Model Rail Wiki:Privacy policy

Model Rail Wiki has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to the privacy of visitors to our website. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website.

Collection & Use of Personal Information

No personal data is collected by this Wiki. If you request to become an editor, see the Account creation page, your name and email address will be asked for. This information will not be transferred to any third party without your permission.

IP Logging

The Model Rail Wiki does not collect and store any visitor's IP address. IP addresses may be passed to analytics software, but no Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is collected or stored.

Cookies

In some areas of the Wiki, we use cookies to save an editor's password so it doesn't have to be re-entered each time that person visits our site.

This website uses Google Analytics to help analyze how users use the site. The tool uses "cookies" which are text files placed on your computer, to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors' use of the webiste and to compile statistical reports on website activity for the Model Rail Wiki.

We will never (and will not allow any third party to) use the statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any Personally Identifiable Information (PII) of visitors to our site. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Neither we nor Google will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any Personally Identifiable Information from any source.

Confidentiality

This site contains links to other sites, the Model Rail Wiki is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.

Public Forums

This site links to the Model Rail Forum discussion forums, the contents of which are accessible to users of the Internet. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.