Privacy Policy
Bardagulan.com respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, protect, and process your personal information when you use Bardagulan.com.
Information We Collect
Account information: username, first name, last name, email address, securely hashed password, and email verification status.
Profile and verification information: phone number, address or structured location details, profile photo/avatar, Google account ID, and Google profile image if provided.
Platform activity: topics joined, side selections, comments, BASH/counter entries, REBUT entries, STRIKE actions, UP votes, follows, Bardagulan Score, points, reports, moderation history, badges, Prime status, sponsored topic activity, notifications, and admin logs where applicable.
Technical information: IP address, browser and device information, login timestamps, cookies, session data, and usage logs for security and platform improvement.
How We Use Your Information
We use information to create and manage accounts, verify identity and email, enable email or Google login, display public profiles, calculate Bardagulan Score, points, ranks, badges, and rankings, support debate activity, send notifications, moderate content, prevent abuse, manage Prime or sponsored features, improve performance, and comply with legal obligations.
Public Information
Some information may be visible to other users, including username, display name, avatar, rank, verification badge, Bardagulan Score, points, strike/red flag count if shown, comments, BASH entries, REBUT entries, STRIKE activity if publicly shown, UP counts, topics created, debate activity, and follower/following counts.
Your phone number, address, email address, password, and private verification details will not be publicly displayed.
User-Generated Content and Google Login
When you post comments, BASH entries, REBUT entries, STRIKES, topics, or other content on Bardagulan.com, that content may be publicly visible. Do not post private, sensitive, confidential, or illegal information about yourself or others.
If you use Google, we may receive your Google ID, name, email address, and profile image depending on what Google provides and what you authorize.
Data Sharing and Protection
We do not sell your personal information. We may disclose information when necessary to operate the platform, comply with legal obligations, respond to valid legal requests, investigate abuse or security issues, protect Bardagulan.com and its users, or work with service providers for hosting, email, analytics, authentication, or payments.
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect information, but no online system can guarantee absolute security.
Retention, Rights, Cookies, and Updates
We keep information as long as necessary to operate Bardagulan.com, maintain account records, enforce rules, resolve disputes, comply with legal obligations, and protect against abuse. Moderation records, reports, STRIKES, REBUT logs, BASH logs, and admin logs may be retained even after content is removed or an account is restricted.
Depending on applicable law, including the Data Privacy Act of 2012, you may have rights to access, correct, object to processing, request deletion, or withdraw consent where applicable. Use the Contact page for privacy requests.
Bardagulan.com may use cookies and similar technologies to keep you logged in, remember preferences, secure sessions, analyze usage, and improve the website.
Bardagulan.com is intended for users legally allowed to create online accounts and participate in public discussion. We may suspend or delete accounts created in violation of age or legal requirements.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Continued use of Bardagulan.com means you accept the updated Privacy Policy.