Privacy Policy

This is the privacy policy for this site, squareBracket.

The only people who currently have full server and database access are Chaziz and sks2002, they are the server administrators. Moderators do not have full server or database access, and can only use moderation tools provided by them.

Currently, squareBracket is hosted in a server located in the United Kingdom. Backups are stored by Chaziz in Canada.

Whenever a request is sent, it is logged in the server's access logs. This will include your IP, user agent and HTTP referer. These access logs are only accessible to the server administrators. They will be used for temporary statistics and for logging potential errors that occur. In the case of illegal activity (e.g. a DDoS attack) the offending parts of an access log may be saved for further analysis.

This site consists mainly of user generated content, and whenever you e.g. upload a submission or write a comment you should be aware that this content will be publicly available and searchable on the Internet.

User information

When you register an account, you provide a username, email and password. The username is visible and should not be your real name, but a pseudonym you are comfortable with others seeing.

The password you register with is one-way hashed with bcrypt and the hash is only visible to the server admin, who cannot convert this back into the original password.

Whenever you are logged in, your latest IP address is stored in the database (independent of access logs). This is only visible to the server administrator and is kept strictly private unless abuse occurs.

Any additional user information you add to your profile (Profile description, etc.) is strictly optional and will be displayed publicly on your user page, do not put private or otherwise personal information you do not want accessible on the internet.

Cookies and Advertisements

This site uses a token cookie (SBTOKEN) to keep you logged in, this token should not be publicly disclosed to anyone as it will make them able to log into your account.

Removal Requests

If you have published personal information you would like to remove, use the tools given to edit it out if applicable. If this is not possible (e.g. you want to rename a personally identifiable username) or you would like to fully erase it, please contact Chaziz or sks2002.

Transparency

squareBracket runs on OpenSB, which is fully open source and its source code is available on GitHub. You may inspect the source code yourself to see how your data is handled by the software.

Updates

Updates to this privacy policy are done as commits to the OpenSB Git repository (View changes). You will be alerted of any substantial changes made to the privacy policy through the squareBracket Discord server.