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If you have not logged in, you will be identified by your network IP address. This is a series of four numbers which identifies the Internet address from which you are contacting the wiki. Depending on your connection, this number may be traceable only to a large Internet service provider, or specifically to your school, place of business, or home. It may be possible that the origin of this IP address could be used in conjunction with any interests you express implicitly or explicitly by editing articles to identify you even by private individuals.
It may be either difficult or easy for a motivated individual to connect your network IP address with your real-life identity. Therefore if you are very concerned about privacy, you may wish to log in and publish under a pseudonym.
When using a pseudonym, your IP address will not be available to the public except in cases of abuse, including vandalism of a wiki page by you or by another user with the same IP address. In all cases, your IP address will be stored on the wiki servers and can be seen by Wikimedia's server administrators and by users who have been granted "[[meta:CheckUser|CheckUser]]" access. Your IP address, and its connection to any usernames that share it may be released under certain circumstances (see below).
If you use a company mail server from home or telecommute and use a DSL or cable Internet connection, it is likely to be very easy for your employer to identify your IP address and find all of your IP based Wikimedia project contributions. Using a user name is a better way of preserving your privacy in this situation. However, remember to log out or disconnect yourself after each session using a pseudonym on a shared computer, to avoid allowing others to use your identity.
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Log data may be examined by developers in the course of solving technical problems
=== Policy on release of data derived from page logs ===
It is the policy of Wikimedia that personally identifiable data collected in the server logs,
# In response to a valid subpoena or other compulsory request from law enforcement
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==Security of information==
The Wikimedia Foundation makes no guarantee against unauthorized access to any information you provide. This information
== E-mail, mailing lists and IRC==
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=== Mailing lists===
If you subscribe to one of the project [http://mail.wikimedia.org/ mailing lists], your address will be exposed to any other subscriber. The list archives of most of Wikimedia's mailing lists are public, and your address may find itself quoted in messages. The list archives are also archived by Gmane and other services. Mails are usually not deleted or modified, but it may be done in extreme cases.
=== Information email addresses ===
Some email addresses (see below) may forward mail to a team of volunteers trusted by the
Addresses that direct to the
*info-de AT wikipedia DOT org
*info-en AT wikipedia DOT org
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=== IRC ===
[[m:IRC channels|IRC channels]] are not officially part of Wikimedia proper. By participating in an IRC channel, your IP address
== User data ==
Data on users, such as the times at which they edited and the number of edits they have made are publicly available via "user contributions" lists, and
=== Removal of user accounts ===
Once created, user accounts will not be removed. It may be possible for a
Whether specific user information is deleted is dependant on the deletion policies of the project that contains the information.
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==Deletion of content==
Removing text from Wikimedia projects 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
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