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== With taskforce members ==
== With taskforce members ==
For purposes of
'''For purposes of'''
* Content moderation
* Content moderation
* User moderation
* User moderation
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* Discussion and consultation
* Discussion and consultation


Taskforce staff may share your...
'''Taskforce staff may share your...'''
* Edit history
* Edit history
* IP address
* IP address
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== With our security vendor ==
== With our security vendor ==
For purposes of
'''For purposes of'''
* Spam protection
* Spam protection
* Fraud mitigation
* Fraud mitigation
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* Corporate anti-astroturfing
* Corporate anti-astroturfing


We may share your...
'''We may share your...'''
* IP address
* IP address
* Registered email
* Registered email
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* Connected/related accounts
* Connected/related accounts


For select administrative or moderative purpose, our security vendor may require you to complete a series of identity verification steps.  
'''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...
We may ask this of you in order to...

Revision as of 14:10, 9 January 2025

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.