The content of this page is proposed to become official policy approved by the [[Akvo Foundation]] Board of Trustees. This policy may not be circumvented, eroded, or ignored on local Akvopedia projects.
You can learn more about the [[Akvo Foundation]] and [[About Akvopedia:About | about the Akvopedia]].
=== Summary ===
If you only read the Akvopedia project websites, no more information is collected than is typically collected in server logs by web sites in general.
If you contribute to the Akvopedia projects, you are '''publishing''' every word you post publicly. 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 ===
==== Cookies ====
[http://akvo.org/help/akvo-policies-and-terms-2/akvo-terms-of-use/cookie-policy/ Akvo's cookie policy]
Disclaimer: Opting out of the cookie policy on Akvo.org does not opt you out of the cookies on Akvopedia.org, they should be done separately.
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.
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 the Akvopedia projects to use this information to keep track of legitimate users.
These logs are used to produce the [http://www.akvoakvopedia.org/statistics wiki/Special:Statistics site statistics pages]; the raw log data is not made public, and is normally discarded after about three months.
Here's a sample of what's logged for one page view:
