Ranked #9 of 9 in Game Board
Red Flags
3"THESE TERMS CONTAIN AN ARBITRATION AGREEMENT, A CLASS ACTION WAIVER, AND A JURY TRIAL WAIVER THAT AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS. If you are a resident of the US or Canada, you and Scopely agree to resolve any dispute on an individual basis through final and binding arbitration... Neither you nor Scopely can bring a claim as a plaintiff or participate as a class member in a class, collective, consolidated, private attorney general, or representative action in arbitration or in court."
Users in the US and Canada are forced into individual binding arbitration and waive rights to class actions and jury trials, significantly limiting legal recourse against the company.
"Once you make User Content available on the Services, you thereby grant to Scopely an irrevocable, perpetual, transferable, sublicensable, fully paid-up, royalty-free, worldwide right and license to copy, reproduce, fix, adapt, modify, create derivative works from, manufacture, commercialize, publish, distribute, sell, license, sublicense, transfer, lease, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform... without notice to or consent from you, and without compensation to you."
Scopely claims an extremely broad, irrevocable, perpetual license over any user-generated content, including the right to commercialize and sell it, with users waiving moral rights and attribution.
Warnings
8"We may amend these Terms by posting the amended versions on our website or in the supplemental terms of the applicable Service(s). By continuing to access or use our Services after we post amended versions, you confirm your agreement to the Terms, as amended. If you do not agree with any of the changes, you must immediately stop accessing our Services."
Scopely can change the terms at any time by simply posting updates, and continued use is treated as acceptance. The only option for users who disagree is to stop using the services entirely.
"We and our partners use various tools to collect information when you use our Services, including cookies, pixels, software development kits, advertising identifiers, and other similar technologies... These third-party advertising partners include, but are not limited to Meta, Google, AppLovin, LiveRamp, Criteo, IronSource, Microsoft, and their partners."
Scopely embeds SDKs and tracking technologies from numerous third-party advertising partners that collect data directly from users' devices, enabling extensive data sharing across a wide partner network.
"We generally retain personal information for as long as we reasonably need it for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy (such as complying with our legal obligations, where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so, managing internal records, enforcing our contracts and terms, fraud prevention, resolving disputes, and for safety reasons), unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law."
Scopely provides no specific retention timelines and lists numerous broad justifications for keeping data indefinitely, making it unclear when personal data will actually be deleted.
"IP address, unique device identifiers, advertising identifiers, device serial numbers, and similar identifiers; Device information such as hardware model, device software platform/OS and firmware, mobile carrier, preferred languages, device motion information, mobile network information... Other technologies may use network-related or other information to recognize your device (e.g., IP address)."
Scopely collects extensive device identifiers, advertising IDs, and network information that enable cross-device tracking and recognition, and shares these with analytics and advertising partners.
"Approximate location inferred from IP address... Non-precise geolocation information [is disclosed to] Vendors, such as cloud service providers and payment processors. Affiliates for purposes of business operations and support."
Scopely collects approximate location data from IP addresses and shares non-precise geolocation information with vendors and affiliates, though they do not appear to collect precise GPS location.
"Device information such as hardware model, device software platform/OS and firmware, mobile carrier, preferred languages, device motion information, mobile network information, and in some cases, browser type and version, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages and URLs, or clickstream information... Other information such as chat records, friends' names and contact information."
Scopely collects device motion/sensor data and friends' contact information beyond what is necessary for core game functionality, along with extensive device fingerprinting data.
"To protect the privacy of your information, Scopely verifies your identity and processes rights requests through our in-game help ticket system. If you wish to exercise any of the rights described above, please follow the instructions below and do not delete the game until your request is fulfilled: Open the Scopely game(s) for which you wish to exercise your rights; Visit the game's settings menu; Select 'Contact Us,' 'Support,' 'Help,' or equivalent option to submit a support ticket."
Account deletion requires navigating an in-game support ticket system rather than offering a simple self-service option, and users are warned not to delete the game until the request is processed, creating friction.
"If you choose to sign up for a subscription or VIP experience, you will be presented with subscription-specific terms at that time, describing if and when your subscription will automatically renew, for what period of time, and at what cost, and how to tell us to cancel it. Those terms will also explain how to cancel a subscription and the time period in which you should do so before you will be charged."
Auto-renewal terms, cancellation procedures, and pricing details are not disclosed in the main Terms but deferred to the point of purchase, making it difficult for users to review these terms before committing.