Privacy Policy

Effective date: 28 September 2026

1. Who we are

This policy describes how boards.gg ("boards.gg", "we", "us") collects and uses information when you use the website at boards.gg and related pages. boards.gg is a discussion service for game communities. It is not affiliated with CCP Games, Cloud Imperium Games, Hello Games, or any other publisher unless we say so on a specific page.

Questions: use the in-site feedback form while signed in, or email the address used for account mail (by default noreply@boards.gg). Replace that address if you use a dedicated inbox.

2. Information we collect

You give us:

- Username, email address, and a hashed password

- Optional profile text and avatar image

- Posts, comments, votes, board memberships, and direct messages

- Reports and bug reports you submit

We collect automatically:

- The IP address used at registration

- Approximate last sign-in time

- Standard request logs needed to run and secure the service

- Cookies that keep you signed in

We do not ask for payment card numbers, government ID, or precise GPS location.

3. How we use it

- Create and keep your account

- Send confirmation and password-reset mail

- Show public posts, comments, and profiles

- Deliver notifications and direct messages

- Moderate spam, abuse, and banned accounts

- Limit abusive traffic by account or IP

- Debug failures and protect the service

We do not sell personal information and we do not run third-party advertising networks on the core board pages.

4. Public vs private

Usernames, avatars, board names, posts, comments, and votes on public boards are visible to anyone, including search engines. Direct messages, your email, password hash, registration IP, and unpublished reports are not public. Private boards are visible only to members we allow.

If you close your account we hide the profile and show the author as "[deleted]" on feed cards. The text of posts and comments you already published can remain, because other people replied to them. We do not promise to erase every quote or screenshot on the open internet.

5. Cookies and sign-in

We use a first-party session cookie so you stay signed in. The cookie can last up to 14 days with sliding renewal. After a ban, account close, or password change we invalidate that session. We do not use the cookie to track you across other websites.

6. Images and processors

Avatars and post images are stored with our object storage provider (Cloudflare R2) and may be served from a media host such as fot0.com. Mail is sent through the SMTP host configured for the site. Those providers process the file or message only to deliver the service. They are not given your password.

7. Retention

- Open accounts: kept while the account exists

- Closed accounts: profile is closed; public posts may remain with a deleted label

- Banned accounts: kept so the ban can be enforced

- Confirm and reset tokens: hours, then discarded

- Server logs: a limited rolling window

8. Children

boards.gg is not directed at children under 13. Do not create an account if you are under 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will close the account.

9. Your choices

- Edit avatar, password, and profile from your account pages

- Close the account from the close-account page (you cannot close it while you are the last owner of a board)

- Ask us to correct email or username problems you cannot fix in the interface

If you are in the EEA or UK you may also have rights to access, correction, deletion, and objection, subject to the limits above on public posts. If you are a California resident you may ask what we collect and ask us not to "sell" or "share" personal information as those words are used in California law. We do not sell that information.

10. Security

Passwords are stored as hashes, not as plain text. Transmission uses HTTPS. No method of storage or mail is perfect. Do not reuse a password you use at a bank or a game publisher.

11. Changes

We may update this policy. The date at the top is the version date. Continued use after a change means you accept the updated policy for later activity.