Stardew Valley Wiki:Privacy policy

Effective Date: February 17, 2021

CONCERNEDAPE PRIVACY POLICY

ConcernedApe LLC, a Washington limited liability company (“ConcernedApe”, “we”, “us” and their derivatives) makes this policy available to users of our websites, including stardewvalley.net and its subdomains (collectively, the “Websites”), the Stardew Valley® videogame (the “Game”), the Stardew Valley Forum, including forums.stardewvalley.net and its subdomains (collectively, the “Forum”), the Stardew Valley Wiki, including stardewvalleywiki.com and its subdomains (collectively, the “Wiki”), and other online services we may provide (with the Websites, Game, Forum, and Wiki, collectively, the “Services”).

1. What does this Privacy Policy cover?

This Privacy Policy (this “Policy”) sets forth how we collect, use, protect, store, disclose, and otherwise process your Personal Data (defined below). This Policy does NOT apply to information you provide to any third party or is collected by any third party (except as otherwise provided below). For example, third-party gaming platforms such as Steam and PlayStation may collect your Personal Data as you download and play the Game (each a “Third-Party Gaming Platform”). Personal data collected by a Third-Party Gaming Platform is subject to such Third-Party Gaming Platform’s privacy policy (e.g., Steam Privacy Policy and PlayStation Privacy Policy).

By using our Services, you are confirming that you understand English well enough to understand this Policy. Should you have questions about this Policy, please contact us by emailing us at [email protected], so we can clarify and address your questions.

2. How do we process children’s Personal Data?

We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from anyone under 13 years of age. Our Services are directed to people who are at least 13 years old. If you are under 13, do not submit any Personal Data about yourself to us. If you become aware that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us at [email protected], so we may remove the Personal Data.

3. What types of Personal Data do we collect and how do we collect it?

We may collect different types of information from you depending on how you use our Services, including Personal Data. “Personal Data” means information that relates to an identified or identifiable natural person.

• Game – If you play the Game using Steam, we may collect your Steam ID (but we do not store it).

• Correspondence – If you correspond with us, we may retain records of our correspondence, including the contents of whatever was said, your email address, and any other Personal Data that you provide to us in such correspondence.

• Forum – If you use the Forum, we may collect your name or username, email address, and IP address (your IP address is never publicly visible). We may also retain copies of your posts to the Forum, including the contents of whatever was posted and any other Personal Data you choose to share on the Forum such as your profile information.

• Wiki – If you use the Wiki, we may collect your name, username, IP address, email address, and any other Personal Data you choose to share on the Wiki. If you posted to the Stardew Valley wiki page owned by Chucklefish Limited, we collected your username from its history pages for the sole purpose of providing you with the appropriate credit for your contributions to the Wiki.

• Analytics – If you browse our Websites, Forum, or Wiki, we may collect certain information about your use of our Websites, Forum, or Wiki. This information may include, without limitation, the number of page visits and duration, type of browser, and IP address.

• Automatic Data Collection Technologies – Personal Data we collect about your use of the Services may be collected through “cookies” and “web beacons.” Cookies are small files placed on the hard drive of your computer through your web browser that enable us to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. Web beacons (also referred to as “clear gifs”, “pixel tags”, and “single-pixel gifs”) are small electronic files that enable us, for example, to count users who have visited our pages and for other related website statistics. Cookies, web beacons, and other automatic data collection technologies on the Services may come from third parties such as Google Analytics. For more information about these data collection technologies, please see our detailed Cookies Policy. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. Additionally, other online resources, such as Privacy Badger from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, are available that can help block certain automatic data collection technologies. Please note that, if you disable or refuse cookies or other automatic data collection technologies such as web beacons, some aspects of the Services may be inaccessible or not function properly.

We may also collect information that does not generally identify you but may become associated with your account. We may use information that does not identify you for any permissible business purpose under applicable law.