What personal data we collect and why we collect it?

We rely heavily on user-provided data, from both registered users and anonymous visitors. We’ve listed the data we get from you below:

Profile Data

When you register, you’ll be asked to provide certain personal data for display on your profile.

The “Name” field is required as well as public, and user profiles are visible to any site visitor.

Other profile information may be required or optional, as configured by the site administrator.

In most cases, users also have control over who is able to view a particular piece of profile content, limiting visibility to everyone,  friends, logged-in users, or administrators only.

 

 

Activity

We record certain user actions, in the form of “activity” data. Activity includes:

  • updates and comments posted directly to activity streams,
  • descriptions of other actions performed while using the site, such as new friendships, newly joined groups, and profile updates.

The content of activity items obey the same privacy rules as the contexts in which the activity items are created.

For example, activity updates created in a user’s profile is publicly visible, while activity items generated in a private group are visible only to members of that group.

However, TMC can view all activity items, regardless of context.

Activity items may be deleted at any time by users who created them.

 

Messages

The content of private messages is visible only to the sender and the recipients of the message. With the exception of site administrators, who can read all private messages, private message content is never visible to other users or site visitors. Site administrators may delete the content of any message.

 

Cookies

We use a cookie to show success and failure messages to logged-in users, in response to certain actions, like joining a group. These cookies contain no personal data, and are deleted immediately after the next page load.

We use cookies on group, member, and activity directories to keep track of a user’s browsing preferences. These preferences include the last-selected values of the sort and filter dropdowns, as well as pagination information. These cookies contain no personal data, and are deleted after 24 hours.

When a logged-in user creates a new group, we use a number of cookies to keep track of the group creation process. These cookies contain no personal data, and are deleted either upon the successful creation of the group or after 24 hours.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.).

Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.


These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

 

Who we share your data with

 If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

 

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.


For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

 

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

 

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.