Old Bailey Wiki:Privacy policy
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Summary
If you only read pages at the wiki, no more information is collected than is typically collected in server logs by web sites in general.
If you contribute to the wiki, 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 the wiki
When you edit any page in the wiki, you are publishing a document. This is a public act, and you are identified publicly with that edit as its author.
Except where otherwise specified, all text added to this wiki is available for reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons License.
We advise you to be extremely careful about publishing personal information about yourself anywhere on the wiki.
Identification of an author
You must have a user account and be logged in to publish at the wiki. When you publish a page in the wiki, you will be identified by your user name. This may be your real name, or you may choose to publish under a pseudonym, whatever user name you selected when you created your account.
Your IP address will not be made available to the public except in cases of abuse, including vandalism of a wiki page by you or by another user with the same IP address. In all cases, your IP address will be stored on the wiki servers and can be seen by administrators.
Cookies
The wiki will set a temporary session cookie (PHPSESSID) 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
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.
Logging of private information
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. The data may be used to investigate technical problems, abuse of the wiki, vandalims, harassment of other users.
Personally identifiable data collected in the server logs, or through records in the database, may only be released by the system administrators under certain circumstances: if necessary to resolve technical problems; in cases of severe abuse or vandalism of the wiki; or if legally compelled to do so.
We 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.
You may (through your Preferences) enable other logged-in users to send email to you through the wiki. Your address will not be revealed to them unless you respond, or possibly if the email bounces. The administrators of the wiki may use your email address to communicate with you.
Deletion of content
Removing text from the wiki does not permanently delete it. In normal articles, anyone can look at a previous version and see what was there. If an article is "deleted", any user with "administrator" access on the wiki can see what was deleted. Information can be permanently deleted by those people with access to the servers, but there is no guarantee this will happen except in response to legal action.
