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Privacy policy

Effective Date: August 22, 2026

This Privacy Policy applies to the collection exchange websites operated by NODE HUB S.R.L. that display or link to it (together, the "Club Network" and individually a "Club Website"). It covers the Club Websites listed in the Terms and Conditions, including their official language subdomains.

The Club Network includes websites for exchanging postcards, stamps, coins, banknotes, trading cards, stickers and other collectible items. The same general Privacy Policy is used across the network, while the data associated with an account or exchange remains identified with the Club Website on which it was created.

1. Controller and Contact

The controller responsible for the processing described in this Policy is NODE HUB S.R.L., with its registered office at 33 Nae Leonard Street, Apartment 2, Galați, Galați County, Romania, registered with the Romanian Trade Register under no. J2026038669006, tax identification number (CUI) 54895290 (the "Controller" or "Operator").

Questions, privacy requests and complaints may be submitted through the Contact page on the Club Website you are using or by email to the administrative address for that domain (for example, admin@postelo.club when using postelo.club). No data protection officer has been appointed because the Controller does not currently consider that the legal conditions requiring one are met.

2. How the Club Network Is Organized

Club Websites use a common application and some common infrastructure, but accounts, exchange records and settings may be stored separately for each club. Some security, anti-abuse, supporter-administration and legal-document records are managed in shared infrastructure and include a club identifier so the relevant context can be determined.

Creating an account on one Club Website does not necessarily create an account on another Club Website. Data is not used to merge public profiles across clubs unless a feature clearly says so or you request it.

3. Personal Data We Collect

Account and identity data

This may include username, password authentication data, email address, country, registration date, account status, language and account preferences. Passwords should be stored in protected form rather than as readable text.

Postal address

To participate in physical exchanges, you may provide a recipient name and complete postal address, including street, number, postal code, city, region and country. Depending on the postal destination, you may also provide formatting instructions needed for delivery.

Profile and public information

Your profile may include username, country, languages, description, avatar, collecting interests, preferred themes, registration date, recent activity and statistics. Fields presented as public may be visible to members, visitors and search engines.

Exchange data

This may include assigned members, origin and destination countries, exchange IDs, item type or theme, request, sending, receipt and expiry dates, exchange status, ratings, comments, uploaded images and records of sent, received, active or expired exchanges.

Communications and moderation data

This may include private messages, discussion posts, support and contact messages, reports, evidence supplied in a dispute, moderation notes, warnings, restrictions and records needed to investigate abuse or enforce the Terms.

Technical and security data

This may include IP address, browser and device information, user agent, session identifiers, request dates and times, login and security events, error information, spam indicators and other technical logs needed to operate and protect the websites.

Legal-document records

When you accept the Terms or acknowledge a Privacy Policy version, the Club Network may record the club, member identifier, document type and version, acceptance date and time, language, content hash, IP address, browser user agent and acceptance source, such as registration or a legal-update notice.

Payments and supporter records

If you make a donation or supporter payment, the operator may receive and store transaction identifiers, amount, currency, payment status, payer information supplied by the payment provider and the period or benefit associated with the payment. Full payment-card details are not intended to be collected by the Club Websites when payment is handled by an external provider.

Cookies and similar technologies

Cookies, session storage, local storage and third-party technologies may process identifiers and information about use of the website. Details are provided in the Cookie Policy.

4. Sources of Personal Data

Most data is obtained directly from you. Some data is generated through use of the service, received from another member involved in an exchange or report, or received from a service provider such as a payment processor. Technical data is generated automatically when your browser communicates with the website and enabled third-party services.

