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隐私与 Cookie 政策
罗布乐思是一个想象力平台。在该平台中,鼓励用户设计、创建他们所想象的任何内容,并与之互动。作为 罗布乐思平台的一个用户,您与您的朋友能够合作构建,或仅仅是收集并探究其他用户的作品。您的隐私对我们来说十分重要;这也是我们编制该隐私政策的原因,以此您能够了解我们所收集的信息、我们使用这些信息采用的方法,以及我们共享这些信息的对象。
该隐私政策涵括了 roblox.cn 网域上的网站、我们的罗布乐思移动版与 Xbox 应用、罗布乐思Player、罗布乐思Studio、以及我们其他的网站、产品、软件、应用、内容、数据馈送与其他服务("服务"),并在上述内容中发布有该隐私政策的许可链接。该政策包含我们关于各个年龄的 罗布乐思用户的实践,包括针对未满 14 岁人员("儿童")的特别实践。该服务由或代表 罗布乐思提供。
若您为欧盟居民,则该政策的全部内容均适用于您。然而,欧盟居民应参见以下第 14 节,其中就我们处理的个人数据、我们处理个人数据所采用的方法、我们处理个人数据背后的目的、我们共享个人数据的对象、我们处理并传输您的个人数据所采用的法律依据,以及您就处理您的个人数据所享有的权利向您作出了详细说明。
罗布乐思也致力于保护我们用户,包括儿童的隐私。请参见以下"儿童隐私权与父母监护"一节,了解身为儿童使用者家长或法定监护人的相关权利资讯,以及我们采取何措施来进一步保护儿童使用者,以及遵守儿童在线隐私权保护法("COPPA")。为了了解更多关于 COPPA 的信息,您可查阅 kidSAFE Seal 计划的信息指南(一页)– www.kidsafeseal.com/knowaboutcoppa.html。
若您对该隐私政策和/或数据实践有任何问题、意见或疑虑,请通过下方的地址联系我们:
罗布乐思(深圳)数码科技有限公司
中华人民共和国深圳市南山区中洲控股
金融中心海德一道88号A座7层743室
就欧盟居民用户而言:
若您为欧盟用户,您也可联系我们在欧盟的代表:
roblox@gdpr-rep.com
电话:+49 (0) 40 99999 - 3430
DP-Dock GmbH
Ballindamm 39 / Ecke Jungfernstieg
20095 Hamburg, Germany
"个人数据"是指可直接或间接(尤其是)通过姓名、身份证号码、位置数据或在线标识符等标识符识别的自然人相关的任何信息。
"处理"是指对个人数据进行的任何操作,例如收集、记录、组织、构建、存储、改编或任何类型的披露或其他使用。
就该政策内未定义的任何其他大写术语的定义(与含义),参见我们的使用条款。
请注意我们的公司网站(其包括 corp.roblox.cn、blog.roblox.cn 及其子域)为普通受众网站。在这些网站上,我们会提供 罗布乐思企业、新闻报道、职业信息与其他普通受众信息。若您向我们发送简历、履历或与其他广告的职位空缺相关的工作经历的详细信息,或关于就业机会的一般询问与其他信息,我们也会向您索要您的姓名、电子邮箱地址与职业资料以使得我们能够向您提供公司相关信息或回复您的工作申请。公司网站上不允许玩游戏。同样地,该隐私政策中对玩游戏或未满 14 岁的儿童用户进行讨论的部分不适用于公司网站。
罗布乐思的运作流程如下:
注册用户
若用户想要存储游戏数据、共享模型、创建游戏与参与 罗布乐思虚拟经济,则必须创建 罗布乐思帐户。为了创建 罗布乐思帐户,我将要求您创建唯一的用户名与密码(以此,您可登陆您的帐户),并提供您的年龄或出生日期、性别、国家或语言选择等其他人口统计数据(以此,我们能够定制您在 罗布乐思上的体验)。
用户不可创建会反映其姓名或其他个人数据的用户名。用户也不应选择他人容易猜测的密码,且不应共享其密码。出于安全考虑,我们对密码加密存储。
用户名用于参与服务功能,且我们不会使用用户名以识别我们的服务上超出其活动范围的个人用户。不会向除了使用或处理用户名以帮助提供我们的服务,例如,完成支付与网站托管的第三方服务提供商外的第三方公司提供用户名。
要求用户向他们的帐户提供或选择添加电子邮箱地址,以进行额外验证和/或启用特定功能。提供电子邮箱地址主要目的在于提供帐户安全,因为这是 罗布乐思核实帐户所有人的真实性的唯一办法。在此情况下,要求未满 14 岁的用户提供一个父母的电子邮箱地址。用户可随时更改与其帐户相关的电子邮箱地址;然而,在做出该等变更后,将向之前提供的电子邮箱地址发送通知。
除了在 罗布乐思上创建帐户,我们还会向您收集与处理和以下功能与活动相关的信息(若适用):
