Privacy Policy
If you only read the flashpacker.org project websites, no more information is collected than is typically collected in server logs by web sites in general.
If you contribute to the flashpacker.org projects, you are publishing every word you post publicly. If you write something, assume that it will be retained forever. This includes comments, ratings and reviews. Some limited exceptions are described below.
Publishing on flashpacker.org and public data
Simply visiting the web site does not expose your identity publicly (but see private logging below).
When you edit any object in the database , you are publishing a document. This is a public act, and you are identified publicly with that edit as its author.
Identification of an author
In order to change or add information to the database you have to be logged in so that your user id can be saved together with the information.
Passwords
Many aspects of the flashpacker.org projects' community interactions depend on the reputation and respect that is built up through a history of valued contributions. User accounts are the only guarantee of the integrity of a user's edit history. Since we use external facebook accounts we have no password information at all stored.
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 flashpacker.org projects to use this information to keep track of legitimate users.
These logs are used to produce the site statistics pages; the raw log data is not made public, and is normally discarded after about two weeks.
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 flashpacker.org, including the suspected use of malicious "sockpuppets" (duplicate accounts), vandalism, harassment of other users, or disruption of the website.
Policy on release of data derived from page logs
It is the policy of flashpacker.org that personally identifiable data collected in the server logs, or through records in the database via the CheckUser feature, may be released by the system administrators or users with CheckUser access, 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 chair of flashpacker.org, 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 vandalising 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 the flashpacker.org, its users or the public
flashpacker.org policy does not permit public distribution of such information under any circumstances, except as described above.
Sharing information with third parties
Except where otherwise specified, all publicly editable content added to flashpacker.org projects is available for reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0.
flashpacker.org will not sell or share private information with third parties, unless you agree to release this information, or it is required by law to release the information.
Security of information
flashpacker.org makes no guarantee against unauthorized access to any information you provide. This information may be available to anyone with access to the servers.
User Information
flashpacker.org does not store any data such as your name, email, adress, phone and so on. We only access it directly from facebook during runtime.
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.
Removal of user accounts
Once created, user accounts will not be removed. This is so that we can maintain control of the user contributions.
Deletion of content
Removing text from flashpacker.org projects does not permanently delete it. In normal database entries, anyone can look at a previous version and see what was there. 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 legal action.