This section explains what data we collect about you and the sources of this information. We may combine data we receive from any of these sources. For example, we may process singularly or collectively information we have collected from you, your visits to our website, your Steam or Playfire gameplay history if you have shared it with us, etc., for the purposes explained in this Privacy Notice.
Data You Provide
You may provide us with certain information directly, including:
- information: When you create an for Green Man Gaming, we ask you to provide information such as your name, email address or telephone number, date of birth and to create the . You can also add a profile picture, and other details about you to your profile and set various settings settings (including social privacy controls)
- Payment information: If you wish to purchase games or credit for your wallet or make any other payments via Green Man Gaming using a payment method, we will ask you to provide certain data such as your billing address and payment details
- Content: Some Green Man Gaming products and services will allow you to to our servers: messages, comments, forum posts, game levels, videos, images and other information
- Customer Services: If you us for assistance we may ask you to provide information about you (such as your name and details) and the nature of your query, and you may choose to send further communications about your query
- Other: We may ask you to provide information if you participate in market research surveys, requests, beta and other testing research, competitions, promotions or events or agree to receive marketing information from us
Please make sure that any personal details which you provide are accurate and current as we will send important information relating to your using the information you provide (including security and data protection notices). Let us know if there are any changes. You can check and update the information you have provided to us any time via Green Man Gaming Profile Settings.
Green Man Gaming Website
Each time you sign in to Green Man Gaming and access our online services, we may automatically:
- access and store information about your use of Green Man Gaming features and services on your device; and
- log your activity on our Green Man Gaming servers.
For example, we may receive device and identifiers, such as Green Man Gaming and details of what content, promotions and other information your devices request and receive from our servers (such as store content, gameplay activity and want lists) and when you receive and interact with them, what content and games you add to your 'basket' and what you purchase.
Accessing Green Man Gaming on your devices
Each time you use a Green Man Gaming app or sign in to your Green Man Gaming on your devices (such as a mobile or PC), we may automatically access and store information about your use of that device and app.
The data that we access from and store on your devices may include:
- Device identifiers such as your laptop/desktop ID, mobile device IDs, cookie IDs
- Network identifiers such as your IP and MAC address
- authentication tokens that avoid you having to repeatedly
- Content and client ed to your device for the online services that you access
- creation IP address and store that against a country. If you travel out of your home country, we present you with Green Guard security check.
- Achievements, scores and rankings achieved online and offline
- Some device type and setting details and error reporting
- Information about which features and services you are accessing from your Green Man Gaming device or app and when (such as Steam or Twitch if applicable)
- Information about the device(s) you are using and how you have configured them.
Game Tracking
By linking your Steam with your Green Man Gaming you grant us access to your Steam game library and your Steam game play data.
Websites, Marketing and Advertising
Each time you visit our website or receive and interact with our marketing communications and advertising on our and third party websites and services, we may automatically log your activity on web, advertising and marketing servers managed by us or by a third party on our behalf
For example, we may receive:
- Online identifiers usually stored in cookies on your device
- Other tracking data, such as tracking pixels and browser configuration details (e.g. browser type, list of installed plugins and list of installed fonts)
- If you sign into your , identifiers such as Green Man Gaming Online
- Information about the content, marketing communications and ments you view and interact with (for example, if you click on a banner on Green Man Gaming.com about Stormworks: Build and Rescue, open a marketing email about Green Man Gaming VR or click on one of our adverts on a social network about Green Man Gaming)
Please see the Green Man Gaming Cookie Policy for more details on our use of cookies and how to control them when accessing our websites.
Third Party Partners
We may receive limited information about you from third party partners, including from:
- Our financial and anti-fraud service providers processing your sign in and purchase transactions, including fraud risk scores
- Other online service providers, our security service providers, government agencies, law enforcement and public security sources, including IP addresses and details of suspected unlawful or fraudulent activity and security risk scores
- Third party partners providing games and apps via Green Man Gaming, including information about s, IP addresses and devices reasonably suspected of breaching our or our third party partners of service or of being involved in fraudulent or malicious activity
- Other third parties where permitted under notices and choices that they or we have provided to you (for example, we may receive information from a Green Man Gaming partner that you visit if you've agreed that the provider of that service can send us information about your activity, such as Facebook)
First Party Platforms
The below information relates to customers who purchase Green Man Gaming’s published titles on first party platforms, including Valve, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, Epic Games and others, across all applicable hardware and subscription based services. These companies collect and use information under their own privacy notices.
Green Man Gaming may receive limited personal information about you from first party platforms, including:
- Device, number of associated s, region
- Player telemetry, including collective and average playtime, crash/bug reports and other insights into community behaviour
LEGAL BASES WE RELY ON
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:
- Your consent.
We can collect and process your data with your consent in specific situations, i.e. when you tick a box to receive email newsletter. You are able to remove your consent at any time by changing your preferences. Where consent isn't provided, Google fills their data collection gaps with conversion modelling and behavioural modelling.
- We have a contractual obligation.
In certain circumstances, we need your personal data to comply with our contractual obligations, i.e. if you order a game from us, we’ll collect your name email address/ phone number and payment details to deliver your purchase,
- We have a legal obligation.
If the law requires us to, we may need to collect and process your data and we can on details of people involved in fraud or other criminal activity affecting Green Man Gaming to law enforcement.
- We have a legitimate interest.
In specific situations, we require your data to pursue our legitimate interests in a way which might reasonably be expected as part of running our business, and which does not materially impact your rights, freedom, or interests. For example, we will use your purchase history to send you or make available personalised offers. We will also send you direct marketing emails when you shop with us and do not choose to opt out - this is often called a 'soft opt in'. We also combine the shopping history of many customers to identify trends and ensure we can keep up with demand. We may you regarding market research. With your consent, or when you shop with us and do not choose to opt out from receiving our emails ('soft opt in') we will use your personal data, preferences, and details of your transactions to keep you informed by email, web, text and through our centre about relevant products and services including tailored special offers, discounts, promotions, events, competitions and so on.
With your consent, or when you shop with us and do not choose to opt out from receiving our emails ('soft opt in') we will use your personal data, preferences, and details of your transactions to keep you informed by email, web, text and through our centre about relevant products and services including tailored special offers, discounts, promotions, events, competitions and so on.