Team Law’s Open Forum System © - Privacy policy
This policy explains in detail how “Team Law’s Open Forum System ©” along with its affiliated companies (hereinafter “we”, “us”, “our”, “Team Law’s Open Forum System ©”, “http://teamlawforum.net”) and phpBB (hereinafter “they”, “them”, “their”, “phpBB software”, “www.phpbb.com”, “phpBB Group”, “phpBB Teams”) use any information collected during any session of usage by you (hereinafter “your information”).
Your information is collected via two ways. Firstly, by browsing “Team Law’s Open Forum System ©” will cause the phpBB software to create a number of cookies, which are small text files that are downloaded on to your computer’s web browser temporary files. The first two cookies just contain a user identifier (hereinafter “user-id”) and an anonymous session identifier (hereinafter “session-id”), automatically assigned to you by the phpBB software. A third cookie will be created once you have browsed topics within “Team Law’s Open Forum System ©” and is used to store which topics have been read, thereby improving your user experience.
We may also create cookies external to the phpBB software whilst browsing “Team Law’s Open Forum System ©”, though these are outside the scope of this document which is intended to only cover the pages created by the phpBB software. The second way in which we collect your information is by what you submit to us. This can be, and is not limited to: posting as an anonymous user (hereinafter “anonymous posts”), registering on “Team Law’s Open Forum System ©” (hereinafter “your account”) and posts submitted by you after registration and whilst logged in (hereinafter “your posts”).
Your account will at a bare minimum contain a uniquely identifiable name (hereinafter “your user name”), a personal password used for logging into your account (hereinafter “your password”) and a personal, valid e-mail address (hereinafter “your e-mail”). Your information for your account at “Team Law’s Open Forum System ©” is protected by data-protection laws applicable in the country that hosts us. Any information beyond your user name, your password, and your e-mail address required by “Team Law’s Open Forum System ©” during the registration process is either mandatory or optional, at the discretion of “Team Law’s Open Forum System ©”. In all cases, you may have the option of what information in your account is publicly displayed; generally most such information defaults to no display. Further, within your account, you may have the option to opt-in or opt-out of automatically generated e-mails from the phpBB software; this option is set by default to notify you of responses to your posts. All e-mail from Team Law’s server is automated (robotically processed) and except for the required e-mail response (made to confirm your e-mail address) you agree to never send e-mail to Team Law except through our forum’s private messaging service.
Your password is ciphered (a one-way hash) so that it is secure. However, it is recommended that you do not reuse the same password across a number of different websites. Your password is the means of accessing your account at “Team Law’s Open Forum System ©”; so, please guard it carefully and under no circumstance will anyone affiliated with “Team Law’s Open Forum System ©”, phpBB or another 3rd party, legitimately ask you for your password. Should you forget your password for your account, you can use the “I forgot my password” feature provided on the login page by the phpBB software. This process will ask you to submit your user name and your e-mail, then the phpBB software will generate a new password to reclaim your account.
For further details see the Privacy Policy published at http://teamlaw.net/PrivacyPolicy.htm.