Politica de confidentialitate del Fundation Wikimedia
Attention: Le titulo a monstrar “Politica de confidentialitate del Fundation Wikimedia” supplanta le ancian titulo a monstrar “Politica de confidentialitate”.
 | This policy is approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. It may not be circumvented, eroded, or ignored by Wikimedia Foundation officers or staff nor local policies of any Wikimedia project. Per favor nota que, in le caso de differentias in le significato o interpretation inter le version original in anglese de iste contento e un traduction, le version original in anglese prende le prioritate. |
Perque nos crede que tu non debe esser obligate a fornir informationes personal pro participar in le movimento de cognoscimento libere, tu pote:
- Leger, modificar o usar qualcunque sito de Wikimedia sin registrar un conto.
- Inscriber te pro un conto sin fornir un adresse de e-mail o nomine real.
Perque nos vole comprender como le sitos de Wikimedia es usate a fin de meliorar los pro te, nos collige alcun informationes quando tu:
- Apporta contributiones public.
- Registra un conto o actualisa tu pagina de usator.
- Usa le sitos de Wikimedia.
- Invia e-mail a nos o participa a un sondage o forni commentario.
Nos es ingagiate a:
- Describer in iste Politica de Confidentialitate como tu informationes pote esser usate o condividite.
- Prender mesuras rationabile pro mantener tu informationes secur.
- Non vender jammais tu informationes ni condivider los con tertie partes pro scopos commercial.
- Solmente condivider tu information in casos limitate, como pro meliorar le sitos de Wikimedia, pro conformar nos al lege, o pro proteger te e alteres.
- Rentener tu datos durante le periodo le plus curte possibile que es compatibile con le mantenentia, le comprension e le melioration del sitos de Wikimedia, e con nostre obligationes sub le lege applicabile.
Non oblida que:
- Qualcunque contento que tu adde o qualcunque modification que tu apporta a un sito de Wikimedia essera publicamente e permanentemente disponibile.
- Si ti adde contento o apporta un modification a un sito de Wikimedia sin aperir session, tal contento o modification essera attribuite publicamente a un conto temporari.
- Nostre communitate de redactores e contributores voluntari es un corpore que se autogoverna. Alcun administratores del Sitos de Wikimedia, qui es eligite per le communitate, usa instrumentos que los da accesso limitate a informationes non public sur contributiones recente a fin que illes pote proteger le Sitos de Wikimedia e applicar politicas.
- Iste politica de confidentialitate non se applica a tote le sitos e servicios operate per le Fundation Wikimedia, como sitos o servicios que ha lor proprie politica de confidentialitate (como le Boteca de Wikimedia) o sitos o servicios operate per tertie partes (como projectos de disveloppatores de tertie partes sur le servicios in nube de Wikimedia).
- Como parte de nostre ingagiamento in favor del education e del recerca in tote le mundo, nos occasionalmente divulga informationes public e informationes aggregate o non personal al publico general per medio de discargas e collectiones de datos.
- Pro le protection del Fundation Wikimedia e altere usatores, si tu non es de accordo con iste Politica de Confidentialitate, tu non pote usar le sitos de Wikimedia.
Introduction
Benvenite!
Le Fundation Wikimedia es le organisation sin scopo de lucro que gere sitos web collaborative de cognoscentia libere, como Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons e Wiktionario.
Iste Politica explica como nos collige, usa e condivide tu Information Personal.
- Nos collige multo poc Information Personal sur te.
- Nos non loca ni vende tu Information Personal a tertios.
Per usar le sitos de Wikimedia, tu confirma que tu ha legite e comprendite iste Politica.
Le movimento Wikimedia se funda sur un principio simple ma potente: nos pote facer plus insimul que cata uno de nos pote facer sol. Nos non pote laborar collectivemente sin colliger, condivider e analysar information sur nostre usatores durante nostre recerca de nove manieras de render le sitos de Wikimedia plus usabile, secur e benefic.
Nos crede que le collecta e uso de information debe esser accompaniate de transparentia. Iste politica de confidentialitate explica como le Fundation Wikimedia, le organisation sin scopo de lucro que alberga le sitos de Wikimedia, como Wikipedia, collige, usa e condivide le information que nos recipe de te per tu uso del sitos de Wikimedia. Es essential comprender que, quando tu usa qualcunque sito de Wikimedia, nos collige, transfere, tracta, immagazina, divulga e usa tu information del maniera describite in iste politica de confidentialitate. Dunque, es importante leger con attention iste politica.
