DATA PROTECTION / PRIVACY POLICY for the video game: “Hunt: Showdown 1896".

Crytek respects your privacy and understands the importance of protecting your personal data. If we change our Privacy Policy — which you will find in full detail below — we will post those changes on our website: www.huntshowdown.com/data-policy so that you always know what personal data we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose that personal data.

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any timeYour continued use of Hunt: Showdown 1896 signifies your acceptance of the changes to our Privacy Policy.

Who we are

The controller of the personal data – as defined below - in terms of the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") is:

Crytek GmbH, An der Welle 3, 60322 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, info@crytek.com - Managing Director: Avni Yerli, phone number available on request, Fax: 00 49 69 - 219 7766 – 99

Contact data of our Data Protection Officer

DPO

Crytek GmbH, An der Welle 3, 60322 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, privacy@crytek.com

Which personal data we process and for what purposes

In terms of Art. 4 No. 1 GDPR Personal data includes any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“data subject"); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person.

Definitions:

Crytek may collect personal data as follows:

- Steam ID and Steam Player Name (PC)

- XUID and Gamertag (Xbox)

- SonyAccount ID, PlayStation™ Network ID (PlayStation™)

- Internal PlayerID

- IP address

- Game use, including all player actions, location on the game map during a game, gaming results, and information regarding your gaming account (e.g. hunter equipment, XP, purchases)

- Voice/Text Chat

- Device ID

- Twitch account (if linked)

- Hardware information (computer, hardware, software, platform, media, and mobile device)

- Anti-cheat controls (monitoring your computer, analyzing Hunt: Showdown 1896 binaries, and scanning the memory of the computer)

- Purchase Information/history

- Click-ID, Timestamp, Tracker information (from our marketing communications - if used)

We may also collect other non-personal information such as feature usage, game play statistics and scores, user rankings, and click paths.

To simplify this information, we group these data into a definition and name it “Personal Information". When we name the definition below, we refer to this group of data attributes.

Legal basis for data processing

Crytek uses your personal data to perform our contracts with you and Steam/Valve, Microsoft or Sony in terms of Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR.

Your personal data is used to improve the user experience and/or to improve the commercial success of Hunt:Showdown 1896 and therefore a legitimate interest in terms of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR.

Data processing in our Twitch Drops campaign is based on your consent (legal basis in accordance with GDPR Art. 6 (1) (a)).

Our purposes for data processing

Your Steam / Microsoft (Xbox) / Sony contract

Crytek uses your personal data to operate Hunt: Showdown 1896. Mostly the personal data mentioned above is necessary to perform our contracts with you and Steam/Valve, Microsoft or Sony in terms of Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR.

Crytek needs your Steam ID, XUID or SonyAccount ID in order to verify your purchase (and thus permissions to play) Hunt: Showdown 1896.

Internal Data use for to run and operate the game and improving the user experience and/or the commercial success

Your player data—such as in-game location or shots fired—is used to run the game. Additional in-game information is used to provide you with your match stats and generally maintain your player account.

Purchase information/ history is used for optimizing our promotion efforts and analysing the commercial success. This information also helps us to recreate your account in the case of a crash or error.

ClickID, Timestamp and other tracker information from our marketing communication e.g. at Meta and Google platforms is used for optimizing our promotion efforts and analysing the commercial success.

Hunt: Showdown 1896 provides the possibility to chat via text and/or voice between the players. This functionality is provided by Vivox/Unity Technologies, San Francisco, 30 3rd Street HQ, USA. To provide the service your IP address (Truncated), PlayerID and Device ID will be used. If you choose to use the chat function also your voice and text will be used.

Your IP address is used in order to establish a connection to the game servers.

Computer and other hardware specs are used by our development team to further optimize the game.

Usage of personal data to avoid cheating

Anti-cheat controls name above are provided by a third party (Easy Anti-Cheat/Epic Games) and are necessary to detect and prevent in-game cheating, which is forbidden by our terms and conditions. Therefore, the legal basis for the processing of this data is our contract in terms of Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR.

Twitch Drops

If you subscribe for our Twitch Drops campaign you will link your Steam//Microsoft/PS5® console account to your twitch account and you give your consent that we will process Twitch Drop item claims collected from Twitch in order to grant Twitch drop rewards. We will use this information in connection with you Steam/Xbox/PS4 account ID to provide you certain perks/rewards within the game itself. This data will not be used for any other purpose. You can unsubscribe from our Twitch Drops campaign anytime on this website https://huntshowdown.com/twitchdrops

Please note: If the Twitch Drops are activated, further data processing is carried out by the operator of the Twitch platform Amazon.com, Inc., 410 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, Washington, 98109, USA.

The recipients of Personal Data

We have already named the recipients of data processing in the description of the individual processing activities. Essentially, these are the internal offices at Crytek, but also service providers that we use.

Any service providers that come in contact with your personal data are required to comply with the same relevant data protection regulations.

Transfer of personal data to a third country or international organisation

Crytek is a global organization, and Hunt: Showdown 1896 is available to players all over the world and the data is stored and/or transmitted to several data centres worldwide. All data is encrypted and the respective hosting provider has no access to it.

Personal data is transmitted to the following external service providers/third parties:

- Steam operated by Valve Corporation, P.O. Box 1688, Bellevue, WA 98009, USA

- Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA

- Gamesight Inc., 113 Cherry St., PMB 43696, Seattle, WA, 98104-2205, USA

- Sony Interactive Entertainment, 2207 Bridgepointe Pkwy, San Mateo, CA 94404, USA/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited, 10 Great Marlborough Street, London, W1F 7LP, United Kingdom / Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., 1-7-1 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0075 Japan

- Meta Platforms, Inc., 1601 Willow Road, 94025 Menlo Park, United States of America

- Google Inc. , 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States of America

- Epic Games 620 Crossroads Blvd., Cary, NC 27518, United States of America

- Unity Technologies, San Francisco, 30 3rd Street HQ, USA

In these cases, the scope of the transmitted data is always restricted to the necessary minimum. Any service providers that come in contact with your personal data are required to comply with the same relevant data protection regulations. As applicable, data transfers to a third country which data protection law are not considered as being adequate by the EU are subject to appropriate safeguards like EU-US Data privacy Framework and/or Standard Contractual Clauses.

How long is your Personal Data stored?

As long as you own and can play Hunt: Showdown 1896 we will store your data.

For some data, for example, data that is collected on the basis of direct contracts, other statutory retention periods may apply, which Crytek must comply with.

YOUR RIGHTS

At any time, you have the right to:

- Request access to your personal data processed by us within the scope of Art. 15 GDPR.

- Request that your data be corrected if these are incorrect in terms of Art. 16 GDPR.

- Request that your data be deleted if the legal grounds exist in terms of Art. 17 GDPR.

- Request the restriction processing of your data, if the conditions are met in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR.

- Request to port your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format within the scope of Art. 20 GDPR.

- Object to the further processing, if the processing is based on our legitimate interest in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR.

If the processing of your personal data is based on consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future.

Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in a member state of the European Union. The supervisory authority responsible for us is:

The Hessian Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information

P.O. Box 3163

65021 Wiesbaden

Germany

To contact us about any of the foregoing rights, complaints or for more information about our privacy practices, please send us an email to privacy@crytek.com.

In case of a confidential request, please email our Data Protection Officer directly: dpo@crytek.com.

Consequences of non-provision, objection or withdrawal

If you object, restrict, or otherwise refuse the processing of your personal data mentioned above and/or ask us for a deletion, you might not be able to continue to play the Game Hunt: Showdown 1896 or use our services.

Please also note that in certain cases we must comply with defined retention period (see above).