Last Updated: June 14, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how The HIVE, operated by RaderBee (“we,” “us,” or “our”), collects, uses, shares, and protects information when you visit or interact with thehivegaming.org and any related pages, forms, features, content, services, merchandise offerings, community links, embedded media, newsletters, events, donations, member areas, or related online community experiences connected to the website.
By using this website, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use the website.
1. Who We Are
The HIVE is an online gaming community focused on gaming, streaming, community events, charity events, content creation, and helping members connect, grow, and support one another. The HIVE community primarily uses Discord for communication and includes a strong veteran, active military, and reserve military presence, while remaining open to everyone.
The HIVE may also include related gaming, entertainment, and community segments, including HIVE Dungeons, virtual tabletop gaming, RPG gaming, streaming content, community news, and related sites or content such as Why Superman Sucks.
Website: https://thehivegaming.org/
Contact Email: contact@thehivegaming.org
Operator: RaderBee
Location: Pittsburg, PA, United States
2. Information We Collect
We may collect personal information directly from you, automatically through your use of the website, or through third-party platforms and service providers.
The information we collect depends on how you interact with the website.
Information You Provide Voluntarily
You may provide information when you:
Sign up for a newsletter or email list
Submit a contact form
Ask a question or leave a comment
Join, log into, or interact with a members section
Submit information for community events
Purchase merchandise or other products
Make a donation
Create an account or log in
Submit a streamer, creator, guest, partnership, sponsorship, or advertising inquiry
Participate in promotions, surveys, giveaways, community features, or events
Communicate with us by email, Discord, or other methods
This information may include:
First and last name
Username, gamer tag, Discord name, Twitch name, or other online handle
Email address
Phone number
Mailing address
Billing and payment-related information
Account or login information
Website URL or social media links
Comments, questions, messages, offers, or inquiry details
Community event, creator, sponsorship, guest, advertising, or business-related information
Any other information you choose to provide
Order, Donation, and Payment Information
If you purchase merchandise, digital products, event tickets, subscriptions, memberships, or make a donation, we or our third-party service providers may collect information needed to process the transaction. This may include your name, email address, phone number, billing address, shipping address, and payment information.
Payment information may be processed by third-party payment processors. We do not intend to store full credit card numbers directly on our website unless specifically stated through a secure payment provider.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit the website, certain information may be collected automatically, including:
IP address
Browser type
Device type
Operating system
Pages viewed
Time spent on the website
Referring website or source
Approximate location information
Clicks, interactions, and usage activity
Cookies, pixels, and similar tracking technologies
This information helps us understand how visitors use the website, improve the user experience, measure content performance, support community features, advertise, prevent fraud, and operate the website.
3. Cookies, Pixels, and Tracking Technologies
We use, or may use, cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, and similar technologies to operate the website, analyze traffic, personalize content, support embedded media, improve marketing, and measure advertising performance.
These technologies may be used by us and by third-party platforms such as:
Google Analytics
Google Ads
Meta/Facebook Pixel
TikTok Pixel
YouTube
Twitch
Discord
Affiliate tracking platforms
Retargeting and advertising platforms
Additional analytics, advertising, and tracking tools as the website expands
Cookies may help us remember preferences, understand site traffic, track conversions, measure ad performance, support logins or members-only features, and show relevant advertising.
We may also use a cookie consent banner or similar tool to allow visitors to manage cookie preferences where required or appropriate.
You can usually control cookies through your browser settings. However, disabling cookies may affect the functionality of the website.
4. Embedded Content and Third-Party Platforms
The website may include embedded content, links, widgets, players, streams, videos, calendars, social feeds, or features from third-party platforms, including but not limited to:
YouTube
Twitch
TikTok
Discord
Instagram
X/Twitter
Facebook
Spotify
Apple Podcasts
RSS or podcast platforms
Virtual tabletop or RPG-related platforms
Donation platforms
Merchandise platforms
Payment processors
Other media, social, community, advertising, or content platforms as needed
Embedded content from third-party websites behaves as if you visited those third-party websites directly. These platforms may collect information about you, use cookies, track your interaction with the embedded content, and associate that activity with your account on their platform if you are logged in.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices, policies, or content of third-party websites, platforms, or services. You should review the privacy policies of any third-party platforms you interact with.
