Your privacy is important to SHN. This Privacy Policy applies between you, the user of https://www.stronghold-nation.com/ ("this Website"), (including any sub-domains unless expressly excluded by their own privacy policies) and SHN, the service provider of this website on behalf of the registered domain name owner of this website.
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through this Website. We have adopted this Privacy Policy to explain what information may be collected on our website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through this website and sister domains within the Stronghold Nation Network, and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources. In addition for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998 and any and all other relevant legislation, the Data Controller is: Stronghold Nation Suite 36442, PO Box 4336, Manchester, M61 0BW
This Privacy Policy, together with the terms and conditions posted on our website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our website. Depending on your activities when visiting our website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
We also have a few fundamental principles of privacy:
Like most website operators, SHN collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. SHN's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how our visitors use this Website. From time to time, SHN may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of this Website.
SHN also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for visitors rating downloads or articles, logged in users and for users leaving comments on this Website. SHN only discloses IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
Certain visitors to this Website choose to interact with SHN in ways that require SHN to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that SHN gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask members who sign up for a user account to provide a username and email address. Please be aware that the username you choose, the email address you provide and any other information which you provide may render you personally identifiable, and may possibly be displayed on this Website intentionally (depending on the options you choose during the registration process or on which the way this Website is configured), or unintentionally (such as, but not limited to, subsequent to a successful act of intrusion by a third-party).
As on many websites, SHN may also automatically receive general information which is contained within server log files, such as your IP address or cookie information.
By registering or authenticating, users allow this Website to identify them and give them access to dedicated services. Depending on what is described below, third parties may provide registration and authentication services if they are enabled by the website Administrator. In this case, this website will be able to access some personally identifying information, stored by these third-party services, for registration or identification purposes.
Some of the services listed below may also collect personally identifiable information for targeting and profiling purposes; to find out more, please refer to the description of each service.
Steam OpenID is a registration and authentication service provided by Valve Corporation.
Personal Data processed: various types of personally identifying information as specified in the privacy policy of the service. This includes:
Discord OAuth is a registration and authentication service provided by Discord Inc.
Personal Data processed: various types of personally identifying information as specified in the privacy policy of the service. This includes:
Google OAuth is a registration and authentication service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on the location this website is accessed from, and is connected to the Google network.
Personal Data processed: various types of personally identifying information as specified in the privacy policy of the service. This includes:
In order to keep your account secure and ensure you do not reveal your identity, you may be prompted to create your own display name on this wesbite upon registration using this service.
Twitter OAuth is a registration and authentication service provided by Twitter, Inc. and is connected to the Twitter social network.
Personal Data processed: various types of personally identifying information as specified in the privacy policy of the service. This includes:
In order to keep your account secure and ensure you do not reveal your identity, you may be prompted to create your own display name on this Wesbite upon registration using this service.
Facebook Authentication is a registration and authentication service provided by Facebook, Inc. or by Facebook Ireland Ltd, depending on the location this website is accessed from, and is connected to the Facebook social network.
Personal Data processed: various types of personally identifying information as specified in the privacy policy of the service.This includes:
In order to keep your account secure and ensure you do not reveal your identity, you may be prompted to create your own display name on this wesbite upon registration using this service.
Microsoft OAuth is a registration and authentication service provided by Microsoft Corporation, and is connected to the Microsoft network.
Personal Data processed: various types of personally identifying information as specified in the privacy policy of the service. This includes:
In order to keep your account secure and ensure you do not reveal your identity, you may be prompted to create your own display name on this Wesbite upon registration using this service.
The security of your personal information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. SHN will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of any of your personal information given to us. We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure server only. While we have security measures to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under our control, in any event information is disclosed to any third party we will make our best efforts available in tracking down and preventing the misuse of this data. However, we cannot be held accountable for the misuse of such information.
Where SHN discloses your personal information to its employees, agents, affiliates, sub-contractors or affiliated organisations for these purposes, the employee, agent, affiliate, sub-contractor or affiliated organisation in question will be obligated to use that personal information in accordance with the terms of this privacy policy. At no time will the SHN database ever be sold to any entity with the purpose of marketing or mailing lists. Personal information will not be sold or otherwise transferred via any means except those outlined within this privacy policy.
SHN discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, agents, affiliates, contractors and affiliated organisations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on SHN's behalf or to provide services available at this Website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, agents, affiliates, contractors and affiliated organisations may be located outside of your home country; by using this Website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. SHN will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone.
