STORMSTRIKE INC. (“Stormstrike,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) operates websites and mobile applications, together with any related features, content, and services we make available (collectively, our “Services”). This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and share information in connection with our Services.
Our Services may link to third-party sites and services that have their own privacy policies. This Privacy Policy does not apply to your activities once you leave our Services.
Contents
- Information We Collect
- Collection and Use of Information
- Security of Your Personal Information
- How Long We Keep Your Personal Information
- Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties
- Advertising
- Payment Processing
- Your Rights and Controlling Your Personal Information
- Children’s Privacy
- Changes to This Policy
- Additional Disclosures for U.S. State Residents
- Additional Disclosures for EEA and UK Residents (GDPR and UK GDPR)
- Contact Us
Information We Collect
Automatically Collected Information
When you access our Services, we may automatically collect information about your visit and your device. This may include:
- Your device’s Internet Protocol (IP) address (from which approximate location may be derived)
- Device type, operating system, browser type, and version
- Your activity within our Services, including pages visited, time spent, and other usage details
- Diagnostic information from errors or crashes you encounter, including crash reports generated by the operating system or our error reporting tools
The specific data we collect may vary depending on your device and software settings. While this information may not be personally identifying by itself, it may be possible to combine it with other data to identify you.
Information You Provide to Us
In addition to the automatically collected information described above, we may collect personal information that you actively provide to us. This includes information you give us when you register for an account, submit content, enter a giveaway or sweepstakes, contact us, or make a purchase.
If you register for an account, we typically collect your email address and username for the purposes of account creation and management. Additional information may be collected if you make a purchase or subscribe to a premium membership; see the Payment Processing section below for details.
Our Services may offer the option to link a video game profile or share in-game information. If you choose to do so, we will receive game-related data from the connected service, such as in-game usernames, characters, builds, statistics, and other information you have made available through that connection.
You may also choose to sign in or connect to our Services through a third-party service (commonly referred to as an “OAuth” connection), for example Google, Apple, Discord, or Twitch. When you do, we receive profile information that the third-party service shares with us based on the permissions you authorize, and we use that information only for purposes described in this Privacy Policy. We do not control how the third party itself collects or uses your information; that is governed by their own privacy policy, which we encourage you to review.
User-Generated Content
We consider “user-generated content” to be materials voluntarily supplied to us by our users for the purpose of publication on our Services, or for re-publishing on our social media channels. This may include text, images, video, and other content such as in-game builds, deck lists, guides, comments, and forum posts. All user-generated content is associated with the account or email address used to submit the materials.
Content you submit for publication is intended to be publicly accessible once posted. It may be viewed and used by third parties not covered by this Privacy Policy, and we may not be able to fully remove it from public view once it has been made public.
If you request to delete your account, we will remove the personal information associated with it. Public content you submitted may remain accessible to others. Where reasonable, we will dissociate that content from your account or username.
Mobile Application-Specific Information
Our mobile applications may access and collect data via your device’s in-built tools, such as:
- Device and advertising identifiers
- App and device version history
- Approximate location (derived from IP address)
- Notifications
The identifiers we collect include those unique to our apps and advertising identifiers (such as Apple’s IDFA and Google’s GAID), which are subject to your device’s tracking permissions, including Apple’s App Tracking Transparency prompt.
When you install our apps or use your device’s tools within our apps, we request permission to access this information. The specific data we collect depends on the individual settings of your device and the permissions you grant when you install and use our apps. You may revoke these permissions at any time through your device’s settings, though doing so may affect the functionality of certain features.
Our mobile applications also include third-party software development kits (SDKs) that help us provide and improve the apps. These include SDKs for advertising, analytics, and crash reporting. SDKs may collect information directly from your device, including identifiers, usage data, and diagnostic information, in accordance with their own privacy practices and the permissions you have granted.
