Last updated: July 13, 2024

Your information is securely stored on our services located in the United Kingdom.

We keep your personal information for the time period specified above for each type of data. We will then dispose this information by deleting rows from the database.

In cases specified by the legislation of UK or other applicable law we may store and handle your personal information after achieving the original purposes of data processing or the end of time period specified above.

According to art. 5 Limitation Act 1980 we reserve the right to extend the term of storage your data if we have any reasons to consider that the processing is necessary to initiate or defend against any actions to claim rights or legal proceedings, or related to judicial or security procedures. According to the art. 5 Limitation Act 1980 an action founded on simple contract shall not be brought after the expiration of six (6) years from the date on which the cause of action accrued. 

Data Controller Details

PRIMESKINS LTD, a company duly registered under the laws of the United Kingdom; Registration number: 15630467 Registered address and the principal place of business: 41 Devonshire Street, London, W1G 7AJ, United Kingdom.

(“PRIME SKINS” or “we”).

Data Protection Officer

Contact our Data Protection Officer for any inquiries regarding your Personal Data and exercise your rights via info@prime-skins.com.

Scope of Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy covers the following PRIME SKINS services (“Services”):

PRIME SKINS Trading Platform https://prime-skins.com/

other PRIME SKINS services that have reference to this Privacy Policy (the “Websites” and “Apps”).

How We Collect Your Data

By personal data or data, we mean any information capable of being associated with you as an individual, such as your name, e-mail address, or that can be connected to you indirectly, such as your language or currency choice.

We collect data directly from you or our partners.

When you visit our Websites and Apps we collect technical data and information about how you use the Websites and Apps. We do it using cookies set by our partners or us. We need this data to provide you with the Websites and Apps, analyze their use, remember your settings, and personalize content and ads.

Please visit our Cookie Policy for more details on how we use or disable cookies.

Data We Collect

Device and Location Data

When you visit our Websites and Apps, we collect the following data:

IP address and location info (country, city, etc.)

Device and OS information (screen size, OS, browser information)

We use these data to recognize you and provide you with the Websites or Apps that are capable of your device, your location, etc.

Account Data

When you log in to the Websites through your Steam or social network account, we collect specific data from a corresponding third party.

This data may include your account ID (like Steam ID), avatar, username, the list of your virtual items, and other public information.

Besides these, account data also includes your registration data, the number of your trades, your subscription, your trade link, and the seller link.

You may provide additional information in your profile, such as your avatar.

Usage Data

We collect information about your use of the Websites and Apps.

These data include your activity on the Websites, such information as:

  • your Websites’ or App’s personal settings;
  • your trade, cart, payments, refunds, withdrawals, subscriptions, search history;
  • your visits, views, comments, likes;
  • your activity logs;
  • information you provide when you request information or support from us;
  • your recommendations on how to improve our Services.
  • Contact Data
  • E-mail address
  • Telegram
  • Know-Your-Customer Data

We do our best to prevent fraud and other illegal activities. If your activity, transaction, or payment instrument seems suspicious to us or to activate withdrawals, we will ask you to provide additional information:

  • First and last name
  • ID document (i.e. passport) number
  • Copy of your ID document
  • Picture of you holding an ID document
  • Photo of your bank card partly covered
  • Video of your face
  • Utility bill or bank statement
  • The Know-Your-Customer procedure is carried out by a third-party service provider or us to identify and detect fraud.
  • Payment and Purchase Data

When you make a purchase or request a refund, you disclose your payment credentials directly to a respective payment service provider, i.e., PayPal. They process your payment data under their privacy policies.

We may receive from our payment partners and process a part of your credit card number information about your credit card issuer.

For billing purposes, we may collect your full address.

Survey Data

From time to time, we organize surveys primarily for research purposes.

For this purpose, we collect answers to the questionnaire and the responder’s profile (gender, age, education, occupation, place of residence).

We may publish our research results in articles on public domains. Research results contain aggregated depersonalized information unless otherwise agreed upon in writing with the responder.

