Privacy

Your information

Battle.net login provides an account identifier, BattleTag, and the World of Warcraft characters available to the account. We compare those characters with the current Raining Embers and Raining Embers Alts rosters to confirm access and leadership permissions. The site does not request your Battle.net password or email address.

Members may add profile details, posts, comments, reactions, friendships, messages, uploaded images or videos, quest progress, and other community activity. Private messages are available only to conversation participants, except for the narrow message snapshot a participant deliberately includes in a report to guild leaders.

Recruitment applicants choose one Battle.net-owned character and use a private conversation shared with authorized guild leaders. Leadership may add notes that are visible only to other authorized leaders; those notes are never included in applicant pages or responses.

Analytics and tag management

Google Analytics measures reviewed public-page visits using sanitized URLs without query or fragment values, account details or private page titles. Private and unfamiliar routes do not queue GA4 page views. Google Tag Manager manages the website's installed tags. It is not itself a replacement analytics report or a consent exemption. The currently inspected container has no published measurement tags, so the existing Google Analytics installation remains the only GA4 reporter. Google advertising and analytics storage consent defaults to denied; visiting the site does not change that choice to granted. Cookie-free reporting can still send data to a provider. Microsoft Clarity has been removed from the website; session recording is not enabled.

Storage and sharing

Structured community records are stored in the site database and uploaded media is kept in private object storage. Media is served through permission-checked site routes rather than public bucket links. We do not sell member information. Blizzard receives the normal OAuth and API requests needed for login and character verification. Supported external video players load only after a member chooses to open an embed.

Facebook integration

The website loads Meta's Facebook JavaScript SDK asynchronously using the guild's configured Facebook application. It enables Facebook cookies and embedded Facebook markup. Public pages request a page-view event through Facebook App Events; visits to Members Only and leadership tools are excluded from page-view reporting. Meta handles information received by its SDK under its Privacy Policy. Facebook application secrets and connected account tokens remain encrypted on the server.

Authorized guild leaders can connect Facebook Pages to the Social Media Planning/Metrics. With the permissions granted by the Page owner, the site reads Page identifiers, published content, native performance measurements, and accessible comments and Messenger conversations. Imported audience records can include names, platform identifiers, message text, dates and links. Only authorized guild leaders can access these records, use internal notes, and request supported publishing, replies or moderation actions.

Social content is sent to the connected ChatGPT assistant only when a leader selects the evidence and presses a manual assistant or sentiment-analysis button. The request uses the paired desktop companion and its OpenAI connection. Importing content, refreshing a page and scheduling a post do not send content to AI. AI suggestions do not automatically publish, reply, report or block an account.

Facebook data deletion instructions

An authorized guild leader with leadership access can open Social Media Planning/Metrics → Connections and choose Disconnect & delete imported data for the Facebook Page. This removes its stored connection credentials, imported conversations and contacts, internal audience notes and activity, and native analytics observations, and cancels pending jobs. It also clears stored assistant requests and results and saved report snapshots. Draft content, publication records, assistant thread titles and job records may remain as operational history. To request removal of personal information copied into those remaining records, contact leadership using the deletion-request instructions below. Disconnecting does not delete posts or conversations on Facebook itself.

To revoke Meta's permissions, also remove Raining Embers Social tools in Facebook's Business Integrations settings. Removing Meta access and deleting the site's imported data are separate actions.

If you are an audience member and want your Facebook comments or messages removed from this site's records, send a deletion request to the Raining Embers Guild Facebook Page. Include the affected post or conversation and your public profile link so leadership can identify the records and verify the request. Do not include your password, app secret or access token. Requests are reviewed by guild leadership; this page does not submit a request automatically.

Optional notifications

Email and device notifications are off by default. If you enable them, we store your chosen delivery preferences and the push subscription for each connected device. You can separately verify an email address; Battle.net does not provide it. When email delivery is configured, our email provider receives that verified address and a generic update with a link to the site. Push services receive an encrypted generic update. Private message text is not included. You can disable either delivery channel in Notification settings.

Merch Shop

The Merch Shop can be browsed without signing in. To keep the cart available across page refreshes, the site stores only an anonymous Fourthwall cart ID in your browser. Product catalog and cart requests pass through Raining Embers site routes to Fourthwall's storefront service. When you choose checkout, the site hands that cart to Fourthwall's hosted checkout.

Raining Embers does not link your Battle.net identity to Fourthwall, send your Battle.net email or account details to Fourthwall, or store Fourthwall order, shipping, or payment information. Information you provide during checkout is handled by Fourthwall under its Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

Twitch livestream

Optional Twitch sign-in reads your public Twitch profile and whether you follow or subscribe to Raining Embers. It does not request your email address or password. Authorization tokens are encrypted on the server, and a secure session cookie keeps you signed in for up to seven days. Signing out removes that website session; you can also revoke the app in Twitch settings. Website sign-in is separate from Twitch chat and Battle.net guild access.

Community leaderboards retain Twitch names and recorded support totals, including message counts. Chat message contents are not stored. Following, subscriptions, and Bits transactions are completed by Twitch using its own controls.

Retention and control

Guild access is removed after a successful verification confirms that none of the connected characters remain in either guild. The local community account is scheduled for deletion after six continuous months away and is restored if the member rejoins before that date. Members can reset a custom avatar, log out of their site session, or permanently delete their community account immediately from Settings.

Recruitment history is retained so applicants and leadership can refer to earlier decisions and conversations. Leaders can archive applications or permanently delete an application and its messages and notes. Account privacy deletion permanently replaces the connected account, character identity, message text, and leadership-note text while retaining only non-identifying status dates and aggregate counts.

Community reports

Raining Embers leaders review reports and disputes manually. The site does not use automated content judgment, toxicity scoring, or automatic disciplinary actions. Technical file, permission, quota, and rate checks protect the service without judging a post's subject.

Questions

Contact the guild leadership through the established guild channels or the Join Us page with questions about your data.

Updated October 11, 2026.