Privacy
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This page says, in plain words, what Netstalgia Online keeps about you, for how long, and who can see it.
What we keep and for how long- Your account: your screen name, the date you joined, the Terms version you accepted, a scrambled check of your password (never the password itself), a scrambled check of your recovery code, a count of recent failed sign-on attempts (to slow down password guessing), your Pals List and your blocks. Kept until you delete your account.
- Chat lines, instant messages and mail: 30 days, so that a report can be checked. Then they are deleted.
- Who was in which chat room, and when: 30 days, for the same reason.
- Reports and sanctions (warnings, mutes, suspensions, bans): until resolved + 1 year. A report keeps a copy of the reported text for that time.
- The moderation log (what the owner did, and why): 1 year.
- Server logs: counts only, never message text or web addresses. The one exception is the owner's admin console: when an administrator logs in, their network address is logged.
- Your network address: Your network address is used only in memory, for rate limits and the live-web relay; it is not stored.
- The live-web relay: hourly counts only, never web addresses.
- Your weather city and units: kept as a preference until you change them or delete your account.
- Radio: which station is playing is not stored.
- My Stations: the names and addresses of the stations you save are kept until you remove them or delete your account.
- Settings (start page, windows at sign-on, pal sounds, who may IM you, look and sounds): kept until you change them or delete your account.
- Poll of the Day: only the vote totals are kept, for 30 days. Your browser keeps a cookie with the day you voted, so you vote once.
Who can see it
Only the owner, who is also the moderator, and only to look into reports and keep the service running. Your data is never sold. It is not shared, with one exception: when you look up the weather, the city name is sent to a weather service without your name.
Deleting your account
In the Netstalgia Online program choose Settings, then Delete account, and type your password. Or ask the owner to do it for you. Your Pals List, mailbox, settings, My Stations, chat lines and messages are deleted with it. Mail you already sent stays in the other person's mailbox, shown as from (deleted). Reports and sanctions stay as moderation records for the times above. Your screen name is held back for 30 days so nobody can pretend to be you.
Questions
Write to [email protected]. The rules themselves are in the Terms of Use.
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