Wikiversity:Privacy policy

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This policy in a nutshell:

Don't include information that could be used to identify or contact a person without their consent. Your privacy could be at risk if you include information about yourself on Wikiversity.

This policy addresses privacy concerns specific to Wikiversity. As a Wikimedia Foundation project, everything in Wikimedia:Privacy policy also applies to Wikiversity.

Contents 1 Your privacy 2 Everyone's privacy 2.1 Private correspondence 2.2 Under the age of 13 3 See also

[edit] Your privacy

Wikiversity encourages all participants to share general information about their learning goals, experiences, education and interests on their userpage. If you think it might help your learning to tell others a bit about yourself, then please feel free to put this information on your userpage. When sharing additional personal information about yourself (real name, date of birth, contact information, etc.), please make sure it relates to Wikiversity's mission in some reasonable way and fits within Wikiversity policy. You are free to link to other webpages containing personal information about yourself, but remember to think of the potential consequences of doing so - and be especially careful when you are dealing with personal information of other people (see below). If you have any concerns about how other people might use your personal information then please don't share it or link to other websites containing your personal information. Using Wikiversity's standard userbox templates might be a "safer" way to share information without revealing personal information about yourself that you rather remain private.

[edit] Everyone's privacy

Everybody has different tolerances for how much personal information they are prepared to make publicly known. Please do not include or link to other people's personal information without their express permission, regardless of whether or not the information is actually correct. This applies whether or not the person whose personal information is being revealed is a wiki editor. Even personal information where the person has given permission may be excluded if it does not relate to Wikiversity's mission in some reasonable way, does not fit within Wikiversity policy, or when not relevant to the educational goal of a learning project as determine by its contributors.

[edit] Private correspondence

Please do not post private off-wiki correspondence (this includes email and IRC chat logs) unless all parties involved approve what you are posting. Wikiversity is open to research projects, but Wikiversity research policy explicitly calls for high ethical standards. Part of research ethics is protecting the privacy of people who are the subject of your research.

[edit] Under the age of 13

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule of the Federal Trade Commission was created in response to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). COPPA was designed to regulate online collection of personal information about children under 13 years of age.

If you edit Wikiversity and if you are under 13 years of age do not post personal information about yourself such as your age, your full name and where you live. Such information serves no purpose at Wikiversity.

[edit] See also

• CheckUser policy