Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy sets out how "Minecraft-ServerList.com" ("Minecraft-ServerList", "our", "we", "us") uses and protects any information that you give "Minecraft-ServerList.com" when you use this website. "Minecraft-ServerList.com" operates the https://minecraft-serverlist.com website, which provides the Service.

This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use our Service, the Minecraft-ServerList.com website. The terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms of Service, unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy.

If you choose to use our Service, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy. You may opt-out of our analytical and marketing related cookies by updating your cookie preferences at any time. The Personal Information that we collect are used for providing and improving the Service. We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy or when required by law to do so.

Information Collection and Use

For a better experience while using our Service, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information. The information that we collect will be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may be collected via one of the below disclosed ways:

Access Information

Whenever you visit our Service, we collect information that your browser sends to us that is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser version, pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.

User Account

When you register a User Account ("account") on our Service, you must provide a username and a valid email address. We only use this information for account activation, account/password retrieval, notices, and internal newsletters. Upon registration and each following account altering action, we collect the IP address used. We only collect this as a security measure to detect and prevent abuse and to protect user accounts.

Server

When you register a server on our Service, we collect all the information given to us during the submission. Your server will periodically be queried from our Service by using the Minecraft Server List Ping protocol. This action will collect additional information about your server as provided to us by the Server List Ping protocol.

A server will be identifiable by the submitted server IP address and associated port combination. By registering a server on our Service, you agree that parts of the submitted server data will be publicly viewable by any visitor of our Service.

Voting

When you vote for a server on our Service, we will collect your IP address and submitted Minecraft username. We use the collected IP address to detect and prevent abuse of the voting system. Your IP address and Minecraft username will be shared with the server for which was voted.

When voting, you may also choose to provide a review of the server. By submitting a review, you agree that the review and the associated Minecraft username may be publicly displayed in various places throughout our Service.

Premium

When you ("Customer") place an order on our Service, you will be asked to provide us your legal name along with other Billing Information such as your address and — in case Customer represents a company — a Business Name and Registration Number. This information will be kept for legal reasons only.

Content Review

To keep our Service safe and to maintain the quality of the content displayed on it, content that you submit to our Service — including but not limited to server reviews, server descriptions, server names, banners, and other details provided during submission — may be reviewed both automatically by artificial intelligence ("AI") systems and, in certain cases, manually by our staff.

This review is carried out to detect and prevent abuse, spam, fraudulent or misleading content, and violations of our Terms of Service, as well as to help us assess and moderate submitted content. The outcome of such a review may result in content being approved, rejected, edited, or removed from our Service.

Cookies

Cookies are files with small amount of data that are commonly used as anonymous unique identifiers. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your computer's hard drive. Our website uses these "cookies" to collection information and to improve our Service. Third Party services used on our Service may also use cookies. See "Third Parties and Third Party Cookies" for more information.

We use cookies to save your sign in preferences for future visits and to prevent abuse and the cheating of our voting system. Some cookies will be deleted automatically from your browser as soon as you leave our Service (so-called "session cookies"). Other cookies, including Third Party cookies, will be stored for a specific period of time and cannot exceed two years. Cookies can be disabled from within your personal browser's settings. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service. When saving your cookie preferences, we will place an opt-in/opt-out cookie to remember these preferences.

Third Parties and Third Party Cookies

Our website uses various third party services. Some of these third party service might require cookies to work.

The listed Third Party services may have access to your Personal Information to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.

Cloudflare

We use Cloudflare (based in San Francisco, California, United States), a Content Delivery Network ("CDN") and DDoS protection service to speed up our Service and to protect our Service from various types of attacks. Cloudflare may place cookies on the browser and track various visitor characteristics in order to detect malicious visitors and to reduce the chance of blocking legitimate users.

For information about the personal data Cloudflare collects, how this information is used and disclosed, data subject rights (including how to contact Cloudflare to exercise those rights), and international data transfers, please visit their GDPR Compliance statement and Privacy Policy.

Google, Inc.

We use various services provided by Google, Inc (based in Mountain View, California, United States). to protect our Service from automated scripts, to deliver web-assets used by our Service and to collect web-related analytic data. The services used include but are may not be limited to "Google Analytics". To enforce a stricter Privacy Policy, any IP address collected by Google Analytics will be "anonymized". This means that the last octet of IPv4 user IP addresses, and the last 80 bits of IPv6 addresses, will be set to zeros in memory shortly after being sent to Google Analytics.

For more information regarding the anonymization of user IP addresses, please refer to the "IP Anonymization (or IP masking) in Google Analytics" help article. If you wish to opt-out of analytical cookies and tracking by Google, Inc. completely (including on other services other than ours), please visit the "Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on" for more information.

hCaptcha

We use the hCaptcha anti-bot service (hereinafter "hCaptcha") on our Service. This service is provided by Intuition Machines, Inc., a Delaware US Corporation ("IMI"). hCaptcha is used to check whether the data entered on our Service has been entered by a human and not by an automated program. To do this, hCaptcha analyzes the behavior of the website visitor based on various characteristics, which starts automatically as soon as the website visitor enters a part of the Service with hCaptcha enabled. For this analysis, hCaptcha evaluates various information (e.g. IP address, duration of the visit, or user mouse movements). The data collected during the analysis will be forwarded to IMI. Visitors are not informed that such an analysis is taking place if the user is not shown a challenge.

Data processing is based on Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR (DSGVO): the website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its site from abusive automated crawling and spam. IMI acts as a "data processor" acting on behalf of its customers as defined under the GDPR, and a "service provider" for the purposes of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). For more information, please visit their Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.

Data Transfer

Your information, including personal information, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your personal information will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Data Retention

We will retain your personal information and data associated to your account only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Data Removal

Any visitor can request to have their information removed from our Service by contacting us. Please note that we might request additional information from you in order to confirm the identity of the user and to identify which information should be removed from our Service. Please also note that we may maintain information about an individual sales transaction in order to complete that transaction and for record keeping purposes.

User Account

A User Account can be closed from within the dashboard of said account, visit the dashboard clicking on this link. To prevent abuse, you are required to be signed into your account before being able to proceed with the account removal process. Copies of your account information might be kept in offline backups, which will automatically be deleted after the period of thirty (30) days.

Security

Securing your data, both online and offline, is a priority for us and we value your trust in providing us your Personal Information. We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information and ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk.

Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of thirteen (13). We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under thirteen (13). In the case we discover that a child under thirteen (13) has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to take necessary actions.

Links to Other Sites

Our Service may contain links ("Third Party links") to other websites or services. If you click on a Third Party link, you will be directed to that website or service. Note that these external websites and services are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites and services. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any Third Party websites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us.