This is Riot Games' privacy policy — it explains what personal information they collect when you play their games (like League of Legends or Valorant), how they use it, and who they share it with. Riot collects a wide range of data including your account details, gameplay behavior, device information, and even payment data. Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, delete, or correct your personal data.
Technical Summary
This document is Riot Games' Privacy Notice governing the collection, use, storage, and disclosure of personal data from users of its games, websites, and related services. It establishes Riot's obligations as a data controller under applicable frameworks including GDPR (for EU/EEA users) and CCPA (for California residents), detailing lawful bases for processing, data subject rights, international data transfers, and retention periods. Notable provisions include the collection of device and gameplay telemetry, use of anti-cheat software with elevated system access, sharing of personal data with third-party service providers and advertising partners, and specific rights afforded to users in jurisdictions with enhanced privacy protections. The notice also addresses the treatment of minors' data and provides mechanisms for data access, deletion, correction, and portability requests.
Institutional Analysis
This notice engages GDPR (EU/EEA), UK GDPR, and CCPA/CPRA compliance obligations, including requirements around lawful bases for processing, data subject rights fulfillment, and international data tr…
This notice engages GDPR (EU/EEA), UK GDPR, and CCPA/CPRA compliance obligations, including requirements around lawful bases for processing, data subject rights fulfillment, and international data transfer mechanisms (such as Standard Contractual Clauses). Compliance teams should note the deploymen…
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Riot's Vanguard anti-cheat software runs at the kernel level of your operating system, giving it deep access to your device hardware and software to detect cheating. This means Riot can collect detailed system information beyond what typical apps access.
Riot shares your personal data — including gameplay behavior, device identifiers, and usage patterns — with third-party advertising and analytics companies to serve targeted ads and measure campaign performance.
Riot states it does not knowingly collect personal data from children below the age of digital consent in their country, and takes steps to restrict account creation and data collection for minors.
Riot may transfer your personal data to countries outside your home region, including the United States, which may have different or weaker privacy protections than your home country.
If you live in the EU, UK, or California, you have the right to access, correct, delete, or export your personal data, and in some cases to object to or restrict how it is processed.
Riot collects detailed data about how you play their games, including your in-game actions, match history, communication logs, and interaction patterns, to improve services and for other business purposes.
Riot retains your personal data for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide services, and may keep certain data for longer periods for legal, business, or security reasons.
Riot uses cookies and similar tracking technologies on its websites and in its games to collect data about your browsing and gameplay behavior, and to serve personalized advertising.