Privacy Policy
Shadowlack is a free web site committed to providing an entertaining atmosphere for persons over the age of thirteen. Shadowlack complies to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. Children under thirteen years of age may not sign up for our site unless they have verifiable consent from a parent or legal guardian. This ensures that no information is collected from those who are younger than the legal age.
Jodie Struthers (Shriker) collects and maintains all personal information gathered through this online service.
The Information We Collect
The only personally identifiably piece of information that we collect is a valid email address. This email address is used ONLY to validate a user’s member account and set their account status to “Pending Member”. If a user fails to validate their account, it will be purged from the system usually within seven days of its initial creation date.
When a member writes and posts messages on our message board, information can be made publicly available. Our message boards are moderated however, so unwanted content can and will be deleted. Personal Messages (or PMs) may also be monitored if a member has reported abuse.
Information Usage
Shadowlack can and may use this personal information in order to:
- Ensure that minors do not join the web site.
- Ban those that abuse our service or members (whether that be via our web site, our Forum, Chat Room, or through our PM system).
- Identify possible persons that are violating the law.
- Know the screen names (giving out of your “full real name” is discouraged) of our members to create a friendly atmosphere.
- Contact the user with any newsletters, news notifications, or inactivity warnings.
- Protect our legal rights.
Tracking & Cookies
Shadowlack does uses various webstats in order to track information about your browser, number of visits, operating systems, referring search engines, search keywords and key phrases, visit duration, error hits, as well as entry and exit pages. However, no personal information is collected.
Shadowlack also makes use of Cookies in order to figure out the amount of users that are visiting our site at a given time and also to save login information.
Third Parties
Shadowlack will not disclose or sell any personal information to third parties.
Contact
If you have any site questions, or a C.O.P.P.A. request, please feel free to Contact us.
Jodie Struthers (Shriker)
Shadowlack Administration
webmaster@shadowlack.com
Please read our Terms and Conditions for more information regarding the use of this Site.
