Below, you’ll find legal documentation for all Wargaming.net products & services.
Effective: 18 October 2024
We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes how we collect, process, use and share your personal information when you download and play our games and use our websites, applications and other products.
By “Personal Data”, we refer to data that relates to you as an identified or identifiable natural person. The term “Personal Data” may include, for example, your name, your postal address, your telephone number, your e-mail address, your age, your gender, and your game preferences. Anonymous or de-identified information, which we are not able to identify you, does not qualify as “Personal Data”.
1. CONTROLLER’S NAME AND CONTACT DETAILS
The data controller in respect of our Products (as defined below) is:
Wargaming Group Limited
Company number: HE290868
105, Agion Omologiton Avenue
Nicosia 1080
Cyprus
Email: privacy@wargaming.net
In this Policy, “Wargaming”, “we”, “us” or “our” means Wargaming Group Limited and the term “Products” means:
(i) our PC and mobile games that post a link to this Policy and are made available through the Sites, the Wargaming Game Center and game platforms such as iOS and Android (the “Games”).
(ii) Our websites that post a link to this Policy, including those at:
http://worldoftanks.asia
http://worldofwarplanes.asia
http://worldofwarships.asia
https://wotblitz.com
https://wowsblitz.com
http://wargaming.net
(“Sites”).
(iii) Our console games for play on Xbox One, PlayStation®5 computer entertainment system and other gaming consoles and our associated Console Games websites, including https://console.worldoftanks.com and https://wowslegends.com (“Console Games”);
(iv) Our products and applications (including support applications and forums) related to the Games, including “World of Tanks Assistant”, “Wargaming Check” and “Wargaming Game Center”; and
(v) Wargaming account (“Account“) and any other online game, website, application and product operated by us that posts a link to this Policy.
This Policy also applies to any of our offline activities that make this Policy available to you.
2. CONTACT DETAILS OF THE DATA PROTECTION OFFICER (DPO)
For questions regarding this Policy, our data practices, or our compliance with applicable laws, please contact our Data Protection Officer as follows:
Wargaming Data Protection Officer
105, Agion Omologiton Avenue
Nicosia 1080
Cyprus
Email: dpo@wargaming.net
3. RESIDENTS OF U.S. STATES THAT PROVIDE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS
For residents of those U.S. states that provide additional rights under applicable law, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, Utah, Montana, Oregon, Texas, and Virginia, please review our supplementary privacy policy attached below for more information.
4. GENERAL INFORMATION IN BRIEF
We process Personal Data only when necessary for the performance of a contract with you, for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or based on our legitimate interests, except where such interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms for which require the protection of your Personal Data.
Our legitimate interests are to render and improve our Products in an effective, safe and harmless manner. We want to provide everyone with a fair and balanced experience when using our Products.
4.1. YOUR PREFERENCES
You can choose how we use your Personal Data using the Account Management tool. As we need to verify your identity before we follow your instructions on Personal Data use, you need to have a registered Account in order to access the Account Management tool. This means that if you are using a demo version of the Account, you will only be able to fully control our use of your data after you complete the Account.
For example, through the Account Management tool you can:
4.2. INFORMATION SECURITY
We maintain reasonable and appropriate security safeguards designed to protect your information from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration and destruction, taking into due account the risks involved in the processing and the nature of the information.
4.3. PROCESSING INFORMATION BY THIRD PARTIES
We may share Personal Data with our affiliates, subsidiaries, vendors or agents working on our behalf for the purposes described in this Policy. For example, we may hire companies to assist with protecting and securing our systems or Products. Any vendor or agent that we retain must comply with our data privacy and security requirements and are not allowed to use personal data they receive from us for any other purpose unless so instructed by us. Those companies may be located outside of the European Economic Area. Read more in Section 7 “How we share your information”.
4.4. CHILDREN
We recognise that we have a special obligation to protect personal information obtained from children. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from any child, or process such information, without parental consent. For the purpose of this Policy, a child means any individual who is under the age of 18 (or the minimum legal age to consent to the collection and processing of Personal Data where this is different under applicable law). If you are a parent or guardian and believe we have collected your child’s information in violation of applicable law, contact us at privacy@wargaming.net. We will remove the information in accordance with applicable law.
4.5. DATA RETENTION
We keep most of your Personal Data collected and processed for the purposes described in this Policy for as long as you continue to use our Products, e.g. you have an active Account in one of our Games. We will delete your Personal Data after you request your Account to be deleted via the Account Management and the grace period of 45 (forty-five) calendar days, during which we can restore your Account, expires. The process of erasing your Personal Data can take up to one month from expiry of the grace period and, considering the complexity and number of requests, may be extended by a further two months. Read more in Section 8.4 “Right to erasure”.
4.6. GAMES NOT USING THE ACCOUNT
Some of the Games do not use the Account. You will not be able to exercise your rights with regard to those Games through the Account Management tool. For this reason, we are offering you other tools to export your Personal Data, delete them, and object to our use of your Personal Data in accordance with Section 8 “Your rights”, as well as to manage your subscriptions.
Also, there are some differences in the Personal Data that we collect about users of the Games for which the Account is created and users of other Games.
With regard to the Games that do not use the Account, you can exercise your rights by contacting directly our Player Support or as otherwise indicated in the respective Game.
Where such function is available, you may link to your Account some of the Games that do not use the Account. Please note that control over your Personal Data in such Games is separate from control over your Personal Data relating to your Account. For example, to delete your Personal Data in “World of Warships Blitz” you will need to contact Player Support as suggested in this Game, while deletion of the Personal Data relating to your Account shall be performed through the Account Management tool.
5. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
In relation to your use of our Products, we collect information either directly from you (when you provide information to us) or indirectly (e.g. through our Products technologies).
5.1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT DIRECTLY
We collect Personal Data and other information that you provide to us.
Account Data
When setting up an Account, you may be asked to provide Personal Data including, but not limited to, your in-game name, in-game password and email address. Once you set up your Account, you have the opportunity via the Account Management settings to specify your date of birth for receiving gifts at your birthday as well as to link your Account with your telephone number as a second authentication factor tool or to receive marketing communication via SMS. You can also use your credentials from other services such as Google, Facebook or Twitch to create an account faster with us. In such case we may collect additional information as per section 5.3 below. We also generate a unique number / identifier which we call “Wargaming ID” in connection with your Account and your use of our Products can be identified via Wargaming ID.
Content Data
We may obtain your Personal Data when you register for and use our other Products, e.g. game forums, chats, or when you provide feedback about our Products. These data include:
Personal Contacts Data
To fulfil a request by you, we collect data about your personal contacts, such as their name, nickname, email address, and phone number with your consent, such as finding your contacts on our Products or inviting your contacts to join our Products via our referral programs etc. By using such functionalities, you acknowledge and agree that you have your contact’s consent for us to use their contact information to fulfil your request.
Other data provided by you voluntarily
You may choose to voluntarily provide other information to us that we do not request, and, in such instances, you are solely responsible for such information.
5.2. INFORMATION WE COLLECT INDIRECTLY
We indirectly collect a variety of information through your interaction with and use of our Games, Sites and other Products.
This information may include, but is not limited to, anonymized browser and device information (both software and hardware), data collected through automated electronic interactions, application usage data, demographic information, geographic, geo-location information, statistical and aggregated information (“Other Information”). Statistical or aggregated information does not directly identify a specific person, but it may be derived from Personal Data. For example, we may aggregate Personal Data to calculate the percentage of users in a particular country. If Other Information is combined with Personal Data, we will treat the combined information as Personal Data.
5.2.1. Tracking Data and Cookies
We and our partners, such as marketing partners and analytics providers, use cookies, which are text files placed on your computer, to help us analyse how users use our Products, and similar technologies (e.g. web beacons, pixels, tags and device identifiers) to recognise you and/or your device(s) on, off and across different devices and our Products, as well as to improve the Products we are offering, to improve marketing, analytics or website functionality. The use of cookies is standard on the internet. You may adjust your browser settings to prevent the reception of cookies, or to provide notification whenever a cookie is sent to you. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to access the full functionality of our Sites.
Website traffic volume and patterns, such as the number of visitors to a given website or page on a daily basis is typically referred to as “Tracking Data”. This type of indirectly collected information is gathered through various means, such as an IP address, which is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the web. Web servers, the computers that “serve up” web pages, automatically identify your computer by its IP address. When you visit any of our Sites, our servers log your computer’s IP address.
For more information about the names of the cookies used on our Sites, the cookie provider (Wargaming, third-party analytics partner, or third-party advertising partner), the purpose of the cookie (necessary for website to function, performance, or marketing), and the cookie life cycle, you may click on the Cookie Settings link found at the footer of each Site. This link allows you to set your cookie preferences and control your cookie settings at any time..
5.2.1.1. How to delete cookies and opt out of targeted advertising and analytics
Like most online services, we and our partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide and personalize the Service, analyse use, target advertisements and prevent fraud. You can disable cookies in your browser settings, but some parts of the Service may then not function properly.
If you wish to limit behaviourally targeted advertising, you can do so by limiting ad tracking in your device settings. Please note that opt-outs are specific to each browser and device and it may take a little bit of time before your opt-out choice will take effect.
For mobile advertising in apps, you can reset your Advertising Identifier and depending on your device, select to opt out of interest-based ads (Android) or turn on the Limit Ad Tracking setting (iOS).
For display advertising on the Web, you can also adjust your browser settings to limit certain tracking by means of cookies (e.g. for Chrome https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en), and by visiting the following sites: http://www.aboutads.info/choices and http://www.youronlinechoices.eu.
Do Not Track: Your browser settings may allow you to automatically transmit a “Do Not Track” signal to online services you visit. Note, however, there is no industry consensus as to what site and app operators should do with regard to these signals. Accordingly, unless and until the law is interpreted to require us to do so, we do not monitor or take action with respect to “Do Not Track” signals. For more information on “Do Not Track” visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.
5.2.2. Game-Related Information
In order to provide you with efficient services, we need to collect, store and use various information about your use of our Games. “Game-Related Information” are stored under your Wargaming ID as provided in the Account Data in section 5.1 above as well as what is usually referred to as “game statistics”. By “game statistics” we mean information about your Games preferences, progress in the Games, participation, performance and achievements in clans and battles, frequency of playing, etc.
5.2.3. Device Information and Geo-Location
In order to fix crashes and other technical issues that may arise while you are installing the Games and using our Products, as well as to make our Products more suitable for you, we collect, store and use information about the device you are using the Products on, including what type of device it is, what hardware and operating system you are using, the device settings, unique device identifiers, and crash data (if any). Whether we collect some or all of this information often depends on what type of device you are using and its settings. You may also install applications collecting and using additional data required for fixing crashes, errors and other technical issues arising during your use of the Products, e.g., Wargaming Game Center and Wargaming Check.
To make our Products more suitable for you and only upon your permission we can also collect your precise GPS location from mobile devices. Wi-Fi and IP addresses received from your browser or device may be used to determine approximate location.
5.2.4. Information required for fraud and violations detection
We may also collect certain data (like IP address, username, etc.) that is required for our detection, investigation and prevention of cheating in the Game and EULA violations. This data, being used only for the purposes of detection, investigation and prevention of frauds and cheating in the Game are deleted six months after their collection, unless the data can be used to prove that cheating has occurred. If the data can be used to prove that cheating or another fraud or EULA violation has occurred, we will further store the data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims during the applicable statute of limitations. Please note that the specific data stored for this purpose may not be disclosed to you or any third parties, since the disclosure will compromise the mechanism through which we detect, investigate and prevent frauds and cheating in the Game, as well as other EULA violations.
5.2.5. Information from publicly available online resources
We may use the information made publicly available, e.g. through YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, in order to find out your opinion about Games and Products, so that we could take them into account while improving our Products. Such data collection can be carried out by Wargaming independently, or received from our partners making analysis of public sentiments on various issues.
5.2.6. Information from our partners
In some cases, Wargaming receives your personal data as a data processor, which means that the data are controlled by our partners and we use them only in accordance with their instructions and applicable laws. We use this data in order to fulfil our obligation under the EULA, improve the Products, and when processing is required in order to comply with a legal obligation to which we are subject.
Payment partners. When you purchase in-game items, in-game currency, or time-limited premium memberships with your credit card, we may receive from our payment partners and process a part of your credit card number, information about your credit card issuer, as well as your full address for billing purposes;
Co-Promotion Partners. In order to provide you with in-game items and/or in-game currency for participation in various loyalty programs, we may also receive information from our partners, such as telecommunication companies, banks, cashback partners, travel agencies, and others;
Platforms. We also receive and use your identifiers and other information on other platforms like PlayStation®5 computer entertainment system, Xbox One, App Store, Google Play Store, Steam, so that you can play our Games through these platforms;
Social networks. We have registered certain Games-related group accounts and pages at Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Discord, Twitter, Reddit, and other social networks to better communicate with our players in case they have questions about our Products, as well as prefer to learn about news about our Products through the social networks. Also, we get information relating to your account on social networking sites in order to allow you to integrate or link your social network account with your Account or our Products. For example, you may link your Account via your YouTube account credentials. In such case, we will collect from YouTube your channel ID to link your social network account with your Account. If you are a content creator, we may access your channel subscribers/members to find our players’ accounts to provide them with some in-game customization or goods. Any personal data collected from such sources will be stored in accordance with this policy.
We also automatically collect information via our Games application technologies that are not browser-based like cookies and cannot be controlled by browser settings or cannot be controlled via the Account Management tool or while you play our Games. For example, our Games applications may include SDKs, which is code that sends information about your use to a server, for instance through the Facebook SDK or other partner’s SDKs. These SDKs allows us to track our conversions, bring you advertising, and provide you with additional functionality, such as the ability to connect our Products with other services.
5.3. INFORMATION FROM OTHER SOURCES
The categories of sources from which we collect information include:
5.3.1. Game platforms: We collect data (such as the relevant user identifier, email, nickname), from partners that make our Games available on their platforms, such as Valve (Steam), Apple (iOS), and Google (Android). Our partners, and not us, are responsible for your accounts on their platforms, and we recommend that you review their privacy policies. When you play our Console Games, we collect data (such as email) from the gaming platforms on which you play the Console Games, such as Microsoft (Xbox) and Sony (PlayStation™Network). Such gaming platforms are responsible for your accounts on their platforms, and we recommend you review their privacy policies.
5.3.2. Developers who use our API: We collect data from developers who use the Wargaming API. Use of API is subject to our API Terms of Use .
5.3.3. Verification partners: We collect data from verification services such as ID.me to confirm your eligibility for discounts (e.g., related to your military status).
6. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We need to process your Personal Data in order to perform the contract with you. As a user, we will use your Personal Data, unless otherwise prohibited by law, for the following purposes:
6.1. COMMUNICATION PURPOSES
We will use your Personal Data for our legitimate interests to advertise our Products in accordance with this Policy. Namely, once you have created an Account we may use your email address, nickname, IP address, mobile phone number, in order to send you personalized marketing emails, messages, targeted in-game and web offers about Games. Also, if you opt-in, we will send you personalized marketing emails, messages and in-game and web offers about Wargaming offline events, co-projects of Wargaming and its partners, as well as about Wargaming games, not using Wargaming ID.
6.2. IN-GAME OFFERS
We will also use the Game-Related Information to send you in-game offers that we believe are most useful to you. To make the offer we first collect Game-Related Information from various players, identify patterns in their behaviour, and create algorithms that identify pools of players following the pattern or particular players who follow the pattern. To those players who actually follow the pattern – we send the in-game offers, which can be personalized (i.e., we want the in-game offer to reach you or a relatively small number of players specifically) or non-personalized (i.e., we want the in-game offer to reach a large number of players following a pattern). We always make sure that such offers have no significant impact on you or our other players. For example, we may notice that you are a player who is very good at playing with French vehicles and has registered the account more than five years ago: so, we may specifically offer you the new French vehicle for rent, but in any case not more expensively than it is offered to other users. You can unsubscribe from personalized in-Game offers through our Account Management tool.
6.3. PRODUCTS IMPROVEMENT PURPOSES
We analyse your information to identify how to improve the Products and our operations to make them more suitable and interesting for our players in general. We also may ask you to respond to our Products-related surveys or questionnaires, and you always have the choice about whether to respond to them and which information you provide.
6.4. FRAUD AND EULA VIOLATIONS DETECTION
We use the information required for our detection, investigation and prevention of cheating in the Game and violations of EULA and Game Rules and policies only for the purposes of detection, investigation and prevention. If the data can be used to prove that cheating or another fraud or EULA violation has occurred, we will further store the data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims during the applicable statute of limitations.
6.5. AUDIENCE MATCHING SERVICES
We will also use your information for audience matching services to reach people (or people similar to people) who have used or visited our Products or are identified in one or more of our databases (“Matched Ads“). This is done by us sharing a list of hashed emails. For instance, we use Facebook Custom Audiences to serve ads to our players on Facebook and Facebook Lookalike Audiences to serve ads to users on Facebook similar to our players.
Vendors and ad partners may act as our processors or in certain contexts, they may act as data controllers and independently decide how to process your information. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with and consult their privacy policies and terms of use. To opt-out of us sharing your hashed email address for Matched Ads please contact us at privacy@wargaming.net and specify that you wish to opt out of Matched Ads. We will remove your email address from any subsequent lists shared with ad partners for purposes of Matched Ads.
7. HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
For the performance of a contract with you, compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, and based on our legitimate interests, we may share your personal data with the following categories of third parties:
When your personal data is shared with Wargaming affiliates and subsidiaries, as well as third parties outside the European Union or the European Economic Area, Wargaming guarantees an adequate level of personal data protection, including but not limited to, by entering into standard data protection clauses adopted by the European Commission with Wargaming affiliates and subsidiaries, as well as such third parties. We will provide you with a copy of the standard data protection clauses upon your request.
Sharing anonymous information. We also may share anonymous information, i.e. information which does not directly or indirectly disclose your identity, and aggregated information (meaning information about groups and categories of users, including game statistics and behaviour, but which does not identify and that cannot reasonably be used to identify any individual user) with our advertising partners. We may also allow our advertisers to collect anonymous information and aggregated information within the Products and they may then share that information with us. Our advertisers may collect this information through the use of tracking technologies like cookies and web beacons. This enables our advertisers to develop and deliver targeted advertising in the Products and on the websites of third parties, so that they can try to serve you with advertisements for products and services that are most likely to be of interest to you. Advertisers will also use this information to monitor, improve or modify their operations.
8. YOUR RIGHTS
To allow you to exercise your data protection rights in a simple way we have improved the Account Management tools available here and – for Console Games – here. If you are using a demo account, you will only be able to fully control our use of your data after you create the Account here or – for Console Games – here. This means that if you are using a demo version of the Account, you will only be able to fully control our use of your data after you complete the Account here. Please visit it to make choices about which direct communications you would like to receive, as well as to exercise your rights to data access, data erasure and objection to data processing. In some cases, for games developed solely by third parties and published by Wargaming on Wargaming Game Center (see section 7(18) above), you can exercise your rights directly from the third-party developer. You may contact us to assist you on how you can exercise your rights for games developed solely by third parties.
If you have linked your Account with linked services (e.g., Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Steam, Twitch etc) you may unlink your accounts at any time through the Account Management settings. Please note that unlinking your accounts will not affect any information previously shared through linking. We are not responsible for the data practices of any other parties, and we recommend that you carefully review their privacy policies and terms of use.
8.1. OPT-OUT OF DIRECT MARKETING AND RIGHT TO OBJECT
You can manage your subscriptions to direct marketing through our Account Management tool. Please note that even if you unsubscribe from all our personalized marketing emails, messages, in-game and web- offers, we will still send you some notifications (we often refer to them as “transactional”), e.g. to confirm purchases or changes in your Account, give warranty or security information, information about changes to the EULA, Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, as well as will show to you non-personalized marketing in-game and web offers. We will be able to stop all communications only after your Account is deleted. Also, even after you have unsubscribed from our in-game and web offers, you may still see them within the Games and on some web-sites: that would mean that such offers are shown to everyone or to a very broad audience and are not specifically directed to you.
You can opt-out of personalized advertising in mobile applications, including our mobile Games, by checking the privacy settings of your Android or iOS device and selecting “limit ad tracking” (Apple iOS) or “opt-out of interest-based ads” (Android). You can adjust your mobile push notifications in your Android or iOS device settings menu.
Where processing of your Personal Data is based on legitimate interests, you can use your right to object at any time. If you object we will no longer process your Personal Data unless there are compelling and prevailing legitimate grounds for the processing or the data are necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
8.2. RIGHT OF ACCESS
You have the right to access your Personal Data that we hold about you, i.e. the right to require free of charge (i) information whether your Personal Data is retained, (ii) access to and/or (iii) duplicates of the Personal Data retained. You can use the right to access to your Personal Data through the “Data Export” tool available in the Account Management tools here and – for Console Games – here. Normally, we provide the duplicate of the Personal Data retained within 30 (thirty) days upon your request. Once the archive with the Personal Data we retain is ready, you will be able to download in it from our resources. If the request affects the rights and freedoms of others or is manifestly unfounded or excessive, we reserve the right to charge a reasonable fee (taking into account the administrative costs of providing the information or communication or taking the action requested) or refuse to act on the request. We also will not be able to provide you with some Personal Data that you may post or provide using our Products regardless of our request not to provide the Personal Data in this particular field, website, etc.
8.3. RIGHT TO RECTIFICATION
You control which nickname, email, phone number, country (only in exceptional circumstances), social networks accounts, trusted sites and payment methods we associate with your Account. If they change, please modify the data in the Personal Account directly. Please inform us if any of the Personal Data we retain about you is inaccurate.
8.4. RIGHT TO ERASURE
You have the right to obtain deletion by us of Personal Data concerning you by deleting your Account via our “Account Deletion” tool available in the Account Management tools here and – for Console Games – here.
As a result of deleting your Account, you will lose access to most Products, including the Account and Game-Related Information linked to the Account, subscriptions to Wargaming forums and the possibility to access other services you are using the Account for.
Grace period. We allow you to restore your Account during a grace period of 45 (forty-five) days from the moment you request deletion of your Account. This functionality allows you not to lose various Game-Related Information and other important information and options by mistake. During the suspension period, we will be able to finalise financial and other activities that you may have initiated before sending the Account deletion request.
No payments after Account deletion. As a result of deleting your Account, you will lose the possibility to make payments in the Premium Shop, including during the grace period. Should any payment be made after Account deletion due to a technical error or for any other reason, we will refund the amount paid by you and will not grant you the rights to the respective Additional Features.
Complicated Account deletion. In some cases, deletion of your Account, and therefore Personal Data deletion, is complicated. Namely, if you are a clan commander in the Games, it is highly likely that you will only be able to delete your Account after you have transferred the clan and placed it under the command of another user or dissolve the clan. In some cases, considering the complexity and number of the requests, the period for Personal Data erasure may be extended, but for no longer than two further months.
Earlier Personal Data deletion. We store most Personal Data we retain about you until you request deletion of your Account through the Account Management tools. However, certain Personal Data is deleted even while you have a valid Account. For example, we will delete:
Information we retain. Upon expiry of the suspension period we will delete all your Personal Data, except for the data which are required for our compliance with the requirements of applicable laws (e.g. tax and accounting requirements) or for our detection, investigation and prevention of cheating in the Game and EULA violations or to resolve disputes and enforce our agreements. We will also retain anonymous or de-identified information after your Account has been deleted. Information you have shared with others (e.g. through in-Games chats, updates or group posts) will remain visible after you have deleted your account or deleted the information from your own profile or mailbox, and we do not control the data that other members/users copied out of our Products. Groups content associated with deleted accounts will show an unknown user as the source. Your profile may continue to be displayed in the services of others (e.g. search engine results) until they refresh their cache.
9. COMPLAINTS
If you have any issues with our compliance you may contact our Data Protection Officer as set out in section 2 above. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection regulator in your jurisdiction.
10. WE CAN CHANGE THIS POLICY
We may change this Policy from time to time for various reasons, such as legal and regulatory changes, changes in industry practices and technological developments that need to be reflected. If the changes are material, we may provide you additional notice to your email address.
ADDITIONAL DISCLOSURES FOR RESIDENTS OF THOSE U.S. STATES THAT PROVIDE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS
11. U.S.-SPECIFIC PRIVACY NOTICE
This U.S.-Specific Privacy Notice (“U.S. Privacy Notice“) supplements our primary Policy. It applies to residents of those U.S. states that provide additional rights under applicable law, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, Utah, Montana, Oregon, Texas, and Virginia, as applicable. Terms used in this U.S. Privacy Notice have the meaning given to them under applicable law.
11.1. Notice At Collection
At or before the time of collection of your personal information or your personal data (“personal information“), you have a right to receive notice of our data practices. Our data practices are as follows:
Categories of Personal Information
We have collected the following categories of personal information in the past 12 months:
– Contact identifiers – such as email address and nickname; name, postal address, and phone number when required for specific purposes such as customer support or fulfilling certain services.
– Characteristics or demographics – such as date of birth, country, and in some cases, gender.
– Commercial or transactions information – such as records of products or services purchased, obtained, or considered.
– Device identifiers – such as device IP address and Ad ID.
– Device information – such as device operating software and browser (e.g., type, version, and configuration), internet service provider, and regional and language settings.
– Internet activity – such as information about browsing history and interactions, including features used, pages visited, content viewed, purchases made or considered, time of day browsed, and referring and exiting pages.
– Non-precise location data – such as location derived from an IP address or data that indicates a city or postal code level.
– Public content – such as content publicly posted on the service (such as in product reviews or blog comments).
– Inferences drawn from any non-sensitive categories of personal information identified in this section.
– Account credentials – such as Wargaming ID, password, password hints, and other information for authentication or account access.
– Sensitive identifiers – such as passport or driver’s license, collected only for specific purposes where necessary (e.g., for identity verification or compliance with legal requirements).
– Payment information – such as payment instrument number (e.g., the first four digits of the credit or debit card number), billing address as necessary to process payments.
– Private content – such as content within any messages sent to us.
– Precise location data – such as latitude / longitude, with consent.
For further details on the categories of personal information we have collected, see the Information We Collect section of our Policy.
11.2. Sources of Personal Information
For the categories of sources from which personal information is collected, see the Information We Collect section of our Policy.
11.3. Purposes for Processing Personal Information
For the specific business and commercial purposes for collecting and using personal information, see the How We Use Your Information section of our Policy.
11.4. Disclosure of Personal Information
For the categories of third parties to whom personal information is disclosed, see the How We Share Your Information section of our Policy.
11.5. Retention of Personal Information
For the criteria used to determine the period of time personal information will be retained, see the Data Retention section of our Policy.
11.6. Sensitive Personal Information
Some of the personal information we collect may be considered sensitive personal information. For example, account credentials, sensitive identifiers, and payment information. We collect, use, and disclose such sensitive personal information only for the permissible business purposes for sensitive personal information or without the purpose of inferring characteristics about consumers. We do not sell or share sensitive personal information.
11.7. Secondary Uses
We do not sell personal information as that term is traditionally understood. However, some of our disclosures of personal information may be considered a “sale” or “share” under applicable law, including for California. For purposes of this U.S. Privacy Notice, a “sale” is broadly defined to include a disclosure for something of value, and a “share” is broadly defined to include a disclosure for cross-context behavioral advertising.
We collect, sell, or share the following categories of personal information for commercial purposes: contact identifiers, characteristics, or demographics, commercial or transactions information, device identifiers, device information, internet activity, non-precise location data, public content, and non-sensitive inferences. The categories of third parties to whom we sell or share your personal information include, where applicable, vendors and other parties involved in cross-context behavioral advertising. We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of minors under 16 years old who are California residents.
For details on your rights regarding sales and shares, please see the Right to Opt-Out of Sales, Shares, and Targeted Advertising section below.
11.8. Profiling
We do not process personal information for purposes of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning consumers.
