VoidScout (this website + the VoidScout / VoidRaidTools / VoidRaidToolsReader addons) collects information about World of Warcraft characters and uses it to provide scoring and analysis features. This page describes what we collect, why, how long we keep it, and how to remove it.
What we collect
From the in-game addons (when the user has consented)
Equipped gear — item links per slot for the player AND for any other player they've inspected or mouseovered (item ID, enchants, gems, transmog).
Achievements visible via the inspection API (boss kill achievements, season titles).
8-axis behavioral scores derived from Blizzard's damage meter API for the user and their party.
Boss cast events (ETEA payloads) and friendly aura traces from active raid encounters.
Position samples — the user's own map position only. Never other players' positions.
Combat log files when uploaded by the user.
From Blizzard's public Armory API (server-side, no user consent involved)
For characters already known to us, we periodically refresh: name, realm, class, race, faction, level, guild, equipped gear, achievements, raid progress, Mythic+ score.
This is the same data anyone can request via Blizzard's documented public API.
What we do not collect
Chat or whisper content
Bag contents, bank contents, currency, mailbox
Account-level data, Battle.net data (we don't have Battle.net OAuth integration)
System info or hardware fingerprints
Data from players not visible to the contributing user's client
Website visit counts
This site uses Google Analytics and Cloudflare Web Analytics to count visits; no personal information is collected.
Cloudflare Web Analytics uses no cookies. Google Analytics sets cookies, so visitors in the EU, EEA, UK and
Switzerland are asked first: Google Analytics stays off for them until they choose Accept
on the banner. You can change your choice at any time:
Whose data we collect
Anyone whose character data is publicly visible via in-game inspection or the Blizzard API. This includes characters that have never installed our addons. If you're in a public pug raid with someone running VoidRaidTools Reader, the Reader records the encounter and uploads it — your name, class, spec, and the boss casts you witnessed are in that session.
This is the same operational model used by Warcraft Logs, Archon, RaiderIO, and similar services. We're aware it's a limited consent model and offer the opt-out below to address it.
How we use the data
Scoring features used by raid leaders to evaluate applicants (the /api/character/<name> endpoint, the addon tooltip)
Mythic+ key probability score, Raid probability score
Leaderboards (top players per axis per region)
Per-fight drill-down pages (/fight/<sid>) showing what happened in a pull
Boss mechanic discovery — aggregating ETEA captures across many pulls to identify which boss spell IDs actually fire
Retention
Player profile data: kept while it has been updated within the last 90 days, then aged out.
Per-fight summaries: kept for 1 year, then aggregated to monthly stats and the raw fight rows deleted.
Session captures: kept indefinitely while they support active correlations; raw payloads aged out after 90 days.
Combat log raw events: kept 60 days then deleted.
Your rights
Right to access — your data is publicly visible at /character/<region>/<realm>/<name>.
Right to deletion — submit the opt-out form. Processing is automatic; your data is removed within minutes and the next addon bundle (within 24h) drops you from in-game tooltips.
Right to be excluded from future collection — the same opt-out form adds you to a permanent block list. Future ingestion that mentions your identity is scrubbed before insertion.
Limitations of consent
The in-game addon consent dialog only covers the data uploaded by the user who installed the addon. We are aware this means we collect data on characters who have not personally consented. The opt-out mechanism is the available remedy.
Third parties
We do not sell, rent, or share your data with third parties for advertising purposes.
We use Cloudflare for hosting + CDN; standard request logs are kept for security and rate-limiting.
We are not affiliated with Blizzard Entertainment.
Contact
For questions about this policy or your data, open an issue on github.com/bughatti/voidscout-web. We don't currently have a dedicated email; if that changes we'll update this page.
This privacy policy is informational. It is not legal advice. We are working on having it reviewed by a privacy lawyer; consult your own counsel before relying on any specific representation here.