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PoeHow connects to Grinding Gear Games (GGG) services to deliver value tracking, strategy insights, and community tools. This page explains what we collect, how we use it, and the controls you have over your information.
Last updated: November 2025
We store your Path of Exile UUID, display name, placeholder email, linked OAuth tokens, and timestamp of your last login. Strategy submissions and moderation actions you perform are tied to this record so you retain control over them.
We call GGG APIs only when you explicitly request a feature (e.g., importing stash tabs). Raw responses stay on the server and are dropped after the computation completes.
Outside of OAuth handshakes with GGG and optional Patreon linking, PoeHow does not embed advertising, analytics beacons, or social pixels.
Visit your profile's “Data Privacy Controls” card to export your data, anonymize past strategy submissions, unlink providers, or delete your account entirely.
Signing in with Path of Exile creates a PoeHow user in our database. The following fields are stored:
Your UUID and display name let us distinguish your submissions and personalize the interface. GGG never shares an email address, so we generate a placeholder in the format <uuid>@pathofexile.com that only satisfies our unique constraint and is not used for contact.
We track when you last authenticated so we can expire stale sessions and keep audit trails meaningful.
Access, and expiry details from GGG (and Patreon if linked) are stored encrypted server-side.
Administrative reviewers, moderators, and Patreon supporters receive roles that gate additional features. These can be revoked at any time.
If you optionally connect Patreon, we retrieve only the membership details required to confirm your tier and unlock supporter features.
We fetch Path of Exile data on-demand to drive specific tools:
Tab and item information is requested when you kick off an import. The server matches those items against our economy database to generate totals and then discards the source payload.
Player-entered results, notes, and loot tallies are saved so moderators can vet them and the community can reference them later. You can anonymize or delete these records from your profile.
We are currently testing out including character equipment and atlas passive choices with data submissions.
We do not resell or share gameplay data with third parties. Aggregated statistics may be published in guides or dashboards, but they are anonymized and cannot be linked back to an individual account.
GGG requires scopes to be declared during the OAuth handshake. The scope descriptions below are excerpted from the official developer documentation and paired with our usage notes.
Provides access to your basic Path of Exile profile information.
How PoeHow uses it
Create and maintain your PoeHow user record (display name, realm, guild) and prevent duplicate accounts.
Verify ownership before we allow actions that touch your Path of Exile data, such as initiating stash imports or linking Patreon.
Allows viewing the account’s stash tabs and the items inside them.
How PoeHow uses it
Stash import and valuation tools. We fetch only the tabs you ask us to process, compute the totals server-side, and discard the raw response after the request finishes.
Allows viewing the account’s characters and their inventories.
How PoeHow uses it
Support upcoming character analytics (loadout snapshots, farming templates). The scope must be granted up front, but we only call the character endpoints when you opt into those tools. We do not persist your full character roster today.
Allows viewing the account’s allocated Atlas passive skills.
How PoeHow uses it
Prepare atlas-aware recommendations and benchmarking features that tailor strategies to your passive tree. As with characters, we only read this data on demand and do not store your atlas layout verbatim.
We do not request any service:* scopes on behalf of regular users, nor do we gain the ability to change your account settings within Path of Exile.
Our PostgreSQL database is accessible only from service infrastructure. OAuth tokens never leave the server and are blocked from the client API responses. The tokens are encrypted at rest.
NextAuth issues HTTP-only cookies so your browser can stay signed in. They do not contain gameplay data and are cleared when you sign out or delete your account.
Administrative actions (moderation, price edits, anonymization) are written to an internal audit log to keep a trace of who changed what.
Data tied to community contributions (strategy results, pricing edits) is retained while it remains useful to the community. If you anonymize or delete your account we scrub player identifiers from those records as part of the process.
You can manage most requests instantly from your profile. For anything else, including regulatory inquiries, reach out to [email protected].
You can always revoke PoeHow's access from the official Path of Exile applications dashboard at pathofexile.com/my-account/applications.
Download a JSON snapshot of the data we hold about your account.
Replace your player identifiers on past strategy submissions while keeping the aggregated data live for the community.
Remove your PoeHow account and linked credentials. We also clear reviewer assignments and anonymize any submissions tied to you.
We may update this page as new tooling or regulations arrive. When that happens we will update the timestamp above and highlight meaningful changes in-app.
This product isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Grinding Gear Games in any way.