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For more information, please review information about subpoenas. | For more information, please review information about subpoenas. | ||
====If the Organization is Transferred ( | ====If the Organization is Transferred (Not likely)==== | ||
In the unlikely event that the ownership of our site changes, we will provide you 30 days’ notice before any personal information is transferred to the new owners or becomes subject to a different privacy policy. | |||
In the unlikely event that the ownership of | In the extremely unlikely event that ownership of all or substantially all of websites change, 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 our site or similar mailing list at least thirty (30) calendar days before any Personal Information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy. | ||
In the extremely unlikely event that ownership of all or substantially all of | |||
====To Protect You, Ourselves & Others==== | ====To Protect You, Ourselves & Others==== | ||
We, or users with certain administrative rights, may disclose information that is reasonably necessary to: | We, or users with certain administrative rights, may disclose information that is reasonably necessary to: | ||
* enforce or investigate potential violations of | * enforce or investigate potential violations of our policies; | ||
* protect our organization, infrastructure, employees, contractors, or the public; or | * protect our organization, infrastructure, employees, contractors, or the public; or | ||
* prevent imminent or serious bodily harm or death to a person. | * 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, or any of our websites or user community-based policies. We may also need to access and share information to investigate and defend ourselves against legal threats or actions. | |||
Our site is not collaborative, but if it were and had users writing most of the policies 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 our site. These various user-selected administrative groups have their own privacy and confidentiality guidelines, but all such groups are supposed to agree to follow our . These user-selected administrative groups are accountable to other users through checks and balances: users are selected through a community-driven process and overseen by their peers through a logged history of their actions. However, the legal names of these users are not known to us. | |||
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. | 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 Other Third Parties==== | |||
We may disclose personal information to our third party service providers or contractors to help run or improve our site and provide services in support of our mission. | |||
As hard as we may try, we can't do it all. So sometimes we use third-party service providers or contractors who help run or improve our 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. | |||
As hard as we may try, we can't do it all. So sometimes we use third-party service providers or contractors who help run or improve | |||
If you are visiting Wikimedia Sites with your mobile device, we use your IP address to provide anonymized or aggregated information to service providers regarding the volume of usage in certain areas. | If you are visiting Wikimedia Sites with your mobile device, we use your IP address to provide anonymized or aggregated information to service providers regarding the volume of usage in certain areas. | ||
====To Understand & Experiment==== | ====To Understand & Experiment==== | ||
* We also share non-Personal Information or allow third parties interested in studying use of our site. | |||
* We also share non-Personal Information or | |||
* 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. | * 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. | ||
The open-source software that powers the our site depends on the contributions of volunteer software developers, who spend time writing and testing code to help it improve and evolve with our users' needs. | |||
The open-source software that powers the | |||
Similarly, we share non-Personal Information or aggregated information with researchers, scholars, academics, and other interested third parties who wish to study | Similarly, we share non-Personal Information or aggregated information with researchers, scholars, academics, and other interested third parties who wish to study our site. Sharing this information helps them understand usage, viewing, and demographics statistics and patterns. They then can share their findings with us and our users so that we can all better understand and improve other websites. | ||
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. | 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. | ||
====If We Allowed You To Make It Public==== | |||
Information that you post is public and can been seen and used by everyone. | Information that you post is public and can been seen and used by everyone. | ||
Any information you post publicly on the Wikimedia Sites is just that – public. For example, if you put your mailing address on your talk page, that is public, and not protected by this Policy. And if you edit without registering or logging into your account, your IP address will be seen publicly. Please think carefully about your desired level of anonymity before you disclose Personal Information on your user page or elsewhere. | Any information you post publicly on the Wikimedia Sites is just that – public. For example, if you put your mailing address on your talk page, that is public, and not protected by this Policy. And if you edit without registering or logging into your account, your IP address will be seen publicly. Please think carefully about your desired level of anonymity before you disclose Personal Information on your user page or elsewhere. | ||
===How Do We Protect Your Personal Data?=== | |||
We do not collect your personal data, so there is no need to protect nothing. | |||
===How Do We Protect Your Data?== | |||
We | |||
===If We Did Collect Personal Data, How Long Would We Keep Your Personal Data?=== | |||
===How Long | |||
Except as otherwise stated in this policy, we only keep your Personal Information as long as necessary to maintain, understand and improve our site or to comply with U.S. law. | |||
Once we receive Personal Information from you, we keep it for the shortest possible time that is consistent with the maintenance, understanding, and improvement of the Wikimedia Sites, and our obligations under applicable U.S. law. Non-personal information may be retained indefinitely. | |||
Please remember that certain information, such as your IP Address, is archived and displayed indefinitely by design; the transparency of the projects’ contribution and revision histories is critical to their efficacy and trustworthiness. To learn more about the subject of data retention practices, please research it. For further information about how you may request access to or deletion of your Personal Information, or other rights you may have with respect to your Personal Information, please research that too. | |||
===Where is the Foundation & What Does That Mean for Me?=== | ===Where is the Foundation & What Does That Mean for Me?=== | ||
Our site is base in the United States (U.S), with servers and data centers located in various locations in that country. If you decide to use our site, whether from inside or outside of the U.S., you understand that your Personal Information will be collected, transferred, stored, processed, disclosed and otherwise used in the U.S. as described in this Privacy Policy. You also understand that your information may be transferred by us from the U.S. to other countries, which may have different or less stringent data protection laws than your country, in connection with providing services to you. | |||
We are strongly committed to not sharing nonpublic information and Personal Information with anyone. We only allow tracking by third-party websites you | We are strongly committed to not sharing nonpublic information and Personal Information with anyone. We only allow tracking by third-party websites you may be aware of (including analytics services, advertising networks, and social platforms), but we don't share or collect your Personal Information and share it with any third parties for any purposes. | ||
Because we protect all users in this manner, we do not change our behavior in response to a web browser's "do not track" signal. | Because we protect all users in this manner, we do not change our behavior in response to a web browser's "do not track" signal. |