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Privacy

What this archive knows about you, why, how long it keeps it, and what you can demand. Nothing about you is sold, shared or used for advertising.

Who is responsible

  • AAS Archive is responsible for what is kept here.
  • Write to admin@ai-assisted-speedruns.org to see what is kept about you, to have it corrected or removed, or to object. You get an answer within a month.

When you read the site

  • Reading the site needs no account. The archive counts visits to know whether anyone is reading it: how many people come, which pages they open and from which country. It does not profile you and does not follow you to other sites.
  • Your IP address is used for that count and is turned into a code first, with a new key each day. One code is kept for good, to count how many different visitors there have ever been.
  • Failed sign-ins and floods of requests are counted against your address in the same way, to stop them, and those counts are gone within a day.
  • The web server keeps an ordinary access log with your address in it, to see attacks.
  • A code is not your name, but it is still about you, so you can ask what is held under it and object to it.

Cookies

  • The archive uses four cookies, all of them needed to work: one that makes its own forms safe to send, one that keeps you signed in, and two that last a moment while you sign in. Nothing else is stored in your browser.
  • None of them follows you and none is read by anyone else. There are no advertising or tracking cookies, so there is nothing to agree to and no banner.

When you have an account

  • An account holds your e-mail address, the name you choose for your runs, and how you sign in. Your password is never kept as a password.
  • Signing in through another account tells the archive who you are there, your confirmed e-mail address and your name. Nothing else, and nothing is written back.
  • Your e-mail address is never shown on the site. The archive writes to it about your submissions and your account, and for nothing else.
  • When you sign in and what you change about your account is recorded, and you can read that list on your account page.

When you publish a run

  • A run you submit is published as its bundle holds it, under the name you chose. What the model said and did during the run is part of it, and it is public.
  • Before a bundle is kept it is searched for things from the machine it was played on, such as names and paths. A bundle carrying those is refused and not kept, so look at what you publish before you send it.
  • Links you add to a run are shown with it once a reviewer has approved them. A link points at someone else's page, and what happens there is that site's business.

When you write a comment or a guide

  • A comment under a run and a guide on a game are public the moment you post them, with the name on your account beside them. Anyone can read them, signed in or not.
  • A comment stays as you wrote it until you change it yourself. A guide keeps every version, with the name of whoever wrote that version, so a change can always be undone; the versions are part of the guide and stay when you change it again.
  • A reviewer can hide a comment or a guide, and the reason is shown where it stood. Hidden is not deleted: the archive keeps it, and only reviewers still read it.
  • Closing your account takes your name off what you wrote: the comment and the guide stay, without an author. Ask if you want something you wrote removed as well.

When you use the forum

  • The forum is part of the archive: its pages are at /forum/, and it runs on a machine of its own. You are signed in there with your account here; the forum never has a password of yours and there is nothing to register there.
  • The archive tells the forum your account number, the name on your runs, your e-mail address and whether you have answered at it, and tells it again when you change them here. Nothing else, and the forum writes nothing back. Your name and address are changed here, not there.
  • The forum keeps what you post there and one cookie of its own, on its own address, to keep you signed in. Your address is not shown to other readers.
  • The forum sends no mail at all: no notifications, no digest, nothing. What the archive writes to you about your account comes from the archive.
  • What you post on the forum is public the moment you post it, with the name on your account beside it. Closing your account here closes your forum account too, with everything you wrote there.

Who can see what

  • Anyone sees a published run and the name you chose for it.
  • A reviewer sees the submission they are reviewing, with the name and e-mail address of whoever sent it.
  • An admin sees every account: its address, its name, when it last signed in and what it has made.
  • Nobody outside the archive: no advertiser, no analytics service, no other company.

The archive and its mail run on machines in the European Union, kept by the archive itself. Nothing about you leaves the Union.

Why the archive may keep it

  • Your account and your submissions: the archive holds them to do what you asked it to do.
  • A published run: it stays because that is what an archive is, a record that can be checked later.
  • Statistics: the archive keeps visitor statistics to see how the site is used.
  • Security: to prevent abuse of the site's forms and the API.
  • No decision about you is made here by a machine, and nothing profiles you.

How long it is kept

WhatHow long
Your account, and what you wrote about your runsUntil you close it
A run you published, and its bundleFor good, unless you ask for it to be removed
A submission that was refused or rejectedWith your account, or until a reviewer removes it
Being signed inUntil you sign out, or the session runs out by itself
The record of your sign-ins and account changesWith your account
The code that counts you as a visitor todayUntil the day is over
The codes that count how many visitors there were per hour and per dayThree days
One code counting you among all the visitors there have ever beenAs long as the archive exists
Attempts counted against abuseOne day
The web server's access logA short time, to see attacks

What you can demand

  • See what is kept: your account page hands you everything about you in one file.
  • Correct it: your name and your address are yours to change there.
  • Have it removed: close your account there. For a published run, ask on the run's own page and a reviewer removes it.
  • Take it with you: that file is JSON, which any other system can read.
  • Object, or ask that its use be limited: write to admin@ai-assisted-speedruns.org.
  • Complain: to the data protection authority of the country you live in, or to the Dutch one, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens.

Closing your account deletes it with your sign-in methods, your keys, your submissions and everything you wrote about your runs.