Biometric Information Policy

This Biometric Information Policy explains what biometric information GamersGoneWild ("GGW", "we") collects, how we use it, how long we keep it, and what choices you have. This policy is separate from, and additional to, our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. We provide separate consent for biometric processing to comply with Illinois (BIPA), Texas (CUBI), Washington (HB 1493), and similar laws.

1. What we collect

We only collect biometric information from creators as part of the payout-KYC flow required by our payment processor (tax, AML, and fraud-prevention compliance). Public viewers and paying subscribers are never subject to biometric capture — subscribers prove adult age by paying with a valid major credit card.

• Liveness frames. Four still images captured during the creator identity-verification flow (face forward, left turn, right turn, hold) and, optionally, a short video clip.
• Face geometry. Numeric features inferred from the frames by our AI processor to verify liveness, match your face to your government ID, and protect private streams against impersonation.
• Identity-watch frames. If you stream subscriber-only or 1:1 sessions, single frames sampled periodically from your camera and compared to your verified baseline image to confirm the verified creator is the person on camera.

2. Why we collect it

• To confirm a creator is 18 or older as required by our payment processor before releasing payouts.
• To confirm a creator is the same person shown on their government-issued ID (see /verify-identity).
• To protect subscribers from someone impersonating a verified creator on a private stream.
• To detect when an additional, unverified person appears on camera during a subscriber-only or 1:1 stream, and to auto-pause the stream when that happens.

We do not use biometric information for advertising, profile-building, public-search, law-enforcement screening, behavioral profiling, or any purpose other than the three above.

3. Legal basis

We process biometric information on the basis of your explicit, written consent, recorded with a timestamp, IP address, user agent, and a SHA-256 hash of the policy version you saw. You can review the consent records associated with your account by contacting privacy@gamersgonewild.life.

4. Retention

• Live scoring frames sent to our AI processor are discarded immediately after scoring. Only the numeric score and the action taken (ok / warn / pause) are retained.
• Stored liveness frames and the verified ID image are retained for the term of your creator account plus 30 days, after which they are deleted — unless payment-processor KYC retention rules or tax law require longer retention.
• Consent records themselves are retained for as long as required by applicable biometric-information laws (typically 3 years after the latest of: (i) the last interaction with us, or (ii) closure of your account).

5. Who we share it with

We do not sell, lease, trade, or otherwise profit from your biometric information. We share it only with our AI processor under a written Data Processing Agreement that prohibits the processor from using the data for any purpose other than providing the scoring service to us, and that requires the processor to delete the data immediately after scoring.

6. Security

Biometric information is stored in access-restricted buckets and database tables. Raw baseline images are isolated in an admin-only table with service-role write access. Access is logged.

7. Your rights

• Withdraw consent. You can withdraw consent at any time. Because age verification is required to use GGW, withdrawing the liveness consent will close your account. Withdrawing the identity-watch consent disables private streaming but lets you keep your account.
• Access & deletion. Email privacy@gamersgonewild.life to request a copy of, or deletion of, your biometric information. We respond within 30 days. Payment-processor KYC retention or tax-law obligations may prevent deletion of certain records.
• Complaint. You may also lodge a complaint with the regulator in your jurisdiction (e.g. the Illinois Attorney General for BIPA).

8. Notice for Illinois, Texas, and Washington residents

If you are a resident of Illinois (740 ILCS 14, BIPA), Texas (Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 503.001, CUBI), or Washington (RCW 19.375, HB 1493), the consent checkboxes you see before each biometric flow constitute your written consent to the collection and processing described above. You may revoke this consent at any time as described in Section 7.

9. Updates

We will give you an in-product notice and require a fresh consent if we change the purposes for which we process biometric information, change processors, or extend retention. We will not retroactively apply new purposes to previously collected data.

Questions: privacy@gamersgonewild.life.