You agree, through your use of this forum, that you will not post any material which is false, defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, adult material, or otherwise in violation of any International or United States Federal law. You also agree not to post any copyrighted material unless you own the copyright or you have written consent from the owner of the copyrighted material. Spam, flooding, advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations are also forbidden on this forum.

Note that it is impossible for the staff or the owners of this forum to confirm the validity of posts. Please remember that we do not actively monitor the posted messages, and as such, are not responsible for the content contained within. We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information presented. The posted messages express the views of the author, and not necessarily the views of this forum, its staff, its subsidiaries, or this forum's owner. Anyone who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to notify an administrator or moderator of this forum immediately. The staff and the owner of this forum reserve the right to remove objectionable content, within a reasonable time frame, if they determine that removal is necessary. This is a manual process, however, please realize that they may not be able to remove or edit particular messages immediately. This policy applies to member profile information as well.

You remain solely responsible for the content of your posted messages. Furthermore, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the owners of this forum, any related websites to this forum, its staff, and its subsidiaries. The owners of this forum also reserve the right to reveal your identity (or any other related information collected on this service) in the event of a formal complaint or legal action arising from any situation caused by your use of this forum.

You have the ability, as you register, to choose your username. We advise that you keep the name appropriate. With this user account you are about to register, you agree to never give your password out to another person except an administrator, for your protection and for validity reasons. You also agree to NEVER use another person's account for any reason.  We also HIGHLY recommend you use a complex and unique password for your account, to prevent account theft.

After you register and login to this forum, you will be able to fill out a detailed profile. It is your responsibility to present clean and accurate information. Any information the forum owner or staff determines to be inaccurate or vulgar in nature will be removed, with or without prior notice. Appropriate sanctions may be applicable.

Please note that with each post, your IP address is recorded, in the event that you need to be banned from this forum or your ISP contacted. This will only happen in the event of a major violation of this agreement.

Also note that the software places a cookie, a text file containing bits of information (such as your username and password), in your browser's cache. This is ONLY used to keep you logged in/out. The software does not collect or send any other form of information to your computer.

Summary
Nothing in this policy contradicts the following statements:

We collect the following personal info:
1. Your IP address is collected for forum moderation and administration purposes.
2. Your Email address is stored to allow forum communications, including personal message and post notifications.
3. You may optionally provide your birthdate solely so that the forum can wish you a happy birthday.

We don't sell your personal info to advertisers or other third parties.

We share your personal info only when legally required, or when reasonably necessary to prevent harm in an emergency situation.

We retain your personal info, excluding info you make public, for no more than 30 days after you request deletion.

We have never received any legal or government demands for user information.

Complete terms
As used in this policy, "Personal Info" is data that can identify a particular person or device. Aggregate data isn't considered Personal Info.

1. Navalism never collects your Personal Info except to communicate with you or to administrate the forum.
Navalism doesn't collect any of your Personal Info except your IP address, email address, and birthdate.

Because we do not collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services, there is no need for us to respond to a browser's Do Not Track settings, although we strongly support a consumer's right to set such a preference and encourage all website operators to honor this consumer choice.

We request your email address to communicate with you. This info is used only as you'd expect and deleted upon request.

To improve the Services and your experience on our site, we may collect aggregate usage data from the Services and our website, including number of page views, visitor browser types, operating systems, or the links clicked to navigate to and from our site. We use a non-identifying first-party browser cookie to remember that you are logged in to the forum as you. Our cookies don't track you. Most browsers allow you to refuse cookies or disable them, check your browser preferences.

2. Navalism never sells your email address or any other Personal Info you volunteer
We don't receive payment in cash or in kind from third parties in exchange for your Personal Info. Further, we don't allow third parties to collect info about you on our site through cookies or other means.

3. Navalism shares your Personal Info only in specific circumstances
There are a few, rare circumstances when we may have to share your Personal Info either to obey the law or protect our rights. We'll share your Personal Info only to comply with laws or legally enforceable requests, to enforce our own rights and contracts with users or third parties, or to prevent harm to others and their property in an emergency situation.

In all instances, we'll share the minimum info necessary to meet the immediate need and inform you of our disclosure when legally and practically possible.

4. Navalism retains the Personal Info you volunteer. Logs which include IP address information are purged after one year. Email address, and birthdate are stored in the forum database permanently, but you may change them at any time.

5. Transparency report
As explained above, we will comply with a request for user data when the law requires it, but we require valid legal process to compel the disclosure of user data to the government; such as a legitimate and properly scoped court order, or a search warrant supported by probable cause and issued by an appropriate law enforcement authority. We interpret requests narrowly, and we will oppose unlawful or overbroad requests for specific user data.

Changes to this policy
Forum users will be notified of substantive changes to this policy via the a forum news post.

Contact
You can contact us at navalism@navalism.org if you have any questions about this policy.