Privacy and Data Collection

This wiki stores a small amount of personal data to function and to protect against spam. It also uses anonymized cookie-less tracking to see which pages are popular and the referrer. ## What we collect and why IP addresses are recorded for contributions, edits, comments etc. The country name, based on the last IP, is recorded for logged-in users. Server logs also store IPs temporarily. This is done to allow dealing with spam and security issues. Email addresses are collected only when you log in via OAuth2. Your email is used to identify your account and its contributed content. Passwords are not used, to avoid the responsibility of keeping them safe. If you delete your account, your email, chosen username, name and country will be removed after 90 days. Note that while emails are not visible publicly, however, the initial username is set from the first portion of your email address. Cookies are used only to keep you logged in and to store temporary draft edits to articles. No third-party or tracking cookies are set. The site does track visits but using self-hosted [matomo](https://matomo.org/) in cookie-less mode. Wiki content (edits, bio pages, and other contributions) is published under a Creative Commons license. See [licensing](/4/meta/contribute/#licensing). Contributions are part of the permanent record of the wiki and cannot be deleted, though your personal account information can be erased. ## Your rights You may mark your account for deletion [here](/profile/settings/). This immediately anonymizes your user displaying it as `[deleted]`. After 90 days your account username, email etc. will be erased. The account will remain, but detached from you by anonymization and with no way to re-link it. For questions or data requests, please leave a comment on this page.

This wiki stores a small amount of personal data to function and to protect against spam. It also uses anonymized cookie-less tracking to see which pages are popular and the referrer. ## What we collect and why IP addresses are recorded for contributions, edits, comments etc. The country name, based on the last IP, is recorded for logged-in users. Server logs also store IPs temporarily. This is done to allow dealing with spam and security issues. Email addresses are collected only when you log in via OAuth2. Your email is used to identify your account and its contributed content. Passwords are not used, to avoid the responsibility of keeping them safe. If you delete your account, your email, chosen username, name and country will be removed after 90 days. Note that while emails are not visible publicly, however, the initial username is set from the first portion of your email address. Cookies are used only to keep you logged in and to store temporary draft edits to articles. No third-party or tracking cookies are set. The site does track visits but using self-hosted [matomo](https://matomo.org/) in cookie-less mode. Wiki content (edits, bio pages, and other contributions) is published under a Creative Commons license. See [licensing](/4/meta/contribute/#licensing). Contributions are part of the permanent record of the wiki and cannot be deleted, though your personal account information can be erased. ## Your rights You may mark your account for deletion [here](/profile/settings/). This immediately anonymizes your user displaying it as `[deleted]`. After 90 days your account username, email etc. will be erased. The account will remain, but detached from you by anonymization and with no way to re-link it. For questions or data requests, please leave a comment on this page.