Privacy Policy

This is a not-yet-official Privacy Policy for Miraheze. This policy was last revised on --, and becomes effective 14 days thereafter. Click "View History" to see the revision history of and changes to this policy.

Browsing
To disable tracking by this site, enable the Do Not Track header in your browser.

Miraheze collects information (via Piwik) about your computer, including its location, web browser, and IP address. The last byte of your IP will be redacted, before we save it in our analytics database. We do not use external trackers, so any information we collect is not transferred to third parties. We store it for up to 90 days, and do not transfer it to other parties.

We may publish public aggregates of information, like graphs of unique visitors, browser usage percent, etc. These will not contain any personally identifiable information.

Additionally, we maintain an access log of all incoming traffic for 90 days. This log includes your full, non-redacted IP, the visited URL, web browser, timestamp of the visit and referer. This logging cannot be disabled with the Do Not Track header. This information will only be used for technical or legal reasons, and will never be released to a third party unless required by law.

Third-party media
Some wikis may have pages including media on the page (images, audio, video) that relies on a third party. By requesting this media, your browser may send personally identifying information to these sites, such as the page you are viewing it on, your computer's IP address, and by extension your general location. These are subject to the privacy policies of the third party.

The most common is from Extension:YouTube. By default, simply loading the page with a YouTube video does not track you according to Google's privacy policy -- but playing the video does transmit personal data to Google.

Editing
When you edit a wiki page or otherwise provide content to a wiki, your IP address is logged by Miraheze. If the edit was made with a logged-in account, this information is only available to Miraheze staff (i.e. the CheckUser privilege). If you edit anonymously, your edit is publicly identified with the IP address.

Whatever you decide to put up on a wiki page about yourself becomes public, and is covered under the terms of the applicable content license (typically CC-BY-SA, but see the individual wiki) instead of this policy.

If for some reason you feel that too much information has been made publicly available, Miraheze may, at its discretion, hide or delete permanently information from the wiki. This capability is called Oversight, and is limited to Miraheze staff and stewards. Individual wikis hosted by Miraheze may also delete revisions of a wiki page, but it remains viewable to administrators of that wiki and Miraheze.

Wikis hosted by Miraheze
While this policy applies to all wikis hosted by Miraheze, the operators of the individual wikis may collect additional information, but only as noted on the privacy policy pages of each wiki. If you learn that a wiki is collecting data beyond the scope of its privacy policy, please discontinue using that wiki and inform Miraheze immediately.

Definitions

 * You: the person reading this, browsing a Miraheze wiki
 * We: Miraheze
 * wiki: a website editable by its users and/or administrators

Change
This policy is subject to change after 14 days of public notice.