We recognize that protection of your personal information is important. Here are details on what data we collect and why we collect it.

 

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 their control over it.

Since data from online gaming characters and accounts might fall under that definition and is treated like that by several sources ([1], [2]), we implemented some changes to respect the new regulation:

• 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) have been permanently deleted and will not be able to sign in again.
• You can now delete your account and all its attached data on your own, if desired.
• Log files were either completely disabled and deleted (web server) or IP-anonymization was activated.

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

 

Game Data

The 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, consisting of character names, their attributes (like the class), their ratings and ranks as well as their competitive records. 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 sign in using Blizzard's Battle.net, including account creation time, last login time, your BattleTag, all maximum level WoW characters, your followed players 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 from EU residents if it can be referred to as personal data. 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 persistently store certain information.

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

 

Google Analytics

arenamate uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (Google). Google Analytics relies on tracking cookies. The information generated by the cookies 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 compiling reports on website activity and providing other 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 (with the scope of this website).

 

Log Files

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