Privacy policy

Who is responsible

Peanut Productions decides how and why your information is used, and is the "controller" of it under the GDPR and similar laws.

For any privacy question or request, email Peanutsedit@gmail.com.

Information we collect

From Twitch, when you sign in with Twitch:

• Your Twitch user ID, username, display name and profile picture.
• The email address on your Twitch account.
• When your Twitch account was created, and whether you are a Twitch Partner or Affiliate.
• Your follower count, which we refresh while registration is open.
• Whether you are live, and your viewer count, which we check about once an hour while registration is open.

From Steam, when you link your Steam account:

• Your Steam ID.
• Your public Steam profile name and avatar.
• Whether your account has VAC, game or community bans, from Steam's public ban records.

From you, on the entry form: your name, email address, Discord username and region, plus any Kick, Rumble, YouTube or X profile links you choose to add and your answers to any other questions the entry form for that tournament asks.

Created when you take part: your entry status and decision, whether and when you checked in, and a record of the emails we sent you.

Technical information: our hosting and database providers log IP addresses, browser details and request times to keep the site running and secure.

Usage information, only if you accept analytics cookies: an analytics provider records how the site is used, such as pages viewed, time on page, device and browser type, approximate location from your IP address, and how you arrived.

We do not collect payment details or passwords. You sign in through Twitch, and admins sign in with a one-time email link. We do not ask for sensitive information such as health, religion, or government ID, except that a prize winner may need to confirm identity, age or tax details before a prize is paid.

How we use it, and our legal bases

Under the GDPR and similar laws we must have a legal reason for each use. We use your information:

• To accept, review and manage your entry, run the tournament, and whitelist accepted Steam accounts on the game server. Legal basis: performing our agreement with you (the Terms).
• To choose players, using public Twitch statistics, Steam ban status, any streaming or social links you add and your answers to the entry form's questions (such as how many hours you have played) alongside admin judgement. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in running fair, well attended tournaments.
• To send you emails about your entry, such as confirmations, decisions, waitlist updates and check-in links, and to keep a record of whether each one was delivered (and why, if it failed) so we can send it again. Legal basis: performing our agreement with you.
• To keep the site secure, prevent cheating, fraud and abuse, and enforce our Terms. Legal basis: our legitimate interests.
• To verify winners and pay prizes, and to keep records required by tax and other laws. Legal basis: our agreement with you, and legal obligations.
• To handle disputes and legal claims. Legal basis: our legitimate interests and legal obligations.

We do not send marketing emails, and we would only do so with your consent. We do not use your information for advertising, and we do not sell it.

How players are chosen

Tournament admins make every selection decision. Follower counts, viewer numbers, account age, Partner or Affiliate status, ban records, the channels you link and your answers to the entry form help them decide, but no decision is made solely by an automated system, and nothing we decide has legal effects on you.

Who we share it with

• Tournament admins and moderators who help run the event.
• Service providers who run the site for us, including our hosting, database and sign-in, and email delivery providers. They may use your information only on our instructions, under contracts that require them to protect it.
• An analytics provider, only if you accept analytics cookies, which measures how the site is used and gives us combined reports.
• Twitch and Valve (Steam), when you sign in and when we request your public statistics and ban status from their services.
• The game server host, which receives the Steam IDs of accepted players so they can join.
• The public, if you are accepted: your Twitch name, Steam name and in-game name may appear on stream, in brackets and results, in our Discord and in social media posts. If you add streaming or social links, we may visit and share them, for example to feature your channel.
• Authorities or other parties, when the law requires it, to protect the rights, safety and property of players, us or others, or as part of a merger, sale or reorganisation of our activities.

We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising.

International transfers

The site and our providers store and process information in the United States. If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland or another country with transfer rules, your information is transferred to the United States using the safeguards our providers offer, such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses and, where they participate, the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and its UK and Swiss extensions.

