Roku Mobile App Terms of Use

Roku · agreement dated October 11, 2022 · Official agreement

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Linked third-party assistants also process your Roku device data

Once your Roku devices are linked to third-party products and services such as Amazon Alexa or Google Home, those entities also process information about you and how you use their services, including how you use the Roku devices linked to them. The categories listed as collectable are the types of devices you use; how you use those devices with their services; logs of the activities you perform and the content or information you accessed; your verbal input when using voice commands to control linked devices and features; video and images; and other details captured by Roku Smart Home devices that you direct to be transferred, accessed or otherwise processed by Google Home or Amazon Alexa. The collection is attributed to those third parties and is framed around data you direct them to handle, not around everything your devices capture.

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Who
third-party products and services such as Amazon Alexa or Google Home
Condition
devices linked to those third-party services

Supporting quotations

When your Roku devices are linked to third party products and services like Amazon Alexa or Google Home, these entities will also process information about you and how you use their services, including how you may use your Roku devices linked to them.
They may also collect data about the types of devices you are using; how you are using the devices in connection with their services, logs of the activities you perform and the content or information you accessed; your verbal input when using voice commands to control linked devices and features; video, images; or other details that may be captured by Roku Smart Home devices if you direct it to transferred, accessed, or otherwise processed by Google Home or Amazon Alexa.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Applies when your devices are linked to third-party products and services; Amazon Alexa and Google Home are given as examples.
  • The entities process information about you and your use of their own services too, not only Roku-related data.
  • Video, images and other captured details are listed together with the qualifier "if you direct it to transferred, accessed, or otherwise processed by Google Home or Amazon Alexa".

Not stated here

  • What those third parties do with the data under their own policies is outside this document; it points to support.roku.com and its Privacy Policy rather than stating it.
  • The source sentence covering captured details reads "if you direct it to transferred" rather than "to be transferred"; the quoted wording is reproduced exactly and its intended grammatical object is not resolved further by the document.

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Asking Alexa to show Roku video authorizes sending it to Amazon

The document gives one concrete example of the third-party flow: asking Alexa to display Roku video content on an Amazon Alexa Show authorizes Roku to transfer your video content to Amazon so it can be displayed on an Amazon device. The authorization is request-specific and is presented as an illustration of the general linking flow rather than the only case in which content moves to a third party.

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What it covers
Roku video content

Supporting quotations

For example, when you ask Alexa to display Roku video content on an Amazon Alexa Show (i.e., an Alexa device with display capabilities), you are authorizing Roku to transfer your video content to Amazon for it to be displayed on an Amazon device.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • The example is triggered by your request to display the content on an Amazon device.
  • It is introduced as the document's example of what linking enables.

Not stated here

  • How long Amazon retains transferred video, and under which policy, is not stated here.

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