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This policy is based on [[meta:Privacy_policy]] and [[meta:Right_to_vanish]].
=== Information email addresses ===Information, including email addresses, send sent to OrthodoxWiki's sysops and adminstrators may be shared internally. By sending a mail to one of the sysops, your address may become public within this group. The sysop team may discuss the contents of your mail with other sysops in order to best answer your query.
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== Summary ==
If you contribute to the OrthodoxWiki 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 ==
== E-mail, mailing lists and IRC==
=== E-mail and mailing lists===
You may provide your e-mail address in your Preferences. This allows other logged-in users may send email to you through the wiki (unless you disable this in your preferences). Your address will not be revealed to them unless you respond, or possibly if the email bounces. The email address may be used by OrthodoxWiki to communicate with users on a wider scale. We may use your email to send special announcements pertaining directly to OrthodoxWiki. If this does happen, such announcements will be very rare.
If you do not provide an email address, you will not be able to reset your password if you forget it. However, you may contact one of the OrthodoxWiki developer developers to enter a new mail address in your preferences.
You can remove your email address from your preferences at any time to prevent it from being used.
=== IRC ===
The [[wOrthodoxWiki:IRC channelsChat|OrthodoxWiki IRC channelschannel]] are is not officially part of OrthodoxWiki proper. By participating to an IRC channel, your IP address will be exposed to other participants. Different channels have different policies on whether logs may be published. We cannot accept responsibilty for any information shared in an IRC channel or any of the content of that channel.
== 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 occasionally in aggregated forms published by other users.
===User Accounts===
User accounts, once created, cannot be removed. However, it may be possible for a [[bureaucrat]] to change your username, but you need to make such arrangements yourself. There is no guarantee provided by OrthodoxWiki in the [[privacy policy]] that a name will be changed on request.
=== Removal of user accounts ===
Once created, user accounts can not be removed. It may be possible for an administrator to change the username on an account, but you will need to request this yourself. OrthodoxWiki's adminstration does not guarantee that a name will be changed on request. See below for details.
Whether specific user information is deleted is dependant dependent on the deletion policies of the project that contains the information.
==Deletion of content==Deleting text from the OrthodoxWiki website does not really delete them. In normal articles, anyone can look at a previous version and see what was there. If an article is "deleted", any sysop/administrator, meaning almost anyone trusted not to abuse the deletion capability, can see what was deleted. Only an administrator can permanently delete information from the OrthodoxWiki projects and there is no guarantee this will happen except in response to legal action. ==User Accounts==User accounts, once created, cannot be removed. However, it may be possible for a [[bureaucrat]] to change your username, but you need to make such arrangements yourself. There is no guarantee provided by the [[OrthodoxWiki Foundation]] in the [[privacy policy]] that a name will be changed on request. == Right to Vanish ===
If you have used your real name, or a longstanding pen name, on OrthodoxWiki then in principle everything you write can be traced to that name, and thus to you, as discussed above. However, there are a few steps that you can take to weaken that connection. They are:
You should note that while these measures afford a degree of practical obscurity, they will not stand up to assault from a persistent investigator, and OrthodoxWiki has no control over its sublicensees, or over archiving services such as the Internet Archive or Google. Further, these actions require a degree of co-operation from the user of the project, so OrthodoxWiki cannot make guarantees on this matter.
==Deletion of content==Deleting text from the OrthodoxWiki website does not really delete them. In normal articles, anyone can look at a previous version and see what was there. If an article is "deleted," any sysop/administrator, meaning almost anyone trusted not to abuse the deletion capability, can see what was deleted. Only an administrator can permanently delete information from the OrthodoxWiki projects and there is no guarantee this will happen except in response to legal action. ===Personal information deletion===
The OrthodoxWiki projects will delete personal information about contributors (most likely on user and user talk pages) at their request, provided it is not needed for administrative reasons (which is generally limited to dealing with site misuse issues). Personal information about those who merit an encyclopedia article, when in the encyclopedia article, is not included in this. Personal information typically includes, but is not limited to, name, address, telephone number, instant messenger contact details, photograph, appearance, food tastes, political views and similar details of an individual person.
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* [[OrthodoxWiki:Disclaimer]]
* [[OrthodoxWiki:Chat#Disclaimer]]
:''This policy is based on [[meta:Privacy_policy]] and [[meta:Right_to_vanish]].''
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