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Added the "other half" of the privacy policy.
Many aspects of the Akvopedia projects' 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 the Akvopedia projects to use this information to keep track of legitimate users.
These logs are used to produce the [http://www.akvo.org/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:
64.164.82.142 - - [21/Oct/2003:02:03:19 +0000]
"GET /wiki/draft_privacy_policy HTTP/1.1" 200 18084
"http://www.akvo.org/wiki/index.php/Rope_pump"
"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/85.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/85.5"
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 ===
The Akvo Foundation makes 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==
=== E-mail ===
If you do not provide an email address, you will not be able to edit or create pages, nor reset your password if you forget it. However, you may contact one of the Akvopedia server administrators to enter a new mail address in your preferences.
== Private logging =Mailing lists=== If you subscribe to one of the project [http://www.akvo.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41 mailing lists], your address will be exposed to any other subscriber. The list archives of most of Akvopedia's [http://mailgate.greenocean.org:8100/Lists/?Language= mailing lists are public], and your address may find itself quoted in messages. Mails are usually not deleted or modified, but it may be done in extreme cases. === Information email addresses === Some email addresses may forward mail to a team of volunteers trusted by the Foundation to use a ticket system such as to view them and answer them. Mail sent to the system is not publicly visible, but is visible to this group of Akvopedia volunteers. By sending a mail to one of these addresses, your address may become public within this group. The ticket system team may discuss the contents of your mail with other contributors in order to best answer your query. Addresses that this may affect are: *akvo AT akvo.org*support AT akvo.org Replace the AT with the @ sign to get a valid email address. === IRC === IRC channels or chat channels (Skype, AIM, iChat) are not officially part of Akvopedia 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.
