Consumer Action Taskforce:Privacy policy

Nearly every webpage, project, or API hosted on the internet and intended for an end-user consumer has a Privacy Policy.

Equally, every time you visit a website, you're exchanging some of your information with the host of that website; regardless of how "privacy friendly" they advertise themselves to be, in order to simply load the webpage itself.

How we collect data

When you visit and/or use this wiki, we collect and store information about you.

All visitors

• Your IP address
• Your geographical location
• Your internet service provider (or VPN provider, if using a VPN)
• Your browser vendor and version
• The time zone you're visiting from

Registered users

• A screen name
• An email address

How we share data

The data we collect about you helps us run this platform and provide it as a service to you. We may share this data...

With taskforce members

For purposes of

• Content moderation
• User moderation
• Service administration
• Service development
• Discussion and consultation

Taskforce staff may share your...

• Edit history
• IP address
• Registered username
• Vanity name

With our security vendor

For purposes of

• Spam protection
• Fraud mitigation
• Threat intelligence & threat identification
• Corporate anti-astroturfing

We may share your...

• IP address
• Registered email
• Edit history
• Registered username
• Vanity name
• Connected/related accounts

For select administrative or moderative purpose, our security vendor may require you to complete a series of identity verification steps.

We may ask this of you in order to...

• Identify biased or otherwise "paid" editors
• Prevent corporate astroturfing in our documentation
• Raise the bar of trust within the content we provide.

Your consent is required to participate in this process; however, should you reject the invitation, your account will be locked and/or banned, with edits reverted. If editing anonymously, you may not be given a chance to engage in this process without receiving an IP ban.