Privacy Policy

Photography-on-the.net is a non-commercial photography enthusiast's site. By using this site, photography-on-the.net, and any of its content and services you agree that some cookies will be stored on your browser and you agree to our privacy policy:

Information Gathering and Usage

The only personal information we collect from you when you register to forums, is an email address that you can access. We can remove (garble) the email address from your user account by request or you may do it yourself when logged in, but then a possiblity to reset password (when forgotten), and notification emails will not function any more.

When you register to the forum and post to the forums, we will store your email address, source ip numbers of posts, pms and registration along with your username to our server. Passwords are encrypted heavily, they are never stored in plain text. Only site admin/owner can access that information directly. We provide ip browsing tools for our moderators for reasons of scammer detection, fraud, account recovery and troubleshooting reasons. Our server stores page access logs, they are accessible only by site admin. We have enabled all reasonable data protection methods like passwords, firewall, SSL etc. to keep the data safe.

We do not share the user data to any third party. Exceptions to this may be official inquiries (we will help police to catch frauds and criminals if needed) or change of site ownership (not likely).

How We Use Cookies

Cookies we might set for you in our forums

For unlogged users we store one session id cookie. For registered members we store (in addition to login session cookie) only cookies that are essential for a required functionality. We do not store any personal tracking data or passwords in cookies or other browsers' data storage methods. List of cookies we set is below.

• AMASS_area_collapse
       purpose: stores collapsed forums list on index page.
       content: integer numbers separated by commas.
       expires in: 1 year
  
  
• AMASS_editor_mode
       purpose: stores text editor UI mode (mobile/desktop).
       content: integer number.
       expires in: never.
  
  
• AMASS_editorfont
       purpose: stores text editor textarea font settings.
       content: a short ASCII string.
       expires in: never.
  
  
• AMASS_gallerybrowser
       content: integer number.
       purpose: stores gallery browser position on thread pages.
       expires in: 1 year.
  
  
• AMASS_multiquote
       content: integer numbers separated by commas.
       purpose: stores id numbers of multiquoted posts.
       expires in: 1 day.
  
  
• AMASS_autoexif
       content: integer number.
       purpose: a short lived cookie to let autoexif know it needs to run after a redirect to newly created thread.
       expires in: 10 seconds.
  
  
• AMASS_margins
       content: integer number.
       purpose: stores preferred margin mode.
       expires in: 10 years.
  
  
• AMASS_threadfont
       content: some ASCII characters.
       purpose: stores custom bodytext font and color choice for thread views.
       expires in: never.
  
  
• AMASS_search
       content: two ASCII characters.
       purpose: stores search interface display status.
       expires in: 7 hours.
  
  
• AMASS_search_top
       content: integer number.
       purpose: stores last scroll position of a search result list.
       expires in: 7 hours.
  
  
• AMASS_cookieconsent
       content: string "yes"
       purpose: store your cookie consent.
       expires in: 1 year.
  
  
• AMASS_guest_photographyonthenetforum
       content: ASCII string.
       purpose: store guest session id, verify cookie storing capability.
       expires in: 30 minutes after the last action.
  
  
• The login cookie (name is a long random ASCII string, different for each login).
       content: a long random ASCII string.
       purpose: keep you logged in as member id xxx.
       expires in: X after the last action. X = user-definebale expiration value set on login dialog. Default is one month.

Cookies other sites might set for you

Some third party cookies might be set by services including Facebook and Google. These services provide social buttons and similar features which we use on our website - such as the "Share" buttons and ads. To do so we embed code that they provide. Via that embedded code those services generally know if you are logged in; for example Facebook may use this to say "x of your friends like this". We do not have any access to that information, nor can we control how those networks use it.

Some embedded content in forum posts may use Adobe Flash. Adobe's website offers tools to control Flash cookies on your computer. Other embedded plugins may also be used if your browser supports them. We have no say in how those plugins use cookies or track users.

Managing cookies

How to clear cookies

To delete cookies already stored in your browser, refer to instructions in https://www.wikihow.com/Clear-Your-Browser's-Cookies. Please note that deleting cookies from domain photography-on-the.net may log you out from our services, so you'll need to log in again.

How to deny cookies

To deny cookies to be stored in your browser, refer to instructions in https://www.wikihow.com/Disable-Cookies. Please note that denying cookies from domain photography-on-the.net will prohibit you from logging in.