We recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here are details on what data is collected, why it is collected, and how it is used.

 

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

With the GDPR taking effect on May 25, 2018, it is no longer allowed to collect and process personal data from European Union (EU) residents without their consent, a certain purpose and the possibility to delete it on request.

Since online gaming characters and accounts de facto fall under that definition and are treated like so by several sources ([1], [2]), we implemented some drastic changes to respect the new regulations:

• We will no longer be targeting the EU as a market place.
• Any data relating to EU characters (Russian and CIS ones excluded) has been deleted and will no longer be crawled.
• All accounts with at least one EU character (Russian and CIS ones excluded) on them have been permanently deleted and will not be able to sign in again.
• You now have the possibility to delete your account.
• Log files were either completely disabled and deleted where possible (web server) or IP anonymization was activated.

If necessary, there will be further action to fully comply with the GDPR.

 

Game Data

The sole purpose of this website is to collect and process the following game data from World of Warcraft (WoW) relating to Player versus Player (PvP) activities.

• Character data, which is shown on the ladders, consisting of character names, their defining attributes (like the class), their ratings and ranks as well as their seasonal performances. Character profiles provide additional information including achievements, other characters that belong to to the same player (so called "alts"), and the amount of games that were played during a certain period of time. Some of this data is combined to derive additional statistics (like class representation or player activity).
• Account data, which is gathered after you signed in using Blizzard's Battle.net, including creation time, last login time, your BattleTag, all max level WoW characters, followed players on arenamate and additional (optional) preferences (like your preferred region) and information (like your linked Twitch stream).

As already stated, we do not collect any of this data if it can be referred to as personal data from EU residents. Also, we do not sell any of this data to third parties.

 

Cookies

We use cookies, which are small text files placed on your computer, to store certain preferences.

• Required cookies are necessary to keep track of your current session across the website (like remembering you successfully signed in) and to make some smaller necessary things work (like storing your cookie choices or showing you a popup only once).
• Tracking cookies are utilized to better understand the usage of this website.

 

Google Analytics

arenamate uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (Google). Google Analytics uses tracking cookies to help us analyze how users interact with the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States (US).

Google will use this information on behalf of arenamate for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage.

IP-anonymization is active on this website, 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 opt out from being tracked by Google Analytics with effect for the future by downloading and installing Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Addon for your current web browser.

If you are using a mobile device and thus are not able to install the browser addon above, you can still opt out by clicking here to set a permanent opt-out cookie exclusively for this website.

 

Log Files

As mentioned, log files are either completely disabled where possible (web server) or IP anonymization is active.