您无义务在经请求后向 罗布乐思提供个人数据。然而,若您选择隐瞒任何所要求的信息,我们则无法向您提供特定的服务与功能。
除了上述特定的用途外,在一般情况下,您提供的或我们在该服务上收集的任何信息,均可用于以下的一般性目的:
就像大多数网站一样,我们采用 Cookie 与其他标准互联网技术以帮助我们改进我们的服务。
Cookie
Cookie 为当您访问站点时置于您的计算机或移动设备上的小文本文件。它能够使得网站记住您在一段时间内的行为与偏好(例如登录、语言、字体大小与其他显示设置),例如,以此在您再次访问该网站或从一页浏览至另一页时无需重新输入这些信息。
根据 Cookie 的使用期限与其所属的网域对其进行分类。根据使用期限,Cookie 可分为:
就其所属的网域,Cookie 可分为:
我们如何使用 Cookie
当您访问该服务时,我们会——通过 Cookie、信标、标签、脚本和/或其他类似技术——自动收集关于您访问该服务所使用的设备与软件的技术信息,例如您使用的互联网浏览器或移动设备类型、将您与该服务连接或将您推荐给该服务的网站或资源、您的 IP 地址或设备 ID(或唯一识别您在互联网上的计算机或移动设备的其他永久性标识符)、您的计算机或移动设备的操作系统以及其他类似的技术信息。这些相同的技术(或结合所有技术)也可用以帮助我们:
除本 Cookie 政策所载目的外,我们不会将 Cookie 或类似技术用于其他用途。
第三方广告与广告网络
罗布乐思与第三方广告商、广告服务器公司以及使用 Cookie、信标、标签、追踪像素与脚本与其他追踪技术从而收集 IP 地址、设备 ID 与您的计算机或设备的其他信息,以及互联网与在线使用信息与该服务上的特定活动信息(包括购买与游戏内信息)的广告网络("第三方广告公司")。我们或我们的服务提供商也会向该等第三方广告公司提供该等信息。就我们年满 14 岁的用户,这些第三方广告公司可使用该等信息与和您访问服务、其他网站和服务的相关信息,从而提供您所感兴趣的商品与服务广告(通常称为行为定向或重新定向广告)。我们所有的广告伙伴均为网络广告促进协会 ("NAI") 或数码广告联盟 ("DAA") 的成员。您可访问这些链接,了解更多信息:
若您不希望接收我们的个人化广告,请访问上述链接中的退出页面,以了解您如何选择退出不再接收成员公司的个人化广告。就我们未满 14 岁的用户,罗布乐思与第三方广告公司合作,以提供上下文广告服务,将广告频率最大化并按照 COPPA 进行相关使用。罗布乐思不对未满 14 岁的用户展示行为定向或重新定向广告,或追踪该等用户以展示定向广告。
注释:为能在您请求后禁用定向广告,这些公司可能需要在您的浏览器设置选择退出 Cookie。有时,浏览器的配置会阻止公司设置该等 Cookie,例如,若您的浏览器设定默认阻止所有第三方 Cookie。因此,您可能需要更改您的浏览器设置,将其改为接受 Cookie,从而成功禁用定向广告。
您的选择
我们仅在事先获取您同意的情况下,才会使用特定 Cookie。当您使用欧洲 IP 地址访问我们的网站时,将出现 Cookie 横幅以询求您的同意。您可以通过点击 Cookie 横幅中的"管理 Cookie 首选项"管理您的选择。我们将在 Cookie 表单中保存您的选择。此 Cookie 具有一年有效期。
此外,您还可以通过浏览器设置管理 Cookie。大多数网络与移动设备浏览器会自动接受 Cookie,但是您可依偏好加以更改,拒接接受 Cookie,或在每次 Cookie 设置时通知您。
部分浏览器制造商在其产品中就 Cookie 管理提供了完整说明。请参见以下内容以了解更多信息:
您也可访问 https://www.allaboutcookies.org/ 了解更多关于 Cookie 的信息,其中包含了有关 Cookie 以及如何阻止或删除您计算机上的 Cookie 的其他有用信息。
然而,请注意,在阻止或删除该服务上使用的 Cookie 后,您可能无法充分使用该服务,且无法登陆该服务或玩 罗布乐思游戏。
罗布乐思会按如下规定共享您的信息。请注意,罗布乐思不会向第三方公司出售关于您的个人数据,以使得这些第三方公司进行销售。
代理商与承包商
罗布乐思可与我们的第三方代理商、承包商或服务提供商(受雇代 罗布乐思执行服务的公司)共享用户的信息,包括账单信息或用户名等个人数据。这些提供商可执行或支持该服务的特定功能。以下举例列出我们可能使用第三方服务供应商的功能,以及我们可能用来执行该功能的供应商名称:
仅允许这些代理与承包商仅出于聘用其执行特定任务的目的,而非出于其他目的使用与其共享的信息,并遵循该隐私政策。罗布乐思采取措施从而确保访问个人数据的所有服务提供商能够保护我们与其共享的信息。
