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Privacy Policy

For End Users

Our servers are currently located in Germany, and may be relocated to other locations in Canada, the United Kingdom, or the European Union without further notice. Users should assume that the use of our services will be subject to the laws of these countries and regions. Some of services we use (e.g. CDN, monitoring) may be provided by companies based in regions above plus the United States. These services may have access to user data for technical reasons; please refer to their respective terms of service for details.

Catalog information (including but not limited to books, films, music, games, podcasts, and performances) is considered public data. We store and use this information to facilitate the free flow of data and serve all users. When users add or edit item data in the catalog, their contribution are considered to be public domain (CC-0).

Local user content (e.g. notes and reviews created by users registered with this services) are user's personal data, and can be exported or deleted upon request. User account identifiers (including login email addresses, user IDs, linked Mastodon or Bluesky ID, and identity key pairs) are necessary identification information. For technical reasons, we may not be able to delete some of these information when processing deletion requests. User requests to delete personal data will be broadcasted to adjacent nodes based on federated protocol. However, due to the distributed nature of the federated network, server software compatibility, technical complexity, and other reasons, we cannot guarantee complete deletion across all network nodes. Content created on other servers based on user request (e.g. when user choose "crosspost") may not be deleted when processing user deletion requests, and user may need to process them in those servers and systems.

Remote user content (e.g. notes and reviews created by users on other servers in the federated network) are managed based on federated protocol (e.g. ActivityPub). However, due to the distributed nature of the federated network, server software compatibility, technical complexity, and other reasons, we cannot guarantee identical and realtime processing behavior across all network nodes. If your content is not deleted but should be, please contact us with the ownership proof, and we will help delete it.

Cookies are used to provide essential function. Cookie and IP addresses will not be shared with third parties, except for security/performance/legal reasons.

We do not use end-to-end encryption technology, but will protect user privacy as much as possible based on user preference and federated protocol. Due to the distributed nature of the federated network, server software compatibility, technical complexity, and other reasons, privacy protection implementation may not be perfect.

We may use user data to improve our services. We will not sell user data.

We may change or terminate our services at any time for performance, security, or other considerations.

If you have any questions or insights related to data security, please contact us via email: security@SERVER (replace SERVER with eggplant.place).

For Application Developers

Please provide accurate name, URL and other information when registering an application with us. Please safeguard generated keys, tokens, and other information from users.

We recommend that applications store user tokens and data obtained through API access on user-owned terminals (browsers/devices). If server-side retention of user tokens, data, or anonymized data based on user data is necessary, please clearly inform users the reason and duration of retention, and how to delete them.

If you have any questions or insights related to data security, please contact us via email: security@SERVER (replace SERVER with eggplant.place). Do not publish publicly to avoid creating additional risks for users.

Non-commercial use of the API is free of charge; you must clearly inform your users that you are using the NeoDB API and service of this instance. If your traffic volume is non-trivial, please consider making a donation to us.

We may change or terminate our services at any time for performance, security, or other considerations.

List of services we use and their privacy policy