Nos crede que tu non debe esser obligate a fornir Information Personal non public pro poter participar in le movimento del cognoscentia libere. Tu non es obligate a fornir cosas como tu nomine real, adresse o data de nascentia pro crear un conto standard o contribuer contento al Sitos de Wikimedia.
Nos non vende ni loca tu information personal e nos non lo da a alteres pro vender te alcun cosa. Nos lo usa pro recercar como render le sitos de Wikimedia plus attractive e accessibile, pro determinar qual ideas functiona e pro render le apprendimento e le contribution plus divertente. In parolas simple: nos usa iste information pro render le sitos de Wikimedia melior pro te.
Post toto, es gente como tu, le campiones del cognoscentia libere, qui rende possibile que le sitos de Wikimedia non solmente existe ma tamben cresce e prospera.
Definitiones
Nos recognosce que solmente un minoritate de vos es familiar con le terminos technic como “pixels de traciamento” e “cookies” usate in le Politica de Confidentialitate.
Non importa si tu es un novicio in le terminologia del confidentialitate o si tu es un experto qui solmente cerca un rememoration, nostre glossario de terminos clave probabilemente te essera utile.
Perque omnes (non solmente advocatos) debe poter comprender facilemente como e proque lor information es colligite e usate, nos usa linguage commun in loco de terminos formal in tote iste politica. Pro assecurar que tu comprende certe terminos clave in particular, ecce un tabella de traductiones:
| Quando nos dice… | …nos vole dicer: |
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| “le Fundation Wikimedia” / “le Fundation” / “nos” / “nostre” | Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., le organisation sin scopo lucrative que opera le sitos de Wikimedia. |
| “Sitos de Wikimedia” / “nostre servicios” | Le sitos web e servicios de Wikimedia (sin respecto al lingua), includente nostre projectos principal, como Wikipedia e Wikimedia Commons, assi como applicationes mobile, Interfacies de Programmation de Applicationes (APIs), messages de e-posta, e notificationes; excludente, nonobstante, le sitos e servicios listate in le section “Lo que iste politica de confidentialitate non coperi" infra. |
| “tu” / “tue” / “io” / “me” / “mi” | Tu, sia un individuo, gruppo o organisation, e sia que tu usa le sitos de Wikimedia o nostre servicios pro te mesme o pro un altere persona. |
| “iste politica” / “iste politica de confidentialitate” | Iste documento, titulate le “Politica de confidentialitate del Fundation Wikimedia”. |
| “contributiones” | Le contento que tu adde o le modificationes que tu apporta a qualcunque sitos de Wikimedia. |
| “Information personal” / “Datos personal” | Informationes que tu nos forni o informationes que nos collige que te concerne o que pote esser usate pro identificar te personalmente. Pro esser clar, ben que nos non necessarimente collige tote le sequente typos de information, nos considera que al minus lo sequente es includite:
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| “conto standard” | Un conto pro le qual tu pote inscriber te pro explorar o modificar le sitos de Wikimedia. Typicamente, tu non es obligate a fornir plus que un nomine de usator e contrasigno pro crear un conto standard. |
| “conto temporari” | Un conto e identificator generate automaticamente usate pro attribuer modificationes facite quando tu non aperi session a un conto standard. Tu non forni un nomine de usator o contrasigno pro crear un conto temporari. |
| “tertio” / “tertios” | Individuos, entitates, sitos web, servicios, productos e applicationes que non es controlate, gerite o operate per le Fundation Wikimedia. Istes include altere usatores de Wikimedia e organisationes o gruppos independente que adjuta a promover le movimento Wikimedia como capitulos de Wikimedia, organisationes thematic, e gruppos de usatores assi como voluntarios, empleatos, directores, functionarios, recipientes de subventiones, e le contractatos de ille organisationes o gruppos. |
Lo que iste politica de confidentialitate coperi e non coperi
Con exception de lo explicate a continuation, iste politica de confidentialitate se applica a nostre collection e gestion de information sur te que nos recipe como resultato de tu uso de qualcunque sito de Wikimedia. Iste politica etiam se applica al information que nos recipe de nostre partners o altere tertios. Pro comprender plus sur lo que iste politica de confidentialitate coperi, continua a leger.
Exemplos de lo que iste politica de confidentialitate coperi
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Pro melior claritate, iste politica de confidentialitate coperi, sin reguardo al lingua:
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Nonobstante, iste politica de confidentialitate non coperi alcun situationes ubi nos pote colliger o tractar information. Per exemplo, alcun usos pote esser coperite per altere politicas de confidentialitate (como illos del boteca de Wikimedia) o sitos o servicios gerite per tertios (como projectos tertie de programmation sur Wikimedia Cloud Services). Pro comprender plus sur lo que iste politica de confidentialitate non coperi, continua a leger.
