BAD TOUCH GAMES PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated: October 28, 2024

Welcome to Bad Touch Games!

This privacy policy describes the different ways we may collect, use, and share information on, through, or in connection with our games.

When we refer to “Bad Touch” (or any similar terms like “we” or “us”) in this privacy policy, we mean the Bad Touch Games entity that controls and is responsible for your information, including Bad Touch Games, Inc. and its subsidiaries that help provide and support the Bad Touch Services.

Additionally, Bad Touch Games uses the following distribution services with the following links available for their policies and services. Please note that the majority of customer data will be flowing through these aggregators.

Steam:

Epic Games:

1. WHAT ARE THE BAD TOUCH SERVICES?

We use the term “Bad Touch Services” to describe any Bad Touch products or services that directly link to this privacy policy. These include, for example:

games like The Hunt.
websites, and applications such as www.BadTouchGames.com.
live events where this privacy policy is posted.

Please read this entire privacy policy. You should also carefully review any other agreements that apply to the Bad Touch Services you use, and confirm you understand and agree to them, before using those products or services.

2. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

The types of information we collect depend on how you interact with us. Generally speaking, we collect information in three main ways: A) when you provide it to us, B) automatically when you use the Bad Touch Services, and C) from service providers and third parties, such as Steam, Epic Games, etc...

A. Information You Provide

You can provide us with different kinds of information depending on how you interact with the Bad Touch Services. Sometimes we’ll ask you to provide specific pieces of information, such as when we require it to provide parts of the Bad Touch Services to you. If we ask you to provide us with information in these cases and you choose not to, you may not be able to access the relevant Bad Touch Services and/or some features may not operate as intended.

We also collect the information you voluntarily provide to sign up for email alerts, use social features like forums or chat, register for early access to our games, or contact us through Player Support requests or customer service. If you enter a contest or competitive event, we’ll collect your application information and other information we may need to help confirm your eligibility and process payouts. We collect whatever information you choose to provide to us in those or other similar cases.

B. Information We Collect Automatically

We collect some information automatically when you visit, access, or use the Bad Touch Services. This includes information about your gameplay or application usage, purchases, entitlements, and other activity in the Bad Touch Services, typically associated with your account (if you are logged into your Bad Touch account or use a third-party account to access the Bad Touch Services) or with an identifier we have assigned to your device or profile. While the specific types of information that we automatically collect may vary, they generally include:

Usage information and statistics about how you interact with the Bad Touch Services, including the application you used or the game you played, how long you used or played it and when, gameplay attempts, progression and results, saved preferences, crash reports, the URLs of our websites that you have visited, URLs of referring and exiting pages, page views, time spent on a page, number of clicks, and platform type;

Please note that if certain features on the Bad Touch Services are provided by third parties, such as Steam or Epic Games, those third parties may also use automated means of data collection and may record information about your use of the Bad Touch Services, their services, or others’ websites over time. For example, when you use Bad Touch Services that include third party software (like Unreal Engine), those third party providers may collect information through their technology. These features are subject to those third parties’ privacy notices and policies.

C. Information We Collect from Other Sources

In some cases, we may also receive information about you from service providers and third parties in connection with your use of the Bad Touch Services or your interactions with us on other platforms.

For example, some other developers allow you to use your Bad Touch account to log in to their service. And if you choose to link your Bad Touch account with your account on a third-party social media (like Facebook), gaming (like Steam), or other similar website or service, or if you interact with an ad for one of the Bad Touch Services on an external website or service, the company that operates that website or service may share some information with Bad Touch in accordance with their own privacy practices. Your privacy settings on the other company’s website or service typically control the specific types of information they can share with Bad Touch, so please be sure to review and update them regularly. Common examples for linked accounts might include your third-party account display name and user ID, as well as associated device information, name, and email address.

You can also buy, download, or access some Bad Touch Services on or through services operated by third parties. If you do, they may provide us with information to facilitate your access to and use of the Bad Touch Services. This typically includes information like your display name, user ID, and device and region information. For example, you can choose to download and play games like The Hunt on services (like Steam or Epic Games) through your gaming account. When you do, the company operating that platform or service may share some information with us, which helps us do things like facilitate your gameplay and track your progression and entitlements.

3. HOW DO WE USE INFORMATION?

As a general matter, we use the information we collect (either individually or in combination with other information collected as described in this policy) to help us provide, improve, customize, analyze, and promote the Bad Touch Services.

This includes using it for purposes such as:

Creating, verifying, and managing user accounts and features;
Providing the Bad Touch Services, as well as support and assistance for them, including by responding to inquiries, processing transactions or requests, and communicating with users (such as by sending service and account-related messages and updates);
Developing, delivering, and improving the Bad Touch Services and other offerings, some of which may be offered in partnership with other parties;
Personalizing your experience, including by presenting content or features better tailored to you or your interests.
Promoting the Bad Touch Services, including managing, customizing, and measuring the effectiveness of our advertisements, promotional offers, surveys, and events;
Managing alpha, beta, or early access tests (and collecting feedback);
Conducting data analytics (like analyzing how the Bad Touch Services are used so we can better understand, improve, and personalize them);
Complying with our legal or contractual obligations and enforcing our terms; and
Securing the Bad Touch Services, such as by detecting fraud and otherwise protecting Bad Touch and other users from illegal or harmful actions.

