Who we are
Lunatics Landing LLC is an Ohio Limited Liability Corporation established in March of 2021, and our website is https://www.lunaticslanding.com. While our website has been around since 2012, and later revamped in 2018, we officially formed a business in 2021.
Information Collected
Interactive Forms
When you submit information through features such as the “Suggest a Game” form, we collect the data explicitly requested, and any additional data entered into the field such as your Twitch or Discord handles for credit. These submissions are stored directly in the website database for administrative review and processing.
Direct Donations
Our website has buttons and links for paypal to collect payment details for the purposes of donating to Lunatics Landing and supporting our streamers. The Lunatics Landing team may use the name or email recorded by Paypal to follow up with you regarding your donation to request any additional feedback. These emails will come from a lunaticslanding.com email.
Account Registration
User accounts on our main lunaticslanding.com website are restricted to internal team members, allowing them to post publicly on the journal page. However, various community projects will incorporate discussion boards, powered by phpBB. Participation in these projects requires the collection of your chosen username, email address, password hash, and optional profile details.
Security & Anti-Spam
To prevent spam and automated bot registrations and posts, our forum software logs ip addresses upon registration and posting for administrative moderation. Additionally, registration details (including IP addresses, email address, and usernames) may be checked against or shared with trusted third-party anti-spam services, such as Stop Forum Spam, to verify user legitimacy and prevent malicious activity. These third-party services operate under their own respective privacy policies.
Cookies and Tracking
Website & Forum
Collectively the main lunaticslanding.com and any project sub-sites use essential cookies to ensure proper technical functionlity. These include session and authentication cookies to maintain login status. The forum software on various project sites will use cookies to track read and unread topics. You have the option to refuse cookies within your browser but functionality may be limited as a result.
Google Analytics
We utilized WordPress plugins to maintain Google Analytics, which collects anonymized data on how visitors interact with our website, including pages visited and time spent on the site. This helps us improve our content and user experience. Google Analytics uses cookies to gather information, and may tailor ads based on data collected. You can learn more about how Google handles data by visiting Google’s Privacy Policy, and you can prevent tracking by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Meta (FaceBook) Pixel
We use the Meta Pixel on our website to measure, optimize, and build audiences for content or community updates shared across Meta’s platforms. The Meta Pixel uses cookies and tracking technologies to collect or receive data from our website and use that data to provide measurement services and targeted ads. You can control or opt out of the collection and use of information for ad targeting by adjusting your personal ad settings directly through your Facebook or Instagram account preferences.
Embedded Content
The Lunatics Landing website primarily embeds Twitch and YouTube content throughout our website. These include direct Twitch channel pages on our Member Pages, and various YouTube videos featured throughout the site. Interaction with the content is governed directly by the platform, and behaves as if you visited the content directly from the platform.
Each entry in the Journal may feature external links to featured content, including game links, social media pages, and various supporting details that may be referenced by our team. Interaction with these links will take you directly to their page and be governed by their appropriate policies.
All embedded content may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content independently.
Data Sharing
Lunatics Landing LLC will not sell or profit from your personal information; However, the operation of our website and various optional projects will require sharing your data with third-party services to secure and analyze the site. We may also be required to provide the data collected to law enforcement if required by court order to protect the safety and legal rights of Lunatics Landing LLC.
Third Parties
Forum registrations for our available projects (including usernames, email addresses and IP addresses) are shared with automated verification services like Stop Forum Spam to protect our community from bots and malicious activity.
Google and Meta collect aggregated and anonymized data to help us understand site traffic and content engagement.
Data Rights & Choices
Cookie Controls
You can adjust your browser settings to refuse or delete cookies at anytime. Additionally you may opt out of specific analytics through the Google Opt-Out addon, or Meta’s social media ad preferences.
Account Data
Participation on our project forums is optional, however if you choose to maintain an account, you will have control over your personal information. You may view and edit your profile details directly through the account details of that forum. You may also request the deletion of your account by contacting us and providing your information and the project your joined. Data erasure requests will exclude any information we are legally or operationally required to retain for security, administrative, or anti-spam purposes, including moderation and ban logs, to prevent repeat violations.