Privacy & cookies
Last updated: 28 October 2026.
This notice explains how RC BuildHub uses personal information, your choices and how to exercise your rights. The site is currently in private preview.
Who is responsible?
RC BuildHub is operated by an individual based in France, under the public name Aloko RC. For privacy requests, account questions or website issues, use our support form.
Information we use and why
Accounts and member access
Username, email address, protected password, optional profile details and photo, access permissions and most recent login time.
Why we use it: Performance of the account service you request; legitimate interests in managing access and inactive accounts.
Comments and contributions
Display name, submitted text, files, creator credits, source links, dates and moderation decisions.
Why we use it: Performance of the community publishing service you request; legitimate interests in moderation, attribution and maintaining the resource library.
Optional email roundup
Account email, subscription choice, consent date and delivery records.
Why we use it: Your consent, which you can withdraw at any time.
Security and abuse prevention
Connection information such as IP address, browser details, requested pages, login events and temporary anti-abuse records.
Why we use it: Legitimate interests in protecting the site, its members and their information.
Privacy and support requests
Your contact details, request and correspondence needed to answer it.
Why we use it: Legal obligations when handling data-protection rights; legitimate interests in answering other enquiries.
Optional embedded media
When allowed, your browser communicates information such as IP address, device details and the page viewed to the external provider.
Why we use it: Your consent to loading optional content.
Account credentials and an email address are required for a member account. Profile details, contributions, embedded media and the email roundup are optional. Choosing not to subscribe does not prevent you from using your account. There is no automated decision-making producing legal or similarly significant effects.
What other people can see
Approved comments and contributions show the contributor’s display name and the content submitted for publication. They are visible to people with access to the relevant page and may become publicly accessible when the site opens. Account email addresses, passwords and private administrative records are not displayed as part of a contribution. Avoid including personal information about yourself or others in public text, images or files.
Resource pages also identify original creators and link to their work. This information may come from the creator, a contributor or the original public source identified on the resource page. Contact us to request correction or removal of information about you. Requests are reviewed with regard to privacy and the rights of original creators.
Email choices
The model and resource roundup is off by default. If you opt in, changes are grouped into one email at most every 24 hours, only when there are changes. Pending submissions and comments do not trigger the roundup. Manage your choice in Email preferences or use the unsubscribe link in any roundup. Necessary account messages, such as password resets, are separate from this optional subscription.
Cookies and external content
The language selector remembers your choice for 180 days in an essential preference cookie. Without a saved choice, the site uses your browser’s preferred supported language. Translation is performed locally; page content is not sent to an external translation provider.
- Essential cookies keep sign-in, security and account preferences working. Sign-in cookies last for the session or remembered-login period; account display preferences can last up to one year.
- Consent preferences remember your accept, reject or customised choice for 180 days. They do not contain your name or email address.
- Optional media from YouTube or Facebook remains blocked until you allow it. Those providers may then receive connection information and use their own cookies.
Use Cookie settings at the bottom of any page to change or withdraw consent. Rejecting optional content does not prevent access to the rest of the site. Withdrawal stops further embedded requests; it does not remove information already received by a provider or cookies on that provider’s domain. You can clear those cookies in your browser.
Audience analytics and advertising services are not currently enabled. Ordinary source links do not load the destination inside RC BuildHub; if you follow one, the destination’s own policy applies.
Storage, recipients and international transfers
The main site data is hosted in France. The operator and authorised administrators access it only as needed for account management, moderation, support and security. RC BuildHub does not sell personal information.
- Google provides Gmail for correspondence and delivery of account messages and optional roundups. Google Drive is configured as a destination for recovery backups, which may contain account and contribution data. See Google’s privacy policy.
- Defiant, our security-service provider, may receive connection and threat information to help detect and prevent abuse. See Defiant’s privacy policy.
- Google/YouTube and Meta/Facebook receive information when you consent to their embedded content. See Google’s policy and Meta’s policy.
These providers may process information outside the European Economic Area, including in the United States. The applicable transfer arrangements depend on the service and recipient. Google describes its reliance on adequacy decisions and standard contractual clauses in its transfer safeguards; the other providers describe their arrangements in the policies linked above. Contact us for further information about recipients and the safeguards relevant to your data. Information may also be disclosed where required by law or to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
How long information is kept
- Accounts: while in use. Inactivity is reviewed after 23 months; an account may be closed after 24 months without a new login, with at least 30 days’ warning. Signing in restarts this period. Administrative and publishing accounts are reviewed separately.
- Published contributions: while relevant to the library, subject to your rights. Contributions retained after account removal are reviewed for identifying information and anonymised where appropriate. Changing a username alone does not anonymise identifying text or images.
- Comment connection metadata: removed after 30 days. Security records are kept for the period needed to detect or investigate abuse, taking account of the nature and seriousness of an incident; records needed for a dispute or legal obligation may be retained longer.
- Temporary anti-abuse records: expire within 24 hours, followed by scheduled cleanup. The checks are performed locally, without sending form data to an external CAPTCHA provider.
- Email preferences: kept while the account exists. Delivery queue records are removed after 30 days. Messages already received remain under your control and the mail provider’s policies.
- Recovery backups: scheduled copies are rotated as new successful backups replace older versions, keeping the two most recent recovery copies. Erasure decisions must be reapplied if an older copy is restored.
- Privacy and support correspondence: reviewed 12 months after resolution and removed unless longer retention is needed for a legal obligation or dispute.
Your rights
Depending on the processing and applicable conditions, you can request access, correction, erasure, restriction, portability or object to processing based on legitimate interests. You can withdraw consent for optional emails or external media at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of earlier processing.
Use our support form, preferably from the address associated with your account. We may request proportionate information to verify your identity. We normally respond within one month; if a permitted extension is necessary, we will explain it within that period.
You may also complain to the French data-protection authority, the CNIL. Account deletion and requests concerning public text, images and creator credits are assessed together where needed.
Design support and policy updates
For assembly questions, missing design files or compatibility advice, contact the original designer or the relevant source community. RC BuildHub centralises resources; it does not replace the creator’s technical support. Contact the site team for account issues, broken links and content corrections.
This notice will be updated when relevant data practices change. Material changes will be brought to members’ attention where required.