Will blizzard sell my data?

Blizzard takes your privacy very seriously. We do not sell your personal information.

Does overwatch sell your data?

Disclosure of Information to Third Parties

The Company does not sell, trade, or rent Personal Information collected through the Properties to any third party.

What data does Blizzard collect?

What does Blizzard do with your phone number?

Adding a phone number will allow Blizzard Entertainment to send you notifications when important changes are made to your account. Mobile phones in a supported country can use this service. VOIP systems are not supported.

Is it safe to buy games on Blizzard?

It's as safe as Steam, Origin, UPlay and other first party publishers. http://Battle.net is owned by Blizzard and Activision and is used to publish their games, post their latest news and host their community forums.

Your Data Is Being Sold

Is it safe to give Blizzard my ID?

How Documents are Used. We'll never use your document for anything other than verifying account ownership and/or change of personal data. We delete the copy you send us once the ticket is resolved.

Why was i banned on Blizzard?

Blizzard suspends or bans accounts for violations of our Code of Conduct. If you're seeing this message, check your email for details about the violation. If you do not have access to your account email address, contact us to update your account information.

Does Blizzard care if you use a VPN?

Does Blizzard care if you use a VPN? With VPN use being a widespread commonality, it would be extremely harsh for Blizzard to instaban people for VPN usage. If they have the ability to detect VPN usage, they can simply block any detected VPN connection, there's no need to permanently ban for VPN usage.

Does Blizzard monitor chats?

Blizzard may monitor and/or record your communications (including without limitation chat text) when you are using a product or service for toxicity analysis, to prevent cheating and fraud, or for enforcement of Blizzard's End User License Agreement (EULA) and/or terms of use.

Why does Blizzard need my birth certificate?

During the support process, we may require photo identification to verify we're speaking to the real account holder.

Does Activision collect data?

Activision collects, processes, and combines data such as your age, gender, interests, name, email address, gameplay, marketing preferences, customer service, and device-related information.

Why does Blizzard charge $1 dollar?

When making a digital purchase using a credit card, a minor charge in your local currency may be applied to ensure the card is valid and has sufficient funds. This charge is temporary and will generally be cancelled within 24 hours.

Does fortnite collect data?

We collect some information automatically when you visit, access, or use the Epic Services.

Can Blizzard sell your phone number?

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), gives residents of the state of California the right to prevent businesses from selling their personal information. Blizzard takes your privacy very seriously. We do not sell your personal information.

Does Overwatch sell your phone number?

Blizzard requires a phone number with certain plans and requires voice recording, if anyone is unaware, they could be selling your phone number to third parties, breaching your privacy. Voice is only recorded using the ingame voice chat.

Does Overwatch punish you for leaving games?

In addition to a 75% penalty to all XP gains, players who leave a game early are restricted from joining a new competitive game for a short amount of time and could eventually lose their skill rating and end up getting banned from the current Overwatch 2 competitive season if they leave several ranked matches.

Does Blizzard delete your characters?

Yes, within 120 days of deletion. After the above retention periods, deleted characters are purged from the database and will no longer be visible on the character restoration list. Customer support cannot delete characters from the restoration list.

Does Blizzard care about bots?

The answer is no. They don't really care, Bots pay a subscription , Bots farm gold, and Botters sell that gold to players who pay a subscription and otherwise wouldn't play if they had to farm the 10s of thousands of gold they've bought in classic themselves.

Are overwatch chats recorded?

Players who do not want their voice chat recorded have the option to toggle off voice chat in the Sound Tab of the game's settings; otherwise, by using the voice chat functionality in Overwatch 2, you understand that communication may be recorded and actioned based on our Code of Conduct.

Why would a gamer want a VPN?

A good VPN for gaming protects you from DDoS attacks, reduces the risk of swatting, allows you to play games safely on public Wi-Fi, helps you avoid bandwidth throttling, enables you to play geo-blocked games, makes some new releases available early, and can – in some cases – reduce lag and ping times.

Why should you not always use a VPN?

Using a VPN at home is preferable, advised even, but it isn't always essential. The main reason it may not be necessary, is that your internet activity should already be shielded by your password-protected Wi-Fi network. The other concern is connecting to a remote server can slow your connection speed.

Will Blizzard ban me for using a VPN?

VPN use is not “supported” in that Blizz won't help you set it up or approve it. However, they don't prohibit it in most of their games. In rare cases it can cause a false positive with cheating detection routines - but IP is not the only thing they are looking for so that is not a common cause of problems.

Does Blizzard ban for swearing?

Blizzard reply in regards to the chat filter: Can you get banned for swearing? Yes. The mature language filter is in place to allow parents of minors and others who do not wish to see it, the ability to block it.

What happens if Blizzard catches you buying gold?

There is far less than a 1% chance you will be suspended or banned for buying gold. And even if you are it'll be a few days suspension then you can just go buy gold again. I wouldnt say that's much of a consequence.

Will Activision delete a banned account?

We maintain a zero-tolerance policy against cheating. The security team carefully monitors to ensure fair play and will actively remove players who do not adhere to these policies. The account holder is responsible for any infraction on the account.