1. Acceptance of These Terms

By accessing or using this website, including hackers.xxx, neverrain.org, and any related pages, tools, forums, media, streams, downloads, or community areas operated under the Hackers, HDX, NeverRain, or affiliated branding, you agree to these Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the site.

Continued use of the site after updates are posted means you accept the revised terms. The site may update these terms periodically to reflect legal, technical, operational, or privacy-related changes.

2. Information We May Collect

The site may collect information that users voluntarily provide, including name, email address, username, mailing address, phone number, payment-related information, contact form submissions, newsletter requests, forum posts, support requests, survey responses, and other information submitted through site features.

The site may also collect limited technical and non-personal information automatically, including browser type, device type, operating system, IP address, approximate location derived from network information, referring pages, access times, log data, diagnostic information, and interaction data used to secure, maintain, and improve the site.

Users may visit portions of the site anonymously where technically possible. Some features may require information to operate correctly, process requests, prevent abuse, or comply with legal obligations.

3. How Information Is Used

Information may be used to:

• Operate, secure, maintain, and improve the site.
• Respond to inquiries, support requests, abuse reports, and legal notices.
• Process orders, payments, account features, or requested services.
• Send administrative messages, updates, newsletters, or service-related notices.
• Personalize user experience and understand aggregate site usage.
• Detect fraud, spam, scraping, abuse, attacks, unauthorized access, or other harmful activity.
• Comply with applicable legal, regulatory, security, and records obligations.

The site does not sell personal information. It does not knowingly trade or rent personal identification information to third parties.

4. Privacy Rights: GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and U.S. State Privacy Laws

Depending on where you live, you may have rights under privacy laws such as the General Data Protection Regulation, UK GDPR, California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, Colorado Privacy Act, Connecticut Data Privacy Act, Utah Consumer Privacy Act, Oregon Consumer Privacy Act, Texas Data Privacy and Security Act, New Jersey privacy law, Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act, Iowa Consumer Data Protection Act, and other applicable state or international privacy laws.

These rights may include the right to:

• Request access to personal information held about you.
• Request correction of inaccurate personal information.
• Request deletion of personal information, subject to lawful exceptions.
• Request a copy or portable export of personal information.
• Opt out of targeted advertising, sale, or sharing of personal information where applicable.
• Limit the use or disclosure of sensitive personal information where applicable.
• Object to or restrict certain processing under GDPR-style laws.
• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
• Appeal a denied privacy request where applicable law provides an appeal right.

To submit a privacy request, email admin@neverrain.org. The site may need to verify your identity before fulfilling a request. Authorized agents may submit requests where allowed by law, subject to verification and proof of authority.

5. Legal Bases for Processing

For users in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, Switzerland, or similar jurisdictions, personal information may be processed based on consent, contractual necessity, legitimate interests, legal obligations, protection of the site and users, or other lawful bases recognized by applicable law.

Legitimate interests may include site security, abuse prevention, fraud detection, service improvement, maintaining reliable infrastructure, responding to user requests, and protecting legal rights.

6. Cookies, Logs, and Similar Technologies

The site may use cookies, local storage, server logs, analytics, security tools, and similar technologies to maintain sessions, remember preferences, improve performance, secure the site, detect abuse, and understand aggregate usage.

Users may configure their browsers to reject cookies or alert them when cookies are used. Some site features may not work correctly if cookies or local storage are disabled.

Where required by law, the site will honor applicable consent choices or opt-out mechanisms for non-essential cookies, analytics, or targeted advertising technologies.

7. Sharing and Disclosure

Personal information may be shared only as reasonably necessary with trusted service providers, hosting providers, payment processors, email providers, security vendors, analytics providers, legal advisors, law enforcement when legally required, or other parties needed to operate, protect, or comply with obligations related to the site.

Aggregated or de-identified information that does not identify a specific person may be used or shared for analytics, security, reporting, or improvement purposes.

8. Retention

Information is retained only as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose collected, including site operation, security, compliance, dispute resolution, abuse prevention, backups, accounting, legal obligations, or legitimate business needs. Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and applicable requirements.

9. International Transfers

This is a United States-based website. If you access the site from outside the United States, your information may be processed in the United States or other jurisdictions where privacy laws may differ from those in your location. Where legally required, appropriate safeguards will be used for international transfers.

10. Security

The site uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, loss, misuse, or destruction. Security measures may include SSL/TLS, access controls, monitoring, backups, logging, and abuse-prevention controls.

No website, network, or system can be guaranteed perfectly secure. Users are responsible for using strong passwords, protecting their devices, avoiding phishing, and not sharing personal information with strangers or untrusted parties.

New York users should note that the site maintains reasonable safeguards intended to align with the security principles reflected in the New York SHIELD Act where applicable.

11. Community Conduct

Use common sense. Read available information before asking questions in forums or community areas. Treat other users with respect. Do not harass, stalk, threaten, intimidate, abuse, dox, exploit, impersonate, or target anyone.

Hate, violence, racism, targeted harassment, threats, sexual exploitation, illegal activity, malware distribution, unauthorized access attempts, and abuse of the site or its members are not tolerated. Violations may result in removal, banning, preservation of evidence, reporting to appropriate parties, or other action where necessary.

Never give your personal information to anyone for any reason unless you fully understand who they are, why they need it, and the risk involved.

12. Content, Files, and Intellectual Property

The site is intended for lawful discussion, learning, culture, media, cybersecurity knowledge, technology, and community participation. There are no knowingly illegal files hosted here. If you believe illegal, infringing, abusive, or harmful material appears on the site, contact us so it can be reviewed.

Users may not upload, post, link, or distribute material that violates law, infringes intellectual property rights, contains malware, facilitates unauthorized access, exploits minors, promotes targeted violence, or otherwise harms users, systems, or the site.

All site names, design elements, logos, code, artwork, media, writing, and branding are owned by their respective owners. Nothing on this page grants permission to copy, exploit, attack, scrape, clone, or misuse the site or its content.

13. Copyright and Takedown Requests

If you believe content on the site infringes your copyright or other intellectual property rights, email admin@neverrain.org with enough detail to identify the allegedly infringing content, your ownership or authorization, your contact information, and a good-faith statement supporting your request.

14. Prohibited Technical Activity

You agree not to attack, scan without authorization, exploit, disrupt, overload, scrape abusively, reverse engineer protected areas, bypass access controls, interfere with service availability, compromise accounts, abuse forms, send spam, distribute malware, or target this website, its infrastructure, users, maintainers, or service providers.

Unauthorized activity may be logged, blocked, investigated, reported, or referred for further action.

15. Children

This site is not intended for children under 13. The site does not knowingly collect or maintain information from children under 13 and is not structured to attract children under 13. If you believe a child has provided information, contact us.

16. Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

The site is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. No warranty is made that the site will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, complete, or suitable for every purpose. Content may be changed, removed, or updated without notice.

To the fullest extent allowed by law, the site owners, operators, contributors, affiliates, and service providers are not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive, or exemplary damages arising from use of the site.

17. Third-Party Links and Services

The site may link to third-party websites, media, streams, advertisers, services, sponsors, suppliers, partners, or tools. Third-party websites are governed by their own terms and privacy policies. This site is not responsible for third-party content, policies, security, or practices.

18. Updates to This Page

This page may be updated at any time. When updates occur, the date at the top of this page should be revised. Users are encouraged to review this page periodically to stay informed about terms, privacy practices, security expectations, and applicable rights.

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