Liberty1st Privacy Policy

Effective Date: July 27, 2026

At Liberty1st, your experience comes first—not advertisers, data brokers, or hidden analytics.

Liberty1st exists to provide information and community discussion without surveillance, unnecessary tracking, or the commercial exploitation of personal information.

This project is supported by the community. Donations may help keep the site operating, but financial contributions will never determine how your privacy is treated.

1. Our Privacy Commitment

Liberty1st does not sell, rent, trade, or commercially share your personal information.

We do not operate advertising networks, create advertising profiles, or provide personal information to data brokers. We do not use your activity to target you with advertisements on Liberty1st or elsewhere.

We only know the information that you choose to provide, along with limited technical information that may be necessary to operate and secure the website.

2. Information You Choose to Provide

Depending on how you use Liberty1st, you may choose to provide information such as:

• A username or display name
• An email address
• Account registration information
• Optional profile information, including:
  • Your title
  • A homepage address
  • Country, state, and city
  • Occupation
  • First and last name
  • A profile-picture URL
  • Sex
  • Age and date of birth
  • AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo messaging identifiers
  • Hobbies
  • Latest news or personal updates
  • Favorite links
  • Marital status
  • A personal quote
  • Biography
  • Forum signature
  • Email visibility and email-receipt preferences
• Forum posts, comments, messages, or other content
• Information submitted through a contact form
• Information associated with a donation

Please remember that forum posts, comments, usernames, profile information, and other content that you make public may be visible to anyone who visits the website. Do not post personal information that you do not want publicly available.

3. Information Collected Automatically

Like most websites, Liberty1st’s web server or hosting provider may automatically record limited technical information when you visit the site. This information may include:

• Your Internet Protocol address
• Browser and device type
• Date and time of access
• Pages requested
• Referring website
• Error, security, and diagnostic information

This information is used only as reasonably necessary to operate, maintain, troubleshoot, and protect Liberty1st. It is not used to build advertising profiles or sold to third parties.

4. Cookies and Account Sessions

Liberty1st may use essential cookies or similar technology when necessary to:

• Keep you signed in
• Remember basic site preferences
• Protect accounts and forms from misuse
• Maintain website security
• Support normal forum functionality

Liberty1st does not use advertising cookies, cross-site tracking cookies, or cookies designed to follow you across unrelated websites.

5. Analytics and Tracking

Liberty1st does not install hidden tracking scripts or use analytics services for advertising, cross-site tracking, or personal profiling.

If basic traffic statistics are reviewed, they will be limited to information needed to understand website performance, diagnose technical problems, prevent abuse, or improve the site. Liberty1st will not use this information to identify or commercially profile individual visitors.

6. How Information Is Used

Information may be used to:

• Create and manage user accounts
• Operate forum and community features
• Respond to questions or support requests
• Maintain website functionality
• Protect Liberty1st and its users from spam, fraud, abuse, and security threats
• Enforce site rules and terms
• Comply with valid legal obligations

Your information will not be used for targeted advertising or sold for commercial purposes.

7. Sharing and Disclosure

Liberty1st does not sell, rent, trade, or provide your personal information to advertisers, data brokers, or marketing companies.

Liberty1st does not voluntarily distribute personal information to other people, organizations, or businesses.

Limited information is transmitted only as an unavoidable part of services that you choose to use. For example, the website’s hosting provider receives ordinary connection information when you visit; an email provider receives the information required to deliver an email; PayPal receives information when you choose to visit PayPal or make a donation; and an external-media provider receives connection information only after you choose to load its content. Liberty1st does not send these providers member lists or forum-account data for their independent use.

Any service provider involved in operating the website receives only the information necessary to perform its service. Liberty1st does not authorize service providers to use that information for their own advertising or marketing purposes.

8. Donations

Donations help support Liberty1st but do not purchase influence over editorial decisions, community moderation, access to personal information, or the privacy rights of other users.

Donation payments may be processed by an outside payment provider. Liberty1st does not receive or store your complete credit card or banking information unless specifically stated during the payment process. The payment provider’s handling of your information is governed by its own privacy policy.

9. Data Retention

Liberty1st does not delete member accounts or their associated forum history. Accounts, public posts, replies, usernames, and related discussion records may be retained indefinitely to preserve the continuity, attribution, and integrity of forum discussions. Deleting posts or replies could cause discussion threads to lose context or become incomplete or difficult to understand. Information that other users have quoted, copied, or independently saved also cannot be removed by Liberty1st.

11. Data Security

Liberty1st uses reasonable administrative and technical measures to protect account and website information. However, no website, network, or storage system can guarantee complete security.

Users are responsible for choosing a strong password, protecting their login information, and avoiding the publication of sensitive personal information in public posts.

12. Children’s Privacy

Liberty1st is not intended to knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information through the website, please contact Liberty1st so the situation can be reviewed and appropriate action can be taken.

13. External Links

Liberty1st may contain links to websites operated by other people or organizations. Liberty1st does not control those websites and is not responsible for their privacy practices, content, security, or data collection.

A link from Liberty1st does not mean that the linked website follows this Privacy Policy.

14. Changes to This Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated when Liberty1st’s services, technology, or legal obligations change.

The effective date at the top of this page will be updated when material changes are made. Continued use of Liberty1st after an updated policy is posted means the updated policy applies to future use of the site.

15. Contact

Questions and privacy requests may be sent securely through the privacy request form above. Liberty1st does not publish its receiving email address on this website.

The Liberty1st Way

Your account details will never be sold, traded, or handed over for advertising or commercial profiling. Community support may keep the lights on, but it will never determine how your privacy is treated.

That’s the Liberty1st way.