LEAGUE OF LEGENDS®
Effective date: 25th May 2018
Welcome to Riot Games! Our cookie policy explains the types of cookies and other similar tracking technologies that we and our partners apply when you visit or use the Riot services.
When we say ‘Riot Games,’ we’re referring to Riot Games Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Riot Games, Inc., and its subsidiaries. When we refer to ‘Riot services’, we mean League of Legends and any other games, websites, apps and services that link to this policy, regardless of how you access or use them, including through mobile devices.
Our cookie policy should be read in conjunction with the Privacy policy for the Riot services in your region. By using or accessing the Riot services, you’re consenting to the practices described below (except to the extent you choose to disable them).
“Cookies” are small pieces of data (often text files) that are placed on your computer or device by the Riot services that you visit or our partners. As a standard feature of major browser applications, cookies are widely used to make online services work or operate more efficiently, as well as to provide info to the providers of those online services about your browsing experiences. When you return to those same online services again, your browser sends the previously stored cookies back to the online service which allows it to recognise you and remember important info to make your use of the online services more personalized or convenient, such as by remembering your saved preferences.
We and our partners also use other technologies, including data stored on your web browser or device, identifiers associated with your device and other software for similar purposes. This includes the following:
In this policy, we refer to all of these and similar technologies as “cookies.” These technologies can be used to recognise when your device does things. For instance, they may recognise when you visit pages on our or others’ sites, use parts of an app or when you open emails we send you, or links in technologies.
We and our partners use cookies to automatically record some info about how you use and navigate the Riot services and to recognize use of the Riot services. This, in particular, helps to identify you, analyze, improve and secure the Riot services and to personalise content and features and tailor and measure ads, both on and off the Riot services.
Whilst the cookies used on the Riot services change from time to time as we improve and update the Riot services, they generally fall into the below categories of use:
We and our partners may link any of the information we collect through cookies and other technologies (such as browser history):
Cookies may be placed on your device by Riot Games as the operator of the Riot services. These cookies are called “first party” cookies. Some cookies may also be placed on your device, when using the Riot services, by one of our partners. These cookies are called “third party” cookies and are used to provide services to us and others. Therefore, some cookies that have been set on the Riot services are not related to Riot Games. When you visit a Riot service with content embedded from, say Google’s DoubleClick, Nanigans.com or Ad4game.com, these partners may set their own cookies on your web browser. These record your visit to the Riot services and this info is shared with other organisations such as advertisers.
We do not control third party cookies and cannot access them due to the way that cookies work, as cookies can only be accessed by the party who originally set them. Please read our partners privacy policies to ensure you are comfortable with how they use cookies. To learn more about companies that provided “third party” cookies on Riot services and how they use information about you, click here.
When you visit a page with content embedded from, for example, YouTube or Facebook or social media widgets like the Facebook like button, these service providers may use their own cookies or similar technologies. We do not control them.
Where the relevant Riot service has the Cookie Consent Tool incorporated, you can use it to refuse or accept cookies from the Riot services at any time.
You can find out more about how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and disable them at All About Cookies. You can also find info about how to enable or disable cookies on your Internet browser provider’s website via your help screen.
To learn more about how advertisers generally use cookies and the choices they offer, you can review the following resources:
If you want to clear all cookies left behind by online services including the Riot services you have visited, here are links where you can download programs that clean out tracking cookies: Lavasoft and Spybot.
Cookie management tools provided by your browser will not remove Flash Cookies. To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for Flash Cookies, please consult the instructions provided by Adobe here.
When you install our apps, SDKs are installed. You cannot deactivate an SDK. Consequently, do not install our apps if you are not happy with the use of SDKs.
We do not control third party cookies and cannot access them due to the way that cookies work, as cookies can only be accessed by the party who originally set them. You should check the third party websites for more info about these cookies. To learn more about companies that provided “third party” cookies through Riot services and how to manage their cookies, click here.
Please note that opting-out of interest-based advertising won’t necessarily entirely prevent info from being collected automatically on the Riot services, and it doesn’t mean you’ll receive fewer ads or stop them from being displayed. Instead, the ads you do receive won’t be interest-based any longer and, therefore, might be less relevant to your interests.
Please be aware that if cookies are disabled, not all features of the Riot services may operate as intended.
To learn more about opting out of Google Analytics, which uses cookies as well as your IP address, click here.
Our services don’t respond to Internet browser “Do Not Track” signals. Some newer Internet browsers incorporate DNT features. If activated, these features often send a signal to the services you visit indicating that you don’t want to be tracked in some way. Those services (or content on them placed by third parties) may continue to engage in activities you may view as tracking even though you’ve expressed this preference, depending on the service’s privacy practices.
Because there is not yet a common understanding of how to interpret the DNT signal, Riot Games does not currently respond to browser DNT signals on the Riot services.
We may update our policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, legislation, our operations, or as we otherwise determine is necessary or appropriate. Any such changes will become effective when we make the revised policy available on or through the Riot services. We encourage you to review the “Effective date” legend above frequently to ensure you are aware of when our policy was last revised, and to help you better understand the nature of your interactions with the Riot services.
If you have any questions about this policy or our privacy practices, please send them to us via email at privacy@riotgames.com or via postal mail at the address listed below.
Riot Games Limited
P.O. Box 11989,
Dublin 2,
Ireland