Netmon:Privacy policy

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Contents Summary Identification of an author Cookies Private logging Policy on release of data derived from page logs Security of information

Summary

If you only read the Netmon documentation wiki, no more information is collected than is typically collected in server logs by web sites in general.

If you contribute to the discussion, you are publishing every word you post publicly. If you write something, assume that it will be retained forever.

Simply visiting the web site does not expose your identity publicly (but see private logging below).

Identification of an author

When you make comments in the discussion pages, 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.

Cookies

The wiki will set a temporary session cookie (PHPSESSID) whenever you visit the site. It will be deleted when you close your browser session.

Private logging

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.

Here's a sample of what's logged for one page view:

64.164.82.142 - - [21/Oct/2003:02:03:19 +0000]
"GET /wiki/draft_privacy_policy HTTP/1.1" 200 18084
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_projects:Village_pump"
"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/85.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/85.5"

Log data may be examined by developers in the course of solving technical problems.

Policy on release of data derived from page logs

It is the policy of Wikimedia that personally identifiable data collected in the server logs, or through records in the database via the CheckUser feature, may be released by the system administrators or users with CheckUser access, in the following situations:

1. In response to a valid subpoena or other compulsory request from law enforcement
2. With permission of the affected user
3. Where the information's dissemination is necessary to illustrate or resolve technical issues.

Security of information

Netmon makes no guarantee against unauthorized access to any information you provide. This information may be available to anyone with access to the servers.