Member claims saving data

[recycledferret]

If a member claims they are saving data from your forum, do you just ban the at that point? You can't delete their system files if they claim to have an Excel sheet of birthdays and locations and then they blame it on a mental disorder they may or may not have. No one should have saving information from the forum on their personal pc. So I can ban to prevent it from happening again, but do nothing about what they say they have now?

[Craig]

Hi.

You wouldn't be able to do anything with regards to what they have saved on their personal computer.

You can ban and restrict access to your forum, which will limit what they have access to.

Craig

[recycledferret]

Oct 4, 2024 2:53:38 GMT -8 Craig said:

Hi.

You wouldn't be able to do anything with regards to what they have saved on their personal computer.

You can ban and restrict access to your forum, which will limit what they have access to.

Craig

How do you hide birthdays and locations from just one person? These are parts of the profile. And every user sets their privacy settings. Does every user have to hide everything ?

[Craig]

Oct 4, 2024 2:59:37 GMT -8 recycledferret said:

Oct 4, 2024 2:53:38 GMT -8 Craig said:

Hi.

You wouldn't be able to do anything with regards to what they have saved on their personal computer.

You can ban and restrict access to your forum, which will limit what they have access to.

Craig

How do you hide birthdays and locations from just one person? These are parts of the profile. And every user sets their privacy settings. Does every user have to hide everything ?

Each member can control whether their information is public or hidden.  Only the account holder can change that setting for their account.  Location is optional, and is something the account holder has actively chosen to input and display.

You can remove them ( the birthdays ) from showing on all accounts profiles, but this will only work on the desktop version of the forum, if that would help?

[recycledferret]

Oct 4, 2024 7:02:10 GMT -8 Craig said:

Oct 4, 2024 2:59:37 GMT -8 recycledferret said:

How do you hide birthdays and locations from just one person? These are parts of the profile. And every user sets their privacy settings. Does every user have to hide everything ?

Each member can control whether their information is public or hidden.  Only the account holder can change that setting for their account.  Location is optional, and is something the account holder has actively chosen to input and display.

You can remove them ( the birthdays ) from showing on all accounts profiles, but this will only work on the desktop version of the forum, if that would help?

no because the site does happy birthday parties.

Is the data harvesting illegal, just against ToS or both?

[Scott]

Oct 4, 2024 9:41:02 GMT -8 recycledferret said:

Is the data harvesting illegal, just against ToS or both?

Data harvesting is a violation of our Terms of Service.


Whether it is illegal or not you would need to consult with an attorney (or appropriate legal counsel).

[recycledferret]

Oct 4, 2024 10:05:11 GMT -8 Scott said:

Oct 4, 2024 9:41:02 GMT -8 recycledferret said:

Is the data harvesting illegal, just against ToS or both?

Data harvesting is a violation of our Terms of Service.


Whether it is illegal or not you would need to consult with an attorney (or appropriate legal counsel).

because they said it's what they were doing I guess a ban would not be unfair at all. Not like I have proof of what's on the pc, just their words.

[Scott]

Forums have the right to manage their membership which includes the right to accept, refuse, ban, and delete members (with or without a reason).