We may also process information that does not identify you individually, including aggregate or de-identified information that we create or collect from other sources. This information helps us better understand larger groups of users. If we combine this information with information that identifies you, we will treat it as described in this privacy policy. But please note that this privacy policy does not restrict our ability to process information that does not individually identify you, and we may use and disclose aggregated or de-identified information for any reason permitted by law.

4. HOW DO WE SHARE INFORMATION?

We may share some of the information we collect to help operate and improve the Bad Touch Services. Depending on how you interact with us, common examples might include sharing:

With platform partners (for example, to facilitate gameplay when you access the Bad Touch Services through a third-party provider);
With other users (like if you use social features such as chat);
Steam or Epic Games publicly (for example, your display name, content you create or share, basic game statistics, and other similar information may be generally accessible to others);
With service providers that operate on our behalf to help support the Bad Touch Services in accordance with our instructions (for example, cloud storage providers, payment processors, or marketing and advertising partners);
When we believe we must in order to comply with the law or to protect you, Bad Touch, or others (for example, in response to court order or subpoena, as part of an investigation of fraud or other illegal activity, or violation of our terms or policies, or if necessary to protect others from death or serious harm to body or property);
With other Bad Touch entities (including to help provide support for the Bad Touch Services internationally);
In connection with certain types of corporate transactions (like in the event of a restructuring or the sale of all or a significant part of our business); and
With your permission (for example, if you link external accounts with your Bad Touch account, or use your Bad Touch account to sign in to third-party games and services or participate in cross-promotional events).
We may also share information that does not identify you with third parties, including aggregate or de-identified information.

No mobile phone numbers provided to Bad Touch for security purposes will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes.To the extent that we share your data with these third parties, we endeavor to ensure that these third parties provide the same or substantially similar protections as those that Bad Touch describes in this privacy policy. Third parties you interact with through Bad Touch Services may have different privacy practices than Bad Touch, so we encourage you to review their privacy policies before sharing your information with them.

5. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Bad Touch Games uses our partners Steam and Epic Games as our primary method of establishing accounts and launching the game. Please refer to their Privacy Policies regarding children’s accounts and parental controls:

Steam:

Epic Games:

6. YOUR CHOICES AND CONTROLS

We seek to provide you with meaningful choices about the personal information we collect. The specific choices available to you often vary depending on the exact nature of our relationship with you, such as the Bad Touch Services you use. Common examples include:

You can request that we provide access to, or that we correct or delete, personal information we’ve collected from you. Please submit requests to access, update, or delete personal information associated with your Bad Touch account by reaching out to us as described in “Contact Us” below. Note that we may ask you for additional information to help us verify who you are before completing your request.
You can change your email marketing preferences at any time, such as by using the opt-out mechanism provided in our marketing emails, updating your Bad Touch account settings, or contacting us with your request (see “Contact Us” below).
You can change your privacy settings on other parties’ websites (such as social networks) or platforms (like console providers) to limit the information they may share with us.
You can change your browser or mobile device settings to block, manage, delete, or limit tracking technologies like cookies. In some cases, blocking or disabling cookies may cause the Bad Touch Services not to work as intended and some features may not be available.
If you’re under the age of 18 and have an Bad Touch account, you can ask that we remove or anonymize certain content you’ve provided on the Bad Touch Services. Please direct requests to help delete or edit content on the Bad Touch Services to Bad Touch as described in “Contact Us” below.

Some parts of the world provide individuals with specific choices related to their personal information by right under local law.

7. SPECIFIC JURISDICTION OPERATIONS

California Residents

The California Consumer Privacy Act or “CCPA” provides consumers residing in California certain rights with respect to their personal information. If you are a California resident, you may have the right to: (1) request to know more about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we collect, use, and disclose; (2) request deletion of your personal information; (3) opt out of sale of your personal information (if any); and (4) not be discriminated against for exercising these rights.

You or your authorized agent may make these requests by contacting us as described in “Contact Us” below. Note that we may ask you for additional information to help us verify who you are before completing your request. If we receive your request from an authorized agent, we may ask for evidence that you gave that person authority to submit requests to exercise rights on your behalf. We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your rights under the CCPA.

We collect the following categories of personal information, as described in the CCPA:

Identifiers (such as email addresses);
Demographic information (like ages);
Commercial information (including entitlements or purchase history);
Internet or electronic network activity (for example, gameplay or website usage details);
Audio, electronic, visual, or similar information (like voice chat);
Geolocation information (such as may be derived from your IP address or included in your billing information);
Other “personal information” as defined under California law (like your credit or debit card information); and
Inferences drawn from any of these categories (for example, about the genres of games you may prefer to play based on your purchase history).