公共论坛与社区范围
我们允许用户使用论坛与类似的公开讨论工具。若您使用 罗布乐思上的任何信息、发布或聊天功能,您应了解提交至此的任何个人资料,也可被访问该内容的人(包括其他使用者)所取得,论坛的其他用户也可阅读、收集或使用,并且将其用以发送来路不明的信息。对于其他个人如何使用以此方式发布的资讯,我们不具任何责任。
合法披露
经法律要求或许可,我们会披露您的个人数据和/或遵守向我们的服务传达的司法程序、法院命令或法律程序。在适用法律许可的范围内,我们也会披露您的个人数据,以回复执法机构、监管机构或其他公共机构(包括学校或儿童服务)的请求,或若该等披露会阻止他人教唆犯罪、为公共安全相关调查提供便利或保护使用我们服务的儿童的安全,保护我们服务的安全性或完整性,或使得我们对不利因素采取预防措施或保护我们的权利,我们也会进行该等披露。
业务转让
关于我们用户的信息,包括个人数据,会向任何合并、收购、资产出售或类似交易或资不抵债、破产或破产管理(其中,向一位或多位第三方传输信息以作为我们的一部分营业资产)的收买人、继承人或受让人披露或另行传输。必要时,我们将通知您该等披露事宜,并获取您的许可。
匿名信息
我们出于各种目的,与第三方共享综合信息、自动收集的信息或其他非个人数据,包括:(i) 履行报告义务;(ii) 商业或营销目的;(iii) 帮助我们与其他各方了解我们用户的兴趣、习惯与通过该服务提供的特定计划、内容、服务、广告、促销和/或功能的使用规律。在此情况下,我们不会共享关于您的个人数据。
安全
保护您的个人数据安全对我们来说至关重要。当您在我们的订单中输入敏感信息(例如信用卡卡号)时,罗布乐思(或代表我们执行该功能的服务提供商)将使用安全套接层技术(SSL)或类似技术对该信息加密。我们采取安全措施,以试图保护向我们提交的个人信息或其他敏感信息,避免个人数据在我们的控制下丢失、遭误用或篡改。虽然我们无法确保不会出现信息丢失、遭误用或篡改的情况,但是我们会作出合理的努力以防止出现上述情况。在互联网上传输信息或电子存储信息并非 100% 安全。
保留
罗布乐思可出于以下目的,而在内部保留用户的帐户数据:
只要有必要且与您使用服务及我们的运作有关,我们可能一直保留您的信息,包括在您停止使用服务后,可能仍继续保留您的信息。
我们的服务会不时包含连接外部站点或应用的链接。我们不对该等站点或应用的隐私政策或内容承担任何责任。为了在您连接第三方站点或应用时向您作出明确说明,我们会显示警告消息,以通知您,您正在离开我们的服务。
我们确认应对儿童的在线个人数据与隐私采取额外的保护措施。为此,当未满 14 岁的用户注册该服务时,他们的帐户将自动设置为"隐私模式"。这意味着儿童用户无法使用社交媒体插件、一些形式的第三方广告与特定类型的通知提醒等特定功能。
当儿童在 罗布乐思上创建帐户时,我们会收集用户名、密码、出生日期与父母电子邮箱地址。该信息用以准许儿童访问该服务(通过一些默认设置),并与父母就子女的帐户事宜进行沟通。例如,我们会向父母的电子邮箱地址发送一封关于该名儿童创建帐户与邀请父母审核、更新设置并批准其子女帐户的通知。我们会使用该名儿童在注册该服务时提供的出生日期,以确定该名儿童在 罗布乐思上可使用的功能,以及判断该名儿童是否年满 14 岁,届时即可提供较广泛的服务功能访问权限。一般而言,除非经该隐私政策规定的许可目的,且若经法律要求,并在事先获得父母一方或法定监护人可证实的许可的情况下,我们不会使用或共享您的子女帐户内的帐户信息(包括个人数据)。
若要请求更改您子女的帐户或从我们的服务中删除所收集的关于您或您子女的个人数据(若适用),或要求我们停止进一步收集或使用与该服务相关的您或您子女的个人数据(若适用),请访问 https://www.roblox.cn/support,并填写客户支持表单。
我们授予所有帐户,包括儿童帐户,权利修改聊天/通讯设置(例如,仅限与朋友互动或不与任何人互动),以及特殊的"限制帐户模式"。此模式将关闭各种形式的聊天与公开评论,并允许用户仅访问 罗布乐思上经过滤的游戏。我们建议父母了解该服务的设置板块内的所有安全功能与父母监护(该等说明,可点击此处了解),并在他们的子女在线游戏时陪伴左右。
我们会主动过滤该服务的所有公共与评论板块(例如,聊天、论坛、群组墙、个人帖子等),以便删除无视安全与隐私设置,而提及地址、电子邮箱、电话号码或其他个人数据的内容。过滤所有文本中的脏话、网络钓鱼与成人或暗示性内容。我们的系统采用人工与自动化流程合并的技术。然而,就如所有过滤技术一样,我们的系统并非 100% 有效。
