Newzbin:Privacy Policy
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Commitment
- We have written this Privacy Policy to demonstrate and preserve our firm commitment to protect your personal privacy. The staff of this website (Newzbin) consists of entirely ordinary people, and we are no less concerned about our own privacy, as we are about yours. The following text discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for our website. If you have any queries, you may talk to a member of staff via email.
Payment Details
- In 2006 Newzbin will begin to look at the possibilities of processing credit cards directly, without using the third party services of such sites as WorldPay/PayPal/StormPay etc. We will still offer such third party services for those who choose to use them in preference to our own card processing.
- If and when we go ahead with credit card processing on Newzbin, we will use a properly signed SSL certificate. Your connection to Newzbin, and the connection from Newzbin to the authorising bank, will both be fully secure. If the page you are on when making a card payment does not start 'https://' then your connection is not secure and you MUST NOT continue until you have corrected the issue. Please also ensure you satisfy yourself as to the validity of our SSL certificate every time you enter your card details on our page.
- After making a card payment using our processing facilities, we guarantee that none of the data you entered will be stored. This means that to make another payment, you must enter all the data again. We will not, for the forseeable future, offer a 'Pay again using the same card' function. If we ever do offer such a feature it will be announced on front page in advance.
- Your card transaction is processed on a secure machine in the Newzbin network; this machine has no other function than processing cards and is not reachable from the Internet (only internally). As previously stated, this machine makes an SSL connection to the authorising bank in order to confirm your payment. We will never make an unsecured connection to verify a card. If the secure connection is unavailable when you attempt payment, you will receive a message stating as such and you will be asked to try later.
- This section will be updated as and when we are granted permission to start accepting card payments. Any changes we make can be viewed via the Wiki's History feature, and we will also announce significant changes on our frontpage.
IP Addresses
- An IP (Internet Protocol) address is a set of numbers assigned to you by your ISP (Internet Service Provider) during the time that you are online. Every website you visit has access to this information, due to the way the Internet works. This is nothing to worry about, as all websites need your IP in order to discern where they have to send the information to.
- We (Newzbin) only record IP addresses for the usage of statistics and to help with the general debugging of the website. We will never try to identify you by your IP, except when you ask us to via email/IRC for the purposes of debugging problems you are experiencing on our site.
Email Addresses
- We require proper and correct email addresses for an account signup due to security reasons, and once provided, it is kept on file to link your email address to your account name. This information never leaves the boundaries of the site's database, and you can be assured that only you and the staff have access to that information. We may at some time add a feature on the site that allows users to send fellow users an email. If you choose to do this, your email address is revealed to the recipient, so that the recipient user may reply to that email. This information will only be revealed should you choose to send an email, otherwise, it is hidden from the public. We are firm in our commitment to especially protect critical information, such as your email address, from those who would use it for monetary gain. Therefore, we urge you not to reveal your email address to anyone on the site, even those with higher privileges (such as Editors) - Your information will remain safe unless you willingly give that information out.
External Links
- Within the site, various external links may be present to sites that we do not own, and therefore have no control over. We do not necessarily admonish or support the privacy practices of these sites, and cannot be held responsible for neither the content, nor the privacy practices. We urge you to be careful when clicking on external URLs, and if you do find an uncrupulous link upon the site, feel free to report your findings to us, and we will deem whether it is necessary to remove the link.
Public Forums
- We may or may not provide message boards and comments systems to our members and the general public. Please remember that any information within these areas is considered public, and you should therefore exercise caution when deciding to disclose any personal information. In fact, we highly frown on such practices that are not within private boundaries. We cannot be held responsible for protecting the privacy of any information that you willingly choose to disclose upon the site. You do so at your own risk.
Security
- One thing we are proud of is our dedication to site security, and doing as much as physically possible to protect your personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorised access or alteration. Please bear in mind that we cannot guarantee under all circumstances that loss, misuse, unauthorised access or alteration to data will never occur. Therefore, we will not be held responsible should any of the aforementioned occur.