By utilizing such functionality, you grant SIE a royalty-free, perpetual, global license to use, distribute, copy, modify, display, and publish your UGC for any reason, without further notice or payment to you or any third parties. You further authorize SIE to sublicense its rights to any third party, including its affiliates.
By utilizing such functionality, you grant SIE a royalty-free, perpetual, global license to use, distribute, copy, modify, display, and publish your UGC for any reason, without further notice or payment to you or any third parties. You further authorize SIE to sublicense its rights to any third party, including its affiliates.
If you have a Dispute with any Sony Entity or any of a Sony Entity’s officers, directors, employees and agents that cannot be resolved through negotiation within the time frame described in the "Notice of Dispute" clause below, you and the Sony Entity that you have a Dispute with agree to seek resolution of the Dispute only through arbitration of that Dispute in accordance with the terms of this section, and not litigate any Dispute in court, except for those matters listed in the Exclusions from Arbitration clause. Arbitration means that the Dispute will be resolved by a neutral arbitrator instead of in a court by a judge or jury. 14.2. Exclusions from Arbitration.
We may change, add or remove functionalities or features in our PlayStationServices, and we may suspend or stop our services altogether. We do not warrant that the service and content will be uninterrupted, error-free or without delays. In addition to the limitations of liability of this Agreement, we expressly disclaim any implied warranty of merchantability, warranty of fitness for a particular purpose and warranty of non-infringement. We assume no liability for any inability to purchase, access, download or use any content, data or service.
We may receive PI from third party sources and combine it with PI we already collect from you. We may also collect PI from third party publicly available services, including those that share user generated content. We will handle the PI in accordance with this Privacy Policy. PI we receive from third party sources includes: PI from game and social media companies with whom you link your Account, who power our Services, or whose services you access while signed in to your Account. PI from other people, for example if someone engages with you or your content on our Services, submits a report of inappropriate behaviour or otherwise provides PI about you.
Any game ranking, scores, trophies, Virtual Items, including virtual currency balances (whether earned or purchased), subscriptions, or other information saved on, or requiring connection to our Services will not be retained or accessible. Account termination is irreversible. UPON TERMINATION OF YOUR ACCOUNT (OR ANY ASSOCIATED CHILD ACCOUNT) FOR ANY REASON, YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE A REFUND FOR ITEMS (INCLUDING SUBSCRIPTIONS, VIRTUAL ITEMS, AND PRE-PAID PRODUCTS OR SERVICES), VALUE ACCUMULATED ON IN-GAME ITEMS OR ANY UNUSED BALANCE IN YOUR WALLET, EXCEPT AS REQUIRED BY LAW OR AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED IN THIS AGREEMENT. 12.4. Effect of Account Termination on Child Accounts.
Subject to your Account settings, we may target and personalize our marketing communications and advertisements (including those displayed on our Services and third party websites and services) based on the PI we have collected about you. You may notice this personalization on the PlayStation Store (whether via console, our website, or in-game), in marketing communications, or when you visit our and third party websites (such as social network sites) that show advertisements from us. We may also use this data to measure the performance of our websites, advertisements, and marketing campaigns, to understand how they can be improved and to pay or be paid for the placing of advertisements.
We may modify the terms of this Agreement at any time, including imposing a fee for creating Accounts or for any of our Services. A printable copy of this Agreement is available at www.playstation.com/legal. If material changes to this Agreement are made, you will be notified by e-mail or other communication when you sign in to theServices. Your continued use of theServices, including use by your children on the associated Accounts, will signify your acceptance of those changes.
Sony group companies, to provide you with content, products, or services, including games, videos, music, software and software applications; for community administration or development; to support various business and security processes; research and development; and so that other Sony group companies may contact you about products, services or other offerings that may be of interest to you. usiness transfer partners, in connection with the negotiation and sale of the applicable business, a portion of the business, or certain stock and/or assets, or a corporate merger, consolidation, restructuring, or other corporate change including during any due diligence process. Other Users
Any dispute not subject to arbitration and not initiated in small claims court may be brought by either party in a court of competent jurisdiction in either the Superior Courts for the State of California in and for the County of San Mateo or in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Each party submits itself to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of those courts, and waives all jurisdictional, venue and inconvenient forum objections to those courts. In any litigation to enforce any part of this Agreement, all costs and fees, including attorney’s fees, will be paid by the non-prevailing party. 16. GENERAL LEGAL 16.1. Modifications.
Under our Terms of Service, you and our other users are required to comply with our Code of Conduct. As such, we may monitor, review and record your online activities, communications (including messages, images, videos and voice communications) and content throughout our Services for the purposes of assessing whether these activities, communications, and content comply with our Terms of Service, our Code of Conduct, and any other terms or rules applicable to your use of our Services (together, "Terms”) or applicable law.
We may index and use content which you have shared publicly, as part of our platform’s features like Game Help, PlayStation profiles, or future Services. We may act on any harmful content you share, including as described in the Moderation & Safety section of this Privacy Policy. Government & Authorities We may share your PI with law enforcement, government, and other authorities if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, or legal process, to detect, protect and enforce the safety of any person, their property or their rights, to address fraud and security and report criminal activity. Personal Information Handling Children’s Personal Information
If you interact with our Services, marketing communications, or advertising (on our or third party websites and services), we may automatically log your activity through the use of cookies (which are small text files stored on your computer) or similar technologies such as web beacons or tracking pixels. These technologies allow us to recognise you and remember your visit and preferences. We use cookies and similar technologies to provide our Services, including to monitor, secure and maintain our Services, detect and prevent fraud, analyze and improve our Services, and for advertising purposes. Personal Information We Receive from Third Parties
To develop, understand, improve and enhance our Services and your experience, and to develop and enhance technologies: for example, we may use PI to develop and optimise user interfaces, game performance, or new technologies, including developing and training artificial intelligence and machine learning models. In addition, we may use information that does not identify you individually (such as de-identified or aggregated information) for business, operational, analytical or other purposes. Moderation and Safety
We may offer you the opportunity to purchase subscriptions (which may also be referred to as "memberships" or "services") that provide access to certain content, products, or services for a specified period of time. If your subscription is ongoing and renews automatically, you will be charged the applicable subscription fee automatically at the frequency you chose at purchase until you cancel If your wallet doesn’t have enough funds when an automatic recurring subscription payment is due, the balance will be automatically funded from your default Approved Payment Method on file to cover the subscription fee.
The documents we read do not mention these practices, which usually live in a document we haven’t read yet: