Legal

Last updated June 17, 2023

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Privacy Policy

WriteFreely, the software that powers this site, is built to enforce your right to privacy by default.

It retains as little data about you as possible, not even requiring an email address to sign up. However, if you do give us your email address, it is stored encrypted in our database. We salt and hash your account's password.

We store log files, or data about what happens on our servers. We also use cookies to keep you logged in to your account.

Beyond this, it's important that you trust DJ (the person who runs FarkasCity). Software can only do so much to protect you — your level of privacy protections will ultimately fall on the humans that run this particular service.

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Which is an excellent segue to the part of this written by me, DJ Chase.

Logging wise, this site runs a mostly-default installation of NGINX. It logs personally identifiable information such as your IP address, user agent, the URL visited, and referrer. Logs get rotated regularly. This information is not used except for anti-spam, troubleshooting, and network-monitoring purposes, and is not shared with third-parties unless required by law.

Besides that, FarkasCity also obviously stores data that you provide — such as your username, blog title, and posts — which may themselves be personally identifiable. This information is shared with third parties, as that is the nature of this service (because publishing is sharing).

Terms Of Service

• You must comply with the Rules.
• You must be ≥ 13 years-old — or the minimum age in your country, whichever is older — to create, access, or operate an account on FarkasCity.
• You are fully responsible for your account, the content thereof, and the security of its credentials.
• FarkasCity and its operator(s) may remove or suspend your account at any time for any reason.
• When you upload, import, or link content to/from FarkasCity, you certify that you have the sufficient rights to do so (for example, that the article is your own work and that you have the necessary rights to display any images in the article), and you grant FarkasCity and its operator(s) sufficient rights to operate FarkasCity (for example the rights to display and host your content).
• The Privacy Policy, Terms Of Service, and Rules may change at any time, but there will be at least a week’s notice given on the FarkasCity Blog before the change goes into effect.