Privacy Policy Of WildWestWiki
WildWestWiki takes your privacy very seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.
What This Privacy Policy Covers
1. This policy covers how we treats personal information that we collect and receive, including information related to your past use of our products and services..
Personal information is information about you that is personally describes or identifies you like your name, home address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
2. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that we do not own or control or to people that are not under our employment.
Types of Information We Receive From You & How We Get It
Personal Data
While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you ("Personal Data"). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- Email address
- First name and last name
- Cookies and Usage Data etc
Usage Data
We may also collect information how our service is accessed and used ("Usage Data"). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
Your Public Contributions
Whatever you post can be seen and used by everyone.When you make a contribution (write or edit a wiki), including on comment or discussion pages, you are creating a permanent, public record of every piece of content added or altered. The page will show when your contribution was made, as well as your username. We may use your public contributions, either aggregated with the public contributions of others or individually, to create new features or data-related products for you or to learn more about how our website is used.
Account Information & Registration
You do not need to create an account to use our website. If you do create an account, you do not need to give us your legal name or personal email address.The email address you provided during registration will however be used during a password resets. If you choose not to provide us with your personal email address, the email address you provide should still be a valid.
Want to create an account? Great! Don't want to? No problem!
If you choose to create an account, in most cases we require a username, email address and a password.
IP Addresses
Finally, when you visit WIldWestWiki, we automatically receive the IP address of the device (or your proxy server) you are using to access the Internet, which could be used to infer your geographical location.
Information Related to Your Use of WildWestWiki
We use certain technologies to collect information about how you use our website.
Like other websites, we receive some information about you automatically when you visit.
We also use a variety of commonly-used technologies, like cookies, to collect information regarding how you use the site, make our services safer and easier to use, and to help create a better and more customizable experience for you.
We want to make the site better for you by learning more about how you use them. Examples of this might include how often you visit WildWestWiki, what you like, what you find helpful and how you get to the site. We also want this Policy and our practices to reflect our community's values. For this reason, we keep information related to your use of WildWestWiki confidential, except as provided in this Policy.
About Cookies
Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device.
Information We Receive Automatically
Because of how browsers work, we receive some information automatically when you visit. This information includes the type of device you are using, the type and version of your browser, your browser's language preference, the type and version of your device's operating system, in some cases the name of your internet service provider or mobile carrier, the website that referred you, which pages you request and visit, and the date and time of each request you make to the site.
Put simply, we may use this information to enhance your experiences on WildWestWiki. For example, we may use this information to administer the sites, provide greater security, and fight vandalism, customize content, test features to see what works, and improve performance; understand how users interact with the sites, track and study use of various features and analyze trends.
Information We Collect
We actively collect some types of information with a variety of commonly-used technologies. These include JavaScript, and a variety of "locally stored data" technologies, such as cookies and local storage. We realize that some of these technologies do not have the best reputation in town and can be used for less-than-noble purposes. So we want to be as clear as we can about why we use these methods and the type of information we collect with them.
Depending on which technology we use, locally stored data can be anything from text, pictures, and whole articles (as we explain further below) to Personal Information (like your IP address, your username or the time of your visit).
We use this information to make your experience better and safer, to gain a greater understanding of user preferences and to generally improve our services. We will never use third-party cookies, unless we get your permission to do so.
More on Locally Stored Data
Want to know even more? You can read more about some of the specific cookies we use, when they expire, and what we use them for on our FAQ Page
We believe this data collection helps improve your user experience, but you may remove or disable some or all locally stored data through your browser settings, depending on your browser. While locally stored data may not be necessary to use our site, some features may not function properly if you disable locally stored data.
While the examples above concerning information about you collected through the use of data collection tools are kept confidential in accordance with this Policy, please note that some information about the actions taken by your username is made publicly available alongside actions taken by other users.
How We Use Information We Receive From You
We and our service providers use your information for the legitimate purpose of pursuing our charitable mission, including:
Improving and making your user experience safer and better.
Operating the site, sharing your contributions and administering our Services.
Providing customized Services.
Sending emails with news updates, surveys and communications about items we believe may be of interest to you.
Other
IP Addresses
When you visit WildWestWiki, we automatically receive the IP address of the device (or your proxy server) you are using to access the Internet, which could be used to infer your geographical location. We keep IP addresses confidential, except as provided in this Policy.If you are visiting with your mobile device, we may customize certain areas of the site.
When May We Share Your Information?
We may share your information when you give us specific permission to do so, for legal reasons, and in the other circumstances described below.
With Your Permission
We share your information when you give us specific permission to do so.
For Legal Reasons
We will disclose your information in response to an official legal process only if we believe it to be legally valid. We will notify you of such requests when possible.