More on what the Wikimedia Foundation Privacy Policy does not cover
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This section is part of the Privacy Policy and is meant to explain in detail which situations are not covered by our Privacy Policy.
Sometimes, volunteers may place a data-collecting tool, such as a script, gadget, tracking pixel, or share button, on a Wikimedia Site without our knowledge. This Policy does not cover how third parties handle the information they receive as a result of such a tool. If you come across such a third-party tool, and you believe it violates this Policy, you can remove the tool yourself, or report it to privacy |
Ubi information es governate per politicas communitari, como le politica CheckUser, le communitate in question pote haber regulas e obligationes in addition a illos enumerate in iste politica. Nonobstante, illos non es autorisate a crear nove exceptiones ni alteremente reducer le protectiones offerite per iste politica.
Collecta e uso de information
Typos de information que nos recipe de te e como nos lo recipe
Tu contributiones public
Tote lo que tu publica sur le sitos de Wikimedia pote esser vidite e usate per tote le mundo.
Quando tu face un contribution a qualcunque Sito de Wikimedia, includente in paginas de usator o discussion, tu crea un registro permanente e public de cata pecia de contento addite, removite, o alterate per te. Le historia del pagina monstra quando tu contribution o deletion ha essite facite, assi como tu nomine de usator (si tu ha aperite session) o le nomine de usator de tu conto temporari (si tu non ha aperite session). Nos pote usar tu contributiones public, sia aggregate con le contributiones public de alteres o individualmente, pro crear nove functiones o productos de datos pro te o pro discoperir plus sur como le Sitos de Wikimedia es usate. Isto se explica ulteriormente hic infra in le section "Como nos usa le information que nos recipe de te" de iste Politica de Confidentialitate.
Information publicamente visibile
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A minus que iste Politica dice alteremente, tu debe supponer que le information que tu contribue activemente al Sitos de Wikimedia, includente Information Personal, es publicamente visibile e pote esser trovate per motores de recerca. Como le major parte de cosas in le Internet, tote lo que tu condivide pote esser copiate e redistribuite in tote le Internet per altere personas. Per favor, non contribue alcun information que tu non vole render public pro sempre, como revelar tu nomine real o position geographic in tu contributiones. Tu debe esser consciente que datos specific rendite public per te, o datos aggregate que es rendite public per nos, pote esser usate per quicunque pro analyse e pro inferer informationes ulterior, como de qual pais un usator proveni, su affiliation politic e su genere. |
Information e registration de contos
Non es necessari crear un conto pro usar alcun sito de Wikimedia.
Si tu opta pro crear un conto, non es necessari dar nos tu nomine o adresse de e-mail (benque tu pote facer lo si tu vole, per exemplo pro le function “Inviar e-mail a iste usator”).
Si tu non crea un conto, tu contributiones essera attribuite publicamente a tu conto temporari.
Vole crear un conto? Optimo! Non vole crear un conto? Necun problema!
Non es obligatori crear un conto pro leger o contribuer a un sito de Wikimedia, excepte sub certe circumstantias rar. Ma si tu contribue sin aperir session, tu contributiones essera attribuite publicamente al conto temporari associate a tu navigator.
Si tu vole crear un conto ordinari, in le major parte del casos es requirite solmente un nomine de usator e un contrasigno. Ma si tu non forni un adresse de e-mail, nos non potera adjutar te a recuperar tu contrasigno.
Plus sur le nomines de usator
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Tu nomine de usator essera visibile publicamente, dunque, per favor, sia prudente in revelar tu nomine real o altere Informationes Personal in tu nomine de usator. Tu contrasigno solmente es usate pro verificar que le conto es le tue. Tu adresse IP etiam es automaticamente submitte a nos, e nos lo registra temporarimente. Isto es pro proteger usatores de Wikimedia e contento de projectos; in le caso de abuso, adresses IP pote esser associate con nomines de usator como parte de un investigation. Nulle altere Information Personal es obligatori: ni nomine, ni adresse de e-posta, ni data de nascentia, ni information de carta de credito. Un vice create, le contos de usatores non pote esser completemente removite (ben que es normalmente possibile celar le information in tu pagina de usator si tu opta pro isto). Isto es perque tu contributiones public debe esser associate con lor autor (tu!). In certe circumstantias, le communitates de Wikimedia pote adjutar usatores a remover informationes additional relative a lor conto ab le projectos. |
Pro obtener un melior comprension del datos demographic de nostre usatores, pro adaptar nostre servicios localmente e pro apprender como nos pote meliorar los, nos pote demandar plus informationes demographic de te, como sexo o etate. Nos te dicera si tal information es destinate a esser public o private, a fin que tu pote decider in plen cognoscentia si tu vole fornir nos ille informationes. Fornir tal information es sempre totalmente optional. Si tu non vole, tu non debe – es tanto simple.
