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Privacy Policy
work in progress, please see 2321
This page explains how and when your personal data is collected, processed and used when accessing dokuwiki.org or any of its subdomains. Basis of all processing are the terms of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
In the following text we use
- “we” for the people managing the website or in GDPR speak: the controller
- “you” for the users accessing the website or in GDPR speak: the data subject
We're not doing anthing different than any other website on the planet, but it's only fair we explain it to you.
This text was written to be short and easy to understand by someone who is not a lawyer. If you feel something is not as clear as it should be, please help to improve (it's a wiki after all).
Cookies
Cookies are small text files stored by us inside your browser. This allows us to give your browser a short- and longterm memory.
In general all cookies we set, are needed to provide functionality on our sites. Details on which cookies are set by DokuWiki are available at Cookies.
In addition some of the third party services we use (see below) may set their own cookies. We explain those further down. Your browser has settings to control which cookies it accepts and for how long they should be stored. Learn more
Server Logs
The web server hosting our site, will log each page access. This log will also contain:
- your IP address
- the date and time of access
- the requested resource on the server
- the status of the request (eg. was it successful?)
- the referrer (where you came from)
- your browser identification
This information is needed to analyse and prevent abuse. This allows us to keep users away that try to crash our server1).
Our server logs are automatically deleted after 14 days. We will only retain log files longer when they are needed as evidence during an investigation.
Change Logs
When you edit a page in the wiki, your username and IP address is logged. This allows us to easily block users who vandalize the wiki.
User Profiles
When you opt to register for an account in our forum you need to provide the following minimal data:
- user name
- email address
- password
All additional data is optional. Your account data is shared between the forum and wiki (both running on the same server).
Third Party Processing
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a popular free tool to track how users use a webpage. Eg. where they came from, which pages they looked at and how long they stayed on the site.
This information is useful to us to understand our users better and improve the service.
We use Google Analytics with the anonymizeIP option, which means your IP address will be truncated before processing. This way, no personal identifiable information is sent to Google Analytics.
However because the analytics script is downloaded directly from Google's servers, they technically do see your full IP address. They promise not to use that though – we trust them.
Google Analytics also uses a cookie to track if you repeatedly visit a website.
You can easily opt out of being tracked at all using their Browser Plugin.
Google Adsense
Yes, we show ads on some of our subdomains (eg. the forum). Those are provided by Google Adsense.
Again, we do not send any personal identifiable information to Google, but we do load their script and they do set a cookie to “improve the ad experience”.
You can opt out of some of their tracking using their Ad Settings Tool or you can just install an ad blocker. We're not even mad ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
YouTube and other Videos
Some of our pages may contain videos. We use the Video Share Plugin for that. For youtube we use the “privacy enhanced” youtube-nocookie.com
domain that will not track your visit. Your IP address will be visible to YouTube's server though.
Videos embedded from other sources may track your visit.
Facebook, Twitter, Google+ Badges
We invite you to join our social communities. To do so we use their social widgets on some pages. These may track you with a cookie.
Information and Deletion
Since we share user accounts between the forum and the wiki and the forum currently does not support deleting your account, you need to write an email to andi [at] splitbrain [dot] org or simply post a request for deletion in the Help subforum.
Also when you have any questions regarding the handling of your personal data feel free to write an email to andi [at] splitbrain [dot] org or simply post in the https://forum.dokuwiki.org or mailinglist.