WIKIPIK PRIVACY POLICY

Welcome to WikiPik! This web site is owned and operated by WikiWise, Inc., hereafter referred to as "WikiWise"/"we"/ "us". We want to create a useful and fun place on the web where users can freely provide and view information, while keeping users' personal information confidential at all times. By using WikiPik, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

SUMMARY

If you browse WikiPik without logging in, no more information is collected than is typically collected in server logs by web sites in general. If you contribute to the project by creating content, you are publishing this information publicly, most likely throughout the world and forever. This includes reviews, ratings, specs and images. WikiWIse makes every effort to safeguard your private information, however cannot make any guarantees in this regard.

COLLECTION

You can browse WikiPik without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. We also collect some information automatically from your computer while you browse WikiPik for statistical purposes as do most other web sites on the internet. In particluar we collect your IP address, browser type and version, operating system and platform, the URLs you come from and go to next, and a cookie number that we may assign to you.

Certain features of WikiPik require that you create a user account and supply some information that allows us to identify you. When you register with WikiPik, we collect and store your user name, e-mail address and a password. You can also choose to provide optional additional information that we may ask you to provide.

We may get additional information from or about you in other ways not specifically described here. For example, you might contact us or respond to a message from us, or we might get a complaint about you from someone.

USE

We use the information we collect to:

• operate WikiPik
• provide you with information you request
• customize your experience at WikiPik
• communicate with you about administrative issues
• send you e-mail updates if you so choose
• measure and improve web site performance
• analyze site and user behavior and compile anonymous reports
• resolve disputes, address complaints and troubleshoot technical problems

SHARING AND DISCLOSURE

WikiWise will not sell or share private information, such as email addresses, with third parties, unless you agree to release this information, or in case of the following exceptions:

Your user account information maybe viewed by WikiPik administrators and moderators, which can be WikiWise employees, or independent users that have been designated administrator or moderator status. WikiWise takes the utmost care choosing only the most reputable and trustworthy individuals to perform administrator/moderator duties.

We may disclose information when permitted by law or under the good-faith belief that such disclosure is necessary under applicable law; to comply with legal process served on WikiWise; to protect the property or interests of WikiWise, its agents and employees; or to protect personal safety or the public.

PUBLIC CONTENT

When you contibute to WikiPik by writing a review, submitting ratings, specs, images or other content, you are publishing this information publicly, worldwide and potentially forever. You are identified publicly with such content as its author through your username.

DELETION AND MODIFICATION OF CONTENT

Deleting content from WikiPik does not permanently delete it, it will just mark it as deleted. All previous versions of any contribution are kept in the database, potentially forever, even if modified or marked as deleted. In some cases, past deleted or modified content may be made publicly available to any web site visitor who wishes to view past modifications or deletions of any piece of content. Additionally, any user with administrator or moderator access on WikiPik can see what was deleted or modified, when and by whom, for all content kept in the database, even for such content where deletion/modification history is not made publicly available. Information can be permanently deleted by system administrators, but there is no guarantee this will happen except in response to legal action.

INFORMATION ABOUT YOU THAT MAY BE MADE PUBLIC

Some information about you that is deemed not to be personal and/or confidential, may be made public on WikiPik. Such information may be your trust factor, number of contributions, rank among users etc.

RETAINING OF USER DATA

WikiWise reserves the right to internally retain user accounts, and data associated with them, forever.

E-MAIL COMMUNICATIONS

From time to time you may receive important administrative e-mails from WikiWise in regard to WikiPik (for example, emails about your transactions or policy changes). By using WikiPik, you agree to receiving such e-mails.

WikiWise may also from time to time send you less important, informative e-mail communication. You may opt out of such communication when you sign up, or in your account settings.

WikiWise does not tolerate spam. We do not send emails to anyone without permission, and we do not sell or rent email addresses to any unauthorized third party. This does not mean that we can prevent spam from happening on the Internet. If you believe that you have received an unsolicited email from us, please contact us and we will investigate.

COOKIES

The website will set a temporary session cookie (PHPSESSID) 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. It will be deleted when you close your browser session.

Another cookie may be set when you log in, to avoid typing in your user name and password on your next visit. This cookie is set only on your request and lasts up to 30 days. We do not recommend that you use this feature on a public computer, as it may allow subsequent strangers using the computer to log in to your account, view and potentially abuse your personal information.

Further cookies may be set to store user specific settings to customize your experience to your needs.

No cookies set by WikiPik will ever directly store confidential personal information such as e-mail addresses or passwords.

If you are very concerned about your privacy, you may delete any or all cookies placed by WikiPik after using WikiPik. You may also want to clear the browser cache. Refer to your browser's help section on how to do this.

PASSWORDS

Many aspects of WikiPik's community interactions depend on the reputation and respect that is built up through a history of valued contributions. User passwords are the only guarantee of the integrity of a user's edit history. All users are encouraged to select strong passwords and to never share them. No one shall knowingly expose the password of another user to public release either directly or indirectly.

SERVER ACCESS LOGS

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

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 WikiPik, including the suspected use of malicious duplicate accounts, vandalism, harassment of other users, or other serious disruption of the service.

Personally identifiable data collected in the server logs, or through records in the database, may be released by the system administrators or users with administrator access, in the following situations:

1. With permission of the affected user
2. In response to a valid subpoena or other compulsory request from law enforcement
3. To management of WikiWise, its legal counsel, or its designee, when necessary for investigation of abuse complaints.
4. Where the information pertains to page views generated by a spider or bot and its dissemination is necessary to illustrate or resolve technical issues.
5. 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
6. Where it is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of WikiWise, its users or the public.

WikiWise's policy does not permit public distribution of such information under any circumstances, except as described above.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

WikiPik contains links to other websites. WikiWise is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these sites. If you have concerns about how other websites collect and use information about you, make sure to read that site's own privacy policy.

SECURITY

WikiPik uses physical, electronic and administrative safeguards, including advanced firewall and password protection for our databases, designed to protect the security of information. We restrict access to your personal information to employees and other individuals with administrative priviegeles that need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. However, third parties may under certain circumstances potentially unlawfully intercept or access protected data or private communications. Therefore, although we work very hard to protect your privacy, we can not guarantee, and you should not expect, that your personal information or private communications will remain private forever and under all circumstances.

GENERAL

We may change this policy from time to time, and we will post the amended terms here on this website. All amended terms will take effect immediately for new users, and 30 days after they are posted for existing users.

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or the practices of WikiWise, please contact us.