5. Purposes and Legal Bases

  • Account creation and administration: to register, authenticate and manage your account. The legal basis is taking steps at your request and performing the service contract.
  • Physical exchanges: to match members, provide the assigned recipient's postal details, track exchanges, register receipt and calculate exchange statistics. The legal basis is performance of the service contract.
  • Operational communications: to send registration, security, exchange, message, support and important service notices. The legal basis is performance of the contract and, for security or service-integrity notices, the operator's legitimate interests.
  • Public profiles and community features: to display the profile fields and User Content you choose to make public and enable discussions, comments and exchange pages. The legal basis is performance of the requested service; optional publication may also depend on your deliberate choice to submit or enable the relevant content.
  • Security, fraud and abuse prevention: to protect accounts, detect spam, investigate misconduct, enforce the Terms and establish or defend legal claims. The legal basis is the operator's legitimate interests in operating a secure and trustworthy exchange community and, where applicable, compliance with legal obligations.
  • Legal-document records: to demonstrate the applicable contract and privacy information and manage version acceptance. The legal basis is performance of the contract, compliance with legal obligations and the legitimate interest in maintaining reliable legal records.
  • Payments and accounting: to process supporter benefits, reconcile payments, prevent fraud and keep required financial records. The legal bases are performance of the requested transaction, legal obligations and legitimate interests in preventing fraud.
  • Optional analytics, advertising and similar technologies: to measure use, improve the service or fund its operation. Where consent is required for storing or accessing information on your device, the legal basis is consent. Any subsequent personal-data processing must also have an appropriate legal basis as explained in the Cookie Policy or provider information.
  • Service improvement and aggregate statistics: to diagnose errors and understand general use of the Club Network. The legal basis is the operator's legitimate interests, using aggregated or minimized data where reasonably possible.
  • Compliance and protection of rights: to respond to valid requests from courts, authorities or rights holders and to establish, exercise or defend legal claims. The legal basis is a legal obligation or legitimate interests, depending on the request.

When processing is based on legitimate interests, the operator considers the necessity of the processing, the reasonable expectations of members and the effect on their rights. You may object as described in Section 12.

6. Required and Optional Data

Fields marked as required are needed to create an account, secure it or provide a requested exchange. Without required account data, an account cannot be created or maintained. Without a valid postal address, you cannot receive physical items and may not be able to participate in exchanges.

Profile descriptions, avatars, interests, optional communications and most User Content are voluntary. The interface should indicate when a field will be public before you submit it.

7. Postal Address Disclosure

Your recipient name and postal address are disclosed to the member assigned to send you an item. This disclosure is essential to the physical exchange you request. The sender is instructed by the Terms to use those details only for that exchange and not to publish, sell, retain for unrelated purposes or reuse them.

An assigned member may live outside the European Economic Area. Therefore, when you request an international exchange, your postal details may be viewed in the recipient member's country. This member-to-member disclosure is initiated as part of the exchange you request and is distinct from the operator appointing a service provider abroad. You may use club options that limit exchanges geographically where those options are available.

Your email address and password are not disclosed to exchange partners.

8. Public Information

Public profile and exchange pages may show usernames, countries, languages, avatars, descriptions, dates, statistics, ratings, comments and uploaded collectible images. Public pages may be indexed, cached or copied by search engines and third parties. Removal from the Club Website does not guarantee immediate removal from third-party caches.

Do not place your postal address, email address, telephone number, identification documents or another person's private information in public fields or images. Images may contain visible writing or embedded metadata; review them before upload.

9. Recipients and Service Providers

Personal data may be available, only as necessary, to:

  • the member assigned to send you a physical item;
  • the operator and authorized administrators who support, secure or moderate the relevant Club Website;
  • hosting, database, backup, object-storage, email-delivery and security providers;
  • payment providers such as PayPal when you choose to make a payment;
  • analytics, advertising, social-media or embedded-content providers when their services are enabled and the applicable consent or other legal conditions are met;
  • professional advisers, courts, regulators, law-enforcement bodies or other authorities where disclosure is legally required or necessary to protect legal rights.

The operator does not sell members' personal data.

10. International Transfers

The main website infrastructure is intended to be hosted in the European Union. Some service providers or their support operations may process data outside the European Economic Area. Where the operator makes such a transfer, an adequacy decision, approved contractual safeguards or another lawful transfer mechanism will be used as required. Information about relevant safeguards may be requested through the Contact page.

Separately, postal-address disclosure to an assigned member outside the European Economic Area is explained in Section 7.