Other than to its employees, agents, affiliates, contractors and affiliated organisations, as described above, SHN may disclose your personal information to the extent that it is required to do so by law, in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings, and in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights, or when SHN believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of SHN, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of this Website and have supplied your email address, SHN may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with SHN and our services. We primarily use our forum to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. SHN takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorised access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Personal information may be used to customise and improve your experience on this Website. Efforts will be made to prevent your data being made available to third-parties unless provided for otherwise in this privacy policy.
Information that SHN collects may be stored, processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which SHN operates to enable the use of the information in accordance with this privacy policy. In addition, personal information that you submit for publication on the Website will be published on the internet and may be available around the world. You agree to such cross-border transfers of personal information.
This Website provides you with the ability to edit the information that you provided during the registration process by accessing your personal profile. You may request your username be edited or your account be deleted by contacting the Webmaster, although the Webmaster remains under no obligations to do so or to fulfill your request. Content or other information which you have previously provided, including but not limited to forum posts, downloads, articles, images and content which is not contained within your user account may continue to remain on this website even if your account is deleted, at the discretion of the Webmaster. Please see the website terms of use for more information.
Whilst we endevaour to ensure this is a safe space for users of all ages, individuals aged thirteen years or younger are not allowed to become registered users of this website.
SHN will occasionally run competitions, in which users can win prizes and we Mmay need to ask for personal information such as the house address of a user in order to send out the prize. This information is used for the sole purpose of that competition, and will not be passed on to any third parties without prior acknowledgement and agreement from the user in question. After completion of the contest, this information is no longer used, and any copies still available are destroyed. At no time will this information be posted publicly, and will be handled sensitively at all times.
In addition to the disclosures outlined elsewhere, entrants' personal data may be passed to relevant regulatory bodies, the police or other authorities in the course of the investigation of any complaints or suspected unlawful activity.
Any communication received, that we in our personal capacity believe or interpret as spam, will be posted to StopForumSpam. By sending any communication (in any format), you acknowledge that you grant us full permission to republish your communication, waiving all copyright claims, the right to demand action via means of any such cease and desist and/or DMCA order/request or any such removal request, to any communciation made to (including but not limited to) any site operators, administrators, owners and/or service providers. We will also send your email, username and IP address.
SHN may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website using the third party service Google Analytics ("Analytics data"). SHN may display this information publicly or provide it to others as anonymised data. However, SHN does not disclose your personally-identifying information.
Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on the location this website is accessed from, (“Google”). Google utilises the analytics data collected to track and examine the use of this website, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the analytics data collected to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network.
To enrich and perfect your online experience, SHN uses "Cookies", similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalised content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. SHN uses cookies to help SHN identify and track visitors, their usage of this Website, and their website access preferences. SHN visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using SHN websites, with the drawback that certain features of our websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to our use of cookies.
This Website contains links to external websites. SHN is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any third party and cannot be held responsible. Use these at your own risk.
This website is fully compliant to the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (the "GDPR"). If you are an EU Citizen or live in the European Economic Area, you may contact us at any time requesting a copy of the information we hold about you. We shall not charge for a copy of your data unless your claims are "manifestly unfounded or excessive". Where we are legally permitted to do so we may refuse your request. In such cases, you shall be given an explanation of why this has been done. You may request the deletion of your data at any time by means of formal correspondence through the contact form on this Website. Once this has been done we shall promptly notify you of any data which has been deleted.
This children's privacy statement explains our practices with respect to the collection and use of personal information from children under the age of thirteen, and provides important information regarding their rights under international law with respect to such information.
This Website is not directed at children under the age of thirteen and we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen as any part of this Website and all associated services. We screen users who wish to provide personal information in order to prevent users under the age of thirteen from providing such information. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personally identifiable information from a user under the age of thirteen, we will delete such information from this Website and all associated services. If we change our practices in the future, we will obtain prior, verifiable parental consent before collecting any personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen.
Because we do not collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen as part of this Website, we also do not knowingly distribute such information to any third party. We do not knowingly allow children under the age of thirteen to publicly post or otherwise distribute any personally identifiable information through this Website.
Because we do not collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen as a part of this Website, we do not condition the participation of a child under thirteen in the activities of this Website and all associated services on providing any personally identifiable information.
While this privacy policy sets standards for the maintenance of data, and while efforts will be made to meet the set standards, we cannot guarantee that these standards will be met at any time. There may be factors outside of our control that may result in disclosure of data. Consequently, SHN offers no warranties or guarantees as regards to maintenance or nondisclosure of data.
SHN may update this privacy policy by posting a new version on this webpage. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are familiar with any changes. Changes take place immediately and your continued use of this website after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal information, please contact us.