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Your personal data
Briefly put, all your personal data that we store is strongly protected and not made avaialble for anyone unless you want it. All passwords are encoded with one-way algorithm (decoding is practically impossible), so they can't be seen by anyone including website' admin.
E-mails
All e-mails, if made visible by users, are encoded, so hidden from most spam harvesters. Additionaly we use Spampoison protection.