Terms and privacy

Terms of use

These terms cover bantamware.net and its message board. “Bantamware,” “we,” and “us” refer to the people operating this website.

Using the website and board

Please use the site lawfully and respect other people. Do not post unlawful material, threats, harassment, spam, malware, someone else’s private information, or content you do not have permission to share. Do not impersonate others, disrupt the site, or try to access accounts or systems without authorization.

The board is public. Your posts, attached images, display name or anonymous number, and any country tag can be viewed by others. Do not post anything you want to keep private. You are responsible for what you post.

Posts and moderation

You keep any rights you have in your posts. By posting, you allow Bantamware to store, display, and share them as needed to operate the board. We may remove content, restrict access, or change or discontinue features when necessary, including to address abuse or technical issues. You can report a post at [email protected].

Board accounts use a username and password and a browser session cookie. Keep your password safe: there is no email-based password recovery. While signed in, you can delete your own posts; deleting a topic also deletes its replies.

Website content and availability

Bantamware’s name, artwork, and other site content belong to their respective owners. Please ask before copying or using them beyond what the law permits. The website is provided as available; features may change or become unavailable, and content from other users is their own.

Privacy notice

This notice describes information handled by this website and its message board. Questions or requests can be sent to [email protected].

Information you provide

When you create a board account, you choose a username and password and may choose a country tag. The board stores a salted password hash, assigns number tags, and stores account and posting information. Posts, attached images, display names or anonymous number tags, country tags, and posting times are public. The board does not ask for an email address. When you attach an image through the board, your browser resizes and recompresses it before upload.

If you email us, we receive your email address and the contents of your message so we can respond and handle your request.

Cookies, browser storage, and the visitor counter

The board uses a security cookie to keep you signed in in the same browser for up to 30 days. Clearing it signs you out; you can sign in again with your username and password. The server stores a hash of its random token rather than the token itself.

The visitor counter saves a random identifier in browser local storage and records it in a database to estimate unique browsers. Clearing site data or using another browser can result in another count. The counter does not store IP addresses.

Hosting and service providers

Cloudflare provides hosting, security, and database services for the site and may process technical information such as IP addresses and request details to deliver and protect it. To limit account creation and sign-in attempts, the board stores keyed hashes derived from IP addresses, not the addresses themselves. Messages sent to our support address are forwarded to an inbox hosted by Google. These providers handle data according to their own terms and privacy notices: Cloudflare and Google.

Retention and your choices

Board accounts, posts, and visitor identifiers are stored in the site database; there is currently no automatic deletion schedule. Posts can be deleted from the browser account that created them. You can clear the account cookie and visitor identifier through your browser’s site-data settings, but that does not by itself delete the associated server records. To request access to or deletion of information, contact us. We may need enough information to identify the records or verify the request.

Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights concerning your information, including a right to complain to a privacy regulator. No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, so please avoid posting sensitive information.

Changes

We may update these terms and this notice as the site changes. The date above shows when this page was last updated.