Kick is a live-streaming platform operated by Kick Streaming Pty Ltd (Australian company number CAN 663 807 645), per its own privacy policy, and 'Kick Streaming' is also the listed developer on its iOS App Store page. The privacy policy refers abstractly to an 'ultimate holding company' without naming it, so the corporate chain beyond the Australian operating entity is opaque from the primary sources fetched in this research (no independent Stake/Easygo registry confirmation was obtained within budget). The policy discloses substantial third-party ad-tech: Google Analytics with both first-party and third-party (DoubleClick advertising) cookies, AdID and precise-geolocation collection for interest-based advertising, and cross-device identity resolution via a shared hashed-email/user-ID identifier passed to third-party advertising partners. Notably, an in-app onboarding disclaimer on the same page states 'We don't sell your personal data or use it to track you across other apps or websites' — a claim in tension with the same policy's disclosure of DoubleClick cookies and cross-device ad-partner identifier sharing, flagged here as a wart. No breach disclosure specific to Kick was found in this research at draft time.
TRACK RECORD
1 ENFORCEMENT ACTION
[2026-02-12]
UK regulator Ofcom fined Kick Online Entertainment SA £800,000 on 12 Feb 2026 under the UK Online Safety Act for failing to implement effective age-assurance checks to keep children from pornographic content on the platform, covering 25 July-29 December 2025. This is a child-safety/age-verification enforcement action, not a data-privacy or data-protection finding, and is included here as ownership/operator context rather than a privacy track-record incident.
Kick's privacy policy states it 'also obtain[s] personal information from third parties, which we may combine (either automatically or directly) with personal information we collect from an individual,' and separately discloses that information used for interest-based advertising is collected via cookies, including click-stream information, browser type, AdID, and precise geolocation.
Kick's iOS App Store privacy label lists 'Data Linked to You' including Contact Info (Email Address, Phone Number) used for purposes including the developer's own Advertising or Marketing, Analytics, and Product Personalization.
Kick's iOS App Store listing shows 'Kick Streaming' as the registered app developer, corroborating the operating-entity name disclosed in the privacy policy, but the App Store page does not disclose any further parent or holding-company information.
Kick's privacy policy names the direct operating entity as 'Kick Streaming Pty Ltd (CAN 663 807 645),' an Australian-registered company, but separately refers to an unnamed 'ultimate holding company (i.e., any organization that owns or controls us)' without identifying it anywhere in the fetched policy.
The privacy policy states Kick 'may share a common account identifier (such as a hashed email address or user ID) with our third-party advertising partners to help identify you across devices,' and separately discloses sharing personal information with 'other companies owned or controlled by Kick, and other companies owned by or under common ownership as Kick,' including an unnamed 'ultimate holding company.'
Kick's iOS App Store privacy label declares 'Developer's Advertising or Marketing' as a purpose for Contact Info (Email Address, Phone Number) data linked to identity, indicating this data is used for Kick's own ad/marketing targeting.
UK regulator Ofcom fined Kick Online Entertainment SA £800,000 on 12 Feb 2026 under the UK Online Safety Act for failing to implement effective age-assurance checks to keep children from pornographic content on the platform, covering 25 July-29 December 2025. This is a child-safety/age-verification enforcement action, not a data-privacy or data-protection finding, and is included here as ownership/operator context rather than a privacy track-record incident.
Kick's privacy policy discloses use of Google Analytics with both first-party (Google Analytics) cookies and third-party cookies, explicitly naming the 'DoubleClick advertising cookie,' used together to inform, optimize, and display advertisements based on the user's past visits to the Services.