一般而言,若您未满 14 岁,在使用该服务或在该服务上游戏之前,建议与您的父母或监护人协商,并获得他们的同意。若未获得许可,您不应使用我们的服务。若父母对该服务有任何问题,应立即联系 罗布乐思。请参见以下联系方式一节,以了解更多信息。
若您的个人数据有变更,或您不再希望使用我们的服务,您可在您的帐户设置中纠正、更新、修正或停用您的帐户,或使用第 1 节中规定的信息联系 罗布乐思。我们将在合理的时间段内回复您的请求。
罗布乐思位于中国人民共和国深圳市。我们收集的关于您的个人数据将发送至并存储在位于中华人民共和国香港特别行政区的安全服务器上。为了处理信息,进行该等存储十分必要。
罗布乐思在全球开展业务,并且我们会向我们其他办公室,和/或上述情况(参见"信息共享")中提及的第三方传输我们向您收集的个人数据,其中该等信息可能位于您的国家或地区之外,并且可能由在您的国家或地区外开展业务的人员进行处理。特别值得一提的是,我们取得或收集的资讯,可能会由我们或我们的代理商或承包商传输到美国,以及在美国加以处理。美国或其他国家/地区的资料保护法可能未及您居住国的法律完整,或可能不尽相同。无论我们在何处传输您的个人数据,我们将采取合理的措施以确保继续保护您的隐私权。
在访问我们的网站与应用,和/或使用我们的服务与产品的过程中,我们得处理以下个人数据:
请注意我们不会为自动作出决策而使用您的个人数据,因为其会为您带来法律影响或对您产生类似的重大影响。
未成年人的个人数据
请注意当未满 13 岁的用户注册该服务时,其帐户将自动设置为"隐私模式"。这意味着这些用户无法使用社交媒体插件、一些形式的第三方广告与特定类型的通知提醒等特定功能。
当未成年人在 Roblox 上创建帐户时,我们会处理用户名、密码、出生日期与父母电子邮箱地址。我们处理该信息以准许用户访问该服务,并与其父母沟通该未成年人的的帐户事宜(若提供父母的电子邮箱)。例如,我们会向父母的电子邮箱地址发送一封关于该名儿童创建帐户与邀请父母审核、更新设置并批准其子女帐户的通知。我们会使用该名儿童在注册该服务时提供的出生日期,以确定该名儿童在 Roblox 上可使用的功能,以及判断该名儿童是否年满 13 岁,届时即可提供较广泛的服务功能访问权限。《通用数据保护条例》第 6 条第 1 款第 1 项第 b 目("履行合同")为该处理活动的法律依据。一般而言,除非经该隐私政策规定的许可目的,且若经法律要求,并在事先获得父母一方或法定监护人的可证实的许可的情况下,我们不会使用或共享未成年人的帐户内的帐户信息(包括个人数据)(《通用数据保护条例》第 6 条第1 款第1 项第 a 目与第 8 条第 1 款)。
数据共享
Roblox 可与我们的第三方代理商、承包商或服务提供商(受雇代 Roblox 执行服务的公司)共享用户的信息,包括账单信息或用户名等个人数据。
这些提供商可执行或支持该服务的特定功能。以下举例列出我们可能使用第三方服务供应商的功能,以及我们可能用来执行该功能的供应商名称:
《通用数据保护条例》第 28 条,以及我们与各自的第三方代理签订的数据处理协议,为数据传输与处理活动的法律依据。仅允许这些代理与承包商仅出于聘用其执行特定任务的目的,而非出于其他目的使用与其共享的信息,并遵循该隐私政策。Roblox 采取措施从而确保访问个人数据的所有服务提供商能够保护我们与其共享的信息。
合法披露
我们可能披露关于您的个人数据,包括有本关服务的通讯内容,以遵守有关本服务的法律程序,包括法院命令和传唤。此外,我们还可能在以下情况下披露您的个人数据(包括内容):应执法机构、监管机构或其他公共机构(包括学校或儿童服务机构)的要求;或该等披露会 (i) 阻止他人教唆犯罪,(ii) 为公共安全相关调查提供便利或保护使用我们服务的儿童的安全,(iii) 保护我们服务的安全性或完整性,(iv) 或使得我们对不利因素采取预防措施或保护我们的权利。《通用数据保护条例》第 6 条第 1 款第 1 项第 c 目("履行法律义务")和第 f 目("合法权益")为该等披露的法律依据。我们在遵守欧盟成员国与美国法律的要求方面享有合法权益。
存储与国际传输您的个人数据
Roblox 位于美国。我们收集的关于您的个人数据将发送至并存储在位于美国的安全服务器上。为了处理信息,进行该等存储十分必要。
我们的一些代理与第三方服务提供商位于欧盟外,例如美国。美国或其他国家/地区的资料保护法可能未及您居住国的法律完整,或可能不尽相同。无论我们在何处传输您的个人数据,我们将采取合理的措施以确保继续保护您的隐私权,例如与第三方签订《欧盟标准契约条款》。
您的权利
若您为欧盟用户,您有权行使以下一些或全部权利:
您可 (i) 行使上述权利,(ii) 发布任何问题,或 (iii) 通过我们在第 1 节内规定的联系方式联系我们以就我们的数据处理行为提出任何投诉1.
