Introduction
At Telecom Wiki, we are committed to protecting your privacy as an online visitor to our website. We use the information we collect about you to maximise the services that we provide to you. We respect the privacy and confidentiality of the information provided by you and adhere to the Australian Privacy Principles. Please read our privacy policy below carefully.
Storage and security of your information
We receive and store information you enter on our website or give us in any other way from time to time. You may provide basic contact information such as your name and email address if you communicate with us or choose to create an account on this site.
We may use this personal information to communicate with you by various means such as a newsletter, discussion lists, and automatic alerts for pages or spaces you have "watched". If you wish to cease receiving any such information you may let us know either by email or unsubscribing at any time and your request will be actioned immediately however this will generally result in your account being removed.
We respect the privacy of our online visitors. We may collect information on or through this website that can personally identify you. For example, we collect personally identifiable information which you volunteer to us to provide you with an account on this site or a subscription to one of our mailing lists.
We will use all reasonable means to protect the confidentiality of your Personal Data while in our possession or control. We will not knowingly share any of your Personal Data with any third party other than our service providers who assist us in providing the information and/or services we are providing to you.
Any non-personal information, communications and material you send to this website or to us by email, or which we obtain from third parties without promises of confidentiality, may be kept, used and disclosed by us on a non-confidential basis. We are free to use and reproduce any such information freely, and for any purpose whatsoever with all original content and contributions published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Right to be Forgotten
When you ask to be forgotten, we will delete your account and anonymise your contributions to Telecom Wiki. Your contributions themselves will remain part of the wiki, but they will no longer be associated with your user profile. If you have a personal space this will be purged once your account is deleted.
Some data such as IP addresses is recorded in our access logs, and is automatically purged after 30 days.
In limited circumstances we may be unable to fully comply and will explain this to you if it applies.
Cookies
A cookie is a small file placed in your web browser that collects information about your web browsing behaviour. Use of cookies allows you to login to this website with authorised credentials, access content or functionality that may not be available to anonymous users, and allows us to analyse website traffic and provide a better website visitor experience.
Cookies do not access information stored on your computer or any personal information (e.g. name, address, email address or telephone number). Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but you can choose to reject cookies by changing your browser settings. This may, however, prevent you from taking full advantage of our website.
We also use cookies with our self-hosted analytics platform Matomo to provide us with insights into website activity and traffic.
If you do not wish for cookies to be used or your visit information used in our analytics then we recommend disabling cookies in your browser. By disabling cookies you will receive the anonymous user experience and may experience additional checks when accessing certain pages or downloads on this site.
Disclosure of your information
We will only ever disclose Personal Data to comply with a legal requirement. Your Personal Data will never otherwise be disclosed to a third party without your express permission.
If there is ever a change in ownership of this site then your Personal Data such as your user account will be transferred on an opt-in basis only. If you do not opt-in to your user account being transferred then your account will be removed and any edit-activity will be anonymised prior to the transfer taking place.
If you are an editor on this site your profile information such as your avatar, username, and display name will be listed in the revision history along with any changes you have made to this site. If this is a concern then we recommend using an alias in your username and display name rather than identifying details.
Your email address is only available to global administrators unless you have also used your email address in another profile field such as your username in which case it will be publicly available.
Third parties
We do not sell and will never sell your personal information. Your personal information will only ever be disclosed to a third party where required by law, or where required to operate this site.
To operate this site the following third parties have access to some of your personal information:
- Ewing IT Pty Ltd – as the infrastructure provider for this site, Ewing IT directors and operations staff have visibility into the logs, metadata, and user store (Keycloak) for Telecom Wiki.
We may however use anonymised data such as user demographics and other visit activity when publishing reports and statistics about this site. This information will never identify you, and if a particular metric is potentially small enough where it could identify users then it will never be disclosed externally.
Security
All information transmitted to this site is encrypted in transit and at rest. We keep our systems updated and as secure as possible,
While our email systems do support SMTP STARTTLS we cannot guarantee the end-to-end security of email communications and we encourage encrypting any email sent to us with PGP. Our key is available at https://telecom.wiki/.well-known/pgp-key.txt.
Links
This website may contain links to other websites. These links are meant for your convenience only. Links to third party websites do not constitute sponsorship or endorsement or approval of these websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites. We encourage our users to be aware, when they leave our website, to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by this website.
Change in privacy policy
We may modify this policy at any time, in our sole discretion and all modifications will be effective immediately upon our posting of the modifications on this website. Please return periodically to review our privacy policy.
If you have any questions or concerns at any time about our privacy policy or the use of your personal information, please contact us at [email protected] and we will respond as soon as possible.
