Manual:Privacy policy
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General Scope
Wikiation collects and retains the least amount of personally identifiable information needed to fulfill the operational needs. Registered users who do edit pages have specific privacy policy which is beyond the scope of this public privacy policy.
Purpose of the collection of private information
- Wikiation have established a number of mechanisms to prevent or remedy abusive activities.
- To provide site statistics. The Wikiation statistically samples raw log data from users' visits. These logs are used to produce the site statistics pages; the raw log data is not made public.
- To solve technical problems. Log data may be examined by developers in the course of solving technical problems and in tracking down badly-behaved web spiders that overwhelm the site.
- Collected information will not be shared or sold to third parties.
Details of data retention
IP and other technical information
- When a visitor requests or reads a page, or sends email to Wikiation, no more information is collected than is typically collected by web sites. Wikiation may keep raw logs of such transactions, but these will not be published or used to track legitimate users.
Cookies
- The sites set a temporary session cookie on a visitor's computer whenever a Project page is visited. Readers who do not intend to log in or edit may deny this cookie; it will be deleted at the end of the browser's session.
Reading projects
- No more information on users and other visitors reading pages is collected than is typically collected in server logs by web sites. Aside from the above raw log data collected for general purposes, page visits do not expose a visitor's identity publicly. Sampled raw log data may include the IP address of any user, but it is not reproduced publicly.
Refresh data
- After some time a Wikibox (wiki) may be polluted. The Wikibox may be refreshed (cleaned) so old not relevant data is removed. As is it was a new Wikibox with just the correct data.
Change
This privacy policy is valid on this very moment. The privacy policy may change in the future which is only valid 30 days after the moment of change and later. On your request by e-mail you may receive a notification of the changes by e-mail. Default you will also receive minor changes, please notify if you wish otherwise.
Legal request
Information will not be shared to third parties unless Wikiation receives an order from Dutch court to do so.
Disclaimer
Wikiation believes that maintaining and preserving the privacy of user data is an utmost important value. Nevertheless, on internet there never can be 100% guarantee that user information will remain private, regarding which situation may occur.
Links
- http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy Privacy policy on which this privacy policy is based upon.