How long we keep it

• Tournament entries are kept for up to 24 months after the tournament ends, so returning players can enter faster, and are then deleted or anonymised.
• If you ask us to delete your information, we do so sooner, unless we need to keep part of it for a reason below.
• Records of cheating, bans or serious rule breaks, limited to the Twitch and Steam IDs involved and the reason, are kept while the ban applies.
• Prize, tax and payment records are kept for as long as the law requires.
• Information needed for an open dispute or legal claim is kept until it is resolved.
• Server and email delivery logs are kept for the periods our providers set, usually a few weeks.
• Analytics data, if you accepted analytics cookies, is kept for up to 14 months.
• Admin accounts are kept while the person helps run our tournaments, and removed when they stop.

Your privacy rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

• Access the personal information we hold about you and get a copy.
• Correct information that is wrong or incomplete.
• Delete your information.
• Restrict or object to how we use it, including uses based on our legitimate interests.
• Receive your information in a portable format.
• Withdraw consent at any time, where we rely on consent.
• Complain to your local data protection authority. In the EU that is your national supervisory authority; in the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office.

To use any of these rights, email Peanutsedit@gmail.com. We may ask you to confirm that you control the Twitch or Steam account involved, so we do not release information to the wrong person. We respond within one month, or within the time your local law sets, and we do not charge a fee.

California residents: in the last 12 months we collected identifiers (such as name, email, Twitch and Steam IDs, and IP address), internet activity (such as site requests), and the account statistics described above, for the purposes in this policy. We do not sell or share personal information, and we do not use sensitive personal information. You can use an authorised agent to make a request, and we will not treat you differently for using your rights.

Brazil, Canada, Australia and other countries: you have the rights your local law gives you, and you can use them the same way.

Withdrawing and disconnecting

• Withdraw from a tournament at any time on your entry page.
• Disconnect Peanut Matches from Twitch in your Twitch settings, under Connections. This stops future access, but does not delete what we already hold. Ask us to delete that.

Admins and tournament staff

If you help run our tournaments, we keep your email address on our admin list and use it to sign you in, either with a one-time email link or through Twitch when your Twitch email matches. Our hosting and sign-in providers record when admins sign in.

Admins can move between this site and Peanut Hub (hub.burntpeanut.com), another site we run for our team, without signing in again. The site you leave sends the other a signed pass holding only your email address. The pass works once and expires within a minute, and the other site signs you in only if that email is already on its own team list.

Cookies and similar technology

Some cookies are strictly necessary: they keep you signed in and complete the Twitch and Steam sign-in steps. The site cannot work without them, so they do not need your consent.

With your permission, we also use analytics cookies to understand how the site is used, such as which pages are visited and how people find us. They stay off until you choose Accept on the cookie banner. You can change your choice at any time with Cookie settings at the bottom of every page, and declining changes nothing else about how the site works.

We do not use advertising cookies, and we do not use analytics to make decisions about entries.

If a page shows an embedded video from YouTube or Vimeo, that service may set its own cookies under its own policy.

Security

We protect your information with encrypted connections, restricted admin access, sign-in without passwords, and encrypted storage of service credentials. No system is perfectly secure. If a breach affects your information, we will notify you and the authorities where the law requires it.

Age requirements and children

The site is not intended for anyone under 13. You must also be old enough to hold your own Twitch and Steam accounts where you live, and old enough to agree to this use of your information under your local law, which is up to 16 in some EU countries. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you need a parent or guardian's permission to enter.

If we learn we hold information about a child who should not have entered, we delete it. Parents or guardians who believe this has happened can email Peanutsedit@gmail.com.

Other services

Twitch, Steam, Discord and game publishers run their own services under their own privacy policies. We do not control how they use your information.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy. We change the date at the top when we do. If a change materially affects how we use your information, we will tell you on the site or by email before it takes effect.

Contact

Peanut Productions, operator of Peanut Matches at matches.burntpeanut.com. For privacy questions and requests, email Peanutsedit@gmail.com.