Direct-child data is shared for KWS operations or legal requirements, not sold
KWS shares this child data with service providers facilitating support. It says sharing is only to provide, maintain and secure KWS or when required by law, and that it sells neither this data nor any other data to anyone. The linked provider list is not supplied here, so this card does not identify its current recipients.
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This data is shared with our service providers who help us facilitate customer support. We share data only to provide, maintain and secure KWS, or if we’re required to do so by law, as further described here. We do not sell this data (or any other data) to anyone.
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The linked service-provider list is not supplied; its current contents are unknown here.
KWS limits sharing to the policy and says it does not sell information
KWS says it shares personal information only as described in this policy, for example to provide, maintain or secure the service or meet legal requirements, and does not sell any information to anyone. For data collected directly from children, its COPPA statement uses the narrower wording that sharing is only to provide, maintain and secure KWS or when legally required; this is not an unrestricted sharing permission.
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We do not share your personal information with others except as described in this Privacy Policy (like to provide, maintain and secure KWS, or if we’re required to do so by law). We do not sell any of your information to anyone.
We share data only to provide, maintain and secure KWS, or if we’re required to do so by law, as further described here. We do not sell this data (or any other data) to anyone.
Qualifications & exceptions
The COPPA statement specifically limits direct-child data sharing to KWS operations or legal requirements.
Not stated here
The linked service-provider list in the COPPA statement is not supplied here; no current provider list is inferred.
Providers and professional advisers may receive information
KWS shares information with service providers such as IT/hosting firms and card processors, including verification information for age checks. Providers processing on KWS’s behalf serve the policy’s purposes and have contractual privacy, security and confidentiality duties. KWS also sometimes shares with advisers such as lawyers, accountants and insurers who may be independent controllers, including for enforcement or claims. Some providers and servers are outside the UK, Switzerland and EEA. The linked current-provider list is not supplied.
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Service providers. As with most companies, we use third parties to help us provide KWS, such as IT and hosting providers or payment card processors. For example, we share Verification information with payment card processors we use to verify your age. Some of these providers may process your personal information on our behalf, for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. These providers are subject to contractual obligations governing privacy, data security and confidentiality.
We also share personal information in some cases with our professional advisers and other service providers who are sometimes independent ‘data controllers’, such as lawyers, accountants and insurers (e.g. when enforcing our contract with you or in the event of claims against us).
As we explain above, we use third-party service providers to help us provide KWS, such as hosting providers or payment card processors. Some of these providers, including their servers, are based outside the UK, Switzerland and EEA.
Qualifications & exceptions
On-behalf processing is for policy purposes and subject to contractual privacy, security and confidentiality duties.
Professional advisers may instead act as independent controllers.
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The linked list of current service providers is not supplied; its identities and terms cannot be established here.
Partners receive verification status and child-permission updates
When you or your child uses a Partner App, KWS shares information to provide services requested from it or the Partner. It communicates verified status for parental permissions or App/feature access, may send child age information when parental consent is no longer needed, and sends updates to the child’s preferences and parental permissions given through the Parent Portal.
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Partners. If you or your child uses a Partner App, we share your personal information with our Partners to deliver the services which you have requested from either us or our Partners. For example, if you verify your age through KWS, we communicate your verified status to the Partner to enable the Partner to proceed with obtaining your permissions (whether using Parent Consent Management or otherwise) for their collection of your child’s personal information, or giving you access to their App or age-restricted features of their App. If your child is an end-user of a Partner, we may communicate their Age information to the Partner in order to notify the Partner that your child has reached an age where they no longer require your consent to the collection of their personal information. We also provide Partners with updates to your child’s Preferences and the Permissions you give your child through the Parent Portal.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies when you or your child uses a Partner App, for requested services.
Epic group sharing is limited by policy purposes or your authorisation
KWS may share with Epic Games group companies, including future acquisitions, only as necessary for purposes in this policy or as you otherwise authorise. It gives group assistance with Partner customer support as an example.
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Other companies within our group. We may share your information with our Epic Games family of companies, including companies that we may acquire in the future, but only to the extent necessary to fulfil purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, or otherwise as authorised by you. For example, our group companies assist us in the provision of customer support to our Partners.
Qualifications & exceptions
Only as necessary for stated policy purposes or as otherwise authorised by you.
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The linked Epic Games family page is not supplied; this card does not establish a current list of group companies.
Sharing & Disclosure · Permission or license
KWS may disclose information when it believes legal or protective needs justify it
KWS may share information if it believes disclosure is reasonably necessary for law or legal process, pursuing remedies or claims, enforcing terms, securing services, protecting rights, property, interests or safety, or risk management. The listed protected groups include KWS, employees, customers, its users and Partners’ users. Data categories and legal bases depend on circumstances; KWS generally cites legal duties, vital interests or legitimate interests in security, preventing misuse, protecting rights and responding to government or law-enforcement requests. The policy’s direct-child sharing limits still apply to child-collected data.
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Other legal or regulatory process.
We may share your personal information if we believe it is reasonably necessary:
where required by law;
to comply with legal processes;
to permit us to pursue available remedies, including commencing or responding to any claims;
to enforce or apply our terms;
to protect the security or integrity of our services;
to protect the rights, property, interests or safety of KWS, our employees, customers, our end-users or our Partners’ end-users; or
for risk management purposes.
The categories of information we disclose and our legal basis for doing so depends on the circumstances, but generally it is to comply with legal obligations, to protect vital interests or act in our legitimate interest to provide a secure and safe service and preventing fraud and unauthorised use of our products and services, violations of our terms and policies or other harmful or illegal activity, and in protecting our and others’ rights, property and interests, and responding to legal requests from governmental and law enforcement agencies.
We share data only to provide, maintain and secure KWS, or if we’re required to do so by law, as further described here.
Qualifications & exceptions
KWS must believe sharing is reasonably necessary for a listed purpose.
Data categories and legal bases depend on circumstances.
Direct-child information remains subject to the COPPA sharing limits.
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The referenced terms are not supplied here; their obligations and enforcement provisions are not analyzed.
An acquiring entity may receive information but remains limited by this policy
In a merger, acquisition or asset sale, KWS may share personal information with the acquiring or receiving entity. Categories and bases depend on circumstances and include legitimate interests in operating, selling and expanding the business. If ownership changes, new owners may process information only in the same way this policy sets out.
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If we are acquired. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, we may share your personal information with the acquiring or receiving entity. The categories of information we disclose and our legal basis for doing so depends on the circumstances, but would include our legitimate interest in operating, selling and expanding our business, including through such transactions. If a change happens to our business, the new owners may only process your personal information in the same way as set out in this Privacy Policy.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to a merger, acquisition or asset sale.
New owners may only process information in the way this policy sets out.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
KWS may share de-identified aggregate information with Partners
KWS may derive and share aggregate information as part of its services, such as the percentage of parents consenting to a game feature. It says the data is de-identified so that in a Partner’s hands it cannot be associated with a person or reveal your identity directly or indirectly.
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A note about aggregated data. We may derive aggregated data from your personal information and we may share this information in aggregated form with our Partners as part of our services. For example, we may aggregate Usage information to calculate the percentage of parents/guardians who provide verifiable parental consent to their child accessing a certain feature of one of our Partner’s games. However, because this data has been through a process to de-identify personal information so that it can no longer be associated in the Partner’s hands with a person, the aggregated data cannot directly or indirectly reveal your identity to the Partner.
Qualifications & exceptions
The stated de-identification limit concerns the data in the receiving Partner’s hands.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Information may transfer outside the UK, Switzerland and EEA
Group companies are in the US and other countries outside the UK, Switzerland and EEA; some providers, servers and Partners are also outside those regions. Destination countries may offer different protection. KWS says it uses contracting frameworks approved by the UK and Swiss governments and European Commission, designed for essentially equivalent protection as applicable, and may need transfers to provide KWS under existing agreements such as its Terms of Use.
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We transfer your personal information in the following ways:
As we explain above, we share your personal information within our group of companies. Our group companies are located in the United States and other countries outside the UK, Switzerland and EEA.
As we explain above, we use third-party service providers to help us provide KWS, such as hosting providers or payment card processors. Some of these providers, including their servers, are based outside the UK, Switzerland and EEA.
As we explain above, we also provide your information to Partners. Some of these Partners are based outside the UK, Switzerland and EEA.
Countries where we and our service providers and Partners operate may not offer the same level of data protection as your home country. We use specific contracting frameworks approved by the UK Government, Swiss Government and European Commission that are designed to give personal information protection essentially equivalent to that in the UK, Switzerland and EEA (as applicable).
We may also need to transfer your information to provide KWS to you in accordance with our existing agreements with you, such as the
Qualifications & exceptions
Equivalent protection is the stated design of contracting frameworks; destination-country law may differ.
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The linked KWS Terms of Use and the contracting instruments are not supplied; their detailed transfer terms are not established here.
KWS does not respond to GPC because it says it does not sell or target ads
KWS does not respond to Global Privacy Control signals. Its stated reason is that it neither sells personal information nor uses or shares it for targeted advertising, the activities those opt-outs address. Other disclosures described in the policy still occur; this is not a promise never to share information.
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For the same reasons, we do not respond to Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals, which are designed to allow users to opt out of the sale of their personal information or use of their personal information for targeted advertising purposes. We do not sell your personal information, or use or share it for targeted advertising purposes. See Reasons we share your personal information for more information on when we share your personal information.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company commitment
California sensitive-information use is limited; KWS says it does not Sell or Share
Using the CCPA meanings, KWS says it uses or discloses Sensitive Personal Information only as necessary to perform KWS or as the CCPA permits. It says it does not Sell or Share Personal Information, including for end-users it knows are under 16. This CCPA-specific statement coexists with the ordinary service disclosures described elsewhere.
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We do not use or disclose Sensitive Personal Information for purposes other than those that are necessary to perform KWS or permissible under the CCPA.
We do not Sell or Share Personal Information, including for our end-users that we know are under the age of 16.
For the purposes of this section, Personal Information, Sensitive Personal Information, Third Parties, Business Purposes, Commercial Purposes, Sell, Share and Business have the meanings given to them under the CCPA.
Qualifications & exceptions
Sell, Share and Sensitive Personal Information use CCPA meanings.
Sensitive-information purposes may include those otherwise permissible under the CCPA.
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contrast (model-proposed): Partners receive verification status and child-permission updates — KWS's California promise not to Sell or Share uses CCPA-defined terms; it coexists with service-related Partner disclosures described in the policy and does not mean that no information is disclosed.
The policy says Nevada residents may direct businesses not to sell certain collected information, while KWS itself says it does not sell personal information. Nevada residents wishing to exercise the stated right can email privacy@kidswebservices.com.
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Nevada residents have the right to direct a business not to sell certain kinds of personal information that the business has collected about them. We do not sell personal information. If you are a Nevada resident and wish to submit a request relating to this right, please email us at privacy@kidswebservices.com.
Qualifications & exceptions
This procedure is for Nevada residents and concerns certain kinds of collected personal information.