This privacy policy describes how forum.uncomfortable.business ("forum.uncomfortable.business", "we", "us") collects, protects, and uses the personally identifiable information you may provide through the forum.uncomfortable.business website or its API. The policy also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that forum.uncomfortable.business does not own or control, or to individuals that forum.uncomfortable.business does not employ or manage.
Basic account information: If you register on this server, you may be asked to enter a username, an e-mail address, and a password. You may also enter additional profile information such as a display name and biography, upload an avatar picture and header image, as well as provide a Matrix user name. The username, display name, biography profile picture, header image, and Matrix user are always listed publicly.
Posts, following, and other public information: The list of communities you follow or moderate are listed publicly. When you submit a message, the date and time is stored as well as the application you submitted the message from. Messages may contain media attachments, such as pictures and videos. All posts are available publicly. Your posts are delivered to all users who subscribe to the community you posted in, in some cases it means they are delivered to different servers, and copies are stored there. When you delete posts, this is likewise delivered to all servers subscribed to the community you have posted in. The action of voting on a post is always public.
Direct messages: All direct messages are stored and processed on the server. In some cases it means they are delivered to different servers and copies are stored there. We make a good-faith effort to limit access to those posts only to authorized persons, but other servers may fail to do so. Therefore it's important to review the servers for anyone your direct message is directed at. Please keep in mind that the operators of the server and any receiving server may view such messages and that recipients may screenshot, copy or otherwise re-share them. Do not share any sensitive information over Lemmy.
IPs and other metadata: When you log in, we record the IP address you log in from, as well as the name of your browser application. The latest IP address used is stored for up to 12 months. We also may retain server logs which include the IP address of every request to our server.
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in the following ways:
To provide the core functionality of Lemmy. You can only interact with other people's content and post your own content when you are logged in. For example, you may follow other communities to view their combined posts in your own personalized subscribed timeline.
To aid moderation of the community, for example comparing your IP address with other known ones to determine ban evasion or other violations.
The email address you provide may be used to send you information, notifications about other people interacting with your content or sending you messages, and to respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.
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 enable two-factor authentication to further secure access to your account.
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 90 days.
Retain the IP addresses associated with registered users for no more than 12 months.
You may irreversibly delete your account at any time.
Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow). These cookies enable the site to recognize your browser and, if you have a registered account, associate it with your registered account.
We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits.
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our site, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect our or others' rights, property, or safety.
Your public content may be downloaded by other servers in the network. Your public posts, comments, and votes are delivered to the servers where the community resides, and direct messages are delivered to the servers of the recipients, in so far as those followers or recipients reside on a different server than this.
When you authorize an application to use your account, depending on the scope of permissions you approve, it may access your public profile information, your subscribed communities list, your lists, all your posts, and your favorites. Applications can never access your e-mail address or password.
For users in the EU or the EEA: Our site, products, and services are all directed to people who are at least 16 years old. If you are under the age of 16, per the requirements of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) do not use this site.
For users in the USA: Our site, products, and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old. If you are under the age of 13, per the requirements of COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) do not use this site.
For all other regions: Our site, products, and services are all directed to people who are at least 18 years old, or whatever age your local jurisdiction requires.
The following policy is provided as a guideline for you to utilize to determine which content is and is not allowed by us.
This list is not comprehensive and is subject to change or expansion by the server administrator, community moderators, as well as any agents that may be delegated by the administrator or moderator.
Violations of this policy may result in us taking action against your account, which may include actions up to and including termination of your access to the forum.uncomfortable.business service. All decisions regarding moderation actions are at the discretion of the server administrator, moderators, or any appointed agents.
Each community may have additional rules or policies, and you should investigate any posted rules in the community prior to posting any content to ensure you're following community as well as server rules.
Please note that community rules do not supercede server rules, and any conflict between a community rule and server rule will be decided in favor of the server rule by the server administration team.
Communities hosted on remote servers will have different rules and policies, and any content you post to a community hosted on a remote server will be subject to moderation by their administration and moderation teams. All content posted by users of this Service on remote server hosted communities will additionally be subject to moderation action by us, and in the case of conflict between our server rules and the remote server rules, we'll decide any moderation issues using our rules.
If moderation action has been taken against your account, and you believe the action is in error, you can contact the server administrator at [email protected]. Please note that messages to this address may be viewed by multiple people, including the administrator or moderator that took the initial action, so do not send any personal information to this address.
In order for you to make a decision on if this instance of Lemmy is the correct one for your wants and needs, we are providing the following information regarding the administration, maintenance, and service arrangements of forum.uncomfortable.business:
Further, please note that this service is currently hosted on a single VM and does not currently have any high availability or fail-over provisions, and you should be aware of the possibility of extended outages when utilizing the service.
In the event of an outage or other service interruption, there is a status page available at https://monitor.uncomfortable.business/status/ucb which will provide availability statistics for Lemmy and any associated web user interfaces, as well as outage or service interruption information as well as planned maintenance notifications, if possible.
To the extent permitted by law, in no event will we be liable to you for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages (including damages for loss of profits, goodwill, or any other intangible loss) arising out of your access to or use of, or your inability to access or use the Service, whether based on warranty, contract, tort (including negligence), statute, or any other legal theory, and whether or not we have been informed of the possibility of damage. To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree we will have no liability for any data that may be destroyed, lost or otherwise rendered inaccessible.
Defederation: an action that will result in the removal and blocking of new content from a specific remote instance.
In order to facilitate the growth and expansion of the Lemmy network, we will attempt to only defederate from remote instances as a last resort to prevent harmful or illegal content from being sent to and stored on our service. We will, if possible, attempt to discuss and work with remote instance hosts prior to any action taken, but the final decision and timeline for any defederation action will be decided by the system administration team.
We may also take action in cases where the privacy, security, and safety of our users may be impacted by remaining federated with a malicious or harmful instance.
We may or may not post notice of any defederation action we take, but you can view the instances we do and do not federate with at https://forum.uncomfortable.business/instances at any time.
If you are a server administrator that has been defederated, and wishes to discuss this decision, you can contact the administration team at [email protected]
If you believe that your copyrighted work has been utilized in a way that constitutes copyright infringement and is accessible via this Server, please notify our copyright agent, as set forth in the Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998 ("DMCA").
For your complaint to be valid under the DMCA, you must provide the following information in writing:
Please submit the requested information to [email protected]
UNDER FEDERAL LAW, IF YOU KNOWINGLY MISREPRESENT THE MATERIAL THAT IS INFRINGING YOU MAY BE SUBJECT TO PROSECUTION FOR PERJURY AND CIVIL PENALTIES.