The Pool:Privacy policy
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Summary
If you only read The Pool, no more information is collected than is typically collected in server logs by web sites in general.
If you contribute to The Pool, 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.
Publishing
Identification of an author
When you publish a page in The Pool, you will be identified by your SFU computing ID. This ID is directly traceable to you. Anyone with your computing ID by extension knows your SFU email address, and the URL to your SFU webspace. Only post information that you would feel comfortable expressing publicly to your peers, your professors, your employers, and total strangers.
Sharing information with third parties
Except where otherwise specified, all projects added to The Pool remain the intellectual property of their author(s). You are free however to release your projects under whatever license you wish.
The Pool will not sell or share private information, such as email addresses, with third parties, unless you agree to release this information, or it is required by law to release the information.
Cookies
The wiki 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.
More cookies may be set when you log in, to avoid typing in your user name (or optionally password) on your next visit. These last up to 30 days. You may clear these cookies after use if you are using a public machine and don't wish to expose your username to future users of the machine. (If so, clear the browser cache as well.)
Passwords
User passwords are the only guarantee of the integrity of a user's contribution / edit history. All users are encouraged to select strong SFU Computing ID passwords and to never share them. No one shall knowingly expose the password of another user to public release either directly or indirectly.
Deletion of content
Removing text from The Pool does not permanently delete it. In normal articles, anyone can look at a previous version and see what was there. If an article is "deleted", any user with "administrator" access on the wiki, meaning almost anyone trusted not to abuse the deletion capability, can see what was deleted. 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.
