We 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.

GDPR Compliance

With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that went into effect on May 25, 2018, it is no longer permitted to collect and process "personal data" of individuals from within the European Union (EU) without their consent, a specific purpose ("purpose limitation") and their control over it.

To respect this new regulation, we took all possible steps to be compliant, and additionally followed Blizzard's data protection notice for developers using their Application Programming Interface (API).

Data Collection and Processing

We use the following 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' progression on the leaderboards.
  • Retention: until manual deletion
  • Consent/Right of erasure: You can permanently delete your arenamate account here.

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

Please note: According to [1], 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.

Cookies

We use cookies of different types, which are small text files placed on your computer, to persistently store small pieces of helpful information:

• Necessary cookies: Essential for keeping track of your current session across the site and to make some smaller things work (like showing you a popup only once).
• Tracking cookies: Utilized to better understand the usage of our website.

Google Analytics

arenamate uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (Google). The service relies on aforementioned tracking cookies. Information will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers within the United States (US).

Google will use this information on behalf of arenamate for compiling website usage reports and providing additional services.

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 by installing Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Addon for your current web browser.

If you are on a mobile device, you can opt out by clicking here to set a permanent opt-out cookie (limited to this website).

Log Files

Log files on our servers are either completely disabled or IP-anonymization is in effect.