Last Updated: October 20, 2026
Welcome to Animal Company brought to you by Wooster Games! We respect your privacy and have composed this Privacy Policy to help you understand how we process your Personal Data (defined below) and your choices about the data we process.
In this Privacy Policy, we refer to the Animal Company game as the "Game" and the Animal Company website at https://animalcompanyvr.com/ as the "Site". We also refer to the Game and the Site collectively as the "Services".
This Privacy Policy explains what Personal Data (defined below) we collect in connection with the Services, how we use and share that data, and your choices concerning our data practices. This policy applies only to information we collect via the Services and in email, text, and other electronic communications sent through or in connection with the Services.
This policy DOES NOT apply to information that you provide to or is collected by any third party, or which is collected outside of the Services (see "Third-Party Information Collection").
This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and forms part of our Terms of Service.
Before using the Services or submitting any Personal Data to Company, please review this Privacy Policy carefully and contact us at the email address below if you have any questions.
Please pay special attention to the Artificial Intelligence Services Disclosure in Section 5 below.
By using the Services, you consent to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
If you do not consent to this Privacy Policy, please do not access the Site, the Game or otherwise use the Services.
1. DATA CONTROLLER
Wooster Games ("Company," "we," "us," or "our") will be the entity responsible for your data. To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, you can contact us at:
Email: animalcompanyvr@gmail.com
2. CHILDREN
Our Services are not directed to or intended for children who are under the age of 13. Company does not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 13. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Data from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 has provided Personal Data to Company through the Services please contact us at animalcompanyvr@gmail.com and we will endeavor to delete that information from our databases. This is in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
Where applicable on supported platforms, gameplay of users who identified themselves as being under the age of 13 may be restricted to avoid the non-compliant processing of personal information. For users accessing the Game through Meta Quest, Meta may make available age-restricted or parent-managed account features, and additional information about those features is governed by Meta's policies. If you access the Game through Steam, Valve's account, age, and privacy practices are governed by Valve's applicable terms and privacy documentation.
3. PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT
We collect information that alone or in combination with other information in our possession could be used to identify you ("Personal Data") as follows:
Personal Data You Provide. We collect Personal Data from you when you provide it to us directly. For example when you contact us in regard to this Privacy Policy, we will receive the information that you choose to include in your email. Additionally when you submit Personal Data through the game, such as when you communicate with other players by text or voice, submit reports, or provide feedback through our community channels, we receive and process that information.
Voice Data. We may record, temporarily store, and reserve the right to monitor player voice chat in playing the Game in order to help us with player moderation. This helps us to support a safe and respectful gaming environment. By using voice chat features, you acknowledge and consent to the recording, processing, and analysis of voice communications for moderation and safety purposes. The data is encrypted before being sent to our third party moderation and community management service provider, GGWP, which retains voice chat data and moderation logs in connection with in-game moderation actions. Certain automated moderation actions are subject to human review through the GGWP moderation dashboard. Note that we employ human review of moderation actions on the GGWP dashboard. For a full review of GGWP's Privacy Policy visit https://www.ggwp.com/privacy-policy/.
Creator and Camera Tools. If you use in-game camera or recording features made available through our integration with LIV, LIV may collect and process information relating to the recording, capture, streaming, or sharing of gameplay content in accordance with its own privacy practices. For a full review of LIV's Privacy Policy visit https://www.liv.tv/legal/privacy-policy.
Automatically Collected Information. When you visit, use, and interact with the Services, we may receive certain information about your visit, use, or interactions.
● For example, in the Game we may collect your platform user ID, platform username, profile photo, a list of your in-app purchases, device ID, IP address, and usage details such as time spent and level play statistics. Depending on the platform you use, this may include your Meta Quest user ID and Meta Quest account information, or identifiers associated with your Steam account or other supported platforms. Our third party moderation and community management service provider may also collect chat logs or in-game communications, reports or complaints made by or about users, relationships between players, match or session information, flagged incidents from the game or other vendors, and other player information provided by the game for the purposes of moderation or community management.
● We may use third-party anti-cheat and gameplay integrity tools in connection with the Game. Currently, on Meta Quest only, we use Tomahawk as an anti-cheat solution. In that context, Tomahawk may process device ID, Meta user ID, IP address (including for enforcement actions such as IP banning), and certain non-personal gameplay integrity data. We will update this Privacy Policy as appropriate if the scope of this processing changes or if additional platform support is added.
