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            By accessing or using the website(s) and Software developed and/or maintained by Halbear Networking & Software Ltd and the usage of any assets owned by Halbear Networking & Software Ltd you are agreeing to the following:
            <br> this document uses the same terminology definitions as our user agreement that can be seen here:</a>
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        <a class="LargeWhiteFont" style="padding-left: 2vh;  font-size: 4vh; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline white"> Section 0: The data we will NOT collect about you (excluding employees)<br></a>
        <br><a class="LargeWhiteFont" style="padding-left: 5vh; margin-right: 2vh;font-size: 3vh; text-align: left;">0.0: We will not collect any personal information, this includes:<br>&nbsp;0.0.0: &nbsp;  your full name(with the exception of volunteer moderators),<br>&nbsp;0.0.1: &nbsp;  your medical history,<br> &nbsp;0.0.2: &nbsp; your exact age/date of birth, <br>&nbsp;0.0.3: &nbsp; we will never ask for your ID or use a service that asks for your ID, do not give anyone your ID if they claim to be part of us, our age verification works on an honesty policy and through chat moderation,<br>&nbsp;0.0.4: &nbsp;  we will never ask for your biometric information, such as an image of your face or body, but we may ask for a voice recording for age verification in the event we can't tell from the usual process,<br>&nbsp;0.0.5: &nbsp;  we are unlikely to ask for your address as we do not ship physical products, and if we do, it will be through a delivery form and not in any form of text chat, we will not be storing your address to disc either, <br>&nbsp;0.0.6: &nbsp; your family history,<br>&nbsp;0.0.7: &nbsp; no one at halbear.net is permitted to ask for personal information directly, you will only be submitting information voluntarily through a form, do not tell someone your details through a direct message, <br>&nbsp;0.0.8: &nbsp; we will not be collecting any financial or payment information, while it may seem like a pain to put card details in on every single purchase we do not want to the risk or responsibility of storing your payment information,<br>&nbsp;0.0.9: &nbsp; we will never ask for a proof of real identity, such as, your driving licence, a photo of you, your passport or your birth certificate, do not submit any of this information to anyone claiming to be a representative of halbear.net  </a>
        <br><a class="LargeWhiteFont" style="padding-left: 5vh; margin-right: 2vh;font-size: 3vh; text-align: left;">0.1: We will not collect any unnecessary data, this includes:<br>&nbsp;0.1.0: &nbsp;telemetry data, we do not care nor see the point in collecting this, we have in house tools for testing this,<br>&nbsp;0.1.1: &nbsp;details regarding your personality, such as likes, dislikes, and hobbies, an exclusion to this will be if you include it in your account description or a public message<br>&nbsp;0.1.2: &nbsp;what you have stored on your device,<br>&nbsp;0.1.3: &nbsp;your browsing activity on non halbear.net platforms, we only use cookies cross-platform for storing your account sessions across our multiple domains and they are server side,<br>&nbsp;0.1.4: &nbsp;the software you use on your devices, <br>&nbsp;0.1.5: &nbsp;any digital activity outside of halbear.net platforms, such as game usage, media consumed, work/personal software uses or screen time</a>
            <a class="LargeWhiteFont" style="padding-left: 2vh;  font-size: 4vh; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline white"> Section 1: The data we collect autonomously<br></a>
        <br><a class="LargeWhiteFont" style="padding-left: 5vh; margin-right: 2vh;font-size: 3vh; text-align: left;">1.0: We may collect technical information regarding your system and method of access to halbear.net services, such as, but not limited to:<br>&nbsp;1.0.0: &nbsp;  your devices operating system,<br>&nbsp;1.0.1: &nbsp;  your IPv4 Address, your IPv6 Address,<br> &nbsp;1.0.2: &nbsp; whether you're connected using a VPN or proxy, <br>&nbsp;1.0.3: &nbsp; your ability to render GUI(such as headless engine or a normal browser),<br>&nbsp;1.0.4: &nbsp;  your ability to run javascript,<br>&nbsp;1.0.5: &nbsp;  your browser and the version of your browser, <br>&nbsp;1.0.6: &nbsp; the search engine you used and your devices/browsers registered country,<br>&nbsp;1.0.7: &nbsp;  your devices architecture (x86, x64, arm32, arm64 for example)</a>
        <br><a class="LargeWhiteFont" style="padding-left: 5vh; margin-right: 2vh;font-size: 3vh; text-align: left;">1.1: We may store a history of your usage of halbear.net, these include, but are not limited to:<br>&nbsp;1.1.0: &nbsp;  your forum activity history on https://halbear.net/,<br>&nbsp;1.1.1: &nbsp;  your software download, upload, and visit history on https://halbear.net/ and https://halbear.dev/,<br> &nbsp;1.1.2: &nbsp; your history of account creation, deletion and sign ins across all halbear.net services, <br>&nbsp;1.1.3: &nbsp; your log-in history on halbear.net services including device information related to those log-ins,<br>&nbsp;1.1.4: &nbsp;  your private message history, we will store a record of WHO you message,<br>&nbsp;1.1.5: &nbsp;  we will keep a history of your visits and posts on our other services such as whatever board, <br>&nbsp;1.1.6: &nbsp; we may keep a record of your hardware specifications(not direct names or UIDs, but information such as memory capacity and CPU count) when using halbear.net software</a>
        <a class="LargeWhiteFont" style="padding-left: 2vh;  font-size: 4vh; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline white"> Section 2: The data you may give us<br></a>
        <br><a class="LargeWhiteFont" style="padding-left: 5vh; margin-right: 2vh;font-size: 3vh; text-align: left;">2.0: We may store some information you willingly give us when creating and using a halbear.net account, this data includes:<br>&nbsp;2.0.0: &nbsp;  your Email Address,<br>&nbsp;2.0.1: &nbsp;  your Username and Display name,<br> &nbsp;2.0.2: &nbsp; Our server will temporarily store your password in ram on account creation as it obfuscates it, but once it is store obfuscated it will discard the original password, we will never save your password to disc however, <br>&nbsp;2.0.3: &nbsp;  We may store additional details regarding your account that you submit via the account centre, such as year of birth, your account description, your gender and/or sexual orientation, your availability status (for things such as artwork commissions), your country of origin, the languages you may speak</a>
        <br><a class="LargeWhiteFont" style="padding-left: 5vh; margin-right: 2vh;font-size: 3vh; text-align: left;">2.1: We may store some information you willingly give us when using halbear.net social platforms, some of the data collected may include: <br>&nbsp;2.1.0: &nbsp; We will be storing any messages you send, on forums, or in direct messaging, they will be encrypted with the exception of "mature content" messages as we will need to manually moderate them as per UK safeguarding laws to prevent potential CSAM or prevent something that could cause CSAM, <br>&nbsp;2.1.1: &nbsp; we may store any images you upload to our hosting services such as whatever board, any user uploaded software listings such as games, software, or game mods or the halbear.net website forums,<br>&nbsp;2.1.2: &nbsp; We may store a record of posts you have liked or disliked on any social platforms, such as our forums, whatever board posts, or software listings,<br>&nbsp;2.1.3: &nbsp; We may store a series of your messages that makes us suspect you may be a minor or a safeguarding issue, if a manual review shows that you are a minor your content filter will automatically be set to the strongest for 1-18 years depending on how we gauge your age(18 will be if we can't tell but are sure you're a minor) and you may need to provide evidence that you are an adult(we will not accept ID verifcation or images for privacy reasons, we may judge your age based on some general non personal questions we will ask and possibly to send a voice recording at the most), if a manual review shows you may be a safeguarding issue, authorities may be contacted and you will be immediately IPv4, IPv6, MAC address, and hardware banned from all halbear.net platforms</a>
        <br><a class="LargeWhiteFont" style="padding-left: 5vh; margin-right: 2vh;font-size: 3vh; text-align: left;">2.2: We may store some information you willingly give us when using our desktop software, this includes: <br>&nbsp;2.2.0: &nbsp;  We may store hardware information you submit to us, such as device drivers (GPU name, CPU name, Ram generation & speed, display properties),<br>&nbsp;2.2.1: &nbsp; We may store a record of chats send in online software, such as a multiplayer games chat log, however this will only be collected under certain circumstances</a>
