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 ====== Privacy Policy ======
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-**This privacy policy only applies to the Wurst Wiki (wiki.wurstclient.net).** For the Wurst Website (www.wurstclient.net) and for the Wurst Client itself, see https://www.wurstclient.net/privacy/
+**This privacy policy only applies to the Wurst Wiki (wurst.wiki).** For the Wurst Website (www.wurstclient.net) and for the Wurst Client itself, see https://www.wurstclient.net/privacy/
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-This page explains when and how your personal data is collected, processed and used when accessing the Wurst Wiki (wiki.wurstclient.net).
+This page explains when and how your personal data is collected, processed and used when accessing the Wurst Wiki (wurst.wiki).
-This text is meant to be short and easy to understand, even by someone who is not a lawyer. If you feel something is not as clear as it should be, please help to improve it (it's a wiki after all). If you have any questions, you can contact Alexander01998 (the owner of the Wurst Wiki) at https://www.wurstclient.net/contact/.
+If you have any questions, you can contact Alexander01998 (the owner of the Wurst Wiki) at https://www.wurstclient.net/contact/.
 ===== Accounts =====
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 Whenever you create, edit or delete a page, we log your username and IP address. This is necessary to prevent [[wp>wp:vandalism|vandalism]] (we can easily block the username / IP address of users who vandalize the Wurst Wiki).
-We also publicly display your username in the "Old revisions" tab of any page that you have created, edited or deleted. By default, we keep your username in the "Old revisions" tab forever, even if you delete your account. This is necessary to give you credit according to the [[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en|Creative Commons license]] that we use.
+We also publicly display your username in the "Old revisions" tab of any page that you have created, edited or deleted. This is necessary to give you credit according to the [[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en|Creative Commons license]] that we use.
-We can manually delete your username from the "Old revisions" tab if you request us to do so.
+Wurst Wiki admins (currently this is just Alexander01998) can also see the logged IP address in the "Old revisions" tab. Normal users cannot see this.
+By default, we keep this data forever (even if you delete your account). We can delete this data by manually modifying files on the server if you request us to do so.
 ===== Server Logs =====
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 This information is necessary for legal reasons, to analyse traffic and to prevent abuse. This allows us to keep users away who try to crash our server and to have necessary evidence in case of illegal activity.
-Our server logs are automatically deleted after 14 days. We will only keep log files for longer when they are needed as evidence during an investigation.
+Our server logs are automatically deleted from the main server after 14 days. After 30 days, these logs are also deleted from our offsite backup servers. We will only keep log files for longer when they are needed as evidence during an investigation.
 ===== Cookies =====
 [[wp>web cookie|Cookies]] are small pieces of data stored on the user's computer by the web browser while browsing a website.
+Most modern browsers have detailed settings where you can decide which cookies to allow and which cookies to block. In Google Chrome, you can open the Cookies settings by clicking on the padlock icon and then "Cookies (//some number// in use)".
 [[doku>DokuWiki]] (the [[wp>wiki engine]] that powers the Wurst Wiki) uses the following cookies:
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 ===== Third Party Services =====
-==== Google Analytics ====
-Google Analytics is a free tool that allows us to see how many people are visiting the Wurst Wiki, which of its pages are the most popular, etc.
-Using Google Analytics allows us to measure the popularity of the Wurst Wiki, to make sure that our future decisions are backed by real data, and to see how our past decisions have affected the popularity of the Wurst Wiki.
-This is important because we are humans that make mistakes from time to time. Whenever we make an unpopular decision that hurts the popularity of the Wurst Wiki, it is important that we find out about this as soon as possible so that we can fix our mistakes early and prevent further damage.
-On the flip side, Google Analytics allows us to find out when our decisions have helped the Wurst Wiki to gain popularity. We hope that this will help us to make the Wurst Wiki better for everyone.
-Google Analytics has to collect some anonymized data to make it work. For example, Google Analytics uses a cookie to assign each visitor a random number. This allows them to tell the difference between a) many people visiting a webpage once and b) one person visiting a webpage many times.
-Without this cookie, we couldn't measure the popularity of the Wurst Wiki accurately. Someone could (perhaps intentionally) open the Wurst Wiki 100.000 times and we would think we have 100.000 users when it's actually just one. Because the cookie just contains a random number, it allows Google Analytics to tell people apart without revealing their identity.
-We use Google Analytics with the "anonymizeIP" option. This makes it so that Google Analytics will only store an anonymized version of your IP address so you can be extra sure that this data cannot be used to identify you. See [[https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en|"how IP anonymization works"]] for details.
-Even though Google Analytics data is important to us and doesn't reveal your identity, you can still turn off Google Analytics by installing the [[https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout|GA Opt-Out Browser Plugin]]. Note that this will turn off Google Analytics on all websites, not just the Wurst Wiki.
 ==== Google AdSense ====
-We use Google AdSense to sell ads on this website.
+We use Google AdSense to sell ads on this website. **We don't sell data and [[https://safety.google/privacy/ads-and-data/|neither does Google]]!**
-**We don't sell data and [[https://safety.google/privacy/ads-and-data/|neither does Google]]!** Google can use data that they already have about you to "personalize" their ads.
-You can turn off personalized ads by visiting [[https://www.google.com/settings/ads|Google Ads Settings]] or https://optout.aboutads.info/. Google Ads Settings also lets you see everything that Google knows about you and allows you to edit that data.
+Google can use data that they already have about you to "personalize" their ads. You can turn off personalized ads by visiting [[https://www.google.com/settings/ads|Google Ads Settings]] or https://optout.aboutads.info/. Google Ads Settings also lets you see everything that Google knows about you and allows you to edit that data.
 Google AdSense uses cookies to keep track of things like how often each ad is seen and how often each ad is clicked on. See https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/7549925?hl=en for more details.