Mississippi Wiki:Privacy policy
From Mississippi Wiki
This is the web site of Mississippi Wiki which is operated by its owner Maris, West & Baker.
Our postal address is:
Maris, West & Baker
18 Northtown Drive
Jackson, MS 39211
We can be reached via e-mail at wiki (at) mwb.com (replace "at" with @) or you can reach us by telephone at 601-977-9200.
For each visitor to our Web page, our Web server automatically recognizes no more information is collected than is typically collected in server logs by web sites in general.
We collect only the domain name, but not the e-mail address of visitors to our web site, the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail, aggregate information on what pages consumers access or visit, information volunteered by the consumer, such as content on a user page and/or site registrations.
When you edit any page in the wiki, you are publishing a document. This is a public act, and you are identified publicly with that edit as its author.
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Identification of an author
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 Mississippi Wiki'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.
With respect to Ad Servers: To try and bring you offers that are of interest to you, we have relationships with Google which allows them to place ads on our Web pages. As a result of your visit to our site, Google may collect information such as your domain type, your IP address and clickstream information. For further information, consult the privacy policies of Google at www.google.com
Cookies
The wiki will set a temporary session cookie (PHPSESSID) whenever you visit the site. If you do not intend to ever log in, you may deny this cookie, but you cannot log in without it. It will be deleted when you close your browser session.
More cookies may be set when you log in, to avoid typing in your user name (or optionally password) on your next visit. These last up to 30 days. You may clear these cookies after use if you are using a public machine and don't wish to expose your username to future users of the machine. (If so, clear the browser cache as well.)
Policy on release of data derived from page logs
It is the policy of Mississippi Wiki 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 pertains to page views generated by a spider or bot and its dissemination is necessary to illustrate or resolve technical issues. 4. Where the user has been vandalising articles or persistently behaving in a disruptive way, data may be released to assist in the targeting of IP blocks, or to assist in the formulation of a complaint to relevant Internet Service Providers 5. Where it is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of the the web site, its operators, its users, or the public.
Security of information
Mississippi Wiki and its operator Maris, West & Baker make no guarantee against unauthorized access to any information you provide. This information may be available to anyone with access to the servers.
E-mail, mailing lists and IRC
You may provide your e-mail address in your Preferences and enable other logged-in users to send email to you through the wiki. Your address will not be revealed to them unless you respond, or possibly if the email bounces. The email address may be used by the Mississippi Wiki to communicate with users on a wider scale.
If you do not provide an email address, you will not be able to reset your password if you forget it. However, you may contact one of the our server administrators to enter a new mail address in your preferences.
You can remove your email address from your preferences at any time to prevent it being used.
Mailing lists
If you subscribe to a project mailing lists, your address will be exposed to any other subscriber. The list archives of most of Mississippi Wiki's mailing lists are public, and your address may find itself quoted in messages.
IRC
IRC channels are not officially part of Wikimedia proper. By participating in an IRC channel, your IP address may be exposed to other participants. Different channels have different policies on whether logs may be published.
User data
Data on users, such as the times at which they edited and the number of edits they have made are publicly available via "user contributions" lists, and in aggregated forms published by other users.
Removal of user accounts
Once created, user accounts will not be removed. It may be possible for a username to be changed (depending on the policies of your local wiki). Mississippi Wiki does not guarantee that a name will be changed on request.
Wheth 1d3f er specific user information is deleted is dependent on the deletion policies of the project that contains the information.
Deletion of content
Removing text from Mississippi Wiki pages does not permanently delete it. In normal articles, anyone can look at a previous version and see what was there. If an article is "deleted", any user with "administrator" access on the wiki, meaning almost anyone trusted not to abuse the deletion capability, can see what was deleted. Information can be permanently deleted by those people with access to the servers, but there is no guarantee this will happen except in response to legal action.
If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at the above addresses or phone number.
