Privacy Questions and Answers
This notice describes how Krita-artists.org or “Krita Artists” collects and uses data about you.
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What is Krita Artists ?
Krita Artists is a free to use forum for the Krita community. It is operated by Raghavendra Kamath and Ameya Shenoy. Raghavendra Kamath is an Illustrator from India and Ameya is a software engineer from India.
This forum also has some admins and moderators from Krita Community.
How does Krita Artists collect data about me?
Krita Artists collects data about you:
- when you browse the site
- when you create and use an account on the site
- when you post, send private messages, and otherwise participate in the forum
Krita Artists does not buy or otherwise receive data about you from data brokers.
What data does Krita Artists collect about me, and why?
Krita Artists collects data about visits to forums.
When you visit Krita Artists, whether you have an account or not, the forum uses cookies, server logs, and other methods to collect data about what pages you visit and when.
Krita Artists uses data about how you use the website to:
- optimize the forum, so that it’s quick and easy to use
- diagnose and debug technical errors
- defend the forum from abuse and technical attacks
- compile statistics on forum and topic popularity
- compile statistics on the kinds of software and computers visitors use
Krita Artists usually stores data about how you use the forum in identifiable form for just a few weeks. In special circumstances, like extended investigations about technical attacks, Krita Artists may preserve log data longer, for analysis.
Krita Artists collects account data.
Many features of Krita Artists require a forum account. For you need an account to post and reply to topics.
To sign up for a forum account, Krita Artists requires a user name, and an e-mail address.
Krita Artists uses your account data to identify you on the forum, and to create pages specific to you, like your profile page. If the forum is public, Krita Artists publishes your account data. If the forum is access-restricted, Krita Artists makes your account data available to everyone who can access the forum, according to the forum administrator’s configuration.
Krita Artists uses your e-mail address to:
- notify you about posts and other activity on the forum
- reset your password and help keep your account secure
- contact you in special circumstances related to your account
- contact you about legal requests, like DMCA takedown requests
You may provide additional data for your account, like a short biography, your location, or your birthday, on the profile settings page for your account. Krita Artists makes that data available to others who can access the forum. You don’t have to provide this additional information, and you can erase it at any time.
Krita Artists stores your account data as long as your account remains open.
Krita Artists collects data about posts and other activity on the forum.
Krita Artists collects the content of your posts, plus data about bookmarks, likes, and links you follow in order to share that data with others, through the forum. If the forum is public, Krita Artists publishes your activity. If the forum is access-restricted, or access restrictions apply to the specific post, Krita Artists makes your activity available only to users permitted to see it.
Krita Artists also collects data about private messages that you send through the forum. Krita Artists makes private messages available to senders and their recipients, and also to forum administrators.
Krita Artists stores your posts and other activity as long as your account remains open.
How can I make choices about data collection?
You can make choices about how data about is used on the settings page for your account. When a forum uses access restrictions that vary by category, you can choose who will see your post by choosing the appropriate category.
Krita Artists does not respond to the Do Not Track HTTP header.
Where does Krita Artists store data about me?
The krita-artists.org website is hosted in Nuremberg, Germany. Our hosting provider is Hetzner.
Does Krita Artists comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation?
Krita Artists respects privacy rights under Regulation (EU) 2016/679, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Information that GDPR requires Krita Artists to give can be found throughout this privacy notice. So can information about specific rights, like access, rectification, erasure, data portability, and objection to automated decision-making.
Where can I access data about me?
You can see your account data at any time by visiting your account page on the forum. Your account page also lists your posts and other activity on the forum.
Your account activity page also includes a link to download all of your activity in standard comma-separated values format.
How can I change or erase data about me?
You can change your account data at any time by visiting the profile settings page for your account. Forum administrators can also anonymize accounts.
You are also be able to edit, anonymize, or erase your posts. When you edit posts, Krita Artists will keep all versions of your posts. Forum administrators can view old versions of posts, and optionally make them visible to other forum visitors.
Does Krita Artists make automated decisions based on data about me?
Krita Artists uses data about posts and activity to set trust levels automatically.
Depending on how administrators of your forum configure the forum, the forum may use data about your posts and activity to award you badges and calculate a trust level for your account. Your trust level may affect how you can participate in the forum, such as whether you can upload images, as well as give you access to moderation and management powers in the forum. Your trust level therefore reflects forum administrators’ confidence in you, and their willingness to delegate community management functions, like moderation.
If you think your trust level has been set incorrectly, contact an administrator of your forum. They can manually adjust the trust level of your account.
Does Krita Artists share data about me with others?
Krita Artists shares account data with others as mentioned in the section about account data.
Krita Artists does not sell or give information about you to other companies or services. However, Krita Artists does use services from other companies like Google or Twitter to provide sign in option to the users. Through these services users who have Google or Twitter account may sign in using the account they have with these companies. The companies behind those services may collect data about you on their own, for their own purposes. Some of these services may be used to collect information about your online activities across different websites. Unless you use these services we do not share data to any third party company. All of these services except hetzner are based in the United States.
Other individuals and companies may also reuse data about you that Krita Artists publishes, such as your posts to public forums.
List of Cookies stored by Krita Artists
| Name |
Essential |
Expires |
Description |
| email |
Y |
Session |
Used during account creation |
| destination_url |
Y |
Session |
Used during login to redirect to the requested page |
| sso_destination_url |
Y |
Session |
Used during SSO login to redirect to the requested page |
| fsl |
Y |
Session |
Full screen login client setting |
| theme_key |
Y |
Forever |
Client theme personalization. Only used when “Make this my default theme on all my devices” unselected. |
| cn |
Y |
Forever |
Client clear notifications. I’m counting this as user input instead of personalization because it doesn’t make sense to ‘undo’ or change cleared notifications. |
| _bypass_cache |
Y |
Session |
Used with ‘fsl’ for full screen login |
| _t |
Y |
1440 hours |
User authentication token cookie. SiteSetting.maximum_session_age.hours.from_now |
| _forum_session |
Y |
Session |
Session cookie |
| dosp |
Y |
next page view |
Temoporary cookie that informs client denial of service protection is in place. |
| __profilin |
N |
Session |
Developer only, used by rack-mini-profiler to bypass work |
| cookieconsent_status |
Y |
1 Year |
cookie for knowing you have given cookie consent |
We don’t have third party analytics enabled, in case we do have analytics enabled we will update this page about it.
How can I contact Krita Artists about privacy?
You can send questions and complaints to:
Raghavendra Kamath
raghu+privacy@krita-artists.org
For complaints under GDPR more generally, European Union users may lodge complaints with their local data protection supervisory authorities.
How can I find out about changes?
This version of Krita Artists’s privacy questions and answers took effect 16 December 2020.
Krita Artists will post the next version at https://krita-artists.org/privacy. Krita Artists may change how it announces changes in future versions.