We will access, use, preserve, and/or disclose your Personal Information if we reasonably believe it necessary to satisfy a valid and legally enforceable warrant, subpoena, court order, law or regulation, or other judicial or administrative order. However, if we believe that a particular request for disclosure of a user's information is legally invalid or an abuse of the legal system and the affected user does not intend to oppose the disclosure themselves, we will try our best to fight it. We are committed to notifying you via email at least nine calendar days, when possible, before we disclose your Personal Information in response to a legal demand. However, we may only provide notice if we are not legally restrained from contacting you, there is no credible threat to life or limb that is created or increased by disclosing the request, and you have provided us with an email address.
Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal objections or defenses you may have to a third party's request (whether it be civil, criminal, or governmental) to disclose your information. We recommend seeking the advice of legal counsel immediately if such a request is made involving you.
If Ownership is Transferred.
In the unlikely event that the ownership of WildWestWiki changes, we will provide you 36 days’ notice before any personal information is transferred to the new owners or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
In the extremely unlikely event that ownership of the site changes, or we go through a reorganization (such as a merger, consolidation, or acquisition), we will continue to keep your Personal Information confidential, except as provided in this Policy, and provide notice to you via a prominent notification on site or similar mailing list at least thirty (36) calendar days before any Personal Information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
To Protect You, Ourselves & Others
We, or users with certain administrative rights, may disclose information that is reasonably necessary to:
- enforce or investigate potential violations of WildWestWiki or community-based policies;
- protect our organization, infrastructure, employees, contractors, or the public; or
- prevent imminent or serious bodily harm or death to a person.
- We, or particular users with certain administrative rights as described below, may need to share your Personal Information if it is reasonably believed to be necessary to enforce or investigate potential violations of our Terms of Use, this Privacy Policy. We may also need to access and share information to investigate and defend ourselves against legal threats or actions.
WildWestWiki is collaborative site, with users writing most of the content and selecting from amongst themselves people to hold certain administrative rights. These rights may include access to limited amounts of otherwise nonpublic information about recent contributions and activity by other users. They use this access to help protect against vandalism and abuse, fight harassment of other users, and generally try to minimize disruptive behavior on the Site.
We hope that this never comes up, but we may disclose your Personal Information if we believe that it's reasonably necessary to prevent imminent and serious bodily harm or death to a person, or to protect our organization, employees, contractors, users, or the public. We may also disclose your Personal Information if we reasonably believe it necessary to detect, prevent, or otherwise assess and address potential spam, malware, fraud, abuse, unlawful activity, and security or technical concerns.
To Our Service Providers
We may disclose personal information to our third party service providers or contractors to help run or improve and provide services in support of our mission.
As hard as we may try, we can't do it all. So sometimes we may use third-party service providers or contractors who help run or improve the Site for you and other users. We give access to your Personal Information to these providers or contractors as needed to perform their services for us or to use their tools and services. We put requirements, such as confidentiality agreements, in place to help ensure that these service providers treat your information consistently with, and no less protective of your privacy than, the principles of this Policy.
To Understand & Experiment
We give volunteer developers and researchers access to systems that contain your information to allow them to protect, develop, and contribute to the Site.
We may also share non-Personal Information or aggregated information with third parties interested in studying the Site.
When we share information with third parties for these purposes, we put reasonable technical and contractual protections in place to protect your information consistent with this Policy.
Similarly, we may share non-Personal Information or aggregated information with researchers, scholars, academics, and other interested third parties who wish to study or improve the site.
When we give access to personal information to third-party developers or researchers, we put requirements, such as reasonable technical and contractual protections, in place to help ensure that these service providers treat your information consistently with the principles of this Policy and in accordance with our instructions. If these developers or researchers later publish their work or findings, we ask that they not disclose your personal information. Please note that, despite the obligations we impose on developers and researchers, we cannot guarantee that they will abide by our agreement, nor do we guarantee that we will regularly screen or audit their projects
How Do We Protect Your Data?
We use a variety of physical and technical measures, policies, and procedures to help protect your information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.
We strive to protect your information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. We use a variety of physical and technical measures, policies, and procedures (such as access control procedures, network firewalls, and physical security) designed to protect our systems and your Personal Information. Unfortunately, there's no such thing as completely secure data transmission or storage, so we can't guarantee that our security will not be breached (by technical measures or through violation of our policies and procedures).
We will never ask for your password by email (but may send you a temporary password via email if you have requested a password reset and something went wrong). If you ever receive an email that requests your password, please let us know by sending it to our mail so we can investigate the source of the email.
How Long Do We Keep Your Data?
Except as otherwise stated in this policy, we only keep your Personal Information as long as necessary to maintain, understand and improve the Site or to comply with law.
For our peace of mind and the protection of other users, if you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, you may not use the Site.
Because things naturally change over time and we want to ensure our Privacy Policy accurately reflects our practices and the law, it may be necessary to modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. We reserve the right to do so in the following manner:
In the event of substantial changes, we will provide the proposed changes to our users on this page.
For minor changes, such as grammatical fixes, administrative or legal changes, or corrections of inaccurate statements, we will post the changes on this page.
We ask that you please review the most up-to-date version of our Privacy Policy.
Any subsequent version of this Privacy Policy becomes effective, the day it appears on this page on the site.