Informationes de position geographic
GPS e altere technologias de localisation
Alcunes de nostre functiones functiona melio si nos sape in qual area tu te trova.
Si tu consenti, nos pote usar GPS (e altere technologias communmente usate pro determinar le position geographic) pro monstrar te contento plus relevante. Nos mantene confidential le informationes obtenite per iste technologias, con le exceptiones stipulate in iste Politica. Pro apprender plus, consulta le lista de exemplos de como nos usa iste technologias in nostre FAQ.
Metadatos
A vices, nos recipe automaticamente datos de position geographic de tu apparato. Per exemplo, si tu vole incargar un photo desde le application mobile de Wikimedia Commons, nos pote automaticamente reciper metadatos de tu apparato, como le loco e le hora de prisa del photo. Per favor, sia consciente que, differentemente del informationes de position geographic colligite con le signales GPS describite supra, le configuration predefinite in tu apparato mobile typicamente causa le inclusion de iste metadatos in omne photo o video que tu incarga al Sitos de Wikimedia. Si tu non vole que le metadatos es inviate a nos e rendite public al momento de tu incargamento, alora modifica le parametros de configuration in tu apparato.
Adresses IP
Finalmente, quando tu visita qualcunque sito de Wikimedia, nos automaticamente recipe le adresse IP del apparato (o tu servitor proxy) que tu usa pro acceder a internet, que pote esser usate pro inferer tu position geographic.
Informationes connexe a tu uso del sitos de Wikimedia
Nos usa certe technologias pro colliger informationes sur como tu usa le Sitos de Wikimedia.
Como altere sitos web, nos recipe automaticamente certe informationes sur te quando tu visita le Sitos de Wikimedia.
Nos etiam usa varie technologias commun, como cookies, pro colliger informationes sur tu uso del Sitos de Wikimedia, render nostre servicios plus secur e facile a usar, e adjutar a crear un experientia melior e plus adaptabile pro te.
Nos vole meliorar le sitos de Wikimedia pro te per apprender plus sur le maniera in le qual tu los usa. Exemplos de isto pote includer con qual frequentia tu visita le sitos de Wikimedia, lo que te place, lo que tu trova utile, como tu arriva al sitos de Wikimedia, e si tu usarea un function utile plus frequentemente si nos lo explicava differentemente. Nos etiam vole que iste Politica e nostre practicas reflecte le valores de nostre communitate. Pro iste motivo, nos mantene confidential le informationes relative a tu uso del sitos de Wikimedia, con le exceptiones stipulate in iste Politica.
Informationes que nos recipe automaticamente
A causa del maniera in que le navigatores opera, nos recipe alcun informationes automaticamente quando tu visita le sitos de Wikimedia. Isto se applica etiam quando tu usa un instrumento in linea in un sito de tertie parte que carga informationes proveniente del sitos de Wikimedia. Le informationes in question include le typo de apparato que tu usa (possibilemente includente numeros de identification de apparato unic, pro alcun versiones beta de nostre applicationes mobile), le typo e version de tu navigator, le preferentia de lingua de tu navigator, le typo e version del systema de operation de tu apparato, in alcun casos le nomine de tu fornitor de servicio de internet o operator mobile, le sito web que te ha referite al sitos de Wikimedia, qual paginas tu demanda e visita, e le data e hora de cata demanda que tu face al sitos de Wikimedia.
In terminos simple, nos usa iste information pro meliorar tu experientia con le sitos de Wikimedia. Per exemplo, nos usa iste information pro administrar le sitos, fornir plus securitate, e luctar contra vandalismo; optimisar applicationes mobile, adaptar contento e fixar preferentias de lingua, probar functionalitates pro vider lo que functiona, e meliorar le prestationes; comprender como usatores interage con le sitos de Wikimedia, traciar e studiar le uso de diverse functiones, comprender le datos demographic del differente sitos de Wikimedia, e analysar tendentias.
Informationes que nos collige
Nos usa varie technologias commun, como cookies, pro comprender como vos usa le sitos de Wikimedia, pro render nostre servicios plus secur e plus facile a usar, e pro adjutar a crear un experientia melior e plus personalisabile pro te.