5. How We Use Information
We may use the information we collect to:
Operate, maintain, and improve the website
Provide gaming, streaming, blog, video, media, RPG, virtual tabletop, and community-related content
Support the HIVE community, HIVE Dungeons, and related community sections
Send newsletters, updates, announcements, event notices, and promotional emails
Respond to contact form submissions, questions, comments, and inquiries
Process merchandise orders, donations, subscriptions, tickets, or other purchases
Manage customer service and support
Manage community calendar features, event listings, or event-related communications
Evaluate streamer, creator, guest, sponsor, advertiser, partnership, and business inquiries
Display, measure, and improve advertising
Track affiliate links, sponsorships, promotions, and referral activity
Analyze website traffic, content performance, and audience engagement
Prevent spam, fraud, abuse, unauthorized access, and security issues
Comply with legal obligations
Enforce our rights, agreements, policies, and terms
6. Email Marketing and Newsletter Communications
If you sign up for our newsletter or email list, we may use your name and email address to send you updates, announcements, community news, event information, gaming content, streaming updates, promotional content, sponsor-related offers, merchandise updates, donation campaigns, and other communications related to The HIVE.
You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link included in the newsletter or email communication. You may also contact us at contact@thehivegaming.org to request removal from our email list.
Even if you unsubscribe from marketing emails, we may still send necessary transactional or administrative messages, such as order confirmations, donation receipts, account notices, legal updates, or responses to direct inquiries.
7. Merchandise, Donations, Digital Products, Events, and Future Paid Offers
The website may sell branded apparel and other merchandise, including print-on-demand products that are produced and shipped by third-party providers. We may also accept donations and may offer digital downloads, event tickets, tiered subscriptions, memberships, community perks, or other paid products or services in the future.
When you make a purchase or donation, information may be shared with third-party service providers as needed to process payments, fulfill orders, ship products, provide customer support, prevent fraud, and comply with legal or tax obligations.
Third-party providers may have their own privacy policies and terms.
8. Community Features, Members Section, Discord, and Events
The HIVE website may include a members section, community calendar, event information, Discord links, online community features, charity events, gaming events, RPG or virtual tabletop gaming features, or other interactive areas.
If you participate in these features, we may collect and use information you provide to manage access, communicate with members, organize events, share updates, moderate community spaces, support community safety, and improve the experience.
Please use caution when sharing information in community areas, Discord servers, event chats, public comments, livestream chats, or other interactive spaces. Information you share publicly may be visible to other users.
We may moderate, remove, restrict, or take action regarding user-submitted content or community participation at our discretion.
9. Affiliate Links, Sponsors, and Advertising
The website may include affiliate links, sponsored links, discount codes, direct sponsor promotions, paid advertisements, Google AdSense or similar advertising, and other promotional content.
If you click an affiliate link, sponsored link, advertisement, or tracking link, third parties may collect information about your visit or purchase. We may receive a commission, referral fee, sponsorship payment, or other compensation when you click, purchase, sign up, donate, or interact with certain offers.
Advertising and affiliate partners may use cookies, pixels, tracking links, or similar technologies to measure performance and provide relevant advertising.
10. How We Share Information
We do not sell your personal information in the traditional sense of directly exchanging your personal information for money. However, certain advertising, retargeting, analytics, affiliate, and tracking activities may be considered “sharing,” “targeted advertising,” or a “sale” under some privacy laws.
We may share information with:
Website hosting providers
Email marketing platforms
Analytics providers
Advertising and retargeting platforms
Payment processors
Print-on-demand and merchandise fulfillment companies
Shipping and logistics providers
Donation platforms
Customer service tools
Community management tools
Calendar, event, and scheduling tools
Discord, streaming, embedded media, and social platforms when you interact with those features
Affiliate and sponsor tracking platforms
Security, fraud prevention, and spam protection services
Business partners, sponsors, advertisers, or service providers when needed to fulfill a request or business purpose
Legal, regulatory, or law enforcement authorities when required or appropriate
Professional advisors, such as accountants, attorneys, or consultants
Successors or parties involved in a business transfer, sale, merger, reorganization, or similar transaction
We only share information as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, to operate the website, to provide services, to fulfill transactions, to comply with legal obligations, or to protect our rights and users.
11. Data Retention
We retain personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
The length of time we retain information may depend on the type of information, the reason it was collected, legal or accounting requirements, fraud prevention needs, dispute resolution, security, community moderation needs, and operational needs.
12. How We Protect Information
We take reasonable steps to protect personal information from unauthorized access, misuse, loss, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
However, no website, platform, transmission method, payment system, community platform, Discord server, or electronic storage method can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You use the website and provide information at your own risk.