For details about the precise data points we collect and the categories of sources where we got that information, please see “What Information Do We Collect?” above. We collect personal information for the business and commercial purposes described in “How Do We Use Information?” above.

Bad Touch does not sell or share (as those are defined in the CCPA) the personal information we collect. We do, however, disclose personal information as described in this policy (see “How Do We Share Information?” above). We disclose personal information to the following categories of recipients:

Business partners (for example, if you request that we share your email address with Steam or Epic Games);
Other Bad Touch entities (like to subsidiaries that may help support certain Bad Touch Services);
Other users (for example, if you use chat or social features on the Bad Touch Services);
Service providers (as described in “How Do We Share Information?” above);
Operating systems and platforms; and
Government entities or other third parties in response to a legal request.

Basis for Processing

The legal bases we rely on to process your personal data depend on the Bad Touch Services you use and how you interact with them. They primarily include:

Contractual Necessity: we process personal data to perform the Bad Touch Services you requested under our Terms of Service or other similar contractual agreements with you. For example, we and our partners process personal data to set up and maintain your account; process your purchases; authenticate users; provide user-experience features (like saving your preferences); monitor and analyze the Bad Touch Services; detect and prevent fraud, cheating, or other similar misuse; facilitate features like cross-progression that allow you to play a game on one platform and continue your progress on another, which may require us to share your information with third-party partners; and contact you about your account, transactions, or other updates. We also rely on performance of a contract to manage our relationship with you, which includes responding to your support requests or general inquiries, and notifying you about changes to our applicable terms or policies.
Legitimate Interests: we and our partners process personal data as needed for Bad Touch’s business purposes, as balanced against the potential impact on your privacy rights. This includes many common purposes that you’d reasonably expect, such as to: communicate with you, respond to your requests, or provide you with updates and information; better understand our users and their preferences; personalize your experience, save your preferences, authenticate our users, and provide similar user experience features; develop, deliver, and improve the Bad Touch Services and other offerings (some of which may be offered in partnership with other parties); manage and customize advertisements or promotional offers; manage (in-game) purchases; secure and protect the Bad Touch Services; prevent fraud and illegal activity; and support internal purposes such as auditing and data analysis. To support these business purposes, we may use machine learning technologies to help identify harmful, toxic, or fraudulent content in our services. The content identified by these technologies will be subject to human review.
Legal Obligations: we process personal data when necessary to comply with legal obligations, such as responding to legitimate requests from law enforcement authorities or other government officials in accordance with relevant legal processes or processing date of birth to facilitate compliance with applicable youth protection laws.
Consent: we process personal data when you provide us with your consent to do so. You aren’t required to provide consent if you do not want your personal data to be processed for the requested purposes, and you may withdraw your consent at any time.

Retention

Because the specific personal data we process and our reasons for doing so often vary depending on how you use the Bad Touch Services, how long we retain it can also vary. We generally store personal data for as long as we reasonably need it for the purposes described in this policy (like complying with our legal obligations, managing internal records, enforcing our terms, and resolving disputes), unless a long retention period is required or permitted by law.

The main criteria we consider in determining specific retention periods often include minimum requirements under applicable law, relevant industry standards, the types of data in question (such as its level of sensitivity), relevance to potential litigation or similar proceedings (like defending ourselves against legal claims), and whether the data is required to prevent fraud or similar abuse of the Bad Touch Services (including to enforce prohibitions against cheating and other unauthorized behavior). For example, if you create an Bad Touch account, we will generally store the personal data associated with your Bad Touch account for as long as needed to maintain your account, provide the Bad Touch Services you requested, enforce any terms that apply and govern your use of the Bad Touch Services, and maintain appropriate records to reflect how we deliver the Bad Touch Services to you.

To learn more about requesting that Bad Touch delete your personal data, please see “Your Choices and Controls” and “Data Subject Rights” above.

8. SECURITY

We maintain appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect your personal information from accidental, unlawful, or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure, or use and other unlawful forms of processing. In some cases, your information is accessible when you log into a feature we offer, and in those cases you need to keep your user credentials and password confidential and secure so that your information is protected. If we become aware of unauthorized disclosure of your personal information, we will notify you as required by law and take steps to help secure your information.

9. UPDATES

We’ll update this policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or relevant laws. When we do, we’ll change the date noted at the top of the policy. In some cases we may also notify you of the relevant changes by email or within the Bad Touch Services. Please review this policy regularly to make sure that you understand your relationship with Bad Touch and the ways we may collect, use, and share information in connection with the Bad Touch Services.

10. CONTACT US

If you have questions or concerns about the Bad Touch Services (such as game-related issues, trouble accessing your Bad Touch account, bugs or other technical problems, payment matters, or content and entitlement issues), please contact us at the URL below:

https://www.BadTouchGames.com/contact_our_team/