● We don't collect any information automatically through the Site.
● Cookies Data: Please see the "Cookies" section below to learn more about how we use cookies.
● Location Data: We derive a rough estimate of your location from your IP address.
Cookies: A "cookie" is a piece of information sent to your browser by a website you visit. Cookies can be stored on your computer for different periods of time. The only cookies on our Site are session cookies, which expire either after 1 hour or upon logging out. These cookies are classified as Necessary cookies. For more details on cookies please visit All About Cookies.
On most web browsers, you will find a "help" section on the toolbar. Please refer to this section for information on how to receive a notification when you are receiving a new cookie and how to turn cookies off. Please see the links below for guidance on how to modify your web browser's settings on the most popular browsers:
● Mozilla Firefox
● Google Chrome
● Apple Safari
Ghostie
Ghostie is a Discord Community bot utility that operates in our official Discord server and supports activity leaderboards, streaks, community roles, staff-defined keyword alerts, and bug-report workflows. It reads message content for these functions. Stored information includes Discord IDs, usernames, roles, activity and streak counts, program history, and bug-report text. Relevant reports or flagged messages may be shared with our internal Slack and Linear systems for development and moderation.Ghostie retains role information for 90 days after a member leaves so roles can be restored if they return, then deletes that retained role information. Users can request deletion through the deletion button in the server’s overview channel. Ghostie may retain a limited record that a deletion occurred, rather than the deleted underlying information. Ghostie data is not sold or used for advertising.
Aura Farmer
Aura Farmer is a Discord bot utility that operates in our official Discord server and supports the Animal Company creator program through a website, private dashboard, and Discord server. Depending on the features used, it processes Discord IDs, usernames, server membership and relevant roles; connected YouTube channel and TikTok account identifiers and names; connection methods; authorization permissions and expiry information; and encrypted access or refresh tokens where required.
Aura Farmer also processes public video information, including IDs, links, titles or descriptions, publication dates, thumbnails, and available engagement statistics. Program records may include creator statistics, leaderboard entries, video submissions, reaction totals, selected creator highlights, and event information such as titles, descriptions, lobby details, cover-image links, hosts, co-hosts, start and end times, and hosting credit.
Connected Social Accounts
Users choose whether to connect supported accounts. Authentication takes place through Discord, Google, or TikTok, as applicable. Aura Farmer does not ask users to provide their platform passwords directly to Aura Farmer. Depending on the connection method, it receives authorized account information or imports supported connections from Discord.TikTok authorization allows Aura Farmer to identify the connected account and retrieve its public videos and statistics. Aura Farmer does not upload or publish videos to TikTok. Account and video information may be refreshed when creator features, reporting, or other program processes run.Aura Farmer uses YouTube API Services. See the Google Privacy Policy and YouTube Terms of Service. Google-authorized access can be revoked through Google’s third-party connections settings. TikTok authorization can also be managed through TikTok’s account settings.Your website dashboard requires sign-in. Creator statistics, video links, leaderboards, highlights, event announcements, and recaps may also appear in Discord channels visible to other members or program staff. Account verification may assign a base Creator role; earned creator tiers depend on program criteria and video performance.
Do Not Track Signals: Our Site currently does not respond to "Do Not Track" ("DNT") signals and operates as described in this Privacy Policy whether or not a DNT signal is received. If we do respond to DNT signals in the future, we will update this Privacy Policy to describe how we do so.
Third-Party Information Collection Through the Services: Some features of the Services are served by third parties ("Third-Party Services"). When you use the Services, certain third parties may use automatic information collection technologies to collect information about you or your device, for example, the gaming platform you use in connection with our Game, our analytics providers, cloud storage providers, camera and creator tool providers, moderation providers, anti-cheat providers, cloud infrastructure providers, artificial intelligence service providers, and backend service providers. The Personal Data that we receive from Third-Party Services is covered by this privacy policy, while their processing of your information is covered by their privacy policy.
Please see the list of Third-Party Services below.
