Door43:Privacy policy
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General Scope
This policy covers personally identifiable information collected or stored by Door43 on its servers in relation to the project and its community. Door43 collects and retains the least amount of personally identifiable information needed to fulfill the project's operational needs.
The public and collaborative nature of Door43
Door43 is collaboratively developed by its users using the MediaWiki software. Anyone with Internet access (and not otherwise restricted from doing so) may edit the editable pages of this sites after logging in as a registered user. By doing this, editors create a published document, and a public record of every word added, subtracted, or changed. This is a public act, and editors are identified publicly as the author of such changes. All contributions made to the project, and all publicly available information about those contributions, are irrevocably licensed and may be freely copied, quoted, reused and adapted by third parties with few restrictions (see Door43:Copyrights).
Activities on Door43
In general, this Policy only applies to private information stored or held by Door43 which is not publicly available.
Interactions with the Door43 project not covered by this Policy include, but are not limited to, aspects of browsing and editing pages, use of the wiki "email user" function, and subscribing and posting to Door43 hosted email lists. These interactions may reveal a contributor's IP address, and possibly other personal information, indiscriminately to the general public, or to specific groups of volunteers acting independently of Door43.
Users may also interact with one another outside of the Door43 site, via email, IRC or other chat, or independent websites, and should assess the risks involved, and their personal need for privacy, before using these methods of communication.
User accounts and authorship
Door43 requires editors to register with the project. Users are identified by their chosen username. Users select a password, which is confidential and used to verify the integrity of their account. Except insofar as it may be required by law, no person should disclose, or knowingly expose, either user passwords and/or cookies generated to identify a user.
Purpose of the collection of private information
Door43 limits the collection of personally identifiable user data to purposes which serve the well-being of the project.
Details of data retention
General expectations
IP and other technical information
- When a visitor requests or reads a page, or sends email to the Door43 server, no more information is collected than is typically collected by web sites. Door43 may keep raw logs of such transactions, but these will not be published or used to track legitimate users.
- When a page is edited by a logged-in editor, the server confidentially stores related IP information for a limited period of time. This information is automatically deleted after a set period.
Cookies
- The sites set a temporary session cookie on a visitor's computer whenever a 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. More cookies may be set when one logs in to maintain logged-in status. If one saves a user name or password in one's browser, that information will be saved for up to 30 days, and this information will be resent to the server on every visit Door43. Contributors using a public machine who do not wish to show their username to future users of the machine should clear these cookies after use.
Page history
- Edits or other contributions to Door43 on its articles, user pages and talk pages are generally retained forever. Removing text from a project does not permanently delete it. Normally, anyone can look at a previous version of an article and see what was there. Even if an article is "deleted", a user entrusted with higher level of access may still see what was removed from public view.
User contribution
- User contributions are also aggregated and publicly available. User contributions are aggregated according to their registration and login status. Data on user contributions, such as the times at which users edited and the number of edits they have made, are publicly available via user contributions lists, and in aggregated forms published by other users.
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.
Editing projects
- Edits to Project pages are identified with the username of the editor, and editing history is aggregated by author in a contribution list. Such information will be available permanently on Door43.
- Logged in registered users:
- Logged in users do not expose their IP address to the public except in cases of abuse, including vandalism of a wiki page by the user or by another user with the same IP address. A user's IP address is stored on the wiki servers for a period of time, during which it can be seen by server administrators and by users who have been granted CheckUser access.
Discussions
- On wiki discussion pages:
- Any editable page can theoretically be the location of a discussion. In general, discussions on Door43 occur on user talk pages (associated with particular users), on article talk pages (associated with particular articles) or in the forum. Privacy expectations apply to discussion pages in the same way as they do elsewhere.
- Via email:
- Users are not required to list an email address when registering. Users who provide a valid email address can enable other logged-in users to send email to them through the wiki. When receiving an email from other users through this system, one's email address is not revealed to them. When choosing to send an email to other users, one's email is displayed as the sender.
- The email address put into one's user preferences may be used by Door43 for communication. Users whose accounts do not have a valid email address will not be able to reset their password if it is lost. In such a situation, however, users may be able to contact one of the Door43 server administrators to enter a new e-mail address. A user can remove the account's email address from his preferences at any time to prevent it from being used. Private correspondence between users may be saved at those users' discretion and is not subject to Door43 policy.
- On mailing lists:
- The email addresses used to subscribe and post to Door43 mailing lists may be exposed to other subscribers. The list archives of most such mailing lists may be public, and searches of public archives may be performed on the Web. Subscribers' addresses may also be quoted in other users' messages. These email addresses and any messages sent to a mailing list may be archived and may remain available to the public permanently.
- On IRC:
- IRC channels are not officially part of Door43 and are not operated on Door43 controlled servers. The IP address of users who chat over such a service may be exposed to other participants. IRC users' privacy on each channel can only be protected according to the policies of the respective service and channel. Different channels have different policies on whether logs may be published.
Disclaimer
Door43 believes that maintaining and preserving the privacy of user data is an important value. This Privacy Policy, together with other policies, resolutions, and actions by Door43, represents a committed effort to safeguard the security of the limited user information that is collected and retained on our servers. Nevertheless, Door43 cannot guarantee that user information will remain private. We acknowledge that, in spite of our committed effort to protect private user information, determined individuals may still develop data-mining and other methods to uncover such information and disclose it. For this reason, Door43 can make no guarantee against unauthorized access to information provided in the course of participating in the Door43 project or related communities.
