Privacy Policy
Last updated: August 29, 2026
Who operates this site
FS25ModZone.com is operated by Comwil, based in Zürich, Switzerland. For privacy questions or to exercise the rights described below, contact [email protected].
What we collect
FS25ModZone has no user accounts. Everything below is submitted voluntarily through a form, or generated automatically while you browse.
| When | We collect | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Uploading a mod | Email, mod title/description/credits, screenshots, download link(s), optional YouTube link | Email is never shown publicly. Uploaded images are re-encoded on our server, which strips EXIF/location metadata. |
| Posting a comment | Name, email, comment text | Email is never shown publicly, only used if we need to follow up. |
| Reporting abuse / suggesting a video | Reason/URL, email, optional message | Used only to review the report. |
| Browsing the site | A one-way cryptographic hash of your IP address, a coarse device category (bot/mobile/desktop), your country (from Cloudflare), and the referring page | Attached to download-click and comment records for spam/abuse prevention. Your raw IP address is never stored - the hash cannot be reversed back to it. |
| Searching the site | The search text and how many results it returned | Used to see what mods people look for that we don't have yet. Not linked to you individually. |
Cookies
We use one strictly necessary cookie (a session cookie) to keep the admin area logged in and to prevent cross-site request forgery. It is not used for tracking or advertising and is not set for ordinary visitors browsing mods.
Cloudflare, our hosting/security provider, may set cookies necessary to distinguish humans from bots (Turnstile, used on our forms) and to protect the site from abuse. Our traffic-analytics tooling (Cloudflare Web Analytics) is cookieless by design.
Advertising (Google AdSense)
This site displays ads served by Google AdSense. Google and its advertising partners use cookies and similar technologies (such as the DoubleClick/Google Ads cookie) to serve ads, including based on your prior visits to this site or other sites, to measure how ads perform, and to limit how often you see the same ad. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
- You can opt out of personalized advertising at Google's Ads Settings, or, for participating third-party vendors generally, at aboutads.info/choices (or youronlinechoices.eu in Europe).
- For visitors in the EU, EEA, and UK, ads and any related cookies are only set after you give consent through a certified consent management platform (Google-certified, e.g. Funding Choices), in line with Google's EU User Consent Policy. Visitors elsewhere may see a simpler cookie notice.
- Google's own collection and use of data is governed by the Google Privacy Policy and, specifically for advertising, How Google uses information from sites that use its services.
Who we share data with
We don't sell your data. It's shared only with the service providers that make the site work:
- Cloudflare - DNS, CDN, DDoS protection, bot verification (Turnstile), and cookieless analytics for the whole site.
- Resend - delivers the email notifications the site sends (e.g. to our moderators when a mod is submitted).
- Our backup storage provider - encrypted database backups (which include the data in the table above) are copied off-server for disaster recovery, and automatically deleted after 30 days.
How long we keep it
Data tied to a mod, comment, or report is kept for as long as that content exists on the site, plus the 30-day backup retention window described above. You can ask us to delete data tied to a submission you made by emailing [email protected] from the same address you submitted with.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or export the personal data we hold about you, and to object to or restrict how it's used. To exercise any of these, email [email protected]. Since the site has no accounts, we verify these requests using the email address the data was originally submitted with.
Comwil is based in Switzerland, so Swiss data protection law (the revised Federal Act on Data Protection) applies, and you may lodge a complaint with the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC). If you're in the EU or UK, GDPR/UK GDPR also applies to how we handle your data, and you may instead (or in addition) contact your own national data protection authority.
Children
This site is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 16.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes materially, the "Last updated" date above will change. Significant changes (e.g. adding advertising) will be called out here directly.