Effective August 7, 2026

Collect blocks, not unnecessary data.

This notice explains information used to operate and protect PlushSMP. It is a plain-language operational policy, not permission to collect information without limit.

Data inventory

What we process

  • Minecraft UUID, current and previous player names, edition/platform capability, session time, playtime, progression, settings, and gameplay state.
  • Claims, teams, balances, ledger entries, shops, market listings, trades, portals, homes, death boxes, events, quests, journals, projects, inbox metadata, and related audit records.
  • Moderation actions, appeals, private reports, safe evidence references, filter-rule matches, and investigation records.
  • Connection-security data. The custom IP-ban system stores salted keyed hashes rather than plaintext IP addresses; infrastructure logs may temporarily contain connection addresses.
  • Block and container activity recorded for grief investigation and restoration.
  • Basic website request logs produced by DreamHost, such as IP address, timestamp, requested path, browser user agent, and response status.

This website has no account forms, advertising trackers, third-party analytics, social pixels, or payment collection.

Purpose limitation

Why we use it

  • Provide persistent survival gameplay and restore a player's state.
  • Protect claims, economy operations, trades, deliveries, and item recovery.
  • Enforce rules, investigate reports and grief, prevent evasion, and process appeals.
  • Diagnose errors, secure infrastructure, manage capacity, and recover from failures.
  • Publish only approved community information such as completed civic project markers.

Limited access

Who receives data

Authorized staff access only what their duties require. Hosting providers process infrastructure data to deliver the website, Minecraft server, database, and backups. Mojang/Microsoft authentication, Java/Bedrock platform services, and any future owner-approved community integrations have their own policies.

We do not sell personal information. We do not publish precise live player locations by default. Reports, appeals, moderation records, and evidence are not public content.

Not forever by default

Retention

Persistent gameplay records remain while the world and account state are active. Security, moderation, transaction, and recovery records are retained only as long as needed for integrity, safety, legal obligations, and active restrictions. Rolling backups may preserve deleted data until their finite retention window expires.

Exact production retention windows will be published before any later policy change that expands collection. Records subject to an active investigation, ban, fraud issue, or legal obligation may be held longer.

Player choices

Access, correction, and deletion

Players may request an explanation or copy of their custom-plugin profile data, correction of inaccurate account metadata, or deletion where operational and legal obligations allow. Deleting persistent gameplay data may permanently remove builds' ownership links, progression, balances, claims, and recovery rights.

The public contact method will be announced with launch community links. Never submit passwords, private keys, government identification, payment information, or unrelated personal evidence.

Families

Children and supervision

Players under the age required by their local law should join only with parent or guardian permission. PlushSMP does not ask children for real names, ages, schools, addresses, phone numbers, or external social accounts. Families should review platform privacy settings and the family safety guide together.

This policy covers PlushSMP-operated services. Minecraft, Microsoft, console platforms, DreamHost, and linked third-party services operate under their own privacy notices.