Nos collige activemente alcun typos de information con un varietate de technologias communmente usate. Illos include generalmente:
- JavaScript, que es usate pro meliorar le securitate de nostre sitos, fornir datos analytic, livrar nostre servicios, e assecurar le fidibilitate del sito,
- Cookies, que es usate pro meliorar le securitate de nostre sitos e pro livrar nostre servicios,
- Pixels de traciamento, que es usate pro livrar nostre servicios como demandate e pro scopos analytic, e
- Technologias varie de "datos conservate localmente", como le immagazinage local e le immagazinage de session, que es usate pro livrar nostre servicios como demandate.
Iste typos de technologias pote etiam esser usate in utensiles in linea in un sito de tertie parte que carga informationes ab le Sitos de Wikimedia. Nos sape que alcunes de iste technologias non ha le melior reputation e pote esser usate pro scopos minus nobile. Dunque, nos vole esser clar sur nostre motivos de usar iste methodos e sur le typo de informationes que nos collige con illos.
Dependente del technologia que nos usa, le datos immagazinate localmente pote includer texto, Informationes Personal (como tu adresse IP), e informationes sur tu uso del sitos de Wikimedia (como tu nomine de usator o le hora de tu visita). Vide infra pro plus informationes.
Nos usa iste information pro render tu experientia con le Sitos Wikimedia plus secur e melior, pro obtener un plus grande comprehension del preferentias del usatores e lor interaction con le Sitos de Wikimedia, e pro meliorar generalmente nostre servicios. Nos nunquam usara cookies de tertie partes, salvo si nos obtene tu permission pro facer lo. Si tu incontra jammais un instrumento de collection de datos de tertie partes que non ha essite autorisate per te (p.ex. que pote haber essite placiate erroneemente per un altere usator o administrator), per favor signala isto a nos a privacy@wikimedia.org.
Plus sur le datos immagazinate localmente
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Datos immagazinate localmente, JavaScript, e pixels de traciamento nos adjuta a facer cosas como:
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Vole saper ancora plus? Tu pote leger plus sur alcunes del cookies specific que nos usa, quando illos expira, e a qual fin nos los usa, in nostre FAQ.
Nos crede que iste collection de datos adjuta a meliorar tu experientia de usator, ma tu pote remover o disactivar alcunes de o tote le datos immagazinate localmente via le parametros de configuration de tu navigator, dependente de tu navigator. Tu pote apprender plus sur alcun optiones que tu ha in nostre FAQ. Ben que datos immagazinate localmente pote non esser necessari pro usar nostre sitos, alicun functiones non functionara correctemente si tu disactiva le datos immagazinate localmente.
While the examples above concerning information about you collected through the use of data collection tools are kept confidential in accordance with this Policy, please note that some information about the actions taken by your username is made publicly available through public logs alongside actions taken by other users. For example, a public log may include the date your account was created on a Wikimedia Site along with the dates that other accounts were created on a Wikimedia Site.
How We Use Information We Receive From You
General
We and our service providers use your information for the legitimate purpose of pursuing our charitable mission, including:
Operating the Wikimedia Sites, sharing your contributions and administering our Services.
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We engage in these activities to manage our relationship with you, because we have a legitimate interest and/or to comply with our legal obligations. |
Providing customized Services.
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We will customize the Services, in some instances, with your consent; or in keeping with our legitimate interest. |
Sending emails with news updates and communications about items we believe may be of interest to you.
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We will send these types of emails to you only with your consent except as otherwise permitted by applicable law. We do not sell, rent, or use your email address to advertise third-party products or services to you. You can manage what kinds of notifications you receive and how often you receive them by going to your Notifications Preferences and User profile. You can learn more about email and notifications and how to change your preferences in our FAQ. |
Sending optional surveys and requesting feedback.
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We will always tell you, at the time we give you an opportunity to share your thoughts, how we plan on using your answers and any Personal Information you provide. Your responses to our surveys and feedback requests are always optional. We will email these types of requests to you only with your consent except as otherwise permitted by applicable law. You can manage what kinds of notifications you receive and how often you receive them by going to your Notifications Preferences and User profile. You can learn more about email and notifications and how to change your preferences in our FAQ. |
Improving the Wikimedia Sites and making your user experience safer and better.
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We engage in these activities to further our legitimate interest and/or to comply with our legal obligations. |
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Location information
GPS & Other Location Technologies
As stated above, we can use commonly-used location technologies to show you more relevant content. For example, our mobile apps can identify articles from the Wikimedia sites about points of interest near your location. As a reminder, you can consent to and/or deactivate our access to these location technologies at any time for example through the native OS functionalities on your mobile device, and still use the Wikimedia Sites.
Metadatos
As stated above, we may automatically receive location data from your device. For example, if you upload a photo using the Wikimedia Commons mobile app, please be aware that the default setting on your mobile device typically results in the metadata associated with your photo being included in the upload. As a reminder, if you do not want metadata sent to us and made public at the time of your upload, please change your settings on your device.
