Privacy Noticefor ESL Impact League Broadcasters

Introduction

This Privacy Notice explains why and how we process your personal data related to the ESL Impact League broadcast

Regarding other relationships or interaction you may have with us, it is possible other privacy notices apply as well, including our privacy notice available at https://esl.com/privacy-notice/

When we refer to “you” in this Privacy Notice, we refer to you as a data subject. 

About Us

When you (apply to) broadcast the ESL Impact League, ESL FACEIT GROUP GER GmbH decides the reasons for processing your personal data, and how to process it. This is known as the controller. When we speak of “us” in this Privacy Notice, we refer to ourselves as the controller. 

 

Our data protection officer (“DPO”) is Prof. Dr. Christian Rauda and you can find him at:

ARTANA Digital GmbH

Alstertwiete 3

20099 Hamburg, Germany

Email: dpo@efg.gg

What Are Your Rights

We will honour your rights under applicable data protection laws. These rights are not absolute, and they do not always apply in all cases. If you wish to make a request in respect of your data (as described in this section of the Privacy Notice), please contact our EFG Customer Support team support.faceit.com/hc/en-us.

You may: 

  • request access to your personal data; 
  • request the correction or deletion of your personal data; 
  • request that we restrict our use of your personal data; 
  • request a machine-readable copy of your personal data or that your personal data be transferred to other IT systems; 
  • object to the processing of your personal data; 
  • withdraw your consent to our use of your personal data at any time where we rely on your consent to use or process that personal data; and

lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of the EU of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement.

Processing of your personal data

Personal data we may process from you when you communicate with us

  • Purpose: We process your personal data to communicate with you and to respond to all your requests and enquiries.

  • Data: If we communicate with you, we process all personal data you disclose to us during our conversation (such as your name, email address, Discord ID, the reason why you are contacting us, your messages etc.). 

  • Legal basis: As it is necessary for our legitimate interests, namely to communicate with you and respond to your requests and enquiries.
  • Source: You provide this information to us when you contact us.
  • Recipient: We communicate with you via our third party Customer Support platform, our third party email service provider or Discord. Aside, if you wish to contact us via messaging services, it is possible that the respective providers that offer these communication services may also process your personal data and that regarding this their privacy notices apply. We have no influence over such data processing by third parties. For further information on how these services process your personal data, please view their privacy notices.
  • Storage period: If your communication is considered a commercial or business letter it is stored for as long as necessary to comply with legal obligations or to defend from any claims, according to the respective statute of limitations. We retain any other personal data for 12 months counting from the moment of collection, whereafter it is deleted.

ESL Impact League Broadcasters List

  • Purpose: We process the personal data you provide for the purpose of organizing and managing the broadcasting of the ESL Impact League (among other things, to consider whether you are capable to be an ESL Impact League Broadcaster; to identify you as an ESL Impact League Broadcaster; to make sure you comply with ESL Impact  Broadcasting Guidelines (our rules); to be able to contact you as such a partner or talent; for broadcasting preparation and planning; to share new opportunities with you; for you to get our asset package, and stream the matches on your channel; and for assessment of a product or service, i.e. product KPI´s (Key Performance Indicators) that will need to be provided at the end of each season).  

  • Data: You can voluntarily sign up to our ESL Impact League Broadcasters List (“List”). When you sign up, we collect your email address, alias, broadcasting platform (Twitch / Youtube), personal broadcasting platform URL, language you broadcast in, whether you attended ESL events in the past, Discord ID, whether you represent a teams organization (if so, the organization’s name) or whether you are a freelance broadcaster, your social media profiles, and what motivates you to be ESL Impact Broadcaster. 

  • Legal basis: As it is necessary for our legitimate interests, namely to organize and manage the broadcasting of ESL Impact League.

  • Source: We receive the data directly from you when you sign up to the List.
  • Recipients: The recipients of your personal data for this processing are our cloud storage provider, to store and manage your personal data; our analytics service provider, to get insights related to the broadcasting; online streaming/communication providers, to manage and enable you to broadcast the ESL Impact League. 
    • For Russian language broadcasters only, we share your personal data with our media rights partner Paragon. Paragon has the exclusive rights for broadcasting the ESL Impact League in the Russian Language. Paragon solely decides whether to accept and onboard you as a broadcaster for the ESL Impact League.
  • Storage period: We retain your personal data for 12 months counting from the moment of collection, whereafter it is deleted.
Disclosures

EFG Group

The companies in our group collaborate closely with each other to share resources and for improved efficiency. Part of this may involve the sharing of your data between the group (e.g. for the purpose of suggesting you as a community broadcaster for further opportunities), and to govern such data flows securely and in compliance with data protection laws, the EFG Group has in place an intercompany data protection agreement. The intercompany data protection agreement sets out the different roles and responsibilities of the EFG companies. Please see section “EFG Group company information“ for more information on the EFG entities.

