IRC.com

Privacy Policy

This Website and its subsidiaries (‘IRC.com’), (collectively, ‘We’, ‘Us’, ‘Our’ or ‘IRC.com’) wish to define and inform you of any and all of the instances in which your personal data and information may be saved and how it may be used by our products and services (‘services’), how it may be shared, and the level of protection we use to safeguard your personal information when using our services.

Personal information we collect

From All Users of Our Services

  • Internet Protocol (IP) address for the purposes of account management and protection from abuse.
  • Your user ID or ‘nickname’ for the purposes of account management and protection from abuse.

From Users Who Have Registered an Account on Our Services

  • Internet Protocol (IP) address for the purposes of account management and protection from abuse.
  • Your user ID, name, or ‘nickname’ for the purposes of account management, protection from abuse or responding to support requests submitted by you.
  • Your email address, for the purposes of account management and protection from abuse, or for responding to support requests submitted by you.

Uses of personal information collected by us

  • E-mail address is used to confirm account ownership, for certain limited non-marketing communications to our users, or to respond to support requests submitted through our support system.
  • Webserver logs are created and regularly pruned by IRC.com services. Passwords and other security related data are never logged by our services.
  • Compliance with valid legal process.

Other than our bouncer services and where clearly specified, we do not collect or log any chat information whatsoever. However, users may log their own chats privately. Please be careful about disclosing any personal information in any chat room, including in a private message, because that information may be logged by a third party in the chat room or by the recipient of the private message which is beyond the control of us.

Disclosure and use of personal information

We may be required to provide your personal information to law enforcement in the event of a criminal investigation, criminal prosecution, or civil subpoena. We will comply with legal instruments that follow proper procedure and are sufficiently narrow in their scope as to not infringe on the civil liberties of others.

Data retention

We retain all account information and data indefinitely unless a client requests that their information be deleted. We do not maintain any logs of user chat activity. To request that your information be deleted, see the "How to Access and Control Your Personal Information" section below.

CalOPPA Statement

The State of California requires us to post specific language related to our privacy policy. By default, we do not share your private information with any third parties aside from the disclosures already made in this privacy policy. However, if you wish to inquire into specifics and verify that we do not share the personal information of our users with third parties for direct marketing purposes, you may contact [email protected].

Maintaining the security of your personal information

Your personal information is safeguarded by us. You may access your personal information maintained by us on our services via a command or by submitting a ticket through our support system. Personal information stored by us can also be made accessible to other third-parties on our network on an opt-in basis only. All personal information maintained by us is stored in an encrypted form on a server located in the United States.

How we transfer personal information collected internationally

We collect information globally and primarily store that information in the United States.

COPPA disclosure - About children's online privacy

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) was passed to give parents increased control over what information is collected from their children online and how such information is used. The law applies to websites and services directed to, and which knowingly collect information from, children under the age of 13. Our online services are not directed to children under the age of 13, nor is information knowingly collected from them. For additional information on COPPA protections, please see the FTC website at https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0031-protecting-your-childs-privacy-online.

How to access and control your personal information

You may access or delete your personal information from our services at any time via a command. To view information shared with us, use the “/msg NickServ INFO <nickname>” command. To delete your user account, use the “/msg NickServ DROP <nickname>” which requires a secondary confirmation. You may also change the email address associated with your account via a channel command.

Changes to this privacy policy

BY CONTINUING TO USE THIS WEBSITE AND/OR SERVICES, YOU AGREE THAT YOU CONSENT TO THIS MOST RECENT PRIVACY POLICY. YOU AGREE THAT IRC.COM MAY MAKE CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY AT ANY TIME WITHOUT ANY GIVEN NOTICE AT ITS DISCRETION.

We will not share the personal information of users with third parties for direct marketing purposes.

For all civil or law enforcement requests, please contact [email protected].

While we agree to accept service of law enforcement requests based on the above method listed above, we do NOT waive any legal rights based on this accommodation.