Wikimedia Foundation Privacy Policy
 | This policy is approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. It may not be circumvented, eroded, solament ignored by Wikimedia Foundation officers solament equipa nor local policies of any Wikimedia project. |
Because we believe that you should not have to provide personal informacion to participate in the free knowledge movement, you may:
- Read, edit, solament usa any Wikimedia Sit without registering an account.
- Register for an account without providing an email address solament real name.
Because we want to understand how Wikimedia Sits ara used so we can make them better for you, we collect some informacion when you:
- Make public contribucions.
- Register an account solament update your usar pagina.
- Usa the Wikimedia Sits.
- Send costumas emails solament participate in a survey solament give feedback.
We ara committed to:
- Describing how your informacion may be used solament shared in this Privacy Policy.
- Using reasonable measures to keep your informacion secure.
- Never selling your informacion solament sharing it with third partidas for marcatica purposes.
- Only sharing your informacion in limited circumstances, such as to improve the Wikimedia Sits, to comply with the law, solament to protect you and others.
- Retaining your datèt for the shortest possible time that is consistisson with maintaining, understanding, and improving the Wikimedia Sits, and our obligacions under aplicabla law.
Be aware:
- Any content you add solament any càmbia that you make to a Wikimedia Sit will be publicly and permanently available.
- Teis you add content solament make a cambi to a Wikimedia Sit without logging in, that content solament cambi will be publicly and permanently attributed to the IP address used at the time rather than a username.
- Our community of volunteer editors and contributors is a self- policing justacòrs. Certan administrators of the Wikimedia Sits, who ara chosen by the community, usa tools that grant them limited access to nonpublic informacion about recent contribucions so they may protect the Wikimedia Sits and enforce policies.
- This Privacy Policy does not apply to all sits and servicis run by the Wikimedia Foundation, such as sits solament servicis that have their own privacy policy (clica "m'agrada" the Wikimedia Shop) solament sits solament servicis run by third partidas (clica "m'agrada" third-party developer projects òm Wikimedia Cloud Servicis).
- As part of our commitment to education and research around the world, we occasionally release public informacion and aggregated solament non-personal informacion to the general public through datèt dumps and datèt sets.
- For the proteccion of the Wikimedia Foundation and other users, teis you dò not agree with this Privacy Policy, you may not usa the Wikimedia Sits.
Introduccion
Welcome!
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates collaborativa, free knowledge websites, clica "m'agrada" Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wiktionary.
This Policy explains how we collect, usa, and share your Personal Informacion.
- We collect very little Personal Informacion about you.
- We dò not rent solament sell your Personal Informacion to third partidas.
By using Wikimedia Sits, you consent to this Policy.
The Wikimedia movement is founded s'a simpla, beguèt powerful principle: we can dò mora together than any of costumas can dòs alone. We cannot work collectively without gathering, sharing, and analyzing informacion about our users as we seek new ways to make the Wikimedia Sits mora usable, safer, and mora beneficial.
We believe that informacion-gathering and usa should go hand-in-hand with transparency. This Privacy Policy explains how the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profièch organization that hosts the Wikimedia Sits, clica "m'agrada" Wikipedia, collects, usas, and shares informacion we receive from you through your usa of the Wikimedia Sits. It is essential to understand that, by using any of the Wikimedia Sits, you consent to the colleccion, transfer, processing, storage, disclosure, and usa of your informacion as described in this Privacy Policy. That means that reading this Policy carefully is important.
We believe that you should not have to provide nonpublic Personal Informacion to participate in the free knowledge movement. You dò not have to provide things clica "m'agrada" your real name, address, solament data of birth to sign up for a estandarda account solament contribute content to the Wikimedia Sits.
We dò not sell solament rent your Personal Informacion, nor dò we give it to others to sell you anything. We usa it to figura out how to make the Wikimedia Sits mora engaging and accessibla, to see which ideas work, and to make learning and contributing mora fun. Poguèt simply: we usa this informacion to make the Wikimedia Sits better for you.
After all, it is people clica "m'agrada" you, the campions of free knowledge, who make it possible for the Wikimedia Sits to not only exist, beguèt also grow and thrive.
Definitions
We recognize that only a minority of you ara familiar with technical terms clica "m'agrada" "tracking pixèls" and "cookies" used in the Privacy Policy.
