From de669d86cb741e3bf289ab5685bcb62303114ebb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kyle Drake Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 11:48:20 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Updates to legal copy --- views/legal.erb | 21 ++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/views/legal.erb b/views/legal.erb index f417b541..c593ca50 100644 --- a/views/legal.erb +++ b/views/legal.erb @@ -110,22 +110,18 @@ If compelled by a grand jury, Neocities can be required to disclose information about a user using a Doe Subpoena. We will not send you any information about a user without a Doe subpoena, with the exception of an extreme emergency. Extreme emergencies include (but are not limited to) the timely prevention of a suicide, murder, or terrorist attack. In this situation, we will only provide this information to law enforcement, and requestors will be required to demonstrate to us in a provable way that they are associated with an organization tasked with public law enforcement.

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Data Retention Policy

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- It is important to understand that we can not provide a lot of information about a user. Our Data Retention Policy describes in detail some of the pertinent information that we store about a user: + Retention of site visitor IP addresses. To ensure reader privacy, Neocities does not permanently archive the IP addresses of visitors to sites hosted on Neocities. However, we do temporarily store IP addresses for the purpose of calculating hourly statistics for sites. After the calculations are finished, the log files (including the IP addresses) are deleted, a process that normally happens within a few hours of the IP addresses being recorded.

- Retention of IP address information. For security and privacy reasons, Neocities does not archive plain-text IP addresses. All IP addresses stored in Neocities are deleted after a certain time. You are invited to inspect the code that does this in our code repository. + Retention of site creator IP addresses. Neocities currently retains the IP address used to create a web site, for the purpose of abuse management. Our plan is to start deleting the IP addresses after a pre-defined period (30 days), but this code has not yet been implemented. This text will change when we have finished implementing the code. After we start deleting these addresses, there will be no way for us to respond to inquiries requesting them.

- Retention of IP address information. - We currently store IP addresses of who created a site, but soon will be removing them after 30 days. - That means that we will not be able to provide a plain-text IP address, because we lack the means to provide it. -

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- We choose to do this because of ongoing abuses of the legal system against service providers online. Please understand that it is legal for us to do this, as the United States currently has no mandatory data retention law. + Please understand that it is legal for us to do this, as the United States currently has no mandatory data retention law.

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- This does not neccessarily mean we will disclose the content in subpoenas. If we decide that disclosing a subpoena could cause undue harm, unfairly affect someone's privacy, or impede a legitimate investigation, we can choose to not disclose. Being reasonable and respectful of Neocities staff increases your chances of us doing this. We don't respond well to bullying. -

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Data Retention Policy

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- Neocities will soon publish a Data Retention Policy, which will document the information we retain on behalf of a site. + This does not neccessarily mean we will disclose the content in subpoenas. If we decide that disclosing a subpoena could cause undue harm, unfairly affect someone's privacy, or impede a legitimate investigation, we can choose to not disclose. Being reasonable and respectful of Neocities staff increases your chances of us doing this.

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