11. Retention

Personal data is retained only for as long as reasonably needed for the purpose for which it was collected, including the following criteria:

  • account and current postal-address data are generally kept while the account remains active;
  • exchange records are kept for the operation, history, integrity and statistics of the exchange system and may be retained after account deletion in anonymized or minimized form;
  • messages, reports, moderation and security records are kept for the period needed to handle the issue, prevent repeated abuse and establish or defend claims;
  • technical logs are kept for a limited operational and security period unless an incident requires longer preservation;
  • payment and accounting records are kept for the period required by applicable financial and tax law;
  • legal-document acceptance records are kept while needed to demonstrate the applicable terms and compliance, including relevant limitation periods;
  • backup copies are deleted or overwritten according to the backup cycle and may not be removed immediately from an individual backup.

When no fixed period is stated, retention is determined using the account's status, unresolved exchanges, legal duties, security needs, the sensitivity of the data and applicable limitation periods. Data that is no longer necessary is deleted or anonymized.

12. Your Rights

Subject to the conditions and exceptions in applicable law, you may have the right to:

  • obtain confirmation and access to your personal data;
  • correct inaccurate or incomplete data;
  • request erasure;
  • request restriction of processing;
  • object to processing based on legitimate interests;
  • receive data you provided in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and transmit it to another controller where the portability conditions apply;
  • withdraw consent at any time for future processing where consent is the legal basis;
  • lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority.

Requests may be submitted through the Contact page. The operator may ask for information reasonably necessary to verify your identity and protect the account. A response will normally be provided within one month, subject to any lawful extension for complex or numerous requests.

In Romania, the supervisory authority is the National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing (ANSPDCP), whose current contact and complaint information is available at www.dataprotection.ro. You may instead contact the supervisory authority in the EU or EEA country of your habitual residence, place of work or the alleged infringement where applicable.

Withdrawal of consent does not affect processing already carried out lawfully. Erasure is not absolute: limited records may be retained where required by law, needed for legal claims, necessary to protect other members or retained in anonymized form.

13. Account Deletion

You may request account deletion through the Contact page or any account-deletion function made available. Before deletion, active exchanges, unresolved reports, payment records and legal obligations may need to be addressed.

On deletion, direct profile and current address data will be deleted or anonymized where reasonably possible. Public posts, comments, ratings or exchange records may be anonymized rather than removed when retention is necessary to preserve conversations, exchange history, statistics or the rights of other members.

14. Automated Processing and Matching

The service uses automated rules to assign exchange partners and calculate limits or statistics. These operational rules do not make decisions producing legal or similarly significant effects. The operator does not currently use solely automated decision-making of the kind described in Article 22 GDPR.

15. Security

The operator uses reasonable technical and organizational measures intended to protect personal data, including HTTPS, access controls, authentication protections, backups and security logging where appropriate. No online system or postal disclosure can be guaranteed completely secure.

You are responsible for using a strong, unique password, protecting your email account and promptly reporting suspected unauthorized access. Once a postal address has been provided to an assigned sender, the operator cannot technically prevent that person from copying it, although unrelated use is prohibited by the Terms.

16. Minors

The Club Network is not directed to children under 16. A person under 18 should use it only with the permission and supervision of a parent or legal guardian, particularly because physical exchanges involve disclosure of a postal address to another member. If you believe a child has supplied personal data without appropriate involvement of a parent or guardian, contact the operator so the circumstances can be reviewed.

17. Cookies and Third-Party Technologies

The Cookie Policy describes necessary sessions and optional analytics, advertising, social-media, font or embedded-content services that may be enabled on a Club Website. Non-essential technologies must be managed in accordance with applicable consent requirements. Browser blocking alone is not treated as a substitute for prior consent where prior consent is legally required.

18. Changes to This Policy

This Policy may be updated to reflect changes in law, providers, security practices or Club Network features. The effective date and version will be recorded. Material changes will be communicated through the website or another appropriate channel. Where required, members will be asked to review or acknowledge a new version before continuing to use affected features.

19. Change Log

August 2, 2026 – Privacy Policy prepared for Postelo and themed postcard exchanges.

August 22, 2026 – Replaced the club-specific policy with a general Club Network policy; identified NODE HUB S.R.L. as the Controller; added legal bases, shared-infrastructure explanation, member-to-member address disclosure, international transfers, retention criteria, moderation data and expanded data-subject rights.

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