Personality Rights Database:Privacy policy
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1 Summary
If you are simply browsing the Personality Rights Database, this site collects no more data about you than most other websites.
Contributions to this wiki are published, and except in very limited circumstances, will be a permanent part of this site. If you decide to contribute, you must keep this in mind.
This privacy policy will be reviewed, and may be revised, from time to time. You may wish to revisit it regularly.
'We' as used in this policy refers to the AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law at the Scool of Law in the University of Edinburgh.
2 Public data and publishing
Browsing this site doesn't reveal your identity publicly, though see private logging later in this document for more information.
If you edit a page, this is a public act and you will be identified as the author of the edit.
2.1 Author identification
At this time, the Personality Rights Database is only open to edits by registered users. This is a spam control measure, as this wiki, though expected to be popular, will not necessarily be policed often enough to prevent spam at an acceptable level.
When logged in, your user name will be visible and acts under that account will be tracked. You may use your real name or not. Note that this is the name that you select when you create an account.
When not logged in, actions will be identified by your IP address. These numbers could potentially be traceable to identifying information about you, whether it is your home ISP or the University or Work account where the IP address is registered. Your IP address could potentially be used in conjunction with other data to identify you.
If you are concerned about attempts to match your IP address to your identity, you may wish to use an anonymous browsing service or attempt some means to obfuscate your real IP address.
2.2 Cookies
The Mediawiki software, which this site runs, uses a temporary session cookie call PHPSESSID. If you do not intend to log in, you can of course deny this cookie. You can not, however, log in to the site without it.
This site may set more cookies after log in so that you may avoid typing in your user name or password the next time you visit.
You may wish to clear these cookies and the browser cache if you wish to refrain from revealing any identifying information, especially if you are using a public or shared computer.
2.3 Passwords
As a open community, many aspects of participation depend on the reputation built up around your username (wuffie for those of you who read Cory Doctorow). Your password is your key to ensuring the integrity of this identity. Please select strong passwords and never share them. Never attempt to reveal someone else's password.
3 Private logging
Any time you visit a page on the internet, you send quite a bit of information to the server. The webservers that host this site maintain access logs with the information that you send. This information is used to provide site statistics and to get an idea of popular pages and what sites link here. We do not intend to use these logs to identify legitimate users.
The server logs are also used to create the site statistics pages. We do not intentionally reveal the raw logs to the public.
This is an example of the information logged:
64.164.82.142 - - [21/Oct/2003:02:03:19 +0000] "GET /wiki/draft_privacy_policy HTTP/1.1" 200 18084 "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_projects:Village_pump" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/85.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/85.5"
The data logged may be used by us to solve technical problems with the site and, in cases of abuse of this site, to investigate the abuse.
3.1 Data release policy
Our policy is to only release the data we collect in the following circumstances:
- As required by law, such as in response to a valid request from law enforcement.
- When given permission by the user.
- To designated third parties to resolve or investigate abuse complaints.
- When the information is related to spiders or bots, usually when investigating technical issues.
- For abusive users, we may release information to assist in attempting to block the abusive user or to complain to that user's Internet Service Provider.
- If necessary to defend legal claims against us by third parties.
- When we deem it necessary to protect the property or rights of the user community, or this website.
4 No selling of information
We will not sell your information, such as your email address, to third parties.
5 Information security
We make no guarantee that the information that you provide us will be secure.
6 Email
6.1 E-mail
You may, but are not required to, give your email address when you create your account. If you provide your email, you may receive email through this wiki from other users, unless you disable this option in your preferences. A response by you to this email would reveal your address. It is possible that a bounced email could reveal your address.
We may contact you through this email address.
Without an email address provided for your account, resetting your password (in case you forget it) will be impossible.
You can change or remove your email address at any time in your preferences.
If you are concerned, you may wish to get a free email account or attempt to use a remail service.
7 User data
Data on your contributions, such as time and number of edits, is publicly available via the site software.
7.1 Removal of user accounts
Please be aware that accounts are permanent and cannot be removed.
8 Deletion of content
Note: Deleting an item from this site does not really delete it. This site keeps previous versions of articles, which allows for anyone to see any sysop or administrator to see what was there.
Permament deletion will only generally happen in response to a legal request.
