VirtualHamster privacy policy

This policy effective June 17, 2023

We’re committed to protecting your privacy and collecting only the minimum amount of info needed to provide our software.

Summary

Nothing in this policy contradicts the following statements:

1. We don’t collect any of your personal info, including your IP address, other than information you voluntarily provide.

2. We don’t sell your personal info to advertisers or other third parties.

3. We share your personal info only when legally required, or when reasonably necessary to prevent harm in an emergency situation.

4. We have never received any legal or government demands for user information.

Complete terms

As used in this policy, “Personal Info” is data that can identify a particular person or device. Aggregate data isn’t considered Personal Info.

1. VirtualHamster never collects your Personal Info except to communicate with you

Our Software doesn't collect any of your Personal Info.

We may request your email address or a username to communicate with you. This info is used only as you’d expect and deleted upon request.

Optionally, you may choose to provide your email address and communicate with us via email.

We use PayPal to process donations. You can optionally provide your email for a receipt. Your payment information and email is subject to their respective privacy policies. https://paypal.com/privacy

2. VirtualHamster never sells your email address or any other Personal Info you volunteer

We don’t receive payment in cash or in kind from third parties in exchange for your Personal Info. Further, we don’t allow third parties to collect info about you on our site through cookies or other means.

3. VirtualHamster shares your Personal Info only in specific circumstances

There are a few, rare circumstances when we may have to share your Personal Info either to obey the law or protect our rights. We’ll share your Personal Info only to comply with laws or legally enforceable requests, to enforce our own rights and contracts with users or third parties, or to prevent harm to others and their property in an emergency situation.

In all instances, we’ll share the minimum info necessary to meet the immediate need and inform you of our disclosure when legally and practically possible.

4. Transparency report

As explained above, we will comply with a request for user data when the law requires it, but we require valid legal process to compel the disclosure of user data to the government, such as a legitimate and properly scoped court order, or a search warrant supported by probable cause and issued by an appropriate law enforcement authority. We interpret requests narrowly, and we will oppose unlawful or overbroad requests for specific user data.

Recipients of National Security Requests can only publish reporting bands instead of specific figures. If we receive such a request, we may challenge these reporting bands, in addition to opposing any unlawful or overbroad requests.

Changes to this policy

We may make small, inconsequential changes to this policy with or without notice to you, so you’re encouraged to review the policy from time to time. Substantive changes to this policy will be emailed to users who submit a request to privacy@virtualhamster.app

Contact

You can contact us at privacy@virtualhamster.app if you have any questions about this policy.