Privacy Policy

Here is what arlen wrote:

Wikispot will not:

• Disclose your personal information to anyone unless legitimately supoenaed to do so
  

• What does "personal information" mean? What is "personal" on the wiki on an account level? How about on a wiki level?
  

• Read private portions of your wiki
  

• What does read mean? How about for administrative purposes? Okay, so we won't go trolling around on wikis' private pages, but from an administrative perspective we do have access to the private pages and so forth, and we might see it. We won't go seeking it out, but it's there and saying we "won't read it" might be prohibitive to doing things like looking at DB dumps, watching and looking through logs, etc.
  

• Disclose private portions of your wiki to third parties
  

• Doesn't this, if made more precise, cover the above?

What is "private information?" What things does wiki spot tell the outside world about:

1. You as anyone who visits wiki spot
   

2. You as an account holder on wiki spot
   

3. Your wiki and the contents of your wiki on wiki spot

We have:

• Cookies. IP addresses associated with edits. Aggregated searches (non-specific).
  

• We show all edits for all to see, for the most part. IP addresses for edits.
  

• ...

Won't give away to any third parties:

• Your email address
  

• Your password
  

• ...

There's a lot more. It might be better to leave this empty and delete this page rather than have a non-complete, sketchy privacy policy when we launch. Privacy policies aren't legal requirements.

Here's Brent's crack at it:

• Account name, password hash, your email address, and any other information you put on your User Settings page
  

• Your IP address whenever you make an edit
  

• The list of wikis that you "watch" on Interwiki Recent Changes
  

• Browser Cookies for maintaining logged-in status
  

• Any content (text, images, etc.) you submit to a Wiki Spot wiki.

• Any content (text, images, etc.) that you submit on a page viewable by "Everybody" or "All Logged in users"
  

• Your account name and IP address whenever you make any edits to a page.
  

• The list of wikis that you "watch" on Interwiki Recent Changes

• Your email address (except as used for Wiki Spot to contact you), unless you post your email in a public page
  

• Your password hash

If you are listed as an administrator of a wiki, Wiki Spot may provide your email address to third parties in order to facilitate communication about the management of your wiki. This includes things like complaints about the content of your wiki that we feel would be better settled by direct communication from you, as well as legal notices. This is an exception to the above policy.


Wiki Spot will not share any information on a page viewable only by a certain user group (e.g. administrators) with third parties, unless directed to by that wiki's administrators or by law. Listing an account in a user group implies that any person with access to that account has permission to see the content of pages viewable by that group. Wiki Spot cannot ensure the identity of any person using a Wiki Spot account.


We highly recommend at least two ways to contact you or your organization be listed and kept up to date on a publicly viewable entry on the hub (wikispot.org).


Access controls allow administrators to make certain content hidden. While every effort is made to keep private the content you have marked private, Wiki Spot can not be responsible should such information be made visible by mistake or malice.