AMPLITUDE Studios Privacy Policy

Last Updated, 20/09/2025

AMPLITUDE Studios (hereinafter "AMPLITUDE Studios", "us" or "we") is a French independent video game developer founded in 2011, based in Paris with an international team. We offer a wide array of products and services to entertain you including ENDLESS™ series, played by millions worldwide, HUMANKIND™, our historical strategy game, and our custom-built community platform AMPLIFIERS, that enables our community to play a key role in the creation of our games at every stage of development.

AMPLITUDE Studios collects as controller different types of information from you, including information that may be considered as personal (personal information), when you use our websites or apps or AMPLIFIERS (our custom-built community platform) , play our games, attend one of our events or programs or otherwise interact with our businesses online or offline (together, the "Products").

We respect your concerns relating to the protection of your privacy and your personal data. This privacy policy (hereinafter referred to as the "Privacy Policy") explains how we collect, use and protect your personal data when you use our Products or interact with us, in accordance with regulation No 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR").

This privacy notice is therefore an important resource for you, helping to ensure that you have a positive and confident experience of AMPLITUDE Studios handling of your personal data and enabling us to provide accurate and complete answers to any questions you may have and to take account of your wishes in this area.

You may contact at any time our Data Protection Officer (hereinafter "DPO") at the following address: dpo@amplitude-studios.com.

If, after contacting our DPO, you feel that your rights with regard to your data have not been respected, you may lodge a complaint with the competent authority in your country, which in France is the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL).

Summary

Our Privacy Policy will help explain what information we collect, how we use it and what options you have in relation to it. The key points of our Privacy Policy are provided below. We will only collect and process your personal data where we have a lawful basis to do so. As stated throughout this Privacy Policy, our lawful bases include consent, for example, where you have agreed to receive updates and marketing emails from AMPLITUDE Studios, contract (where processing of your personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract with you (e.g. to supply the Products you have requested), compliance with our legal obligations, and/or our legitimate business interest in administering our business operations. We want you to enjoy using our Products and recommend that you do not share more personal information than necessary when using the Products, including chat, comment interfaces and AMPLIFIERS Platform.

Content of this policy

  1. Information we collect and receive
  2. Our use of collected information
  3. Unsubscribe from our marketing communications
  4. When we share information
  5. International Transfers
  6. Security and data retention
  7. Privacy and data protection rights
  8. Children’s information
  9. How to contact us
  10. Changes to this policy
    Appendix A - Information from suppliers, vendors, business partners, and similar businesses

1. Information we collect and receive

We collect personal data about you and the devices you use to access and interact with us and our Products. We collect:

  1. Registration, login and contact information (name, contact details, age, gender, personal preferences, personal identifiers, including Platform Operator account ID, and additional information that you chose to provide) you give us when you register or sign up to access our Products, or when you wish to register to attend an event or program, hosted or sponsored by AMPLITUDE Studios.
  2. Technical and device information (e.g. web browser, operating system, interaction with our systems, including log in information) from your mobile or computer device when you use our Products, including unique identifiers associated with your device, such as IP address.
  3. Location information derived from device information associated with your IP address, city or country code, or address, or Third Party Advertisers with your consent.
  4. Feedback / surveys / user research /testing information (including name, age and e-mail address, and additional relevant information, for instance, information about your gaming platforms and habits, age and email address) from your questions, suggestions or views on our Products, from the messages and reviews you post on our social channels and forums, or on the AMPLIFIERS platform, or when you participate in a testing session. We may also film and record these testing sessions.
  5. Third party and social media information about your use of our Products that is shared with third party platforms and services (such as Mod.io and YouTube) connected with our Products or that has been made publicly available by you on third party platforms (such as Facebook or Twitter or Reddit) and which relates to our Products. We also collect information about your social media engagement and interaction with social media sites that is collected when you use third party social media sharing technologies relating to our Products.
  6. Usage Information that we collect when you use our Products, including log in information, images from your device you submit to us, and webpages, apps, and ads you see and interact with, as well as the accounts you link together. We also collect Data analytics Information relating to your use of the Product that We collect from live operations software tools used to make changes, updates or improvements to our Products.
  7. Participation information (e. g. name, age, country, address…) you provide to us when you participate in our competitions. You may also be required to submit a photograph or video of yourself if this forms part of the entry requirements of the competition.
  8. User Acquisition/Attribution and profile information (such as your IP address, Platform Operator account information (e.g. the pseudonymised user ID associated with your Xbox or Steam account), hardware and software information, aggregate gameplay data, usage data and purchase histories, sales and gameplay data related to your interactions with our Products), that is collected or combined to help us acquire new users for our Products and to build Core, Custom and Lookalike Audiences.
  9. Cookies and other tracking technologies: We, and our service providers may use cookies and similar technologies (including but not limited to tracking pixels and web beacons (collectively, "Cookies"). We use tracking pixels in our marketing communications so that we can verify if the e-mail has been opened. You can learn more about our processing practices when you interact with cookies, by reviewing our Cookies Policy. Please note that you may not be able to use certain features relating to our Products and Services if you opt out from receiving Cookies.
  10. Other information you provide when you post or send online notifications or messages or obtained from social features used within our Products, such as in-game communications, as well as copies of your correspondence with us for if you contact us by making a support request by sending a mail to: cs@amplitude-studios.com.

Important information about third party data:

You can choose to sign-up for our Products using third party services such as your Facebook account in which case Facebook will ask you for permission to provide certain personal data such as your username, date of birth, contact details, profile picture, your "likes", and your friend list, depending on the settings you have selected for such third-party services. If you prefer not to have this personal data disclosed when you use third party services, please do not use third party services to access our Products and Services. For information about how third-party services, including social networking websites handle your personal data, please refer to their privacy policies and terms of use. Social networking websites may have features that prevent you from modifying certain privacy settings.

2. Our use of collected information

AMPLITUDE Studios uses your Information to provide you with our Products.

We use Information only as permitted or required by law and as described in this privacy policy or otherwise disclosed at the time of collection.

We will only collect and process personal data about you where we have a good reason (lawful basis). As stated throughout this Privacy Policy, our lawful bases include consent (where you have given consent to, say, receive updates and marketing emails), contract (where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you (e.g. to supply the Products you have requested)) and "legitimate interests" (where we perform marketing campaigns, analytics to improve our Products, services, client relationship…).

3. Unsubscribe from our marketing communications

If you no longer want us to use your personal data for marketing communications, you can unsubscribe at any time, either by using the unsubscribe option in the communication you receive or by changing your communication settings. By unsubscribing from marketing communications, you will be opted out of our email/marketing tracking pixels. Please note that we will retain a record of the user information when you unsubscribe from our marketing information for the legitimate purpose of ensuring that we do not contact you further in this way, during the period of your objection, if relevant.

Even if you opt out from receiving marketing messages from us, you may continue to receive service updates from us, such as to confirm your purchase of one of our Products, updates relating to our policies and practices, or other communications regarding our relationship or transactions with you. Please note that we will retain a record of the user information when you unsubscribe from our marketing information for the legitimate purpose of ensuring that we do not contact you further in this way, during the period of your objection, if relevant.

4. When we share information

We share the information we collect about you, including your use of our Products (subject to the necessary security, contractual and transfer safeguards) with our business partners and service providers to provide you with an optimal experience, to facilitate use of our Products as advertised and to enable you to play our Products on various gaming platforms.

5. International Transfers

Your personal data may be transferred to other countries where AMPLITUDE Studios service providers maintain operations. These countries may not have equivalent data protection laws to those applicable within the European Union.

Whenever we transfer your Information outside the European Union, we will ensure that we rely on appropriate safeguards, this includes using contractual mechanisms (such as standard contractual clauses), but sometimes we may use other legal mechanisms.

For further information about the mechanisms, we use to protect your information when it is transferred outside the European Union, please contact us through one of the methods described in the "How to contact us" section of this policy.

6. Security and data retention

Your privacy is important to us and we place great importance on the steps we take, including technical and organisational measures to protect your information from unauthorised access and against unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction and damage.

Where you have chosen a password which allows you to access any of our Products, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We advise you not to share your password with anyone. We will not be liable for any unauthorised transactions entered into using your personal data, including but not limited to your username, and/or password. If you suspect unauthorised access, you should change your password, using a strong password immediately.

Your personal data will be retained by us for the duration of your use or access to our Products and may be retained for a period after this time as necessary and relevant to our legitimate operations, our terms with you and in accordance with applicable laws and obligations. This may include retention necessary to meet our tax reporting requirements as well as time required to enforce any obligations in our agreements, any game "sun-setting" requirements or to identify, issue or resolve legal proceedings or disputes, fraud prevention, and related security purposes. When determining how long to retain personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the information, the purposes for which we process the information, applicable legal requirements, and our general business operations.

Purpose Legal basis Category of data Storage duration
Provide the Products and customer service Contract Identification data

Demographic information

Transactional info (information about transactions with us, attendance at events, …)

User-generated content (any user-generated content you voluntarily decide to provide through the Products, incl. photographs, or other information you provide in connection with your account)

Survey, research, feedback, information

Internet network and device activity data

Geolocation information (IP address, …)
The account activity period is 3 years from the time a player becomes inactive.
Personalize your experience and customize the Products Legitimate interest Identification data

Demographic information

Transactional info (information about transactions with us, attendance at events, …)

User-generated content (any user-generated content you voluntarily decide to provide through the Products, incl. photographs, or other information you provide in connection with your account

Survey, research, feedback, information

Internet network and device activity data

Geolocation information (IP address, …)
The account activity period is 3 years from the time a player becomes inactive.
Understand your interests and engage in research, analysis and report Legitimate interest Identification data

Demographic information

Transactional info (information about transactions with us, attendance at events, …)

User-generated content (any user-generated content you voluntarily decide to provide through the Products, incl. photographs, or other information you provide in connection with your account)

Survey, research, feedback, information

Internet network and device activity data

Geolocation information (IP address, …)
The time required for analysis and, where possible, until your personal data has been anonymized.
Competition management Contract Identification data 3 years for the winner of the contest.

1 month for all participants.
Marketing/advertising purposes Consent for the customers, legitimate interest for the professional Identification data

Demographic information

Transactional info (information about transactions with us, attendance at events, …)

User-generated content (any user-generated content you voluntarily decide to provide through the Products, incl. photographs, or other information you provide in connection with your account

Internet network and device activity data

Geolocation information (IP address, …)
3 years from last contact.
Security, fraud, and legal compliance Legal Obligation Identification data

Demographic information

Transactional info (information about transactions with us, attendance at events, …)

User-generated content (any user-generated content you voluntarily decide to provide through the Products, incl. photographs, or other information you provide in connection with your account

Survey, research, feedback, information

Internet network and device activity data

Geolocation information (IP address, …)
1 year and 5 years in the event of proven fraud or cheating.
Recruitment and Building up of a CV library Legitimate interest

And your consent for the CV library
Identification data

Survey, research, feedback, information
The time required to review the application and then, with your consent, two years from the date of application.

Five years for the purposes of our anti-discrimination checks.
Provide support Legitimate interest Identification data

Demographic information

Transactional info (information about transactions with us, attendance at events, …)

User-generated content (any user-generated content you voluntarily decide to provide through the Products, incl. photographs, or other information you provide in connection with your account

Survey, research, feedback, information

Internet network and device activity data

Geolocation information (IP address, …)
3 years from the termination of your request.
Accounting and tax management Legal obligation Demographic information 10 years.
Other uses with Your consent Consent User-generated content (any user-generated content you voluntarily decide to provide through the Products, incl. photographs, or other information you provide in connection with your account)

Other information that you provide in the course of using the Products
Until you withdraw your consent.
Bug detection Legitimate interest Identification data

Device data

Game data
90-days (Sentry).

We may retain a record of your stated objection to the processing of your data, including in respect of an objection to receiving marketing communications, for the sole purpose of ensuring that we can continue to respect your wishes to not contact you further, during the term of your objection.

We will take appropriate steps to seek to destroy or permanently anonymise personal data at the point this information is no longer necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

For more information about exercising your rights with respect to our data processing activities, or if you no longer wish to use our Products, see details below about your privacy and data protection rights.

7. Privacy and data protection rights

Depending on our reason for processing your personal data and applicable laws, you have certain rights on your personal data. Such rights include the following:

To exercise any of these rights, please submit a support request by sending a mail to cs@amplitude-studios.com. You can also contact us and our Data Protection Office using one of the means provided under section 9 below.

8. Children’s information

Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important to AMPLITUDE Studios. For that reason, specific restrictions may apply. Specifically, only fans who are 16 or over can use our AMPLIFIERS platform (applicable starting November 17th, 2025). Most of our surveys are also accessible only to people who are 16 or over.

If AMPLITUDE Studios learns that personal data of users under the age of 16 has been collected, AMPLITUDE Studios will take reasonable steps to remove such information. If you believe that we may have unintentionally collected personal data about your child who is under 16 years of age, you may contact us using the details provided below.

9. How to contact us

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us by making a support request by sending a mail to cs@amplitude-studios.com, or you contact us, or our Data protection officer as set out below:

10. Changes to this policy

We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy from time to time by changing it as it applies to your use of any of our Products.

Appendix A - Information from suppliers, vendors, business partners, and similar businesses

We will process and retain this information and the related personal data for as long as necessary to perform our legitimate business activities in accordance with applicable laws and our business data retention policy.