Advertising in our mobile applications is delivered through in-app programmatic auctions. Advertising SDKs may share device-level information (such as advertising identifiers, subject to your tracking permissions) with mediation services, supply-side platforms, demand-side platforms, and bidders that compete in real time to serve ads. The current list of advertising partners integrated into our apps is available through the in-app privacy or consent settings.
Collection and Use of Information
We only collect and use personal information when we have a legitimate reason for doing so, and only collect information that is reasonably necessary to provide our Services to you. We may collect personal information from you when you do any of the following on our Services:
- Register for an account
- Make a purchase (such as a paid feature or premium membership)
- Enter any of our giveaways or sweepstakes
- Post a comment or otherwise participate in our online community
- Visit or browse our Services
- Contact us via email, social media, or similar channels
- Mention us on social media
We may use information for the following purposes, and will not further process personal information in ways incompatible with these purposes:
- to provide and personalize our Services
- to provide and manage paid features and premium memberships
- to contact and communicate with you
- for analytics, market research, and business development
- to deliver personalized advertising
- to attribute content you submit, such as posts and comments
- to run giveaways or sweepstakes
- for security and fraud prevention, including ensuring our Services are used in accordance with our terms of use
- for internal record keeping and administrative purposes
- to comply with our legal obligations and resolve any disputes
We may also de-identify or aggregate personal information so it can no longer reasonably be used to identify you. We may use or share such information for any lawful purpose and will not attempt to re-identify it, except as needed to verify that our de-identification process meets applicable legal requirements.
Security of Your Personal Information
We will protect your personal information using commercially acceptable means to prevent loss, theft, and unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification.
Although we will do our best to protect the personal information you provide to us, we advise that no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure and no one can guarantee absolute data security.
If we learn of a security breach affecting your personal information, we will provide notice to you and any relevant regulators as required by applicable law.
You are responsible for selecting a secure password and maintaining its confidentiality.
How Long We Keep Your Personal Information
We keep your personal information only for as long as we need to. This time period may depend on what we are using your information for, in accordance with this Privacy Policy. For example, if you have provided us with personal information as part of creating an account with us, we may retain this information for the duration your account exists on our system. If your personal information is no longer required for this purpose, we will delete it or make it anonymous by removing all details that identify you.
However, we may retain your personal information where necessary to comply with legal, accounting, or reporting obligations, or for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research, or statistical purposes.
Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties
We may disclose personal information to:
- a parent, subsidiary, or affiliate of ours
- third-party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services, including (without limitation) IT and hosting providers, data storage, ad networks and advertising platforms, analytics, error logging, professional advisors, and payment processors
- our employees, contractors, and/or related entities
- our existing or potential agents or business partners
- sponsors or promoters of any giveaway or sweepstakes we run
- courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and law enforcement officers, where required by law or where we have a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with legal obligations or requests, to respond to actual or prospective legal proceedings, or to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights
- an entity that buys, or to which we transfer all or substantially all of our assets and business
Third parties we currently use include:
- Cloudflare
- Google Analytics
- Google advertising services (AdSense, Ad Manager, AdMob)
- AppLovin
- Raptive (CMI Marketing, Inc.)
In the event of a merger, acquisition, or transfer of our business or assets (including in connection with insolvency), your personal information may be transferred to the acquiring entity, who would be required to honor this Privacy Policy with respect to your personal information.
Advertising
Our Services are monetized primarily through advertising. To serve and measure ads, we and our third-party advertising partners use cookies, web beacons, device identifiers, and similar technologies to collect information about your visits to our and other websites and apps. This information may be used to deliver advertisements tailored to your interests, to measure ad performance, and to detect and prevent ad fraud.
On certain of our Services, we may share information directly with supply-side platforms (SSPs), demand-side platforms (DSPs), advertising exchanges, and other technology partners that participate in real-time bidding (RTB) for ad placements.
