Most people dont have their payment details, full name and address, age, passwords etc stored on their pc in some easy-to-find location, so its not like it can take them without your permission. Originally posted by Jamma003:A whole load of rubbish. Its more likely that dodgy forum you signed up to just to unlock a download link at some point. But its not going to be a massive mainstream game publisher, because someone would eventually find out and that company would be in court for it. There ARE actual people selling personal info and not telling you about it. Again, people take computer laws pretty seriously, and you cant just sell actual spyware to people and mass distribute it. It was just a victim of yet more random accusations leading to it being dropped to save face. I suggest you read the full policy yourself and make your own conclusion. KSP has had a very long history of random accusations of being spyware, but funnily enough, spyware is illegal, so most big companies dont do it. Again, NOT identifiable information, and completely legal. Specifically, the way Google actually sells your information is through AdSense, using AI to figure out what people like you enjoy (based on your search history, Youtube, Gmail etc) and grouping you together with other people for companies to choose to advertise to. If you watch a Youtube video, they share your country, age etc with the video owner for their analytics. This is how the entire internet functions, if you buy something from Steam, you probably let Steam share your information with Paypal. Same reason every website has that annoying "we use cookies" popup. Because of very strict laws nowadays, you have to write every single thing you might ever collect from someone in those privacy policies. They do share information with third parties when related to something that you have done (so if you buy the game from their website, they apparently share with Xsolla, a game distribution platform). They use cookies and other completely legal trackers which are NOT personally identifiable and usually used for advertising and marketing, you essentially become part of a statistic "4% of people who saw this advert went on to buy the game". These are written in the EULA so that if you buy something from their website they have the right to access those details. It specifically says in the EULA you have to provide those directly, like when the website asks "Whats your billing address, we need it so you can buy this thing".
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