Lack of a privacy policy
5 years ago
Netherlands

Hey, I guess a follow up to this thread by @ViruseReturns https://www.speedrun.com/The_Site/thread/kkewi

Currently on https://www.speedrun.com/legal it just talks about the copyrights of uploaded content and content that's linked to.

This effectively means the entire website is not GDPR compliant, even if only on the basis of a lack of transparency on the usage or duration of keeping each user's data.

According to the regulation, this applies to personal data, in particular if a person can be referenced by an identifier. Both usernames and emails are examples of identifiers.

Looking through the site, I can't find any mention of what happens to someone's data if they use the site. The ads are served by Wikia, which has their own privacy policy and settings, but I do not believe those apply to speedrun.com's data, especially in regards to a user's account.

8 months and no real improvements on this front ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Edited by the author 5 years ago
Canada

At one point the site was basically just using Twitch's privacy policy, though that seems to have been removed sometime during July of last year, no clue why though. This is definitely something that should be addressed soon though.

Imaproshaman and jellyd0ts like this
Netherlands

The ones I saw when I opened it in a browser with no plugins ¯_(ツ)_/¯

(btw not seeing the ads means we don't even see that privacy policy :P )

Edited by the author 5 years ago