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Except the data of the Username, Location (Country) and Gender fields, which are not supposed to be sensitive informations for the privacy of the member, all the information about a specific user are hidden or not filled except if this user choose to provide these informations to the other members. If a user choose to provide or display more informations on his profile, it is by his own choice and Metalia.net is not responsible for what other members could do with these informations. However, Metalia.net is totally opposed to the use of its members informations for any purpose that is not in direct relation with Metalia.net or unsolicited by the member.
If it is proven that a member uses other members profiles for advertising or any commercial purpose, Metalia.net will take actions, in accord with the victimized member to make his/her privacy rights respected. The only data that can be seen by non-member visitors are the usernames of the members on the home page of the website in the "Last logins", "Top users" and "Last members" columns. And these informations are not considered sensitive or nominative. If a user uses his real name as his username, this data becomes nominative, but Metalia.net cannot be held responsible for this. The members choose their usernames and it is their responsibility/choice to find a anonymous username if they want to remain anonymous.
Metalia.net is in no case a database of users to be used for advertising or spam lists and we will fight any abusive data collection concerning our members.
Metalia.net has currently no connection with advertising businesses. However, if the growth of the website is too important ant that its founders are unable to pay the website's hosting and services by themselves, advertisement could be added to the website. In that case, NO NOMINATIVE informations will be given to the advertisers directly. Only a geographic distribution of the members, with a percentage per country could be given, if asked. Some other infomations could be, in that case, found by advertisers themselves with their own scripts, like country where visitors are from, number of time they've seen a banner... But there will be no possibility for the advertisers to know if the person that see a banner is a member of the website or just a visitor and therefore, they would have no access to your personal data.
Use of cookies:
Cookies are small files stored on your hard-drive. On Metalia.net, cookies are only used to log you in automatically, if you ask for it, and to log to the forum. You can however decline Metalia.net use of cookies, it will not affect your navigation once logged in.
If you choose to use the "Remember me" feature, your login (e-mail address) and password will be saved in a cookie. Only use this feature if you are the only user of the computer or if you know there will be no abuse of your identity. If you use this feature on a public/shared computer, Metalia.net cannot be held responsible for what any other person could do with your account. And you could even be considered responsible for this person’s actions with your account. Do not use the "Remember me" feature on a public computer! Never!
Read the "Remember me" help text to know more about this feature.
Metalia.net is absolutely against sharing its members private dat. But, as total security does not exist, data you transfer to the website by the means of forms could be intercepted; like any on any other website. Even if we do our best to obtain a high security level, this kind of incidents could happen, and they’re not always to blame on the website itself, but can be a result of your configuration or your internet connection, which we cannot secure for you. The only situation in which Metalia.net could made to give your personnal dats is if a law or government procedure demand it. And should this situation occur, we would do our best to avoid giving data, if possible. Advertiser, companies and any entity that could use information about you to spam your e-mail box or send you commercial offers will not get your address or any other nominative or personal data from the website management.
You can, at any moment, change your personal data, give more informations, delete others. If you delete informations from your profil, these data are in no case kept in some secret place in our database. All the information we have about you appear in your profile, except for your e-mail address if you choose not to display it. You can change all the data about you in the profile update. Metalia.net is not responsible for the use other members could do with these data, however, be sure we'll support you and take action in case of abuse. Only the e-mail address and the password are not updated immediatly, for security reasons as users log to the website using these data. When a user change his e-mail address or his website. We ask for a confirmation key that is sent to the user by e-mail to ensure the address given is owned by this user or to prevent a user to change the password of another member. The informations concerning the members are those the members provided themselves, we do not, in any case, try to know more about our members by collecting data about them in any other part of the internet.
Metalia.net do not send e-mail messages to its members for commercial purpose. If a message is send to all users, it will only be on a non regular basis, and only for major updates, announcements or alerts about the service of the website. Users can send e-mail to each other through the website, for users who decided to hide their e-mail address. Metalia.net cannot be held responsible for the content of these messages. Should this happen or if a member uses the service for commercial or spam purpose, he will be banned or his ability to send e-mail messages through the website will be locked.
For more information about this privacy policy or if you have questions, please contact the management.
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