Privacy Policy

Version v1.1 · Effective August 16, 2026

Draft: pending legal review. This document is a good-faith draft describing how Command Nexus actually operates. It has not yet been reviewed by a lawyer and does not constitute legal advice. It will be finalized before the platform accepts real payments.

This Privacy Policy explains how Command Nexus, a company in formation ("Command Nexus," "we," "us") collects, uses, shares, and protects personal data when you use the Command Nexus website, applications, APIs, and the Nexus Admin software (the "Service"). It is written to reflect what the platform actually collects and do, not a generic template. Terms not defined here have the meaning given in our Terms of Service.

1. Who is responsible for your data

For your Command Nexus account itself, we are the data controller. When an organization uses Command Nexus to manage its members, the organization is the controller of its members' data and Command Nexus acts as a processor on that organization's behalf. This means an organization's administrators can see and manage the data of members in their organization. A Data Processing Addendum is available to organizations that need one.

2. What we collect

Information you provide

  • Account identity: username, first/last name, display name, email address, and password (stored only as a secure hash — we never store your plain password).
  • Organization & membership data: the organizations you belong to and your role, rank, positions, attendance, certifications, merit/medals, requisition and commendation records, and similar community records.
  • Uploads: avatars and images (re-encoded on upload), documents, and other content you submit.
  • Support communications: messages you send us and any contact form or support submissions.
  • Billing details: billing name, email, and address you enter at checkout, and tax region. We never receive or store your card or bank details — those go directly to PayPal.

Linked accounts

  • Discord: if you link Discord, your Discord user ID and basic profile, used for account linking and optional community notifications.
  • Steam: if you link Steam, your Steam ID, used to match your in-game identity to your Command Nexus profile.

Information collected automatically

  • IP addresses and login-attempt records: we log sign-in attempts and IP addresses to enforce brute-force lockout and protect accounts.
  • Cookies: a session cookie to keep you signed in, a cart cookie so your shopping cart survives logout, and (only if you opt in) a "trusted device" cookie for two-factor authentication. All are set SameSite=Lax, HttpOnly, and Secure, are strictly necessary, and need no consent. We do not use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies. See our Cookie Policy for the full list and each cookie's lifetime.
  • Error and diagnostic logs: when the Service encounters an error, we record diagnostic details (which may include your user or organization identifier and the request context) to fix problems and keep the platform reliable.

Game telemetry via Nexus Admin

If your organization runs the Nexus Admin server software, we process in-game administration and anti-cheat data, which may include your Steam/game UID, in-game name, session and connection events, positions, administrative actions, ban records, and anti-cheat flags. This data is used to provide server administration and anti-cheat features to the organization that operates the server.

3. Why we use your data, and our legal bases

PurposeExamplesLegal basis (EU/UK)
Provide the ServiceCreate your account, run organizations, ORBAT, operations, merit, certificationsPerformance of a contract
BillingProcess subscriptions and purchases via PayPal, calculate tax, keep payment recordsContract; legal obligation (tax)
Security & anti-abuseLogin-attempt logging, brute-force lockout, anti-cheat, ban enforcementLegitimate interests; legal obligation
ReliabilityError logging and diagnostics, backupsLegitimate interests
CommunicationsService emails, and optional Discord notifications where linkedContract; consent where applicable
Account linkingDiscord and Steam linking you initiateConsent

4. Who can see your data

  • Your organization's administrators can see the data associated with your membership in their organization.
  • Command Nexus staff access data only as needed to operate and support the Service.
  • We do not sell your personal data and we do not share it for advertising.

5. Subprocessors and third parties

We rely on a small number of service providers to run the platform:

  • Hosting (Hostinger) — stores and serves the application and database.
  • PayPal — processes payments. PayPal acts as an independent controller of the payment data you give it; it retains transaction records under its own policies, which we cannot erase on your behalf.
  • Discord — where you link a Discord account or your organization enables Discord notifications.
  • Steam / Valve — where you link a Steam account for in-game identity.

6. How long we keep data

We retain personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in Section 3, and thereafter only where a statutory retention obligation, an applicable limitation period, or an overriding legitimate interest requires it. The periods in the table below are not aspirational: they are implemented as an automated erasure schedule inside the Service. Each period runs from the date the record was created, except for failed sign-in records, where it runs from the date of the most recent attempt.

Category of dataRetention periodWhat happens when the period ends
Account, organization and community records (profile, membership, rank, ORBAT, operations, attendance, certifications, merit and medals) For the lifetime of the account or organization Deleted or anonymized when you or your organization request deletion, in accordance with Section 7.
Payment and invoicing records (subscription and transaction history, billing name, email and address, tax region) No less than seven (7) years from the date of the transaction, except where erased earlier on account or organization deletion Retained to satisfy tax, accounting and audit obligations. These records are not erased automatically at the end of that period. The billing contact details held against orders and invoices are blanked earlier than this, when the account or organization they belong to is deleted under Section 7; it is the transaction record itself that is kept for the full period. The maximum retention period for financial records is reserved for legal review.
Payment-processor event records (notifications received from PayPal) that are attributable to an organization or to a completed transaction Seven (7) years, being 2,555 days, for the notification content The notification content — including any payer name, email address or postal address it contains — is irreversibly overwritten. A minimal record of the event is retained indefinitely as evidence that the notification was received: its event identifier, event and resource type, the processor's reference for the transaction, the organization it relates to, its processing state, and the relevant timestamps. That record contains no directly identifying personal data such as a name, email address or postal address, though the processor's transaction reference remains linked to the transaction it describes.
Payment-processor event records attributable to neither an organization nor a completed transaction One hundred and eighty (180) days for the notification content Overwritten on the same basis as the row above, with the same minimal non-personal record retained.
Integration API request logs (which include IP address and user agent) Thirty (30) days Permanently deleted.
Error and diagnostic logs Ninety (90) days Permanently deleted.
Failed sign-in records (which include IP address) Thirty (30) days from the most recent attempt Permanently deleted. A record evidencing an active lockout or a standing block is exempt from this period and is retained until the lockout expires or the block is lifted, because deleting it would remove a live security control.
Ban and anti-cheat records generated through Nexus Admin For as long as necessary for the ban and anti-cheat system to remain effective Retained on the basis of legitimate interests, including after the associated account is deleted.
Backups Until the backup is rotated Deleted data may persist in encrypted backups for a limited period before those backups are overwritten in the ordinary rotation cycle.

Erasure is carried out by an automated process rather than on a fixed calendar. That process is throttled and ordinarily runs not more than once in any twenty-four (24) hour period; we may also run it on demand, which only ever brings erasure forward and never delays it. Each pass works through a capped number of records in each category. A record is therefore held for a period after its retention period has ended — ordinarily a short one, and longer where a large accumulation is being worked through over successive passes. Where a longer period is required by law, or where records are subject to a legal hold in connection with an actual or anticipated claim, investigation or dispute, we retain the affected records until that requirement or hold ends. PayPal retains its own transaction records independently of these periods (see Section 5).

7. Deleting your account and data

You can request deletion of your account from your member profile. When you do:

  1. your account is deactivated immediately;
  2. a 30-day grace period begins, during which you can cancel the request and restore your account by signing in;
  3. after the grace period we execute the deletion — personal data is deleted or anonymized across the platform according to our data map, content you authored may be retained as an anonymized "Deleted user" record, and we keep only what we are required or permitted to retain (such as payment records and ban/anti-cheat history). We record a deletion certificate that itself contains no personal data.

PayPal retains its own transaction records independently of this process.

8. Your privacy rights

Depending on where you live — and in particular if you are in the EU or UK — you have rights over your personal data, including to:

  • access and receive a copy of your data (we provide a data-export/report);
  • rectify inaccurate data;
  • erase your data (the 30-day deletion flow above);
  • object to or restrict certain processing based on our legitimate interests;
  • withdraw consent for processing based on consent (such as account linking), without affecting prior processing;
  • lodge a complaint with your local data-protection authority.

For data your organization controls, please also contact your organization's administrators; we will assist them as their processor. To exercise any right, email commandnexusproducts@gmail.com. Whether an EU representative is required for Command Nexus is flagged for legal review.

9. International transfers

Command Nexus is operated from the United States. If you access the Service from outside the US, your data will be processed in the US and other countries where our providers operate, which may have different data-protection laws. Where required, we rely on appropriate safeguards for such transfers.

10. Children

The Service is intended for users 16 and older. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 16. If we learn we have, we will delete it.

11. Security and breach notification

We protect data with measures including hashed passwords, encrypted transport (HTTPS), tenant isolation, hardened session cookies, upload re-encoding, and brute-force lockout. No system is perfectly secure. If a breach affects your personal data, we will notify affected users and, as a processor, the relevant organization controllers, and any regulators, as required by law and within applicable timeframes.

12. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Policy. When a change is material, we publish the new version in our Legal Center with a new effective date and ask you to re-accept it the next time you sign in or check out.

13. Contact

Questions about this Policy or your data: email commandnexusproducts@gmail.com, our official channel of record. Once the company is formally established in the State of [U.S. STATE — set on LLC formation], its registered contact details will be added here.

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