California Privacy Disclosure

This California Privacy disclosure page (“California Notice”) supplements the Twitch Privacy Notice located at:  https://www.twitch.tv/p/legal/privacy-notice/. The Twitch Privacy Notice describes the personal information that we collect, the sources from which we collect it, the purposes for which we use it, the limited circumstances under which we share personal information, and with whom we share it. These additional disclosures are required by the California Consumer Privacy Act and the California “Shine the Light” Law.

A. Categories of Personal Information Collected

The personal information that Twitch collects, or has collected from consumers in the twelve months prior to the effective date of this California Notice, fall into the following categories established by the California Consumer Privacy Act, depending on which Twitch Service is used.

identifiers such as your name, alias, email address, phone numbers, or IP address;

• personal information, such as a credit card number;
• age or other protected classifications, for example as collected on sign-up and disclosed in your user-generated content;
• commercial information, such as purchase and content streaming activity;
• internet or other electronic network activity information, including content interaction information, browsing history, and search history;
• audio or visual information, such as video and audio recordings if you upload user-generated content;
• professional information, for example data related to your channel if you stream on Twitch; and
• inference data, such as information about your purchase and viewing preferences.

B. Categories of Personal Information Disclosed for a Business Purpose

The personal information that Twitch disclosed about consumers for a business purpose in the twelve months prior to the effective date of this California Notice fall into the following categories established by the California Consumer Privacy Act, depending on which Twitch Service is used.

• identifiers such as your name, alias, email address, phone numbers, or IP address, for example when you visit a channel with an Extension that requires your IP address (see “Extensions” in our Privacy Notice for more information);
• personal information, such as a credit card number, for example if we use a service provider to process payments;
• age or other protected classifications, for example if you choose to participate in a survey distributed by a survey provider;
• commercial information, such as purchase details if a third party service provider is assisting to provide the Twitch Service with which you interact;
• internet or other electronic network activity information, such as if we use a service provider to help us gather crash reports for analyzing the health of our services;
• audio or visual information, such as video and audio recordings of you when you stream on Twitch, for example when it is necessary for a service provider to deliver your video content to your viewers;

• professional information, such as data related to your channel if you stream on Twitch, for example if an affiliate or service provider assists in processing your payments; and

• inference data, such as information about your purchase and viewing preferences, for example if a service provider assists us in serving you relevant advertisements.

C. Data Access & Deletion Rights

You may have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act to request information about the collection of your personal information by Twitch, or access to or deletion of your personal information. If you wish to do any of these things, please visit our Privacy Choices page, which provides more information. There you will find the most expedient ways to get a response to your request. However, if you prefer, you may contact us at the following email address: privacy@twitch.tv.

Please note that certain information may be exempt from such requests under California law and that, depending on your data choices, certain services may be limited or unavailable. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights.  If you do not have an account, or if you are an authorized agent under CCPA, email us here.

D. No Sale of Personal Information

In the twelve months prior to the effective date of this California Notice, Twitch has not sold any personal information of consumers, as those terms are defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act.

E. California “Shine the Light” Disclosure

The California “Shine the Light” law gives residents of California the right under certain circumstances to opt out of the sharing of certain categories of personal information (as defined in the Shine the Light law) with third parties for their direct marketing purposes. We do not share your personal information with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes.