PRIVACY POLICY

Revised: 21 March, 2023

This privacy notice for ForgeFinder (Company, we, us, or our), describes how and why we might collect, store, use, and/or share (process) your information when you use our site.

We hope you take some time to read through this privacy policy carefully, as it is important. By using our site, you agree to our Terms of Use and consent to our collection, use and disclosure practices as described in this privacy policy.

If there are any terms in this privacy policy that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our site.

Questions or concerns? Reading this privacy notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our site.
If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us on Discord, or via email at privacy@wowforgefinder.com.

SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS
1. WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT
2. HOW WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION
3. LEGAL BASES WE RELY ON TO PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION
- If you are located in the EU or UK, this section applies to you
- If you are located in Canada, this section applies to you
4. WHEN AND WITH WHOM WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
5. HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION
6. HOW WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE
7. YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS
- Withdrawing your consent
- Account Information
8. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
9. CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS
10. VIRGINIA RESIDENTS SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS
- Virginia CDPA Privacy Notice
11. CHILDREN
12. HOW WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE
13. HOW TO CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE
14. HOW CAN YOU VIEW OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU
AMENDMENTS

SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS

This summary provides key points from our privacy notice, but you can find out more details about any of these topics by clicking the link following each key point or by using our table of contents below to find the section you are looking for.
You can also click here to go directly to our table of contents.

What personal information we process

When you visit, use, or navigate our site, we may process personal information depending on how you interact with ForgeFinder and the site, the choices you make, and the features you use.

Processing of sensitive personal information

We do not process sensitive personal information.

Receiving information from third parties

We do not receive any information from third parties.

Processing your information

We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our site, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent. We process your information only when we have a valid legal reason to do so. Click here to learn more.

We do not share any of your data with third parties.

How we keep your information safe

We have organisational and technical processes and procedures in place to protect your personal information. However, no electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorised third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information.

Your rights

Depending on where you are located geographically, the applicable privacy law may mean you have certain rights regarding your personal information.

How you exercise your rights

The easiest way to exercise your rights is by contacting us via one of the means provided at the bottom of this document. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

Want to learn more about what ForgeFinder does with any information we collect? Read our Terms of Use here to review the notice in full.

1. WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Personal information you disclose to us

In Short: We collect personal information that you provide to us.

We collect personal information (Battlenet ID and BattleTag) that you voluntarily provide to us when you login. In doing so, you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and site, when you participate in activities on the site, or otherwise when you contact us.

We use Blizzard’s OAuth authentication system to verify your account, and allow you to create listings on the site. To find out more about Blizzard’s OAuth authentication system, read about it here.

Personal information provided by you

The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with the site, the choices you make, and features you use.

The personal information we collect:

Battlenet ID (required to login & create listings)
BattleTag (required to login & create listings)
WoW Character IDs (required to login & create listings)
WoW Character Names (required to login & create listings)

Sensitive Information

We do not process sensitive information.

2. HOW WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION

In Short: We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our site, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent.

We process your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our site, including:

To facilitate account creation and authentication and otherwise manage user accounts. We may process your information so you can create and log in to your account, as well as keep your account in working order.
To save or protect an individual’s vital interest. We may process your information when necessary to save or protect an individual’s vital interest, such as to prevent harm.
To ensure user authenticity. We need to ensure that Blizzard account holders are the only ones who can create an account and advertise their own listings. So long as you follow Blizzard’s own Terms and Conditions about your account and details sharing (i.e. don’t do it), then your account, identity and data are safe.

3. LEGAL BASES WE RELY ON TO PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION

In Short: We only process your personal information when we believe it is necessary and we have a valid legal reason (i.e. legal basis) to do so under applicable law, like with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with site to enter into or fulfil our contractual obligations, to protect your rights, or to fulfil our legitimate business interests.

If you are located in the EU or UK, this section applies to you

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR require us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on in order to process your personal information. As such, we may rely on the following legal bases to process your personal information:

Consent. We may process your information if you have given us permission (i.e. consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time. Click here to learn more.
Legal Obligations. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, such as to cooperate with a law enforcement body or regulatory agency, exercise or defend our legal rights, or disclose your information as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
Vital Interests. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of a third party, such as situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person.

If you are located in Canada, this section applies to you

We may process your information if you have given us specific permission (i.e. express consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose, or in situations where your permission can be inferred (i.e. implied consent). You can withdraw your consent at any time by deleting your account and/or revoking this site’s access to your entire Battlenet account here.

In some exceptional cases, we may be legally permitted under applicable law to process your information without your consent, including, for example:

If collection is clearly in the interests of an individual and consent cannot be obtained in a timely way
For investigations and fraud detection and prevention
For business transactions provided certain conditions are met
If it is contained in a witness statement and the collection is necessary to assess, process, or settle an insurance claim
For identifying injured, ill, or deceased persons and communicating with next of kin
If we have reasonable grounds to believe an individual has been, is, or may be victim of financial abuse
If it is reasonable to expect collection and use with consent would compromise the availability or the accuracy of the information and the collection is reasonable for purposes related to investigating a breach of an agreement or a contravention of the laws of Canada or a province
If disclosure is required to comply with a subpoena, warrant, court order, or rules of the court relating to the production of records
If it was produced by an individual in the course of their employment, business, or profession and the collection is consistent with the purposes for which the information was produced
If the collection is solely for journalistic, artistic, or literary purposes
If the information is publicly available and is specified by the regulations

In Short: We may share information in specific situations described in this section and/or with the following third parties.

We may need to share your personal information in the following situations:

Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

5. HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION

In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this privacy notice unless otherwise required by law.

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). No purpose in this notice will require us keeping your personal information for longer than the period of time in which users have an account with us.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymise such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

6. HOW WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE

In Short: We aim to protect your personal information through a system of organisational and technical security measures.

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of information about you that we process. However, please also remember that we cannot guarantee that the Internet itself is 100% secure. Although we will do our best to protect your information, transmission of information to and from our site is at your own risk. You should only access the site within a secure environment.

7. YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS

In Short: In some regions, such as the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom (UK), and Canada, you have rights that allow you greater access to and control over your personal information. You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time.

In some regions (like the EEA, UK, and Canada), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. These may include the right (i) to request access and obtain a copy of your personal information, (ii) to request rectification or erasure; (iii) to restrict the processing of your personal information; and (iv) if applicable, to data portability. In certain circumstances, you may also have the right to object to the processing of your personal information. You can make such a request by contacting us by using the contact details provided in the section HOW TO CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE below.

We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

If you are located in the EEA or UK and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority. You can find their contact details here: https://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.

If you are located in Switzerland, the contact details for the data protection authorities are available here: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home.html.

If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, which may be express and/or implied consent depending on the applicable law, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us by using the contact details provided in the section HOW TO CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE below or updating your preferences.

However, please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal nor, when applicable law allows, will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

Account Information

If you would at any time like to review or change the information in your account or terminate your account, you can:

Upon your request to terminate your account, we will delete all data linked with your account/Battlenet ID from our database(s).

If you have questions or comments about your privacy rights, you may find information on how to contact us at the bottom of this document.

8. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (‘DNT’) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage no uniform technology standard for recognising and implementing DNT signals has been finalised. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy notice.

9. CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS

In Short: If you are a resident of California, you are granted specific rights regarding access to your personal information.

California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the ‘Shine The Light’ law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.

If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California, and have a registered account with site, you have the right to request removal of unwanted data that you publicly post on the site. To request removal of such data, please contact us using the contact information provided below and include the email address associated with your account and a statement that you reside in California. We will make sure the data is not publicly displayed on the site, but please be aware that the data may not be completely or comprehensively removed from all our systems (e.g. backups, etc.).

CCPA Privacy Notice

The California Code of Regulations defines a ‘resident’ as:

Every individual who is in the State of California for other than a temporary or transitory purpose and
Every individual who is domiciled in the State of California who is outside the State of California for a temporary or transitory purpose

All other individuals are defined as ‘non-residents’.

If this definition of ‘resident’ applies to you, we must adhere to certain rights and obligations regarding your personal information.

More information about our data collection and sharing practices can be found in this privacy notice.

You may find information on how to contact us at the bottom of this document.

If you are using an authorised agent to exercise your right to opt out we may deny a request if the authorised agent does not submit proof that they have been validly authorised to act on your behalf.

We may disclose your personal information with our service providers pursuant to a written contract between us and each service provider. Each service provider is a for-profit entity that processes the information on our behalf, following the same strict privacy protection obligations mandated by the CCPA.

We may use your personal information for our own business purposes, such as for undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration. This is not considered to be ‘selling’ of your personal information.

ForgeFinder has not disclosed, sold, or shared any personal information to third parties for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding twelve (12) months. ForgeFinder will not sell or share personal information in the future belonging to website visitors, users, and other consumers.

Your rights with respect to your personal data

Right to request deletion of the data - Request to delete

You can ask for the deletion of your personal information. If you ask us to delete your personal information, we will respect your request and delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions provided by law, such as (but not limited to) the exercise by another consumer of his or her right to free speech, our compliance requirements resulting from a legal obligation, or any processing that may be required to protect against illegal activities.

Right to be informed - Request to know

Depending on the circumstances, you have a right to know:

Whether we collect and use your personal information;
The categories of personal information that we collect;
The purposes for which the collected personal information is used;
whether we sell or share personal information to third parties;
The categories of personal information that we sold, shared, or disclosed for a business purpose;
The categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold, shared, or disclosed for a business purpose;
The business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing personal information; and
The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you.

