Orvella event applications
This is the real privacy notice for this website, not part of the story.
What we collect
We only collect what is needed to run the application process for the event.
- Your Discord ID and display name, from logging in with Discord. We do not get your email address or password. Your avatar is shown while you are logged in and is loaded from Discord, it is not saved with your application.
- Your Minecraft username and its account ID (UUID).
- Whether you are an adult or a minor. We do not ask for your date of birth.
- Your VITAL stats and your written answers, including a draft while you are still writing.
- Your display settings, if you change them (text style, size, colours, contrast, motion).
- Reviews of your application by the team: star ratings, comments, red flags, and the decision with its reasons.
We do not ask for your real name, email, address, phone number or payment details. Please do not put them, or anyone else's personal details, in your answers.
Cookies and logs
There is one cookie. It keeps you logged in for up to 30 days and is deleted when you log out. There are no advertising, analytics or tracking cookies. Your display settings are also kept in your browser on your device.
The site writes a security log of logins, refused requests and staff actions such as decisions. It records the time, what happened and, for logins and staff actions, a Discord ID. Internet addresses are only written as a short one-way code, so the same visitor can be spotted without keeping their address. Answers, cookies and passwords are never written to it.
Who can see it
- Reviewers read your answers and VITAL stats without your name, Discord account, Minecraft username or age group.
- Final reviewers can also see your age group and, when they choose to reveal it, your names. They make the decision.
- Owners publish accepted applications, and the site then gives your Discord account the accepted role.
- Whoever hosts the server can technically reach the files on it. The database is only readable by the account running the site, and backups are encrypted.
We do not sell your data, share it for advertising, or use it for anything except running this event.
Other services involved
- Discord: logging in, checking that you are in the server, and giving the accepted role.
- Mojang, and other public Minecraft profile services if Mojang is down: they are sent the username you type to check that it exists.
- mc-heads.net: your browser loads your Minecraft head image from it, so it can see that your browser asked.
- Giphy: only the team uses it, to add GIFs to comments.
- jsDelivr: your browser loads a font file from it, only if you pick one of the dyslexia friendly fonts.
How long we keep it
Deleted data can stay in an encrypted backup until that backup is replaced, which is up to 14 days. Once a denied application has been deleted you are able to apply again.
Your rights
You can ask to see what we hold about you, to have it corrected, or to have it deleted at any time, by contacting the Applications Board on Discord. We aim to answer within 30 days. If you delete your data you will no longer be considered for the event.
You can also complain to the data protection authority in your country. In the UK that is the Information Commissioner's Office.
Using this site
- Apply once, with your own account, and answer truthfully.
- Do not use scripts or tools to send requests to the site, to get around its limits, or to look at anyone else's application.
- Do not put anyone else's personal details in your application.
- Decisions are made by the event team and are final. Being accepted is not a promise of a place if the event rules are broken later.
- We can remove access from anyone who abuses the site, and we can change this page. The date at the top says when it last changed.
- Orvella is a fictional nation in a Minecraft event, not a real government.