Privacy
2forum keeps as little about you as it can. This page says what we keep, why, and for how long.
What we keep
- Your account: username, display name, bio, profile picture and banner. Your password and recovery key are stored only in a form that cannot be turned back into them. We never ask for an email address.
- What you do on the site: posts, pictures, polls and votes, favourites, follows, bookmarks and collections. Posts, favourites and follows are public.
- Anonymous posts: other people never see who wrote them, but the site records which account did, and moderators can see it.
- Invitations: which code you joined with and whose it was. Its owner can see that you joined with it.
- Notifications, for 30 days. Pictures added to a post you never publish are deleted after 24 hours.
- Moderation records: bans, mutes and removals, with their reasons.
IP addresses
We don't keep your IP address in our records. We keep a scrambled code made from it with a secret key, for your address and for your network: with each post, and with your account when you sign up, sign in, post or upload. These codes are deleted after 90 days. We use them only to enforce bans and to stop banned people coming back. If an address is banned, its code is kept for as long as the ban lasts. Like any website, our server and hosting provider see your address while you are connected.
Cookies and your browser
A cookie keeps you signed in. Others remember your appearance, language and sidebar choices, and a random visitor number counts how many people are reading a board (kept for five minutes). Unfinished drafts and open tabs stay in your browser. We use no analytics, advertising or tracking, and load nothing from other companies' servers.
Deleting your account
Settings → Delete account removes your profile, your named posts and their pictures, your follows, favourites, bookmarks and collections, and your saved address codes. Anonymous posts stay, still anonymous, and you cannot remove them.
What we don't do
We don't sell or share your information.