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What is the AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum ?

AUDIRVANA SAS is the company home and primary developer of Audirvāna. As a company, AUDIRVANA SAS host a forum using Discourse named AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY accessible at community.audirvana.com

How does AUDIRVANA SAS collect data about me?

The AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum collects data about you:

  • when you browse the AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum
  • when you create and use an account on the AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum
  • when you post, send private messages, and otherwise participate in the AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum

The AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum collects data when you use the AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum, whether you use the forum using a web browser on your own computer, or access it using any Discourse apps for mobile devices.

AUDIRVANA SAS does not buy or otherwise receive data about you from data brokers.

What data does AUDIRVANA SAS collect about me, and why ?

AUDIRVANA SAS collects data about visits to the AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum.

When you visit the AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum, whether you have an account or not, the forum uses cookies, server logs, and other methods to collect data about what pages you visit and when.

The AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum uses data about how you use the website to:

  • optimize the forum, so that it’s quick and easy to use
  • diagnose and debug technical errors
  • defend the forum from abuse and technical attacks
  • compile statistics on forum and topic popularity
  • compile statistics on the kinds of software and computers visitors use

The AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum usually stores data about how you use the forum in identifiable form for just a few weeks. In special circumstances, like extended investigations about technical attacks, the AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum may preserve log data longer, for analysis. The AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum stores aggregate statistics about use of the forum for as long as AUDIRVANA SAS maintains this forum alive, but those statistics don’t include data identifiable to you personally.

The AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum collects account data.

Many features of the AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum require a forum account. For example, the AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum require an account to post and reply to topics.

To sign up for a forum account, he AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum requires your name, a user name, and an e-mail address.

The AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum uses your account data to identify you on the forum and to create pages specific to you, such as your profile page. If the forum is public, the AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum publishes your account data according to the forum administrator’s configuration. If the forum is access-restricted, the AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum makes your account data available to everyone who can access the forum, according to the forum administrator’s configuration.

The AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum uses your e-mail address to:

  • notify you about posts and other activity on the forum
  • reset your password and help keep your account secure
  • contact you in special circumstances related to your account
  • contact you about legal requests, like DMCA takedown requests

You may provide additional data for your account, like a short biography, your location, or your birthday, on the profile settings page for your account. The AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum makes that data available to others who can access the forum. You don’t have to provide this additional information, and you can erase it at any time.

The AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum stores your account data as long as your account remains open.

The AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum collects data about posts and other activity on the forum.

The AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum collects the content of your posts, plus data about bookmarks, likes, and links you follow in order to share that data with others, through the forum. If the forum is public, the AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum publishes your activity. If the forum is access-restricted, or access restrictions apply to the specific post, the AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum makes your activity available only to users permitted to see it.

The AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum also collects data about private messages that you send through the forum. The AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum makes private messages available to senders and their recipients, and also to forum administrators.

The AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum stores your posts and other activity as long as your account remains open.

The AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum uses cookies.

HTTP cookies are small bits of data that websites, like Discourse forums, send to your computer when you visit. When you return to those websites, your computer sends the cookies on your computer back to the website.

Have a look at the privacy notice for your specific forum to find out which cookies that forum uses. By default, all Discourse forums like the AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum use these cookies:

Name Essential Expires Purpose
email Yes Session remembers your e-mail as you create an account
destination_url Yes Session helps redirect you to your requested page after logging in
sso_destination_url Yes Session helps redirect you to your request page after single sign on
authentication_data Yes Next Page View temporarily stores user information during login flows
theme_key Yes Forever remembers your theme personalization if you don’t tick “Make this my default theme on all my devices”
cn Yes Next Page View temporarily stores notification read state
_bypass_cache Yes Session allows the server-side cache to be bypassed during login flows
_t Yes 1440 Hours remembers who you are when you log in
_forum_session Yes Session associates an ID, and other security-related information, with your browsing session
dosp Yes Next Page View enables client denial of service protection, a security protection
__profilin No Session used by software developers to bypass rack-mini-profiler

Your web browser can show you the cookies you have for any website and help you manage them.

