Privacy

Privacy Policy

Summary

We understand the importance of your personal information and your privacy. We work hard to win and keep your trust and confidence. This notice describes our privacy policy. By using This Site you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.

If you only read the InsidersPedia project websites, no information is collected than is typically collected in server and website visitor counter and stats logs by web sites in general.

If you contribute to the InsidersPedia project, you will have to log in and volunteer little but essential information to use this site in order to help us reduce abusive use of the Site and provide high quality to all users.

If you publish anything on this site please remember that every word or image you publish will be accessible publicly. If you write something, assume that it will be retained forever online. Even if such information is removed from InsidersPedia and the InsidersPedia database and servers, 3rd party websites like Google and the Way Back Machine may have already saved a copy of your page. We can not control the actions of 3rd party websites, archiving web pages is a common practice for Search Engines like Google and other web Archiving websites. It is good practice to remember that everything you post online be it on InsidersPedia, your personal blog, or any other website will likely be archived by a 3rd party website.

Please use a pseudo name when you sign up in order to protect your real identy if you wish.

Publishing and Public Data

Simply visiting the web site does not expose your identity publicly (but see private logging below).

When you create or edit any page in InsidersPedia, you are publishing a document. This document becomes publicly available. Your identity as the publisher (your user name) may be identified publicly.

When you leave a comment, your user identity as the publisher (your user name) may be visible to the public.

The Site Admins can see your identity and every document, edit, upload and comment you leave. These policies are designed as to ensure high quality and hold members accountable for their contributions.
 

Cookies

The website will use session cookies 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.

More cookies may be set when you log in, to avoid typing in your user name (or optionally password) on your next visit. These expire after a while. You may clear these cookies after use if you are using a public machine and don't wish to expose your user name to future users of the machine. (If so, clear the browser cache and reboot the computer as well.)

Passwords

Many aspects of the InsidersPedia project community interactions depend on the reputation and respect that is built up through a member's history of valued contributions. User passwords are the only guarantee of the integrity of a member's identity and edit history.

All users are encouraged to select strong passwords that are hard to guess (contain letters and numbers, don't use common words. and at least 4 characters in length) and to never share them.

No one shall knowingly expose the password of another user to public release either directly or indirectly.

Our registration form will enforce a password policy, this policy will specify the length of a password, and other recommended features to improve your password's strength.

Private Logging

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 InsidersPedia to use this information to keep track of legitimate users.

These logs are used to produce site statistics and help us improve the website and enhance its performance. These logs are also crucial in combating hackers. These logs may also be conducted by Google Analytics for website statistics and to help us provide a high quality Site.

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 user names and network addresses of edits in investigating abuse of the website, including the suspected use of malicious "sockpuppets" (duplicate accounts), vandalism, harassment of other users, using inappropriate language, making false claims, or the disruption of the website in any way.

Release of Data

We will NOT disclose ANY information about you without your consent, It is the policy of InsidersPedia that personally identifiable data collected in the server logs, or through records in the database may be released by the system administrators in the following situations:

    * In response to a valid subpoena or other compulsory request from law enforcement
    * With permission of the affected user
    * To the owner of InsidersPedia project, his legal counsel, or his designee, 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 vandalizing 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 InsidersPedia, its users or the public.
    * InsidersPedia policy does not permit public distribution of such information under any circumstances, except as described above.

E-mail

You have to provide your e-mail address in order to register.

You also may write your email address in a page and publish it online, but if you do so expect Spam from bots that continuously search the Internet for email addresses to Spam.

Providing your email at registration is required. If you do not provide an email address, you will not be able to reset your password if you forget it.

User Identifying Data

Data on users, such as user's login name, date of registration and contributions to the Site may be publicly available. User's actual first/last names are not shared publicly unless your login name is your real name.

Removal of User Accounts

Once created, user accounts will not be removed. It may be possible for a user name to be changed (depending on admin's ability to do so and on the number of edits you have). InsidersPedia does not guarantee that a name will be changed on request.

Whether specific user information is deleted is dependent on the deletion policies of the project that contains the information.

We reserve the right to delete, cancel and block any user that does not abide by our policies and terms of use or whenever the administrator deems such action needed. Preoir notification may not be given. This is a nessisary part of our policy in order to deter abuse of the Site and speed up the banning of abusive users that deliberately violate Site terms.

Deletion of Content

Removing content (text or images) from InsidersPedia may not permanently delete it.

Every published page or article is versioned, this means all changes are logged, all edits can be traced to their editor, and all changes can be canceled or rolled back. Viewing of older versions and the ability to compare versions is available to all registered members.

Administrator generally have more access and can view old, edited and removed material.

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 copyright/trademark, official requests and legal action.

We can not control the actions of 3rd party websites, archiving web pages is a common practice for Search Engines like Google and other web Archiving websites like the Way Back Machine. Further, information that you published may be cited or quoted in personal blogs, wikipedia or other web sites.

If you publish any content, assume that it will be retained forever online. Even if such information is removed from InsidersPedia and the InsidersPedia database and servers, we cannot delete said content from 3rd party websites. 

It is good practice to remember everything you post online (be it on InsidersPedia, your personal blog, or any other website) will likely be archived by a 3rd party website.
 
Ownership and Responsibility

InsidersPedia is not responsible for any text, images or any information published on InsidersPedia by website users or members.

InsidersPedia in effect is not the author of these materials. The person publishing an article is the author, and any edits are owned by the editors. Thus responsibility falls on you, the user/member, to not breach copyright laws, not to vandalize, or therefore abuse InsidersPedia in any way.

InsidersPedia is not responsible to the contents of user contributions. We monitor contributions for quality assurance and to find users that abuse this service.

Members are held accountable for your actions. If you suspect abuse or copyrights abuses please flag the content or contact us.

By publishing content (i.e. contributing text, comments, images, etc..) on InsidersPedia you give InsidersPedia and its owners full and unrestricted rights to republish and use such contributed and published material.
 
Sharing Information with Third Parties

InsidersPedia will not sell or share private information, such as email addresses, with third parties, unless you agree to release this information, or it is required by law to release the information. Email information may be used to send out news letters in the future and may be used by any website that is owned by InsidersPedia's owners.

When 3rd parties are used to host this website, databases, manage emails, newsletters, website statistics and advertising these 3rd party's policies apply. While we shop and select the most reputable 3rd parties
we are not to be held accountable for their use of any collected information.

Security of Information

InsidersPedia and its owners make no guarantee against unauthorized access to any information you provide. This information may be available to anyone with access to the servers.

When 3rd parties are used (to host this website, host the databases, process newsletters, website statistics or manage advertising) these 3rd party's policies and terms apply.

Disclaimer

This privacy policy is subject to change at any time, any changes will be posted accordingly.
Please refer to our other terms of use and policies for more information.

Complaints

If you have a complaints let us know and we will fix the problem within 72 hours of receiving your email if we agree that our involvement is needed.

Contact

If you have any questions, concerns, or comments about our privacy policy you may contact us using the contact form.

Please make sure you read our Terms of Use and About, and Help documents as well.

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