====== Privacy Policy ====== Eco Hacker Farm is founded on simple [[ideals|ideals]] with the emphasis of sharing and opensource principles and that these should go hand-in-hand with transparency. This Privacy Policy explains how Eco Hacker Farm as a non-profit organization, collects, uses, and shares information we receive from you through your use of our websites. It is essential to understand that, by using any of the Websites, you consent to the collection, transfer, processing, storage, disclosure, and use of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. That means that reading this Policy carefully is important. We believe that you shouldn't have to provide nonpublic personal information to participate in the free knowledge movement. You do not have to provide things like your real name, address, or date of birth to sign up for a standard account or contribute content. We do not sell or rent your Personal Information, nor do we give it to others to sell you anything. We use it to figure out how to make the websites more engaging and accessible, to see which ideas work, and to make learning and contributing more fun. ===== Definitions ===== ==== Personal Information ==== Information you provide us or information we collect from you that could be used to personally identify you. Whilst we may not ask or collect all of this information we consider it to be "personal information": * your real name * email address * password * IP address * bank details ===== Collection and use of information ===== ==== Your Public Contributions ==== When you make a contribution to any wiki page, including on user pages, you are creating a permanent, public record of every piece of content added, removed, or altered by you. The page history will show when your contribution or deletion was made, as well as your username. We may use your public contributions, either aggregated with the public contributions of others or individually, to promote Eco Hacker Farm or any of its sub projects. ==== Your account on wiki.ecohackerfarm.org ==== As a contributor you need to have an account in order to add, delete or edit the content of the wiki. Here you will need to provide your personal information. You can delete your account whenever you want. An account is not required to read the content of the website. ==== IP addresses ==== When you visit wiki.ecohackerfarm.org, we automatically receive the IP address of the device (or your proxy server) you are using to access the Internet, which could be used to infer your geographical location.