What are facial animations?
Certain Roblox services can use video and live camera input that shows movements of your facial features, like closing your eyes and opening your mouth, and translate that input into animations of the facial features of your Roblox avatar. Think of it like controlling your avatar’s face like a puppet, but your face is pulling the strings! These services include Animation Capture - Face and Use camera to animate your avatar with your movement (collectively, our “animation services”). This notice explains how Roblox collects, uses, shares, retains, and destroys (collectively, “processes”) information regarding the movements of your facial features when you use our animation services.
Please review this notice carefully. By using the Roblox animation services, you consent to the practices described in this notice. Animation Capture - Face is disabled by default and each time you engage with animation services, you will need to enable the feature for that session by starting the recording. You can disable Use camera to animate your avatar with your movement at any time by going to your Privacy Settings.
How do Roblox animation services work?
Roblox animation services work by analyzing video of your face to detect movements of your facial features, like closing your eyes, winking, opening your mouth, smiling, and frowning. This analysis happens entirely on your device and does not send data to Roblox or any third parties.
- For Animation Capture - Face, this analysis creates animation key frames that you can use to animate your avatar or share with others so they can animate their avatars.
- For Use camera to animate your avatar with your movement, this analysis happens in a real-time experience and does not create key frames that can be saved. In an experience that uses facial animation as a game input, the developer can read the resulting facial-animation values while you have your camera enabled, and can apply facial animations to your avatar. These values are the abstracted numeric outputs corresponding to your facial movements; they are used only within that experience, and are not used to identify you.
Roblox does not use the video of your face or the analysis of movements of your facial features to identify you personally. Nevertheless, depending on your location, applicable laws might define this data as a biometric identifier or biometric information.
How long is the video and analysis of movements of your facial features retained?
When the Roblox animation services analyze video of your face to detect movements of your facial features, this video and analysis information is retained on your device in temporary memory only as long as necessary to generate the animation key frames used for animating your avatar. After that, the video and analysis information is erased from memory.
- For Animation Capture - Face, animation key frames created by this process are no different from animation key frames created through any other process. You can keep them as long as you like.
- For Use camera to animate your avatar with your movement, animation key frames created by this process are deleted in real-time after they have been used and cannot be saved.
Who has access to the video and analysis of movements of your facial features?
The video of your face and the raw analysis of your facial-feature movements stay on your device and are not shared with Roblox or any third parties.
- For Animation Capture - Face, animation key frames created by this process are no different from animation key frames created through any other process. How you share them is up to you.
- For Use camera to animate your avatar with your movement, the video never leaves your device and is deleted in real time. When you use this feature in an experience that has enabled facial animation as a game input, the abstracted facial-animation values generated from your movements can be read by that experience's developer and used to drive gameplay in real time. These cannot be used to identify you, and are used only within that experience. Developers cannot access the values unless you have enabled your camera, and they cannot access your camera video.
Can developers change my avatar's face?
In experiences that use these controls, developers can apply facial animations to your avatar's face as part of gameplay. Roblox does not allow developers to apply certain poses (for example poses including the tongue) so that the feature stays consistent with our safety standards for other facial-animation tools.
Additional Privacy Disclosures and Your Rights
For more information about how we process your personal information, as well as your rights and choices concerning our data practices, please review our Privacy Policy available at https://www.roblox.com/info/privacy.