General scope
This policy covers personally identifiable information collected or stored by JustAuthenticate on its servers in relation to the service it provides.
Consistent with its Data Retention Policy, JustAuthenticate collects and retains the least amount of personally identifiable information needed to fulfil the site's operational needs.
Activities on JustAuthenticate
In general, this Policy only applies to private information stored or held by JustAuthenticate which is not publicly available.
The interactions with JustAuthenticate may reveal a user's account name and other publicly available discord account details, indiscriminately to the general public.
Users may also interact with one another outside of JustAuthenticate, via email, IRC or other chat, or independent websites, and should assess the risks involved, and their personal need for privacy, before using these methods of communication.
User accounts and authorship
JustAuthenticate does require editors to register to edit or create projects. Registered users are identified by their chosen username, and avatar. Except insofar as it may be required by law, no person should disclose, or knowingly expose, either user passwords and/or cookies generated to identify a user. Once created, user accounts will not be removed from JustAuthenticate.
Purpose of the collection of private information
JustAuthenticate limits the collection of personally identifiable user data to purposes which serve the well-being of its site, including but not limited to the following:
To enhance the public accountability of the site. JustAuthenticate recognizes that any system that is open enough to allow the creation end editing of content by the general public will also be vulnerable to certain kinds of abuse and counterproductive behavior. JustAuthenticate have established a number of mechanisms to prevent or remedy abusive activities. For example, when investigating abuse on the site, including the suspected use of malicious “sockpuppets” (duplicate accounts), vandalism, harassment of other users, or disruptive behavior, the IP addresses of users (derived either from those logs or from records in the database) may be used to identify the source(s) of the abusive behavior. This information may be shared by persons which may include, but are not limited to, JustAuthenticate employees, and contractors and agents employed by JustAuthenticate, and developers and others with high levels of server access.
To provide site statistics. JustAuthenticate statistically samples raw log data from users' visits. These logs are used to produce the site statistics pages; the raw log data is not made public.
To solve technical problems. Log data may be examined by developers in the course of solving technical problems and in tracking down badly-behaved web spiders that overwhelm the site.
Details of data retention
IP and other technical information
When a visitor requests or reads a page, no more information is collected than is typically collected by web sites. JustAuthenticate may keep raw logs of such transactions, but these will not be published or used to track legitimate users.
Personally identifiable information
The personally identifiable information which may be collected by JustAuthenticate includes the user's email, username, avatar and ip address, as provided upon logging in to the site.
Cookies
The site sets a user cookie on a visitor's computer whenever the visitor logs in to maintain logged-in status and relevant redirect paths.
Access to and release of personally identifiable information
Some persons with high levels of server access may have access to private personally identifiable information, which may include, but are not limited to, JustAuthenticate employees, and contractors and agents employed by JustAuthenticate, and developers and others with high levels of server access.
Access to and publication of this information is governed by the Access to nonpublic data policy, as well as specific policies covering some of the functions in question. Sharing information with other privileged users is not considered "distribution".
Release: Policy on Release of Data
It is the policy of JustAuthenticate that personally identifiable data collected in the server logs, or through records in the database, may be released by JustAuthenticate admins or staff, in any of the following situations:
- In response to a valid subpoena or other compulsory request from law enforcement,
- With permission of the affected user,
- When necessary for investigation of abuse complaints,
- Where the information pertains to page views generated by a spider or bot and its dissemination is necessary to illustrate or resolve technical issues,
- Where the user has been persistently behaving in a disruptive way, data may be released to a service provider, carrier, or other third-party entity to assist in the targeting of IP blocks, or to assist in the formulation of a complaint to relevant Internet Service Providers,
- Where it is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of JustAuthenticate, its users or the public.
Except as described above, JustAuthenticate policy does not permit distribution of personally identifiable information under any circumstances.
Third-party access and notifying registered users when receiving legal process:
As a general principle, the access to, and retention of, personally identifiable data in all pages should be minimal and should be used only internally to serve the well-being of the pages. Occasionally, however, JustAuthenticate may receive a subpoena or other compulsory request from a law-enforcement agency or a court or equivalent government body that requests the disclosure of information about a registered user, and may be compelled by law to comply with the request. In the event of such a legally compulsory request, JustAuthenticate will attempt to notify the affected user within three business days after the arrival of such subpoena by sending a notice by email to the email address (if any) that the affected user has connected to their account.
JustAuthenticate cannot advise a user receiving such a notification regarding the law or an appropriate response to a subpoena. JustAuthenticate does note, however, that such users may have the legal right to resist or limit that information in court by filing a motion to quash the subpoena. Users who wish to oppose a subpoena or other compulsory request should seek legal advice concerning applicable rights and procedures that may be available.
If JustAuthenticate receives a court-filed motion to quash or otherwise limit the subpoena as a result of action by a user or their lawyer, JustAuthenticate will not disclose the requested information until it receives an order from the court to do so.
Disclaimer
JustAuthenticate believes that maintaining and preserving the privacy of user data is an important value. This Privacy Policy, together with other policies, resolutions, and actions by JustAuthenticate, represents a committed effort to safeguard the security of the limited user information that is collected and retained on our servers. Nevertheless, JustAuthenticate cannot guarantee that user information will remain private. We acknowledge that, in spite of our committed effort to protect private user information, determined individuals may still develop data-mining and other methods to uncover such information and disclose it. For this reason, JustAuthenticate can make no guarantee against unauthorized access to information provided in the course of participating in JustAuthenticate pages or related activities.