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What we collect, why, who else handles it, and how to ask us to change or delete it.
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VICE305 is an independent project run by an individual in Queensland, Australia. It is a fan community for Grand Theft Auto VI. We are not a company, we have no ABN, and we are not affiliated with Rockstar Games or Take-Two Interactive. In this policy, “we” means VICE305. You can reach us at onvicecity305@gmail.com.
We follow the Australian Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) as the standard for how we handle personal information, even where the law may not strictly require a small operator to.
When you register. Your email address, so we can verify your account, sign you in, reset your password and send account notices. A password, which our sign-in provider stores only as a one-way hash, so we cannot read it. A username, which is public. A record that you confirmed you are 18 or older, and when you did. A record that you agreed to the terms, with when and which version.
Your profile, if you add one. A display name, a short bio and an avatar image. These are public.
What you post. Discussions, comments, clip links, discoveries, theories and poll answers, shown with your username. Your votes, bookmarks and reports are not shown publicly. Reports are seen by moderators.
Moderation records. If a post is removed or an account is warned, restricted or banned, we keep a record of the action and the reason for as long as we need it to enforce our rules and handle disputes. When a moderator acts on your post, comment or account, we also store a short notice for you, with the reason. Only you can see it, and it is deleted with your account.
Technical data. Your IP address and basic browser details appear in server logs kept by the providers listed below. They exist to keep the service secure and running. We do not use them to build profiles of you.
Abuse limits. To slow down people who hammer the sign-in, sign-up and password-reset forms, the web server counts recent attempts per IP address in its memory. That count is not saved anywhere and disappears when the server restarts. For signed-in members, the database keeps a small counter of how often you used certain features (uploads and profile saves, for example) in the current hour or so, under your account. Old counters are removed within about a day, and all of them are deleted with your account.
Two-factor sign-in. It is optional for members and required for administrators. If you turn it on, our sign-in provider stores the secret that your authenticator app uses to make codes, against your account. A code you type is passed to the provider to be checked, and we do not keep it.
We set a sign-in cookie, and small preference cookies if you choose a look for the site or fold the sidebar. Your browser also keeps your recent searches on your own device, and they are never sent to us. There are no analytics, advertising or tracking cookies. The details are in the cookie notice.
We do not sell or rent personal information, and we have no advertising partners. We share it only with the providers above, when the law requires it, or to protect someone’s safety or our rights. Some of those providers are overseas, mainly in the United States.
We keep your account and profile until you delete it or we do. When an account is deleted, we remove your profile, your sign-in details, your uploaded files, and your votes, bookmarks, reports, blocks, notifications, reputation history and achievements. Posts and comments that nobody else has replied to are deleted. Where members have replied to or commented on something of yours, it stays so the conversation still reads properly, shown as “Deleted user” with no link to you and no picture; its text is not changed. Moderation records about your account or content, with their reasons, are kept so we can enforce our rules. Logs held by our providers follow their own schedules. If our database provider keeps backups, deleted data in them is not removed one by one; it ages out when old backups are replaced.
You can ask for a copy of the personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete your account and data. You can edit your profile yourself in Settings. There you can also download a copy of your data as a file, and delete your account, without asking us. Or email onvicecity305@gmail.com. We may ask you to write from the address on your account so we can confirm it is you. We aim to reply within 30 days.
If you are unhappy with how we handled your information, tell us first and we will try to fix it. You can also complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au. If you live in the European Union or the United Kingdom, you may have further rights. Ask us.
Connections use HTTPS. Passwords are hashed by our sign-in provider. Administrators must also enter a code from an authenticator app, and the database withholds administrator powers from anyone who has not. Database rules limit what each person can read or change. Uploaded images are checked before they are stored. No system is perfectly secure. If a breach is likely to cause serious harm, we will tell the people affected and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, as the law requires.
VICE305 is for people aged 18 and over. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone younger. If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 18, we will delete it. If you think this has happened, please onvicecity305@gmail.com.
When we change this policy, we will update the date at the top. If the change matters, we will also put a notice on the site or email you.