Privacy Policy

1. Who We Are

ZBaiArt ("we", "us", "our") operates zbaiart.com — a fan art community site. For any questions, reach us via Patreon.

2. Information We Collect

• Patreon OAuth data — When you log in via Patreon, we receive your Patreon user ID, display name, and active tier membership. We store only what is needed to gate content access. We do not collect or store your email address.
• Votes & suggestions — We record votes and character suggestions tied to your Patreon ID to prevent duplicates and display community stats.
• ZBcoins & activity — We record login activity, coin balances, achievements, and community actions (votes, boosts, suggestions) to power the ZBcoin engagement system. This data is tied to your Patreon ID and is never sold or shared.
• Session data — Standard PHP sessions and an optional 30-day remember-me cookie to keep you logged in.
• Anonymous site traffic and performance — We record the page path, a broad source category (such as search, social, referral, or direct), campaign label when present, device class, event time, bucketed loading or interaction ratings, and whether a Characters or Series search returned no results. We do not store an IP address, exact performance timing, full referrer URL, browser fingerprint, Patreon identity, or search-query text with these events.
• Email alerts — If you sign up for release notifications, your email address is sent to our email service provider for double opt-in confirmation. We may also send signup source, signup date, referring page, IP address, and browser user agent if the provider supports those fields. We do not import, purchase, scrape, or manually add emails.

3. How We Use Your Data

• To verify your Patreon tier and grant appropriate content access.
• To display vote counts, suggestion boards, and Hall of Fame rankings.
• To understand which public pages and release links are useful and where broad loading or interaction ratings need attention, using first-party anonymous totals.
• To send simple email release alerts, weekly digests, and site updates only after you confirm your signup.
• We do not sell or share your data with third parties for marketing purposes.

4. Email Release Notifications

Email alerts use double opt-in: after you submit the form, the email service provider sends a confirmation email, and you are added only after confirming. Every email includes an unsubscribe link managed by the provider. Messages are limited to release notifications, weekly digests, and site updates, and subject lines stay clear and non-explicit.

5. Cookies & Sessions

We use a first-party session cookie for login state, age verification, and one anonymous visit count per browser session each day. Campaign-attribution values may be kept in first-party browser storage for up to 30 days. We use no third-party analytics or advertising cookies. Patreon's own cookies are governed by Patreon's Privacy Policy.

Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track disable first-party analytics automatically. You can also switch anonymous analytics off for this browser:

6. Data Retention

We retain your account data for the duration of your active Patreon membership plus 90 days after cancellation. OAuth access tokens are discarded immediately after login and are never stored long-term. You may request deletion of your data at any time by contacting us via Patreon.

7. Your Rights

Depending on your jurisdiction (EU/UK GDPR, CCPA, etc.) you may have rights to access, correct, or delete your personal data. Contact us via Patreon with any requests.

8. Changes

We may update this policy occasionally. Continued use of the site after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.