Simplified Privacy Policy

This document is a simplification of our complete Privacy Policy.

This simplified Privacy Policy briefly explains how Viking MUD processes personal data. All personal data are collected, stored, processed, transferred and disposed of in accordance with the Norwegian Personal Data Act (Personopplysningsloven) and the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

This simplified Privacy Policy last revised on 12 November 2024, and this version replaces all previous revisions of the document.

1. Who we are and how to contact us: Viking MUD is run by current and former players of the game, a multi-user role-playing game operating in Norway. Our contact information can be found on our contact page.
2. Personal data we collect from you:
   1. Player character registration data (character name, password digest, e-mail address, gender identity)
   2. Information you voluntarily add to your player character data
   3. System account user data, such as user name, password digest, e-mail address, or other contact information, IP addresses, e-mail account data and metadata, files, code, and content
   4. Data that is automatically collected when you use our services:
      • By playing the game
      • By using in-game features, such as talking, chatting, writing board messages and writing in-MUD mails
   5. Other collected data:
      • Web server access logs
      • Email server logs
      • Other automatically generated system logs
   6. Our webpages may also make use of cookies, which may be used to identify individual persons. Cookies are used to ensure the proper operation of web areas that require a login session, and for related user preferences.
3. How we use your data:
   • In general, any data we collect may be used to deliver, execute, maintain, protect, and improve our services, and to detect, investigate, prevent, or otherwise address rules violations, disputes, fraud or other criminal activities, security issues, or technical issues. As Viking MUD is one of the first, and therefore oldest, MUDs, your data is also used for archival and historical purposes.
   • All connections to the Viking MUD game are using the telnet protocol, which is unencrypted, all information you send and receive is transmitted in cleartext.
   • Backups are automatically and regularly processed, both locally and by a remote backup service hosted by our colocation provider Domeneshop AS, which is subject to their Data Processing Agreement.
4. How you can access, update, delete, or restore your personal data: All player character access happens from your MUD login, all system user access happens via SSH access.
   • You can, at any time, login and modify your player character data, except your character name.
   • You may request a character name change from a representative of the administration.
   • You may also erase your character data completely.
   • If you have access to store files, code and content in your own home area, that data is also modifiable and erasable by you, either via MUD login, or via MUD-FTP.
   • System account information must be changed by a privileged system user.
   • Data stored by you in your system account, is modifiable and deletable by you, via SSH.
   • Some data is automatically backed up, and some but not all of this data can, on request, be destroyed by a representative of the administration.
5. How we share your personal data:
   • Most of your player character data, to the extend that it is public, including the connecting IP address, may be publicly listed to any other logged-in player characters, regardless of your connection status.
   • If you have a system user account, your public account information, including the IP address you connect from, is available to anyone else logged in with a system user account.
   • We may also share personal data with third parties who have a legitimate interest for this, to the extent required by law.
6. Transfer of personal data outside EU/EEA: There is no systematic transfer of personal data to parties outside the EU/EEA.
7. Automatic processing and decision-making based on personal data: Viking MUD may use any and all supplied data for in-game processing, content, and decision-making. Data may be subject to automated checks for syntax and correctness, and be flagged for manual inspection.
8. Dataportability: On request, a representative of the administration may provide you with your personal data in a standardized format, e.g. CSV.
9. How long we keep your personal data: Some personal data is stored indefinitely, and some is deleted when the player character is deleted. System account data is also tied to the existence of the account. Logs are usually kept for up to a year, but may be kept far longer for archival and historical purposes. Remote backups are subject to Domeneshop AS' backup retention policy.
10. Why we store some data for a long time: Most of the information we store, is archival and historical, and not actively used. Very little data is directly usable for identifying real persons, living or dead.
11. Your right to complain: If you are a natural person residing in the European Union or European Economic Area and you believe that our use and processing of your personal data are not in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or any other applicable legislation, you have the right to complain to the Supervisory Authority in either Norway (Datatilsynet) or in your country of domicile.