● Meta: For more information about Meta and its privacy practices visit: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/
● Steam / Valve: For more information about Valve and its privacy practices visit: https://store.steampowered.com/privacy_agreement/
● Photon: For more information about Photon and its privacy practices visit: https://www.photon.com/privacy/
● Mixpanel: For more information about Mixpanel and its privacy practices visit: https://mixpanel.com/legal/privacy-policy/
● Better Stack: For more information about Better Stack and its privacy practices visit: https://betterstack.com/privacy
● Heroic Cloud Nakama: For more information about Heroic Cloud Nakama and its privacy practices visit: https://heroiclabs.com/privacypolicy.txt
● VoicePatrol: For more information about VoicePatrol and its privacy practices visit: https://www.voicepatrol.dev/legal/wprivacypolicy
● GGWP: For more information about GGWP and its privacy practices visit: https://www.ggwp.com/privacy-policy/
● LIV: For more information about LIV and its privacy practices visit: https://www.liv.tv/legal/privacy-policy
● Railway: For more information about Railway and its privacy practices visit: https://railway.com/legal/privacy
● OpenAI: For more information about OpenAI and its privacy practices visit: https://openai.com/policies/
● Google Gemini / Google Cloud: For more information about Google's applicable privacy and data governance practices visit Google's applicable privacy documentation and Google Cloud service terms.
Social Platforms: We also have accounts and servers on social media platforms like TikTok, X/Twitter, and Discord ("Social Platforms"). The Social Platforms are operated by the owners of the relevant social media platforms and the collection of information by third parties on the Social Platforms is governed by the privacy policy of the applicable platform. When you interact with our Social Platforms, we may also collect Personal Data that you elect to provide to us, such as your contact details. This may include creator channel URLs, community feedback, and identifiers used in connection with our Discord bot or creator-facing community tools.
4. OUR LEGAL BASES FOR PROCESSING YOUR INFORMATION
When we collect or otherwise process any of your Personal Data, we do so in reliance on the following legal bases:
● Your consent. If you have provided us with your consent to process your information for a specific purpose we will do so based on your consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time by following the instructions provided below in the "Your Rights and Choices" section below.
● Performance of a Contract with You. When the processing of your Personal Data is necessary in order for us to perform a contract with you, such as the EULA or Terms of Services associated with the Game or the Site, or when you request that we process your information prior to entering into a contract with you, we will do so on this basis.
● Our Legitimate Interests. When we believe the processing of your Personal Data is reasonably necessary in order for us to achieve our legitimate interests in conducting and managing our business and our relationship with you, we will do so on this basis, including the legitimate interest we have in:
○ personalizing, enhancing, modifying or otherwise improving the services and/or the communications that we provide to you;
○ retaining and engaging you and our other users;
○ detecting and preventing fraud, cheating, abuse, harassment, and other harmful conduct and operating a safe and lawful business;
○ moderating voice and text communications and enforcing our community standards;
○ supporting creator tools, content capture, and community features;
○ analyzing community feedback, including by using automated tools such as sentiment analysis; and
○ improving the security and optimization of our network, sites and services.
When we use your information for our legitimate interests, we take into account any potential impact that such use may have on you by balancing our legitimate interests against your interests, rights and freedoms. We will not use your information if there is a less intrusive way for us to achieve our legitimate interests or if we believe your interests should override ours unless we have other grounds to do so (such as your consent or a legal obligation).
● Our Legal Obligations. When we believe that the processing of your information is necessary in order for us to comply with our legal obligations (such as to cooperate with a law enforcement body or regulatory agency, exercise or defend our legal rights, or disclose your information as evidence in litigation in which we are involved) we will do so on this basis.
● Vital Interests. When we believe that the processing of your information is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of a third party, such as situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, we will do so on this basis.
5. HOW WE USE PERSONAL DATA
We may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
● To provide, support and maintain the Services and its contents, and any other information, or services that you request from us;
● To provide you with customer support;
● To send administrative information to you, for example, information regarding the Services and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies;
● To optimize, develop, and improve the Services;
● To respond to you if you contact us;
● To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it;
● To analyze how you interact with our Services;
● To monitor, maintain and improve the Services;
● To moderate gameplay, voice chat, text chat, user reports, and other community interactions;
● To support creator features, in-game camera tools, recording tools, and sharing features;
● To operate anti-cheat, anti-fraud, abuse prevention, and gameplay integrity systems;
● To operate and maintain Discord bot and related community infrastructure;
● To analyze user or community feedback, including through automated tools and artificial intelligence services used for sentiment analysis;
● To search for unauthorized content and to moderate game-play;
● To develop new products and services;
● To prevent fraud, cheating, criminal activity, or misuses of our Services, and to ensure the security of our IT systems, architecture, and networks;
● To comply with legal obligations and legal process and to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or other third parties;
● For any reason that we described to you when collecting your Personal Data or for any reason for which you've provided us with your consent;
● To protect the rights, interests, and safety of us, you, and any third parties, and to exercise and defend our rights; and
● To create anonymous, de-identified, or aggregated datasets ("Aggregated Information"). Such datasets would not be "Personal Information" subject to this Privacy Policy. We may use anonymous, de-identified, or aggregated datasets for any purpose. For more information about Aggregated Information see below.
