OpenReference

Privacy Policy

Your privacy matters to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share and protect information about you.

BY USING OUR SERVICES OR BY OTHERWISE GIVING US YOUR INFORMATION, YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY. Please review the following carefully so that you understand our privacy practices. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, do not use any of our Services or give us any of your information.

Volunteer information

If you have joined our network, we will use the information you have given us to try to connect you with the right parts of our network.

If you have signed up as a community member, thank you for doing so, we appreciate your support. As a community member you will be able to be more involved in our activities. We will use information you supply us to help you to be more involved. We may use your contact details to get in touch as part of that involvement.

Author identification

When posting a comment or editing a page in the wiki, a name and email address is be required. Content released to OpenReference or OpenDevelopment is tracked based on this information.

Page edits, comments, trackbacks, and pingbacks and other activity on our websites may be identified by your IP address. These numbers could potentially be traceable to identifying information about you, whether it is your home ISP, University or Work account where the IP address is registered. Your IP address could potentially be used in conjunction with other data to identify you.

Data release policy

Our policy is only to release the data we collect in the following circumstances:

• As required by law, such as in response to a valid request from law enforcement.
• To designated third parties to resolve or investigate abuse complaints.
• When the information is related to spiders or bots, usually when investigating technical issues.
• For abusive users, we may release information to assist in attempting to block the abusive user or to complain to that user’s Internet Service Provider.
• If necessary to defend legal claims against us by third parties.
• When we deem it necessary to protect the property or rights of the user community, or this website.

No selling of information

We will not sell information collected via this site, such as your email address, to third parties.

Information security

We make no guarantee that the information that you provide us will be secure.