This Privacy Policy explains how cookiecraftmods handles information when you browse the site, sign in with Discord, download mods, publish or submit content, manage projects, use community features, send mail/contact messages, apply for recruitment, or use staff tools.

The exact information depends on which features you use.

• Account and Discord sign-in data, including Discord ID, Discord username, display name, avatar URL, email address if Discord provides it, local user ID, role, permissions, login timestamps, and account status.
• Profile data you choose to add or edit, including display name, username, headline, tagline, pronouns, avatar, banner, bio, location, website, public email preference, online-status preference, Discord invite, social links, featured projects, profile theme, layout, accent color, custom CSS, notification preferences, and mail preferences.
• Community activity, including posts, sections, tags, publication submissions, media, comments, replies, likes, reports, follows, timestamps, and the user associated with those actions.
• Creator and project data, including project ownership, project members, descriptions, metadata, external links, downloads, release channels, changelogs, roadmaps, gallery images, FAQ items, publication status, review status, and related timestamps.
• Uploaded or submitted files and media, including community images, gallery images, mod files, filenames, file paths, file sizes, image titles, alt text, captions, and generated or optimized media versions.
• Mail, contact, and recruitment data, including message subjects, message bodies, participants, read status, staff application answers, application status, admin notes, reviewer information, and timestamps.
• Notification and follow data, including followed creators, followed projects, notification records, notification read state, and notification payload data used to link you to relevant site activity.
• Moderation and administration data, including reports, moderation reasons, muted or banned status, role changes, permission changes, control-panel actions, review notes, activity logs, and staff decisions.
• Session, security, and technical data, including session records, remember-token behavior, IP address where needed for security or administration, user agent, browser/device information, request timestamps, and troubleshooting logs.
• Traffic and download analytics, including page path, route name, visit time, user ID when signed in, hashed session identifiers, hashed IP identifiers, download events, and aggregated download totals.

We use information to run the website and keep its community and creator tools usable.

• Authenticate users with Discord, maintain sessions, recognize accounts, and enforce roles or permissions.
• Display public profiles, project pages, downloads, changelogs, roadmaps, galleries, community posts, comments, replies, likes, follows, and notifications.
• Accept and review community submissions, creator projects, uploaded files, release updates, recruitment applications, contact messages, reports, and moderation actions.
• Store, serve, resize, compress, convert, or optimize uploaded media and files so the site can display and deliver them reliably.
• Measure traffic, downloads, active sessions, content activity, popular projects, and general platform usage.
• Detect spam, abuse, unsafe links, suspicious activity, unauthorized access, upload problems, and technical errors.
• Provide staff tools for moderation, publication review, project review, user management, recruitment review, activity auditing, and platform administration.

We use essential cookies, Laravel sessions, remember-me functionality, CSRF protection, and related browser storage to keep you signed in, secure requests, remember preferences, support account panels, and make community features work. Third-party services such as Discord or Google AdSense may use their own cookies or similar technologies under their own policies.

Many parts of cookiecraftmods are public. Your display name, avatar, profile details, project pages, community posts, comments, replies, likes, follows, project updates, release information, gallery media, roadmap entries, and other published content may be visible to other users and visitors. If you choose to make optional profile fields public, those fields may appear on public-facing pages.

We keep moderation and operational records to protect users and operate the platform. This may include reports, deleted or hidden content references, review notes, role or permission changes, mute and ban reasons, activity logs, authentication events, route visits, download events, errors, and control-panel actions. Traffic analytics use hashed session or IP identifiers where possible, while some administrative or security records may store direct IP-related information when needed for abuse review, debugging, or site protection.

The site uses or links to third-party services including Discord authentication and avatars, CurseForge, Modrinth, Ko-fi, Patreon, YouTube, GitHub, social profile links, Google AdSense, and external project links added by creators or staff. When you use or open those services, they may receive information according to their own policies. We do not control their privacy practices.

We do not sell your personal data. We may share or disclose information when reasonably necessary to operate hosting, storage, authentication, advertising, analytics, security, moderation, legal compliance, abuse response, or platform administration. Public content is shared by displaying it on the website. Internal content such as mail, contact messages, recruitment answers, reports, and moderation notes may be visible to staff or intended participants who need access to handle the relevant feature.

We keep information for as long as reasonably necessary to operate the site, maintain accounts and projects, provide downloads, support community features, handle moderation, prevent abuse, troubleshoot problems, keep security records, and satisfy operational or legal needs. Public content may be removed from public pages while related records remain in backups, logs, analytics, moderation history, or database records for a longer period.

You can browse many public pages without signing in. If you sign in or use account, profile, project, community, mail, contact, recruitment, follow, like, reporting, or publishing features, some data is required for those features to work.

• You can edit many profile fields and visibility preferences in your account/profile tools.
• You can choose whether to publish optional profile details such as public email, links, bio, and online-status visibility where supported.
• You can unfollow projects or creators and mark notifications as read.
• You can ask staff through official community channels about access, correction, or deletion of account or content data, subject to technical, moderation, security, and legal limits.

We may update this Privacy Policy as the platform changes. When we do, we will update the Last updated date on this page. Continued use of the site after a policy update means the updated version applies from its effective date.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or about how data is used on cookiecraftmods, please contact us through the official cookiecraftmods community channels.