Privacy Policy
This site is designed to collect as little personal information as practical.
Information you provide
If you email us, we receive your email address and the information you choose to include in your message. We use this information to respond, evaluate contributions, and maintain an editorial record.
Analytics
Version 1 does not enable a configured analytics provider by default. If privacy-conscious analytics are enabled later, this policy will identify the provider, data collected, and retention settings.
Cookies
The website does not set contact-form session cookies. Email links open your email app, which is governed by its own privacy and cookie settings.
Retention
Contact records are retained only as long as reasonably needed for correspondence, editorial documentation, security, or legal obligations. You may request deletion unless retention is required.
Third parties
Shared-hosting and email providers may process technical logs or messages needed to deliver the site and correspondence. Links to external research are governed by those sites’ policies.
Forum accounts
The forum stores your username, email address, a password hash for local login, voluntarily supplied profile information, posts, private messages, and account preferences. Passwords are not stored as readable account passwords. Choose a username you are comfortable making public.
Technical records
Forum and hosting records may include IP addresses, browser or user-agent information, timestamps, session identifiers, login attempts, and moderation or security events. These help operate the service, investigate abuse, and protect accounts.
Forum cookies
The forum uses cookies for login, sessions, reading preferences, and security. Authentication cookies are scoped to /forum/. Social authentication, when enabled, also uses short-lived cookies to verify its return request. The reference pages do not require a forum account.
Social authentication
OneAll is the intended intermediary for Google, LinkedIn, Apple, and GitHub sign-in. These options remain unavailable until provider configuration and testing are complete. When enabled and chosen, authentication exchanges identity and authorized profile or email information among your provider, OneAll, and this forum. The forum keeps identity bindings needed for later sign-ins. Provider and OneAll policies also apply. We do not request repository write access, contacts, publishing permission, or unrelated account access for authentication.
Apple may provide a private relay email address instead of your permanent email. A matching email address alone does not link an existing account; link a provider explicitly while signed in.
Public posts and private messages
Posts and public profile information may be visible to anyone and indexed by search engines. Other people may copy or quote public material. Do not submit confidential, embargoed, medical, personally identifying, or proprietary research information.
Private messages are stored by the forum and are not end-to-end encrypted. Administrators with system access may be able to access stored messages for legitimate operational, security, or legal needs. They are not an appropriate channel for sensitive information.
Account retention and deletion
Account information and contributions are retained while needed to operate the forum and maintain useful discussions. Security and moderation records may be retained for abuse handling, accountability, or legal needs; backup copies may persist until replaced. We do not promise immediate removal from third-party copies or search caches.
Request access, correction, account closure, or deletion by emailing contact@syntheticimprinting.com. We may need to verify account ownership. We will assess removal or anonymization of contributions in light of thread context and legitimate moderation, security, recordkeeping, and legal needs.
Security
Reasonable technical measures are used, but no internet transmission or storage method is guaranteed secure. Do not submit sensitive personal, medical, or confidential research information.
Contact
Privacy questions may be sent to contact@syntheticimprinting.com.