General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Compliance

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Compliance:

You agree that you're at least 16 years old if you are a resident or citizen of the European Union. Non-EU residents agree that they are a minimum age of 13.

You agree to use a pseudonym username that does not associate to your personal information. This includes, but is not limited to, association with social media accounts, websites you own or manage, ethnicity, location, school, workplace, emails accounts or your real name.

You agree that your posts will not contain information which may expose personally identifying information.

You agree that your profile signature, avatar, and other account editable data will not contain information that will identify you.

You agree that all data you submit to our website will not identify you and that we are not obligated to remove it based on personal privacy.

You agree that you will not post information which might identify another person. This includes but is not limited to emails, social media accounts, addresses, screenshots, or real names.

You agree that all posts and content posted meets the standard for "important public interests" or "journalism" and as such will not be required to be altered or deleted.

You agree that if you participate in using our website for deals, trades, sales, and other market activity that your personal information may be stored and even exposed for the purpose preventing, investigating, detecting, and prosecution of legal responsibility and liablility in both civil and criminal law.

You agree that our storage method of your data is within reason. Personal data is retained for a period up to 7 years and is stored in a database format accessible directly only by the administrators.

You consent that Staff group members may have access to the IP address of all posts, your registration IP, and your recently used IP.

You consent that Admin group members may have access to any IP address you've used on the site, your email address, and can have read access to your private message folders.

You agree that the exposure of your IP address to Staff and Admin group members is reasonable for site function.

You consent that site backups may be kept for up to a 6 month period and done on a daily basis. The stored information is only for site backup and recovery purposes and the data is not sold or shared and is kept securely according to internet standards on cloud datacenters.

You consent that data we have stored on your account may be downloaded only once per 30 day period. This will provide you the most accurate results of what we have stored. Data exports manually done more than once per 30 days will incur a $10 fee for processing.

You agree that your account may only be self-deleted if no posts are made.

You agree that in the event of a server change the data we store may be securely moved to a new location. We agree to inform you of a data move at least 3 days prior and provide you the option to close your account beforehand.

You agree that if you are not an EU citizen or resident that you do not fall under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) law. Citizens and residents of the EU may be required to prove your citizenship or residency to provide you the legal protections and rights of that law.

You agree that for our service to function correctly your IP address and browser information may be shared with our vendors such as Cloudflare.

You agree that for our email service to function correctly your IP address and email information may be shared with our email vendor Elastic Email. We agree not to sell your email.

We are not interested to know who you are. You should not reveal your real identity to members. Your participation on our forum should be done from an anonymous and privacy perspective. We agree to not share or sell your data with 3rd parties. This webpage informs all visitors of current policies and is kept current. Only those who consent and agree to site policies will be allowed site access.

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