PoorlyAged Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Subsequent to the repeal of America's Internet Privacy Law, Bethesda.net has changed their Privacy Policy. The highlights below are mine "Personal Information. "Generally, personal information is information that identifies you or that can be used to contact you online or offline. As noted, the information that ZeniMax collects from you varies depending upon the product, service, or system. This information may include your name, credit or debit card information, email address, phone number, home address, zip code, country, birth date, mobile phone number, IP or MAC addresses, mobile device identifiers (e.g., UDID), and console device identifiers (e.g., XUID and PUID)." Bethesda is collecting and sharing enough information to commit credit card fraud. But here is the scariest part. "Security of Your Information "The security of your information is important to us. ZeniMax takes reasonable precautions against possible breaches of our websites and customer databases. However, no website or Internet transmission is completely secure. Thus, ZeniMax cannot and does not guarantee that unauthorized access, hacking, data loss, or other breaches will never occur. We urge you to take steps to keep your personal information safe, such as choosing strong password and keeping it private, as well as logging out of your user account, and closing your web browser when finished playing or using the services." Basically,They will try to protect your data but if it gets hacked you are on your own. They want you to take responsibility if they get hacked. So I will. I am never going back there again. Read the full Policy here. It contains instructions for opting out of some of the data collection and sharing which a little less draconian than my decision to never go there again. But their 'opt out' options comes with caveats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyYou Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 No one can 100% guarantee that they are 'hack proof', and zenimax is just doing the CYA thing there. Why would they have your credit card information in any event? I am not entirely sure they even have my real name.... They do have one of my email addresses, but, they don't have the password to it...... I don't see the issue here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark0ne Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 This looks pretty bog standard to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iXenite Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 Most of the things you list they shouldn't have access to anyway. Things like your address, zip code, credit/debit info, etc. are all things I've never been asked to provide to them, and I see no reason why they would. No website it safe from hacking, Amazon has access to all of those sorts of information but still shop there regardless of the risk of hacking. It's just a legal "document" to protect them from any liability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMastersSon Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 (edited) I can't find anything that alarms me in that policy. No website can absolutely guarantee the security of its data, and any site that does guarantee it is lying. IMO it's standard CYA legalese as others have said. The basic rule is, if YOU decide to trust your personal data to the internet, it's YOUR problem for being so naive and/or stupid. Edited April 19, 2017 by TheMastersSon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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