · agreement dated April 2026 · Official agreement

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Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice

SIE may offer sharing of your presence and activity information, which you should share only with suitable friends

SIE may provide functionality that lets you share information about your presence on PlayStation, which the agreement defines as User Information: your name, sign-in ID, Online ID, profile, pictures, friends list, communications and interactions (including by voice), activities, and information on your gameplay, purchases made and content viewed. It may also let you recommend your favorite Content. The agreement tells you to share User Information only with friends who you know want to receive it and whose age is appropriate for the Content you are sharing.

Supporting quotations

We may provide functionality allowing you to share information relating to your presence on PlayStation, in including your name, sign-in ID, Online ID, profile, pictures, friends list, communications and interactions (including by voice), activities, and information on your gameplay, purchases made and content viewed
Only share User Information with friends who you know want to receive it, and whose age is appropriate for the Content you are sharing.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • The functionality is described as something SIE "may" provide.
  • The instruction to share only with suitable friends is addressed to you.

Sharing & Disclosure · Permission or license

You authorize SIE to use, copy, display and publish your User Information without payment

The agreement says you hereby authorize SIE to use, distribute, copy, display and publish your User Information, without payment to you. It also notes that you may have an opportunity to share, or permit SIE to share, your User Information through Third-Party Services; if you do, use or distribution on those Third-Party Services may be subject solely to that third party's terms of service and privacy policy, and you are told to review those documents before sharing.

Supporting quotations

You may have an opportunity to share or permit us to share your User Information relating to your Account or activities via Third-Party Services.
If you choose to do so, use or distribution of your Information on any Third-Party Service may be subject solely to
You hereby authorize us to use, distribute, copy, display, and publish your User Information, without payment to you.
please review those documents before sharing your Information
content, products, or services offered by publishers or entities other than SIE and its affiliates

Qualifications & exceptions

  • The authorization sentence names the use, distribution, copying, display and publication of User Information and states no purpose limit.
  • The authorization sentence is not expressly limited to the third-party sharing described just before it.

Not stated here

  • The text does not say whether the authorization is limited to any particular purpose or audience; see the Privacy Policy, which is not supplied here.

Sharing & Disclosure · Restriction or exception

Other users and third parties may record and reuse your information for any reason, without limits or payment

Some Content may have features that let a user record your User Information and distribute it publicly to any third party, including users outside the Services. You agree that any third party may record, use and distribute your information for any reason without any restrictions or compensation to you. Additional terms, such as those of a game publisher or service provider, may apply. If you do not want your information used, recorded or distributed, the agreement says not to use or access the Services.

Supporting quotations

Some Content may have features that allow your User Information to be recorded by a user and distributed to any third party publicly, including users outside of our Services.
You agree that any third party may record, use, and distribute your information for any reason without any restrictions or compensation to you.
Additional terms may apply, including the terms of any game publisher or service provider.
If you do not want your information to be used, recorded, or distributed, please do not use or access our Services.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Applies to Content with features that allow recording of User Information.
  • Additional publisher or service-provider terms may apply.

Not stated here

  • The text does not list which Content has recording features or what any publisher's additional terms say.