Privacy Policy

If you're reading this, it means you value your privacy and data protection as much as we do. Our privacy policy sets out to be as transparent as possible with regards to what we do with the user data we collect from those who sign up for a Bohemia Account, play our games, visit our websites, and/or make use of our other online services. It has been prepared with the utmost care, and has been reviewed to be in accordance with the applicable legislation, including the recently introduced General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by the European Union.

Here are some quick takeaways that we think are most important for you:

• We only store user data to:
  • ensure the proper functionality of our games and related online services such as our forums and Feedback Tracker;
  • fulfill our obligations when you make a purchase on the Bohemia Store;
  • send you newsletters with the latest news on our projects and sales. You can subscribe/unsubscribe at any time by updating your Bohemia Account e-mail preferences.
• For some of our games we collect anonymous player data to learn how people play the game and how we can make the game experience better. You can opt-in/opt-out via the game’s settings.
• We’ll never sell your personal data to third-parties. Some data can be shared with certain partners such as server hosting providers or analytics services. These partners have signed a strict non-disclosure agreement. You’ll find a precise overview of what data is shared with who in Appendix No. 2 of our privacy policy.
• We’re constantly taking proactive measures to make sure all data is stored in a safe manner according to the latest security standards.

We advise you to read our privacy policy below for more specific insights into what data we collect and how it's used. Thank you for placing your trust in us, and if you have any questions with regards to our privacy policy, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected].

1.1. This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy” or “Policy”) regulates how We use and process Your personal data, how We handle it and how You can exercise Your rights regarding Your personal data.

1.2. This Privacy Policy also provides You with all necessary information according to the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”).

1.3. In this Policy the following definitions are used:

1. “Company", “We” means BOHEMIA INTERACTIVE a.s. residing at Stříbrná Lhota 747, 252 10 Mníšek pod Brdy, Czech Republic, registered in the Commercial Register kept by the Municipal Court in Prague, section B, insert 9791 (Id.No.: 272 18 864, DIČ: CZ 272 18 864).
2. "User", “You” means the person, company or institution that uses the Services.
3. “Services” means services, games and websites operated by the Company and used by the User.

1.4. This Privacy Policy is an integral part of the Terms of Use or End User License Agreement of any of Our Services You use and when You agree to the respective document regulating the use of Our Services, You declare that you are familiar with this Policy. This Policy also contains Our Cookie Policy which can be found here.

1.5. Information contained in this Policy shall apply to any User of Our Services particularly to players of Our games and Users of Services associated with them, Users of Bohemia Account, Users of Bohemia Store, Users of Our websites and any other Users who use any of Our Services.

1.6. We are the controller and under some circumstances the processor of Your personal data unless this Policy states otherwise.

Processing of personal data based on applicable laws

2.1. We process Your personal data based on applicable laws which apply to Our business activities. As the processing of Your personal data is based on law Your consent to such processing is not necessary.

1. If You buy Our products via Bohemia Store We process Your personal data in compliance with law No. 563/1991 Coll., Accounting Act, law No. 235/2004 Coll., Value Added Tax Act and law No. 586/1992 Coll., Income Tax Act, for purposes of carrying out Our obligations arising out of mentioned laws, particularly keeping records of all purchases and payments made within Bohemia Store.
2. If You buy Our products via Bohemia Store We also process Your personal data in compliance with law No. 634/1992 Coll., Consumer Protection Act for purposes of carrying out Our obligations arising out of this law and securing Your rights You have according to this law (for example if You wish to file a complaint that You did not receive the products You bought) and thus enable You to exercise such rights.

Processing of personal data for purposes of carrying out Our obligations arising out of the contract concluded with You

2.2. We process Your personal data for purposes of carrying out Our obligations arising out of contract concluded with You. Without processing Your personal data such contracts cannot be concluded and We cannot carry out the obligations arising thereof.

1. If You buy Our products via Bohemia Store You conclude with Us a purchase agreement based on which We are obliged to provide You with the products You purchased. We are also obliged to process the payments for the products You purchased and therefore, have to cooperate with the provider of the Payment Gateway. For purposes of delivery of purchased products and processing of Your payments for such products We have to process Your personal data.
2. We process Your personal data You filled during Your registration to Bohemia Account for purposes of providing You with Our Services. You also need to be registered and acquire Bohemia Account to be able to use some of Our Services. Without Your registration We would not be able to identify You and thus provide You with Our Services.
3. We also process Your personal data We acquire during Your use of Our Services such as User forums, Bohemia Store, Our community Wiki, Ylands Workshop API, Arma 3 Units/Groups API and feedback tracker for purposes of providing proper functionality of such Services.
4. We also process Your personal data when You apply for approval for server monetization. We process Your personal data for purposes of keeping records of granted approvals and for purposes of supervising whether the conditions of Our approvals are followed.
5. We also process Your personal data during Your playing of any of Our games (including using of Our game servers) for purposes of providing proper functionality of Our games.
6. If We enable You access to Our games prior they are officially released and made public We may also process Your personal data You provide Us with for purpose of enabling You the access to Our respective games.
7. If You participate in any contest organized by Us We may process Your personal data You provide Us with within the registration for purposes of carrying out Our obligations relating to the organizing of the contest, evaluating the results of the contestants, proper distribution of the prizes among the contestants and public announcements of the winners.

Processing of personal data based on Our legitimate interests

2.3. We also process Your personal data based on Our legitimate interests.

1. We process Your personal data We acquire during Your use of Our Services such as User forums, Bohemia Store, Our community Wiki, Ylands Workshop API and Arma 3 Units/Groups API for purposes of preventing fraudulent behavior of other Users during their use of such Services and for purposes of improving Our Services. Legitimate interest consists of improving Services and preventing fraudulent behavior of some Users.
2. We also process Your personal data We acquire during Your use of Our feedback tracker (as well as the content You public via Our feedback tracker) for purposes of processing Your feedbacks and improving Our Services. Legitimate interest consists of ability to process Your feedback and improving Our Services.
3. We also process Your personal data when You launch Our games Arma 3 and DayZ through Arma 3 – Launcher and DayZ – Launcher for purposes of collecting data about game crashes so We can improve the qualities of the particular game in the future. Legitimate interest consists of ability to monitor the crashes of Our game in order to be able to improve Our games or remove bugs.
4. We also process Your personal data during Your playing of any of Our games (including using Our game servers) for purposes of detecting and preventing fraudulent behavior of players of Our games and for purposes of improving Our games. If You play the following games: Arma 3, Arma 2, DayZ and Argo Your personal data is transferred to BattlEye Innovations e.K., Gmelinstr. 66, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. When installing above mentioned games You may opt for installing software BattlEye to be able to access certain servers where You can play Our games in multiplayer mode. Such installation is optional and does not limit the functionalities of Our games. Use of above mentioned software is regulated by its provider. Legitimate interest consists of preventing fraudulent behavior of some players and improving Our games.
5. We may also process Your email address which We have acquired from You for sending You Our newsletters for purposes of keeping You informed about Our products and Services all via application Mailtrain operated by Us (to send the newsletter via this application We may use third party services) and via the application MailChimp operated by the company The Rocket Science Group LLC, 75 Ponce de Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, providing that this company will obtain Your email to send You Our newsletters or other marketing materials through the application. At any time You can opt out to not receive any further newsletters by clicking on the respective link contained in each email or by adjusting the setting within Your Bohemia Account. Legitimate interest consists of informing Our customers about Our products and Services.
6. We also process Your personal data which We can collect during Your playing of Our games. All collected data will be used for statistical analysis for purposes of improving Our games and Your game experience. Such collected data is pseudonymized and We are not able by standard means to identify You personally (for third parties such data is totally anonymous). These games offer You the opportunity to disable analytical functionalities via which We collect Your personal data. Legitimate interest consists of improving Our games.
7. If We enable You access to Our games prior they are officially released and made public We may also process Your personal data You provide Us with for purposes of evaluation the respective game and considering the eventual changes to improve such game. This applies also to the personal data You provide Us with via any feedback form relating to the game which You have played prior its official release. Legitimate interest consists of improving Our games and game experience.
8. If You participate in any contest organized by Us We may also process Your personal data You provide Us with within the registration for purposes of evaluation of the contest. Legitimate interest consists of evaluation of the contest and contestants´ motivation to participate in it in order to improve any future similar contests.
9. If you voluntarily send us a report via Crashdump Reporter incorporated in some of our games, We may process Your personal data which are contained in the crashdump logs. The legitimate interest consists of monitoring bugs and crashes in Our games and improving Our games and game experience.
10. If you install Our Ylands app on Your mobile device (“YLANDS app”), We also process basic analytical data regarding Your use of the YLANDS app. The YLANDS app uses Google Analytics for Firebase, which tracks and collects basic analytical data regarding user behavior. Analytical data is collected only when YLANDS app is actively used, installed, reset, removed from a device or its data is cleared from the device. While running in background, the YLANDS app does not collect any analytical data. Furthermore, such data cannot be, by any standard means, attributed to any specific User, as it is attributed to anonymous instance identifiers, that are associated only with each installation of the YLANDS app. The analytical data is not linked, merged or combined with any personally identifiable information such as account names, email addresses etc. The legitimate interest is to monitor and improve the performance of the YLANDS app, the user experience and the effectiveness of marketing campaigns. For more information on how Google uses information from the YLANDS app please visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
    We adhere to the Google Play Family Policy, in particular by following the policies below:
    • The YLANDS app does not access, collect, use personally identifiable information, beyond those provided or reasonably expected by the User (e.g., in-game account name or email address).
    • The YLANDS app does not request, access, collect, use or transmit precise location of the device, the device phone number, authentication information, SMS data, call-related data or any microphone and camera data.
    • The YLANDS app does not use any personalized advertisements or advertisement data storage.
    • The YLANDS app’s Android version does not use, collect or transmit AAID (Android Advertising ID), SIM Serial, Build Serial, BSSID, MAC, SSID, IMEI, and/or IMSI or any similar advertising identifier. On iOS, the YLANDS app uses standard iOS advertising identifier (IDFA).
    • We do not sell or transfer any data from the YLANDS app users to third parties.

2.4. List of personal data We process according to Sec. 2. of this Policy is contained in Appendix No. 1 to this Policy including its classification.

3.1. Privacy and security are key considerations in the creation and delivery of Our products and Services. We have assigned specific responsibilities to address privacy and security related matters. We enforce Our internal policies and guidelines through an appropriate selection of activities, including proactive and reactive risk management, security and privacy engineering, training and assessments. We take appropriate steps to address online security, physical security, risk of data loss and other such risks taking into consideration the risk represented by the processing and the nature of the data being protected. Also, We limit access to our databases containing personal data to authorized persons having a justified need to access such information.

4.1. The personal data We collect is mainly disclosed to selected employees of Our Company. The access of these employees to Your personal data is limited and these employees may access Your personal data only in the extent they need to carry out the obligations arising out of their work. All these employees signed a non-disclosure agreement with Our Company and are also obliged to behave in compliance with Our policies regulating the use of Our systems where they can access Your personal data.

4.2. Personal data collected by Us with regard to Your purchases via Bohemia Store may be transferred to third parties based on the legal obligations We may have. We may disclose some of Your personal data to Tax authorities, criminal law authorities and in certain extent also to judicial authorities.

4.3. Some of Your personal data regarding Your purchases in Bohemia Store may be shared with Our partners which provide for Us accounting or similar services, which operate Bohemia Store for Us and which operate the Payment Gateway for processing of Your payments for Your purchases in Bohemia Store. We may also share necessary subset of Your personal data We collect during Your use of Our Services with Our affiliates in order to operate and improve Our Services. All these partners or affiliates concluded a non-disclosure agreement with Our Company and are also obliged to behave in compliance with Our policies regulating the use of Your personal data.

4.4. Your email address We use for emailing may be shared with providers of such emailing services providing that Your email address cannot be used for any other purpose than the purpose of informing You about Our products and Services. Your personal data we collect in accordance with Sec. 2.3. f) of this Policy may be uploaded on third parties´ servers belonging to providers of analytical functionalities We use for processing of Your data providing that Your personal data cannot be used for any other purpose than the purpose of improving Our games and Your game experience. For enabling users from the whole world to play Our games we have to use third party servers to provide proper functioning of Our games. Data regarding Your playing of Our games may be uploaded to these servers. With providers of servers We use within providing of Our Services to You We have concluded the agreements based on which Your personal data are secured in compliance with GDPR.

4.5. List of Our partners and third parties with which We may share Your personal data is listed in Appendix No. 2 to this Policy.

5.1. We keep and process Your personal data only for the time period which is necessary to satisfy the purposes for which We process it. We regularly check whether there is still need to keep Your personal data and process it for particular purposes. If We find that keeping Your personal data is not necessary We erase it. The time period for which We keep Your personal data is listed in Appendix No. 1 to this Policy.

6.1. We acquire Your personal data from following sources:

1. Directly from You during Your registration to Bohemia Account or other of Our Services where necessary, by filling forms during Your use of Our Services or by direct communication with You.
2. From monitoring of the use of Our Services. This way We also acquire Your Steam ID so We can communicate with You.

7.1. Right to access and rectification of personal data. You have the right to access and rectify or amend incorrect or incomplete personal data about You which We collect.

7.2. Right to erasure of personal data. You have the right to request Us to erase all Your personal data we collected during Your use of Our Services based on Your consent or data that is no longer necessary or those that have been unlawfully processed. If you would like Us to erase Your personal data You can contact Us at [email protected]. Once We receive Your request We erase all the personal data We are obliged to according to GDPR. We cannot erase personal data processed based on applicable laws.

7.3. Right to restriction of processing of personal data. You have the right to request Us to restrict processing of Your personal data in some cases until your request to erase or change your personal data or your objection is not processed.

7.4. Right to portability of Your personal data. You have the right to request Us to give You Your personal data You provided to Us if such data is processed based on Your consent or based on the contract concluded with and such personal data is processed automatically. If such request appears We provide You with Your personal data We collected in structured machine-readable form. You are also entitled to request Us to transfer such personal data to a new controller if it is technically possible.

7.5. Right to withdraw the consent to process Your personal data. Where We process Your personal data based on Your consent You can withdraw such consent at any time by sending Us request at [email protected] or by other means enabled within Our Services.

7.6. Right to object to processing of Your personal data. If You feel that processing of Your personal data based on legitimate interest is not proportional to Your rights You can object to such processing and request Us to make remedy.

7.7. Right to file a complaint. If You think that during the processing of Your personal data We breached applicable laws You are entitled to file a complaint to the official authority residing in Your state, in the state where You work or where the infringement of your rights took place. In the Czech Republic such official authority is:

The Office for Personal Data Protection
Pplk. Sochora 27
170 00 Praha 7
Czech Republic

8.1. This Policy is valid and effective as of 1st April 2020.

8.2. We may from time to time change this Policy or change, modify or withdraw access to this site at any time with or without notice. However, if this Policy is changed in a material, adverse way, We will post a notice advising of such change at the beginning of this Policy and on this site's home page for 30 days. We recommend that you re-visit this Policy from time to time to learn of any such changes to this Policy.

8.3. If You have any questions regarding the processing of Your personal data or wish to exercise any of Your rights according to GDPR You can contact Us at [email protected].

List of personal data we process and the time period for which We keep it

Provision of Privacy Policy	Processed personal data	Time period for which We keep personal data
Sec. 2.1. a)	Records of purchased products Records of executed payments Records of refunds	10 years
Sec. 2.1. b)	Name Address Date of birth Email address Bohemia Account ID Records of complaints	10 years
Sec. 2.2. a)	Name Address Date of Birth Email address Bohemia Account ID Steam ID Username PayPal identification	5 years
Sec. 2.2. b)	Name Address Login Last logon Email address Bohemia Account ID Facebook ID Google Play/Apple Game Center ID Live ID Twitter ID PSN ID Twitter ID Steam ID Username IP Address	Until Bohemia Account is terminated
Sec. 2.2. c)	Name Address Telephone No. Date of Birth Login Last logon Bohemia Account ID Facebook ID Steam ID Username IP address	Until Bohemia Account connected with such Services is terminated
Sec. 2.2. d)	Name Email address Nickname IP address of server	Until the approval for monetization is withdrawn
Sec. 2.2. e)	Name Login Last logon Bohemia Account ID Facebook ID Google Play/Apple Game Center ID Username IP address Hardware data about Your device, Information about command line (such as name of the computer) The list of running processes on Your device Setting of Your device Crash dumps	Until the game is uninstalled from Your device
Sec. 2.2. f)	Email address	For duration of Your access to the game prior its official release
Sec. 2.2. g)	Email address Full name Sex Your Address Whether You meet the age limit Prize preferences	2 years since the end of the contest
Sec. 2.3. a)	Login Last logon Bohemia Account ID Facebook ID Steam ID Username IP address	For duration of legitimate interest
Sec. 2.3. b)	Name Login Last logon Bohemia Account ID Facebook ID Steam ID Username IP address	For duration of legitimate interest
Sec. 2.3. c)	Username Hardware data about Your device, Information about command line (such as name of the computer) The list of running processes on Your device Settings of Your device Crash dumps	For duration of legitimate interest
Sec. 2.3. d)	Name Login Last logon Bohemia Account ID Steam ID Game profile name Facebook ID Google Play/Apple Game Center ID Username IP address Hardware data about Your device, Information about command line (such as name of the computer) The list of running processes on Your device Setting of Your device Crash dumps	For duration of legitimate interest
Sec. 2.3. e)	Email address	Until the person unsubscribes from receiving newsletters or the email address ceases to exist
Sec. 2.3. f)	Data regarding Your playing of a specific game, particularly: Your time spent within the game or its parts (the time of Your login and Your last logon), the region from which You play the game (including Your IP address), Your on-line activities within the game or its parts (such as which activities You did during playing, which characters You picked, how Your characters died), information about crashes and connection issues statistics of Your activities in in-game shop, and characteristics of Your hardware	Until the game uninstalled from Your device
Sec. 2.3. g)	Age Sex Country City Language Internet connection type Internet connection speed Model of Your device Preferred play mode Time You are going to play the game Reason of Your participation Favorite games Your motivation to play Our games	For duration of legitimate interest
Sec. 2.3. h)	How did You hear about the contest Your reasons for entering the contest Whether you have ever created content for Our games	For duration of legitimate interest
Sec. 2.3. i)	Session username Machine name Machine ID Log files Crashdump - may contain information about the system, hardware and drivers DxDiag - may contain information on video/sound devices and drivers	For duration of legitimate interest
Sec. 2.3. j)	Analytical data collected about the usage of YLANDS app: approximate location of the device (e.g. city, region, country) derived from the device’s IP address, basic hardware information (device brand, device model, operating system, OS version, build model, platform, time zone, screen resolution, language setting), in-app purchase history (such as product ID, price, value, currency, quantity, free trial), timestamps of the following YLANDS app interactions, when: app is installed, app is updated, app is launched for the first time, app is engaged by the user, app is closed, app’s data is cleared, app is reset, screen transition occurs, device OS is updated.	For duration of legitimate interest and up to a maximum of 14 months

