Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., by and through itself and/or its licensees and affiliates, considers cheating through the use of “unauthorized third party programs†to be a gross violation of the World of Warcraft Terms of Use Agreement (“TOUâ€) and/or the World of Warcraft End User License Agreement (“EULAâ€) that you have accepted in order to view this notice. An “unauthorized†third party program as used herein shall be defined as any third party software, including, without limitation, any “Add-on†or “Mod†that in Blizzard Entertainment’s sole determination:
(i) Enables or facilitates cheating of any type;
(ii) allows users to modify or “hack†the World of Warcraft user interface, environment, and/or experience in any way not expressly allowed by Blizzard Entertainment in the EULA and/or the TOU;
(iii) intercepts, mines, or otherwise collects information from or through World of Warcraft.
In an effort to combat the efforts of those individuals who are willing to violate the EULA and/or the TOU, Blizzard Entertainment utilizes an “anti-cheating†utility that runs as part of World of Warcraft. This “anti cheating†utility performs limited scans of:
(i) the Random Access Memory (“RAMâ€) that is occupied by the World of Warcraft program to confirm that the World of Warcraft program has not been altered or “hacked†in violation of the World of Warcraft Terms of Use;
(ii) the World of Warcraft ‘process’ to determine if any unauthorized third party programs or computer code has been attached to the World of Warcraft process; and
(iii) the Windows Process List to determine if any confirmed hacking or cheating programs are presently open in violation of the World of Warcraft Terms of Use.
The information that is obtained from this activity is communicated to Blizzard, who uses it solely to determine if the computer that a World of Warcraft user is using to log-on to World of Warcraft has any unauthorized third party programs, ‘hacks,’ or ‘cheats’ that violate the World of Warcraft Terms of Use Agreement, and is not used for any marketing purposes, and will never be sold, leased or otherwise transferred to any third party. Also, note that other than the previously mentioned scanning activity, Blizzard currently does not employ any other scans of the computer that you use to play World of Warcraft are performed.
In the event that World of Warcraft detects an unauthorized third party program, Blizzard may in its sole determination:
(a) Communicate information back to Blizzard Entertainment, including without limitation your account name, details about the unauthorized third party program(s) detected, and the time and date the unauthorized third party program was detected; and/or
(b) exercise any or all of its rights under the TOU, with or without prior notice to you.
