We ("arenamate") recognize that protection of your personal information is important. Here are details on what data we collect, why we collect it and how we handle it.

 

Compliance

arenamate followed Blizzard's data protection notice for developers using their Application Programming Interface (API) to give you full control over the data provided to and presented on this site (see "Retention", "Consent/Right of erasure" within the next section).

 

Data Collection and Processing

We consume the following game data from the Battle.net World of Warcraft (WoW) API.

Character profile data:

• Fields: name, realm, region, faction, race, gender, class, spec, Player vs. Player (PvP) leaderboard stats (rating, rank, season wins/losses), PvP-related achievements (name, completed timestamp)
• Purpose: The main purpose of this website is to provide you with historized data for PvP activities. If you are an active player on the ladders, leaderboard stats are combined with your characters' details for features like class representation charts, player activity history, tracking of individual characters etc.
• Retention: <= 30 days
• Consent/Right of erasure: Please go to the privacy settings of your Blizzard account and disable "Share my game data with community developers". All data of your characters will then be deleted from this website within the next 30 days.

Account data:

• Fields: BattleTag, creation timestamp, last login timestamp, max. level characters ("owned players"), followed players, additionally given information (e.g. Twitter/Twitch handles), site preferences (e.g. default region)
• Purpose: We will use your account data to provide you with functionality like being able to verify your characters and tracking yours and other players' progress on the leaderboards.
• Retention: until manual deletion
• Consent/Right of erasure: You can permanently delete your arenamate account here.

Please note: According to this official post, historical data from the leaderboards may be treated as "public data", if it was available in the first place. This data will nonetheless be erased if you request us to do so through your Blizzard account settings.

We do not sell or share any of this data to third parties.

 

Cookies

arenamate uses cookies, which are small text files, to store small pieces of helpful information on your computer. Cookies can be described by different characteristics.

Type/Purpose:

• Necessary: Essential for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site.
• Functional: These cookies allow a website to remember choices you have made in the past, like what language you prefer.
• Statistical: Collect information about how you use a website, like which pages you visited and which links you clicked on.
• Marketing: Track your online activity to help advertisers deliver more relevant advertising or to limit how many times you see an ad.

Expiration:

• Session: Last until you close your browser.
• Persistent: Last for a certain amount of time.

Provider:

• First-party: Put on your device by the website you are visiting.
• Third-party: Put on your device over the website you are visiting, but by a third party like an advertiser.

Detailed information (type, name, provider, purpose, expiration) about the cookies used has already been presented to you by our cookie consent tool.

 

Google Services

We use different services provided by Google Ireland Limited (Google), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Information may be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers within the United States (US) within the boundaries of the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) of the European Commission (EC).

 

Google Analytics

arenamate uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google. This service utilizes statistical cookies.

Google will use all collected information on behalf of arenamate for compiling website usage reports.

We have activated IP anonymization, which means your IP-address will be truncated within the area of Member States of the EU or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA).

You can globally opt out from being tracked by Google Analytics by installing Google Analytics - Opt-out Browser Addon for your current web browser.

 

Google AdSense

arenamate uses Google AdSense, an ad serving service provided by Google. This service utilizes marketing cookies.

Third party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to your website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.

We use Google AdSense to only serve you non-personalized ads (NPA), so that ads are not based on your previous usage patterns. Instead, the service uses "context information" (e.g. your location, the content of the website you are visiting or the search terms you are using) to choose the most relevant ads for you.

You can globally opt out of personalized ads by visiting Google AdSense - Ads Settings.

 

Do Not Track

Do Not Track (DNT) signals from your browser settings are neither recognized nor handled by our website.

 

Log Files

IP anonymization is in effect for our server log files.