The usage information we collect helps us to improve our Services and to deliver a better and more personalized experience by enabling us to:
● Recognize you when you use the Services.
● Estimate our audience size, demographics and usage patterns.
● Store your preferences, consents and other user settings locally on your device.
● Comply with your consents.
● Understand how well Services features are working and whether users are having issues.
● Identify and correct software defects.
● Prevent fraud, cheating, abuse, harassment, and illegal behavior by detecting behavior patterns that indicate such activity.
Artificial Intelligence Services Disclosure. In some cases, we may use third-party artificial intelligence service providers, including OpenAI and Google Gemini services ("AI Systems"), to help us analyze community feedback and related metadata, such as Discord user IDs and associated feedback, for functions such as sentiment analysis, moderation support, trend analysis, and service improvement. We do not use such services to make solely automated decisions producing legal or similarly significant effects about users. We do not use Personal Data to train general-purpose artificial intelligence models. Where AI tools are used, they are used solely to analyze or process data on our behalf (for example, for moderation or sentiment analysis) and are subject to contractual restrictions limiting the provider's use of that data. We will update this Privacy Policy as appropriate if our AI System use cases materially change. Please be aware that if you input information or content into the Services, whether in the form of text, voice, or any other form, the input you provide may be processed by AI Systems for the limited purposes described above. For this reason, we recommend that you not to input sensitive, confidential, or personally identifiable information into the Game beyond what is necessary for gameplay, moderation, or safety. Please see the "AI System Disclosure and Warning" Section of our Terms of Service for more information.
Aggregated Information: We may aggregate Personal Data and use the aggregated information to analyze the effectiveness of our Services, to improve and add features to our Services, and for other similar purposes. In addition, from time to time, we may analyze the general behavior and characteristics of users of our Services and share aggregated information like general user statistics with prospective business partners. We may collect aggregated information through the Services, through cookies, and through other means described in this Privacy Policy.
6. SHARING AND DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL DATA
We do not sell personal information, and we do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes.
In certain circumstances we may share the categories of Personal Data described above without further notice to you, unless required by the law, with the following categories of third parties:
● Vendors and Services Providers: To assist us in meeting business operations needs and to perform certain services and functions, we may share Personal Data with vendors and service providers, including providers of voice protection and monitoring services, hosting services, cloud services, moderation tools, anti-cheat providers, creator tool providers, camera and recording providers, artificial intelligence and automated analysis providers, cloud infrastructure providers, and other information technology services providers, email communication software and email newsletter services, advertising and marketing services, payment processors, customer relationship management and customer support services, and analytics services. Pursuant to our instructions, these parties will access, process, or store Personal Data in the course of performing their duties to us.
● Business Transfers: We may disclose your information to our subsidiaries and affiliates. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, sale of all or a portion of our assets, or transition of service to another provider (collectively a "Transaction"), your Personal Data and other information may be shared in the diligence process with counterparties and others assisting with the Transaction and transferred to a successor or affiliate as part of that Transaction along with other assets.
● Legal Requirements: If required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (i) comply with a court order, regulatory request or other legal obligation, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements, (ii) protect and defend our rights or property, (iii) prevent fraud, cheating, abuse, or other misconduct, (iv) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Services, or the public, or (v) protect against legal liability.
● Enforcing our Rights: We may disclose your information as necessary to enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, such as our EULA.
● Necessary for Purpose: We may disclose your information as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which you provided it.
● With Your Consent: We may disclose your information with your consent.
● Other purposes: We may disclose your information for any other purpose disclosed by us and accepted by you when you provide the information.
7. WHERE, HOW AND HOW LONG WE STORE YOUR INFORMATION
Information that we collect through the Services is stored in the United States. We store all Personal Data securely using third-party vendors who implement industry standard security measures. By using the Services, you authorize us to receive, process, transfer, and store your information in and to the United States as applicable.
