Privacy Policy

Effective Date: July 1, 2026

The Monroeville Mall Website Archive ("Archive", "we", "our", or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information.

1. Information We Collect

a. Information You Provide

• Name and email address
• Username and profile information
• Authentication identifiers from Google, Discord, Facebook, and Microsoft
• Artifact submissions, images, metadata
• Communications and feedback

b. Automatically Collected Data

• IP address
• Browser and device information
• Access timestamps
• Referring URLs
• Server logs

2. Cookie Policy

We use cookies and similar technologies for security, account access, preferences, and optional analytics. Essential cookies are used to keep login sessions secure, protect forms from abuse, and remember privacy choices.

• Essential cookies: session, login security, form protection, and the cookie preference record.
• Optional analytics cookies: visitor recognition, page-view activity, referral source, device/browser details, approximate region, and site engagement.
• Preference cookie: mm_cookie_consent records whether analytics cookies were accepted or declined.

Guests outside the United States, and guests whose country cannot be reliably determined, may be shown a cookie banner before optional analytics cookies are used. If analytics cookies are declined, the Archive continues to provide essential site functions but does not use optional analytics cookies for that guest browser.

Members may see account-related language during email activation. Activating an account uses essential cookies for login security, session continuity, and form protection. Optional analytics cookies remain controlled separately by the site's cookie preferences.

You may also disable cookies through your browser settings; however, certain account, security, and form features may not function properly.

3. How We Use Information

• To provide authentication services
• To process and moderate submissions
• To notify users of submission status
• To improve user experience
• To detect abuse and maintain platform security
• To comply with legal obligations

4. Data Processor Disclosure

We may use third-party service providers for hosting, authentication, analytics, and email delivery. These providers process data on our behalf under appropriate security safeguards. We do not sell personal data.

5. AI & Metadata Generation Disclosure

Certain metadata fields, summaries, tags, or descriptive elements may be generated or enhanced using automated tools or artificial intelligence systems. AI-generated content may contain inaccuracies and should not be considered authoritative historical fact.

6. GDPR Rights (EU Users)

If you are located in the European Union, you have rights including:

• Right of access
• Right to rectification
• Right to erasure
• Right to restrict processing
• Right to data portability
• Right to object

Requests may be submitted via our contact form.

7. CCPA Rights (California Residents)

California residents have the right to:

• Know what personal data is collected
• Request deletion of personal data
• Request disclosure of data categories
• Non-discrimination for exercising rights

8. Data Retention

We retain account and submission data for archival integrity, security, and operational continuity unless deletion is required by law.

If you sign in with Facebook and submit a deletion request through Facebook, we remove the Facebook identity and cached Facebook avatar data stored for this website's login flow. Full account and content removal requests should still be submitted through our contact form.

9. Children's Privacy

The Archive is not intended for individuals under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect data from children.

10. Security

We implement commercially reasonable safeguards. However, no online system can guarantee absolute security.

11. Copyright Complaint Process

If you believe content hosted on the Archive infringes your copyright, please submit a written notice including:

• Your full legal name and contact information
• Description of the copyrighted work
• URL or specific location of the material
• A statement of good-faith belief
• A statement under penalty of perjury of accuracy
• Your physical or electronic signature

Upon receipt of a valid complaint, we may remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing material.

12. Changes to This Policy

We may revise this Privacy Policy at any time. Continued use constitutes acceptance of updates.

13. Contact

Privacy inquiries may be submitted via the website contact form.