13. Your Privacy Choices and Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. These rights may include the right to:
Request access to the personal information we have about you
Request correction of inaccurate information
Request deletion of certain personal information
Request that we limit or restrict certain uses of your information
Object to certain processing activities
Request a copy of your information
Opt out of certain marketing communications
Opt out of certain targeted advertising, sharing, or sale-related activities where applicable
Not be discriminated against for exercising privacy rights
To make a privacy request, contact us at:
We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests. Some requests may be limited by legal, security, fraud prevention, accounting, transactional, moderation, or operational requirements.
To unsubscribe from newsletter or marketing emails, you may use the unsubscribe link in the email or contact us directly.
14. California Privacy Notice
If you are a California resident, California law may provide additional privacy rights regarding your personal information.
Depending on whether applicable legal thresholds are met, California residents may have the right to know what categories of personal information are collected, used, shared, or sold; the right to request deletion of certain personal information; the right to correct inaccurate information; the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information; and the right not to be discriminated against for exercising privacy rights.
Categories of personal information we may collect include:
Identifiers, such as name, email address, phone number, mailing address, IP address, username, gamer tag, Discord name, Twitch name, and account information
Commercial information, such as purchases, donations, merchandise orders, subscriptions, memberships, and transaction history
Internet or electronic activity, such as website usage, interactions, analytics, cookies, embedded stream activity, and advertising data
Approximate location information, such as information derived from IP address
Audio, visual, or user-submitted content if voluntarily provided through forms, comments, messages, media submissions, event submissions, streams, or future interactive features
Professional or business-related information if submitted through sponsorship, advertising, creator, guest, partnership, or business inquiries
Inferences based on website interaction, advertising engagement, content preferences, or community participation
We may use and share these categories for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
To submit a California privacy request, email contact@thehivegaming.org with the subject line “California Privacy Request.”
15. International Visitors
The website is operated from the United States. If you access the website from outside the United States, you understand that your information may be collected, processed, transferred, and stored in the United States or other countries where our service providers operate.
Privacy laws in the United States may differ from the laws in your country.
If you are located in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, Switzerland, or another region with specific privacy laws, you may have additional rights regarding your personal information, including rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to certain processing, or request data portability.
To make a request, contact us at contact@thehivegaming.org.
16. Children’s Privacy
The HIVE website, community, advertising, endorsements, marketing, merchandise, donations, and related community efforts are intended for users who are 18 years of age or older.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. We also do not intentionally target users under 18 in our advertising, endorsements, or marketing.
If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without appropriate consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete that information.
If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us at contact@thehivegaming.org.
17. Third-Party Links
The website may link to third-party websites, platforms, sponsors, advertisers, affiliate partners, merchandise providers, donation platforms, payment processors, social media platforms, community platforms, media platforms, streaming platforms, Discord servers, RPG or virtual tabletop platforms, or other external services.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, policies, security, or actions of third-party websites or services. Your interactions with third parties are governed by their own privacy policies and terms.
18. User-Generated Content and Public Interactions
If the website allows comments, community submissions, public posts, reviews, member profiles, event submissions, guest submissions, livestream integrations, chat integrations, Discord participation, or other interactive features, any information you choose to submit may be visible to others.
Do not submit private, sensitive, confidential, or personal information in public-facing areas of the website or connected community platforms.
We may moderate, remove, or restrict user-submitted content at our discretion.
19. Sponsorship, Creator, Guest, Partnership, and Advertising Inquiries
If you submit a sponsorship, creator, guest, advertising, partnership, promotional, or business inquiry, we may use the information you provide to evaluate the opportunity, contact you, negotiate potential terms, maintain business records, and follow up regarding current or future opportunities.
This may include your name, email address, phone number, website, company information, creator or channel information, social media links, offer details, comments, and any additional information you choose to provide.
20. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Controls
Some browsers offer “Do Not Track” signals or similar privacy controls. At this time, the website may not respond to all Do Not Track signals.
Where legally required and technically feasible, we may honor recognized opt-out preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control, for certain advertising, sharing, or sale-related activities.
You can also manage cookies through your browser settings and any cookie consent tools made available on the website.
21. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated “Last Updated” date.
Your continued use of the website after changes are posted means you accept the updated Privacy Policy.
22. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, want to exercise a privacy right, or want to request removal from our newsletter or email list, contact us at:
The HIVE
Operated by RaderBee
Pittsburg, PA, United States
Email: contact@thehivegaming.org