Who we are
Searching for Saponitown / Saponitown / Saponitown.com is run and maintained by a small group of Indigenous volunteers. Our website address is: https://saponitown.com. We can be contacted through the contact form.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Saponitown.com relies on user-provided data. When you register for this site, you may be asked to provide certain personal data for display on your profile. The “Name” field is required as well as public, and user profiles are visible to any site visitor. Other profile information may be required or optional, as configured by the site administrator.
User information provided during account registration can be modified or removed on the Profile > Edit panel. In most cases, users also have control over who is able to view a particular piece of profile content, limiting visibility on a field-by-field basis to friends, logged-in users, or administrators only. Site administrators can read and edit all profile data for all users.
Personal information that you enter into the forums, with the exception of hidden and private forums, is available to the public. Please do not share any personal information on the forums that you do not want to be publicly available.
Personal data may also generated from technical processes such as contact forms, comments, cookies, analytics, and third party integrated technology.
Anonymity
You are welcome to register with Saponitown.com anonymously. However, you must have a permanently functional email address.
Comments and forum posts
When users leave comments, forum posts or replies on Saponitown.com, we collect the data shown in the comments/forum forms, as well as the user’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. After approval of your comment or forum posts, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Remember that information that you enter into the forums, with the exception of hidden and private forums, is available to the public. Please do not share any information on the forums that you do not want to be publicly available.
Messages
Saponitown.com uses a private messaging system for communication between members. The content of private messages is visible only to the sender and the recipients of the message. With the exception of site administrators, who can read all private messages, private message content is never visible to other users or site visitors. Site administrators may delete the content of any message.
Media
If you upload images to Saponitown.com, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
Saponitown.com uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app.
Necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Saponitown.com to securely serve this website and it’s content to you.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
Saponitown.com uses a cookie to show success and failure messages to logged-in users, in response to certain actions, like joining a group. These cookies contain no personal data, and are deleted immediately after the next page load.
Saponitown.com uses cookies on group, member, and activity directories to keep track of a user’s browsing preferences. These preferences include the last-selected values of the sort and filter dropdowns, as well as pagination information. These cookies contain no personal data, and are deleted after 24 hours.
When a logged-in user creates a new group, we use a number of cookies to keep track of the group creation process. These cookies contain no personal data, and are deleted either upon the successful creation of the group or after 24 hours.
If you leave a comment or forum post on this site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Analytics and performance cookies are used on Saponitown.com only when you acknowledge them on our cookie consent form. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
Saponitown.com does not utilize advertising cookies. However, websites linked to Saponitown.com might. In which case, they will have their own cookie and privacy policies.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on Saponitown.com may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
Saponitown.com does not share or sell personal data with any third parties, except as noted below, unless it is necessary for us to provide it to law enforcement as required by a warrant in accordance with the laws of the United States of America and the states of North Carolina and Virginia.
Your information may be shared internally between the Saponitown.com administrative staff for the purposes of sharing the information to assist you, troubleshoot technical issues or make determinations regarding administrative functions. Comments, posts or replies may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Saponitown.com may utilize Gravatar for profile pictures. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.
Your IP address
Your IP address may be shared with 3rd parties through integrated applications that provide analytics, spam prevention, security assessments or other services required for the continued functionality of Saponitown.com. If you request a password reset, your IP address may be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment or forum post, the comment or post and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments or replies automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. Forum posts, unless deleted, are permanent.
For users that register on Saponitown.com, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All registered users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Caching
Saponitown.com utilizes caching in order to facilitate a faster response time and better user experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this site. All cache files are temporary, and are never accessed by any third party, except as necessary to obtain technical support from the cache plugin vendor. Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site administrator, but may easily be purged by the admin before their natural expiration, if necessary. We may use QUIC.cloud services to process & cache your data temporarily.Please see https://quic.cloud/privacy-policy/ for more details.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on Saponitown.com, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.