TibiaWiki:Privacy policy

Summary
If you only read TibiaWiki, no more information is collected than is typically collected in server logs by web sites in general.

If you contribute to TibiaWiki, you are publishing every word you post publicly. If you write something, assume that it will be retained forever. This includes articles, user pages and talk pages.

Publishing on TibiaWiki and public data
Simply visiting the web site does not expose your identity publicly (but see private logging below).

When you edit any page in TibiaWiki, you are publishing a document. This is a public act, and you are identified publicly with that edit as its author.

Identification of an author
When you publish a page in TibiaWiki, you must be logged in and have a verified email address.

If you are logged in, you will be identified by your user name. This may be your real name if you so choose, or you may choose to publish under a pseudonym, whatever user name you selected when you created your account.

When using a pseudonym, your IP address will not be available to the public, but it will be stored on the TibiaWiki server for a relatively short amount of time. Thus it will be available to developers and may be released under certain circumstances (see below).

If you use a company mail server from home or telecommute and use a DSL or cable internet connection, it is likely to be very easy for your employer to identify your IP address and find all of your IP based TibiaWiki contributions. Using a user name is a better way of preserving your privacy in this situation. However, remember to disconnect yourself after using a pseudonym to avoid allowing others to use your identity.

Cookies
TibiaWiki will set a temporary session cookie (wikidb_session) whenever you visit the site. If you do not intend to ever log in, you may deny this cookie, but you cannot log in without it. It will be deleted when you close your browser session.

More cookies may be set when you log in, to avoid typing in your user name (or optionally password) on your next visit. These last up to 30 days. You may clear these cookies after use if you are using a public machine and don't wish to expose your username to future users of the machine. (If so, clear the browser cache as well.)

Passwords
Many aspects of TibiaWiki's community interactions depend on the reputation and respect that is built up through a history of valued contributions. User passwords are the only guarantee of the integrity of a user's edit history. All users are encouraged to select strong passwords and to never share them. No one shall knowingly expose the password of another user to public release either directly or indirectly.

Private logging
Every time you visit a web page, you send a lot of information to the web server. Most web servers routinely maintain access logs with a portion of this information, which can be used to get an overall picture of what pages are popular, what other sites link to this one, and what web browsers people are using. It is not the intention of TibiaWiki to use this information to keep track of legitimate users.

These logs are used to produce the site statistics pages; the raw log data is not made public, and is normally discarded after about two months.

Here's a sample of what's logged for one page view:

64.164.82.142 - - [21/Oct/2006:02:03:19 +0000] "GET /Creatures HTTP/1.1" 200 18084 "http://tibia.erig.net/Main_Page" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/85.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/85.5"

Log data may be examined by developers in the course of solving technical problems, in tracking down badly-behaved web spiders that overwhelm the site, or very rarely to correlate usernames and network addresses of edits in investigating abuse of TibiaWiki.

Policy on release of data derived from page logs
It is the policy of TibiaWiki that personally identifiable data collected in the server logs will not be released by the developers who have access to it, except as follows:


 * 1) In response to a valid subpoena or other compulsory request from law enforcement
 * 2) With permission of the affected user
 * 3) To the Senior Administration Team of TibiaWiki, their legal counsel, or their designee, when necessary for investigation of abuse complaints.
 * 4) Where the information pertains to page views generated by a spider or bot and its dissemination is necessary to illustrate or resolve technical issues.
 * 5) Where the user has been vandalising articles or persistently behaving in a disruptive way, data may be released to assist in the targeting of IP blocks, or to assist in the formulation of a complaint to relevant Internet Service Providers
 * 6) Where it is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of TibiaWiki, its users or the public.

TibiaWiki policy does not permit public distribution of such information under any circumstances, except as described above.

Sharing information with third parties
Except where otherwise specified, all text added to TibiaWiki is available for reuse under the terms of the GFDL.

TibiaWiki will not sell or share private information, such as email addresses, with third parties, unless you agree to release this information, or it is required by law to release the information.

Security of information
TibiaWiki makes no guarantee against unauthorized access to any information you provide. This information will be available to all developers with access to the servers.

E-mail
You may provide your e-mail address in your Preferences. The email address may be used by TibiaWiki to communicate with users on a wider scale.

If you do not provide an email address, you will not be able to reset your password if you forget it. You will also not be able to edit pages.

User data
Data on users, such as the times at which they edited and the number of edits they have made are publicly available via "user contributions" lists, and occasionally in aggregated forms published by other users.

Removal of user accounts
Once created, user accounts can not be removed at the request of a user. User accounts that are considered inactive may be removed from time to time as decided by the TibiaWiki Senior Administration team. It may be possible for a developer to change the username on an account, but you will need to request this yourself. TibiaWiki does not guarantee that a name will be changed on request.

Whether specific user information is deleted is dependant on the deletion policies of the project that contains the information.

Deletion of content
Deleting text from TibiaWiki does not really delete them. In normal articles, anyone can look at a previous version and see what was there. If an article is "deleted", any sysop/administrator, meaning almost anyone trusted not to abuse the deletion capability, can see what was deleted. Only a developer can permanently delete information from TibiaWiki and there is no guarantee this will happen except in response to legal action.

Advertisers
Third-party advertisers may advertise on TibiaWiki. These advertisers may have their own privacy policies on their website which you will also need to read and understand. TibiaWiki cannot be held responsible for the hyperlinks and/or other content third-party advertisers introduce.

Copyright
This privacy policy has been adapted from Wikipedia's Privacy Policy and is released under the same license.