Privacy policy for the humanise.ai Forum

This policy covers the community forum served at humaniseai.ai/forum. The forum is run by the humanise.ai editorial team and owned by humanise.ai, which is the controller of the personal data described here. It sits alongside the privacy policy for the main site, which covers the humaniser and other pages. If anything here is unclear, write to privacy@humaniseai.ai.

What we collect

• Your email address. We use it to send you a sign-in link. The forum has no passwords. It is also used to reply to you if you write to us, and to send notifications you have asked for.
• Your display name and handle. You choose these. They are shown next to everything you post, so avoid using your full legal name unless you are happy for it to be public.
• Your posts. Questions, answers, replies, votes and reports you make, with the time and the section they belong to. Posts are public unless we remove them.
• A session cookie. When you follow a sign-in link we set a cookie that keeps you signed in. It is needed for the forum to work.
• Basic server logs. Requests to the forum are logged with the time, page address, response status, browser details and network address, so that we can fix faults and spot abuse.
• Rate-limit counters. To stop spam and repeated sign-in attempts we count requests from a network address or an email address over short periods.

We do not ask for your date of birth, your institution, or any payment details, and we do not run a paid tier on the forum. Please do not put sensitive personal data in a post. The guidelines explain what to leave out.

What we do not do

There are no advertising trackers on the forum, and no third-party advertising or retargeting scripts. We do not sell personal data and we do not share it with advertisers. We do not build advertising profiles. We do not use your posts to train AI models.

Why we use it, and our lawful basis

We send sign-in links and keep your account because it is necessary to provide the forum you asked to use. We keep logs and rate-limit counters because we have a legitimate interest in keeping the forum secure and working. We handle reports and moderation under the same interest, and where we must comply with the law, under legal obligation. If we ever send anything beyond what the forum needs, we will ask for your consent first and you can withdraw it.

Where it is stored and who processes it

The forum runs on Cloudflare, which hosts the site, stores its data and delivers it from servers around the world. Sign-in emails are sent through an email delivery provider. These providers process data on our instructions and under data processing terms. Where data is transferred outside the UK, we rely on approved transfer mechanisms such as the UK International Data Transfer Agreement or the UK Addendum to standard contractual clauses.

How long we keep it

Your account and posts are kept while your account is open. Server logs and rate-limit counters are kept for a short, rolling period needed to run and secure the forum, and are then deleted or reduced to figures that do not identify you. If you ask us to delete your account, we remove your email address, and either delete your posts or detach them from your name, as you choose. Copies in backups are overwritten in the normal cycle. We may keep a minimal record of a deletion request so that we can show we acted on it.

Deleting your data

Write to privacy@humaniseai.ai from the email address on your account and say that you want your account deleted. We will confirm what we have removed. Posts that other people have quoted or replied to may remain in their words, and answers that other members have relied on may be kept with your name removed.

Your rights under UK GDPR

You have the right to be told what we hold, to receive a copy, to have inaccurate data corrected, to have your data deleted, to restrict or object to processing, to receive your data in a portable form, and to withdraw consent where we rely on it. We aim to reply within one month. If you are unhappy with how we handle your data, you may complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk, though we would like the chance to put things right first.

Readers in Australia

If you read or post from Australia, we handle your personal information in line with the Australian Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988. You may ask for access to your information and for it to be corrected, and you may complain to us. If we do not resolve your complaint, you may take it to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au.

Children

The forum is not directed at children under 16, and we ask that they do not create accounts. If you believe a child has signed up, write to us and we will delete the account.

Changes

If we change this policy in a way that matters, we will update the date above and say what changed.