TWC Wiki:Privacy policy
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Privacy Advice Specific to the TWC Wiki
See below for the Privacy Policy applicable to the Total War Center forums.
The TWC Wiki is stored on the same servers as the Total War Center and the same general policy applies, however there are additional privacy issues applicable to the TWC Wiki due to the way the MediaWiki software functions. See the MediaWiki Privacy Policy for more advice specific to MediaWiki software.
The most important thing to note is that if you make an edit to the TWC Wiki without being logged in your IP address is automatically recorded on the articles history page. That information is available to any viewer. The following advice is taken from the MediaWiki Privacy Policy:
- When you publish a page in the wiki, you may be logged in or not.
- If you are logged in, you will be identified by your user name. This may be your real name if you so choose, or you may choose to publish under a pseudonym, whatever user name you selected when you created your account.
- If you have not logged in, you will be identified by your network IP address. This is a series of four numbers which identifies the Internet address from which you are contacting the wiki. Depending on your connection, this number may be traceable only to a large Internet service provider, or specifically to your school, place of business, or home. It may be possible that the origin of this IP address could be used in conjunction with any interests you express implicitly or explicitly by editing articles to identify you even by private individuals.
- It may be either difficult or easy for a motivated individual to connect your network IP address with your real-life identity. Therefore if you are very concerned about privacy, you may wish to log in and publish under a pseudonym.
- When using a pseudonym, your IP address will not be 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 Wikimedia's server administrators and by users who have been granted "CheckUser" access. Your IP address, and its connection to any usernames that share it may be released under certain circumstances (see below).
- If you use a company mail server from home or telecommute and use a DSL or cable Internet connection, it is likely to be very easy for your employer to identify your IP address and find all of your IP based Wikimedia project contributions. Using a user name is a better way of preserving your privacy in this situation. However, remember to log out or disconnect yourself after each session using a pseudonym on a shared computer, to avoid allowing others to use your identity.
You do not need to provide an Email address or any other personal information in order to create a user account on the TWC Wiki. Most users of the TWC Wiki are also existing forum users and many use the same user name as on the forum, this is helpful but not compulsory.
Total War Center - General Privacy Policy
Under normal circumstances, TWC will never release your provided information to any third party without a court order requiring us to do so. However, in cases of certain severe and/or repeated TOS violations or illegal activities, we reserve the right to forward any and all known information about you and your accounts to your ISP (including libraries, schools, and places of employment), e-mail service provider, your ISP account owner (if someone else is actually paying for it), and any parties whose copyright has clearly been infringed by your actions on the boards.
The privacy policy used here is that protecting all data contained and accessed via the servers of the Total War Center
Privacy Policy Statement
Definitions
- "Visitor" refers to any person who is not a registered member of this site who is viewing it using a web browser.
- "Member" refers any person who is a registered member of this site.
Policy
This is the web site of Total War Center.
You may contact us at http://www.twcenter.net/forums/sendmessage.php.
For each visitor to our Web page, our Web server automatically recognizes only the visitorâs domain name, but not the e-mail address (where possible).
We collect only the domain name, but not the e-mail address of visitors to our Web page, the e-mail addresses of those who post messages to our bulletin board, the e-mail addresses of those who make postings to our chat areas.
For purposes of validation, registered members of our forum are required to provide a valid email address. This email may be accessed by moderators of the forum, and dependant on settings, may become viewable by members of the public. If you do not wish this information to be shared, you can modify your privacy settings here. TWC will never disclose your email address to third parties, and use by moderating staff is for the enforcement of the Terms of Service only.
We do not set any cookies.
If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future, please let us know by notifying us at http://www.twcenter.net/forums/sendmessage.php or by deselecting the "receive mail" options in your User Control Panel.
If you supply us with your postal address on-line you will only receive the information for which you provided us your address. Your address details will not be stored for future reference, and will be deleted once requested information has been supplied.
To try and bring you offers that are of interest to you, we have relationships with other companies that we allow to place ads on our Web pages. As a result of your visit to our site, ad server companies may collect information such as your domain type, your IP address and clickstream information. For further information, consult the privacy policies of Google Ads.
Upon request we provide site visitors with access to all information [including proprietary information] that we maintain about them by paying a reasonable fee as determined by the site operator.
Visitors can have this information corrected or removed by visiting us at http://www.twcenter.net/forums/sendmessage.php.
We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site.
If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact or us using the following URL: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/sendmessage.php.
The Total War Center forums are in full compliance with terms of the United Kingdom's Data Protection Act 1998. This site is additionally in compliance with the terms of COPPA. In furtherance of this, those visitors under the age of 13, wishing to become registered members of the site must get permission from an appropriate parent or guardian, and provide proof of this by completing this form. Failure to comply will result in the removal of your account, and the deletion of any details held by us about you.
