Terms of Service

1. Our website (arabear.com) contains adult material, including, but not limited to, photographs, films, and written descriptions of adult nudity and adults indulging in sexual activity.
2. By entering this website you attest that you are at least 18 years of age, and/or of legal age to receive, view and possess such material (see point 1) in the legal jurisdiction in which you live. You will not allow any person not of legal age to view such materials.
3. You attest that you do not find such material (see point 1) obscene or offensive.
4. By entering this website you attest that you are not an agent or official of any government, law enforcement agency, religious or secular organization pursuing evidence for prosecution or entrapment of any individual or business. Furthermore, you attest that you have not notified any of the above of your desire not to receive, view or possess sexually explicit materials (see point 1) through our website.
5. You attest that all information supplied to our website, whether information contained in your profile or in registration for membership, is true. You attest that you are legally entitled to the use and posting of any materials, images, or information that you submit to our website.
6. You may not submit materials or images that are illegal, defamatory or inflammatory. We may terminate your membership, should you be found in violation of the above.
7. Submission of any material constitutes permission to publish such material on this website. We reserve the right to remove your submissions if they are in violation of our rules (see point 6).
8. We cannot be held responsible for content posted by members. We have no means of verifying that posted content is or isn’t copyrighted. It is your responsibility to verify that all the content that you post is owned by you. We will pass on any legal issues to the member posting illegal or copyrighted content, and membership will be terminated for this member.
9. Upon registration, protection of your membership login data becomes your responsibility. You agree that you may not assign or transfer its use to any other person. You are responsible for any unauthorized use of the membership login data. In the event of theft or unauthorized use of your membership login data, you agree to notify us at info@arabear.com immediately.
10. You agree that this website does not warrant the materials presented as to accuracy, completeness, or freedom from infringement of intellectual properties. You further agree that this website will under no circumstances be liable for any damages sustained either from use of or lack of ability to use the website or the materials therein.
11. You understand that any information or images submitted for use in your member profile or other public areas of this website is accessible to all members of this website.
12. Your email will only be used for notification of important information about your account, profile or the website in general.

Privacy Policy

Who we are

Arabear.com is a community for bears and hairy men from the Middle East and the Mediterranean — and their admirers. You can contact us at info@arabear.com.

Your Privacy

We only store information that is necessary for the functioning of the website:

1. The information you enter in your account and profile.
2. The messages that you send to other members.
3. Your favorites and buddy list.
4. Your photo likes, photo comments and saved photo list.

We take your privacy seriously:

1. We will never sell or share your information.
2. We won’t track you, nor do we use trackers like Google Analytics.
3. We won’t analyze your information in any shape or form.

You can delete your account at any time and you can be sure that all information – including all your photos – is deleted immediately and irreversibly.

Encryption

Your browsing session is protected by SSL which encrypts all data sent between your browser and our website.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Your data

We will never share your data with any third party. If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

Data retention

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Your rights

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Data storage

Your data is stored on our webserver in Switzerland, your images are distributed through a global CDN, as part of regular internet traffic. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.