Our foundation is built on a generations-deep legacy of securing the public trust, absolute civility, and strict adherence to the rule of law.
At HARDIN.SYSTEMS, our foundation is built on a generations-deep New Orleans legacy of securing the public trust, absolute civility, and strict adherence to the rule of law. In alignment with the (ISC)² CISSP Code of Ethics, we believe that protecting digital infrastructure and personal data is a fundamental requirement for protecting society and the common good.
Our website address is: https://hardin.systems. We apply the same uncompromising approach to our visitors' data as we do to our hostile takeover security operations.
When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, alongside the visitor's IP address and browser user agent string. We do this strictly to facilitate automated threat modeling and spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (a cryptographic hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to verify usage. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Upon approval of your comment, your profile picture becomes visible to the public solely in the context of your comment.
If you upload images to this website (such as during a preliminary security assessment or contact request), you must proactively strip the files of embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Operational security requires minimizing unnecessary metadata; visitors to the website can potentially download and extract any location data from exposed images.
We utilize standard session management tokens (cookies) purely for functional convenience and access control, not for third-party behavioral marketing.
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience so that you do not have to repopulate your details. These cookies are retained for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This contains no personal data and is destroyed upon closing your browser.
When you log in, we establish several cookies to secure your login information and interface preferences. Login cookies expire after two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your authenticated session persists for two weeks. Logging out instantly invalidates and destroys these tokens.
If you possess administrative rights and edit or publish an article, a localized cookie indicating the post ID of the edited article is saved in your browser. It contains no personal data and expires after 24 hours.
We maintain a zero-trust transitional perimeter mentality, but some articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, or third-party security articles).
Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if the visitor has navigated to that third-party infrastructure. These external websites may collect data about you, deploy their own cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content—especially if you hold an active, authenticated session with that specific third party.
HARDIN.SYSTEMS maintains a draconian chain of custody protocol. We do not sell your telemetry.
If you request a password reset, your originating IP address will be logged and included in the reset email for auditing purposes. Visitor comments are routed through an automated spam detection service.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows our systems to programmatically recognize and approve follow-up communications without manual moderation bottlenecks.
For users that register on our infrastructure (if applicable), we securely store the personal information provided in their user profile. All users retain the ability to view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (with the exception of core usernames, which serve as immutable database keys). Website administrators maintain overarching visibility and editing privileges for system maintenance.
In our operations, we advocate for the health and integrity of our clients' systems. We extend that advocacy to your personal data.
If you hold an account on this site, or have engaged in documented interactions (such as comments), you possess the right to request an exported, verifiable file of the personal data we hold concerning your identity.
Furthermore, you may request the total erasure of your personal data from our systems. Note: This does not supersede data we are legally obligated to preserve for administrative, legal, or security auditing purposes, ensuring that any required evidence remains unassailable.
Data Rights Request: Use the data deletion request form to delete your account, or to delete only particular data — call recordings, voicemail, messages — while keeping your account and phone line working. You can also contact us at joe@hardin.systems. We acknowledge within 7 days and complete within 30.
You can delete your account entirely, or delete only particular data — call recordings, voicemail, call history, messages and attachments, or the contact details on your profile — while keeping your account and phone line working. Both requests are made from the same place: hardin.systems/delete/.
We acknowledge every request within 7 days and complete it within 30. Where we need to confirm who you are before acting, that clock starts when we have what we asked for.
Once your data is deleted from our live systems it is gone from the service. Copies remain inside our encrypted, offline backups until those backups age out on their normal retention schedule, which for some is up to two years. We do not use backups to bring deleted data back; a restore happens only to recover from a disaster, never to repopulate an account.
If you tick the newsletter box we email you game news, about once a week; unsubscribe any time. The box (on hardin.systems/news and in our games Potholes W*F and Crescent Strike) always starts unticked. We first send a confirmation link and send nothing else until you click it. We keep your email address, when and where you signed up and when you confirmed, only to send the newsletter; it is sent from our own mail server, never sold or shared. Every newsletter has a one-click unsubscribe link, or write to network@hardin.systems.
We take your data protection seriously. If you have questions about this policy or how we handle your information, reach out directly.
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