What does Plutonium mean by "using" my personal information?
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I think you get the concern.
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Every website must use your personal information to operate. The EU has a data protection law called GDPR - in our opinion it's a great law and helps to protect people. As part of that law, sites must tell people if their personal information is used and give them the right to delete their data. (You can delete your account on your profile in the top right)
As such, we follow all GDPR suggestions in terms of informing our visitors. We use information such as your email address, to send you password reset emails. Your IP address and the username you pick, so we can store your account details, connect you to game servers, load your stats etc etc
Those "do you want to allow cookies" noticies are part of GDPR too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation
I hope that helps explain
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Due to GDPR - some sites in the USA will block EU visitors because they'd rather not protect data well enough to meet GDPR requirements.
GDPR is only really important for companies, clan websites and such are not really going to follow it. We follow it as best as we can even though we are not a company simply because we agree with the principle behind it. Infact many of Plutonium Staff work in the IT sector and security and computer science.
