Privacy Policy

Collecting Information Sources

Your Services usage determines how we obtain relevant data. For example, we obtain information in the following manners:

you give to us directly like with your account setup, engaging with our marketing, or reaching out to us.

related to the games you play, we collect information automatically.

from our third party services. For example, if you play our games or use our Services through third party accounts.

tracking and similar to tracking technologies.

from other players and through advertising business partners and third party information providers.

– Information You Provide

The following are the Services you are likely to use and the relevant information you provide:

register for an account and access Services.

opt in for marketing and communications.

post on message boards, forums, chat rooms, feeds, and other Services.

buying and redeeming our products or services includes physical items, virtual items, virtual currency, or other add-ons.

accessing and downloading demos, programs or other software.

contacting us for support.

using our email and share functions.

attending events, contests, promotions, surveys, or playtesting.

submitting your information to an activity.

The Services may be accompanied with other activities that may provide relevant information. For every activity, we may collect your name, email address, phone number, photo, mailing address/ zip code, payment or purchase information, age, gender, username, password, platform ID, software products played, survey responses, and geolocation.We consolidate this information from all devices that you use.

— Gameplay Information

We automatically receive information about your use of the Services. This information can be classified into Gameplay Information, which contains your specific relevant ID like the platform ID or the gaming service ID, your achievements, scores, and performance in the games, IP address, MAC address or other device IDs, other device information, additional relevant data and statistics, and other Services data. We gather gameplay information even in the absence of a service registration. Playback data may be supplemented or enriched with other data associated with the respective user. Also, we may employ proprietary or third-party anti-cheat systems to detect and block cheating in our Services.

— Your Gaming Profile, Social Media, and Networking Accounts

Your gaming and social media accounts provide us with information when you log in to our Services. In this case, the external platforms furnish us with such information. As an example, based on your use of the external platform, we get your user name, friends list, or relevant account information required to access the Services and in-game purchases. The external platform may give you options to manage what data is shared with us. We are not liable for the policies, terms, disclosures, or actions of external platforms.

– Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies

We might use tracking tools such as cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, Flash cookies, internet logs, and software development kits for the purposes of boosting the effectiveness of our Services, improving and reinforcing security and fraud protection measures, and providing targeted advertising. Some or all browsers’ Do Not Track requests and headers might be ignored by our Systems. Within the Manage Your Account, Communications and Data section, further detail is provided concerning our cookies and similar tracking technologies, and the ability to manage cookies. As such, these Services provide a cookie preference tool and a cookie policy for those seeking more detailed information.

— Data From External Sources

In order to enhance the information already collected about you, we receive information from third parties. This can include public documents and data from the manufacturers of the platforms, analytics companies, game developers, and other business associates and Take-Two companies who aid in serving you which include analytic data and surveys. For the purposes of safeguarding users, employees, and other strategic assets, and for investigative purposes, we may collect information from social media and other public domains. Other users of the Services also provide information that includes data on users who receive information when they are named in comments or receive direct messages about the Services.

Sharing Your Information

As noted the information is shared with:

service providers performing support tasks

members of the Take-Two group

advertising partners and service providers

other third parties, through collaborative offerings, legal and safety reasons, business or asset sale, or other reasons with user consent.

other users, through participation in open events and communities or information shared on leaderboards

Take-Two has, in the past twelve months, sold or shared unique identifiers, IP address, internet and electronic activity and profile inferences with third-party advertising providers for the purpose of targeted advertising. Personal information of users under 16 is not sold or shared, regardless of age, consent is needed from their parents.

— Vendors

Take-Two group members use vendors to provide business, professional or technical support. Vendors who support the service help the business operate or manage activities in relation to the business.

— Advertising

Our Services are supported by Take-Two and separate advertisement companies such as ad networks and social networks. These companies gather data about you and your use of the Service through the use of cookies and other tracking technology. Together with the data we provide them, this information allows our providers to identify you and provide advertisements that are specifically tailored for your needs and measure the effectiveness of those ads. Advertisement targeted data collection includes Identifiers sollicited and Contact Information, Internet information, Device and Usage Data, and Profile Inferences. Information collection and sharing occurs when you utilize our Services, click on a site or an advertisement, or open any of our games or other mobile applications.