We keep your information only for the length of time necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the information was collected. This may include retaining information as reasonably necessary to provide the Services, maintain community safety, investigate abuse, fraud, or cheating, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Cross-border Data Transfers: Where cross-border transfers of data are necessary, we will take reasonable steps to safeguard the privacy of your Personal Data. These steps may include implementing standard contractual clauses where recognized by law, obtaining your consent, or other lawful means of transferring Personal Data.
8. DATA SECURITY
We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Data from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure by partnering with third parties who use industry standard security measures to protect your information, including third-party providers that support moderation, anti-cheat, hosting, cloud infrastructure, creator tools, and automated analysis functions.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet and mobile platforms is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Data transmitted through our Services. Any transmission of Personal Data is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures we provide.
9. YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES
In certain circumstances providing Personal Data is optional. However, if you choose not to provide Personal Data that is needed to use some features of our Services, you may be unable to use those features.
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Data you provide to us. This section describes mechanisms we provide for you to control certain uses and disclosures of your information.
● Disabling Cookies: You can limit cookie collection by disabling cookies in your browser settings. Please note that if you limit the ability of websites to set cookies, you may be unable to access certain parts of the Site and you may not be able to benefit from the full functionality of the Site.
○ Advertising networks may use cookies to collect Personal Data. Most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit the Network Advertising Initiative's online resources at http://www.networkadvertising.org and follow the opt-out instructions there.
○ If you access the Site on your mobile device, you may not be able to control tracking technologies through the settings.
● Updating or correcting your information: Please contact us at the email address above if you need to change or correct your Personal Data.
● Deleting Your Personal Data: We provide all of our data subjects with the Right to be Forgotten (also known as the Right to the Deletion of your Personal Data), whether or not you reside or are a citizen of the European Union or the United Kingdom. Please email us at the address above or click the Delete Account link within the Game if you would like us to delete your Personal Data. If you access the Game through Meta Quest, you may also be able to request account or data deletion through Meta in accordance with Meta's account and privacy practices.
Please note however that the Right to be Forgotten is not an absolute right. The Right to be Forgotten only applies to the following types of Personal Data that are held by us at the time of the request:
○ Personal Data that was processed on the basis of consent,
○ Personal Data that was processed on the basis of legitimate interests,
○ Personal Data processed on a basis other than consent or legitimate interests that is no longer required for the purpose for which it was originally collected or processed,
○ Personal Data that was processed unlawfully,
○ Personal Data that must be deleted in order to comply with a legal obligation, or
○ Personal Data of a child.
● Third parties: We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way.
For more information about the third parties that collect data through the Services, see the "Third Party Information Collection" section above to understand which third parties have access to your Personal Data through the Services. You can consult their privacy policies to see if they offer additional options for limiting collection.
Personal Data Rights: Most comprehensive consumer privacy laws provide those that they protect with certain data protection rights. While the precise rights vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, most include all or a number of the following:
● The right to confirm - You have the right to confirm whether we are processing your Personal Data;
● The right to access/obtain - You have the right to request we provide you with copies of your Personal Data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
● The right to correct/rectify - You have the right to request that we correct any Personal Data you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete Personal Data you believe is incomplete.
● The right to be forgotten/deletion - You have the right to request that we erase certain types of Personal Data (see Deleting Your Personal Data above).
● The right to restrict processing - You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your Personal Data, under certain conditions.
● The right to object to processing - You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data, under certain conditions, such as for targeted advertising.
● The right to data portability - You have the right to request that we transfer the Personal Data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
● Rights in relation to automated decision-making and profiling - You have the right to not be subject to a decision based solely on the automated processing of your Personal Data. Processing of your Personal Data is "automated" where it is carried out without human intervention and where it produces legal effects or significantly affects you.
We are happy to provide the above rights to all of our users, regardless of your residence or location. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights please contact us at animalcompanyvr@gmail.com.
Shine the Light. Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83, (the "Shine The Light" law), California residents who use the Services may request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of Personal Data (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared Personal Data in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.
10. CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY
The Services and our business may change from time to time. As a result we may change this Privacy Policy at any time. When we do we will post an updated version on this page, unless another type of notice is required by the applicable law. By continuing to use our Services or providing us with Personal Data after we have posted an updated Privacy Policy, or notified you by other means if applicable, you consent to the revised Privacy Policy and practices described in it.
11. CONTACT US
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or information practices, please feel free to contact us at our designated request address: animalcompanyvr@gmail.com.
