Nintendo Switch

We ding this product for combing users' data with data obtained from third parties and using it for advertising purposes. We're also concerned about Nintendo permitting third-parties to collect your personal information for advertising purposes.

Privacy policy

"With your consent, we may collect certain health information such as the number of steps taken or distance walked. We do not use this information for marketing or advertising purposes."

"We may also receive information about you from other sources, including from other users of our services, and third-party services and organizations. For example, if you access any social media or similar services through our services to login or to share information about your experience on our services with others, we may collect information from these third-party services. We may also combine the information received from these other sources with information we’ve collected from you."

"We do not, and will not sell your information to third parties. However, we permit third-party service providers to collect personal information, as described here, through some of our services and we share personal information with third party service providers for business purposes as described in this policy, including but not limited to providing advertising on our services and elsewhere based on users’ online activities over time and across different sites, services, and devices."

"We may share information for any other purposes disclosed to you at the time we collect the information or pursuant to your consent."

"We may share some or all of the categories of your personal information, as identified above, with third-party service providers that provide services to us for a variety of business purposes, such as payment processing, customer service, email deployment, advertising and marketing (including counting ad impressions, analyzing website clicks, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions, ensuring compliance with industry standards, ad delivery, reporting, personalization, audience segmentation, and analytics), security enhancement, fraud prevention, performance monitoring, maintaining or servicing accounts, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, information hosting, auditing, and information processing."

"We may aggregate or de-identify the information described above. Because aggregated and de-identified information cannot be used to identify you, it is not subject to this policy."

Advertising & Privacy Controls Page
"Ad Settings
We personalize our marketing communications and the advertisements we show to make them more interesting and useful to you. To do this, we use data from your devices and other data you share with us, including information about your gameplay, purchases, site visits, and topics you often explore. "

"Targeted Ads
When you use or interact with our services, including the Nintendo Account service, we collect certain information about your usage activities. Such usage information may include the content that you’ve played or purchased, or the Nintendo Account services or features that you utilized. We may process and share that usage information to provide you with targeted advertisements, so that content, products and services can be tailored to your preferences and the recommendations displayed to you are customized accordingly. This personalized content may be delivered to you by Nintendo or on behalf of Nintendo by its third-party partners and service providers.

If you would like to opt-out of the use and sharing of your information for the targeted advertisement purposes described above, you can do so at any time through your Nintendo Account settings by going here. For instructions on how to modify your opt-out preferences, please go here. Please note that if you opt-out of receiving targeted advertisements, you may still receive general advertisements, but they will not be tailored or customized based on your use and interaction with our services."

We ding this product as it is unclear if all users, regardless of which privacy laws they live under, have the same rights to have their data deleted.

Nintendo Privacy Policy

"Your controls, choices and rights
We offer you certain controls and choices regarding the information we collect, how the information is used, and how it is shared. These controls and choices include the ability to update, correct or delete information that you have provided to us or information that we have collected through your use of our services. They also include the ability to opt-out of receiving notifications, promotions, offers or other advertising from us.

You may have the right, in accordance with applicable law, to request access to, correction, or deletion of your information. For instructions on how to submit such a request go here.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights and choices, however some of the functionality and features of our services may change, or no longer be available to you."

"Your information will only be retained as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, and in accordance with applicable law."

Advertising & Privacy Controls Page

"You can also request permanent deletion of all the information we hold about you. Once deleted, your information, including your Nintendo Account, and any purchases or content associated with your account, will be permanently deleted (for example, you will no longer be able to play any of the digital content you’ve purchased). However, we may retain certain information to comply with law or take other actions permitted by law. If you have a Nintendo Account and you would like to make a deletion request, please click here to sign into your Nintendo Account and then complete the request form."

"We offer you certain controls and choices regarding the information we collect, how the information is used, and how it is shared. These controls and choices include the ability to update, correct or delete information that you have provided to us or information that we have collected through your use of our services. They also include the ability to opt-out of receiving notifications, promotions, offers or other advertising from us."

"Depending on your place of residence, you may have the right to appeal the denial of a request submitted with us. If we were unable to process your request, and you would like to appeal the denial of your request, you may contact us to request that we re-evaluate the denied request. If you would like to submit an appeal with us, please contact us at [email protected]. We will respond to your appeal request within 45 days unless we need more time, in which case we will notify you."