Privacy Policy

Effective date: December 12, 2025

This Privacy Policy explains how StreamWID ("we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, stores, shares, and protects information when you use StreamWID, including when you browse the site, create an account, use interactive features, and view advertising displayed through Google AdSense or other advertising partners.

Information we collect

We may collect and process the following categories of information:

  • Technical and usage data, such as IP address, browser type, device information, referring pages, timestamps, language, approximate location, pages viewed, and interaction events.
  • Account data, such as login provider identifiers, username/display name, avatar URL, account preferences, and account security metadata.
  • Gameplay and community data, such as quiz attempts, scores, rankings, XP, trophies, saved items, submissions, reports, and other activity connected to your account.
  • Communication data, such as messages you send through contact forms, support requests, or email correspondence.
  • Cookie and consent data, such as session cookies, security cookies, consent choices, and advertising or analytics preferences where applicable.

How we use your information

  • To operate, maintain, and secure the website and user accounts.
  • To authenticate users and enable login through supported providers.
  • To provide site features, including quiz play, rankings, XP, badges, trophies, saved content, and profile functionality.
  • To detect abuse, fraud, cheating, spam, suspicious logins, and other harmful or automated activity.
  • To analyze performance, debug issues, improve usability, and develop new features.
  • To respond to support requests, legal requests, and policy enforcement matters.
  • To display advertising, limit ad frequency, measure ad performance, and manage consent choices where advertising is enabled.

Legal bases for processing

Where required by applicable law, we rely on one or more of the following legal bases:

  • Performance of a contract — to provide account-based services and site functionality you request.
  • Legitimate interests — to secure, improve, defend, and operate the website responsibly.
  • Consent — for non-essential cookies, certain analytics or advertising activities, and personalized advertising where legally required.
  • Legal obligation — where processing is required by law, regulation, or valid legal process.

Cookies, local storage, and similar technologies

We use cookies and similar technologies such as local storage, pixels, and security/session identifiers. Some are strictly necessary for the website to function, while others may be used for analytics, advertising, consent storage, fraud prevention, and user experience improvements.

  • Essential cookies help with login sessions, security, load balancing, fraud prevention, and core site functionality.
  • Preference cookies remember settings such as interface choices and consent selections.
  • Analytics cookies may be used to understand traffic and improve content and performance, where enabled.
  • Advertising cookies may be used by Google and other advertising partners to serve ads, prevent repetitive ads, measure campaign performance, and support personalized or non-personalized advertising, depending on your consent choices and applicable law.

Google AdSense and advertising cookies

We may use Google AdSense to display advertising on this website.

  • Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website or other websites.
  • Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
  • Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings at https://www.google.com/settings/ads.
  • Users may also opt out of some third-party vendors’ uses of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting https://www.aboutads.info.

If third-party ad serving is enabled on this site in addition to Google, other third-party vendors or ad networks may also use cookies, local storage, or similar technologies to serve ads and measure performance.

Where applicable, users can learn more about those vendors from their own privacy and cookie policies and may be able to opt out directly on those vendors’ websites.

We recommend that users review Google’s advertising and privacy information for more details about how Google uses data in advertising.

Consent for users in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, we may ask for your consent before using non-essential cookies or similar technologies, and before processing personal data for personalized advertising, where required by law.

Depending on your location and our advertising configuration, you may be shown a consent message that allows you to accept, reject, or manage your choices regarding advertising, measurement, and data storage.

You may change your consent choices at any time through the site’s consent settings link or cookie preferences tool, when available.

Sharing of information

We may share information with:

  • Service providers who help us host, secure, maintain, analyze, or support the website.
  • Authentication providers when you choose to sign in using a third-party login provider.
  • Advertising partners, including Google, when ads are served on the site.
  • Analytics, anti-abuse, and infrastructure providers that support security, moderation, delivery, uptime, or measurement.
  • Authorities or legal recipients if disclosure is required by law or is reasonably necessary to protect rights, safety, or the integrity of the service.

Data retention

We keep personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, including account operation, security, fraud prevention, legal compliance, dispute resolution, and recordkeeping. Retention periods may vary based on the type of data and whether we are required to preserve it by law or for legitimate business needs.

Your rights and choices

Depending on your location, you may have rights to:

  • Access the personal data we hold about you.
  • Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
  • Request deletion of your data, subject to legal and security exceptions.
  • Object to or restrict certain processing activities.
  • Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
  • Request a copy of certain data in a portable format where applicable.

To exercise these rights, contact us at [email protected] or use the contact page.

Children’s privacy

This website is not directed to children under the age required by applicable law to provide valid consent for data processing in their jurisdiction. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children where such collection is prohibited. If you believe a child has provided personal data inappropriately, please contact us.

Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, misuse, or destruction. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

International data transfers

Depending on the services we use, information may be processed in countries other than your own. Where required, we take reasonable steps to ensure that such transfers are subject to appropriate safeguards and handled in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our services, legal obligations, or advertising practices. When we make material changes, we will update the effective date shown above.