Privacy and Policy

This policy explains what personal information NBA2KHUB collects, how we use it, and how we protect it. Please read it carefully.

What personal information do we collect?

When you sign in with Google, we receive and keep:

Your Google account ID, so we know it's you the next time you sign in.
Your email address, which Google has verified.

We don't receive your Google password, and we don't ask Google for your contacts or anything else in your account.

When you sign up with an email and password instead, we keep:

Your email address. We don't check it yet, because the site can't send email.
Your password, scrambled with a one-way hash so that nobody, including us, can read it. We only ever check whether the password you type matches.

After you sign in, we also keep what you add to the site:

The username you choose, and your profile photo, cover photo and bio if you add them.
Your posts, photos, comments and likes.
Reports you send about posts or comments. Only admins see them, with your username.

Your username, profile and posts are public. Your email address is never shown on the site.

How do we use your information?

To sign you in and keep you signed in.
To show your profile, posts and comments, and to tell you when members like or comment on them.
To keep the site free of spam and abuse, and to remove posts or comments that break the rules.
To reply when you contact us.

We don't sell your information, and we don't send marketing emails.

Do we use cookies?

We only use the cookies the site needs to work:

A sign-in cookie, which keeps you signed in for up to 30 days and is renewed while you use the site.
Two short cookies during Google sign-in, which expire after 10 minutes.

We don't use cookies for tracking or advertising, and we don't use analytics services such as Google Analytics. If you turn off cookies in your browser, you can still browse the site, but you won't be able to sign in.

How do we count views?

A post's view count goes up once per person per day. For members, we count by account. For visitors who aren't signed in, we make a code from their internet address and browser mixed with a random value that changes every day. We never store the internet address itself, and each day's codes are deleted the next day.

How do we keep bots out?

The email sign-up form uses Cloudflare Turnstile, which checks that you're a person, usually without asking you to do anything. To stop one connection making lots of accounts or guessing lots of passwords, we count sign-ups and wrong passwords from each internet address. We store a scrambled code made from the address, never the address itself, and delete it within a day.

How long do we keep your information?

Your account, posts and comments stay until you or a moderator removes them.
Notifications are deleted after 90 days.
To delete your account and everything in it, email us from the address you sign in with.

Who else handles your information?

Cloudflare hosts the site and stores its data and photos, and runs the Turnstile bot check on the sign-up form.
Google handles signing in, if you choose to sign in with Google.

Download links in posts lead to other websites, which have their own privacy policies. We don't allow third-party tracking on our pages.

How do we protect your information?

The whole site uses HTTPS, so everything you send is encrypted on its way to us. Sign-in cookies can't be read by scripts on the page, and only the people who run the site can reach the stored data.

Children

NBA2KHUB isn't meant for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their information.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy, for example if we add ads to the site. When we do, we'll change the date at the top of this page.

Contacting us

If you have any questions about this policy, email nba2khubforums@gmail.com.