Privacy Policy

DATED 2025-10-21 · VERSION 20251101_rev01 · COMPARED WITH 20231002_rev01 · ARCHIVE SNAPSHOT

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+## Too Long, Didn't Read
+## Last Revised: October 21, 2025
+We collect only the bare minimum amount of information that is necessary to protect the service against abuse. We do not sell your information to third parties, and we only use it as this document describes.
+**Introduction**
+## What information e621 collects and why
+Dragon Fruit Ventures LLC (hereafter, "e621," "we," "our," or "us") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
+## Information from webserver logs
+This privacy policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit this website (the "Website") or submit anything to us, as well as our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
+We collect the following information in webserver logs from every visitor:
+Please read this privacy policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it.
+- The Internet Protocol (IP) address
+- The date and time of the request
+- The page that was requested
+- The browser user agent string
+By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy, our Terms of Use and our Code of Conduct. If you do not agree with all terms, conditions, policies, and practices in any of the foregoing, you must not access or use the Website or submit anything to e621.
+These items are collected to ensure the security of the service (see "legimitate interests" in the GDPR), and are deleted after 25 days to balance it with user privacy.
+This policy applies to information we collect:
+• On this Website.
+• Through or as a result of anything you submit to us.
+• In any electronic messages between you and this Website, and between you and e621 through any other means, including email.
+• If we provide them, through any mobile or desktop applications you download from this Website or otherwise, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Website.
+• When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.
+## Information in cookies
+It does not apply to information collected by:
+• Us offline or through any other means, including on any other websites or any social media accounts owned or operated by e621 or any of our affiliates, subsidiaries, or entities under common control; or
+• Any third parties, including through any applications or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website.
+Our cookies for any users of the service may contain this information:
+This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy below). Your continued use of this Website or submission of anything to us after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
+- The unique session token for the website
+- User preferences
+- One or more "flash" messages (temporary notifications of an action's success or failure, to be displayed at the top of the next page load and then deleted)
+**Anyone Under the Age of 18**
+Additionally, cookies of users that are logged in will contain this information:
+Our Website is not intended for anyone under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to, through, or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18.
+- An encrypted authentication secret unique to the user to persist their login
+If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features or services, register on this Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including without limitation, your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use.
+Because these are required for authentication, user security, or customization, which are all "legitimate interests", we cannot ask for consent to use cookies.
+If we learn we have collected or received personal information from anyone under 18, we will take steps to delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about anyone under 18, please contact us at [\[email protected\]](https://e621.net/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection).
+## Information in user-submitted content
+Residents of certain states under 13, 16, or 18 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal information. See Your State Privacy Rights below for more information.
+User-submitted content is considered by e621 to collectively refer to any content that you may submit to the site, which includes, but is not limited to, comments, images, dmails, posts, reports, source changes, tag changes, favorites, and votes.
+**Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It**
+User-submitted content by users (authenticated or not) may have any or all of the following information collected at the time of submission, visible only to site staff:
+We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website and users who submit anything to us, including:
+• Your email address, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline ("personal information"); and
+• Information about your internet connection, IP address, equipment you use to access our Website, and Website usage details.
+- The IP address
+- The browser user agent string
+- The page that initiated the submission
+We collect this information:
+• Directly from you when you provide it to us.
+• Automatically as you navigate through the Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies.
+These items are only used for the "legitimate interests" of identifying and controlling abuse of the service and are not shared with any external party.
+**Information You Provide to Us**
+## Information from users with accounts
+The information we collect on or through our Website or through your submissions to us may include:
+• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering for an account on our Website, posting material, submitting anything to us, or requesting other services from us. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website or you register a complaint or concern.
+• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
+• Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
+• Your search queries on the Website.
+If you create an account, we require some basic information at the time of account creation, as follows:
+You also may post, submit, upload, publish, display, broadcast, transmit, or otherwise provide (any one or more of the foregoing, a "post") content, information, or materials (collectively, "User Contributions") on or through the Website. Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we may (but are not obligated to) limit access to certain sections of the Website, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons or used in unauthorized ways.
+- A username, shown on your profile and user-submitted content
+- A password, stored only as a cryptographic hash
+- An email address, shown only to site staff and used as a means of contact for account control and user requested notifications (verification emails, password reset emails, dmail notifications)
+**Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies**
+We also store your IP address whenever you log in for security reasons.
+As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
+• Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, pages visited, time spent on the Website, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
+• Information about your computer or mobile device and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
+## Information shared with third-party services
+The information we collect automatically does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from other sources. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
+• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
+• Store information about preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
+• Speed up your searches.
+• Recognize you when you return to our Website.
+We use a few services for security purposes which use personal information. These are as follows:
+The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
+- To protect against Denial-of-Service attacks or similar abuse of our service, we use Cloudflare as a reverse proxy, which uses browser fingerprints and cookies. The Cloudflare Privacy Policy can be found [here](https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/).
+- To protect against spam, reCaptcha is used. Their privacy policy can be found [here](https://policies.google.com/privacy).
+• **Cookies (or browser cookies).** A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information below.
+## Information sharing with other parties
+**Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies**
+Besides services we rely on for security purposes, we only share personal information with third parties in response to court orders.
+Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website may be served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use the Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information, or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
+We display certain statistics about how users use e621 (for example, about uploads), without any personal or personally-identifying information.
+We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information below.
+Most forms of user-submitted content (such as comments or uploads) are viewable by anyone, and as such, may be accessed freely by third parties, including search engines. If a person's personal information is put in such content, we may remove if it we deem it to be too sensitive; inform us if you believe something has been shared that is sensitive.
+**How We Use Your Information**
+## How we secure your information
+We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
+• To present our Website and its contents to you.
+• To operate, maintain, and improve the Website and its features and services.
+• To provide you with information, features, or services that you request from us.
+• If you create a Website account, to process and manage your account, including registration, authentication, and user support, and to provide you with notices and information about your account.
+• To comply with and carry out legal obligations and enforce our rights arising from this privacy policy, our Terms of Use, and our Code of Conduct, and to protect the rights, safety, or property of e621, our users, or others.
+• To detect, prevent, and address fraud, security issues, or other prohibited activities.
+• To notify you about changes to our Website or any features or services we offer or provide through it.
+• To enable and allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website, including posting and viewing User Contributions.
+• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
+• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
+• For any other purpose with your consent.
+e621 takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect account information from unauthorized access, alteration, or destruction.
+We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties' products and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, you may adjust your user preferences or opt out entirely. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information below.
+While in transit, your data are always protected by the latest version of Transport Layer Security (TLS) our software supports. Between our data processor Cloudflare and our service, we use TLS to secure it during transit.
+We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers' target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
+Passwords are hashed using bcrypt.
+**Disclosure of Your Information**
+No method of transmission, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security; we only make a best effort.
+We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
+## Complaints and account Personally-Identifiable Information wiping
+We may disclose personal information that we collect or that you provide as described in this privacy policy:
+• To our officers, directors, managers, employees, agents, representatives, contractors, affiliates, subsidiaries, service providers, and other persons and entities we use to support our business, and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
+• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of e621's assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by e621 about our Website users and submitters is among the assets transferred.
+• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
+• With your consent.
+If you have concerns or objections about the way e621 is handling your personal information, please let us know immediately. You may contact us by emailing us directly at [\[email protected\]](https://e621.net/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection).
+We may also disclose your personal information:
+• To comply with any court order, subpoena, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
+• To enforce or apply our Terms of Use and Code of Conduct.
+• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of e621, our users, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of protecting against fraud, security issues, or other prohibited activities.
+**Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information**
+We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
+• **Tracking Technologies and Advertising.** You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
+Please note that we may retain certain information as required by law or for legitimate business purposes. See Data Retention below for more information.
+We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative on its website, [https://thenai.org/](https://thenai.org/).
+Residents of certain states may have additional personal information rights and choices. See Your State Privacy Rights below for more information.
+**Accessing and Correcting Your Information**
+If you have a Website account, you can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page.
+You may send us an email at [\[email protected\]](https://e621.net/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection) to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect. Additionally, we reserve the right to consider requests for information beyond what is readily available on your user profile page (e.g., email addresses and IP addresses) as potentially excessive. Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and applicable US federal and state laws, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), we may, at our discretion, charge a reasonable administrative fee for processing requests that are manifestly unfounded, excessive, or repetitive, as permitted by law. This fee will reflect the administrative costs incurred in fulfilling such requests. We also reserve the right to refuse requests that we deem excessive or malicious, provided such refusal complies with applicable legal requirements. For further details on how we handle personal information requests, please contact us at [\[email protected\]](https://e621.net/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection).
+If you delete any or all of your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or may have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms of Use.
+Residents of certain states may have additional personal information rights and choices. See Your State Privacy Rights below for more information.
+**Data Retention**
+Even if you opt out of certain communications or sharing of your information, or you have us change or delete it, we retain that information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce our agreements. When your information is no longer needed, we will delete or anonymize it in accordance with applicable laws.
+**Your State Privacy Rights**
+State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information.
+Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt-out of certain personal information sales. However, please know that e621 does not currently sell data triggering that statute's opt-out requirements.
+California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia provide (now or in the future) their state residents with the rights to:
+• Confirm whether we process their personal information.
+• Access and delete certain personal information.
+• Correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information's nature processing purpose (excluding Iowa and Utah).
+• Data portability.
+• Opt-out of personal data processing for:
+- targeted advertising (excluding Iowa);
+- sales; or
+- profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (excluding Iowa and Utah).
