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We want to keep this site as friendly, useful and straight-forward as possible.  We'd ask you to keep in mind that EuroGA is non-commercial and is operated as a public service for the good of General Aviation in Europe and the world.  If you are unwilling to abide by these conditions, please do not use the website.

Our guidelines spell out how we moderate our forums.  Aside from that, by using this site you agree to the following:

  • The copyright for this site's design and the content not submitted by users belongs to the site's owners. 
  • The copyright to what you write on this site is yours.  
  • You must not infringe anybody else's Intellectual Property, nor post anything unlawful, or which encourages anyone else to break the law or do any harm.
  • You understand that EuroGA has the right to use what you submit, both on this website and any other or any other medium, now and in the future.  You cannot subsequently remove this right.  If you are unable or unwilling to accept this you must not submit forum posts or articles to the site.
You're welcome to link to the site and make "fair use" of the content elsewhere (e.g. quote a sentence or two), but we'd appreciate it if you link the content back to the original on this site or at least attribute it to this site.

Users under the age of 16 must not register with this site.

Privacy

This site operates under the General Data Protection Regulation.  

We won't tell any third-parties any information about you as individual beyond what is publicly visible, unless compelled to do so by law.  We may share aggregated information about our collective user-base with third-parties.

We collect only the minimum amount of personal data required to operate the site though you may choose to submit additional information to enrich your profile and/or you may choose to reveal personal information in your forum posts which are publicly visible, including information which could identify you.  We do not ask you for nor should you choose to submit any sensitive information such as information relating to your health, finances, etc. 

We collect information about your usage of the site, such as your IP address and the times you access the site.  This is necessary to allow us to (a) provide customised content, (b) analyse usage patterns of the site in order to improve it if we wish and (c) detect and prevent misuse of the site and its resources. We do this under the legal basis of Legitimate Interest, that is, for the proper, safe and expedient operation of the website.

As we do not collect other personal information about you, we use your email address as a unique identifier.  We may use that email address in a variety of ways in addition to as the mechanism for authenticating yourself. We may use it to send you important operational notices and we do this under the legal basis of Legitimate Interest, because it is essential to the operation of the website.  We will use it for sending you periodic notices, newsletters, etc. only with your consent and you may withdraw this consent at any time. 

We encrypt your password using one-way encryption, i.e. we can only see your unencrypted password when you submit it. We do not encrypt your other information.  

You have the right to have some of your personal information removed, in particular, your profile information.  To do this please send a private message or an email to the site's administrators at [email protected].  You also have the right to see what information we hold about you.  You can receive a copy of this information through the same address. We may charge a nominal fee for this.

To provide the necessary functioning of the site, the information you submit is kept for as long as the posts that you make are publicly visible (i.e. usually, forever).  As stated above, your profile information may be removed by you, or by us at your request. 

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