We recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. This privacy policy has been compiled to serve better those who are concerned with how their 'Personally Identifiable Information' (PII) is being used online. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect, or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website, software, and services.
By accessing, using, or posting information to the MCreator website, you agree to this Privacy policy and to our Terms of use.
What personal data do we collect?
We collect anonymized usage statistics when you use our website, services, or software. Your IP is stored when performing a login or other sensitive operations for security reasons.
When you create a user account, we store your e-mail and username on the server alongside other user preferences. We identify each account by the username, email, and password. All this data is treated by us as Personally Identifiable Information. We never share your password with anyone and only store the secure password hashes.
We also collect all the information the users post as comments, forum posts, or any other type of data that users posts with the intent of sharing this information publicly. The posts and files you upload to public places on our websites are publicly accessible. Read our terms of use for more information about user-contributed content.
We use Google Analytics for website usage analytics and the following personal data is stored: online identifiers, including cookie identifiers, internet protocol addresses, and device identifiers; client identifiers. This data is stored for 26 months since the last visit of the specific user.
When do we collect information?
We collect information from you when you use our website, register, post content, comment on it, use our forms, subscribe to the newsletter, subscribe to content notifications, rate the content, use our services or software or do any other activity that requires us to store your information for security or analytical reasons.
How do we use your information?
We use your information to provide information and services requested by you, to provide support, communicate with you, understand the way you use our website and improve the user experience of our services, inform you with the latest updates regarding the company if you opt-in, manage our business, to keep our website secure, maintain the integrity of the website, identify authors of the user-contributed content, use and post user contributions per our terms of use and for any other purpose that requires your personal information to deliver an improved user experience and better service.
How do we protect your information?
Our website is scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities to make your visit to our site as safe as possible. We scan our website, servers and downloadable content for Malware. Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems and are required to keep the information confidential. In addition, all information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. We implement a variety of security measures when a user enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information. All monetary transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers.
However, there is no method of offering a 100% security so the use of our website is at your own risk as also noted in our terms of use. You are also responsible for taking reasonable measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized use or disclosure.
Individuals rights
If one would like to change, remove or perform any of the actions users have right to do, one should contact us using official means of contact listed on this page and we will perform reasonable actions to act on the request.
Each user has the right to be informed of the information we use, to access it, erase it, restrict the processing of such data, right od data portability.
Cookie usage
When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful, and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, your computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally. They are used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.
We use cookies to:
- Understand and save user's preferences for future visits (privacy policy agreement, session ID, ...).
- Keep track of advertisements.
- Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.
There are two types of cookies you may encounter when using this site:
- First-party cookies: these are our own cookies, controlled by us and used to provide a better experience, security, measurement, and to provide authentication mechanisms
- Third-party cookies: these are cookies used for the advertising on some of our websites (Google AdSense) and used by third-party service providers
First-party cookies
The purpose of the first-party cookies is to provide a better experience on the website. First-party cookies are used to store the decisions of users, their preferences or their session when the user logs in. We set the following first-party cookies:
- SESSxxxID - Authentication session to prevent having to log in multiple times in one browser session. Stores a unique id that ties the current session to a database settings table
- has_js - An on/off flag that denotes whether or not the browser supports Javascript
- cchk - On some browsers, we set this test cookie to determine whether the user has cookies enabled
- pa - A cookie that stores whether the user has given consent to our privacy policy, the user's privacy preferences and if the user is from EEA
- _ga, _gid - Cookies set by Google Analytics, but are set on our website domain. More information about cookies and Google Analytics can be found on this page.
Third-party cookies
We use some suppliers who may also set cookies on their websites’ on its behalf. This site does not directly control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the third-party websites for more information about these. The privacy policies of service providers on our websites are listed below. We offer opt-out mechanisms for these cookies and the tracking they provide for the users inside EEA. Other users can choose to disable cookies on the browser level.
Opting out from cookies
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Since each browser is a little different, look at your browser's Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.
If you turn cookies off it will turn off some of the features of the site.