We use a Consent Management Platform (CMP) that complies with the IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF). The CMP renders the consent interface on our Services, signals your choices to our advertising partners, and provides access to the current list of advertising and analytics partners with whom we share information.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please see: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) is a service provider of this Site for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, click here: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement
Our advertising partners may also engage in cross-device tracking, which involves linking your activity across different browsers, devices, and apps to deliver more consistent advertising and to measure ad performance. This is typically done by associating identifiers (such as advertising IDs) that appear to be used by the same person. Partners may also identify your device using passive browser and device signals (sometimes called “fingerprinting”), particularly where cookies or advertising IDs are unavailable.
You may be able to limit interest-based advertising through your device or browser settings, including by resetting the advertising identifier on your mobile device. You may also opt out through industry self-regulatory programs, including the Network Advertising Initiative (http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp), the Digital Advertising Alliance (http://optout.aboutads.info or https://youradchoices.com), and, for users in the EU, the European Digital Advertising Alliance (https://www.youronlinechoices.eu).
Payment Processing
We offer optional paid features and premium memberships on certain of our Services. When you make a purchase, your payment is handled by third-party payment processors. For purchases made within our mobile applications, payments are processed by Apple (via the App Store) or Google (via Google Play) under their respective terms and privacy policies. We may receive information associated with your payment, such as billing information and transaction details, but we do not directly store your full payment card or account details.
We use this information to fulfill your purchase, manage your subscription or access to paid features, prevent fraud, comply with tax and accounting obligations, and communicate with you about your transaction.
Your Rights and Controlling Your Personal Information
Your choice: By providing personal information to us, you understand we will collect, use, and disclose it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You do not have to provide personal information to us, however, if you do not, it may affect your use of our Services or the products offered through them.
Information from third parties: If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this Privacy Policy.
Non-discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights under applicable privacy laws.
Children’s Privacy
Our content and Services are not intended for or targeted towards children. We do not permit anyone under the age of 13 (or under any higher minimum age that applies in your region) to use our Services, and we do not knowingly collect their personal information. If we learn that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child under the applicable minimum age, we will take prompt steps to delete it and close the associated account.
If you become aware of any personal information that may have been collected from a child under the applicable minimum age, please contact us using the details provided in this Privacy Policy and we will take appropriate action.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time at our discretion. Updates take effect upon publication at this same link, and we will revise the “Last updated” date above accordingly. If we make material changes, we will provide additional notice as required by applicable law. Your continued use of our Services after publication of an update constitutes your acceptance of the changes.
Additional Disclosures for U.S. State Residents
The following provisions apply to residents of U.S. states with applicable consumer privacy laws, including California (CCPA/CPRA), Colorado (CPA), Connecticut (CTDPA), Virginia (VCDPA), Utah (UCPA), and other jurisdictions with similar privacy requirements. Where a specific provision refers to a particular state, it applies only to residents of that state.
Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” (DNT) feature that lets you tell websites that you do not want to have your online activities tracked. At this time, we do not respond to browser DNT signals.
We do, however, recognize and honor the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal where transmitted by your browser or device. When we detect a GPC signal, we treat it as a valid request to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information for residents of jurisdictions where this right applies under law (including California, Colorado, and Connecticut). You can learn more about GPC at https://globalprivacycontrol.org/.
State Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live and subject to applicable exceptions, you may have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information; to obtain a portable copy of certain information; and to opt out of the processing of personal information for targeted advertising, sale, or sharing. You may exercise these rights by contacting us using the details in the Contact Us section below or, where available, through the privacy choices tools provided on our Services.
If we decline to take action on a request, residents of certain states (including Colorado, Connecticut, and Virginia) may have the right to appeal our decision by contacting us using the same method.
California Notice of Collection
In the past 12 months, we have collected the following categories of personal information enumerated in the CCPA:
- Identifiers, such as email address, username, IP address, and an ID or number assigned to your account.
- Customer records (collected only when you make a purchase), such as full name, billing country, ZIP/postal code, and payment information processed through our third-party payment providers.
- Internet or other electronic network activity, such as browsing or interaction data collected through cookies and similar technologies, including information collected by our advertising and analytics partners.
- Approximate geolocation data, such as general location derived from IP address.
- Inferences, such as information about your interests, preferences and favorites.
For more details on the data we collect, including the sources, see the Information We Collect section above. We collect and use these categories of personal information for the business purposes described in the Collection and Use of Information section above, including to provide and manage our Services.
In the past 12 months, we have disclosed the categories of personal information described above for business purposes to service providers and contractors, including IT and hosting providers, data storage providers, analytics providers, error logging services, payment processors, and professional advisors.
We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes that require us to provide a right to limit its use or disclosure under the CCPA.
Right to Know and Delete
You have the right to delete personal information we have collected and to request the following information about our data practices in the preceding 12 months:
- The categories of personal information we have collected about you;
- The categories of sources from which the personal information was collected;
- The categories of personal information about you we disclosed for a business purpose or sold;
- The categories of third parties to whom the personal information was disclosed for a business purpose or sold;
- The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling the personal information; and
- The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided in this Privacy Policy.
Sale and Sharing of Personal Information
Under the CCPA, the terms “sale” and “sharing” are defined broadly and can include disclosures of personal information to third parties even when no money changes hands. Specifically, our use of cookies and similar technologies for cross-context behavioral advertising, including through the advertising partners described in the Advertising section above, may qualify as a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information under California law.
In the past 12 months, we have shared the following categories of personal information with advertising partners in a manner that may qualify as a “sale” or “sharing” under the CCPA:
- Identifiers, such as IP address, cookie identifiers, and device or advertising identifiers
- Internet or other electronic network activity, such as browsing and interaction data
- Geolocation data (general, derived from IP address)
- Inferences drawn from the above
The categories of third parties to whom we disclose this information include the advertising partners and ad networks identified in the Advertising and Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties sections above, as well as analytics providers.
You have the right to opt out of this sale or sharing. To exercise this right on our websites, use the cookie preferences tool or “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link. For our mobile applications, you can manage these preferences through your device’s ad tracking settings and the in-app consent options.
We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age.
California Authorized Agent
You may use an authorized agent to submit a request to exercise your rights under the CCPA. An authorized agent must provide the following information to us at privacy@stormstrike.gg:
- The type of request and the provision of the CCPA under which the request is made
- The authorized agent’s full legal name or legal entity name
- The authorized agent’s contact information
- The consumer’s full legal name
- The consumer’s contact information
Additionally, an authorized agent must provide written permission signed by you authorizing them to act on your behalf, or proof that they have power of attorney in accordance with California Probate Code. Before completing requests from authorized agents, we may contact you directly to confirm the authorization and verify your identity.
Additional Disclosures for EEA and UK Residents (GDPR and UK GDPR)
The following provisions apply to residents of the European Economic Area (EEA) and the United Kingdom, in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the UK General Data Protection Regulation (“UK GDPR”).
Data Controller
We are the Data Controller with respect to personal information we process in connection with the Services. Our contact details are in the Contact Us section below.
Information Collected from Third Parties
We may receive personal information about you from third parties, such as when you connect a third-party account to our Services or when third-party platforms share data with us about your interactions. We will protect and use any personal information received from third parties in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Legal Bases for Processing Your Personal Information
We will only collect and use your personal information when we have a legal right to do so. We will collect and use your personal information lawfully, fairly, and in a transparent manner.
Our lawful bases depend on the Services you use and how you use them. This is a non-exhaustive list of the lawful bases we use:
Consent
Where you give us consent to collect and use your personal information for a specific purpose. For example, when you accept cookies through our consent banner, you consent to our use of those cookies for the purposes you select. You may withdraw your consent at any time using the facilities we provide; however, this will not affect any use of your information that has already taken place.
While you may request that we delete your contact details at any time, we cannot recall any email we have already sent.