How can I make choices about data collection?

You can make choices about how data about you is used on the settings page for your account. When a forum uses access restrictions that vary by category, you can choose who will see your post by choosing the appropriate category.

Most web browsers let you make choices about whether to accept cookies, for specific websites or more generally. aboutcookies.org has instructions for many different web browsers. youronlinechoices.eu and aboutads.info have more information specifically about cookies used for advertising.

The AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum does not respond to the Do Not Track HTTP header.

Where does AUDIRVANA SAS store data about me?

The AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum data are stored in OVH SAS datacenters located in France.

Does AUDIRVANA SAS comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation?

The AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum respects privacy rights under Regulation (EU) 2016/679, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Information that GDPR requires AUDIRVANA SAS to give for the AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum can be found throughout this privacy notice. So can information about specific rights, like access, rectification, erasure, data portability, and objection to automated decision-making.

Where can I access data about me?

You can see your account data at any time by visiting your account page on the forum. Your account page also lists your posts and other activity on the forum.

Your account activity page also includes a link to download all of your activity in standard comma-separated values format.

How can I change or erase data about me?

You can change your account data at any time by visiting the profile settings page for your account. The settings of the forum also allow you to close your account, on the settings page for your account. Closing your account starts a process of erasing or anonymizing the AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum’s records of data you provided for your AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum account. Forum administrators can also erase and anonymize accounts.

The settings of the forum, allow you to edit, anonymize, or erase your posts. When you edit posts, the AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum will keep all versions of your posts. Forum administrators can view old versions of posts, and optionally make them visible to other forum visitors.

You can also request data deletion of all the post of your account. Accordingly, you can request modification or deletion of your information by asking to forum administrators.

Does AUDIRVANA SAS make automated decisions based on data about me?

The AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum classifies posts as spam automatically.

The AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum uses data about your posts and other activity on many forums to make automated decisions about whether your posts are spam. When Akismet decides that a post is likely spam, the forum refuses to accept the post.

If you think a post has been wrongly blocked or removed, contact an administrator of your forum. They can override the decision that a post was spam.

The AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum uses data about posts and activity to set trust levels automatically.

The forum uses data about your posts and activity to award you badges and calculate a trust level for your account. Your trust level may affect how you can participate in the forum, such as whether you can upload images, as well as give you access to moderation and management powers in the forum. Your trust level therefore reflects forum administrators’ confidence in you, and their willingness to delegate community management functions, like moderation.

If you think your trust level has been set incorrectly, contact an administrator of the forum. They can manually adjust the trust level of your account.

Does AUDIRVANA SAS share data about me with others?

The AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum shares account data with others as mentioned in the section about account data.

The AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum shares data about your posts and other forum activity with others as mentioned in the section about forum data.

The AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum does not sell or give information about you to other companies or services. However, the AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum does use services from other companies. The companies behind those services may collect data about you on their own, for their own purposes. Some of these services may be used to collect information about your online activities across different websites. These services are based in the United States and France.

Service Description
Akismet reduces spam posts on some forums
OVH SAS Provides cloud servers and services, in service regions across the world, to host and back up websites, as well as a content delivery network of servers that host copies of content like images and website files, so that users around the world can download them quickly, from servers close to where they are…
Apple Push Notification Service Sends push notifications to users of the Discourse iOS app.
Google Cloud Messaging Sends push notifications to users of the Discourse Android app.

Other individuals and companies may also reuse data about you that the AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum publishes, such as your posts to public forum.

How can I contact AUDIRVANA SAS about privacy?

You can send questions and complaints to:

Audirvana SAS privacy@audirvana.com

What if this privacy notice changes?

This version of the AUDIRVANA COMMUNITY forum’s privacy questions and answers took effect October 12, 2021.

AUDIRVANA SAS will post the next version at https://community.audirvana.com/t/privacy-policy/, AUDIRVANA SAS may change how it announces changes in future versions.

In the meantime, AUDIRVANA SAS may update its contact information without announcing a change. Please refer to https://community.audirvana.com/t/privacy-policy/ for the latest contact information at any time.