11.9. Financial Incentives
We may offer discounted prices or benefits to consumers who sign up for our rewards programs. Some states consider the exchange of personal information as part of a rewards program to be a financial incentive. Where we offer these programs, your participation is optional. If you choose to participate, your participation will be subject to any applicable terms which we will make available to you at the time you opt-in to participate.
12. CONSUMER RIGHTS
12.1. Verifiable Requests
Subject to exceptions, you may have some or all of the following rights under applicable law:
– The right to know what personal information we have collected about you, including the categories of personal information, the categories of sources from which personal information was collected, the business or commercial purposes for collecting, selling, or sharing personal information, the categories of personal information we sold, shared, or disclosed for a business purpose, and the categories of third parties to whom we disclosed personal information.
– The right to access the specific pieces of personal information we have about you or obtain a copy in a portable and readily usable format.
– The right to correct inaccuracies in your personal information.
– The right to delete your personal information.
If you are an Oregon resident, you also have the right to receive a list of the specific third parties to which we have disclosed personal data.
To exercise any of the rights available to you, please submit a request through our form here or send us an email at privacy@wargaming.net. If you have an account with us, you must submit your request through your account here. We will confirm receipt and respond to the request within 45 days of receive or the time permitted by applicable law.
To verify your identity, we will use the email address you provide us, which matches our records, and wait for your response. In some instances, we may ask for additional information to verify you. If we are unable to verify your identity, we may deny your request. We may retain personal information in accordance with our data retention practices.
12.2. Opt-Out of Sales, Shares, and Targeted Advertising
Subject to exceptions, you may have the right to opt-out of sales, shares, or the processing of your personal information for targeted advertising purposes. To exercise this right, click Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information in the footer of any website to manage your tracking technology preferences or turn on a recognized opt-out preference signal, such as Global Privacy Control, in your browser or extension. Please note that when you opt-out through either of these methods we do not know who you are within our systems, and your opt-out only applies to personal information collected through tracking technologies on the specific site you are visiting. If you delete or reset your cookies, or use a different browser or device, you will need to reconfigure your settings.
If you want the opt-out to apply to personal information we have about you in our systems, such as your email address, please click here and submit a request. We will address your request in accordance with applicable law.
12.3. Authorized Agent
You can designate an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf. To the extent permitted by applicable law, requests must be submitted through the designated methods listed above. Except for opt-out requests, we will require written proof of the agent’s permission to do so and may verify your identity directly.
12.4. Right to Non-Discrimination
Should you choose to exercise any of your rights as detailed herein, we will not discriminate against you by offering you different pricing or products, or by providing you with a different level or quality of products, based solely upon this request.
13. CALIFORNIA LEGACY RIGHTS
13.1. Shine The Light
Under California’s Shine the Light law, once per year, customers who are residents of California may request (i) a list of the categories of personal information disclosed by us to third parties during the immediately preceding calendar year for those third parties’ own direct marketing purposes; and (ii) a list of the categories of third parties to whom we disclosed such information. To make a request, please contact us and specify that you are making a “California Shine the Light Request”. Your request is subject to our verification and data retention practices.
13.2. Minors
If you are a California resident under 18 years old who is registered with us, you can ask us to remove any content you have publicly posted by contacting us and specifying you are making a “California Eraser Request”. We will make reasonable good faith efforts to remove the post from prospective public view, although we cannot ensure the complete removal. Your request is subject to our verification and data retention practices.
14. CONSENT
You have the right to revoke consent previously given to us for the processing of your personal data. To revoke consent, write us at the email or postal address set out in the Contact Us section above (specifying the consent you wish to withdraw). If you withdraw consent, you may not be able to receive certain services related to that consent.
15. APPEALS
If we refuse to take action on a request, you may appeal our decision within a reasonable period time by contacting us and specifying you wish to appeal. Within 60 days of our receipt of your appeal, we will inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decisions. If the appeal is denied, you may submit a complaint as follows:
16. CONTACT US
For any enquiries related to this U.S. Privacy Notice, you can contact us by email at privacy@wargaming.net or by post to 500 108th Ave NE, Suite 2350, Bellevue WA 98004-5582.