Identification of Our Partner	Identification of data shared with Our partner	Purpose of sharing
BOHEMIA INTERACTIVE STUDIO s.r.o., ID No.: 257 64 730, registered office: Nad Pomnikem 467/9, Prague 5, Postcode: 152 00, Czech Republic	Records of purchased products Records of executed payments Name Address Date of Birth Email address Bohemia Account ID Steam ID Username PayPal identification Records of complaints	Purposes of operating Bohemia Store. Purposes of providing accounting and related services.
Global Payments Europe, s.r.o., ID No.: 270 88 936, Registered office: V Olšinách 626/80, Strašnice, 100 00 Prague 10, Czech Republic	Email address	Purposes of processing of the payments in Bohemia Store through the Payment Gateway.
The Rocket Science Group LLC, Registered office: 75 Ponce de Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, United States of America	Email address	Purposes of providing emailing services via application MailChimp.
Treasure Data, Inc., registered office: 2565 Leghorn St., Mountain View, CA 94043, United States of America	Data regarding Your playing of a specific game, particularly: Your time spent within the game or its parts (the time of Your login and Your last logon), the region from which You play the game (including Your IP address), Your on-line activities within the game or its parts (such as which activities You did during playing, which characters You picked, how Your characters died), information about crashes and connection issues statistics of Your activities in the in-game shop, and characteristics of Your hardware	Data is uploaded to the servers of our Partner so we can use the analytical functionalities of Our partner providing that Our partner shall not access Your personal data.
Google Ireland Limited, Registered office: Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland	Analytical data regarding the usage of YLANDS app: approximate location of the device (e.g. city, region, country) derived from the device’s IP address, basic hardware information (device brand, device model, operating system, OS version, build model, platform, time zone, screen resolution, language setting), in-app purchase history (such as product ID, price, value, currency, quantity, free trial), timestamps of the following YLANDS app interactions, when: app is installed, app is updated, app is launched for the first time, app is engaged by the user, app is closed, app’s data is cleared, app is reset, screen transition occurs, device OS is updated.	For the purpose of monitoring and improving YLANDS app’s performance, user experience and marketing campaign effectiveness via Google Analytics for Firebase (see Sec. 2.3. j).
iomart Hosting Limited, Registered office: Lister Pavilion, Kelvin Campus, West of Scotland Science Park, Glasgow, G20 0SP, UK (servers in UK) Amazon Web Services, Inc. Registered office: Seattle, WA 98108-1226, United States of America (servers in South America – Brazil) OVH US LLC, Registered office: 11480 Commerce Park Dr., Suite 500 Reston, VA 20191, United States of America (servers in USA, Australia) Multiplay (UK) Ltd., Registered office: The Oak Barn Whitefield Business Units, Lepe Road, Blackfield, Southampton SO45 1XR, UK (servers in USA, Australia) Fragnet Networks AB, Registered office: Ostra Vittusgatan 36, SE-37133 Karlskrona, Sweden (servers in USA, Australia)	Data regarding Your playing of Our games	For enabling worldwide users to play Our games We have to use third party servers to provide proper functioning of Our games.
OUR AFFILIATES BOHEMIA INTERACTIVE STUDIO s.r.o., ID No.: 257 64 730, registered office: Nad Pomnikem 467/9, Prague 5, Postcode: 152 00, Czech Republic BOHEMIA INTERACTIVE s.r.o., ID No.: 47 489 863, registered office: Palárikova 27, 811 04 Bratislava, Slovakia BOHEMIA INTERACTIVE B.V., RSIN: 85614799, registered office: Danzigerkade 223, 1ste verdieping, 1013AP Amsterdam, the Netherlands Bohemia Interactive Co., Ltd. registered office 378/80-81, Moo 12, Nongprue, Banglamung, Chonburi, 20150, Kingdom of Thailand	Necessary subset of Your personal data	For providing of proper functioning of Our services