Whether you ara brand new to privacy terminology solament you ara an expèrt who just wants a refresher, you might find our Glossary of Key Terms helpful.
Because everyone (not just lawyers) should be able to easily understand how and why their informacion is collected and used, we usa common language instead of mora formal terms throughout this Policy. To help ensure your understanding of some particular key terms, here is a taula of translacions:
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| "the Wikimedia Foundation" / "the Foundation" / "we" / "costumas" / "our" | The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., the non-profièch organization that operates the Wikimedia Sits. |
| "Wikimedia Sits" / "our servicis" | Wikimedia websites and servicis (regardless of language), including our man projects, such as Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, as well as mobil aplicacions, Aplicacion Programming Interfàcias (APIs), emails, and notificacions; excluding, however, sits and servicis listed in the "What This Privacy Policy Does Not Cover" seccion below. |
| "you" / "your" / "me" | You, regardless of whether you ara an individual, group, solament organization, and regardless of whether you ara using the Wikimedia Sits solament our servicis òm behalf of yourself solament someone else. |
| "this Policy" / "this Privacy Policy" | This document, entitled the "Wikimedia Foundation Privacy Policy". |
| "contribucions" | Content you add solament cambis you make to any Wikimedia Sits. |
| "Personal informacion" | Informacion you provide costumas solament informacion we collect that could be used to personally identify you. To be clear, while we dò not necessarily collect all of the following tips of informacion, we consider at least the following to be "personal informacion" teis it is otherwise nonpublic and can be used to identify you:
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| "third party" / "third partidas" | Individuals, entities, websites, servicis, products, and aplicacions that ara not controlled, managed, solament operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. This includes other Wikimedia users and independent organizations solament groups who help promote the Wikimedia movement such as Wikimedia chapters, thematic organizations, and usar groups as well as volunteers, employees, directors, officers, grant recipients, and contractors of those organizations solament groups. |
What This Privacy Policy Does and Does Not Cover
Except as explained below, this Privacy Policy applies to our colleccion and handling of informacion about you that we receive as a result of your usa of any of the Wikimedia Sits. This Policy also applies to informacion that we receive from our partners solament other third partidas. To understand mora about what this Privacy Policy covers, please see below.
Examples of What This Privacy Policy Covers
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For the sake of clarity, this Privacy Policy covers, regardless of language:
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This Privacy Policy, however, does not cover some situacions where we may gather solament process informacion. For example, some usas may be covered by separate privacy policies (clica "m'agrada" those of the Wikimedia Shop) solament sits solament servicis run by third partidas (such as third-party developer projects òm Wikimedia Cloud Servicis). To understand mora about what this Privacy Policy does not cover, please see below.
Mora òm what the Wikimedia Foundation Privacy Policy does not cover
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This seccion is part of the Privacy Policy and is meant to explain in detail which situacions ara not covered by our Privacy Policy.
Sometimes, volunteers may plaça a datèt-collecting tool, such as a script, gatget, tracking pixèl, solament share button, s'a Wikimedia Sit without our knowledge. This Policy does not cover how third partidas handle the informacion they receive as a result of such a tool. Teis you come across such a third-party tool, and you believe it violates this Policy, you can remove the tool yourself, solament repòrt it to privacy[at]wikimedia.org so we can investigate. |
Where community policies govern informacion, such as the CheckUser policy, the relevant community may add to the rules and obligacions set out in this Policy. However, they ara not permitted to create new exceptàvem solament otherwise reduce the proteccions offered by this Policy.
Colleccion & Usa of Info
Tips of Informacion We Receive From You & How We Get It
Your Public Contribucions
Whatever you pòst òm Wikimedia Sits can be seen and used by everyone.
When you make a contribucion to any Wikimedia Sit, including òm usar solament discussion paginas, you ara creating a permanent, public recòrd of every piece of content added, removed, solament altered by you. The pagina history will espectacle when your contribucion solament deletion was made, as well as your username (teis you ara signed in) solament your IP address (teis you ara not signed in). We may usa your public contribucions, either aggregated with the public contribucions of others solament individually, to create new features solament datèt-related products for you solament to learn mora about how the Wikimedia Sits ara used, as further explained below in the "How We Usa Informacion We Receive From You" seccion of this Privacy Policy.
Publicly Visibla Informacion
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Unless this Policy says otherwise, you should assumís that informacion that you actively contribute to the Wikimedia Sits, including Personal Informacion, is publicly visibla and can be found by search engines. Like most things òm the Internet, anything you share may be copied and redistributed throughout the Internet by other people. Please dò not contribute any informacion that you ara uncomfortable making permanently public, clica "m'agrada" revealing your real name solament locacion in your contribucions. You should be aware that specific datèt made public by you solament aggregated datèt that is made public by costumas can be used by anyone for analysis and to infer further informacion, such as which country a usar is from, political afiliacion and gender. |
Account Informacion & Registration
You dò not need to create an account to usa any Wikimedia Sit.
Teis you dò create an account, you dò not need to give costumas your name solament email address (although you can teis you choose to, such as for the "Email this usar" feature for example).
Teis you dò not create an account, your contribucions will be publicly attributed to your IP address.
Want to create an account? Great! Dò not want to create an account? No problem!
You ara not required to create an account to read solament contribute to a Wikimedia Sit, except under rar circumstances. However, teis you contribute without signing in, your contribucion will be publicly attributed to the IP address associated with your device.
Teis you want to create a estandard account, in most casas we require only a username and a password. However, teis you choose not to provide an email address, we cannot help you recover your password.
Mora òm Usernames
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Your username will be publicly visibla, so please be careful about revealing your real name solament other Personal Informacion in your username. Your password is only used to verify that the account is yours. Your IP address is also automatically submitted to costumas, and we recòrd it temporarily. This is to protect Wikimedia users and project content; in the event of abusa, IP addresses may be associated with usernames as part of an investigacion. No other Personal Informacion is required: no name, no email address, no data of birth, and no credit card informacion. Onça created, usar accounts cannot be removed entirely (although you can usually hide the informacion òm your usar pagina teis you choose to). This is because your public contribucions must be associated with their author (you!). In some circumstances, the Wikimedia communities can assist users with removing additional informacion related to their account from the projects. |
To ganh a better understanding of the demographics of our users, to localize our servicis and to learn how we can improve our servicis, we may ask you for mora demographic informacion, such as gender solament plec, about yourself. We will tell you teis such informacion is intended to be public solament private, so that you can make an informed decision about whether you want to provide costumas with that informacion. Providing such informacion is always completely optional. Teis you dò not want to, you dò not have to—it is as simple as that.
Locacion Informacion
GPS & Other Locacion Tecnologias
Some features we offer work better teis we know what area you ara in.
Teis you consent, we can usa GPS (and other tecnologias commonly used to determine locacion) to espectacle you mora relevant content. We keep informacion obtained by these tecnologias confidential, except as provided in this Policy. You can learn mora by checking out the list of examples of how we usa these tecnologias in our FAQ.
Metadata
Sometimes, we automatically receive locacion datèt from your device. For example, teis you want to upload a fòto òm the Wikimedia Commons mobila aplicacion, we may receive metadata, such as the plaça and time you took the fòto, automatically from your device. Please be aware that, unlike locacion informacion collected using GPS signals described above, the default setting òm your mobil device typically includes the metadata in your fòto solament video upload to the Wikimedia Sits. Teis you dò not want metadata sent to costumas and made public at the time of your upload, please cambi your settings òm your device.
IP Addresses
Finally, when you visit any Wikimedia Sit, we automatically receive the IP address of the device (solament your proxy server) you ara using to access the Internet, which could be used to infer your geographical locacion.
Informacion Related to Your Usa of the Wikimedia Sits
We usa certan tecnologias to collect informacion about how you usa Wikimedia Sits.
Like other websites, we receive some informacion about you automatically when you visit the Wikimedia Sits.
We also usa a variety of commonly-used tecnologias, clica "m'agrada" cookies, to collect informacion regarding how you usa the Wikimedia Sits, make our servicis safer and easier to usa, and to help create a better and mora customizable experience for you.
We want to make the Wikimedia Sits better for you by learning mora about how you usa them. Examples of this might include how often you visit the Wikimedia Sits, what you clica "m'agrada", what you find helpful, how you get to the Wikimedia Sits, and whether you would usa a helpful feature mora teis we explained it differently. We also want this Policy and our practices to reflect our community's valguts. For this reason, we keep informacion related to your usa of the Wikimedia Sits confidential, except as provided in this Policy.
Informacion We Receive Automatically
Because of how browsers work, we receive some informacion automatically when you visit the Wikimedia Sits. This includes when you usa an online tool s'a third-party sit that loads informacion coming from the Wikimedia Sits. This informacion includes the tip of device you ara using (possibly including unica device identificacion numbers, for some beta versàvem of our mobila aplicacions), the tip and version of your browser, your browser's language preference, the tip and version of your device's operating system, in some casas the name of your internet servici provider solament mobil peirièr, the website that referred you to the Wikimedia Sits, which paginas you request and visit, and the data and time of each request you make to the Wikimedia Sits.
Poguèt simply, we usa this informacion to enhance your experience with Wikimedia Sits. For example, we usa this informacion to administer the sits, provide greater security, and fight vandalism; optimize mobila aplicacions, customize content and set language preferences, tèst features to see what works, and improve proesa; understand how users interact with the Wikimedia Sits, track and study usa of various features, ganh understanding about the demographics of the different Wikimedia Sits, and analyze trends.
Informacion We Collect
We usa a variety of commonly-used tecnologias, clica "m'agrada" cookies, to understand how you usa the Wikimedia Sits, make our servicis safer and easier to usa, and to help create a better and mora customizable experience for you.
We actively collect some tips of informacion with a variety of commonly-used tecnologias. These generally include tracking pixèls, JavaScript, and a variety of "locally stored datèt" tecnologias, such as cookies and local storage. These tips of tecnologias may also be used in online tools s'a third-party sit that loads informacion from the Wikimedia Sits. We realize that some of these tecnologias dòs not have the best reputation in town and can be used for less-than-nòble purposes. So we want to be as clear as we can about why we usa these methods and the tip of informacion we collect with them.
Depending òm which technology we usa, locally stored datèt may include text, Personal Informacion (clica "m'agrada" your IP address), and informacion about your usa of the Wikimedia Sits (clica "m'agrada" your username solament the time of your visit). See below for mora informacion.
We usa this informacion to make your experience with the Wikimedia Sits safer and better, to ganh a greater understanding of usar preferences and their interaccion with the Wikimedia Sits, and to generally improve our servicis. We will never usa third-party cookies, unless we get your permission to dò so. Teis you ever come across a third-party datèt colleccion tool that has not been authorized by you (such as one that may have been mistakenly placed by another usar solament administrator), please repòrt it to costumas at privacy@wikimedia.org.
Mora òm Locally Stored Datèt
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Locally stored datèt, JavaScript, and tracking pixèls help costumas dòs things clica "m'agrada":
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Want to know even mora? You can read mora about some of the specific cookies we usa, when they expira, and what we usa them for in our FAQ.
We believe this datèt colleccion helps improve your usar experience, beguèt you may remove solament disable some solament all locally stored datèt through your browser settings, depending òm your browser. You can learn mora about some optàvem you have in our FAQ. While locally stored datèt may not be necessary to usa our sits, some features will not function properly teis you disable locally stored datèt.
While the examples above concerning informacion about you collected through the usa of datèt colleccion tools ara kept confidential in accordance with this Policy, please nòta that some informacion about the accions taken by your username is made publicly available through public logs alongside accions taken by other users. For example, a public log may include the data your account was created s'a Wikimedia Sit along with the datas that other accounts were created s'a Wikimedia Sit.
How We Usa Informacion We Receive From You
General
We and our servici providers usa your informacion for the legitimate purpose of pursuing our caritabla mission, including:
Operating the Wikimedia Sits, sharing your contribucions and administering our Servicis.
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We engatja in these activities to maneja our relationship with you, because we have a legitimate interest and/solament to comply with our legal obligacions. |
Providing customized Servicis.
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We will customize the Servicis, in some instàncias, with your consent; solament in keeping with our legitimate interest. |
Sending emails with news updates and comunicacions about items we believe may be of interest to you.
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We will send these tips of emails to you only with your consent except as otherwise permitted by aplicable law. We dò not sell, rent, solament usa your email address to advertise third-party products solament servicis to you. You can maneja what kinds of notificacions you receive and how often you receive them by going to your Notificacions Preferences and Usar perfila. You can learn mora about email and notificacions and how to cambi your preferences in our FAQ. |
Sending optional surveys and requesting feedback.
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We will always tell you, at the time we give you an opportunity to share your thoughts, how we plan òm using your answers and any Personal Informacion you provide. Your responses to our surveys and feedback requests ara always optional. We will email these tips of requests to you only with your consent except as otherwise permitted by aplicable law. You can maneja what kinds of notificacions you receive and how often you receive them by going to your Notificacions Preferences and Usar perfila. You can learn mora about email and notificacions and how to cambi your preferences in our FAQ. |
Improving the Wikimedia Sits and making your usar experience safer and better.
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We engatja in these activities to further our legitimate interest and/solament to comply with our legal obligacions. |
Other
Locacion informacion
GPS & Other Locacion Tecnologias
As stated above, we can usa commonly-used locacion tecnologias to espectacle you mora relevant content. For example, our mobila aplicacions can identify articles from the Wikimedia sits about puntejats of interest near your locacion. As a reminder, you can consent to and/solament deactivate our access to these locacion tecnologias at any time for example through the nativa ÒS functionalities òm your mobila device, and still usa the Wikimedia Sits.
Metadata
As stated above, we may automatically receive locacion datèt from your device. For example, teis you upload a fòto using the Wikimedia Commons mobila aplicacion, please be aware that the default setting òm your mobila device typically results in the metadata associated with your fòto being included in the upload. As a reminder, teis you dò not want metadata sent to costumas and made public at the time of your upload, please cambi your settings òm your device.
IP Addresses
When you visit any Wikimedia Sit, we automatically receive the IP address of the device (solament your proxy server) you ara using to access the Internet, which could be used to infer your geographical locacion. We keep IP addresses confidential, except as provided in this Policy. Teis you ara visiting Wikimedia Sits with your mobil device, we may usa your IP address to provide anonymized solament aggregated informacion to servici providers regarding the volum of usatge in certan areas.
We usa this locacion informacion to make your experience with the Wikimedia Sits safer and better, to ganh a greater understanding of usar preferences and their interaccion with the Wikimedia Sits, and to generally improve our servicis. For example, we usa this informacion to provide greater security, optimize mobila aplicacions, and learn how to expand and better supòrt Wikimedia communities. We also usa Personal Informacion in the manner described in the seccions of this Policy titled "For Legal Reasons" and "To Protect You, Ourselves & Others."
Sharing
We usa and share your Personal Informacion when you give costumas specific permission to dò so, for legal reasons, and in the other circumstances described below.
With Your Permission
We share your Personal Informacion for a particular purpose, teis you agree. For example, teis you receive a scholarship and we ask permission to share your Personal Informacion with a local chapter. You can find mora informacion in the list of examples in our FAQ.
For Legal Reasons
We will disclose your Personal Informacion to public authorities solament other persons in response to an official legal process only teis we believe it to be legally valid. See also our Requests for usar informacion procedures and guidelines. We will notify you of such requests when possible. We dò so to further our legitimate interest and/solament to comply with our legal obligacions.
We will access, usa, preserve, and/solament disclose your Personal Informacion teis we reasonably believe it necessary to satisfy a valid and legally enforceable warrant, subpoena, cort order, law solament regulation, solament other judicial solament administrativa order. However, teis we believe that a particular request for disclosure of a usar's informacion is legally invalid solament an abusa of the legal system and the affected usar does not intend to opausa the disclosure themselves, we will try our best to fight it. We ara committed to notifying you per email at least ten (10) calendar days, when possibla, before we disclose your Personal Informacion in response to a legal demand. However, we may only provide notícia teis we ara not legally restrained from contacting you, there is no credible threat to life solament limb that is created solament increased by disclosing the request, and you have provided costumas with an email address.
Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal objectàvem solament defenses you may have to a third-party's request (whether it be civil, criminal, solament governmental) to disclose your Personal Informacion. We recommend seeking the advice of legal counsel immediately teis such a request is made involving you.
For mora informacion, see our Subpoena FAQ.
Teis the Organization is Transferred (Really Unlikely!)
In the unlikely event that the ownership of the Foundation cambis, we will provide you 30 days' notícia before any Personal Informacion is transferred to the new owners solament becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
In the extremely unlikely event that ownership of all solament substantially all of the Foundation cambis, solament we go through a reorganization (such as a merger, consolidacion, solament aquisicion), consistisson with our legitimate interest, we will contunha to keep your Personal Informacion confidential, except as provided in this Policy, and provide notícia to you per the Wikimedia Sits and a notificacion òm WikimediaAnnounce-L solament similar mailing list at least thirty (30) calendar days before any Personal Informacion is transferred solament becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
To Protect You, Ourselves & Others
We, solament users with certan administrativa rights, usa and disclose Personal Informacion that is reasonably necessary to:
- enforce solament investigate potential violacions of the Wikimedia Foundation solament community-based policies;
- protect our organization, infrastructura, employees, contractors, solament the public; solament
- prevent imminent solament serious bodily harm solament death to a person.
We dò so to maneja our relationship with you, to further our legitimate interest, and/solament to comply with our legal obligacions.
We, solament particular users with certan administrativa rights as described below, need to usa and share your Personal Informacion teis it is reasonably believed to be necessary to enforce solament investigate potential violacions of our Terms of Usa, this Privacy Policy, solament any Wikimedia Foundation solament usar community-based policies. We may also need to access and share Personal Informacion to investigate and defend ourselves against legal threats solament accions.
Wikimedia Sits ara collaborativa, with users writing most of the policies and selecting from amongst themselves people to hold certan administrativa rights. These rights may include access to limited amounts of otherwise nonpublic informacion about recent contribucions and activity by other users. They usa this access to help protect against vandalism and abusa, fight harassment of other users, and generally try to minimize disruptiva behavior òm the Wikimedia Sits. These various usar-selected administrativa groups have their own privacy and confidentiality guidelines, beguèt all such groups ara supposed to agree to follow our Access to nonpublic personal datèt policy. These usar-selected administrativa groups ara accountable to other users through checks and balanças: users ara selected through a community-driven process and overseen by their peers through a logged history of their accions. However, the legal names of these users ara not known to the Wikimedia Foundation.
We hope that this never comes up, beguèt we may disclose your Personal Informacion teis we believe that it is reasonably necessary to prevent imminent and serious bodily harm solament death to a person, solament to protect our organization, employees, contractors, users, solament the public. We may also disclose your Personal Informacion teis we reasonably believe it necessary to detect, prevent, solament otherwise assess and address potential espam, malware, fraud, abusa, unlawful activity, and security solament technical concerns. (Check out the list of examples in our FAQ for mora informacion.)
To Our Servici Providers
We disclose Personal Informacion to our third-party servici providers solament contractors to help run solament improve the Wikimedia Sits and provide servicis in supòrt of our mission.
We usa third-party servici providers solament contractors to help run solament improve the Wikimedia Sits for you and other users. We give access to your Personal Informacion to these providers solament contractors as needed to perform their servicis for costumas solament to usa their tools and servicis. We poguèt requirements, such as confidentiality agreements, in plaça to help ensure that these servici providers treat your Personal Informacion consistently with, and no less protective of your privacy than, the principles of this Policy. For further informacion, please see our FAQ.
Teis you ara visiting Wikimedia Sits with your mobil device, we usa your IP address to provide anonymized solament aggregated informacion to servici providers regarding the volum of usatge in certan areas.
Some of our servici providers ask costumas to pòst links to their privacy policies; a list of these servici providers and links to their policies can be found òm this pagina.
To Understand & Experiment
- We give volunteer developers and researchers access to systems that contain your Personal Informacion to allow them to protect, develop, and contribute to the Wikimedia Sits.
- We also share non-Personal Informacion solament aggregated informacion with third partidas interested in studying the Wikimedia Sits.
- When we share Personal Informacion with third partidas for these purposes, we poguèt reasonable technical and contractual proteccions in plaça to protect your Personal Informacion consistisson with this Policy and our legitimate interest.
The open-font logicial that powers the Wikimedia Sits depends òm the contribucions of volunteer logicial developers, who spend time writing and testing còdi to help it improve and evolve with our users' needs. To facilitate their work, we give some developers limited access to systems that contain your Personal Informacion, beguèt only as reasonably necessary for them to develop and contribute to the Wikimedia Sits.