This data: (1) enables us to accurately and effectively process payments for advertisements created by our customers (for example, ads which prompted you to purchase or download any of our games) and receive payment for advertisements showcased on our Services; (2) assists in preventing repetitive advertisement exposure; (3) assists in targeting and showing advertisements or other content, including on social media, which may be of interest to the user; (4) assists in evaluation and analysis of advertisement, content, and traffic on our Services; and, (5) assists in enhancing the functionality of our Services. To learn more on how the providers’ and our systems can be managed, please refer to the Manage Your Account, Communications, and Data section. For the Service, if available, our cookie preference tool or the Service’s posted Cookie Policy can be used.

— Other Parties

As described in this privacy policy, we share information with other parties in the following ways:

Collaborative Relationships: When we provide services or marketing offers in collaboration with other organizations, they may access your information. We will provide notice to you, and you may opt into the offering.

Legal & Safety: We may disclose your information to safeguard the integrity of our Services, servers, network systems, databases, users, and business, and during the inquiry of fraud, intellectual property violations, infringement of our rights, property, or users, or any illegal activities that could potentially expose you or us to legal consequences, including on the demand of law enforcement or other government agencies. We also may disclose your information to other parties if we have reasonable grounds that the disclosure would mitigate injury or damage to our rights, property, operations, users, or other persons who may be harmed or sustain loss or damage, or if we consider it essential to defend our rights, investigate or enforce our policies and terms, combat fraud, or follow a subpoena, court order, or other legal document served on Take-Two. We also may disclose your information when we have reasonable grounds to believe that it is necessary to investigate or enforce our policies and terms, or other legal document concerning the Services or rights of a third-party.

Sale or Transfer of Business or Assets: As part of normal business activities, we may buy or sell business assets. We may inform other parties of your personal information and data, and subsequently, we may inform other parties of your personal information and data and transmit that data to other parties concerning potential or actual Take-Two acquisitions or mergers, or mergers of any assets of Take-Two or any of our subsidiaries or assets. In the event we are bringing or defending a reorganization, bankruptcy, or similar event, we may consider such information to be our asset and may sell or otherwise transfer such assets to third parties.

As Disclosed to You: We may tell third parties your personal information as you were made aware at the time of collection.

— Other Users

As a member of such open communities as online games and social networking services, we have the capability to disseminate certain information, your user name or ID, and gameplay statistics automatically, and we do that through games, social networking services, our Services, and other specialized game sites. Your information will be publicly available if you attend tournaments or other online gaming events.

We publicly display game activity overview, multiplayer sessions, gameplay boards, and game records which are all collated with your username or user ID. Please be informed that your account name is displayed in multiplayer lobbies alongside your game achievements. In addition, your game activity and leaderboard scores are listed in our in-service or third-party sites alongside other comparable services.

There are also some third-party services that allow their users to share game related content. If you decide to use the mentioned features, those sites and everything they gather from you will be safeguarded by their privacy policies. We merge data gathered from diverse services and display them on our platforms, on the games themselves, or in the multiplayer lobbies. If you opt to link your other gaming accounts with us, your in-game achievements would be integrated to your account name as previously stated.

Public Decks

Should you post multimedia such as images or videos, personal details of your life, or any content on forums, chat rooms, comment sections or on profile pages, others would be able to view, gather and utilize such information. In case your user name or ID incorporates your name, then your name will be visible on leaderboards and other places as explained in this Privacy Policy. Users of such public forums may know your identity and utilize the information to privately message you or download any of the images, video or content you have posted. None of these public forums have any notions of privacy or confidentiality. It is highly recommended that you do not provide your user name or ID alongside your personal details. All information or content that you post publicly, on our Services, is your responsibility.

Data Rights
Depending on your location, you have access to certain rights pertaining to your information, such as the ability to:

Receive access to or request a copy of your information

Request the deletion of your information

Request the modification of your information

Be notified of the information we collect and/or process about you, the personal information sources, and the third parties to whom your information was disclosed or sold and for what purposes

Revoke consent, if the processing is based on consent

Opt out of the sale or sharing of your information and targeted advertising

Opt in/out of receiving financial incentives

Restrict use and disclosure of sensitive personal information

You may submit a data rights request with respect to your information here. We will acknowledge and respond to data requests within a month. We may take steps to verify your identity prior to responding to your request. Where these rights apply, they may be limited in certain circumstances, for example when there is a legal obligation or a compelling interest for processing the personal information or when the information is protected as a trade secret.

In some situations, you may have the option to lodge a complaint with a privacy authority. You may access the list of privacy authorities <here>. On the other hand, if you would like to make a data request, or contest a data request decision, then you may reach out to Take-Two through the channels provided in the Contact Us section.

