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CORTEX IMPLANT - an international cyberpunk'ish LGBTQIA+ friendly Fediverse instance for edgerunners, netrunners and cyberpunks and all who want to become one.

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Privacy Policy

Last updated Sep 16, 2024

Community Rules

General Community Rules, Terms of service and Privacy Policy for our Communities and Fediverse Communities CORTEX IMPLANT, TOTENTANZ and LUCY.

  • CORTEX IMPLANT.COM (Mastodon)
  • CORTEX IMPLANT.NET (Akkoma)
  • TOTENTANZ
  • LUCY

CORTEX IMPLANT, TOTENTANZ and LUCY are Communities and Fediverse instances for all cyberpunks and edgerunners (and all who want to become one) who survived the big DataKrash and want to stay independent and hide from NetWatch. Link your cyberware and connect with creative LGBTQIA+ friendly netrunners, solos, fixers, nomads, techies, medias, corpos and rockers from all over the world behind a heavy ICE.

Rules

The following rules are a (non-exhaustive) list of behaviours that may lead to deletion of postings, silencing or suspension of accounts, at the descretion of the instance administrators.

Please report behaviour that bothers you. We will keep your report confidential.

  • We do not tolerate discriminatory behaviour and content promoting or advocating the oppression of members of marginalised groups. These groups may be characterised by any of the following (though this list is naturally incomplete):
    • ethnicity
    • gender identity or expression
    • sexual identity or expression
    • physical characteristics or age
    • disability or illness
    • nationality, residency, citizen status
    • wealth or education
    • religious affiliation, agnosticism or atheism
  • We do not tolerate threatening behaviour, stalking, and doxxing.
  • We do not tolerate harassment, including brigading, dogpiling, or any other form of contact with a user who has stated that they do not wish to be contacted.
  • We do not tolerate mobbing, including name-calling, intentional misgendering or deadnaming.
  • We do not tolerate violent nationalist propaganda, Nazi symbolism or promoting the ideology of National Socialism.
  • We do not tolerate conspiracy narratives or other reactionary myths supporting or leading to the above-mentioned (and/or similar) behavior.
  • Actions intended to damage this instance or its performance may lead to immediate account suspension.
  • Content that is illegal in Germany will be deleted and may lead to immediate account suspension.
  • We do not tolerate spam in our community, including excessive crossposts from other social networks and links to NFT projects. Any user who violates this rule will face immediate action, ranging from a warning to content removal to a suspension or restricted account access, depending on the severity and frequency of the violation. Our priority is to provide a spam-free environment for our members, and we are committed to consistently enforcing this rule.

Terms of Service

This page contains both our Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy.

It is our intention that you use this service for personal enjoyment and respectful, friendly interaction. To that end, we hope to foster a welcoming and inclusive environment.

The server is privately owned and open to users voluntarily, not a public space. Users wishing to join this community are expected to act without malice and in good faith. Doing otherwise may lead to removal from the service, independent of whether a user violates any rules outlined above.

You can also report any content by sending an email to report@obeythesystem.com

The server hosting the instance is located in the Germany.

The following statements apply regardless of the privacy level and instance of the users involved. In rare cases, public or private offline behavior or behavior on a separate instance may be a reason for removal from the service.

We operate multiple communities (corteximplant.com, corteximplant.net, totentanz.club, lucy.bz) and have to deal with the GDPR. If you want to know more about the GDPR, you can read all the information on the European Union GDPR website

Privacy Policy

This privacy policy describes how ccorteximplant.com, corteximplant.net, totentanz.club, lucy.bz ("corteximplant.com, corteximplant.net, totentanz.club, lucy.bz", "we", "us") collects, protects and uses the personally identifiable information you may provide through the ccorteximplant.com, corteximplant.net, totentanz.club, lucy.bz, websites or its APIs. The policy also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that corteximplant.com, corteximplant.net, totentanz.club, lucy.bz does not own or control, or to individuals that corteximplant.com, corteximplant.net, totentanz.club, lucy.bz does not employ or manage.

