Privacy

This page says, in plain words, what Netstalgia keeps about you, for how long, and who can see it. The rules for using the service are in the Terms of Use.

This website

No visitor log. The website does not record who visited, signed up or logged in, or from where. Your network address is used only in memory, for limits on how fast forms can be sent, and is not stored.
Cookies. When you log in, the site sets one cookie that keeps you logged in. It ends after 2 hours without using the site, after 30 days at most, when you log out, and on every device as soon as your password changes. Forms carry a check so other websites cannot send them for you. The site sets no tracking or advertising cookies and loads nothing from other websites.
Your profile is off until you turn it on in your account. When it is on, anyone can see your screen name, the date you joined and what you wrote in it. Turn it off at any time.

Netstalgia Online

Your account: your screen name, the date you joined, the Terms version you accepted, a scrambled check of your password (never the password itself), a scrambled check of your recovery code, a count of recent failed sign-on attempts (to slow down password guessing), your Pals List and your blocks. Kept until you delete your account.
Chat lines, instant messages and mail: 30 days, so that a report can be checked. Then they are deleted.
Who was in which chat room, and when: 30 days, for the same reason.
Reports and sanctions (warnings, mutes, suspensions, bans): until resolved, plus 1 year. A report keeps a copy of the reported text for that time.
The moderation log (what the owner did, and why): 1 year.
Server logs: counts only, never message text or web addresses. The one exception is the owner's admin console: when an administrator logs in, their network address is logged.
Your network address is used only in memory, for rate limits and the live-web relay. It is not stored.
The live-web relay: hourly counts only, never web addresses.
Your weather city and units, My Stations and your settings: kept until you change them or delete your account.
Radio: which station is playing is not stored.
Poll of the Day: only the vote totals are kept, for 30 days.

Your own mailbox

If you add your everyday mailbox (POP3 or IMAP) to Netstalgia Online, your mail goes between your PC and your mail provider. When you dial in with a Netstalgia box, the box adds the encryption your provider needs. Passwords pass through the box and are never stored on it. If you ask the program to remember the password, it is kept scrambled on your PC.

The Netstalgia box

The box keeps its settings, its call log and its own logs on its memory card, in your home. Nothing from the box is sent to us. Its logs never hold passwords.

Who can see it

Only the owner, who is also the moderator, and only to look into reports and keep the service running. Your data is never sold. It is not shared, with one exception: when you look up the weather, the city name is sent to a weather service without your name.

Deleting your account

In the Netstalgia Online program choose Settings, then Delete account, and type your password. Or close it from your account on this site. Your Pals List, mailbox, settings, My Stations, chat lines and messages are deleted with it. Mail you already sent stays in the other person's mailbox, shown as from (deleted). Reports and sanctions stay as moderation records for the times above. Your screen name is held back for 30 days so nobody can pretend to be you.

Questions

Write to [email protected].