Information is provided about what kind of information they collect


Service: Medal.tv
Status: APPROVED
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Author: Dimalsing (30918)


In section 5 of their privacy policy: it shows a table of the data, the purpose of collection, and legal grounds. It includes When you use their service, visit their social media pages, or apply for their open roles.


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On 2024-05-19 17:51:58 UTC, Agnes_De_Lion (20760) Staff wrote:

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Previous Analysis: |Personal Data:|Purpose(s):|Legal ground(s):| |--- |--- |--- | |If you create an account:Username, email address, password, year of birth.Optional: uploaded biography, phone number, donation link, your profile photo.Please note: if you choose to log in via media third party account(s) or to connect your account with such third party account, you authorize us (through OAuth) to process your Personal Data linked to this account (such as your username, real name, email address, profile picture, friends or followers – depending on the third party and which data you share with them).If you connect your SoundCloud account, we will receive your username and UserID, and all other personal data you share with us through your Soundcloud account.|We may use these data to:Register your account;Enable you to access your account and our Services;Allow us to communicate with you and approach you appropriately in our communications;Send you notifications and service updates related to your use of our Services and Flag, report and prevent misuse, fraud and threats of/regarding to our Services.Improve our services.|We may process these data, because this is necessary to perform our contract with you (i.e. to provide our Services).We may send you service updates based on our legitimate interest to keep you informed about activities related to your use of our Services. It is always possible to unsubscribe from our service updates via the link at the bottom of each service update.We may send you notifications if you gave us permission to do so. It is always possible to opt-out from these notifications via the settings of your device.We may also process (some of) these data because we have a legitimate interest to ensure a secure use of the Accounts and associated Services.We may process your year of birth because we have a legitimate interest to you such information to get a better understanding of the use of our Services.| |If you use our Find you Friends functionality in order to find friends already on Medal, to invite your contacts to start using Medal and to be found by your friends already on Medal:The names and respective contact information included in your contact list (in hashed form).If you are an existing user of Medal, your username and other information included in your Account.Please note:Medal does not process personal data of individuals in the contact list, as Medal cannot reverse the hashing of this data.|We use these data to:Show you which of your contacts use Medal and to make it easy to connect with these friends;Facilitate you in inviting new friends to Medal. Such invitation will then be sent via your own SMS/Messenger app.|We may process the personal data included in your contact list because we have your permission to do so.Besides that, we may show existing friends on Medal in providing the ‘Find your Friends’ functionality because we have a legitimate interest to provide such functionality.Medal designed this functionality in a privacy friendly way, as it has implemented additional safeguards to limit the impact on the privacy of our users, namely by hashing the personal data obtained from the contact list and by clearly informing you about this functionality via this privacy notice.| |If you choose Connect Mobile:Phone number|We use these data to:Connect your account with the Mobile App on your phone.|We may process these data, because this is necessary to perform our contract with you (i.e. to execute the requested Service).| |If you upload, download and/or share content: The content you make available on the Platform, such as: your username, email address, comments, likes, posts, chats with other users and/or Clips with or without accompanying audio; and Your phone number, if you request to download a Clip via a link by text.|We may use these data to:Allow you to view, download and upload Clips on our Platform;Allow you to use all related Services thereto;Allow you to communicate with other users through likes, comments, posts and chats;Enable you to share your Medal content on your other online profiles according to your preferences; andShare your public Medal content (including through our API) on the platforms or websites of our partners, such as game studios and other platforms like Xbox (Microsoft).|We may process these data, because this is necessary to perform our contract with you (i.e. to provide our Services).If you post contest-hashtags within the context of game contests, we may share the Personal Data included in this post with the relevant game studio because we have your permission to do so (i.e., by you posting your content accompanied with the indicated contest hashtag). Please check the privacy notice of the relevant game studio to see how your Personal Data are handled. Game studios we partner with are indicated along with the announcement of the contest hashtag.| |If you subscribe to our newslettersYour email address|We use these data to:Send you messages about promotions, (new) features and/or products on our Platform and all our related Services.|We may send you these e-mails if you gave us permission to do so.It is always possible to unsubscribe from these e-mails via the link at the bottom of each e-mail.| |If you create a support ticketYour username, email address, the Discord name (optional), and the content of the correspondence between you and Medal.tv.|We use these data to:Answer your questions and/or handle any complaints; andImprove our Services as a result of questions and feedback from you.|We may process these data, because we have a legitimate interest to contact and assist you based on your comment or question and to improve our Services as a result of the questions and feedback we receive.| |Technical informationIP-address, your country, (selected) language, usage behaviour of our Services and your unique device identifier.|We use these data to:Analyse the use of our Services;Improve our Services;Improve the security of the Platform, Services, and accounts; andFlag, report and prevent misuse, fraud and threats of/regarding to our Services.|We may process these data because we have a legitimate interest to gain insight in the use of our Platform for the sake of improving our Services.| |User TestingContact information such as Discord username, to assess whether you qualify to participate in our user testing program.Age, location, username, type of games you usually play, whether you are a member of any of our (early access) communities, and a recording of the screen share, in case you participate in our user testing program.|We use this data to:Assess your eligibility to participate in our user testing program;Establish a good rapport at the beginning of the (chat)conversation;Conduct the survey; andImprove our Services.|We may process these data to assess whether you qualify to participate in our user testing program, because we have a legitimate interest in selecting a group of users eligible for our user testing program and because you have opted in to be a 'early access' user and/or because you have subscribed to dedicated 'user testing' channels.In case you participate in our user testing program, we ask for your permission for all other processing of Personal Data required for the user testing.|

Updated Analysis: In section 5 of their privacy policy: it shows a table of the data, the purpose of collection, and legal grounds. It includes When you use their service, visit their social media pages, or apply for their open roles.

