## Introduction USI-RPG.com respects the privacy of individuals who visit or participate with this website and its offered services. USI-RPG attempts to collect the bare minimum of personal data. USI-RPG.com does not distribute or sell any of this information to any third party, Government, or Organization. [[toc]] ## What data is being collected? We collect only the bare minimum amount of information needed: E-mail address is the only required pieces of personally identifiable information (PII). Users may voluntarily provide other information such as location, birthday, instant messenger contact and additional email addresses name, etc. This information is not required and is generally not used. A nickname is required and is used in lieu of your real name. ## How will the information be used? * Email Address: this si required for communications, registration, recovery, etc. We often have people who create a gmail account specifically to be used on this site, that's perfect! * Nickname: A name to give proper credit content submissions (such as fan fiction, forum posts.) We also use your nickname for communications by site administrators. User has the option of making their real name public or not. Pseudonyms are ok! We require your age in order to comply with certain laws which involve allowing access to individuals who are under the age of 13. Accounts which are fraudulently opened by underage individuals will be locked until authorization by a parent or guardian is given in writing. **We will never ask for your Credit Card Number, Social Security Number , Drivers license or other highly sensitive information. We do not need it, nor want it! If you desire to make a monetary donation to our organization, it can be done through secure third party services such as Pay Pal. Do not post this kind of information using any service we provide.** Please keep in mind that if you disclose any personal information to any public service of USI, anyone may have the ability of using this information to their own needs. If you feel concerned about disclosing this information to the public services of USI, please do not enable or fill in these information fields. ## Will the data be shared with any third parties? In short, No. Not even your email address. ## How long will the data be stored for? Data is stored for as long as the content in relevant. Since this is a writers forum, we want to make sure that all submissions are properly credited. Submissions are often done so in part of collaborative effort. ## What rights does the data subject ( a user) have? All users have the right to have their PII removed from our systems which we specifically collect. We strongly discourage submitting any information which could be considered PII or related to a users private information in the public spaces of the site as that information can be easily obtained. You are free and encouraged to use your authortag or nickname in lieu of your name. ## How can the data subject raise a complaint? Please contact [email protected] for any inquiries regarding your privacy. ## How are cookies used ? Cookies will be used occasionally throughout the site. These cookies will be used for HTTP sessions, which are used for login identification purposes of the many services that the USI-RPG.com website have to offer. These include Account Systems, Email Services, and Forums, etc. ## Other security measures ? * Passwords: Passwords are hashed using industry standard technologies. We do not "Roll our own" encryption. * SSL (TLS) - USI-RPG uses TLS certificates so if you don't see the lock, let me know asap. Security will be used to prevent all tampering of the system which USI-RPG.com website uses. If you give out your own password, then be aware that you have allowed your account to possible be accessed. USI-RPG.com cannot be held responsible for misuse and abuse of the system. We do our part to protect your privacy, you need to do your part. If a vulnerability or bug is found, please report it to [email protected] so that we may address it. ## Anything else I need to know ? Because this site centers around our members/users contributing content through various systems (E-Mail lists, Forums, Collaborative Writing Submissions, and even at times universe content) it is up to the members to insure that they do not submit anything that they do not mind being made public. We require very little PII, the rest is up to you!