Wayfarer Ban Appeal
BadWolf0081-PGO
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Where can I appeal a ban from Wayfarer? I was perma banned from Ingress ages ago, the exact reason is still unknown but i'm assuming it was flagged for multi accounting when playing together with someone else, we were new at the time.
I was not given any strikes, and I'm ok with the Ingress ban, I didn't play it much at the time and was only level 4. What I am upset about is not being able to access wayfarer even though in Pogo i'm 100% in good standing and have never had any warnings of any kind. This has caused me to not be able to edit submissions, withdraw duplicates, and now it will prevent me from earning a future wayfarer badge i'm reading about.
I tried appealing through Ingress but get no reply, i'm assuming because it was so long ago? Can anyone help me? or is my level 40 pogo account with go fest and safari zone badges doomed to be treated like a leapur?
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You would have to put in a request through the support site to have your Ingress account deleted. And even then, it may not remove the block on Wayfarer. But you cannot appeal your ban on the forums.
Which forums do I go to appeal? I asked ages ago for a delete and they refused. I did an appeal through their regular process and got denied way back right after it happened. They don't even reply to my appeals now.
I'm pretty sure that Niantic cannot refuse a request to delete an account since that would violate EU privacy laws. But that doesn't mean they will overturn a Wayfarer ban if there is evidence showing that you abused your Wayfarer account.
Many people have reported that their requests to delete an account have been refused due to "pending litigation". If one judge tells them to keep some data, another one can't force them to delete that data.
Does that apply in this case? I don't know, those comments about litigation are usually linked to Pokemon Go accounts.
Besides that I'm not sure that the EU privacy laws allows an individual to force the deletion of the data, surely not if there's any payment involved.
Yes, EU law does give individuals the right to force deletion of data. The relevant law is Article 17 (and potentially article 21) of the GDPR.
I'm on the same boat as OP, Ingress account was banned, Pokemon Go is now 39 and has access to wayfayer and cannot access it, tried the methods above to no luck, thinking of going through Pokemon Support to see what they'll do because they won't touch the Ingress account.
being as it is an ingress issue all the pokemon support team will tell you is take it up with the ingress team. and they will only tell you what they already have.