Privacy Policy

Last edited: June 28th 2024

Darflen ("we" or "us") understands how important privacy is to our community ("you", "user"). We wrote this Privacy Policy to explain what information we collect through our website (https://darflen.com, "Darflen") and how we use and process it. It also tells you about your choices and right to your Personal Information. If you have questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us here.

1. Collected Informations

"Personal Information" means any information relating to an identifiable or identified person. You may provide us directly with personal information with any data explicitly entered into the website such as creating an account, interacting with users, or creating content or we may automatically collect information such as when you are logging into your account.

Darflen is a hobby project and does not collect sensitive data used to identify real people. Despite that, some data collection is required for the site to make it function safely.

Account Information

In order to use the services and features that we offer on Darflen, you need to create an account. We collect usernames, email addresses, argon2ID hashed, and salted passwords. Others can publicly see your account username but not your email address. Your birthdate is not collected nor linked to your account and is only used to enforce the Terms of Service.

User-generated Content

We process any Personal Information that you choose to explicitly insert in content when you create or interact on Darflen commonly called user-generated content. For example all posts, comments, replies, communities, and text fields including unlisted and private content.

Logging Information

When using Darflen, we automatically collect your internet protocol (IP) address and browser agent. We also log basic diagnostic, usage, and performance information automatically when you access or use our services which we store in log files or by using Cloudflare. Cloudflare privacy policy can be found here.

2. Informations Usage

The main reason is to provide you with the services we offer on Darflen and to improve your experience. We have no intentions of collecting data to be sold later or used for marketing purposes. Here's an overview of the uses:

Internal Usage

We use Personal Information for internal purposes, including to operate, provide and maintain Darflen. For exemple, to create and recover accounts and enable users to create content and interact with it.

Legal

We may use your Personal Information to enforce our Terms of Serice to comply with our legal obligations and internal policies. We also use your Personal Information to detect and prevent fraud, spam, abuse and to moderate content on Darflen.

Communitications

We may send emails to an email address you provide to us for customer support purposes.

3. Legal Bases

If you are located in the European Union, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, we rely on the following legal bases to process your personal information:

  1. You have given us permission (consented) to the use of your Personal Information for a specific purpose.
  2. We need your Personal Information to provide our services. For example account registration, or customer support.
  3. We have a legal obligation to use your Personal Information.

4. Your Rights and Choices

Updating Information

You can update your password, email address, display name, and username here. You can also reset your password by initializing a forgot password using the login page.

You can ask for the deletion of your personal information. If you ask us to delete your data, we will respect your request and delete your personal information. You can contact us here.

Your Protection Rights

You have certain rights in relation to your Personal Information:

  1. Access, Correction, and Migration: You may ask for access to the Personal Information we process about you and receive a copy of your Personal Information. You have the right to modify incomplete, inaccurate, or outdated Personal Information. For example, You can update your password, email address, display name, and username here. You can also reset your password by initializing a forgot password using the login page.
  2. Objection: You may object to stop any use of your Personal Information that is not necessary to do what is provided in a contract between Darflen and you or if we have a compelling reason to do so. If you do object, we will find a solution with you.
  3. Deletion: You may request the deletion of your Personal Information. If you ask us to delete your data, we will respect your request and delete your personal information. You can contact us here.
  4. Restriction of Processing: You may request that we restrict processing of your Personal Information while. For processing request relating to the accuracy, the lawfulness and our legitimate interests. You can request to us here.
  5. Withdrawal of Consent: If we rely on consent for the processing of your Personal Information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can withdraw your consent by contacting us here.

However, there are exceptions and limitations to each of these rights. For example, we may refuse to act on a request if it is unfounded or excessive or if it is likely to affect the prejudice the execution or enforcement of the law, or infringe applicable law.

5. Data Retention

We will only keep your personal information for as long it is necessary. Unless a longer retention period is required by law, your personal information will only be kept as long you have an account with us.

When we have no legitimate need to process your personal information, we will delete such information. If it is not possible, then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing ultil deletion is possible.

6. Data Safety

Darflen has in place procedures that are intended to protect all Personal Information we collect on Darflen against unlawful destruction, unauthorized alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, misuse, and any other unlawful form of processing of the Personal Information. We cannot completely guarantee the security of our databases, nor can we guarantee that the Personal Information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.