Privacy Policy for akko.lightnovel-dungeon.de (english-version)

If there is any problems regarding this translation or this policy the german version is the one that matters. This translation is provided for your convinience.

Which information do we collect?

Basic account information: If you register an account on this server, you will be asked to provide a username. an e-mail-adress and a password. You may add additional information about yourself like for instance a display name, a bio, a profile picture and a header picture. Those will always be visiable publicly.

Posts, following and other public information: The list of people (or accounts) you follow will be displayed publicly. The same applies to people (or accounts) that follow you. As soon as you post a message the date, the time, aswell as the application you used to send it will be saved. Posts may include media-attachment like photos and videos. Public and unlisted posts will be visable publicly. If you pin a post to your profile it will also become public information. Your posts will be delivered to accounts that follow you, which may send them to other fediverse-servers, where those messages will be saved aswell. If you delete a post it will also be delivered to your followers. If you share or favorite a post this will always be publicly visiable.

Direct messages, "follower-only"-posts and Chats:All posts will be saved and processed on this server. "Follower-only"-posts will be delivered to your followers and people you mention in them. Direct messages and chats will only be delivered to the people you send them to. This may include that your message may be delivered to other servers and copies are saved there. We will do anything we can to restrict access to authorized persons. Other servers might not do this neccesarily. This is why you should check the servers of people that follow you. You may want to enable an option to manually approve people that want to follow you in the settings. Please be aware, that each of the server-admins where your message is could view your messages and that recipants of your message may take screenshots of them. Please do not share any dangarous or private information on the fediverse!

As soon as you open a site on this instance the following information will be send to the server, due to how the internet works. This data will be temporarily be saved in a server and may look like this for example:

87.142.218.24 - - [22/May/2020:10:49:39 +0200] "GET / HTTP/2.0" 200 6514 "https://lightnovel-dungeon.de/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:76.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/76.0"

Allow me to explain what you see here (all links go to wikipedia:

87.142.218.24: IP-Adress of your computer or device.
[22/May/2020:10:49:39 +0200]: Day/Month/Year:Time and Timezone
GET / HTTP/2.0: The type of HTTP-Request it is.
200: HTTP-Statuscode
6514: Count of the send Bytes.
https://lightnovel-dungeon.de/: opened website.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:76.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/76.0: User-Agent)

This data is collected neccasarily to provide this service. The logfiles of the server are rotated each day. The data is not saved for a long time. The data will not be used to make any conclusions on your person. The processing of this data takes place according to Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. f GDPR, because I have to collect this data in order to provide this service.

How do we use your information?

Each of the from you collected information will be used in the following way:

To provide the core-functionality of pleroma. You can interact with the content of other people and create your own content if you are registered and logged in. For Example you can follow other people to see your and their posts in your Home-Timeline.
The e-mail-adress you provide may be used to send you information, notifications for posts, interactions and reactions of other people with your content.

How do we protect your information?

We take diffrent security measures to protect your personal data. We secure all the interactions with our website and its API via SSL. Your Password will be hashed with a strong one-time-algorithm. You may also enable 2FA to further increase the safety of your account.

What is our data retention policy?

You may request and download an archive of all you data, including posts, media-attachments, profile pictures and header-pictures.

In most instances it is possible for you to delete your account yourself at every time. This process can not be reverted!

Do we use cookies?

Yes. Cookies are small files, that a website or service provider can save on your computer over your webbrowser. Those cookies allow our site to recognice your browser and link you with an registered account.

We also use cookies to save your settings for another visit.

Do we disclose your information in any way to third parties?

We do not sell, trade or transfer your personal data to third parties. This does not include trustworthy third parties that help us to provide our service like VPS-Hosters and the like. We have contracts in place with them to keep your information save. We may need to share information in specific instances though, either to appease the law, to enforce our Guidelines or protects the right, property and/or safety of others.

Your publicly posted content may be downloaded by other servers in the fediverse.

If you authorize an application to use your account - according to the rights you granted to it - it can access your publicly visiable profile-information, your followers and followed, your lists and all your posts. Applications though can not access your E-Mail-Address or Password.

Website usage through minors

This server is located in the EU: Our Website targets people that are atleast 16 years old. If you are under 16 years you are not permitted to use this service according to the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)

Rights for Access, Erasure and Objection

You have the right at each and everytime to get a free information von your saved personal information, where they come from and where they go, aswell as the purpose of our data processing. You have the right to correct, lock or delete any of these data. If you have any other questions abouth this please get in touch with me either via my address in my imprint or via E-Mail atadmin{at}lightnovel-dungeon{dot}de.

Rights of affected persons

An affected person is granted the following rights:

Right of access by the data subject (Art. 15 GDPR)
Right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR)
Right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR)
Right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)
Right to object (Art. 21 GDPR)

If you have any inquiries of this kind please let us know via E-Mail to admin{at}lightnovel-dungeon{punkt}de. Please be aware that we have to make sure that it is really the affected person making this inquiery.

Content of third-party sites and embedded content

If you click any links that leads outside of this website (including content of other instances) their privacy policy applies. We don't take any responsibilities or warranties for the content of third parties.

Changes to this privacy policy

We will notify you when we make changes to this privacy policy.

This document is licenced under CC-BY-SA. This document was last updated on the 31. October 2021.

This privacy policy is based upon the one that can be found at mastodon.social