Other

We may share your personal data:

  • where required by law, government, competent authorities or the courts or to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights, and for the purposes of preventing crime and fraud. Our legal basis for this processing is likely to be: to comply with a with legal obligation, or as it is necessary for our legitimate interests, namely for (i) obtaining advice in relation to legal and similar proceedings; (ii) communicating with relevant third parties in relation to legal and similar proceedings; and/or (iii) protecting and defending ourselves from legal and similar proceedings;
  • if involved in an investment, merger, acquisition, or sale of our organisation or assets, personal data we hold may be shared on the basis of the legitimate interests of us, our shareholders, customers and other parties to a transaction, unless those interests are outweighed by prejudicial impacts upon you. Legal basis: our legal basis for this processing is likely to be: our legitimate interests pursued would typically include our interest (and that of our shareholders) in negotiating and concluding the relevant transaction, and our interest (and that of our users) in financing the business and ensuring the development and continuity of our business.where required by law, government, competent authorities or the courts or to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights, and for the purposes of preventing crime and fraud. Our legal basis for this processing is likely to be: to comply with a with legal obligation, or as it is necessary for our legitimate interests, namely for (i) obtaining advice in relation to legal and similar proceedings; (ii) communicating with relevant third parties in relation to legal and similar proceedings; and/or (iii) protecting and defending ourselves from legal and similar proceedings;

Storage and transfers

We regularly collaborate with an international network of EFG companies and partners and subcontractors based in different countries. As such, personal data we collect may be transferred, and stored and processed outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) and the UK in a country in which we or our companies, partners or subcontractors maintain facilities. We will ensure that transfers of personal data to a third country or an international organisation are subject to appropriate safeguards (in accordance with data protection laws).

For transfers between EFG companies, the EFG group intercompany data protection agreement (see Disclosures) contains Standard Contractual Clauses provided by the European Commission to govern data flows from EFG companies established within the UK, EU or the EEA to EFG companies established outside of the UK, EU or EEA.

Updates to this Privacy Notice

We regularly review our Privacy Notice to make sure it is kept up-to-date and compliant with new legislation. We reserve the right to make any changes. You can check when the Privacy Notice was last amended by looking at the date at the start of the document.

EFG Group company information
Data Controller
ESL FACEIT Group GER GmbH Schanzenstraße 23, 51063 Cologne, Germany
Other EFG Group entities
ESL FACEIT Group Limited Millbank Tower Faceit 25th Floor, 21-24 Millbank, SW1P4QP, London, United Kingdom
ESL FACEIT Group SG PTE LTD Boat Quay, 56A 049845, Singapore
ESL FACEIT Group AU Pty Ltd Unit 4 / 199 Parramatta Rd, Auburn, NSW, 2144 Australia
ESL FACEIT Group FR SAS Le HQ, 1 Impasse du Palais 37000, Tours, France
ESL Gaming America, Inc 551 Madison Avenue, Suit 400 10022, New York, United States of America
ESL FACEIT Group MY SDN BHD Suite A-23-9, Level 23, Menara Uoa Bangsar, No. 5, Jalan, Bangsar Utama 1, 59000, Kuala Lumpur W.P., Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
ESL FACEIT Group DK A/S Klosterstræde 9 1157, Kopenhagen, Denmark
Esports Engine, LLC 53rd Street, 10 East, 4th floor 10022, New York, United States of America
ESL Gaming España, S.L.U C/Vereda de los Barros 2B Bis 209-210 Pol. Ventorro del Cano, 28925 Alcorcon, Madrid, Spain
ESL Gaming Polska SP Z.o.o ZELIWNA 38 STREET, 40-599 Katowice, Poland
Dreamhack AB Telefonvagen 30, SE-126 26, Hagersten, Sweden
Dreamhack Sports Arabia LLC P.O. Box 2616 52681, 11573, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia