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Regarding EUGDPR laws from May 25th - Zarkaylia - 11-04-2018

From May 25th 2018 new laws regarding user data privacy will be enforced

New laws regarding user data privacy are imminent. Below is a short bucket list regarding what data this website collect or can collect from you as user and regarding the policies this site carries out to meet the new laws.

For more information please visit EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) .

By registering to this forum you DO agree to a license agreement. If this is updated in the near future due to these laws, you will be informed.

Data collected and what it's used for:
  • Email adress: This is collected upon registration in order to allow you to register to this forum and create your username. A confirmation and activation email is sent to the given adress. You may yourself chose to get emails to subscribed threads. You can chose to hide it in your user panel.
  • IP-adress: This is collected upon registration and website access and is used for administration and moderation purposes only. Administrators CAN view what IP-adress your account registered with as well as what IP-adress you logged in from last. The IP-adress may be used only for website and forum administration/moderation and security (example: banning an IP-adress or cross-checking IPs in suspicion of foul play). Should ANY type of user of this forum or website give you another user's IP-adress it is a direct violation of user agreements and laws and you should immediately report.
  • Non-mandatory data: This is data you add to your account biography or to this site yourself that this site does not handle or use in any other way than possibly when in need of moderation. It falls under your responsibility to not share sensitive information. Examples are: location, sex, gender, images, personal information, etc.

Your rights and what this site does to meet the new law requirements:

It is within your rights to...
  • Demand for all of, or parts of, your data to be removed.
  • Demand for us to give you all your private data in our database.
We can and will...
  • Delete your data upon request. NOTE: Deleting your email and/or IP adresses will delete your account as this is basic requirements for functionality. 
  • List all your data upon request and/or instruct you how to gather it yourself. Take note: Any of the non-mandatory data you can access with help of your profile and search bars and you can yourself delete or edit it without administrative involvement.
How is your data stored?
Your data is safely stored in a SQL database on a server run by our host. Protected by both encryption and sturdy safety measures not controlled by us.

Disclaimer regarding MyBB software
This website and forum is run on a free software called MyBB. This website's only responsibility when it comes to a safe software is to keep the software itself updated. We can not do more than that as we're not part of the development team of MyBB. Should the software falter there is however a number of other top-notch security measures protecting the site and all its data so there are little reason to fret.


Upon further questions, please contact Zarkaylia.