Mount Moriah Cemetery:Privacy policy
Summary
If you only read Mount Moriah Cemetery pages, no more information is collected than is typically collected in server logs by web sites in general.
If you contribute to Mount Moriah Cemetery, you are publishing every word you post to this website. All pages require login to be viewed. If you write something, assume that it will be retained forever. This includes articles, user pages and talk pages. Some limited exceptions are described below.
Publishing on the Wiki and Public Data
Simply visiting the web site does not expose your identity publicly (but see private logging below).
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.
Living Persons
The records on Mount Moriah Cemetery are meant to form a historic record for the families concerned.
Please do not include private information about living individuals without specific permission from the individuals. Such information may allow identity theft.
The general consensus seems to be: include only the individual's names, keeping other items like birth dates off the page, or list only the year. Some people do not like even "public" information such as birth year on the Web.
Identification of an Author
In order to publish a page in this wiki, you must be logged in.
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.
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 Mount Moriah Cemetery'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 Mount Moriah Cemetery 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.
Cookies
The wiki will set a temporary session cookie 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.)
Passwords
Many aspects of Mount Moriah Cemetery community interactions depend on the reputation and respect that is built up through a history of valued contributions. User passwords are the only guarantee of the integrity of a user's edit history. All users are encouraged to select strong passwords and to never share them. No one shall knowingly expose the password of another user to public release either directly or indirectly.
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. It is not the intention of Mount Moriah Cemetery to use this information to keep track of legitimate users.
These logs are used to produce the site statistics pages; the raw log data is not made public, and is normally discarded after a short period of time.
Log data may be examined by developers in the course of solving technical problems and in tracking down badly-behaved web spiders that overwhelm the site. IP addresses of users, derived either from those logs or from records in the database are frequently used to correlate usernames and network addresses of edits in investigating abuse of the wiki, including the suspected use of malicious "sockpuppets" (duplicate accounts), vandalism, harassment of other users, or disruption of the wiki.
Policy on release of data derived from page logs
It is the policy of Mount Moriah Cemetery 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:
- In response to a valid subpoena or other compulsory request from law enforcement.
- With permission of the affected user
- When necessary for investigation of abuse complaints.
- Where the information pertains to page views generated by a spider or bot and its dissemination is necessary to illustrate or resolve technical issues.
- 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
- Where it is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of Mount Moriah Cemetery, its users or the public.
Mount Moriah Cemetery policy does not permit public distribution of such information under any circumstances, except as described above.
Sharing information with third parties
Except where otherwise specified, all text added to Mount Moriah Cemetery projects is available for registered users of the site.
Mount Moriah Cemetery will not sell or share private information, such as email addresses, with third parties, unless it is required by law to release the information.
Security of information
Mount Moriah Cemetery makes no guarantee against unauthorized access to any information you provide. This information may be available to anyone with access to the website. Access to the website is granted to authorized users only, and all users have to be approved by the website operator.
You must provide your e-mail address in your account request. Your email address is used for the following purposes:
- To enable Mount Moriah Cemetery to send you notifications when a page you are watching has been edited.
- To enable Mount Moriah Cemetery to send you a new password in case you forget it.
- To enable you to send email through Mount Moriah Cemetery to others; for example, to share links to pages or trees. Your email address will appear as the sender of the email.
- To enable other logged-in users to send email to you through Mount Moriah Cemetery. Your address will not be revealed to them unless you reply, or possibly if the email bounces.
- The email address may be used by Mount Moriah Cemetery to communicate with users on a wider scale. Specifically, you might receive a periodic newsletter about Mount Moriah Cemetery, which will include instructions for unsubscribing if you so desire. The newsletter is sent no more often than once a month.
As stated earlier, Mount Moriah Cemetery will not sell or share your email address with third parties unless it is required by law to release the information.
User Data
Data on users, such as the times at which they edited and the number of edits they have made are available to other users 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. Mount Moriah Cemetery does not guarantee that a name will be changed on request.
Deletion of Content
Removing text from Mount Moriah Cemetery 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.
This page is a derivative work of the Wikipedia Privacy policy page located at Wikipedia Privacy Policy and the WeRelate Privacy policy page at WeRelate Privacy Policy