Service providers
We use some service providers to improve the quality of the user experience by enhancing the website with additional features and security features. These service providers are:
- We use Google Analytics to analyze the traffic to our websites and find out what content is most viewed on our websites. We also collect the demographics of users to better understand our user base. Check their privacy policy for more information.
- We use Google ReCaptcha on some of our forms for spam detection and prevention. When you use such forms, you agree to ReCaptcha's terms of service and privacy policy.
- We use Google AdSense to deliver ads to the websites that run ads on them. Read their terms and privacy policy to learn how they handle user data. You can see the list of our advertising partners here.
- We use Donorbox for the donations system. Read their Terms of use and Privacy policy to learn how they handle user data.
Google's advertising requirements can be summed up by Google's Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users. We use Google AdSense Advertising on some of our websites. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site.
We, along with third-party vendors such as Google use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions and other ad service functions as they relate to our website. We do not share your personal data from our website (your email, username, content on the website, ...) to advertising partners, but they might use their own data to deliver you personalized ads.
Ads are only personalized for the users outside EEA. For the users inside EEA, we deliver ads based on the context of the current page displayed. No personal data is used for the display of ads for such users if they do not opt-in for personalized advertisements.
Opting out
Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt-out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Out page or by using the Google Analytics Out Browser Add-on.
Do Not Track signals
We do honor Do Not Track signals for our usage statistics collection which is done using Google Analytics. However, we don't honor these signals for the IP logging of sensitive actions (such as creating content, logging in) for security reasons.
Children's Personal Information
We don’t intentionally collect personal information from children under 16 without prior verifiable parental consent. If a user with the age below 16 has submitted any personal information on our website without parental consent, we will do all reasonable actions to remove the information that the user with age below 16 posted and will not use such information for any purpose.
Your choices about the use of your information
You have control over the information we collect. You can do the following to take over the control over your information:
- If you are subscribed to our newsletter, you can opt-out at any time by pressing the unsubscribe button in the e-mails you receive from us at any time. Please note that even if you unsubscribe from our newsletter, you can still receive e-mails related to the completion of your registration, correction of user data, password reset requests, or any other important service communications regarding our website.
- If you have subscribed to content update notifications on our websites, you can unsubscribe from them on your profile or by pressing the unsubscribe button on the notification e-mails you receive.
- You can disable Google Analytics via your browser privacy settings or by using a browser add-on. We will take into account do not track flags sent by the browser you use and not track your activity.
- You can opt-out from cookies by disabling the cookies from our website or disable cookies altogether. Check the help section of your browser to learn how to achieve this for your specific browser. Keep in mind that disabling cookies on our websites may limit the functionality of them.
Accessing and correcting your information
The method of accessing the information, if any, will depend on which of our websites, services, software, and/or product you have visited or used. Depending on this, you may have the ability to view or edit some of the information online, by logging into your account. If you remove any information on the website, it will remain on the server backups for a week and then be completely removed.
To request access to view, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us, contact us. We can't delete your personal information without deleting your user account too. We may also not accommodate a request to change your personal information that would violate any law or legal requirements, be misleading, or contrary to our Terms of use or other agreements between you and us. Upon deletion of your private information, it will remain on our servers for another week on our backups.
The content you contributed to our website may not be deleted upon the deletion of your user account and may still be used as noted in Terms of use. Once we remove your user account, there is no way for it to be restored back.
Third-party disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information unless we provide users with notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when it's release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others' rights, property, or safety.
However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Third-party links and social media widgets
We have third-party links on our website that link to websites that are not ours. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We, therefore, have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
Our websites may also include social media widgets such as Facebook Like button, a Twitter tweet box, Google Plus plus button, etc. These widgets may collect data and set cookies and get the address of the page they are placed on. Your interactions with these external widgets are covered by the privacy policies and terms of use of the companies that provide them.
Changes to the privacy policy
You may be notified of the privacy policy changes on this page. If we do any major changes to any of our legal documents, we will make sure to notify all users of the changes. All changes or additions to our privacy policy will take effect immediately upon publishing the updated document on this website. Your use of this website will indicate your agreement or the changes to our privacy policy.
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us. You can find the means of contacting us on our contact page.
Last changed on 9. 1. 2023.