Previous Status: DRAFT

Updated Status: PENDING

Version 3: 2024-02-11 00:45:31 UTC by Dimalsing (30918)

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Updated Title: Information is provided about what kind of information they collect

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Updated Analysis: |Personal Data:|Purpose(s):|Legal ground(s):| |--- |--- |--- | |If you create an account:Username, email address, password, year of birth.Optional: uploaded biography, phone number, donation link, your profile photo.Please note: if you choose to log in via media third party account(s) or to connect your account with such third party account, you authorize us (through OAuth) to process your Personal Data linked to this account (such as your username, real name, email address, profile picture, friends or followers – depending on the third party and which data you share with them).If you connect your SoundCloud account, we will receive your username and UserID, and all other personal data you share with us through your Soundcloud account.|We may use these data to:Register your account;Enable you to access your account and our Services;Allow us to communicate with you and approach you appropriately in our communications;Send you notifications and service updates related to your use of our Services and Flag, report and prevent misuse, fraud and threats of/regarding to our Services.Improve our services.|We may process these data, because this is necessary to perform our contract with you (i.e. to provide our Services).We may send you service updates based on our legitimate interest to keep you informed about activities related to your use of our Services. It is always possible to unsubscribe from our service updates via the link at the bottom of each service update.We may send you notifications if you gave us permission to do so. It is always possible to opt-out from these notifications via the settings of your device.We may also process (some of) these data because we have a legitimate interest to ensure a secure use of the Accounts and associated Services.We may process your year of birth because we have a legitimate interest to you such information to get a better understanding of the use of our Services.| |If you use our Find you Friends functionality in order to find friends already on Medal, to invite your contacts to start using Medal and to be found by your friends already on Medal:The names and respective contact information included in your contact list (in hashed form).If you are an existing user of Medal, your username and other information included in your Account.Please note:Medal does not process personal data of individuals in the contact list, as Medal cannot reverse the hashing of this data.|We use these data to:Show you which of your contacts use Medal and to make it easy to connect with these friends;Facilitate you in inviting new friends to Medal. Such invitation will then be sent via your own SMS/Messenger app.|We may process the personal data included in your contact list because we have your permission to do so.Besides that, we may show existing friends on Medal in providing the ‘Find your Friends’ functionality because we have a legitimate interest to provide such functionality.Medal designed this functionality in a privacy friendly way, as it has implemented additional safeguards to limit the impact on the privacy of our users, namely by hashing the personal data obtained from the contact list and by clearly informing you about this functionality via this privacy notice.| |If you choose Connect Mobile:Phone number|We use these data to:Connect your account with the Mobile App on your phone.|We may process these data, because this is necessary to perform our contract with you (i.e. to execute the requested Service).| |If you upload, download and/or share content: The content you make available on the Platform, such as: your username, email address, comments, likes, posts, chats with other users and/or Clips with or without accompanying audio; and Your phone number, if you request to download a Clip via a link by text.|We may use these data to:Allow you to view, download and upload Clips on our Platform;Allow you to use all related Services thereto;Allow you to communicate with other users through likes, comments, posts and chats;Enable you to share your Medal content on your other online profiles according to your preferences; andShare your public Medal content (including through our API) on the platforms or websites of our partners, such as game studios and other platforms like Xbox (Microsoft).|We may process these data, because this is necessary to perform our contract with you (i.e. to provide our Services).If you post contest-hashtags within the context of game contests, we may share the Personal Data included in this post with the relevant game studio because we have your permission to do so (i.e., by you posting your content accompanied with the indicated contest hashtag). Please check the privacy notice of the relevant game studio to see how your Personal Data are handled. Game studios we partner with are indicated along with the announcement of the contest hashtag.| |If you subscribe to our newslettersYour email address|We use these data to:Send you messages about promotions, (new) features and/or products on our Platform and all our related Services.|We may send you these e-mails if you gave us permission to do so.It is always possible to unsubscribe from these e-mails via the link at the bottom of each e-mail.| |If you create a support ticketYour username, email address, the Discord name (optional), and the content of the correspondence between you and Medal.tv.|We use these data to:Answer your questions and/or handle any complaints; andImprove our Services as a result of questions and feedback from you.|We may process these data, because we have a legitimate interest to contact and assist you based on your comment or question and to improve our Services as a result of the questions and feedback we receive.| |Technical informationIP-address, your country, (selected) language, usage behaviour of our Services and your unique device identifier.|We use these data to:Analyse the use of our Services;Improve our Services;Improve the security of the Platform, Services, and accounts; andFlag, report and prevent misuse, fraud and threats of/regarding to our Services.|We may process these data because we have a legitimate interest to gain insight in the use of our Platform for the sake of improving our Services.| |User TestingContact information such as Discord username, to assess whether you qualify to participate in our user testing program.Age, location, username, type of games you usually play, whether you are a member of any of our (early access) communities, and a recording of the screen share, in case you participate in our user testing program.|We use this data to:Assess your eligibility to participate in our user testing program;Establish a good rapport at the beginning of the (chat)conversation;Conduct the survey; andImprove our Services.|We may process these data to assess whether you qualify to participate in our user testing program, because we have a legitimate interest in selecting a group of users eligible for our user testing program and because you have opted in to be a 'early access' user and/or because you have subscribed to dedicated 'user testing' channels.In case you participate in our user testing program, we ask for your permission for all other processing of Personal Data required for the user testing.|

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Updated Status: DRAFT