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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
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.