        <a class="LargeWhiteFont" style="padding-left: 2vh;  font-size: 4vh; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline white"> Section 3: What we will use your data for<br></a>
        <br><a class="LargeWhiteFont" style="padding-left: 5vh; margin-right: 2vh;font-size: 3vh; text-align: left;">3.0: What we will use your technical data for: <br>&nbsp;3.0.0: &nbsp;We may use your technical information for an additional layer of account verification, completely unrecognisable devices or different geolocation may trigger us to request an email confirmation to log in,<br>&nbsp;3.0.1: &nbsp; We may use technical information to gauge what devices to optimise software for and to gauge our primary demographic of users,<br>&nbsp;3.0.2: &nbsp;We may use technical information to detect a user getting around an account ban<br>&nbsp;3.0.3: &nbsp;We may use technical information to hardware, IPv4, IPv6 ban users<br>&nbsp;3.0.4: &nbsp;Our software may use your technical information to optimise itself during runtime to run at the best performance-quality ratio it can get</a>
        <br><a class="LargeWhiteFont" style="padding-left: 5vh; margin-right: 2vh;font-size: 3vh; text-align: left;">3.1: What we will use your account data for: <br>&nbsp;3.1.0: &nbsp;We may use an input of your password to check for authentication for logging in,<br>&nbsp;3.1.1: &nbsp;We may use your email to send a verification code or password recovery,<br>&nbsp;3.1.2: &nbsp;We may use your account information to display your account details in the account centre<br>&nbsp;3.1.3: &nbsp;We may use your account information when logging activity, such as download history, likes or dislikes and associating posts with your account<br>&nbsp;3.1.4: &nbsp;We may use your display name to show to other users on your posts and messages</a>
        <br><a class="LargeWhiteFont" style="padding-left: 5vh; margin-right: 2vh;font-size: 3vh; text-align: left;">3.2: What we may use your message data for: <br>&nbsp;3.2.0: &nbsp;We may use your messages to gauge your status, whether as a normal user, a minor, or a safeguarding issue,<br>&nbsp;3.2.1: &nbsp;We may use your messages to display on the moderation dashboard for moderators to verify</a>
        <br><a class="LargeWhiteFont" style="padding-left: 5vh; margin-right: 2vh;font-size: 3vh; text-align: left;">3.3: What we may use your personal data for: <br>&nbsp;3.3.0: &nbsp;We may display your personal information on your profile at your discretion, such as, your gender and pronouns,<br>&nbsp;3.3.1: &nbsp;We may use some of your personal information when gauging your age in an age verification check,<br>&nbsp;3.3.2: &nbsp;We may use your country of origin to filter posts by language and to censor certain content</a>
        <a class="LargeWhiteFont" style="padding-left: 2vh;  font-size: 4vh; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline white"> Section 4: What we will specifically NOT use your data for<br></a>
        <br><a class="LargeWhiteFont" style="padding-left: 5vh; margin-right: 2vh;font-size: 3vh; text-align: left;">4.0: What we will not be using your personal information for: <br>&nbsp;4.0.0: &nbsp;We will never share your personal information with advertisers or non authority parties,<br>&nbsp;4.0.1: &nbsp;We will not be using your personal information to create targeted algorithms for social content</a>
        <br><a class="LargeWhiteFont" style="padding-left: 5vh; margin-right: 2vh;font-size: 3vh; text-align: left;">4.1: What we will not be using your account information for: <br>&nbsp;4.1.0: &nbsp;We will never share your account or login information with a 3rd party, your email, username and password will never be shared with an advertiser or non authority and even not with authorities with the exception of UK police investigation agencies,<br>&nbsp;4.1 .1: &nbsp;We will not be displaying your email, password or username at all on the social platforms</a>
        <br><a class="LargeWhiteFont" style="padding-left: 5vh; margin-right: 2vh;font-size: 3vh; text-align: left;">4.0: What we will not be using your message information for: <br>&nbsp;4.0.0: &nbsp;We will never share your messages and message information with advertisers or non authority parties,<br>&nbsp;4.0.1: &nbsp;We will not be using your direct messages for anything other than moderation, and only trusted administrator employees are permitted to moderate direct messages</a>
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