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Contents 1 Occultforums Wiki is a Public Collaboration 2 General expectations 2.1 Discussions 2.2 Our Disclaimer

Occultforums Wiki is a Public Collaboration

The projects and writings here at the Occultforums.org wiki are collaboratively created by the users that use this wiki software. Anyone who has internet access is welcome to create and edit articles here that relate to any subject in the occult. The pages may be edited by logged in users but the pages can also be edited by users that are not logged in. When the wiki users use the wiki software they are publishing an online document that is a public record of every word that is added, edited or changed. This is a public act, and editors are identified publicly as the author of such changes. All contributions made to a Project, and all publicly available information about those contributions, are irrevocably licensed and may be freely copied, quoted, reused and adapted by third parties with few restrictions.

General expectations

IP and other technical information

When a visitor requests or reads a page, or sends email to the Occultforums.org server, no more information is collected than is typically collected by web sites. The Occultforums.org server may keep raw logs of such transactions for the purpose of communication, but these will not be published or used to track legitimate users.

When a page is edited by a logged-in editor, the server confidentially stores related IP information for a limited period of time. This information is automatically deleted after a set period. For editors who do not log in, the IP address used is publicly and permanently credited as the author of the edit. It may be possible for a third party to identify the author from this IP address in conjunction with other information available. Logging in with a registered username allows for better preservation of privacy.

Cookies

The sites set a temporary session cookie on a visitor's computer whenever a page is visited. Readers who do not intend to log in or edit may deny this cookie; it will be deleted at the end of the browser's session. More cookies may be set when one logs in to maintain logged-in status. If one saves a user name or password in one's browser, that information will be saved for up to 30 days, and this information will be resent to the server on every visit to the same Project. Contributors using a public machine who do not wish to show their username to future users of the machine should clear these cookies after use.

Page history

Edits or other contributions to a page on its articles, user pages and talk pages are generally retained forever. Removing text from a project does not permanently delete it. Normally, in projects, anyone can look at a previous version of an article and see what was there. Even if an article is "deleted", a user entrusted with higher level of access may still see what was removed from public view. Information can be permanently deleted by individuals with access to Occultforums.org server, but aside from the rare circumstance when the Administration[1] is required to delete editing-history material in response to a court order or equivalent legal process, there is no guarantee any permanent deletion will happen.

Reading projects

No more information on users and other visitors reading pages is collected than is typically collected in server logs by web sites. Aside from the above raw log data collected for general purposes, page visits do not expose a visitor's identity publicly. Sampled raw log data may include the IP address of any user, but it is not reproduced publicly.

Editing projects

Edits to Project pages are identified with the username or network IP address of the editor, and editing history is aggregated by author in a contribution list. Such information will be available permanently.

Logged in registered users:

Logged in users do not expose their IP address to the public except in cases of abuse, including vandalism of a wiki page by the user or by another user with the same IP address. A user's IP address is stored on the wiki servers for a period of time, during which it can be seen by server administrators.

IP address information, and its connection to any usernames that share it, may be released under certain circumstances (see below).

Editors using a company mail server from home or telecommuting over a DSL or cable Internet connection, are likely to be easy to identify by their IP address; in which case it may be easy to cross-identify all contributions to various Projects made by that IP. Using a username is a better way of preserving privacy in this situation.

Unlogged-in registered users and unregistered users:

Please be aware that editors who have not logged in may be identified by network IP address. Depending on one's connection, this IP address may be traceable to a large Internet service provider or more specifically to a school, place of business or home. It may be possible to use this information in combination with other information, including editing style and preferences, to identify an author completely.

Discussions

On wiki discussion pages

Any editable page can theoretically be the location of a discussion. In general, discussions on Foundation projects occur on user talk pages (associated with particular users), on article talk pages (associated with particular articles) or at the occultforums.org forum. Privacy expectations apply to discussion pages in the same way as they do elsewhere.

Via email

Users are required to list an email address when registering. Users who provide a valid email address can enable other logged-in users to send email to them through the forums at occultforums.org. When receiving an email from other users through this system, one's private email address is not revealed to them.

On IRC

Our IRC channel is located at IRC.blitzed.org channel #OccultForums and information on how to connect to the occultforums.org channel is at this page: [2]

Our Disclaimer

The Occultforums.org Wiki believes that maintaining and preserving the privacy of user data is an important value. This Privacy Policy, represents a committed effort to safeguard the security of the limited user information that is collected and retained on our servers. Nevertheless, no website can guarantee that their user information will remain private. We acknowledge that, in spite of our committed effort to protect private user information, determined individuals may still develop data-mining and other methods to uncover such information and disclose it. For this reason, the Occultforums.org Wiki can make no guarantee against unauthorized access to information provided in the course of participating on or in Occultforums.org Wiki or it's related community.