Privacy and Cookies Policy
The following is Joystick Privacy & Cookies Policy (the "Policy") and applies to the use of Joystick.tv. It is your responsibility to take the time to review before you use Joystick services. It shall be presumed that you have read the Policy prior to your use of Joystick services. To be clear, by visiting Joystick.tv, registering an account, logging in, or otherwise using services on Joystick.tv you accept the terms and practices as stated in this Policy and agree we may use your information as outlined in the Policy, including information you provide us through Joystick.tv, mobile applications, email communications, social media, telephone, in person, or received from third parties obtained in conjunction with Joystick.tv services.
JSTV Enterprises located at 30 N Gould St, Suite R, Sheridan, Wyoming 82801 is the data controller of any and all information collected in conjunction with the Joystick.tv services.
Information we may collect and process includes information you input, information automatically collected by us as a result of your use of the Joystick service, and information provided by third parties, such as:
- Information you provide to us, including by way of example only, your username, email address, mailing address, telephone number, date of birth, name, credit card number, billing information, voice and images;
- Your IP address and/or any IP address you may use to log into Joystick services;
- Information regarding items you have visited, clicked on, or otherwise shown an interest in during your use of the Joystick services, including any Joystick accounts, products, services, and/or advertisers;
- Information obtained from and/or provided by other companies based upon your permission through their own privacy policies to share information about you;
- Information we collect using cookies stored on your device about your use of the Platform and/or selected third party websites;
- Information we collect or remember using technologies similar to cookies, such as device identifiers on your mobile device, about your use of the Platform and/or selected third party websites;
- Technical information from your device relating to the service you receive;
- Information relating to the location of your device used to access the Joystick Platform.
Agreed upon use of your information
By accessing the Joystick Platform, you agree we may collect, hold, use or otherwise process your information, including personal information, for the purpose of providing you with those products and services you request or access, and also for developing our business. You also understand that we will do so. When you provide us with your email address, you agree to receive emails from us, or sent on our behalf, with messages regarding your account including, but not limited to, purchase confirmations, renewal confirmations and warnings, alerts you may have requested to receive including alerts regarding other user’s streaming broadcasts or content submissions), and newsletters.
Payment Processing
The Joystick Platform utilizes various third parties to carry out payment processing in connection with any purchases you may make through the Platform. By making any payments in use of Joystick services, you are also agreeing to the Privacy and Cookie Policies of the applicable third party processing the payment. It is your responsibility to review such Policies on the third party web site.
Two Factor Authentication
When you enable two factor authentication to protect your account, you enable the use of a 3rd party authenticator application. This application will have access to your email. Their use of this information is outside of this Policy; however, they do not receive any information regarding your account beyond the email address.
Fraud Prevention Services
Third-party services are used by Joystick in connection with preventing fraud and other damage to the Joystick Platform and system. If your account is terminated for fraud or behavior we deem damages to the Joystick Platform, we may provide to such services with your IP address, device data, and/or other collected information. If your account is terminated for the aforementioned reasons, your information will be retained indefinitely for the protection of our Platform and users.
Use of your information in specific products or services
Registration
General account registration: You are not required to provide any information to simply use the Platform. There are certain feature and services within the Platform that requires you to register an account in order to use. You may determine to create an account with the Platform. In such event you will be required to provide a user name, birthdate to demonstrate you meet our minimum age requirements, and your gender. This information and any information you determine to provide in your account profile will be publicly posted in connection with your username.
Independent Broadcaster registration: If you desire to receive digital currency from other users of the Platform, you must to create a "Independent Broadcaster " account. To create a Independent Broadcaster account you will be required to provide a color copy of your current government issued photo identification. To comply with United States federal law and to ensure there are no minors registering Independent Broadcaster accounts, we will store this information permanently. In order to receive funds, you will be required to provide "pay to" information including but not necessarily limited to bank account and home address. You may also be required to provide certain taxpayer information. To the extent required by law we report to the United States Internal Revenue Service all moneys paid by us to Independent Broadcasters.
Webmaster registration: Should you determine to create a webmaster account with the Platform, you will be required to provide "pay to" information such as a bank account or home address. You may be required to provide certain taxpayer information. We report to the United States Internal Revenue Service moneys paid by us to webmasters as required by law.
