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@ -14,24 +14,24 @@ By joining and contributing to our services, you acknowledge that it is running
If you do not agree with all of our policies and practices, do not use our services. If you have any questions or concerns, contact us at info@programming.dev.
# Site Usage by Children:
## Site Usage by Children:
All of our services are directed towards people who are at least 16 years old. We do not knowingly collect personal information from people under the age of 16. If you are under the age of 16, please do not use our services. If we learn that personal information from people who are less than 16 years old has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to delete the data from our records.
# What do we use your information for?
## What do we use your information for?
Any information we collect from you may be used in the following ways:
- To provide the core functionality of our services such as being able to comment on other people's posts or subscribing to communities when you are logged in.
- To aid in moderation of our services, for example to detect vote manipulation.
- To send you information, notifications about other people interacting with your content or sending you messages, or notifications for new posts created, if you opt in to any of these options in the settings. We may also use it to respond to you about inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.
# What information do we collect?
## What information do we collect?
**Account/Profile Information:**
- When creating an account on one of our services you may be asked to enter in a username and password. You may also enter additional information into optional fields such as: email, display name, profile picture, banner image, matrix ID, location, birthday, language, and biography.
- Currently (as of February 10, 2024), all of the optional fields are always listed publicly; your password and email is kept private.
**Service Provided User Actions:**
- On any of our services, when performing an action such as commenting the date and time (during when the action is taken) is recorded in addition to saving the content and any media attachments (pictures and/or videos) alongside the performed action. All of this information is publicly available due to the nature of federation which uses the [ActivityPub protocol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub). <font color= "orange">The actions made by users of our services is duplicated and stored on external communities/instances that are federated with our services. (this sentence can probably be revised)</font>
- Actions in the context of our provided services and Privacy Policy may include:
- On any of our services, when performing an action the date and time (during when the action is taken) is recorded in addition to saving the content and any media attachments (pictures and/or videos) alongside the performed action. All of this information is publicly available due to the nature of federation which uses the [ActivityPub protocol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub). <font color= "orange">The actions made by users of our services is sent to other instances using the ActivityPub protocol and then stored on their servers so that they can display the actions correctly on their instances.</font>
- Actions in the context of our provided services and Privacy Policy may include (not exhaustive):
1. Creating/editing a post or comment.
2. Voting/reacting on a post or comment.
3. Subscribing to a community or magazine.
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- Image embedded metadata [(Exif data)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exif), on images hosted on our services are scrubbed/erased by default due to the use of [pict-rs as our image hosting service](https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs/src/branch/main).
- Your IP address and email remains private to our services. However, due to the nature of federated services, all of your engagement (profile, posts, comments, messages, votes, etc.) on our services should be considered public and you are responsible for taking appropriate precautions in how you interact with our services. It is highly recommended that you do not share any publicly identifying information on our sites, products, or services.
# How do we protect your information?
## How do we protect your information?
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information. Among other things, your browser session, as well as the traffic between your applications and the API, are secured with SSL, and your password is hashed using a strong one-way algorithm. You may also enable two factor authentication to further protect your account.
# What is our data retention policy?
## What is our data retention policy?
We will make a good faith effort to:
- Retain server logs containing the IP address of all requests to this server, in so far as such logs are kept, no more than 1 day.
- Retain the IP addresses and name of your browser application associated with logins for no more than 1 day.
You may irreversibly delete your account at any time. However, this does not guarantee all instances will be notified or respect the deletion of your public data.
# Do we use cookies?
## Do we use cookies?
We use cookies for specific functionalities, which includes Cloudflare clearance and JWT (JSON Web Token) authentication purposes.
- Cloudflare clearance: Cookies provided by Cloudflare to store the proof of passing a Cloudflare challenge.
- JWT: A token to allow you to access and interact with our services after logging in.
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Please note that you can manage or disable cookies through your browser settings. However, disabling these essential cookies may impact the functionality and security of services.
# Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
## Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
We do not sell, trade, or transfer your personal information to outside parties. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our services, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.
Your public content may be downloaded by other servers using the [ActivityPub protocol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub), as well as direct messages to the servers of the recipients.