DATA PROTECTION / PRIVACY POLICY for the video game: “Hunt: Showdown"
Crytek respects your privacy and understands the importance
of protecting your personal data. We will only collect personal data that we
need to in order to fulfill your requests and/or our contractual obligations and to improve Hunt: Showdown. If we
change our Privacy Policy—which you will find in full detail below—we will post
those changes here so that you always know what personal data we collect, how
we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose that personal
data.
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. Your continued use of Hunt: Showdown signifies your acceptance of the changes to our Privacy Policy.
Controller in terms of Art. 4 No. 7 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is: Crytek GmbH, Hugo-Junkers-Str. 3, 60386 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Managing Director: Avni Yerli, phone number available on request, Fax: 00 49 69 - 219 7766 – 99, http://www.crytek.com, info@crytek.com.
In terms of Art. 4 No. 1 GDPR Personal data includes any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“data subject"); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person. When you purchase, access, and play Hunt: Showdown, Crytek may collect personal data as follows:
- Steam ID and Steam Player Name (PC)
- XUID und Gamertag (Xbox)
- SonyAccount ID, Online ID (Playstation)
- Internal PlayerID
- IP address
- Game use, including all player actions, location on the game map during a game, gaming results, and information regarding your gaming account (e.g. hunter equipment, XP, purchases)
- Twitch account (if linked)
- Hardware information (computer, hardware, software, platform, media, and mobile device)
- Anti-cheat controls (monitoring your computer, analyzing Hunt: Showdown binaries, and scanning the memory of the computer)
- Purchase Information/history
We may also collect other non-personal information such as feature usage, game play statistics and scores, user rankings, and click paths.
Crytek uses your personal data to operate Hunt: Showdown. Mostly the personal data mentioned above is necessary to perform our contracts with you and Steam/Valve, Microsoft or Sony in terms of Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR. Other personal data is used to improve the user experience and/or to improve the commercial success of Hunt:Showdown and therefore a legitimate interest in terms of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR.
Crytek needs your Steam ID, XUID or SonyAccount ID in order to verify your purchase (and thus permissions to play) Hunt: Showdown. Your IP address is used in order to establish a connection to the game servers. Your player data—such as in-game location or shots fired—is used to run the game. Additional in-game information is used to provide you with your match stats and generally maintain your player account. Purchase information/ history is used for optimizing our promotion efforts and analyzing the commercial success. This information also helps us to recreate your account in the case of a crash or error. Computer and other hardware specs are used by our development team to further optimize the game. Anti-cheat controls are provided by a third party (EasyAntiCheat) located in Finland and are necessary to detect and prevent in-game cheating, which is forbidden by our terms and conditions.
If you subscribe for our Twitchdrops campaign you will link your Steam/Xbox/Playstation account to your twitch account and you give your consent that we will process Twitch drop item claims collected from Twitch in order to grant Twitch drop rewards. You can unsubscribe from our Twitchdrops campaign at time on this website https://huntshowdown.com/twitchdrops.
Crytek is a global organization, and Hunt: Showdown is available to players all over the world and the data is stored and/or transmitted to several data centers worldwide. All data is encrypted and the respective hosting provider has no access to it.
Crytek will not transmit your personal data to third parties unless it is necessary according to the law to fulfill your contract or to improve Hunt:Showdown. Personal data is transmitted to the following external service providers/third parties : Steam operated by Valve Corporation, P.O. Box 1688, Bellevue, WA 98009, USA , Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA Gamesight Inc., 113 Cherry St., PMB 43696, Seattle, WA, 98104-2205, USA, Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited, 10 Great Marlborough Street, London, W1F 7LP, United Kingdom and EasyAntiCheat Oy, Itämerentori 2, 00180 Helsinki, Finland- In these cases, the scope of the transmitted data is always restricted to the necessary minimum. Any service providers that come in contact with your personal data are required to comply with the same relevant data protection regulations.
For as long as you own and can play Hunt: Showdown we will store your data.
At any time you have the right to:
- If the processing is based on your consent, withdraw such consent at any time with effect to the future.
- Request a copy of the data we have stored for your person, for the receiver or category of receivers of your transmitted personal for the purpose of storing.
- Request that your data be deleted or corrected, in the case that you have changed your mind or the data is incorrect (as far as possible according to applicable law).
- Object to the further processing or demand a restriction concerning the processing of your personal data.
- Request to port your personal data.
- Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
To contact us about any of these things, please email our Privacy team: privacy@crytek.com or our data protection officer: dpo@crytek.com.
PLEASE NOTE: If you object, restrict, or otherwise refuse the processing of your personal data mentioned above and/or ask us for a deletion, you will not be able to play Hunt: Showdown.