Purposes and Legal Basis of Use of Personal Data

Description of why PRIME SKINS processes our personal data (‘processing purpose’)Legal Basis for the processing purposeCategories of personal data used by PRIME SKINS for the processing purpose
To provide the Websites and AppsPerformance of a contractDevice and Location Data
To personalize the Websites and AppsPerformance of a contractDevice and Location Data Usage Data Account Data
To provide the ServicesPerformance of a contractDevice and Location Data Usage Data Account Data Contact Data KYC Data
For processing payments and billingPerformance of a contractDevice and Location Data Account data Payment and Purchase Data KYC data Contact Data
To conduct researchesConsentContact Data Device and Location Data Account Data Survey Data
To diagnose and fix issues with Websites and AppsPerformance of a contractDevice and Location Data Usage Data User Activity Data
To evaluate and develop new features, technologies, and improvements to the ServiceLegitimate interestDevice and Location Data Usage Data User Activity Data
To directly advertise our ServicesConsentDevice and Location Data Usage Data Account data Contact data
To analyze the Services and target adsConsentDevice and Location Data Usage Data Account data
To comply with legal requirements and law enforcement requestsCompliance with legal obligationsDevice and Location Data Usage Data Account data Contact data KYC data Payment and Purchase Data
To establish, exercise, or defend legal claimsLegitimate interestDevice and Location Data Usage Data Account data Contact data KYC data Payment and Purchase Data
To conduct business planning, reporting, and forecastingLegitimate interestDevice and Location Data Usage Data
To detect fraud, to develop and exercise anti-fraud measures, to secure user accountsLegitimate interestDevice and Location Data Usage Data Account data Contact data KYC data Payment and Purchase Data

If the processing of Personal Data is carried out based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw it at any time by sending us a request to info@prime-skins.com or following the instruction given in our Cookie Policy.

Our legitimate interests are:

to develop, improve and deliver our Services;

to make our Services known and popular in the gaming industry;

to make the use of our Services secure for the Users;

to appeal chargebacks and resolve disputes;

to prevent fraud and other illegal use of our Services.

We may combine all the information we collect from or receive about you for the outlined purposes. We may aggregate or de-identify your information and may use or share aggregated or de-identified information for any purpose. Such information is not subject to this Privacy Policy.

Sharing Your Personal Data

We may share your data with the following categories of third parties:

Payment service providersTo fulfill your payment requests;
Providers of marketingTo analyze, develop and improve our Services. To perform marketing research, understand our Users better, and provide personalized content and advertisements;
Government authorities,auditors, and consultants To fulfill official requests, our tax, and other obligations;
Other service providersWe may outsource some functions to third-party service providers for any purpose outlined in this Privacy Policy;
PRIME SKINS affiliatesTo provide you the Services.

Data Retention

We store your Personal Data as necessary for providing you the Service, compliance with our legal obligations, fulfillment of our legitimate interests, or during the validity of your consent as stated in this Privacy Policy. As soon as information stops serving these purposes, we delete it. After you close your account and/or upon your request, we will delete and/or anonymize your Personal Data without undue delay but no later than 30 days. We will keep some Personal Data that we are allowed or required to maintain in such cases as:

If there were monetary transactions under your account, we would keep the data necessary for defending legal claims for 180 days from the last transaction;

If there is an unresolved issue relating to your account, such as an outstanding credit on your account and/or an unresolved claim and/or dispute – we will retain the necessary Personal Data until the said issue is resolved;

Where required to comply with legal, tax, audit, and accounting obligations and/or any other legal obligation, we will retain the necessary Personal Data for the period required by the applicable law;

Where necessary to fulfill our legitimate interests such as fraud prevention and/or maintenance of our Users’ security.

KYC data: ID document (i.e., passport) number, copy of your ID document, picture of you holding ID document, photo of your bank card partly covered, video of your face, utility bill, or bank statement are stored for three months for appealing chargebacks and resolving disputes.