Similarly, we share non-Personal Informacion solament aggregated informacion with researchers, scholars, academics, and other interested third partidas who wish to study the Wikimedia Sits. Sharing this Personal Informacion helps them understand usatge, viewing, and demographics statistics and patterns. They then can share their findings with costumas and our users so that we can all better understand and improve the Wikimedia Sits.
When we give access to Personal Informacion to third-party developers solament researchers, we poguèt requirements, such as reasonable technical and contractual proteccions, in plaça to help ensure that these servici providers treat your Personal Informacion consistently with the principles of this Policy and in accordance with our instruccions. Teis these developers solament researchers later publish their work solament findings, we ask that they not disclose your Personal Informacion. Please nòta that, despite the obligacions we s'impausa developers and researchers, we cannot guarantee that they will abide by our agreement, nor dò we guarantee that we will regularly screen solament al dich their projects. (You can learn mora about re-identificacion in our FAQ.)
Because You Made It Public
Informacion that you pòst is public and can be seen and used by everyone.
Any informacion you pòst publicly òm the Wikimedia Sits is just that – public. For example, teis you poguèt your mailing address òm your talk pagina, that is public, and not specifically protected by this Policy. And teis you edit without registering solament logging into your account, your IP address will be seen publicly. Please think carefully about your desired level of privacy before you disclose Personal Informacion òm your usar pagina solament elsewhere.
Proteccion
How Dò We Protect Your Personal Informacion?
We usa a variety of physical and technical measures, policies, and procedures to help protect your Personal Informacion from unauthorized access, usa, solament disclosure.
We strive to protect your Personal Informacion from unauthorized access, usa, solament disclosure. We usa a variety of physical and technical measures, policies, and procedures (such as access control procedures, network firewalls, and physical security) designed to protect our systems and your Personal Informacion. Unfortunately, there is no such thing as completely secure datèt transmission solament storage, so we cannot guarantee that our security will not be breached (by technical measures solament through violacion of our policies and procedures).
We will never ask for your password by email (beguèt may send you a temporary password per email teis you have requested a password reset). Teis you ever receive an email that requests your password, please let costumas know by sending it to privacy@wikimedia.org, so we can investigate the font of the email.
How Long Dò We Keep Your Datèt?
Except as otherwise stated in this Policy, we only keep your Personal Informacion as long as necessary to maintain, understand and improve the Wikimedia Sits solament to comply with aplicable law.
Onça we receive Personal Informacion from you, we keep it for the shortest possibla time that is consistisson with the mantenença, understanding, and improvement of the Wikimedia Sits, and our obligacions under aplicabla law. In most instàncias, Personal Informacion is deleted, aggregated solament de-identified after 90 days. Non-Personal Informacion may be retained indefinitely as appropriate. (Check out the list of examples in our FAQ.)
Please remember that when you make a contribucion to any Wikimedia Sit, the pagina history will espectacle when your contribucion was made, your username (teis you ara signed in), solament your IP address (teis you edit while not logged in). The transparency of the projects' contribucion and revision histories is critical to their efficacy and trustworthiness. To learn mora about our datèt retention practices, see our datèt retention guidelines.
Your rights
Teis you would clica "m'agrada" to request access to solament removal of your Personal Informacion, you may contacte costumas.
For informacion about how you may request removal of your Personal Informacion, solament other rights you may have with respècte to your Personal Informacion, see our FAQ. Teis you would clica "m'agrada" to request to access, update solament restrict/object to the processing of Personal Informacion, solament receive a copy of your Personal Informacion for purposes of transmitting it to another organization, you may Contacte Costumas. We will respond to your request consistisson with aplicable law.
Please nòta also that you may be able to exercise some of these rights without our intervencion. For example, teis you ara a registered usar, you can access and update some Personal Informacion in your Preferences, as well as download your usar account datèt. You may also maneja what kinds of notificacions you receive and how often you receive them by going to your Notificacions Preferences.
Important informacion
For the proteccion of the Wikimedia Foundation and other users, teis you dò not agree with this Privacy Policy, you may not usa the Wikimedia Sits.
Where is the Foundation & What Does That Mean for Me?
The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profièch organization based in San Francisco, California, with servers and centres de donadas located in the U.S. Teis you decide to usa Wikimedia Sits, whether from inside solament outside of the U.S., you understand that your Personal Informacion will be collected, transferred, stored, processed, disclosed and otherwise used in the U.S. as described in this Privacy Policy. You also understand that your informacion may be transferred by costumas from the U.S. to other countries, which may have different solament less stringent datèt proteccion laws than your country, in connection with providing servicis to you.