我们会随时更新该隐私政策,以反映我们的信息实践作出的任何变更,所以请时常查阅该政策。若我们更新该政策,所作出的变更将会反映在该页面上,并且我们会更新以下发布的"最近更新"日期。若我们对该隐私政策作出任何重大变更,我们将在该等变更生效前,试图通过电子邮件(通过向您的帐户中提及的电子邮箱地址发送电子邮件,但前提条件是电子邮箱帐户与您的帐户相关)或在该网站上发布醒目通知通知您。若我们对该政策作出的任何变更要求未满 14岁的用户提供《儿童在线隐私权保护法》(COPPA)规定的许可,或要求未满 16 岁的用户提供欧盟《通用数据保护条例》规定的许可,我们将事先获得其父母的许可。
最近更新日期:2019 年 12 月6 日
Roblox Privacy and Cookie Policy
Roblox is an imagination platform, where users are encouraged to design, create, and interact with whatever they can imagine. As a user of the Roblox platform, you and your friends can collaborate on building or just gather and explore other users' creations. Your privacy is important to us; this is why we created this Privacy Policy so that you are aware of what information is collected, how we use it, and who we share it with.
This Privacy Policy covers our websites on the roblox.cn domain, our Roblox mobile and Xbox apps, the Roblox Player, the Roblox Studio, and our other websites, products, software, applications, content, data feeds and other services ("Service") on which an authorized link to this privacy policy is posted. This Policy covers our practices with regard to Roblox users of all ages, including a unique set of practices for those under the age of 14 ("children"). The Service is operated by or on behalf of Roblox Corporation.
If you are an EU resident, this whole Policy applies to you. However, EU residents should see Section 14 below, which will inform you in detail about the personal data we process, how we process it, for which purposes we process it, with whom we share it, on what legal basis we process and transfer your personal data and which rights you have regarding the processing of your personal data.
Roblox is also committed to protecting the privacy of our users, including children. Please see the "Children’s Privacy and Parental Controls" section below for more information about your rights as a parent or legal guardian of our children users and the measures we take to afford children users with additional protections and comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA"). To learn more about COPPA, you may consult this simple one-page informational guide from the kidSAFE Seal Program – www.kidsafeseal.com/knowaboutcoppa.html.
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy and/or data practices, please contact us at the following mailing address:
Roblox (Shenzhen) Digital Science and Technology Co., LTD
Room 743, 7/F, Tower A
No. 88 First Haide Road, Shengchangscheng Holdings Financial
Center, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, PRC
For users based in the European Union:
If you are a user based in the European Union, you may also contact our Representative in the European Union:
roblox@gdpr-rep.com
Tel: +49 (0) 40 99999 - 3430
DP-Dock GmbH
Ballindamm 39 / Ecke Jungfernstieg
20095 Hamburg, Germany
"Personal data" means any information relating to a natural person who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, or an online identifier.
"Processing" means any operation which is performed on personal data, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or any kind of disclosure or other use.
Any other capitalized term that is not defined in this Policy is defined (and has the meaning) set out in our Terms of Use.
Please note that our Corporate Websites (which may include corp.roblox.cn, blog.roblox.cn, and their subdomains) are general audience websites. On these sites, we may provide information regarding the corporate side of Roblox, press information, career information, and other general audience information. We may also ask for your name, email address, employment details if you send us a CV, resume or other details of your employment history in connection with an advertised job vacancy or a general inquiry regarding employment opportunities with us and other information so that we can provide corporate-related information to you or respond to your job application. No game play happens on the Corporate Websites. As such, the parts of this Privacy Policy that discuss game play or discuss children users under 14 are not applicable to the Corporate Websites.
