Privacy Policy & Terms of Service
Last Updated: June 2026
Welcome to Star Computerlab. We take your privacy seriously and believe in data minimization. Because we don't use third-party tracking cookies or external analytics, your data stays entirely within our secure system.
Below is a transparent breakdown of what data we collect, how we use it, and your rights under the GDPR.
1. What Data We Collect & Why
We only collect the absolute minimum data required to make this website work. This includes:
- Your Name and Email Address: Collected when you create an account. This is used solely to authenticate your login, manage your profile, and handle security features (like password resets).
- Three Public Messages: Collected when you choose to post them. These are stored to be displayed publicly on the website as per the site's core functionality.
Legal Basis for Processing: We process your account data based on Contractual Necessity (to provide you with the account you signed up for) and your public messages based on your explicit Consent when you hit "Publish."
2. Who Has Access to Your Data?
Your data is stored securely in our private MySQL database.
- No Third-Party Sharing: We do not sell, trade, rent, or share your name, email, or messages with any third-party marketing companies, trackers, or advertisers.
- Infrastructure Only: Your data is only processed by our site purely to keep the website online.
3. Public Messages & Community Rules
By posting messages on this website, you understand that they are visible to the public.
- No Personal Information: You agree not to include personal data (such as phone numbers, physical addresses, or email addresses)—belonging to yourself or others—within the body of your two public messages.
- Moderation: We reserve the right to remove any public message that violates someone else's privacy or contains offensive content.
4. Your GDPR Rights (How to Control Your Data)
As a user, you hold full control over your data. You can exercise these rights directly through your account dashboard or by contacting us:
- Right to Access & Portability: You have the right to request a copy of all data we hold on you. You can download your data in a machine-readable format (JSON) directly from your account settings.
- Right to Rectification: You can update your name, email, or edit your public messages at any time via your profile.
- Right to Erasure ("Right to be Forgotten"): You can delete your account at any time. When you click "Delete Account," your name, email, and public messages will be permanently purged from our active database.
5. Cookies
We only use strictly necessary cookies natively built into the Laravel framework. These cookies are used to keep you logged in and protect our forms against unauthorized cross-site requests (XSRF protection). Because we do not use tracking or marketing cookies, you will not see a disruptive cookie banner on this site.
6. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this policy or wish to make a formal data request, you can reach the data controller at:
- Email:steven.deloof@hotmail.com