Performance of a Contract or Transaction
Where you have entered into a contract or transaction with us, or in order to take preparatory steps prior to our entering into a contract or transaction with you. For example, if you contact us with a support inquiry, we use your contact details to respond. If you purchase a paid feature or premium membership, we use your information to fulfill that transaction.
Our Legitimate Interests
Where we assess it is necessary for our legitimate interests, such as for us to provide, operate, improve and communicate our Services. If you submit comments intended for publishing on our Services, we may require some details about you in order to identify you as the content author. We consider our legitimate interests to include research and development, understanding our audience, marketing and promoting our Services, measures taken to operate our Services efficiently, marketing analysis, and measures taken to protect our legal rights and interests.
Compliance With the Law
In some cases, we may have a legal obligation to use or keep your personal information. Such cases may include (but are not limited to) court orders, criminal investigations, government requests, and regulatory obligations. For example, we are required to keep financial records for a period of 7 years.
International Transfers of Personal Information
When we transfer your personal information from the EEA or the UK to a country outside those jurisdictions, we will ensure that such transfers are protected by appropriate safeguards. These may include standard contractual clauses (“SCCs”) approved by the European Commission or the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, binding corporate rules, or other legally accepted transfer mechanisms.
We will perform any such transfers in accordance with the requirements of the GDPR, the UK GDPR (including Article 45), and the UK Data Protection Act 2018.
Your Data Subject Rights
Right to be Informed: You have the right to be informed about how your personal data is collected, processed, shared, and stored.
Right of Access: You may request a copy of the personal information that we hold about you at any time by submitting a Data Subject Access Request (DSAR).
Right to Rectification: If personal data is inaccurate, out of date, or incomplete, you have the right to correct, update, or complete that data. Rectification may involve correcting inaccurate data or completing data that is incomplete, although this will depend on the purposes for the processing. It may also involve adding a supplementary statement to highlight any inaccuracy or disputed claim.
Right to Erasure: You may request that your personal data be erased from our records. This right is qualified and subject to certain exceptions provided under applicable law (for example, where data is necessary to comply with legal obligations, defend legal claims, or maintain the integrity of public content you have already submitted).
If you submit a request to delete your personal information, we will take reasonable steps to delete it from our records. Note that deletion may result in the loss of account-related items such as profile cosmetics, points, badges, or titles. There may be exceptions to this right for specific legal reasons which, if applicable, we will set out for you in response to your request.
Please be aware that search engines and similar third parties may still retain copies of your personal information that has been made public at least once, such as certain profile information, posts, and public comments, even after the information is removed from our Services.
Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information if:
- you are concerned about the accuracy of your personal information;
- you believe your personal information has been unlawfully processed;
- you need us to maintain the personal information solely for the purpose of a legal claim; or
- we are in the process of considering your objection in relation to processing on the basis of legitimate interests.
Right to Object: You have the right to object to processing of your personal information that is based on our legitimate interests or public interest. If you exercise this right, we must provide compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights, and freedoms, in order to continue processing your personal information.
Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive a copy of personal data you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format (for example, as a CSV file). You may also have the right to ask us to transfer this personal information to another organization. This right:
- only applies to personal data which you have directly given to us in electronic form; and
- onward transfer will only be available where this is technically feasible.
Complaints
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. We would, however, appreciate the chance to address your concerns before you approach a regulator, so please contact us in the first instance using the details in our Contact Us section below.
If you are located in the UK, you may contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO):
Information Commissioner’s Office Wycliffe House Water Lane Wilmslow Cheshire SK9 5AF
Tel: 0303 123 1113 (local rate) Website: www.ico.org.uk
If you are located in the EEA, you may contact your local data protection authority.
Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or your personal information, you may contact us at:
STORMSTRIKE INC. 9205 W Russell Rd, Suite 240 Las Vegas, NV 89148 United States
Email: privacy@stormstrike.gg