Roblox works like this:
Registered users
Users who want to save play statistics, share models, create games, and participate in the Roblox virtual economy must create an account on Roblox. To create a Roblox account, we will ask you to create a unique username and password (so you can log in to your account), and to provide other demographic information such as your age or date of birth, gender, country or language preference (so we can customize your experience on Roblox).
Users must not create a username that reflects their own name or other personal data. Users should also not pick a password that is easy to guess, and should not share their password. For security reasons, we store passwords in encrypted form.
Usernames are used for participating in Service features and we do not use them to identify individual users outside of their activities on our Service. Usernames are not passed along to third-party companies except for our third-party service providers who use or process the usernames for purposes of helping operate our Service, such as effectuating payments and website hosting.
Users may be asked to provide or may choose to add an email address to their account for added verification and/or to enable certain features. The primary purpose for this email address is to provide account security, as this is the only way for Roblox to check the authenticity of an account owner. In this circumstance, users under the age of 14 are asked to provide a parent email address. Users may change the email address associated with their account at any time; however, a notification will be sent to the previously provided email address upon making that change.
In addition to account setup on Roblox, we may collect and process information from you in connection with the following features and activities (as applicable):
You are under no obligation to provide personal data to Roblox when requested. However, if you choose to withhold any requested information, we may not be able to provide you with certain services and features.
In addition to the specific uses above, any information that you provide or that we collect on the Service may be generally used for the following purposes:
Like most websites, we use cookies and other standard Internet technologies to help us improve our Service.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, for example so you don’t have to re-enter them whenever you come back to the website or browse from one page to another.
A cookie can be classified by its lifespan and the domain to which it belongs. By lifespan, a cookie is either a:
As for the domain to which it belongs, there are either:
How we use cookies
When you visit or access the Service, we may – by means of cookies, beacons, tags, scripts, and/or other similar technologies – automatically collect technical information about the devices and software you use to access the Service, such as the type of Internet browser or mobile device you use, the website or source that linked or referred you to the Service, your IP address or device ID (or other persistent identifier that uniquely identifies your computer or mobile device on the Internet), the operating system of your computer or mobile device, and other similar technical information. These same technologies (or a combination of them) may also be used to help us:
We will not use cookies or similar technology other than for the purposes stated in this Cookie Policy.
Third party advertising and ad networks
Roblox partners with third-party advertisers, ad server companies, and ad networks (“third party advertising companies”) that use cookies, beacons, tags, tracking pixels and scripts and other tracking technologies in order to collect data such as IP address, device ID, and other information about your computer or device, as well as Internet and online usage information and information about certain activities on the Service, including purchases and in-game information. We or our service providers also may provide such information to these third party advertising companies. For our users that are 14 years old or older, these third party advertising companies may use such information and information about your visits to the Service and other websites and services in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you, often referred to as behaviorally-targeted or re-targeted advertisements. All of our advertising partners are members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") or the Digital Advertising Alliance ("DAA"), which you can learn more about at these links:
If you do not wish to receive our personalized ads, please visit their opt-out pages at the above links to learn about how you may opt out of receiving personalized ads from member companies. For our users that are under the age of 14, Roblox partners with third-party advertising companies to serve contextual advertising, cap the frequency of advertising, and related uses permitted by COPPA. Roblox does not show behaviorally-targeted or retargeted ads to users under the age of 14 or track such users for targeted advertising purposes.
NOTE: In order to disable targeted advertising at your request, companies may need to set an opt-out cookie on your browser. Sometimes a browser's configuration may prevent companies from setting such cookies, for example, if your browser is set to block all third-party cookies by default. Therefore, you may need to change your browser settings to accept cookies, in order to successfully disable targeted advertising.
Your choices
Most web and mobile device browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can change your browser to prevent that or to notify you each time a cookie is set.
Some browser manufacturers provide comprehensive help relating to cookie management in their products. Please see below for more information:
You can also learn more about cookies by visiting https://www.allaboutcookies.org/, which includes additional useful information on cookies and how to block or delete cookies that are already on your computer.
Please note, however, that by blocking or deleting cookies used on the Service, you may not be able to take full advantage of the Service and you may not be able to log on to the Service or play the Roblox games.
Roblox may share your information as set forth below. Please note that Roblox does not sell personal data about you to third-party companies for their marketing purposes.
Agents and contractors
Roblox may share users’ information, including personal data like billing information or usernames, with our third-party agents, contractors, or service providers who are hired to perform services on Roblox’s behalf. These providers may operate or support certain functions of the Service. Below is an illustrative list of functions for which we may use third-party service providers and the names of the providers we may use to perform these functions:
These agents and contractors are only allowed to use the information shared with them only for the specific tasks they’ve been hired to do and consistent with this Privacy Policy, and for no other purposes. Roblox takes steps to ensure that all service providers with access to personal data are capable of protecting the information we share with them.
