Privacy Policy and Cookies
Privacy on this website
In brief this website assumes that anything you do not post on the forum is private and should stay that way. Your registration information is not stolen, shared, nor sold on, and no other mad stuff is done with it. Your dealings on here are with this website only.
Apart from if you are a spammer then we will share everything we have with other forums - see 'the forum' section below for more details.
But everyone leaves a trace behind when you use the internet. This page describes what your trace is on this site, who knows about it, how to avoid leaving that trace, and even how to request to have it removed.
Cookies
I'm trying to avoid the normal splash screen that you have to blindly click yes to before accessing the site. Yes we have some essential cookies and they are needed to make the site work. Cookies are small unique text files stored on your computer that the website can ask for to save you the bother of logging in on every page.
The forum uses cookies for authentication. 'xf_user' and 'xf_session' are cookies used for this purpose. These cookies allow the forum to remember you have logged in so that you don't have to log in again on every visit.
There is a further cookie called 'eucookie' which remembers not to show you the cookie/privacy message after you have dismissed it.
If you do not wish to accept these cookies you can set up your browser to refuse all cookies, or if you get really clever with the options in your browser you could refuse cookies only from this website. The site won't work quite so well if you refuse cookies which is why we have them in the first place.
We do not have Google advertising or any other third party cookies on this site which is the sort of thing that prompted all this cookie nonsense in the first place.
The forum
The email address you submit when you register with the forum is not visible to other members and is not disclosed to any third parties.
The exception to this rule is where spammers register just to post spam. For spammers we may share your registration email address, IP address and username with an anti-spam database to help other forums reduce their spam registrations.
All information you submit to the forum is stored in the database and is visible to the website owner via direct interrogation of the database. Passwords are encrypted in the database so nobody can see those. If somebody reports your private message the admin and moderators will be sent a copy.
The 'private' sections of the forum are intended to be visible to all members but not visible to Google search or anyone who has not registered to use the forum. But it is possible that internet robots could register on the forum, see the private section of the forum, then publish the information elsewhere.
By default the the forum will send an email to alert you of a new private message. You can change this setting in your options page.
Members should be aware that you are solely responsible for the legal position of any posting that you make on this forum and, if we receive a demand to divulge a member's details as part of a proposed or in-progress legal action, then it is likely that we will comply with that request.
You may request that we remove any personal information on the forum by sending a private message to a moderator.
Links to other sites
The website and forum often contains links to other websites. We can't vouch for them.
You can avoid those other websites by sticking around here. It's a much nicer place than those other sites anyway.