Privacy Policy

Shop

Purchases in our shop are processed by Tebex Limited, which sells the packages to you as reseller and merchant of record. When you start a checkout, your browser sends the Minecraft name you entered and your IP address directly to Tebex; payment details are entered only in the Tebex checkout window and never reach us. Tebex's own privacy policy applies to this processing.

Your cart and the last Minecraft name you entered are kept only in your local browser (localStorage), so they are still there on your next visit. You can delete them at any time by clearing your browser's site data.

YouTube videos

Some pages show videos from YouTube, a service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. The thumbnail, title and channel are fetched by our own server, so as long as you start no video, YouTube learns nothing about your visit.

Only when you play a video does your browser load the player from youtube-nocookie.com. Your IP address and information about your device are then sent to Google, and the player stores data in your browser. Google may transfer this data to the USA and is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. The legal basis is your consent by clicking the video (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, § 25(1) TDDDG). Google's privacy policy applies: policies.google.com/privacy

Applications

If you apply through the form at coding-area.net/apply, we check by your Minecraft name whether you have played with us before. You connect your Discord account by signing in with Discord: we only use your Discord ID and name, and for the content creator program also the YouTube, Twitch and TikTok channels linked in your Discord profile. The website keeps this in a cookie for at most 30 minutes, and a second cookie holds the Discord sign-in together for at most 10 minutes. We give back the access to your Discord account right afterwards. We pass your Minecraft name, your Discord name and the confirmed channels, for the content creator program your email address, your text and your links to our Discord bot. It posts the application to a channel on our team Discord server and, if you connected your Discord account, opens a private channel on our Discord server that only our team and you can see. Discord is a service of Discord Inc., 444 De Haro Street, San Francisco, USA. In our database we keep the role, your Minecraft name, your Discord name and Discord ID, your email address, the date and the state of the application, so we can find your earlier applications. The website itself does not store your application. The legal basis is your consent under Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, which you can withdraw at any time with effect for the future.

We use the details to handle your application and reply to you. After that we keep them, so that we can see a previous application when you apply again. When the application is closed, we save the history of the private channel as a log in the team channel. We delete the channel, the messages in the team channel including the log and the database entry after two years at the latest. If you withdraw your consent, we delete them sooner. To protect against spam, the server keeps your IP address in memory for at most one hour.

Minecraft server

When you play on our Minecraft server, player data is created and stored as you play, e.g. in-game currencies, unlocked items and your language preference.

We additionally process IP addresses exclusively for the security of our service (e.g. protection against abuse and attacks). The legal basis is Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in the secure operation of the server).

Public player statistics

On coding-area.net/stats we publish leaderboards and player profiles. They show your Minecraft name, your skin head, your total playtime on Coding-Area and your game statistics (e.g. games, wins, kills, deaths and rating). We never publish UUIDs or IP addresses.

The legal basis is Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is running community leaderboards. Your name and skin are already public through Mojang.

You can object at any time under Art. 21 GDPR, without giving reasons. In game, type /preferences and switch off "Public Stats". Your profile disappears immediately and the leaderboards follow within a few minutes. Staff members in vanish are never shown. You can also object by email to [[email protected]].

We do not pass this data on to third parties. Our server loads skins from Mojang's texture server, and your browser makes no request to third parties. Player profiles are blocked from search engines (noindex).

Purpose limitation

We do not process any sensitive data within the meaning of Art. 9 GDPR. The data collected is used exclusively for the operation and security of our service and, unless you object, for the public statistics described above, and is not shared for any other purpose.

Your rights

You have the right to access, correct, delete and restrict the processing of your personal data, as well as the right to data portability and objection, at any time. Contact us at [[email protected]].

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority.