Twitch

Twitch collects extensive account, device, and usage data, and explicitly uses collected data to develop and deploy generative AI models without a clear opt-out mechanism described in the excerpt.

From: PRIVACY POLICYto test and improve technology, including machine learning and artificial intelligence, to support and enhance the customer experience across our products and services. This includes using data to develop or deploy our generative AI models and services.

Twitch shares data with advertising networks and analytics providers, and combines user data with Amazon's customer data for shared use across both companies' products, though it states it does not sell personal information.

From: PRIVACY POLICYPersonal information collected by Twitch may be combined with personal information about Amazon customers, and that combined information may be used by both Twitch and Amazon to operate, provide, develop, and improve Amazon’s and Twitch’s products and services.

Twitch requires an unrestricted, worldwide, irrevocable, sub-licensable license to user content that can extend in perpetuity where permitted by law, going beyond typical service-operation licensing.

From: TERMS OF SERVICEyou grant Twitch and its sub-licensees, to the furthest extent and for the maximum duration permitted by applicable law (including in perpetuity if permitted under applicable law), an unrestricted, worldwide, irrevocable, fully sub-licenseable, nonexclusive, and royalty-free right to: (a) use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display your User Content

Twitch reserves broad discretion to terminate or suspend accounts without notice for violations, misuse, or business reasons, which is standard but grants wide unilateral discretion.

From: TERMS OF SERVICETwitch reserves the right, without notice and in our sole discretion, to stop providing the Twitch Services (or any features) to you or to users generally, to terminate this Terms of Service agreement with you, to terminate your license to use the Twitch Services (including to post User Content), and to block or prevent your future access to and use of the Twitch Services for any reason

No mandatory arbitration language is present; disputes are directed to specific California federal or state courts, with an informal dispute resolution step and a one-year claim limitation period.

From: TERMS OF SERVICEAny disputes, claims, or causes of action arising out of or in connection with these Terms of Service or your use of the Twitch Services shall be brought and resolved exclusively by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California or a California state court located in San Francisco County, California.

The Terms of Service does not directly address subscription billing or auto-renewal terms, deferring instead to a separate Terms of Sale document not included here.

From: TERMS OF SERVICEour Terms of Sale, which cover our paid products and services