What information do we collect?

  • Basic account information: If you register on this server, you may be asked to enter a username, an e-mail address and a password. You may also enter additional profile information such as a display name and biography, and upload a profile picture and header image. The username, display name, biography, profile picture and header image are always listed publicly.
  • Posts, following and other public information: The list of people you follow is listed publicly, the same is true for your followers. When you submit a message, the date and time is stored as well as the application you submitted the message from. Messages may contain media attachments, such as pictures and videos. Public and unlisted posts are available publicly. When you feature a post on your profile, that is also publicly available information. Your posts are delivered to your followers, in some cases it means they are delivered to different servers and copies are stored there. When you delete posts, this is likewise delivered to your followers. The action of reblogging or favouriting another post is always public.
  • Direct and followers-only posts: All posts are stored and processed on the server. Followers-only posts are delivered to your followers and users who are mentioned in them, and direct posts are delivered only to users mentioned in them. In some cases it means they are delivered to different servers and copies are stored there. We make a good faith effort to limit the access to those posts only to authorized persons, but other servers may fail to do so. Therefore it's important to review servers your followers belong to. You may toggle an option to approve and reject new followers manually in the settings. Please keep in mind that the operators of the server and any receiving server may view such messages, and that recipients may screenshot, copy or otherwise re-share them. Do not share any sensitive information over our Mastodon, Pixelfed, Misskey or Lemmy instances.
  • IPs and other metadata: When you log in, we record the IP address you log in from, as well as the name of your browser application. All the logged in sessions are available for your review and revocation in the settings. The latest IP address used is stored for up to 12 months. We also may retain server logs which include the IP address of every request to our server.

What do we use your information for?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in the following ways:

  • To provide the core functionality of Mastodon, Akkoma, Misskey, Discourse and Lucy instances. You can only interact with other people's content and post your own content when you are logged in. For example, you may follow other people to view their combined posts in your own personalized home timeline.
  • To aid moderation of the community, for example comparing your IP address with other known ones to determine ban evasion or other violations.
  • The email address you provide may be used to send you information, notifications about other people interacting with your content or sending you messages, and to respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.

How do we protect your information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information. Among other things, your browser session, as well as the traffic between your applications and the API, are secured with SSL, and your password is hashed using a strong one-way algorithm. You may enable two-factor authentication to further secure access to your account.

What is our data retention policy?

We will make a good faith effort to:

  • Retain server logs containing the IP address of all requests to this server, in so far as such logs are kept, no more than 12 months.
  • Retain the IP addresses associated with registered users no more than 12 months.

You can request and download an archive of your content, including your posts, media attachments, profile picture, and header image.

You may irreversibly delete your account at any time.

Do we use cookies?

Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow). These cookies enable the site to recognize your browser and, if you have a registered account, associate it with your registered account.

We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits.

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our site, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety.

Your public content may be downloaded by other servers in the network. Your public and followers-only posts are delivered to the servers where your followers reside, and direct messages are delivered to the servers of the recipients, in so far as those followers or recipients reside on a different server than this.

When you authorize an application to use your account, depending on the scope of permissions you approve, it may access your public profile information, your following list, your followers, your lists, all your posts, and your favourites. Applications can never access your e-mail address or password.

Notice of Prohibition on Crawling and Use of Content for AI Training

It is strictly prohibited to crawl content from this site using spiders, bots, or any other similar technologies. Additionally, it is forbidden to use any content from our platform for the purpose of training AI or any other technologies. This rule applies even if such activities are not explicitly excluded by our robots.txt file or other mechanisms. Our Terms of Service (TOS) and Privacy Policy apply in all cases.

Unauthorized use of our content will result in legal action being taken.

Site usage by children

Our site, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 18 years old. If you are under the age of 18, per the requirements of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) do not use this site.

For users from USA: Our site, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 21 years old. If you are under the age of 21, per the requirements of COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) do not use this site.

Law requirements can be different if this server is in another jurisdiction.


This document is CC-BY-SA. Originally adapted from the Discourse privacy policy.