Message boards, blogs and other public forums
Users of The Joystick Platform may be able to post or otherwise provide information and content on message boards, comment sections, blogs and/or other user generated content facilities. Content and information shared in any of these facilities or Platform features is deemed public information. Careful consideration should be used by you when posting or sharing any content or information, including and most certainly your personal information.
Location based services
Where your device’s location is determined and utilized by Platform services, it may be that other users of the service are permitted to block individuals by nature of their location, based upon their IP address, from accessing such users' content.
Certain Information Use Out of Our Control
Any content you choose to upload, post, or stream on the Joystick Platform is done so at your own risk. We cannot control the subsequent use of such content by any user/observer of our Platform. Similarly, we cannot control the use of any personal information you may determine to share with other users/observers of the Platform. Your location, real name, account information, and other identifying information should be posted or disclosed with extreme caution. You should consider using a unique username not in any way tied to any of your social media accounts or real name.
How we may share your information
Your IP addresses, device data, and other use information are used by us in order to optimize the Platform for use. Your usage history may also be used to help our internal algorithm to recommend other Platform users to you. Your gender information will be used to categorize your account and the content that you share so it is easier for site users to find.
Your username will be associated with all activities you undertake on the Platform including, without limitation, messages sent, content shared, streamed content, and any other content you post or display. Your information may be shared with third parties with whom we contract to provide certain services on our website such as third-party hosting services and site optimization services./p>
Your "pay to" information, if provided to us, will be shared with third parties only as necessary to process payments to you using the "pay to" information you have provided to us including but not necessarily limited to, our bank.
Your government identification, if provided to us, will be shared as required to comply with applicable law.
We reserve the right to share any and all account information as we deem appropriate in response to written request(s) from law enforcement or other third parties should we believe, in our sole discretion, that you or your account may be involved with illegal activity or if we determine, in our sole discretion, that such disclosure is necessary to protect the rights or property of Joystick, our users, or third parties.
Safeguards and security for your information
We utilize certain technologies in order to protect your personal information not posted by you as public information from unauthorized access or use.
Information Deletion
Should you request your personal data be deleted, it will be deleted in compliance with our data retention policy and applicable law and rules. We will not delete provided copies of government issued identification, in order to comply with United States federal law. We will retain device and IP data relating to your account for a period of time to prevent you from creating a new account to thwart any attempt to abuse our Platform. In the event that you have tokens in your account at the time you request deletion, by requesting deletion you are agreeing that these tokens are being forfeited by you to us and that you shall not be entitled to a transfer of or refund for such tokens.
To request permanent deletion email us at [email protected] .
California Privacy Disclosure.
Pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act and the California “Shine the Light Law,” the following further disclosures are made:
Categories of personal information collected. Personal information that Joystick collects fall into the following categories established by the California Consumer Privacy Act dependent upon which Platform service is used:
- Personal identifiers such as your name, alias, email address, phone numbers, and/or IP address;
- Age or other protected classifications, including as collected on sign-up and disclosed by you in user generated content;
- Commercial information, including purchase and content streaming activity;
- Internet or other electronic network activity information, including content interaction information, browsing history, and search history;
- Audio or visual information, including video and audio recordings if you upload user-generated content;
- Professional information, including data related to your channel if you stream on Joystick; and
- Inference data, including information about your purchase and viewing preferences.
Categories of personal information disclosed for a business purposes. Personal information Joystick discloses about consumers for a business purpose fall into the following categories established by the California Consumer Privacy Act dependent upon which Platform service is used:
- Personal identifiers such as your name, alias, email address, phone numbers, and/or IP address;
- Personal information if we use a service provider to process payments, including credit card numbers;
- Age or other protected classifications if, for example, you choose to participate in a survey distributed by a survey provider;
- Commercial information, including purchase details if a third-party service provider assists with providing the service;
- Internet or other electronic network activity information, including if a service provider is used to help gather crash reports for analyzing the efficiency or health of the Joystick services;
- Audio or visual information, including that which you stream on the Platform, when necessary for a service provider to deliver the content to viewers;
- Professional information, including data related to your channel if you stream on the Platform, if an affiliate or service provider assists in processing payments; and
- Inference data, including information about your purchase and viewing preferences if a service provider assists in serving relevant advertising.
