🔐 How safe is my data in the forum?
In times where data theft, tracking, and hacker attacks are becoming more common, many people wonder: "What actually happens to my personal data – even in a leisure forum like ours?"

In this article, we’ll show you exactly how seriously we take data protection, what technical steps we take, and why you can feel completely at ease when it comes to your privacy in our forum.

As you have likely already read on our portal page, we only grant full access to new forum members—those who have created an account—after we have briefly met them in person. This is **not** because we want to decide who can or cannot use our leisure forum. Rather, it is solely to ensure that we and all other active forum members can be confident that the people who sign up are real individuals, and that no one is creating fake or multiple accounts to hide behind. In this article, we will explain in more detail why we do this.

In early December, we switched to a completely new and modern forum software and simultaneously moved to a brand new, faster server.
Here is the summary: