Privacy Policy
Last Updated: March 27, 2026
This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you use our community platform at peoplesninth.com, which includes our discussion forums (powered by Discourse) and our content site (powered by Ghost). By using our platform, you consent to the practices described in this policy.
1. What Information Do We Collect?
We collect the minimum amount of information necessary to operate our community. We do not require or collect your name, phone number, or physical address.
When you register, we collect:
- Your email address — used solely to verify your account, send notifications you request, and facilitate password recovery.
When you participate in the forum, we may also record:
- The IP address associated with each post or request to our server, retained for security and abuse prevention purposes.
- Your posting activity, username, and content you voluntarily share on the platform.
2. How Do We Use Your Information?
Information we collect is used only for the following purposes:
- To verify your account and authenticate your identity when you log in.
- To send notifications about topics, replies, or account activity — only as you configure in your notification preferences.
- To respond to support requests or inquiries you initiate.
- To detect and prevent abuse, spam, or violations of our community guidelines.
- To maintain and improve the security and functionality of the platform.
We do not use your information for advertising, marketing profiling, or any commercial purpose beyond operating this platform.
3. How Do We Protect Your Information?
We implement a variety of technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information:
- All data transmitted between your browser and our servers is encrypted using TLS (HTTPS).
- Access to user data is restricted to authorized administrators only.
- Our servers are hosted in Switzerland and are subject to Swiss data protection law (nFADP — Federal Act on Data Protection), which provides strong legal protections for personal data.
- We regularly review our security practices and apply software updates and patches.
4. Where Is Your Data Stored?
All user data — including account information, posts, and server logs — is stored exclusively on servers located in Switzerland. Swiss data protection law (nFADP) governs the handling of your data and provides strong protections against unauthorized foreign government access.
While no jurisdiction can guarantee absolute immunity from legal process, Switzerland maintains strict legal standards and requires formal Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) procedures before responding to foreign government data requests. We will notify affected users of any data requests to the fullest extent permitted by law.
5. Data Retention Policy
We are committed to retaining your data only as long as necessary:
- Server logs containing IP addresses are automatically purged after 30 days via a scheduled automated process on our servers.
- Account data is retained for as long as your account is active. If you request deletion of your account, your personal information will be removed within 30 days.
- Posts and community contributions may be anonymized rather than deleted at your request, to preserve forum continuity — unless you explicitly request full removal.
6. Do We Use Cookies?
Yes. Cookies are small files stored on your device by your web browser. We use cookies for the following limited purposes:
- To keep you logged in to your account during a session.
- To remember your forum preferences and settings.
- To maintain session security.
We do not use cookies for advertising, tracking across third-party websites, or behavioral profiling. No third-party advertising cookies are present on this platform.
7. Do We Share Your Information?
No. We do not sell, trade, rent, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to any outside party for any commercial purpose.
The only circumstances under which we may disclose information are:
- To comply with applicable Swiss law or a valid legal process conducted in accordance with Swiss legal standards (see Section 4 regarding government data requests).
- To protect the rights, safety, or property of our platform, our users, or others, in cases of serious and credible threat.
We do not share data with analytics providers, advertisers, data brokers, or marketing platforms.
8. Email Communications
Transactional and notification emails from this platform are sent via ProtonMail, a Swiss-based encrypted email service. ProtonMail is end-to-end encrypted, and email content is not stored on third-party commercial servers. This is consistent with our commitment to Swiss-based, privacy-respecting infrastructure.
We will only send you emails in the following circumstances:
- Account verification when you register.
- Password reset requests initiated by you.
- Forum notifications you have explicitly enabled in your account preferences.
- Critical platform announcements that affect your account or access.
You can manage or disable all non-essential email notifications at any time through your account settings.
9. Third-Party Links
Our platform may contain links to third-party websites or resources posted by community members or administrators. These third-party sites operate under their own privacy policies, and we have no responsibility or liability for their content or data practices. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any third-party site you visit.
10. Children’s Privacy (COPPA)
Our platform is directed to individuals who are at least 16 years of age. If you are under 16, you may not register or use this platform. If you are located in the United States and are under 16, use of this site is prohibited under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected information from a child under 16, we will delete it promptly.
11. Your Rights
You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
- Access: You may request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- Correction: You may request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
- Deletion: You may request deletion of your account and associated personal data.
- Portability: You may request an export of your account data in a portable format.
- Objection: You may object to certain uses of your data.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at:
We will respond to all requests within 30 days in accordance with applicable Swiss data protection law.
12. Future Services
We are developing additional platform features, including a storefront. This Privacy Policy will be updated prior to the launch of any new services that involve the collection or processing of additional personal data. We will notify registered users of any material changes before they take effect.
13. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time. When we do, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of this document and post the updated policy on this page. For material changes, we will notify registered users via the email address associated with their account or via a platform notice.
Continued use of the platform after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the updated policy.
14. Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:
This document is licensed under CC-BY-SA. Last updated March 27, 2026.