For free, up to two times in any twelve-month period, you are entitled to obtain the following information for the immediately preceding twelve-month period. To be informed if we have sold or disclosed your personally identifying information to a third party and for what purpose. In order to obtain a copy of this information with respect to your account, you may email using the following information: Email address: [email protected] .
For your privacy and protection, we will require certain information to confirm that it is you, the accountholder, requesting the information. If there is no information associated with your account that we can verify, such as your email address or other information, we may be unable to complete your request. For your protection, responsive information will only be delivered to the email address assigned to the subject account. For an email address to be "assigned to an account" as used herein, it means the email address to which you receive account security notifications such as account recovery instructions; it does not mean the email address you may have provided in completing your Independent Broadcaster Agreement, if you completed an Independent Broadcaster Agreement.
The California “Shine the Light” law gives residents of California the right to opt out of sharing certain categories of personal information in certain circumstances with third parties for their direct marketing purposes. We do not share your personal information with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes.
Cookies Policy
When you use or access the Joystick Platform, we may collect information using cookies or similar technologies.
Cookies are small text files that are downloaded to and stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are commonly and widely used in order to make websites and software applications work or work in a more efficient manner. Your browser sends these cookies back to the website every time you visit the site again, so it can recognize you. This allows websites to tailor what you see on the screen.
Our websites, apps and emails may contain small invisible images known as 'web beacons' or 'tracking pixels'. These are used in a way similar to cookies, to understand when a particular part of a webpage is viewed. Our apps often use device identifiers in the same way as cookies. A device identifier is a unique number on your device which allow us to remember your device.
Cookies make using websites much smoother and affect lots of the useful features of websites. Some cookies are needed to provide the service om the Platform you have asked for and to navigate around the Platform and use its features. Without these cookies, services you've asked for can't be provided and some features cannot be accessed. These cookies may gather information about you that can be used for remembering your browsing history on the Platform or allowing you to stay logged in during your visit.
Cookies are used to improve your browsing experience, including allowing the Platform to remember choices you make and providing improved features such as content provider recommendations and limiting the number of times a particular advertisement is shown to you.
Cookies are used to understand how users use our products and services. This allows us to keep track of what pages are popular to help other users find such pages more easily.
Cookies used to assist in and track advertising. They help show advertising that is relevant to you based upon your viewing history. They track how many advertisements we serve, how many times these are clicked or hovered over with a mouse cursor, how many advertisements we show to a given user and how many customer actions these generate. Cookies may also be used on the Platform and advertisers' sites to track which customers reach a sale or other action page on an advertiser's site. This allows us to monitor how effective our advertising is.
Our web pages may contain promotional links to other companies' sites. If these links result in a transaction between the Joystick user and the other company, a cookie may be used to tell the other company the transaction you came from one of our sites. Such other site may then pay us a small amount for the successful referral. You should be aware that the other company’s terms and conditions and privacy policy govern your transaction with that website, not the terms or policies of the Joystick Platform.
Contacting us and accessing your personal information
If you wish to review or receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you or have questions about these Policies, you may email [email protected] .
Changes to this Privacy & Cookies Policy
We reserve the right to make changes to our Privacy & Cookies Policy at any time in our sole discretion. Any changes to this policy will be posted here. They will be immediately effective on the date they are posted. It is your responsibility to monitor this Policy for any changes. Your continued use of our website or platform will signify your acceptance of these changes.
Biometric Information (Age Verification)
- A one-time image of your face to estimate your age. In some places this may be considered biometric information.
- Only to confirm eligibility for age-restricted content. Not used for advertising or any other purpose.
- The image (and any derived data) is processed momentarily and deleted immediately after the estimate. We do not create or store facial templates or “faceprints.”
- We do not sell, share, or transmit biometric information to any third parties.
- You may decline camera access; we may offer an alternative verification method.
Contacting us and accessing your personal information
If you wish to review or receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you or have questions about these Policies, you may email [email protected] .
Changes to this Privacy & Cookies Policy
We reserve the right to make changes to our Privacy & Cookies Policy at any time in our sole discretion. Any changes to this policy will be posted here. They will be immediately effective on the date they are posted. It is your responsibility to monitor this Policy for any changes. Your continued use of our website or platform will signify your acceptance of these changes.