Misago Forums Privacy Policy
The Misago Forums located at the misago-project.org address are administrated and operated by Rafał Pitoń, an Polish national located in Poland.
The administrator may be contacted by an e-mail message sent to rafio.xudb@gmail.com or on the site where he uses the account named rafalp.
The site is served from the computers located in Frankfurt, Germany, and leased from the DigitalOcean, LLC (www.digitalocean.com). Site data is also backed up daily to computers located in Dublin, Ireland, and leased from Google Ireland Limited (www.google.com).
Processing of personal data
Misago Forums is an internet social networking site and discussion forum that connects people interested in the Misago forum software.
To realise this goal the site allows potential users to create user accounts by providing their username and e-mail address or by transfering their data from supported third party service, and to use this account to publish content on the site for other users to see and interact with.
In the case that third party service was used to create an account on the site, the data tranfered from the service is stored only for the duration of account creation process, but no longer than 14 days.
Users can optionally make additional information about them publicly available by making it part of the content they are publishing on the site.
E-mail address is used to send notifications about new content published on site by other users as well as to allow them to safely confirm their account sign in credentials (e-mail address and password) change, to generate new ones in case user has forgot their password, and for site administrator to send notifications about important events concerning the user.
The side records IP addresses of users when they are using the site's features to enable the site staff to block eventual abuse, technical attacks or violations of site's terms of service.
Personal data is stored until it or user account associated with it is deleted by the user owning the account, member of the site staff or site administrator.
Data security
Username as well as any other information about user that they decide to make available by making it part of published content is accessible by everyone with accesses to the site.
User e-mail and IP addresses are only accessible to the site administrator, unless the user has decided to make them publictly available as part of content they published on site.
Cookies
Cookies are small bits of information that the site may store on user computer and then access when user is browsing the site.
Misago Forums use cookies to provide the log in feature and to secure forms that users submit.
The site also uses Google Analytics service to collect anonymized information about it's visitors that allows site administrator to improve browsing experience for its audience. Google Analytics uses cookies to track browsing behaviour of users interacting with the site. Those cookies are not transfered outside of the site and can't be used to identify the user.
To learn more about Google Analytics, see Google's Privacy policy for partner sites.
You may disable Google Analytics on all sites that you are visiting by installing official browser extension.
Granted rights
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR for short) grants users certain rights concerning the processing of their personal data, amongst which are:
- the right to know what data about you is being held and processed
- the right to rectify any inaccurate personal data
- the right to be forgotten
- the right to restriction of processing
- the right to object to processing
User may exert their rights through the options made available to them by the site or by contacting the site administrator.
To learn more about your rights, please see the complete text of the General Data Protection Regulation available here.