Terms of Service and Privacy Agreement

Please read these Terms of Service ("Terms") carefully before creating an account or using TCC Central ("the Website", "we", "us", "our"). By clicking "I Agree" or creating an account, you enter into a legally binding contract and agree to comply with these Terms and our embedded Privacy Disclosure. If you do not agree, you must not create an account.

1. Eligibility and Account Creation

   To register for an account, you must be at least 18 years old (or the minimum legal age in your country to consent to data processing without parental approval, such as 16 in certain EU member states). You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information during registration.

2. Collection of Personal Data and Privacy Disclosure

   In accordance with global privacy regulations—including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act/California Privacy Rights Act (CCPA/CPRA)—we explicitly disclose that we collect, process, and store the following personal data:

   • Email Addresses: Collected during registration to authenticate your identity, facilitate account recovery, send system notifications, and manage account communication.
   • IP Addresses: Automatically logged during registration, login, and whenever you publish a post or comment.
3. Legal Basis and Purpose of Processing

   Our legal grounds for processing your email and IP addresses under global frameworks include:

   • Contractual Necessity: To provide you with account access and forum functionalities.
   • Legitimate Interests: To maintain website security, prevent malicious activity, deter ban-evasion, combat automated spam, and enforce our forum rules.
4. Data Retention and Third-Party Sharing
   • Retention: We retain your email address for as long as your account remains active. IP address logs are subject to a strict data minimization protocol and are automatically purged or fully anonymized after 90 days, unless required for ongoing security investigations.
   • Sharing: We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal data. Data may be shared strictly with essential third-party service providers (e.g., spam-detection filters or hosting providers) acting as data processors under strict confidentiality mandates.
5. Your Global Privacy Rights

   Depending on your residency (including the EU, UK, and California), you possess specific statutory rights regarding your personal data, which we honor:

   • Right to Access: You may request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
   • Right to Erasure ("Right to Be Forgotten"): You may request the deletion of your account, which will permanently purge your email address and associated IP logs from our active databases.
   • Right to Restriction: You may object to or limit the processing of your data under specific conditions.

   To exercise any of these rights, please contact the site administrator at: ethangodzilla2002@gmail.com.

6. User Conduct and Content Ownership

   You retain ownership of the text and content you publicly post, but you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual license to display, host, and distribute your posts on the Website. You strictly agree not to post content that is illegal, defamatory, threatening, or violates intellectual property rights.

7. Limitation of Liability and Termination

   We provide this forum "as-is" without warranties of any kind. We reserve the absolute right to suspend, restrict, or terminate your account—and block your IP address from accessing the Website—at our sole discretion, without prior notice, for any violation of these Terms.

8. Changes to These Terms

   We may update these Terms from time to time. We will notify you of material changes by posting a notice on the Website or via your registered email address. Continued use of the forum after updates implies acceptance of the revised Terms.