Your Rights

Right to access your Personal Data – You may request a copy of your Personal Data and/or how we store your Personal Data.

Right to rectification – you may request to change some of your Personal Data and/or correct your Personal Data if this is inaccurate.

Right to erasure – you may request to delete all or some of your Personal Data. For example, if:

they are no longer needed for any processing purposes;

consent has been used as a legal basis for their processing;

there is no legitimate interest in the further processing of Personal Data.

Right to object – you may object to processing your Personal Data on grounds relating to your particular situation and/or to object processing your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes.

Right to object to automated processing – you may object to a decision based on automated processing. It means that you may request to review your Personal Data manually if you believe that automated processing of your Personal Data may not consider your unique situation.

Right for data portability – you may request to provide you a copy of your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format (e.g, XML, CSV). Furthermore, you have the right to request to transmit the said Personal Data directly to another controller.

Right to lodge a complaint – you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, particularly to the European Union member state of your habitual residence, place of work, or place of the alleged infringement.

If you are a California resident, you additionally may request from us the following information:

The categories of Personal Data we have collected about you;

The categories of sources from which the Personal Data was collected;

The categories of Personal Data about you we disclosed for a business purpose or sold;

The categories of third parties to whom the Personal Data was disclosed for a business purpose or sold;

The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling the Personal Data; and

The specific pieces of your Personal Data we have collected.

If you are a California resident under 18 years old, you may request to remove any content or information you have posted on the Services.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us via online chat or email at info@prime-skins.com.

For security purposes, before exercising any of your rights, we may ask you to prove your identity.

Notice of Collection

In the past 12 months, we have collected the following categories of Personal Data listed in the CCPA:

Identifiers, including name, email address, and online identifiers (such as IP address).

Customer records, including credit or debit card information.

Commercial or transaction information, including records of products or services purchased, traded, and sold products or services.

Internet activity, including interactions with Websites, Apps, or advertisements.

Inferences drawn from the above information about your predicted characteristics and preferences.

Sale of Personal Data

We do not sell Personal Data as the term “sell” is traditionally understood. Although to the extent the word “sale” is interpreted under the CCPA, the fact that we use third-party cookies may be understood as a sale. We disclose the following categories of personal information: identifiers, commercial or transaction information, internet activity, and inferences drawn from Google Analytics, Yandex.Metrica, Amplitude, Facebook, TikTok, (Third-party services). We only share Personal Data with Third-party services upon service contracts (Third-party services’ terms of use) to improve the service website functionality and provide personalized content and ads. If you do not want your Personal Data to be used for these purposes, please contact our Customer Support.

Personal Data Breach

A Personal Data breach may result in a physical, material, or non-material risk to your rights and freedoms if not addressed appropriately and promptly. Therefore, as soon as we become aware that a Personal Data breach has occurred, we will notify the Personal Data Breach to the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection without undue delay and, where feasible, not later than 72 hours after having become aware of it, unless we can demonstrate, following the accountability principle, that the Personal Data breach is unlikely to result in a risk to your rights and freedoms. Where such notification cannot be achieved within 72 hours, the reasons for the delay should accompany the notice without undue further delay.

Cross-Border Data Transfer

PRIME SKINS may transfer Personal Data to data controllers and processors established outside the European Union (the “EU”) or European Economic Area (“the EEA”) for the purposes stipulated in this Privacy Policy. The countries where the data may be transferred may not provide adequate protection.

To ensure that Personal Data is safeguarded, stored, and processed securely, we use Standard contractual clauses (SCC) adopted by the European Commission as a mechanism to transfer data from the EU countries. Our partners established in countries with an inadequate level of personal data protection have adopted SCC, as appropriate, to ensure confidentiality, security, and legality of the processing of your personal data.

Changes to Privacy Policy

We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any changes to the Privacy Policy. By continuing to use our Services, you acknowledge that you are familiar with the updated Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review our Privacy Policy before using the Services and/or accessing the Websites and/or the Application and promptly read the updates.