IP Addresses
When you visit any Wikimedia Site, 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. We keep IP addresses confidential, except as provided in this Policy. If you are visiting Wikimedia Sites with your mobile device, we may use your IP address to provide anonymized or aggregated information to service providers regarding the volume of usage in certain areas.
We use this location information to make your experience with the Wikimedia Sites safer and better, to gain a greater understanding of user preferences and their interaction with the Wikimedia Sites, and to generally improve our services. For example, we use this information to provide greater security, optimize mobile applications, and learn how to expand and better support Wikimedia communities. We also use Personal Information in the manner described in the sections of this Policy titled "For Legal Reasons" and "To Protect You, Ourselves & Others."
Sharing
When May We Share Your Information?
We use and share your Personal Information when you give us specific permission to do so, for legal reasons, and in the other circumstances described below.
With Your Permission
We share your Personal Information for a particular purpose, if you agree. For example, if you receive a scholarship and we ask permission to share your Personal Information with a local chapter. You can find more information in the list of examples in our FAQ.
For Legal Reasons
We will disclose your Personal Information to public authorities or other persons in response to an official legal process only if we believe it to be legally valid. See also our Requests for user information procedures and guidelines. We will notify you of such requests when possible. We do so to further our legitimate interest and/or to comply with our legal obligations.
We will access, use, preserve, and/or disclose your Personal Information if we reasonably believe it necessary to satisfy a valid and legally enforceable warrant, subpoena, court order, law or regulation, or other judicial or administrative order. However, if we believe that a particular request for disclosure of a user's information is legally invalid or an abuse of the legal system and the affected user does not intend to oppose the disclosure themselves, we will try our best to fight it. We are committed to notifying you via email at least ten (10) calendar days, when possible, before we disclose your Personal Information in response to a legal demand. However, we may only provide notice if we are not legally restrained from contacting you, there is no credible threat to life or limb that is created or increased by disclosing the request, and you have provided us with an email address.
Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal objections or defenses you may have to a third-party's request (whether it be civil, criminal, or governmental) to disclose your Personal Information. We recommend seeking the advice of legal counsel immediately if such a request is made involving you.
For more information, see our Subpoena FAQ.
If the Organization is Transferred (Really Unlikely!)
In the unlikely event that the ownership of the Foundation changes, we will provide you 30 days' notice before any Personal Information is transferred to the new owners or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
In the extremely unlikely event that ownership of all or substantially all of the Foundation changes, or we go through a reorganization (such as a merger, consolidation, or acquisition), consistent with our legitimate interest, we will continue to keep your Personal Information confidential, except as provided in this Policy, and provide notice to you via the Wikimedia Sites and a notification on WikimediaAnnounce-L or similar mailing list at least thirty (30) calendar days before any Personal Information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
To Protect You, Ourselves & Others
We, or users with certain administrative rights, use and disclose Personal Information that is reasonably necessary to:
- enforce or investigate potential violations of the Wikimedia Foundation or community-based policies;
- protect our organization, infrastructure, employees, contractors, or the public; or
- prevent imminent or serious bodily harm or death to a person.
We do so to manage our relationship with you, to further our legitimate interest, and/or to comply with our legal obligations.
We, or particular users with certain administrative rights as described below, need to use and share your Personal Information if it is reasonably believed to be necessary to enforce or investigate potential violations of our Terms of Use, this Privacy Policy, or any Wikimedia Foundation or user community-based policies. We may also need to access and share Personal Information to investigate and defend ourselves against legal threats or actions.
Wikimedia Sites are collaborative, with users writing most of the policies and selecting from amongst themselves people to hold certain administrative rights. These rights may include access to limited amounts of otherwise nonpublic information about recent contributions and activity by other users. They use this access to help protect against vandalism and abuse, fight harassment of other users, and generally try to minimize disruptive behavior on the Wikimedia Sites. These various user-selected administrative groups have their own privacy and confidentiality guidelines, but all such groups are supposed to agree to follow our Access to nonpublic personal data policy or similarly protective agreements. These user-selected administrative groups are accountable to other users through checks and balances: users are selected through a community-driven process and overseen by their peers through a logged history of their actions. However, the legal names of these users are not known to the Wikimedia Foundation.
We hope that this never comes up, but we may disclose your Personal Information if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to prevent imminent and serious bodily harm or death to a person, or to protect our organization, employees, contractors, users, or the public. We may also disclose your Personal Information if we reasonably believe it necessary to detect, prevent, or otherwise assess and address potential spam, malware, fraud, abuse, unlawful activity, and security or technical concerns. (Check out the list of examples in our FAQ for more information.)