Public forums and community areas
We offer users the ability to use forums and similar means of public discussion. If you use any messaging, posting, or chat functions on Roblox, you should be aware that any personal data submitted there will be available to anyone who has access to that content, including other users, and can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for how other individuals use the information posted in this manner.
Developers
The developers will be provided your username and the country you are based in. The information shall enable the developers to determine their player base, so they can adjust their games to the legal requirements of the respective country. We offer developers a tool which allows them to review the country of origin of players who play their games. For this purpose, we will determine the user’s country of access to the Roblox website based on the IP address. We will not share your IP address with the developers.
Legal disclosures
We may disclose personal data about you as required or permitted by law and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Service. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we also may disclose personal data about you in response to a request from law enforcement agencies, regulators, or other public agencies (including schools or children services) or if such disclosure may prevent the instigation of a crime, facilitate an investigation related to public safety or protect the safety of a child using our Service, protect the security or integrity of our Service, or enable us to take precautions against liability or to protect our rights.
Business transfers
Information about our users, including personal data, may be disclosed and otherwise transferred to an acquirer, successor, or assignee as part of any merger, acquisition, sale of assets, or similar transaction, or in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which information is transferred to one or more third parties as one of our business assets. Where necessary, we will inform you of such disclosure and obtain your consent.
Anonymized information
We share aggregated, automatically-collected, or otherwise non-personal data with third parties for various purposes, including (i) compliance with reporting obligations; (ii) for business or marketing purposes; (iii) to assist us and other parties in understanding our users' interests, habits and usage patterns for certain programs, content, services, advertisements, promotions and/or functionality available through the Services. We do not share personal data about you in this case.
Security
The security of your personal data is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card numbers) on our order forms, Roblox (or the service provider operating the function on our behalf) will encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL) or similar technologies. We have security measures in place to attempt to protect the personal or other sensitive information submitted to us against the loss, misuse and alteration of personal data under our control. While we cannot ensure or guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration of information will never occur, we use reasonable efforts to prevent it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure.
Retention
Roblox may retain users’ account data internally for the following purposes:
We may retain your information for as long as is necessary and relevant to your use of the Service and our operations, which may include retaining your information beyond the end of your use of the Service.
Our Service may, from time to time, contain links to external sites or applications. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of such sites or applications. To make clear when you are linking to a third-party site or application, we may display a warning message informing you when you are leaving our Service.
We recognize that children deserve added protections with regard to their personal data and privacy online. For this reason, when users under the age of 14 register for the Service, their account is automatically set to "Privacy Mode." This means that children users will not have access to certain features, such as social media plug-ins, some forms of third-party advertising, and certain types of notification alerts.
When a child creates an account on Roblox, we may collect a username, password, birthdate, and parent email address. This information is used to give the child access to the Service (with certain default settings) and to communicate with the parent about the child’s account. For example, we may use the parent’s email to send an email notification about the child’s account creation and an invitation for the parent to review, update settings, and approve of their child's account. We may use the birthdate the child provides when signing up for the Service to determine which features on Roblox the child should have access to and to determine when the child will turn 14 years old and can be given broader access to features on our Service. In general, we will not use or share account information (including personal data) from your child’s account, except for the permissible purposes stated in this Privacy Policy, and, if required by law, only with the prior verifiable consent of a parent or legal guardian.
To make any requests for changes to your child’s account or requests for the removal of personal data collected about you or your child from our Service (as applicable), or to request that we stop the further collection or use of your or your child's personal data in connection with the Service (as applicable), please complete the Customer Support Form at https://www.roblox.cn/support.
We offer all accounts, including children accounts, the ability to modify chat/communication settings (for example, limiting interaction to just friends or no one), as well as a special "Restricted Account Mode" which turns off all forms of chat and public commenting and which allows the user to access only a selection of filtered games on Roblox. We recommend that parents familiarize themselves with all of the safety features and parental controls available in the Settings area of the Service (a description of which can be found here) and to accompany their children when they are playing online.
We proactively filter all public and comment areas of the Service (such as chat, forums, group walls, personal posts, etc.) to remove references to addresses, emails, phone numbers, or other personal data regardless of security and privacy settings. All text is also filtered for profanity, phishing, and adult or suggestive content. Our system uses a combination of human and automated processes. However, like all filtering technology, our systems are not 100% effective.
In general, if you are under the age of 14, it is a good idea to talk to and ask your parent(s) or guardian(s) for permission before using or playing on the Service. If you do not get such permission, you should not use our Service. Parents should contact Roblox immediately if they have any concerns regarding the Service. Please see the Contact Information section below for further details.
