Privacy Policy

HootusPlootus (“Hootus”) is a free Discord bot and web companion for World of Warcraft Classic guilds. This policy explains what it collects, why, and the lines it does not cross. Plain version: Hootus holds the data it needs to run your raids and roster, keeps each Discord server walled off from every other, and never sells any of it.

What Hootus collects

• Discord account data. When the bot is in your server or you sign in to the web app, Hootus reads your Discord user ID, username, avatar, and the server memberships and roles relevant to guilds using Hootus. This comes through Discord’s own OAuth. Hootus never sees your Discord password.
• WoW character data. Character name, realm, class, spec, level, item level, and guild rank, pulled from Blizzard’s public game API. Hootus never asks for or sees your Battle.net login. You verify a character; you do not link a Battle.net account.
• Raid and guild activity. Signups, attendance, bench history, soft reserves, loot records, and the settings your officers configure.
• Voice timestamps for attendance. When you join or leave a raid’s voice channel during the raid window, Hootus records the time to mark attendance. It does not record, store, or listen to any audio.
• A session cookie. A signed cookie keeps you logged in to the web app. That is the only cookie Hootus sets, and it exists for sign-in, not tracking.

How it is used

To run the things you came for: posting raids, checking signups against class and spec, syncing your roster, handling recruitment and PUGs, and the web planner. Nothing else. There is no advertising, no profile building, and no behavioural tracking across the web.

What Hootus never does

• It does not sell your data or share it with advertisers.
• It does not mix data between guilds. Each Discord server is its own sandbox.
• It does not record voice audio.
• It does not see your Discord or Blizzard passwords.

Who it is shared with

Only the services needed to run Hootus: the hosting provider and database that store the data, and the APIs Hootus calls on your behalf (Discord and Blizzard). No other third parties, and never for their own marketing.

How long it is kept

Data is kept while the bot is in your server and you are part of a guild that uses it. Remove the bot from your server, or leave the guild, and Hootus stops collecting. You can ask for your data to be removed at any time through the support server linked from the bot.

Your choices

Officers control their guild’s settings. As a member you can unlink a character, leave, or request removal. Removing the bot from a server ends collection for that server.

Changes

If this policy changes, the updated version lands here with a new date at the top. Material changes will be called out in the changelog.

Not affiliated with Blizzard or Discord

HootusPlootus is an independent project. World of Warcraft and Battle.net are trademarks of Blizzard Entertainment. Discord is a trademark of Discord Inc. Hootus is not endorsed by either.