To Our Service Providers
We disclose Personal Information to our third-party service providers or contractors to help run or improve the Wikimedia Sites and provide services in support of our mission.
We use third-party service providers or contractors to help run or improve the Wikimedia Sites for you and other users. The privacy policies of some of these third-party service providers or contractors can be found on our Select Service Providers' Information page. We give access to your Personal Information to these providers or contractors as needed to perform their services for us or to use their tools and services. We put requirements, such as confidentiality agreements, in place to help ensure that these service providers treat your Personal Information consistently with, and no less protective of your privacy than, the principles of this Policy. For further information, please see our FAQ.
If you are visiting Wikimedia Sites with your mobile device, we use your IP address to provide anonymized or aggregated information to service providers regarding the volume of usage in certain areas.
Some of our service providers ask us to post links to their privacy policies; a list of these service providers and links to their policies can be found on this page.
To Understand & Experiment
- We give volunteer developers and researchers access to systems that contain your Personal Information to allow them to protect, develop, and contribute to the Wikimedia Sites.
- We also share non-Personal Information or aggregated information with third parties interested in studying the Wikimedia Sites.
- When we share Personal Information with third parties for these purposes, we put reasonable technical and contractual protections in place to protect your Personal Information consistent with this Policy and our legitimate interest.
The open-source software that powers the Wikimedia Sites depends on the contributions of volunteer software developers, who spend time writing and testing code to help it improve and evolve with our users' needs. To facilitate their work, we give some developers limited access to systems that contain your Personal Information, but only as reasonably necessary for them to develop and contribute to the Wikimedia Sites.
Similarly, we share non-Personal Information or aggregated information with researchers, scholars, academics, and other interested third parties who wish to study the Wikimedia Sites. Sharing this Personal Information helps them understand usage, viewing, and demographics statistics and patterns. They then can share their findings with us and our users so that we can all better understand and improve the Wikimedia Sites.
When we give access to Personal Information to third-party developers or researchers, we put requirements, such as reasonable technical and contractual protections, in place to help ensure that these service providers treat your Personal Information consistently with the principles of this Policy and in accordance with our instructions. If these developers or researchers later publish their work or findings, we ask that they not disclose your Personal Information. Please note that, despite the obligations we impose on developers and researchers, we cannot guarantee that they will abide by our agreement, nor do we guarantee that we will regularly screen or audit their projects. (You can learn more about re-identification in our FAQ.)
Because You Made It Public
Information that you post is public and can be seen and used by everyone.
Any information you post publicly on the Wikimedia Sites is just that – public. For example, if you put your mailing address on your talk page, that is public, and not specifically protected by this Policy. And if you edit without registering, logging into your account, or using a temporary account, then your IP address will be seen publicly. Please think carefully about your desired level of privacy before you disclose Personal Information on your user page or elsewhere.
Protection
How Do We Protect Your Personal Information?
We use a variety of physical and technical measures, policies, and procedures to help protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.
We strive to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. We use a variety of physical and technical measures, policies, and procedures (such as access control procedures, network firewalls, and physical security) designed to protect our systems and your Personal Information. Unfortunately, there is no such thing as completely secure data transmission or storage, so we cannot guarantee that our security will not be breached (by technical measures or through violation of our policies and procedures).
We will never ask for your password by email (but may send you a temporary password via email if you have requested a password reset). If you ever receive an email that requests your password, please let us know by sending it to privacy@wikimedia.org, so we can investigate the source of the email.
How Long Do We Keep Your Data?
Except as otherwise stated in this Policy, we only keep your Personal Information as long as necessary to maintain, understand and improve the Wikimedia Sites or to comply with applicable law.
Once we receive Personal Information from you, we keep it for the shortest possible time that is consistent with the maintenance, understanding, and improvement of the Wikimedia Sites, and our obligations under applicable law. In most instances, Personal Information is deleted, aggregated or de-identified after 90 days. Non-Personal Information may be retained indefinitely as appropriate. (Check out the list of examples in our FAQ.)
Please remember that when you make a contribution to any Wikimedia Site, the page history will show when your contribution was made, your username (if you are signed in), or your temporary account username (if you edit while not logged in). The transparency of the projects' contribution and revision histories is critical to their efficacy and trustworthiness. To learn more about our data retention practices, see our data retention guidelines.
Your rights
If you would like to request access to or removal of your Personal Information, you may contact us.