If personal data about you changes, or if you no longer desire to use our Service, you may correct, update, amend, or deactivate your account under your account settings or by contacting Roblox using the information set out above in Sec. 1. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.
Roblox is based in Shenzhen, China. Your personal data which we collect are sent to and stored on secure servers located in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. Such storage is necessary in order to process the information.
Roblox operates globally and we may transfer the personal data that we collect from you to our other offices and/or to the third parties mentioned in the circumstances described above (see "Information Sharing"), which may be situated outside of your country or regional area, and may be processed by staff operating outside your country or regional area. In particular, information provided to us or collected by us likely will be transferred to and processed in the United States by us or our agents and contractors. The data protection laws of the United States or other countries may not be as comprehensive or equivalent to those in your country of residence. Wherever we transfer your personal data, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that your privacy rights continue to be protected.
In the course of visiting our websites and apps, and/or using our services and products, we may process the following personal data:
Please note that we do not use your personal data for automated decision making which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.
Personal data of minors
Please note that when users under the age of 13 register for the Service, their account is automatically set to "Privacy Mode." This means that these users will not have access to certain features, such as social media plug-ins, some forms of third party advertising, and certain types of notification alerts.
When a minor creates an account on Roblox, we may process a username, password, birthdate and parent email address. We process this information to give the user access to the Service and to communicate with the parent about the minor’s account (if a parent email was provided). For example, we may use the parent’s email to send an email notification about the child’s account creation and an invitation for the parent to review, update settings, and approve of their child's account. We may use the birthdate the child provides when signing up for the Service to determine which features on Roblox the child should have access to and to determine when the child will turn 13 years old and can be given broader access to features on our Service. This processing activity is based on Article 6 sec. 1 sent. 1 lit. b GDPR ("performance of a contract"). In general, we will not use or share account information (including personal data) from a minor’s account except for the permissible purposes stated in this Privacy Policy, and, if required by law, only with the prior verifiable consent of a parent or legal guardian (Article 6 sec. 1 sent. 1 lit. a and Article 8 sec. 1 GDPR).
Data sharing
Roblox may share users’ information, including personal data like billing information or usernames, with our third party agents, contractors, or service providers who are hired to perform services on Roblox’s behalf.
These providers may operate or support certain functions of the Service. Below is an illustrative list of functions for which we may use third party service providers and the names of the providers we may use to perform these functions:
The legal basis for this data transfer and processing activity is Article 28 of GDPR in conjunction with the data processing agreements we concluded with respective third-party agents. These agents and contractors are only allowed to use the information shared with them only for the specific tasks they’ve been hired to do and consistent with this Privacy Policy, and for no other purposes. Roblox takes steps to ensure that all service providers with access to personal data are capable of protecting the information we share with them.
Legal disclosure
We may disclose personal data about you, including the content of your communications on the Service, to comply with legal process, including court orders and subpoenas, served on our Service. In addition, we also may disclose personal data about you, including content, in response to a request from law enforcement agencies, regulators, or other public agencies (including schools or children services), or if such disclosure may (i) prevent the instigation of a crime, (ii) facilitate an investigation related to public safety or protect the safety of a child using our Service, (iii) protect the security or integrity of our Service, or (iv) enable us to take precautions against liability or to protect our rights. The legal basis for such disclosure is Article 6 sec. 1 sent. 1 lit. c ("compliance with legal obligation") and lit. f ("legitimate interest") GDPR. It is our legitimate interest to comply with the legal requirements of EU Member States and U.S. law.
Storage and international transfer of your personal data
Roblox is based in the U.S. Your personal data that we collect is sent to and stored on secure servers located in the United States of America. Such storage is necessary in order to process the information.
Some of our agents and third party service providers are located outside the European Union, e.g. the United States. The data protection laws of the United States or other countries may not be as comprehensive or equivalent to those in your country of residence. Wherever we transfer your personal data, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that your privacy rights continue to be protected, e.g. conclude the EU Standard Contractual Clauses with third parties.
Your rights
If you are a user based in the European Union, you may be entitled to exercise some or all of the following rights:
You may (i) exercise the rights referred to above, (ii) pose any questions, or (iii) make any complaints regarding our data processing by contacting us under the contact details set out above in Sec. 1.
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes to our information practices at any time, so please review it frequently. If we update this Policy, changes will be reflected on this page and we will update the "Last Updated" date posted below. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will attempt to notify you by email (by sending an email to the email address specified in your account, if an email account is associated with your account), or by means of a prominent notice on this website prior to the change becoming effective. We will obtain prior parental consent if any changes we make to this Policy affect users under the age of 14 in a way that requires such consent under COPPA or the age of 16 in a way that requires such consent under the European General Data Protection Regulation.
Last Updated: December 6, 2019