+• Either limit (opt-out of) or require consent to process sensitive personal data.
+The exact scope of these rights may vary by state. To exercise any of these rights, or to appeal a decision regarding a consumer rights request, please send us an email at management @e621.net. You can also call us or mail us using the information found in _Contact Information_ below.
+We will ask you to verify your identity before processing your request, which may involve confirming details such as your name, address, email, or other identifiers. You may designate an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf, provided they submit proof of authorization as required by law. We will respond to your request within 45 days, with a possible 45-day extension, as permitted by law.
+We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights, such as by denying services or providing a lower quality of service.
+**International Users**
+E621 is based in the State of Arizona in the United States. If you access the Website from outside the United States, your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States, where data protection laws may differ from those in your country. By using the Website, you expressly consent to such transfer, storage, and processing of your information.
+**If Located in the EU or UK**
+The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR require us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on in order to process your personal information. As such, we may rely on the following legal bases to process your personal information:
+• **Consent.** We may process your information if you have given us permission (i.e., consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time by sending us an email at management @e621.net. You can also mail us using the information found in Contact Information below.
+• **Performance of a Contract.** We may process your personal information when we believe it is necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations to you, including providing the Website's features and services to you.
+• **Legitimate Interests.** We may process your information when we believe it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests, and those interests do not outweigh your interests and fundamental rights and freedoms. For example, we may process your personal information for some of the purposes described in order to:
+- Develop and display personalized and relevant advertising content for our users;
+- Analyze how our Services are used so we can improve them to engage and retain users;
+- Support our marketing activities;
+- Enforcing moderation actions, such as issuing warnings, temporary timeouts, or permanent bans, to ensure compliance with our policies and maintain a safe environment (all moderation communications are retained indefinitely on our website);
+- Diagnose problems and/or prevent fraudulent activities; or
+- Understand how our users use our products and services so we can improve user experience.
+• **Legal Obligations.** We may process your information where we believe it is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, such as to cooperate with law enforcement or governmental agencies, exercise or defend our legal rights, or disclose your information as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
+• **Vital Interests.** We may process your information where we believe it is necessary to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of a third party, such as situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person.
+**If Located in Canada**
+We may process your information if you have given us specific permission (i.e., express consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose, or in situations where your permission can be inferred (i.e., implied consent). You can withdraw your consent at any time by sending us an email at management @e621.net. You can also call us or mail us using the information found in Contact Information below.
+In some exceptional cases, we may be legally permitted under applicable law to process your information without your consent, including, for example:
+• If collection is clearly in the interests of an individual and consent cannot be obtained in a timely way;
+• For investigations and fraud detection and prevention;
+• For business transactions provided certain conditions are met;
+• If it is contained in a witness statement and the collection is necessary to assess, process, or settle an insurance claim;
+• For identifying injured, ill, or deceased persons and communicating with next of kin;
+• If we have reasonable grounds to believe an individual has been, is, or may be victim of financial abuse;
+• If it is reasonable to expect collection and use with consent would compromise the availability or the accuracy of the information and the collection is reasonable for purposes related to investigating a breach of an agreement or a contravention of the laws of Canada or a province;
+• If disclosure is required to comply with a subpoena, warrant, court order, or rules of the court relating to the production of records;
+• If it was produced by an individual in the course of their employment, business, or profession and the collection is consistent with the purposes for which the information was produced;
+• If the collection is solely for journalistic, artistic, or literary purposes; or
+• If the information is publicly available and is specified by the regulations.
+**Data Security**
+Although we implement reasonable administrative, technical, and physical measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure, the safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password to access certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.
+Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. As such, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your personal information. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
+**Changes to Our Privacy Policy**
+We may update this privacy policy at any time, in our sole discretion. It is our policy to post any changes we make to this privacy policy on this page. All changes are effective immediately when we post them, and apply to all access to and use of the Website thereafter.
+The date this privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page.
+Your continued use of the Website following the posting of any changes to this privacy policy means that you accept and agree to all such changes. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
+**Website-Specific Information Practices**
+User Contributions include character profiles, role-playing preferences, and private messages , all of which are governed by our Terms of Use, and Code of Conduct. You may control the visibility of your contributions through account settings, where available. This Website is operated by Dragon Fruit Ventures LLC. For inquiries, contact us at [\[email protected\]](https://e621.net/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection) or by mail at 16845 N. 29th Ave, PMB 212
+Phoenix, AZ 85053
+**Contact Information**
+If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, please contact us at:
+Dragon Fruit Ventures, LLC
+N. 29th Ave, PMB 212
+Phoenix, AZ 85053
+[\[email protected\]](https://e621.net/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection)
+© 2025 Dragon Fruit Ventures LLC. All rights reserved.