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<strong>Verification is mandatory.</strong> Along with the face picture on your profile page,
you will need to take a selfie with a hand-written note on paper to verify that you're a real
person.
<ul>
<li>Members who appear underage may be asked to show ID.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
🤳 <strong>Self pictures only.</strong> You are expected to post only pictures that you're in.

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<ul>
<li><a href="#certification">What does <strong>certification</strong> mean, and what is a <strong>"verification selfie"</strong>?</a></li>
<li><a href="#need-certification">Do I <strong>need</strong> to send a "verification selfie"?</a></li>
<li><a href="#secondary-id">Do I need to <strong>show you my photo ID?</strong></a> <span class="tag is-success">NEW May 26 2024</span></li>
<li><a href="#why-certify">Why the hard requirement to certify?</a></li>
<li><a href="#uncertified">What can non-certified members do?</a></li>
</ul>
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your profile page.
</p>
<h3 id="secondary-id">Do I need to show you my photo ID?</h3>
<p>
<span class="tag is-success">NEW May 26 2024</span>
</p>
<p>
Usually, no: the majority of our members are middle-aged adults (or older) where it is clear from
their appearance that they are well over 18 years old.
</p>
<p>
However, if you appear that you could be under age you may be requested to share a secondary
form of photo identification so we can verify your birth date. This generally means you would
need to share a scan of a government-issued identity document (such as a passport, driver's
license or national ID card) which shows your <strong>face</strong> and your <strong>date of birth.</strong>
</p>
<p>
We will strongly encourage you to <strong>black out all other personal information</strong> from
your ID card. We <em>do not</em> need to know your name, address, ID number or anything else like
that: only your date of birth and photograph would be requested.
</p>
<p>
The website will also <strong>delete your photo ID as soon as possible:</strong> we do not want
to hold onto these at all! After an admin has verified your birth date and approved the picture,
the website will record that your photo ID had been reviewed and the image itself is deleted from
the server entirely.
</p>
<p>
The above information is communicated around the website if your account has been challenged to
share a secondary form of ID. Most of our members won't experience this workflow: only the members
who look questionably young where the admins can't in good conscience approve your certification
photo without verifying you are at least 18 years old.
</p>
<h3 id="why-certify">Why the hard requirement to certify?</h3>
<p>

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</p>
<p>
This page was last updated on <strong>April 29, 2024.</strong>
This page was last updated on <strong>May 26, 2024.</strong>
</p>
<p>
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<h1 id="third-parties">Third Parties</h1>
<p>
<span class="tag is-success">Added: Oct 24 2023</span>
<span class="tag is-success">Updated: May 26 2024</span>
</p>
<p>
{{PrettyTitle}} does not share data with <strong>ANY</strong> third party company.
{{PrettyTitle}} strives to minimize any sharing of user data with third party companies, to the
furthest extent as is possible.
The website and chat room (both custom applications built specifically for {{PrettyTitle}}) run on
a single web server. There are <strong>NO</strong> third-party analytics, advertisements, or any
data sharing agreement with any third-party company -- all user data is stored in-house on the
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<p>
The features on {{PrettyTitle}} are designed in a privacy-first manner in order to avoid relying
on any third-party services. For example:
on any third-party services to the furthest extent possible. For example:
</p>
<ul>
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</li>
</ul>
<p>
Here are the exhaustive list of touch points that {{PrettyTitle}} has with any third-party company:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/"><strong>Digital Ocean</strong></a>
provides the web hosting for the {{PrettyTitle}} web server. The server itself is a
manually operated Virtual Private Server. No user data is shared with Digital Ocean,
however they would be technically capable of accessing the server hard drive and
database if they needed to.
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.mailersend.com/"><strong>Mailersend</strong></a>
provides our outgoing e-mail service, for sending you the "new account verification e-mail"
and other transactional e-mail messages. Mailersend may see the e-mail address and content
of e-mails that are sent from the website, as is necessary for them to relay the message to you.
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/"><strong>OpenStreetMap:</strong></a>
the "Who's Nearby?" location feature will load map tiles from OpenStreetMap to draw the
map widget on your Location Settings page. No user data is shared with OpenStreetMap, but
they might see your IP address when your web page loads the map tiles.
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/"><strong>Cloudflare:</strong></a> the new account
signup page uses a CAPTCHA widget provided by Cloudflare in order to combat spam and
fraud. No user data is shared with Cloudflare.
</li>
</ul>
<p>
{{PrettyTitle}} is <strong>philosophically opposed</strong> to the data sharing that is so very
common with most other websites on the Internet. We take our members' privacy <strong>very</strong>
seriously, and are committed to never adding intrusive advertisements, tracking cookies or analytics
which can compromise your privacy. All website features are designed to maximize your privacy and
minimize any use of third-party services where possible.
</p>
<h1 id="data">Data Collection and Use</h1>
<p>
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</p>
<ul>
<li>
<strong>Government Issued Photo IDs</strong> <span class="tag is-success">Added May 26, 2024</span>
<ul>
<li>
In our Certification Photo workflow, users who appear under age <strong>MAY</strong>
be asked to provide a secondary form of photo ID to verify their age. This will take
the form of a government-issued passport or ID card that shows their photo and date
of birth.
</li>
<li>
If this happens, we will instruct you to <strong>black out all other personal information</strong>
from your ID card except the photo and date of birth. We do not want to know your name,
address, ID number, or any personal information about you.
</li>
<li>
The website will <strong>delete your photo ID as soon as possible:</strong> after an admin
has reviewed it and approved or rejected it, the image is deleted from the server. You may
also delete it yourself before an admin looks at it.
</li>
<li>
We <strong>do not want</strong> to store photo IDs at all, so that we aren't liable in
case of a data breach or hack. Only members who appear questionably young will be prompted
to share photo ID.
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Messages (website)</strong>
<ul>