RustWho Data Source & OSINT Notice

This Notice describes how RustWho approaches data obtained from public or apparently public sources, how historical records may appear in the Service, and how RustWho may respond when a source owner or affected person challenges provenance, visibility, or accuracy.

RustWho does not issue bans, determine cheating, or make moderation decisions. RustWho only displays records originating from third-party sources for informational and research purposes.

RustWho is an OSINT and analytics platform focused on the Rust gaming ecosystem. RustWho may collect, receive, store, analyze, compare, index, summarize, annotate, and display information obtained from one or more of the following:

• publicly available sources;
• public search results, public indexes, and publicly viewable endpoints;
• sources RustWho reasonably believed were publicly available at the time of collection;
• user submissions;
• third-party partners, communities, or source operators; and
• analytics, correlations, classifications, and summaries derived from those inputs.

RustWho's operating position is that data may be processed where it was lawfully public, or where RustWho reasonably believed the data was publicly available, when collected. Public availability does not automatically mean the data is current, complete, endorsed, or required to remain visible forever.

RustWho may apply its own review, annotation, suppression, correction, de-indexing, or visibility restrictions to such data.

Some records shown by RustWho are historical records only.

Historical records may remain visible even if:

• the original source later changed or removed the data;
• a player, profile, or server was later cleared, unbanned, or updated;
• the status changed after collection;
• the data is no longer publicly visible today; or
• the event is old or disputed.

Where a current official status is unavailable, RustWho may display only the historical record and may omit any representation of present status.

Ban-related, flag-related, report-related, or enforcement-related entries should be treated as informational records unless RustWho expressly identifies a record as a current direct first-party feed. RustWho does not claim authorship of third-party moderation outcomes unless expressly stated.

RustWho does not certify that every third-party record shown by the Service is currently active, permanent, valid, or unchanged. Historical display does not by itself imply current status.

RustWho seeks to avoid intentional collection from private, admin-only, paywalled, or access-controlled areas without authorization. RustWho's position is that it does not intentionally bypass authentication requirements, technical access controls, or private admin environments to obtain data for display.

If a source owner or affected person claims that a record was not public, was restricted, or was collected in error, RustWho may review the matter in good faith and may restrict or remove the challenged material during or after that review without admitting liability.

RustWho may display correlations, summaries, similarity signals, classifications, confidence indicators, or other analytics derived from available inputs. Those outputs may reflect modeling assumptions, incomplete inputs, or historical conditions and should not be treated as conclusive factual determinations.

Where reasonably possible, RustWho may preserve internal provenance materials such as:

• source URLs;
• timestamps;
• snapshots or cached source-state evidence;
• screenshots;
• indexing evidence;
• source-state notes;
• internal review notes; and
• dispute records and related evidentiary materials.

Preservation is for security, compliance, dispute review, fraud prevention, and evidence purposes. It does not imply publication, republication, or waiver of any rights.

RustWho may annotate, suppress, de-index, redact, restrict, or remove data as a matter of cooperation, risk management, policy, or compliance. Any such action does not constitute an admission that prior collection, storage, or display was unlawful, inaccurate, or improper.

Requests concerning source accuracy, provenance, visibility, suppression, or removal may be sent to hello@rustwho.com. RustWho may request supporting evidence, proof of identity, or proof of authority before taking action.

RustWho's detailed discretionary review process is described in the Dispute / Review Policy.