Aluora Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Aluora collects, uses, stores, and protects personal data when providing identity, cultural knowledge, archive, messaging, moderation, and community features.

Aluora is designed as a cultural knowledge and archive platform. We verify cultural knowledge, archive sources, and cultural structures where possible. We do not verify personal ancestry, clan membership, lineage membership, or ethnic identity claims.

1. Data We Collect

We may save account details, email address, display name, profile information, cultural identity fields, community, clan, lineage, languages, migration story, posts, comments, cultural explanations, archive collections, bookmarks, messages, notifications, reports, moderation records, consent records, and privacy settings.

2. Why We Use Data

We use data to operate Aluora, provide user accounts, enable cultural profiles, preserve cultural knowledge, support archives and collections, enable messaging and notifications, protect users, moderate content, prevent abuse, comply with legal obligations, and maintain platform security.

3. Legal Basis

We process personal data where it is necessary to provide the platform, where users have given consent, where we have a legitimate interest in security, moderation, and service improvement, or where we must comply with legal obligations.

4. Cultural and Archive Data

Some contributions may become part of public or community-visible cultural archives. Users should not submit private, sacred, restricted, confidential, or culturally sensitive knowledge unless they have the right and authority to share it.

5. Messages and Community Interaction

Private messages are used to provide communication between users. We may process messages for delivery, security, abuse prevention, and legal compliance. Users must not use messaging for harassment, spam, impersonation, threats, or unlawful activity.

6. Data Sharing

We do not sell personal data. Data may be shared only where necessary to operate the service, comply with the law, investigate abuse, protect users, or use trusted technical service providers such as hosting and infrastructure providers.

7. Data Retention

Account data is retained while the account exists. Some moderation, deletion, security, consent, and legal records may be retained for a longer period where necessary for legal compliance, abuse prevention, or platform integrity. Public archive contributions may be preserved where legally permitted and culturally necessary.

8. Your Rights

You may request access to your data, correct inaccurate data, export your data, restrict certain processing, object to processing, or delete your account through your account settings, subject to applicable legal, safety, moderation, and archive-preservation requirements.

9. Data Export and Account Deletion

Aluora provides tools to download your data and request account deletion. Account deletion may remove access to your account, while certain audit, moderation, security, consent, and legally necessary records may be retained.

10. Children and Age Requirement

Aluora is intended for users who are at least 16 years old. Users must confirm that they meet this age requirement during onboarding.

11. Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect user data. No online service can guarantee complete security, and users should protect their login credentials.

12. Contact

For privacy questions, data requests, or legal concerns, contact the platform operator using the contact details provided in the Impressum.

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