For information about how you may request removal of your Personal Information, or other rights you may have with respect to your Personal Information, see our FAQ. If you would like to request to access, update or restrict/object to the processing of Personal Information, or receive a copy of your Personal Information for purposes of transmitting it to another organization, you may Contact Us. We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law.
Please note also that you may be able to exercise some of these rights without our intervention. For example, if you are a registered user, you can access and update some Personal Information in your Preferences, as well as download your user account data. You may also manage what kinds of notifications you receive and how often you receive them by going to your Notifications Preferences.
Important info
For the protection of the Wikimedia Foundation and other users, if you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, you may not use the Wikimedia Sites.
Where is the Foundation & What Does That Mean for Me?
The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit organization based in San Francisco, California, with servers and data centers located in the U.S. If you decide to use Wikimedia Sites, whether from inside or outside of the U.S., you understand that your Personal Information will be collected, transferred, stored, processed, disclosed and otherwise used in the U.S. as described in this Privacy Policy. You also understand that your information may be transferred by us from the U.S. to other countries, which may have different or less stringent data protection laws than your country, in connection with providing services to you.
Our Response to Do Not Track (DNT) signals
We are strongly committed to protecting users' Personal Information. Under this Policy, we may share your information only under particular situations, which you can learn more about in the "When May We Share Your Information" section of this Privacy Policy. In particular, we do not share your Personal Information for marketing purposes.
Because we protect all users in accordance with this Privacy Policy, we do not change our behavior in response to a web browser's "do not track" signal.
For more information regarding Do Not Track signals and how we handle them, please visit our FAQ.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
Substantial changes to this Policy will not be made until after a public comment period of at least 30 days.
Because things naturally change over time and we want to ensure our Privacy Policy accurately reflects our practices and the law, it may be necessary to modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. We reserve the right to do so in the following manner:
- In the event of substantial changes, we will provide the proposed changes to our users in at least three (3) languages (selected at our discretion) for an open comment period lasting at least thirty (30) calendar days. Prior to the start of any comment period, we will provide notice of such changes and the opportunity to comment via the Wikimedia Sites, and via a notification on WikimediaAnnounce-L or a similar mailing list.
- For minor changes, such as grammatical fixes, administrative or legal changes, or corrections of inaccurate statements, we will post the changes and, when possible, provide at least three (3) calendar days' prior notice via WikimediaAnnounce-L or similar mailing list.
We ask that you please review the most up-to-date version of our Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the Wikimedia Sites after any effective date of a subsequent version of this Privacy Policy constitutes acceptance of this Privacy Policy on your part.
Contact Us
If you have questions or suggestions about this Privacy Policy, or the information collected under this Privacy Policy, please email us at privacy@wikimedia.org or contact us directly. If you are located in the European Economic Area and have questions about your personal data or would like to request to access, update, or delete it, you may contact our representative via email at EUrepresentative.Wikimedia@twobirds.com, or via mail at:
- Bird & Bird GDPR Representative Ireland
- 29 Earlsfort Terrace
- Dublin 2
- D02 AY28
- Ireland
If you are an individual located in the United Kingdom, and have questions about your personal data or would like to request to access, update, or delete it, you may contact our representative via email at UKrepresentative.Wikimedia@twobirds.com, or via mail at:
- Bird & Bird GDPR Representative Services UK
- 12 New Fetter Lane
- London
- EC4A 1JP
- United Kingdom
Our European Economic Area and United Kingdom Representative can only be contacted for queries in relation to data protection.
Depending on your jurisdiction, you also may have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority competent for your country or region.
Thank You!
Thank you for reading our Privacy Policy. We hope you enjoy using the Wikimedia Sites and appreciate your participation in creating, maintaining, and constantly working to improve the largest repository of free knowledge in the world.
Please note that in the event of any differences in meaning or interpretation between the original English version of this Privacy Policy and a translation, the original English version takes precedence.
This version was approved by Stephen LaPorte on September 3, 2025, pursuant to the Delegation of policy-making authority by the Board, and went into effect on October 6, 2025. Previous versions can be found below:
- Privacy Policy (June 2021 - October 2025): effective from June 24, 2021, until October 6, 2025
- Privacy Policy (May 2018 - June 2021): effective from May 24, 2018, until June 24, 2021
- Privacy policy (June 2014 - May 2018): effective from June 6, 2014, until May 24, 2018
- Privacy policy (November 2008 - June 2014): effective from November 25, 2008, until June 6, 2014
- Privacy policy (August 2008 - November 2008): effective from August 19, 2008, until November 25, 2008
- Privacy policy (June 2006 - August 2008): effective from June 21, 2006, until August 19, 2008
- Privacy policy (April 2005 to June 2006): effective from April 2005 until June 21, 2006