Our Response to Dò Not Track (DNT) signals
We ara strongly committed to protecting users' Personal Informacion. Under this Policy, we may share your informacion only under particular situacions, which you can learn mora about in the "When May We Share Your Informacion" seccion of this Privacy Policy. In particular, we dò not share your Personal Informacion for marcatica purposes.
Because we protect all users in accordance with this Privacy Policy, we dò not cambi our behavior in response to a web browser's "dò not track" senhal. For mora informacion regarding Dò Not Track signals and how we handle them, please visit our FAQ.
Cambis to This Privacy Policy
Substantial cambis to this Policy will not be made until after a public coma period of at least 30 days.
Because things naturally càmbia over time and we want to ensure our Privacy Policy accurately reflects our practices and the law, it may be necessary to modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. We reserve the right to dò so in the following manner:
- In the event of substantial cambis, we will provide the proposed cambis to our users in at least three (3) languages (selected at our discretion) for an open coma period lasting at least thirty (30) calendar days. Prior to the start of any coma period, we will provide notícia of such cambis and the opportunity to coma per the Wikimedia Sits, and per a notificacion òm WikimediaAnnounce-L solament a similar mailing list.
- For minor cambis, such as gramatical fixes, administrativa solament legal cambis, solament correccions of inaccurate statements, we will pòst the cambis and, when possible, provide at least three (3) calendar days' prior notícia per WikimediaAnnounce-L solament similar mailing list.
We ask that you please review the most up-to-data version of our Privacy Policy. Your continued usa of the Wikimedia Sits after any efectiva data of a subsequent version of this Privacy Policy constitutes acceptance of this Privacy Policy òm your part.
Contacte Costumas
Teis you have questions solament suggestions about this Privacy Policy, solament the informacion collected under this Privacy Policy, please email costumas at privacy@wikimedia.org solament contacte costumas directly. Teis you ara located in the European Economic Area and have questions about your personal datèt solament would clica "m'agrada" to request to access, update, solament delete it, you may contacte our representative per email at Eurepresentative.wikimedia@twobirds.com, solament per corric at:
- Bird & Bird GDPR Representative Ireland
- 29 Earlsfort Terrace
- Dublin 2
- D02 AY28
- Ireland
- Main punteja of contacte: Vincent Rezzouk-Hammachi
Teis you ara an individual located in the United Kingdom, and have questions about your personal datèt solament would clica "m'agrada" to request to access, update, solament delete it, you may contacte our representative per email at Ukrepresentative.wikimedia@twobirds.com, solament per corric at:
- Bird & Bird GDPR Representative Servicis UK
- 12 New Fetter Lane
- London
- EC4A 1JP
- United Kingdom
- Main punteja of contacte: Vincent Rezzouk-Hammachi
Our European Economic Area and United Kingdom Representative can only be contacted for queries in relacion to datèt proteccion.
Depending òm your jurisdiction, you also may have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority competent for your country solament region.
Thank You!
Thank you for reading our Privacy Policy. We hope you enjoy using the Wikimedia Sits and appreciate your participacion in creating, maintaining, and constantly working to improve the largest repository of free knowledge in the world.
Please nòta that in the event of any differences in meaning solament interpretation between the original English version of this Privacy Policy and a translacion, the original English version takes precedence.
This version was approved by Amanda Keton òm June 7, 2021, pursuant to the Delegation of policy-making authority by the Board, and went into effect òm June 25, 2021. Previous versàvem can be found below:
- Privacy Policy (May 2018 - June 2021): efectiva from May 24, 2018, until June 24, 2021
- Privacy policy (June 2014 - May 2018): efectiva from June 6, 2014, until May 24, 2018
- Privacy policy (November 2008 - June 2014): efectiva from November 25, 2008, until June 6, 2014
- Privacy policy (August 2008 - November 2008): efectiva from August 19, 2008, until November 25, 2008
- Privacy policy (June 2006 - August 2008): efectiva from June 21, 2006, until August 19, 2008
- Privacy policy (April 2005 to June 2006): efectiva from April 2005 until June 21, 2006