To exercise the opt out option, click on the Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information button located on the footer of the site and follow the provided instructions. For broader opt out of online personalized advertising, please refer to the opt-out options listed in the Manage Your Account, Communications, and Data section. You continue to exercise these rights, we will not discriminate against you in any manner.

You may designate someone to make a request for privacy rights on your behalf (an authorized agent). Authorized agents will need to prove that they have been authorized by you to act on their behalf, or must prove they have power of attorney under applicable probate law. We retain the right to require you confirm with us that the agent is authorized to make the request, or require the agent confirm their identity.

Account, Communication, and Data Management

There are multiple ways for you to manage your Service account, how you are communicated to and how your information may be used, including through your Service account controls, email unsubscribe and deletion functionalities, and interest-based advertising. A collection of information that helps manage your label specific account and communications can be found here.

— Service Accounts

Using your Services account, you get to manage how your information is processed and the communications received through the account, communications and privacy controls under services, and privacy settings for your Services account.

— Email Unsubscribe

All marketing emails from Take-Two or a certain label or division can be unsubscribed from through the email specific unsubscribe link.

— Interest Based Ads

On mobile devices, privacy and advertisement settings can be adjusted to receive advertisement targeting based on interests. If you wish to opt out from having your online activities used for interest-based advertising by participating providers, you may do so at the Network Advertising Initiative link https://thenai.org/opt-out/ or the Digital Advertising Alliance link https://youradchoices.com/. For users located in the UK, EU, EEA or Switzerland, please visit Your Online Choices at http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/.

Data RetentionPolicies

We will keep your information for as long as necessary to provide you with the Services, and/or legally fulfill our obligations, and/or exercise, defend or establish our rights.

We maintain information while your account is active or for the duration needed to provide you Services or manage our Services. If you wish to delete your account or instruct us to stop providing Services, you may contact us as detailed in the Manage Your Account, Communications, and Data section. If your account is inactive, your account will be preserved for a timeframe during which we reasonably expect you may wish to reengage with our Services. After that period, we will delete your personal information, including your email address and log-in credentials, and you will no longer be able to access your account. We may, however, retain some of your personal information for a reasonable period to manage disputes, enforce our terms and policies, administer our Services, comply with technical and legal obligations, and/or factors pertaining to the security and integrity of our Services. After that, we will delete or archive your personal information.

Privacy of Children

As a rule, our services are tailored for a general audience, and we do not intentionally gather personal data from users below the age of 13 (or older, where the applicable law indicates enhanced protection). Certain services we offer may be targeted to children and can be used by children. For these services, we may limit the collection of personal data to a bare minimum and then impose an age restriction that would allow children access to the services while limiting the collection of personal data to what is strictly necessary. Alternatively, we may seek verifiable parental consent for collecting personal data from children. If we discover that a child has submitted personal information, we will ensure that such information is removed immediately if parental consent has not been provided. Children are encouraged to be taught by their parents to never provide personal information such as their real names, addresses, or phone numbers while using the Internet.

Data Security

We adhere to recognized industry benchmarks and implement suitable protective mechanisms to assist in safeguarding the security, integrity, and privacy of the information that we collect and store about you. These precautions are intended to prevent the security risks of accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, misuse, alteration, and of disclosure or access that is unauthorized to the information that is in our custody. Nonetheless, we cannot guarantee that our security measures are infallible, as no system is impenetrable.

International Transfers

We, as well as our vendors and partners, may in the course of providing the Services to you process, transfer, and store your information in the United States and other countries that may not have privacy laws equivalent to the country of your residence. We try to take reasonable protective measures to ensure privacy in the handling of that information.

Your data may be collected and processed by courts, law enforcement, and national security authorities in the jurisdiction where the data is stored. If you live in the UK, EU, EEA, or Switzerland, we use both Standard Contractual Clauses and/or other approved legal mechanisms to move data outside UK, EU, EEA, and Switzerland. To receive the Standard Contractual Clauses, if applicable, please submit a data request as outlined in the Data Rights or Contact Us section.

Other Take-Two Terms, Third-Party Terms, and Links to Other Sites

Our services and products may be subject to other terms and disclosures provided by us, other partners, and platform manufacturers such as: (i) the terms that accompanied your purchase; (ii) terms applicable to online Services; (iii) other terms and disclosures provided by us or third parties. We shall bear no liability for the operation or practices of third-party sites that may be linked to the Services.