This Privacy Notice for California residents provided pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) (“Notice”) supplements the Privacy Policy of PUBG Corporation and its affiliates (“PUBG”, “we”, or “us”) and provides additional information on how your personal information is collected, used, disclosed and processed online or offline. Unless otherwise specified, all terms used within this Notice shall carry the same meaning as they are defined in our Privacy Policy. This Notice and the Privacy Policy together constitutes PUBG’s “California Privacy Policy”.
1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We will collect the following categories of information that may directly or indirectly identify or describe you or your device, or information that may be reasonably capable of being associated with or reasonably linked to you or your device (“personal information”). We have collected these same categories of personal information from consumers over the past 12 months. Please refer to our Privacy Policy concerning the categories of sources from which this personal information is collected.
- Identifiers, such as name, IP address, email address, and account name
- Age and gender
- Commercial information, such as services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies
- Internet or other similar network activity information, such as website or application or advertisement browsing history
- Geolocation data, such as country of residence
- Inferences drawn from other personal information, such as purchasing behavior
2. PURPOSES OF COLLECTION
The above personal information was or will be used for the following purposes. We will also notify you and obtain your consent if and when previously collected personal information is used for any purpose other than those listed below.
- Solving technical problems and improving the quality of Company’s services
- Identification of individual users in order to provide Company’s services
- Technical protection against usage of unauthorized programs in connection with Company’s services
- Preventing inappropriate gameplay that could harm other users of Company’s services
- Providing customer support for Company’s services by collecting and answering customer inquiries
- Providing forum service on Company websites
- Providing information on Company events and surveys and providing opportunities to participate in Company events and surveys, to provide Company advertisement and for other Company marketing and promotional purposes
- Tracking usage patterns, analyzing trends of users, and calculating statistics on use of Company’s services
- Providing searchable user statistics and leaderboards
3. PERSONAL INFORMATION DISCLOSED TO THIRD PARTIES
We may provide third parties with certain personal information to provide or improve our services. We disclosed or shared each of the following categories of personal information over the past 12 months to the following categories of third parties. We do not sell personal information to third parties under the CCPA.
| CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION | CATEGORIES OF THIRD-PARTIES TO WHOM PERSONAL INFORMATION WAS DISCLOSED |
| Identifiers | – our business partners such as esports organizers – customer service providers – program restriction providers – cloud computing service providers – payment service providers – marketing platforms and providers of user analytics services – online survey service providers – service providers providing gameplay statistics |
| Age and Gender | – our business partners such as esports organizers – cloud computing service providers – marketing platforms and providers of user analytics services – online survey service providers |
| Commercial information | – our business partners such as esports organizers – customer service providers – cloud computing service providers – payment service providers – marketing platforms and providers of user analytics services |
| Internet or other similar network activity | – our business partners such as esports organizers – program restriction providers – cloud computing service providers – marketing platforms and providers of user analytics services – online survey service providers |
| Geolocation data | – our business partners such as esports organizers – cloud computing service providers – marketing platforms and providers of user analytics services – online survey service providers |
| Inferences drawn from other personal information | – our business partners such as esports organizers – cloud computing service providers – marketing platforms and providers of user analytics services – online survey service providers |
4. CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
You may exercise the following rights at any point in time in connection with your personal information. To exercise such rights, please email us at pubg_privacy@pubg.com or submit a verifiable request through the support page.
We request the following information at the above link in order to verify your identity in relation to your request: your email address and PUBG nickname and/or platform ID. Please note that at least your email address will be required to submit a request. If you exercise your rights via email, you must specify the right(s) you wish to exercise.
We will verify your identity and respond to your request within 45 calendar days.
| YOUR RIGHTS | DESCRIPTION |
| Right to Know | You have the right to request the following information up to two times within a 12-month period. – The categories of personal information that we have collected from you over the past 12 months, and the specific pieces of personal information we have collected from you – Categories of the sources from which personal information was collected – Business or commercial purposes for which personal information is collected – Categories of the personal information that was disclosed for a business purpose or sold during the past 12 months, and categories of third parties to whom the information was disclosed or sold. |
| Right to Request Deletion | You have the right to request that the personal information collected from you be deleted. |
| Right to Opt-Out of Personal Information Sales | You have the right to “opt out” by requesting that your personal information not be sold in any form. However, we do not sell personal information. |
| Right to Non-Discrimination | You have the right to not be discriminated against for exercising your privacy rights under the CCPA. |
| Rights for California Minors | Minors under the age of 18 have the right to request the deletion of and/or obtain information posted on websites such as forums or bulletin boards. |
| Shine the Light | You have the right to request the categories of the personal information that we disclosed to third parties in the last year for direct marketing purposes and information on the relevant third parties. Furthermore, you may also request that your personal information not be disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes. |
5. AUTHORIZED AGENT
You may designate another person or entity (“authorized agent”) to act on your behalf in connection with your request for rights that are guaranteed by the CCPA. An authorized agent is a natural person or business entity registered with the Secretary of State to conduct business in California that you have authorized to act of your behalf to make a request to know or to delete.
In order to use an authorized agent for your request, we require that you provide signed permission to your agent, using the form available at [LINK] . Your authorized agent can submit a request to know or delete by sending an email to pubg_privacy@pubg.com attaching the signed permission or using the support page and attaching the signed permission. The above requirement does not apply should your agent have power of attorney pursuant to Probate Code sections 4000 to 4465. Please note that we may deny a request from an agent that does not submit proof that they have been authorized by you to act on your behalf. Under the CCPA, your agent is responsible for implementing and maintaining reasonable security procedures and practices to protect your information and use your personal information only for the purpose of fulfilling your request.