In accordance with applicable law, we are not obligated to provide or delete consumer information that is de-identified in response to a consumer request or to re-identify individual data to verify a consumer request.

Right to Non-Discrimination for the Exercise of a Consumer’s Privacy Rights

We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your privacy rights.

Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information

We do not process consumer’s sensitive personal information.

Verification process

Upon receiving your request, we will need to verify your identity to determine you are the same person about whom we have the information in our system. These verification efforts require us to ask you to provide information so that we can match it with information you have previously provided us. For instance, depending on the type of request you submit, we may ask you to provide certain information so that we can match the information you provide with the information we already have on file, or we may contact you through a communication method (e.g. phone or email) that you have previously provided to us. We may also use other verification methods as the circumstances dictate.

We will only use personal information provided in your request to verify your identity or authority to make the request. To the extent possible, we will avoid requesting additional information from you for the purposes of verification. However, if we cannot verify your identity from the information already maintained by us, we may request that you provide additional information for the purposes of verifying your identity and for security or fraud-prevention purposes. We will delete such additionally provided information as soon as we finish verifying you.

Other privacy rights

You may object to the processing of your personal information.
You may request correction of your personal data if it is incorrect or no longer relevant, or ask to restrict the processing of the information.
You can designate an authorised agent to make a request under the CCPA on your behalf. We may deny a request from an authorised agent that does not submit proof that they have been validly authorised to act on your behalf in accordance with the CCPA.
You may request to opt out from future selling or sharing of your personal information to third parties. Upon receiving an opt-out request, we will act upon the request as soon as feasibly possible, but no later than fifteen (15) days from the date of the request submission.

To exercise these rights, you may find information on how to contact us at the bottom of this document. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you.

10. VIRGINIA RESIDENTS SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS

In Short: If you are a resident of Virginia, you may be granted specific rights regarding access to and use of your personal information.

Virginia CDPA Privacy Notice

Under the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA):

Consumer means a natural person who is a resident of the Commonwealth acting only in an individual or household context. It does not include a natural person acting in a commercial or employment context.
Personal data means any information that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable natural person. Personal data does not include de-identified data or publicly available information.
Sale of personal data means the exchange of personal data for monetary consideration.

If this definition consumer applies to you, we must adhere to certain rights and obligations regarding your personal data. The information we collect, use, and disclose about you will vary depending on how you interact with ForgeFinder.

To find out more, please visit the following links:

Personal data we collect
How we use your personal data
When and with whom we share your personal data
Your rights with respect to your personal data

You have the right to:

be informed whether or not we are processing your personal data
access your personal data
correct inaccuracies in your personal data
request deletion of your personal data
obtain a copy of the personal data you previously shared with us

ForgeFinder has not sold any personal data to third parties for business or commercial purposes.
ForgeFinder will not sell personal data in the future belonging to website visitors, users, and other consumers.

Exercise your rights provided under the Virginia CDPA

More information about our data collection and sharing practices can be found in this privacy notice.

You may find information on how to contact us at the bottom of this document.

If you are using an authorised agent to exercise your rights, we may deny a request if the authorised agent does not submit proof that they have been validly authorised to act on your behalf.

Verification process

We may request that you provide additional information reasonably necessary to verify you and your consumer’s request. If you submit the request through an authorised agent, we may need to collect additional information to verify your identity before processing your request.

Upon receiving your request, we will respond without undue delay, but in all cases, within forty-five (45) days of receipt. The response period may be extended once by forty-five (45) additional days when reasonably necessary. We will inform you of any such extension within the initial 45-day response period, together with the reason for the extension.

Right to appeal

If we decline to take action regarding your request, we will inform you of our decision and reasoning behind it. If you wish to appeal our decision, please email us at privacy@wowforgefinder.com. Within sixty (60) days of receipt of an 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 your appeal if denied, you may contact the Attorney General to submit a complaint.

11. CHILDREN

Our site is for users aged 16 and over. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 16. If you are a parent or guardian of a child under the age of 16 and believe they have disclosed personal information to us please contact us at privacy@wowforgefinder.com.

12. HOW WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE

In Short: We will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.

We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated Revised date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

13. HOW TO CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE

If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may contact us via:

Discord
Email: privacy@wowforgefinder.com
Post: ForgeFinder, Unit 47582, PO Box 6945, London, W1A 6US

14. HOW CAN YOU VIEW OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU

You have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, change that information, or delete it. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please visit your account page. You may also revoke this site’s access to your entire Battlenet account here at any time.

AMENDMENTS

21 March 2023 Wording change for Personal information provided by you, all information in this section is provided to both login and create listings. In reality this means all checkboxes, on signup, must be checked in order to create an account on this wowforgefinder.com.