Privacy - LUGBZ Forum

What information do we collect?

We collect information from you when you register on our site and gather data when you participate in the forum by reading, writing, and evaluating the content shared here.

When registering on our site, you may be asked to enter your name and e-mail address. You may, however, visit our site without registering. Your e-mail address will be verified by an email containing a unique link. If that link is visited, we know that you control the e-mail address.

When registered and posting, we record the IP address that the post originated from. We also may retain server logs which include the IP address of every request to our server.

What do we use your information for?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

To personalize your experience — your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs.
To improve our site — we continually strive to improve our site offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you.
To improve customer service — your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs.
To send periodic emails — The email address you provide may be used to send you information, notifications that you request about changes to topics or in response to your user name, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.

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.

What is your data retention policy?

We will make a good faith effort to:

Retain server logs containing the IP address of all requests to this server no more than 90 days.

Do we use cookies?

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 and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.

Used Cookies

Name	Essential	Expires	Purpose
coupon_code	Yes	24 hours	Applies the corresponding discount to a trial signup via promotional campaign
referral_code	Yes	24 hours	Applies the corresponding referral code to a trial signup via referral URL

In addition, look at the privacy notice for your specific forum to find out which cookies that forum uses. By default, all Discourse forums use these cookies:

Name	Essential	Expires	Purpose
email	Yes	Session	remembers your e-mail as you create an account
destination_url	Yes	Session	helps redirect you to your requested page after logging in
sso_destination_url	Yes	Session	helps redirect you to your request page after single sign on
sso_payload	Yes	Session	used during SSO authentication when two-factor authentication is enabled
authentication_data	Yes	Next Page View	temporarily stores user information during login flows
theme_ids	Yes	1 year	remembers your theme personalization if you don’t tick “Make this my default theme on all my devices”
color_scheme_id	Yes	1 year	remembers your color personalization if you don’t tick “Set default colour scheme(s) on all my devices”
dark_scheme_id	Yes	1 year	remembers your color personalization if you don’t tick “Set default colour scheme(s) on all my devices”
cn	Yes	Session	temporarily stores notification read state
_bypass_cache	Yes	Session	allows the server-side cache to be bypassed during login flows
_t	Yes	1440 Hours	remembers who you are when you log in
_forum_session	Yes	Session	associates an ID, and other security-related information, with your browsing session
dosp	Yes	Next Page View	enables client denial of service protection, a security protection
text_size	Yes	1 year	remembers default text size when a user wants to change it on only one device
cookietest	Yes	Session	checks if cookies are enabled when authentication fails
__profilin	No	Session	used by software developers to bypass rack-mini-profiler

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?

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 ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Third party links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our site. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

Our site, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older. If this server is in the USA, and you are under the age of 13, per the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), do not use this site.