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Please be aware that by registering an account on SaphiraForums that your IP address will be log an attached to your user account*. This is a security mesure which is employed by SaphiraForums to ensure the integrity of the community participating, enforce our one account per user rule and restrict spammers. When registering an account on SaphiraForums, your username, email address and IP address will be compared to blacklists of known spammers and bots which are use to flag and block bots and spammers from registering on SaphiraForums**.

Your IP Address will also be logged and attach to all submittions posted in a SaphiraForums discussion or Private Message. This is a security mesure which is employed by SaphiraForums to ensure the integrity of the community participating, enforce our one account per user rule and restrict spammers.

Private Messages may be reviewed by the Administrative Team of SaphiraForums to ensure that the rules of SaphiraForums are being followed or to resolve ungoing issues on Saphiraforums.

We do not collect any other information then the one which you use in your profile and in the messages which you post on SaphiraForums. A good rule of thumb is to not post things which you do not want to be public. Has a public forum, SaphiraForums is accessible to everyone on the internet and we are not responsible of information which you post publicly to the world to see.

*All user accounts registered before June 2007 do not have an IP address

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